29 Notable alumni of University of Rajasthan
Updated: June 06, 2026 EliteDegrees
University of Rajasthan is ranked #1,193 in the world and #19 in India by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 29 notable alumni from University of Rajasthan sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with University of Rajasthan won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Rajni Bakshi
journalist
author
Rajni Bakshi is a Mumbai-based freelance journalist and author. She writes about social and political movements in contemporary India. Rajni is the founder and curator of Ahimsa Conversations, an online platform for exploring the possibilities of nonviolence.
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2. Ashok Banerjee
academic
Ashok Banerjee is a professor of finance at Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.
3. Govind Singh Rajpurohit
academic
writer
Govind Singh Rajpurohit is an Indian legal educational administrator. He is Head & Dean in Department of Law University of Rajasthan. He is alumni of University of Rajasthan. He has been distinguished invitees, Chief Guest, Guest of honor in various universities, member of various committees in UGC. He is also member of statutory body, General Council of National Law University,...
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4. Ishwar Modi
1940-2017 (aged 77)
sociologist
Ishwar Modi was an Indian sociologist and a pioneer of leisure studies in India. His work in this field has been widely reviewed in both India and abroad. He completed his master's degree in sociology and PhD from University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. He also worked for his PhD under the title Leisure, Mass Media and Social Structure (1985) at the...
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5. Santosh Ahlawat
1965-. (aged 61)
politician
Santosh Ahlawat is an Indian politician. She was member of Lok Sabha, from 2014 to 2019, from Jhunjhunu, and former member of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly elected in 2013 from Surajgarh as a candidate of Bharatiya Janata Party. Born in 1965 in Surajgarh, she is married to Surendra Singh Ahlawat. she completed her master's degree in Political Science and Economics from...
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6. Baljeet Yadav
1976-. (aged 50)
politician
Baljeet Yadav is an Indian politician. He was elected to the 15th Rajasthan Assembly from Behror.
7. Mahendra Bhandari
1945-. (aged 81)
scientist
urologist
surgeon
Mahendra Bhandari is an Indian surgeon who has made substantial contributions to the specialty of urology, medical training, hospital administration, robotic surgery and medical ethics. For his efforts, he was awarded the Padma Shri by the government of India in 2000. Bhandari is currently Senior Bio-scientist and Director of Robotic Surgery Research & Education at the Vattikuti Urology Institute (VUI)...
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8. Mahadeo Singh Khandela
1943-. (aged 83)
politician
Mahadeo Singh Khandela is an Indian politician. He served as Minister of State for Tribal Affairs between 2011 and 2012. He also served as Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways between 2009 and 2012. He was elected to the 15th Lok Sabha from Sikar. He was elected to the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly for six terms from Khandela, Rajasthan....
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9. R.D. Singh
1954-. (aged 72)
basketball player
Ripudaman Singh, known as R.D. Singh, is an Indian athletics coach from Hanumangarh, Rajasthan. He is a recipient of Dronacharya Award, by the government of India. He is India's first Dronacharya awardee coach in the category of sports for specially abled.
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10. Deepak Maheshwari
1956-. (aged 70)
judge
Deepak Maheshwari is a former Indian judge of the Rajasthan High Court. He was sworn in on 11 April 2016 by the then Chief Justice S.K. Mittal of the Rajasthan High Court. He worked at the principal bench of the High Court in Jodhpur as well as its circuit bench in Jaipur. He also served as the chairperson of the...
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11. Yuyutsu Sharma
1960-. (aged 66)
poet
Yuyutsu Ram Dass Sharma is a Nepalese-Indian poet and journalist. He was born at Nakodar, Punjab and moved to Nepal at an early age. He writes in English and Nepali.
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12. Dinesh Maheshwari
1958-. (aged 68)
judge
Dinesh Maheshwari is a former Judge of the Supreme Court of India. He is a former Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court & High Court of Meghalaya.
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13. Fateh Singh Rathore
1938-2011 (aged 73)
ecologist
Fateh Singh Rathore was an Indian tiger conservationist. Fateh Singh joined the Indian Forest Service in 1960 and was part of the first Project Tiger team. He was widely acknowledged as the tiger guru for his legendary knowledge of the big cat. He worked over 50 years in wildlife conservation. Rathore was noted for his pioneering relocation of villages from...
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14. Pratip Chaudhuri
1953-. (aged 73)
banker
Pratip Chaudhuri is an Indian banker. An alumnus of the 1974 batch of University Business School - Chandigarh, he is a former chairman of State Bank of India. He took charge from O. P. Bhatt, on 7 April 2011 and retired on 30 September 2013. Prior to that he was the Deputy Managing Director (DMD) of the International Division of...
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15. Chhotu Ram Chaudhary
1948-. (aged 78)
politician
Chhotu Ram Chaudhary better known as C.R. Chaudhary is an Indian politician and a retired IAS officer who served as member of 16th Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian Parliament. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He won 2014 Indian general elections from the Nagaur Constituency in Rajasthan. He is currently president of Rajasthan Kisan...
