Notable Alumni of University of Allahabad [Sorted List]

1. Nagendra Singh

1943-. (aged 83)

politician

Nagendra Singh is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and has won the 2014 Indian general elections from the Khajuraho (Lok Sabha constituency). He was previously a minister in the Government of Madhya Pradesh before becoming Member of Parliament.

+ show more

2. Neeraj Roy

1967-. (aged 59)

businessperson

Neeraj Roy is an Indian businessman. He is the managing director and CEO of Hungama Digital Media Entertainment, which owns Hungama.com and Bollywood Hungama, and managing director of ArtistAloud.com. Under his leadership, Hungama today is South Asia's largest digital and mobile entertainment company. He is also the chairman of the Asia board of the Mobile Entertainment Forum.

+ show more

3. Sara Rai

1956-. (aged 70)

author

Sara Rai, is a contemporary Indian writer, translator and editor of modern Hindi and Urdu fiction. She lives in Prayagraj (formerly Allahabad), Uttar Pradesh, India. Rai mainly writes and publishes short stories in Hindi. Written in a reflective prose style, her stories explore the individual complexities in the lives of ordinary people and outsiders in contemporary India.

+ show more

4. Naiyer Masud

1936-2017 (aged 81)

translator academic critic writer

Naiyer Masud was an Indian Urdu scholar and short story writer.

5. Vibhuti Narain Rai

1951-. (aged 75)

writer

Vibhuti Narain Rai is an ex police officer and author from India. He obtained an M.A. in English literature from Allahabad University in 1971, and joined the Indian Police Service in 1975 as a part of the Uttar Pradesh cadre. He served many sensitive districts as a superintendent of police.

+ show more

6. Vinod Kumar Sonkar

1970-. (aged 56)

politician

Vinod Kumar Sonkar is an Indian politician, a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was the Member of Parliament from Kaushambi, Uttar Pradesh, from 2014 to 2024. During his tenure as Member of Parliament, he served as the chairperson of the Lok Sabha parliamentary committee on Ethics. He has also served as a National secretary of the Bharatiya Janata...

+ show more

7. Jagannath Prasad Das

1936-. (aged 90)

poet writer

Jagannath Prasad Das is an Indian writer, poet, painter, playwright and novelist who writes in Odia.

8. Amarnath Jha

1888-1947 (aged 59)

Sanskrit scholar

Amaranath Jha was the Vice Chancellor (VC) of the University of Allahabad and the Banaras Hindu University. He was the son of Mahamahopadhyay Dr. Sir Ganganath Jha, a great scholar of Sanskrit Amaranath Jha was reputed as the ablest professor of English literature in India of his time. He was Head of the Department of English at the University of...

+ show more

9. Govind Mishra

1939-. (aged 87)

writer

Govind Mishra is an Indian novelist, who has written more than 53 books. He was also a civil servant with Indian Revenue Service (IRS) and retired as Chairperson, Central Board of Direct Taxes in 1997. Over the years, he has written 11 novels, 14 short story collections, five travelogues, five literary essays collection, a poem collection and 2 story books...

+ show more

10. Allamah Rasheed Turabi

1908-1973 (aged 65)

poet philosopher

Raza Hussain also known as Allama Rasheed Turabi was an Islamic scholar, religious leader, public speaker, poet and philosopher.

11. Rustom K. S. Ghandhi

1924-2014 (aged 90)

Vice Admiral Rustom Khushro Shapoorjee 'Rusi' Ghandhi, PVSM, VrC was a former flag officer in the Indian Navy. He last served as the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Western Naval Command from 1977 to 1979. He is the only officer to have commanded ships in all wars and conflicts post Independence. He commanded the frigate INS Betwa (1959) during the Annexation of...

+ show more

12. Mata Prasad

civil servant

Mata Prasad was a Indian Administrative Service officer. He was one of the first people from the Scheduled Castes to become an IAS officer. He is a former chairman of the Union Public Service Commission of India. He served as the chief secretary of the state of Uttar Pradesh from June 1995 to October 1996, thus becoming the first Scheduled...

