# List of University of Allahabad alumni

This is a list of notable alumni related to the University of Allahabad and its constituent colleges. Excluded from this list are those people whose only connection with Allahabad University is that they were awarded an honorary degree.

## Padma award recipient alumni

* Mahadevi Verma
* Bhagwati Charan Verma
* Raghupati Sahay, also known as Firaq Gorakhpuri
* Vidya Niwas Mishra
* Murali Manohar Joshi
* B. D. Pande

## Arts

| Name | Class Year | Degree | College | Notability |
| Aditya Srivastava | | | Allahabad University | actor |
| Sudhir Dar | | | Allahabad University | cartoonist |
| Tigmanshu dhulia | 1983 - 1986 | Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) | Allahabad University | Movie director, writer |

## Humanities and social sciences

| Name | Class Year | Degree | College | Notability |
| S. R. Goyal | | | Allahabad University | Historian |
| Baidyanath Misra | 1948 | MA, University topper and Gold medallist, First Odia to top the Faculty of Arts and the Department of Economics | Allahabad University | Former Vice-Chancellor of the Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology, Chairman of Odisha State Planning Board and Chairman of Odisha's First State Finance Commission |
| Prabhat Nalini Das | | MA, English, University Topper and gold medalist | Allahabad University | University Professor and pro Vice Chancellor; first Director/Dean Humanities, IIT Kanpur |
| J K Mehta | | PhD | Allahabad University | economist |
| Udai Prakash Arora | | | | historian |

## Law

| Name | Class Year | Degree | College | Notability |
| Raghunandan Swarup Pathak | | Law | Allahabad University | 18th Chief Justice of India; Judge of the International Court of Justice |
| Kamal Narain Singh | | Law | Ewing Christian | 22nd Chief Justice of India |
| J. S. Verma | | BSc; LLB | Ewing Christian | 27th Chief Justice of India |
| V. N. Khare | | | Allahabad University | 33rd Chief Justice of India |
| Daya Saran Sinha | 1953-1959 | BA, LLB | Allahabad University | Chief Justice of the Gujarat High Court |
| Vidyadhar Govind Oak | | LLB | Allahabad University | Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court |
| Prashant Bhushan | | LLB | Allahabad University | Supreme Court lawyer |
| Vashishtha Bhargava | 1925 | M.Sc. | Allahabad University | Judge of the Supreme Court of India |
| Rajendra Kumar Acharya | | PhD | Allahabad University | jurist of Law of tort in Nepal |
Milon K. Banerji, attorney general for India

## Literature and journalism

* Doodhnath Singh – Hindi writer and critic
* Harivansh Rai Bachchan – Famous hindi poet and father of Amitabh Bachchan.
* Prabhat Nalini Das – public intellectual and Professor; Head, English Department, Lady Shri Ram College; First Director-Dean, Humanities, IIT Kanpur; Founder-Professor and Head, Department of English, Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University; Pro Vice Chancellor, NEHU-Kohima Campus; English
* Gopinath Kaviraj – philosopher; Sanskrit scholar
* Vibhuti Narain Rai renowned writer and novelist, former Director General of Police of Uttar Pradesh, former Vice Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya.
* Prem Chand Pandey – founding director of the National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research; recipient of SSB Prize
* Ibn-e-Safi, Jasosi writer
* Mohammad Uzair, Sitara-i-Imtiaz
* Rafiq Hussain, Urdu writer, poet, academic, author, head of Urdu Department Allahabad University
* Dharamvir Bharati, writer
* Kamleshwar, writer
* Mrinal Pande, writer
* Neelum Saran Gour, author and academic
* Govind Mishra, Hindi writer and former chairman of CBDT
* Ravindra Khattree, Distinguished Professor, statistician, academic, author
* Acharya Narendra Dev
* Chandradhar Sharma Guleri, writer
* Krishna Kumar Sharma, Quit India Movement activist, poet and literary figure
* Fani Badayuni Urdu poet.
* Yagyadutt Sharma, Hindi novelist, writer and poet
* Ram Chandra Shukla, painter
* Surya Bahadur Thapa
* Daulat Singh Kothari, physicist
* Harish Chandra, mathematician
* Pankaj Mishra, author
* Lakshmi Raj Sharma, author and academic
* K. Banerjee, physicist and ex-Director of Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
* Leema Dhar, author, poet and columnist