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16. Jaskaur Meena
1947-. (aged 79)
politician
Jaskaur Meena is an Indian politician, a former Union minister of state in Government of India and a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party. She was also in charge of the Scheduled tribes (ST) Morcha (wing) of the party at the national level.
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17. Om Prakash Mathur
1952-. (aged 74)
politician
Om Prakash Mathur is an Indian politician serving as the 18th Governor of Sikkim since 31 July 2024.
18. Subhash Chandra Garg
1960-. (aged 66)
civil servant
Subhash Chandra Garg is a retired Indian Administrative Service officer of 1983 batch from Rajasthan cadre who served as Economic Affairs Secretary, Finance Secretary of India and Power Secretary of India. He has also served as an executive director in the World Bank.
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19. Harish Meena
1954-. (aged 72)
politician
Harish Chandra Meena is an Indian politician and a retired Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of 1976 batch who is currently serving as Member of Parliament, 18th Lok Sabha from Tonk-Sawai Madhopur since 2024. He is member of the Indian National Congress. He was a Member of Parliament in the 16th Lok Sabha from Dausa. As an IPS officer he...
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20. Kailash Chandra Meghwal
1934-. (aged 92)
lawyer
politician
Kailash Chandra Meghwal is a former Speaker of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly, former union minister of state in Government of India and a national vice president of Bharatiya Janata Party. He is the MLA of Shahpura, Bhilwara constituency of Rajasthan in 14th Rajasthan Legislative Assembly & Ex-MP Tonk constituency of Rajasthan in 14th Lok Sabha. He was minister of state for...
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21. Arvind Panagariya
1952-. (aged 74)
economist
Arvind Panagariya is an Indian economist who is holding the position of Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy at Columbia University and the Director of Deepak and Neera Raj Center on Indian Economic Policies at School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University in New York City. He served as first vice-chairman of the government of India think-tank...
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22. Jagdish Mukhi
1942-. (aged 84)
academic
politician
Prof. Jagdish Mukhi is an Indian politician who served as the 28th Governor of Assam from 2017 to 2023, the Governor of Nagaland (Additional Charge) from 2021 to 2023 and the Governor of Mizoram on 2019. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. Mukhi served as the 13th Lieutenant Governor of Andaman and...
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23. Jagdeep Dhankhar
1951-. (aged 75)
lawyer
Jagdeep Dhankhar is an Indian politician and lawyer who served as the vice president of India from 2022 to 2025. He previously served as the Governor of West Bengal from 2019 to 2022. He also served as a Union Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs in the Chandra Shekhar ministry from 1990 to 1991, and served as a member of...
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24. Yogendra Yadav
1963-. (aged 63)
politician
psephologist
Yogendra Yadav is an Indian activist, psephologist and politician whose primary interests are in the political and social sciences. He was a Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi from 2004 to 2016. He is a former member of University Grants Commission (UGC) and National Advisory Council on the Right to Education Act (NAC-RTE)...
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25. Santosh Yadav
1967-. (aged 59)
mountaineer
police officer
Santosh Yadav is an Indian mountaineer. She is the first woman in the world to climb Mount Everest twice and the first woman to successfully climb Mount Everest from Kangshung Face. As a youth she criticized traditional societal beliefs including standards of dress for women.
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26. Ruhi Singh
1991-. (aged 35)
model
actor
Ruhi Dilip Singh is an Indian actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder. She primarily appears in Hindi films and television. She participated in Femina Miss India East 2011, the preliminary for Femina Miss India contest and was crowned 1st Runner up. She later won the title of Miss Universal Peace and Humanity 2014.
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27. Hanuman Beniwal
1972-. (aged 54)
politician
Hanuman Beniwal is an Indian politician, peasant leader, and founder of the Rashtriya Loktantrik Party (RLP). Beniwal is a well known face in the Politics of Rajasthan. He is known for advocating the farmer rights and opposing corruption. Beniwal is serving as a Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha from Nagaur since 2019. He is founder and national convener...
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28. Ashok Kumar
1963-. (aged 63)
police officer
Ashok Kumar was an Indian actor who worked in Hindi cinema. He is regarded as one of the greatest actors of Indian cinema. He is considered to be the first superstar of Indian cinema as well as the first lead actor to play an anti-hero. He also became the first star to reinvent himself, enjoying a long and hugely successful...
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29. Kamla Bhasin
1946-2021 (aged 75)
women's rights activist
poet
writer
Kamla Bhasin was an Indian developmental feminist activist, poet, author and social scientist. Bhasin's work, that began in 1970, focused on gender education, human development and the media. She lived in New Delhi, India. She was best known for her work with Sangat - A Feminist Network and for her poem Kyunki main ladki hoon, mujhe padhna hai. In 1995,...
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