+ show more

13. Krishna Murari

1958-. (aged 68)

judge

Krishna Murari is a retired judge of the Supreme Court of India and former chief justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court. He also served as a judge of the Allahabad High Court till his elevation as chief justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court.

+ show more

14. Sarat Pujari

1934-2014 (aged 80)

lecturer actor film director

Sarat Pujari was an Indian actor, director and producer in Odia film industry (Ollywood). He was originally from Jhaduapada, Sambalpur.

15. Sandeep Nath

author lyricist songwriter

Sandeep Nath is a Bollywood lyricist, screenwriter, composer, director, singer, and producer.

16. Vineet Saran

1957-. (aged 69)

judge

Vineet Saran is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India and the ethics officer and ombudsman in the Board of Control for Cricket in India. He is a former chief justice of the Orissa High Court. He is also a former judge of the Karnataka High Court and Allahabad High Court.

+ show more

17. B. K. Chaturvedi

physicist

B. K. Chaturvedi is an Indian civil servant. He is former cabinet secretary, Government of India. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2010 for his contribution to the field of civil services. He belongs to 1966 batch of the Indian Administrative Service.

+ show more

18. Girish Chandra Saxena

1928-2017 (aged 89)

politician

Girish Chandra Saxena was a governor of Jammu and Kashmir state in India. Born in Agra in 1928, he joined the Indian Police Service (IPS) and held many positions in police and retired as Director of the Research and Analysis Wing, India's external intelligence agency. He took over as the head of the State on 2 May 1998 for the...

+ show more

19. Kamal Narain Singh

1926-2022 (aged 96)

judge

Kamal Narain Singh was an Indian jurist who served as the 22nd Chief Justice of India. He was educated at L.R.L.A. High School in Sirsa and Ewing Christian College in Allahabad and was a graduate of the University of Allahabad. At 17 days, his tenure as chief justice is the shortest.

+ show more

20. Subhash C Kashyap

1929-. (aged 97)

politician

Subhash C. Kashyap is a former secretary-general of 7th Lok Sabha, 8th Lok Sabha and 9th Lok Sabha and Lok Sabha Secretariat (Lower House of Parliament of India) from 1984 to 1990. He is also a well known political scientist, an expert in the Indian Constitution, Constitutional Law, Parliamentary Experts and a distinguished scholar, He has been associated with the...

+ show more

21. Gopal Ballav Pattanaik

1937-. (aged 89)

judge

Gopal Ballav Pattanaik is an Indian lawyer and later a jurist who served for 19 years on the bench of the Odisha High Court as a permanent judge, as chief justice of Patna High Court, judge of the Supreme Court of India and as the 32nd Chief Justice of India.

+ show more

22. Ruqaiya Hasan

1931-2015 (aged 84)

linguist

Ruqaiya Hasan was an Indian linguist and professor who held visiting positions and taught at various universities in England and Australia. Her last appointment was at Macquarie University in Sydney, from which she retired as emeritus professor in 1994. Throughout her career she researched and published widely in the areas of verbal art, culture, context and text, text and texture,...

+ show more

23. Manuel Aaron

1935-. (aged 91)

chess player

Manuel Aaron is the first Indian chess master in the second half of the 20th century. He dominated chess in India in the 1960s to the 1980s, was the national champion of India nine times between 1959 and 1981. He is India's first chess player to be awarded the FIDE Title of International Master, and is one of the key...

+ show more

24. Arjun Singh

1930-2011 (aged 81)

politician

Arjun Singh was an Indian politician from the Indian National Congress, who served twice as the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh in the 1980s. He also served twice as the Union Minister of Human Resource Development, in the Manmohan Singh and P. V. Narasimha Rao ministries.

+ show more

25. Nikhil Kumar

1941-. (aged 85)

civil servant politician

Nikhil Kumar is a retired IPS officer and statesman from Bihar, India, who was Governor of Nagaland from 2009 to 2013 and Governor of Kerala from 2013 to 2014. One of country's well knownIPS officers of the 1963 batch from the AGMUT Cadre, Kumar also served as DGP of the National Security Guards, Indo-Tibetan Border Police, Railway Protection Force and...