## Military

| Name | Class Year | Notability | References |
| Krishnaswamy Sundarji | | Chief of Army Staff | |

## Politics
### Heads of state and government

| Name | Class Year | Degree | College | Notability |
| Chandra Shekhar | 1951 | | | 8th Prime Minister of India |
| Gulzarilal Nanda | | | | acting Prime Minister of India |
| Surya Bahadur Thapa | | | | 24th Prime Minister of Nepal |
| Zakir Husain | | MA | Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental | 3rd President of India |
| V. P. Singh | | | | 7th Prime Minister of India |
| Shankar Dayal Sharma | | | | 9th President of India |

### Others

| Name | Degree | College | Notability |
| Arjun Singh | | | 12th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh |
| Feroze Gandhi | | Ewing Christian | former Member of parliament, Lok Sabha |
| Gopal Swarup Pathak | | | former Vice President of India |
| Govind Ballabh Pant | | | former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and Minister of Home Affairs |
| Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna | | | 8th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh |
| Madan Lal Khurana | | | 3rd Chief Minister of Delhi |
| Madan Mohan Malaviya | | | former President of the Indian National Congress |
| Motilal Nehru | | | former President of the Indian National Congress |
| Narayan Dutt Tiwari | | | 9th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh; 3rd Chief Minister of Uttarakhand |
| Naresh Chandra | | | former Governor of Gujarat and Indian Ambassador to the United States |
| Nikhil Kumar | MA | | former Governor of Kerala |
| Purushottam Das Tandon | | | former Member of parliament, Lok Sabha |
| Rajendra Kumari Bajpai | | | former Lieutenant Governor of Pondicherry |
| Saiyid Nurul Hasan | | | |
| Satyendra Narayan Sinha | | | 19th Chief Minister of Bihar |
| Shanti Bhushan | | | former Minister of Law and Justice |
| Vijay Bahuguna | | | 6th Chief Minister of Uttarakhand |
* Vinod Kumar Yadav, IRSEE officer and Chairman of the Indian Railways Board
* Jagmohan Yadav, IPS, former Director General of Uttar Pradesh Police.
* Rajju Bhaiya, Ex-RSS Chief
* Murli Manohar Joshi, former Minister of Home Affairs and Minister of Human Resource Development
* Janeshwar Mishra, Ex-Minister Govt. of India
* Sir Syed Wazir Hasan, Chief Justice of Awadh Chief Court
* Mohan Singh, National General secretary, Samajwadi Party
* Ram Niwas Mirdha, former cabinet minister
* Dharmendra Yadav, Member of the Lok Sabha
* N. C. Saxena, IAS Officer, member of Planning Commission of India

## Science and technology

| Name | Class Year | Degree | College | Notability |
| Atma Ram (scientist) | | Doctor of Science | | Chemist, Founding Director Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute and Director General CSIR |
| Anuradha Misra | | | | physicist |
| Prem Chand Pandey | | | | Scientist, Academic and Founding Director NCAOR, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate |
| Deepak Dhar | | | | theoretical physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate |
| Digvijai Singh | | | | chemical engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate |
| Jamuna Sharan Singh | | | | ecologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize recipient |
| Nibir Mandal | | | | structural geologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate |
| Krityunjai Prasad Sinha | | | | theoretical physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate |
| Prabhu Lal Bhatnagar | 1939 | DPhil | | mathematician |
| Onkar Singh | 1991, 2000 | M.E., PhD | Motilal Nehru Regional Engineering College | Mechanical Engineering, Vice-Chancellor of Veer Madho Singh Bhandari Uttarakhand Technical University, founder Vice-Chancellor of Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology, Gorakhpur |

## Sports

| Name | Class Year | Notability | References |
| Manuel Aaron | | chess player and International Master | |

## Others

| Name | Class Year | Notability | References |
| Rajendra Singh Rana | | environmentalist, Magsaysay Award, 2001 | |
* Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, known for Transcendental Meditation
* Uttar Kumar, film actor
* M. A. Ansari, pre-partition Royal Indian Navy Education Officer
* Udit Raj, social activist
* Vivek Sahai, former Chairman Railway Board
* Desh Deepak Verma, Former 1978-batch IAS officer, former Secretary General of the Rajya Sabha (2017-2021).