# List of University of Mumbai people

This is a list of the notable alumni of the University of Mumbai, one of the largest universities in the world, and its affiliated colleges.

## Arts

| Name | Class Year | Degree | College | Notability |
| Aditi Govitrikar | | | | model and actress |
| Aditya Roy Kapur | | | St. Xavier's | actor |
| Aishwarya Rai | did not graduate | B. Arch. | Rachana Sansad | actress |
| Ajay Devgn | | | Mithibai | actor |
| Ali Fazal | | | St. Xavier's | actor |
| Anand Patwardhan | | | | documentary film-maker |
| Anant Pai | | | | publisher of Indian books for children, especially the series Amar Chitra Katha |
| Anil Kapoor | did not graduate | | St. Xavier's | actor |
| Boman Irani | | | Mithibai | actor |
| Bhavya Gandhi | | | University of Mumbai | actor |
| Dadasaheb Phalke | | | | Indian producer-director-screenwriter, known as "the father of Indian cinema" |
| Darsheel Safary | | | H.R. College of Commerce and Economics | actor |
| Divine | | | R. D. National | rapper |
| Ebrahim Alkazi | | | | theatre director, Padma Vibhushan awardee |
| Emraan Hashmi | | | | actor |
| Farah Khan | | | St. Xavier's | film director |
| Gangadhar Gadgil | | | | author |
| Genelia D'souza | | | St. Andrew's | actress |
| Ismail Merchant | | | St. Xavier's | film director |
| Javed Jaffery | | | | actor |
| John Abraham | | | Jai Hind | actor |
| Jui Gadkari | | | | actor |
| Jyotsna Milan | | MA (Gujarati literature) | | novelist, short story writer, poet and editor |
| Kader Khan | | | | actor |
| Kajal Aggarwal | | | Kishinchand Chellaram | actress |
| Kareena Kapoor | | | Mithibai | actress |
| Kiara Advani | | BA (Mass Communications) | Jai Hind | actress |
| Kishori Amonkar | | | Elphinstone | Indian classical singer |
| Lara Dutta | | | | model and actress |
| Madhuri Dixit | | | Sathaye | actress |
| Manish Malhotra | | | Elphinstone | fashion designer |
| Mario Miranda | | BA (History) | St. Xavier's | cartoonist |
| Mehli Mehta | | | | conductor of Western classical music |
| Nikhil D'Souza | | | St. Xavier's | playback singer, songwriter, and guitarist |
| Nissim Ezekiel | | | | poet |
| P. L. Deshpande | | | | writer, actor, composer, film and television producer and director |
| Priyakanta Laishram | | BA (Mass Media) | Lala Lajpat Rai College Of Commerce And Economics | actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter and film editor. |
| Priyanka Chopra | Did not graduate | | Jai Hind | actress and model |
| Rohinton Mistry | | | | author |
| Rohit Suresh Saraf | | | St. Xavier's | actor |
| Sarah-Jane Dias | | | St. Andrew's | actress |
| Shabana Azmi | | | St. Xavier's | actress |
| Shefali Zariwala | 2005 | | SPIT | actress |
| Shruti Haasan | | | St. Andrew's | actress |
| Shweta Shetty | did not graduate | | Jai Hind | singer |
| Smita Patil | | | | actress |
| Sobhita Dhulipala | | | H.R. College of Commerce and Economics | actress |
| Sonakshi Sinha | | | | actress |
| Sonam Kapoor | | | | actress |
| Srinivas | | | UDCT | playback singer |
| Suneeta Rao | | | St. Xavier's | playback singer |
| Tara Sutaria | | | St. Andrew's | actress |
| Urmila Matondkar | | | | actress |
| Vatsal Sheth | | | Mithibai | actor |
| Vidya Balan | | | St. Xavier's | actress |
| Zakir Hussain | | | St. Xavier's | tabla player |
| Zubin Mehta | | | St. Xavier's | conductor of Western classical music |
| Harshada Pathare (Author) | | | | author and storyteller |