+ show more

26. Ganesh Prasad

1876-1935 (aged 59)

university teacher mathematician historian of mathematics

Ganesh Prasad was an Indian mathematician who specialised in the theory of potentials, theory of functions of a real variable, Fourier series and the theory of surfaces. He was trained at the Universities of Cambridge and Göttingen and on return to India he helped develop the culture of mathematical research in India. The mathematical community of India considers Ganesh Prasad...

+ show more

27. Ram Niwas Mirdha

1924-2010 (aged 86)

minister jurist politician

Ram Niwas Mirdha was an Indian statesman, parliamentarian, and cultural administrator in post-independence India. A veteran member of the Indian National Congress, Mirdha holds the record for being longest serving speaker of the Rajasthan Assembly, from 1957 to 1967. Mirdha later elected to the Rajya Sabha and served several positions including Deputy Chairperson of the Rajya Sabha, from 1977 to...

+ show more

28. Jaya Varma Sinha

Jaya Varma Sinha is the former Chairperson of Railway Board (India) of the Indian Railways.

29. Gopinath Kaviraj

1887-1976 (aged 89)

philosopher librarian

Gopinath Kaviraj was an Indian Sanskrit scholar, Indologist and philosopher. First appointed in 1914 a librarian, he was the Principal of Government Sanskrit College, Varanasi from 1923 to 1937. He was also the editor of the Sarasvati Bhavana Granthamala (Sarasvati Bhavana Texts) during that period.

+ show more

30. V. N. Khare

1939-. (aged 87)

judge

Vishweshwar Nath Khare is a retired Indian judge who served as the 33rd Chief Justice of India, from 19 December 2002 to 1 May 2004. He also served as the Chancellor of the Central University of Jharkhand from 2017 to 2023. He was a judge of the Supreme Court of India from 21 March 1997 before he was elevated to...

+ show more

31. Vishal Mangalwadi

1949-. (aged 77)

university teacher author philosopher

Vishal Mangalwadi is an Indian Christian intellectual, a social reformer, political columnist, public speaker, and author of over 30 books. He is known for his work on the role of the Bible in shaping world history and culture.

+ show more

32. Abdul Majid Daryabadi

1892-1977 (aged 85)

ulema writer university teacher philosopher journalist

Abdul Majid Daryabadi was an influential Islamic scholar, philosopher, writer, critic, researcher, journalist, and Quranic exegete active in the Indian subcontinent during the 20th century. He was deeply concerned with modernism, comparative religion, and orientalism in India.

+ show more

33. Shyam Kumari Khan

1904-1980 (aged 76)

freedom fighter politician

Shyam Kumari Khan née Nehru was an Indian lawyer, freedom fighter, politician and social worker. She was a member of the Rajya Sabha from 1963 to 1968.

+ show more

34. Sudhanshu Dhulia

1960-. (aged 66)

lawyer

Sudhanshu Dhulia is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India. He is a former chief justice of the Gauhati High Court and judge of the Uttarakhand High Court.

+ show more

35. Shamsur Rahman Faruqi

1935-2020 (aged 85)

civil servant poet literary critic writer

Shamsur Rahman Faruqi was an Indian Urdu language poet, author, critic, and theorist. He is known for ushering modernism to Urdu literature. He formulated fresh models of literary appreciation that combined Western principles of literary criticism and subsequently applied them to Urdu literature after adapting them to address literary aesthetics native to Arabic, Persian, and Urdu. Some of his notable...

+ show more

36. Sitakant Mahapatra

1937-. (aged 89)

translator poet literary critic writer

Sitakant Mahapatra is an Indian poet and literary critic in Odia as well as English. He served in the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) from 1961 until he retired in 1995, and has since held ex officio posts such as Banking Ombudsman of Odisha and Chairman of National Book Trust, New Delhi etc.

+ show more

37. Kailas Nath Wanchoo

1903-. (aged 123)

judge

Kailas Nath Wanchoo was the tenth Chief Justice of India.

38. Satish Chandra

1922-2017 (aged 95)

historian author

Satish Chandra was an Indian historian whose main area of specialisation was medieval Indian history.

