# List of Osmania University people

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

## Arts

| Name | Class Year | Degree | College | Notability |
| Ananda Shankar Jayant | | | | classical dancer and a recipient of Padma Shri and Sangeet Natak Akademi Award |
| Bholekar Srihari | | | | |
| Diana Hayden | | | | former Miss World and actress |
| J. D. Chakravarthy | 1986 | | CBIT | actor |
| Kader Khan | | | | actor and screenwriter |
| Kandikonda | | | | |
| Manasa Varanasi | 2018 | BE (CSE) | Vasavi | Miss India |
| Nandamuri Balakrishna | | | | Indian film actor, works in Telugu cinema |
| Neeraj Ghaywan | 2002 | BE (EE) | CBIT | film director |
| Nikhil Siddharth | | | MJCET | actor |
| Santosh Kumar | | | | Pakistani film actor |
| Sekhar Kammula | 1991 | | CBIT | film director |
| Shyam Benegal | | | | director and screenwriter, recipient of the Padma Bhushan in 1991 |

## Business

| Name | Class Year | Degree | Notability |
| Karan Bilimoria | 1981 | B.Com. | founder of Cobra Beer; Member of the House of Lords; seventh Chancellor of the University of Birmingham |
| G. V. K. Reddy | | | GVK Group Chairman |
| Sanjiv Sidhu | | | Chairman and CEO, i2 Technologies |
| Shantanu Narayen | | | President and CEO, Adobe |

## Humanities, social science, and literature

| Name | Notability |
| Bhadriraju Krishnamurti | Dravidianist and linguist, founded the Department of Linguistics at the university |
| Bhoopal Reddy | Telugu writer |
| Mahe Jabeen | social activist and writer; winner of Rajiv Gandhi Manavaseva award |
| Makhdoom Mohiuddin | Urdu poet; Communist activist; recipient of the 1969 Sahitya Akademi Award in Urdu |
| Masud Husain Khan | linguist; 5th Vice Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia |
| Muhammad Hamidullah | scholar on Islamic law (earned his BA, LLB and MA at Osmania, and taught international law at the university between 1936 and 1946) |
| Pilli Alfred James | Public Administrator |

## Law

| Name | Class Year | Degree | Notability |
| B. Subhashan Reddy | | | Chief Justice of madras and Kerala High Court. |
| B. Sudarshan Reddy | 1971 | | |
| Gopal Rao Ekbote | | | |
| Ghulam Mohammed | | | |
| M. S. Ramachandra Rao | 1989 | | |
| N. Kumarayya | | | retired Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh and ex-judge, World Bank Administrative Tribunal |
| Sardar Ali Khan | | | |
| Syed Shah Mohammed Quadri | | LLB | Judge of the Supreme Court of India |
| Subodh Markandeya | 1956; 1963 | | Indian Senior Advocate |
| T. Amarnath Goud | | | |
| T. Meena Kumari | | | |
| Venkat Shrinivas Deshpande | | | Chief Justice of Bombay High Court. |

## Politicians and civil servants

| Name | Class Year | Degree | College | Notability |
| Abid Hasan | | | University College of Law | former Indian Ambassador to Egypt |
| Asaduddin Owaisi | | BA | Nizam | Politician, Member of Parliament of Lok Sabha |
| Ausaf Sayeed | | | | |
| Ayesha Rubina | 1991 | BA, MA | | Social Worker |
| Bandaru Dattatreya | | | | |
| Bhaskarrao Bapurao Khatgaonkar | | BE | University College of Engineering | MP from Nanded |
| C. Vidyasagar Rao | | LLB | | former Governor of Maharashtra |
| Dharam Singh | | | | 17th Chief Minister of Karnataka |
| Jaipal Reddy | | | | Member of Parliament |
| K. Chandrashekar Rao | | | | 1st Chief Minister of Telangana |
| K. T. Rama Rao | | B. Sc. | Nizam | Minister for Information Technology (IT), Municipal Administration and Urban Development (MAUD), Textiles and NRI Affairs, Telangana |
| Kadiyam Srihari | 1975 | M.Sc | | Deputy Chief Minister of Telangana |
| Keshavrao Sonawane | | | | |
| Komatireddy Venkat Reddy | | | CBIT | Member of Parliament |
| Kotla Jayasurya Prakasha Reddy | | | | Member of Parliament |
| Madhu Yaskhi | | | | Member of Parliament; New York attorney |
| Muralidhar Rao | | | | |
| Nadendla Manohar | | BA; MBA | Nizam College, University College of Commerce & Business Management | Former Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly Speaker, Former Member of Legislative Assembly, PAC Chairman - Jana Sena Party |
| Nallari Kiran Kumar Reddy | | B.Com.; LLB | Nizam, University College of Law | 16th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh |
| P. V. Narasimha Rao | | | University College of Arts | 9th Prime Minister of India |
| Revanth Reddy | | | Andhra Vidyalaya College | 2nd Chief Minister of Telangana |
| Shankarrao Chavan | | LLB | | 5th Chief Minister of Maharashtra and former Minister of Finance |
| Shivraj Patil | | | City College | former Minister for Home Affairs |
| Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy | | | | Politician, General Secretary of Communist Party of India |
| Syed Akbaruddin | 1980 | | Nizam | |
| V. Hanumantha Rao | | | | Politician, Member of Parliament of Rajya Sabha |
| Y. S. Chowdary | 1984 | BE (Mechanical Engineering) | CBIT | Politician, Member of Parliament of Rajya Sabha |
| YS Jagan Mohan Reddy | | B.Com. | Nizam | Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh |

## Science and Technology

| Name | Class Year | Degree | College | Notability |
| Ali Nawaz Jung | | | | engineer |
| B. E. Vijayam | | | | geologist |
| D. Srinivasa Reddy | | | | chemist |
| Garikapati Narahari Sastry | | BSc; MSc | | chemist |
| Manju Bansal | | | | molecular biologist |
| Muhammad Raziuddin Siddiqui | | | | Pakistani theoretical physicist |
| Hassan Nasiem Siddiquie | | | | marine geologist, Padma Shri recipient and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate |
| J. N. Reddy | 1968 | | | Distinguished and Regents' Professor, Texas A&M University |
| Patcha Ramachandra Rao | | | | metallurgist |
| Rafi Ahmed | 1968 | | | virologist and immunologist |
| Rakesh Sharma | | | | cosmonaut, first Indian to travel in space |
| Undurti Narasimha Das | 1981 | MD | Osmania Medical | immunologist, endocrinologist |
* Neelamraju Ganga Prasada Rao, plant breeder, popularly known as the Father of Hybrid Sorghum, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize recipient
* Vadapalli Chandrasekhar, organometallic chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
* G. Naresh Patwari, chemist and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate

## Sports

| Name | Class Year | Degree | College | Notability |
| Arshad Ayub | | | City College | Cricketer |
| Ashwini Ponnappa | | B.Com. | St. Mary's | Badminton player |
| Asif Iqbal | | | | Cricketer |
| Gagan Narang | | BCA | | Shooter |
| Kenia Jayantilal | | | | Cricketer |
| Khlid Qayyum | 1980 | B.Com. | Nizam | Cricketer |
| Harsha Bhogle | | B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering | | Cricket commentator |
| Mohammed Azharuddin | | B.Com. | Nizam | Cricketer |
| Mumtaz Hussain | | | | Cricketer |
| Murtuza Baig | | | | Cricketer |
| Nikhat Zareen | | | A. V. College | Boxer |
| Pullela Gopichand | | | A. V. College | Badminton player |
| Samaresh Jung | | | | Shooter |
| Sania Mirza | | | St. Mary's | Tennis player |
| Sultan Saleem | | | | Cricketer |
| Syed Abdul Rahim | | | | Football coach |

## Others

* Mahzarin Banaji, psychologist and Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics at Harvard University
* Kancha Ilaiah, Dalit scholar
* K. Venkata Ramiah, founder Vice Chancellor of Kakatiya University; member of Union Public Service Commission
* G. Ram Reddy, father of Open Learning in India
* George Reddy, student leader
* Ramachandru Tejavath, Retired bureaucrat and Former Principal Secretary Industries Government of Odisha, and Special Representative of Government of Telangana
* Yaga Venugopal Reddy, former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (PhD)
* Bhukhya Chandarakala Niru, Indian Administrative Service officer
* Omar Abedeen Qasmi Madani, Islamic scholar

## Notable faculty

| Name | Affiliation | Notability |
| Chittoor Mohammed Habeebullah | | |
| D. C. Reddy | | Vice Chancellor 1999-2002 |
| Manazir Ahsan Gilani | Former Dean of Theology | Islamic scholar and author |
| Masud Husain Khan | Head of the Department of Urdu between 1962 and 1968 | Urdu linguist |
| Pingle Jaganmohan Reddy | | former Chief Justice of the Hyderabad High Court |
| Sardar Ali Khan | Dean of the Faculty of Law between 1984 and 1991 | acting Chief Justice of the Hyderabad High Court |
| Suri Bhagavantam | Head of the Physics Department between 1949 and 1952; Vice Chancellor between 1952 and 1957 | scientist and science administrator |
| Zubaida Yazdani | Served at various positions in the Women's College and University College of Arts | historian |