39. Saiyid Nurul Hasan

1921-1993 (aged 72)

historian author diplomat politician

Saiyid Nurul Hasan FRHistS, FRAS was an Indian historian and an elder statesman in the Government of India. A member of the Rajya Sabha, he was the Union Minister of State (with Independent Charges) of Education, Social Welfare and Culture Government of India (1971–1977) and the Governor of West Bengal and Odisha (1986–1993).

+ show more

40. Mrinal Pande

1946-. (aged 80)

journalist writer

Mrinal Pande is an Indian television personality, journalist and author, and until 2009 chief editor of Hindi daily Hindustan.

41. Naresh Chandra

1934-2017 (aged 83)

diplomat civil servant businessperson

Naresh Chandra was a 1956 batch Indian Administrative Service officer of the Rajasthan cadre who served as the Cabinet Secretary of India, Defence Secretary of India, Home Secretary of India, Water Resources Secretary of India and Indian Ambassador to the United States. He was awarded India's second highest civilian honour the Padma Vibhushan for civil service in 2007.

+ show more

42. Puran Chand Joshi

1907-1980 (aged 73)

politician

Puran Chand Joshi was one of the early leaders of the communist movement in India. He was the general secretary of the Communist Party of India from 1935 to 1947.

+ show more

43. Surya Bahadur Thapa

1928-2015 (aged 87)

civil servant politician

Surya Bahadur Thapa was a Nepali politician and a five-time Prime Minister of Nepal. He served under three different kings in a political career lasting more than 50 years.

+ show more

44. Ashok Bhushan

1956-. (aged 70)

judge

Ashok Bhushan is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India and the chairperson of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal. He was the 31st chief justice of the Kerala High Court. He is a former judge of the Kerala High Court and Allahabad High Court.

+ show more

45. Pawan Shankar

1975-. (aged 51)

television presenter actor television actor

Pawan Shankar is an Indian film and television actor who played the title role in the serial Siddhant on Star One. He holds an MBA in finance from Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad. An alumnus of Prayagraj's St. Joseph's College, Shankar graduated with a Gold Medal from University of Allahabad.

+ show more

46. Shashi Kant Sharma

1952-. (aged 74)

civil servant

Shashi Kant Sharma is a retired 1976 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre. He was the Comptroller and Auditor General of India. In July 2014 he assumed office as a Member of the United Nations Board of Auditors. On 11 January 2017, Sharma took over as the Chairman of the United Nations Board of Auditors. The reports of the Board...

+ show more

47. Jagdish Sharan Verma

1933-2013 (aged 80)

judge

Jagdish Sharan Verma was an Indian jurist who served as the 27th Chief Justice of India from 25 March 1997 to 18 January 1998. He was the chairman of the National Human Rights Commission from 1999 to 2003, and chairman of the Justice Verma Committee Report on Amendments to Criminal Law after the 2012 Delhi gang rape case. He remains...

+ show more

48. B. C. Khanduri

1934-. (aged 92)

politician

Major General Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri, AVSM, (born 1 October 1934) is an Indian politician. He was Chief Minister of Uttarakhand from 2007 to 2009 and 2011 to 2012. He was a Member of Parliament in the 16th Lok Sabha representing the Garhwal parliamentary constituency of Uttarakhand and is a senior member of the Bharatiya Janta Party. Earlier, he was a...

+ show more

49. Akhilesh Pratap Singh

1960-. (aged 66)

politician

Akhilesh Pratap Singh is an Indian politician and a member of the 16th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh. He represented the Rudrapur constituency of Uttar Pradesh until 2017 and is a member and spokesperson for the Indian National Congress party.

+ show more

50. Gopal Swarup Pathak

1896-1982 (aged 86)

lawyer judge politician

Gopal Swarup Pathak was the vice president of India from August 1969 to August 1974. He was the first Indian vice president not to succeed his superior as President.

+ show more

51. Satish Mishra

1952-. (aged 74)

lawyer politician

Satish Chandra Mishra is an Indian politician who was the cabinet minister in Mayawati ministry in Uttar Pradesh, India, and a part of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). He is a lawyer by profession. He was a member of Rajya Sabha until 2 April 2022.

+ show more

52. Kamleshwar

1932-2007 (aged 75)

writer novelist journalist screenwriter

Kamleshwar Prasad Saxena, known mononymously as Kamleshwar, was a 20th-century Indian writer who wrote in Hindi. He also worked as a screenwriter for Indian films and television industry. Among his most well-known works are the films Aandhi, Mausam, Chhoti Si Baat and Rang Birangi. He was awarded the 2003 Sahitya Akademi Award for his Hindi novel Kitne Pakistan (translated in...

+ show more

53. Shrilal Shukla

1925-2011 (aged 86)

civil servant novelist

Shrilal Shukla was a Hindi writer, notable for his satire. He worked as a PCS officer for the state government of Uttar Pradesh, later inducted into the IAS. He has written over 25 books, including Raag Darbari, Makaan, Sooni Ghaati Ka Sooraj, Pehla Padaav and Bisrampur Ka Sant.

+ show more

54. Daulat Singh Kothari

1906-1993 (aged 87)

physicist

Daulat Singh Kothari was an Indian scientist and educationist.

55. Narendra Deva

1889-1956 (aged 67)

writer

Acharya Narendra Deva was one of the leading theorists of the Congress Socialist Party in India. His democratic socialism renounced violent means as a matter of principle and embraced the satyagraha as a revolutionary tactic.

+ show more

56. B. B. Lal

1921-2022 (aged 101)

archaeologist writer anthropologist

Braj Basi Lal was an Indian writer and archaeologist. He was the Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) from 1968 to 1972 and has served as Director of the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla. Lal also served on various UNESCO committees.

+ show more

57. Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna

1919-1989 (aged 70)

politician

Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna was an Indian National Congress leader and former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh; he later joined Bharatiya Lok Dal and worked with Charan Singh.

+ show more

58. Vijay Bahuguna

1947-. (aged 79)

lawyer judge politician

Vijay Bahuguna is an Indian politician who served as the 6th Chief Minister of Uttarakhand. He is the eldest son of Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna, an independence activist and politician, and also a former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. Vijay Bahuguna was a member of the 14th and 15th Lok Sabhas of India. He represented the Tehri Garhwal constituency of Uttarakhand...

+ show more

59. Krishnaswamy Sundarji

1930-1999 (aged 69)

soldier military leader writer

General Krishnaswamy "Sundarji" Sundararajan, PVSM was the Chief of the Army Staff of the Indian Army from 1986 to 1988. He was the last former British Indian Army officer to command the Indian Army.

+ show more

60. Ramkumar Verma

1905-1990 (aged 85)

poet writer

Ramkumar Verma was a Hindi poet who published one act-plays and several anthologies of his work.

61. S. C. Jamir

1931-. (aged 95)

politician

Senayangba Chubatoshi Jamir is an Indian politician and former Governor of Odisha. He was Parliamentary Secretary to Jawaharlal Nehru and Deputy Minister under Indira Gandhi. He has served as the Chief Minister of Nagaland, Governor of Maharashtra, Governor of Gujarat & Governor of Goa. He was awarded the third-highest civilian award in India, the Padma Bhusan, in 2020 for his...

+ show more

62. B. D. Mishra

1939-. (aged 87)

military personnel politician

Brigadier Bal Dutt Mishra (born 20 July 1939) is a retired officer of the Indian Army, and former Lieutenant governor of Ladakh, Previously he held the offices of Governor of Arunachal Pradesh, Governor of Meghalaya and Governor of Mizoram.

+ show more

63. Sampurnanand

1891-1969 (aged 78)

writer politician

Sampurnanand was an Indian teacher and politician who served as the second Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh from 1954 until 1960, and later as Governor of Rajasthan. Serving for five years and 344 days, he had the longest single tenure of any Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister until surpassed by Yogi Adityanath in 2023.

+ show more

64. Bhagwati Charan Verma

1903-1981 (aged 78)

writer politician

Bhagwati Charan Verma was a Hindi author. He wrote many novels, his best work was Chitralekha (1934), which was made into two successful Hindi films in 1941 and 1964 respectively. He was awarded Sahitya Akademi Award for his epic five-part novel, Bhoole Bisre Chitra in 1961 and Padma Bhushan in 1971. He was also nominated to Rajya Sabha in 1978.Bhagwati...

+ show more

65. Udit Raj

1958-. (aged 68)

civil servant politician

Udit Raj is an Indian politician and retired Indian Revenue Service officer who is a member of the Indian National Congress. He was a member of parliament between 2014 and 2019 in the Lok Sabha, representing North West Delhi as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party but left the party after its first term. Before joining the politics, he...

+ show more

66. Madan Lal Khurana

1936-2018 (aged 82)

politician

Madan Lal Khurana was an Indian politician who served as the 3rd Chief Minister of Delhi from 1993 to 1996. He was also the Governor of Rajasthan in 2004. Born in British India, Khurana was known as Dilli ka Sher in Bharatiya Janata Party. He served as the Union Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Minister of Tourism in the Atal...

+ show more

67. Saifuddin Kitchlew

1888-1963 (aged 75)

politician barrister

Dr. Saifuddin Kitchlew was an Indian independence activist, barrister, politician and later a leader of the peace movement. A member of Indian National Congress, he first became Punjab Provincial Congress Committee (Punjab PCC) head and later the General Secretary of the All India Congress Committee in 1924. He is most remembered for the protests in Punjab after the implementation of...

+ show more

68. Kailash Nath Katju

1887-1968 (aged 81)

politician

Kailash Nath Katju was an Indian politician who served as Governor of Odisha and West Bengal, Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Union Home Minister and Union Defence Minister. He was also one of India's most prominent lawyers. He was part of some of the most notable cases of his times, including the Indian National Army trials. Katju joined the Indian...

+ show more

69. Camille Bulcke

1909-1982 (aged 73)

university teacher missionary Sanskrit scholar

Camille Bulcke was a Belgian Jesuit missionary in India who came to be known as "India's most renowned Christian Hindi scholar".

70. Firaq Gorakhpuri

1896-1982 (aged 86)

poet writer

Raghupati Sahay, also known by his pen name Firaq Gorakhpuri, was an Indian writer, critic, and, according to one commentator, one of the most noted contemporary Urdu poets from India. He established himself among peers including Muhammad Iqbal, Yagana Changezi, Jigar Moradabadi and Josh Malihabadi.

+ show more

71. Harish-Chandra

1923-1983 (aged 60)

university teacher mathematician physicist

Harish-Chandra FRS (11 October 1923 – 16 October 1983) was an American mathematician and physicist who did fundamental work in representation theory, especially harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups.

+ show more

72. Keshari Nath Tripathi

1934-2023 (aged 89)

politician

Keshari Nath Tripathi was an Indian politician, who served as Governor of West Bengal from July 2014 to July 2019 and also as Governor of Bihar, Meghalaya, and Mizoram at various times. He was a member of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He was the Speaker of Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly three times, and the president of BJP Uttar Pradesh.

+ show more

73. Mohammad Imran garh

1987-. (aged 39)

poet lyricist writer

Imran Pratapgarhi is an Indian Urdu-language poet and politician, who is a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of Indian Parliament. He represents the Indian state of Maharashtra. Pratapgarhi is known for his protest poetry that particularises the Muslim experience and identity in India and other parts of the world; he is especially known for his...

+ show more

74. Anil Baijal

civil servant

Anil Baijal is a retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer and served as the 21st Lieutenant Governor of Delhi. He took over office on 31 December 2016 after the sudden resignation of Najeeb Jung. He resigned from the post of Lieutenant Governor and sent his resignation letter to President of India on 18 May 2022 as his term was over.

+ show more

75. Markandey Katju

1946-. (aged 80)

judge

Markandey Katju is an Indian jurist and a former judge of Supreme Court of India. He also was chairman of the Press Council of India from 2011 to 2014. He is the son of politician Shiva Nath Katju and grandson of Kailash Nath Katju. He is the founder and patron of the Indian Reunification Association, an organisation that advocates for...

+ show more

76. Rajendra Singh

1959-. (aged 67)

conservationist climate activist educator social worker environmentalist

Rajendra Singh is an Indian water conservationist and environmentalist from Alwar district, Rajasthan in India. Also known as the "Waterman of India", he won the Magsaysay Award in 2001 and Stockholm Water Prize in 2015. He runs an NGO called 'Tarun Bharat Sangh' (TBS), which was founded in 1975. The NGO based in village hori-Bhikampura in Thanagazi tehsil, near Sariska...

+ show more

77. Nripendra Misra

1945-. (aged 81)

civil servant

Nripendra Misra is a retired Indian Administrative Service officer (IAS) of the 1967 batch from the Uttar Pradesh cadre, who served as the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi from 2014 to 2019. He previously served as the chairperson of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, Telecom Secretary of India and the Fertilizers Secretary of India....

+ show more

78. Pankaj Mishra

1969-. (aged 57)

literary critic writer journalist

Pankaj Mishra FRSL is an Indian essayist, novelist, and socialist. His non-fiction works include The World After Gaza, Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond, along with From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia, and A Great Clamour: Encounters with China and Its Neighbours, and he has published two novels....

+ show more

79. Vikas Swarup

1963-. (aged 63)

diplomat writer

Vikas Swarup is an Indian writer and retired diplomat of the Indian Foreign Service who served as the Secretary (West) at the Ministry of External Affairs, India on 30 June 2021 and previously served as High Commissioner of India in Canada and has been the official spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs. He authored the novel Q & A,...

+ show more

80. Murli Manohar Joshi

1934-. (aged 92)

politician

Murli Manohar Joshi is an Indian politician. He is one of the founding members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and served as its President from 1991 to 1993. In addition to his role in the BJP, he has been a lifelong member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu nationalist organisation. Joshi is the former Member of Parliament...

+ show more

81. Vinay Pathak

1968-. (aged 58)

television actor film producer television presenter actor

Vinay Pathak is an Indian theater and film actor. He has starred in many films including Khosla Ka Ghosla, Bheja Fry, Island City and Johnny Gaddaar and had a supporting role in movies like Jism, Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi and My Name Is Khan.

+ show more

82. Govind Ballabh Pant

1887-1961 (aged 74)

civil servant lawyer freedom fighter politician

Govind Ballabh Pant was an Indian independence activist and politician who was the first Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. Alongside Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Vallabhbhai Patel, Pant was a key figure in the Indian independence movement and later a pivotal figure in the Indian government. He was one of the foremost political leaders of Uttar Pradesh (then known as...

+ show more

83. Prashant Bhushan

1956-. (aged 70)

activist author lawyer politician

Prashant Bhushan is an Indian author and a public interest lawyer in the Supreme Court of India. He was a member of the faction of the India Against Corruption (IAC) movement known as Team Anna which supported Anna Hazare's campaign for the implementation of the Jan Lokpal Bill. After a split in IAC, he helped Team Anna form the Aam...

+ show more

84. N. D. Tiwari

1925-2018 (aged 93)

politician

Narayan Datt Tiwari was an Indian politician who served as the 9th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and 3rd Chief Minister of Uttaranchal (later Uttarakhand) from 2002 to 2007. He was the first Indian Chief Minister who served for two states. He was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party, a former member of the Praja Socialist Party and the...

+ show more

85. Gulzarilal Nanda

1898-1998 (aged 100)

university teacher economist politician

Gulzarilal Nanda was an Indian politician and economist who specialised in labour issues. He served as the acting Prime Minister of India for two 13-day tenures following the deaths of Jawaharlal Nehru in 1964 and Lal Bahadur Shastri in 1966 respectively. Both his terms ended after the ruling Indian National Congress's parliamentary party elected a new prime minister. He was...

+ show more

86. Tigmanshu Dhulia

1967-. (aged 59)

author casting director screenwriter film producer film director

Tigmanshu Dhulia is an Indian film dialogue writer, director, actor, screenwriter, producer and casting director known for his works in Hindi cinema and Television. He wrote the dialogue for the 1998 film Dil Se.., the first Bollywood film to chart in the UK top ten, and screened at the Berlin International Film Festival. His directing career has also garnered international...

+ show more

87. Motilal Nehru

1861-1931 (aged 70)

politician barrister

Motilal Nehru was an Indian lawyer, activist, and politician affiliated with the Indian National Congress. He served as the Congress President twice, from 1919 to 1920 and from 1928 to 1929. He was a patriarch of the Nehru-Gandhi family and the father of Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister.

+ show more

88. Chandra Shekhar

1927-2007 (aged 80)

politician

Chandra Shekhar, also known as Jananayak, was an Indian politician and the prime minister of India, between 10 November 1990 and 21 June 1991. He headed a minority government of a breakaway faction of the Janata Dal with outside support from the Indian National Congress. He was the second Indian Prime Minister who had never held any prior government office.

+ show more

89. V. P. Singh

1931-2008 (aged 77)

politician

Vishwanath Pratap Singh was an Indian politician who served as the Prime Minister of India from 1989 to 1990 and the Raja Bahadur of Manda.

90. Aditya Shrivastava

1968-. (aged 58)

actor television actor model

Aditya Srivastava is an Indian actor who works in Hindi films, television and theatre. He is best known for his role as Senior Inspector Abhijeet in India's longest-running television police procedural C.I.D. He has also portrayed pivotal roles in the Bollywood films Satya, Gulaal, Lakshya, Paanch, Black Friday, Kaalo, Super 30 and Dil Se Pooch Kidhar Jana Hai.

+ show more

91. Mahadevi Varma

1907-1987 (aged 80)

prose writer poet writer

Mahadevi Varma was an Indian Hindi-language poet, essayist, and short-story writer. She is widely regarded by literary scholars as one of the four major figures of the Chhayavad movement in Hindi literature.

+ show more

92. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

1917-2008 (aged 91)

philosopher writer spiritual teacher

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was the creator of Transcendental Meditation (TM) and leader of the worldwide organization that has been characterized in multiple ways, including as a new religious movement and as non-religious. He became known as Maharishi (meaning "great seer") and Yogi as an adult.

+ show more

93. Pankaj Mithal

1961-. (aged 65)

judge

Pankaj Mithal is a judge of the Supreme Court of India and a former Chief Justice of the Rajasthan High Court. Previously, he has also served as the Chief Justice of the Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court and Judge of the Allahabad High Court.

+ show more

94. Vidya Niwas Mishra

1926-2005 (aged 79)

author politician journalist

Vidya Niwas Mishra was an Indian scholar, a Hindi-Sanskrit littérateur, and a journalist. He was honoured with Padma Bhushan.

95. Prem Chand Pandey

1945-. (aged 81)

oceanographer meteorologist physicist

Prem Chand Pandey is an Indian space, and planetary scientist, academic in the fields of satellite oceanography, remote sensing, atmospheric science, the Antarctic and climate change, and the founding director of the National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research.

+ show more

96. Madan Mohan Malaviya

1861-1946 (aged 85)

revolutionary freedom fighter journalist poet lawyer

Madan Mohan Malaviya was an Indian scholar, educational reformer, and activist notable for his role in the Indian independence movement. He was president of the Indian National Congress four times and the founder of Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha. He was addressed as Pandit, a title of respect. Malaviya is known as the founder of one of the most prestigious university...

+ show more

97. Dharma Vira

1906-2000 (aged 94)

civil servant

Dharma Vira was an Indian civil servant and politician who served as the governor of Punjab, Haryana, West Bengal and Karnataka. Vira also served as a Cabinet Secretary of the Government of India.

+ show more

98. Shankar Dayal Sharma

1918-1999 (aged 81)

lawyer politician

Shankar Dayal Sharma was an Indian lawyer and politician who served as the president of India from 1992 to 1997 and vice president of India from 1987 to 1992.

+ show more

99. Zakir Husain

1897-1969 (aged 72)

politician

Zakir Husain Khan was an Indian educationist and politician who served as the vice president of India from 1962 to 1967 and president of India from 13 May 1967 until his death on 3 May 1969.

+ show more