## Business

| Name | Class Year | Degree | College | Notability |
| Adi Godrej | | | | Chairman of Godrej Group |
| Ajay Piramal | | B. Sc.; MBA | Jai Hind; Jamnalal Bajaj | Chairman, Piramal Group |
| Ajit Gulabchand | | | | industrialist, chairman and managing director Hindustan Construction Company |
| Anil Ambani | | B.Sc. | Kishinchand Chellaram | Chairman of Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group |
| Anji Reddy | | | UDCT | founder of Dr. Reddy's Laboratories |
| Ashwin Choksi | | | Sydenham | billionaire non executive chairman of Asian Paints |
| Avtar Saini | | | VJTI | former director for South Asia Region, Intel; one of the pioneers of the Pentium-series processors |
| Chanda Kochhar | 1982 | BCom; MBA | Jai Hind; Jamnalal Bajaj | CEO and MD of ICICI Bank |
| Chinubhai Madhowlal Ranchhodlal, 2nd Baronet | | | | businessman and philanthropist |
| Dorabji Tata | | | | former chairman of Tata group |
| Jagdish Chandra Mahindra | | | VJTI | industrialist, founder of Mahindra Group |
| Keki Hormusji Gharda | | | | founder of Gharda Chemicals |
| Keki Mistry | | BCom | Sydenham | Vice-chairman and CEO HDFC |
| Leena Tewari | | B.Com | | Chairperson of USV Private Limited |
| Mukesh Ambani | | | UDCT | Chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries, billionaire |
| Narotam Sekhsaria | | | | co-founder and chairman of Ambuja Cements |
| Nirmal Jain | | | Narsee Monjee | founder and chairman of India Infoline (IIFL) |
| Nita Ambani | | | | founder and chairperson of the Dhirubhai Ambani International School |
| Nitin Paranjpe | | MBA | Jamnalal Bajaj | |
| Pankaj Patel | | | | Chairman and managing director of Cadila Healthcare |
| Rahul Bajaj | 1960 | LLB | Government Law College | |
| Rakesh Jhunjhunwala | | | Sydenham | billionaire |
| Renuka Ramnath | | | | founder and CEO of Multiples Private Equity, ex-CEO of ICICI Ventures |
| Swati Piramal | | | | |
| Tarang Jain | | BCom | | billionaire founder of Varroc |
| Uday Kotak | 1982 | MBA | Sydenham; Jamnalal Bajaj | billionaire and executive vice chairman and managing director of Kotak Mahindra Bank |
| Vinita Bali | | MBA | Jamnalal Bajaj | Managing Director of Britannia Industries |
| Xerxes Desai | | BA | Elphinstone | founding managing director of Titan |

## Humanities and Social Sciences

| Name | Class Year | Degree | College | Notability |
| Avinash Dixit | | | | John J. F. Sherrerd '52 University Professor of Economics Emeritus at Princeton University |
| G.S. Maddala | 1957 | M.A. in Statistics | | American economist and mathematician |
| Daya Bai | | MSW | | Social activist |
| Homi K. Bhabha | | BA | Elphinstone | Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Language, and director of the Humanities Center, Harvard University |
| M. N. Srinivas | | Ph.D. | Elphinstone | Professor Emeritus at Delhi University; Pioneering social anthropologist and sociologist |
| G. S. Ghurye | | BA; MA | Elphinstone | Professor Emeritus & HOD at University of Bombay; Founder of The Bombay School (Sociology) |
| Indira Viswanathan Peterson | | BA (English Literature) | | Indologist |
| Jagdish Bhagwati | | BA | Sydenham | University Professor of Economics at Columbia University |
| Klaus Klostermaier | 1969 | Ph.D. | | Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba, scholar of Indian Studies |
| Madhav Das Nalapat | | | | academic, columnist, and UNESCO Peace Chair |
| Madhav Sadashiv Gore | 1942 | | | Vice-Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University and Padma Bhushan awardee |
| Pandurang Vaman Kane | | | | Indologist and Sanskrit scholar and former Vice-Chancellor of University of Mumbai |
| Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar | 1862 | | | Oriental scholar and social reformer, first batch graduate, later vice-chancellor |
| M. N. Srinivas | | BA; MA; PhD | St. Xavier's | historian |
| Manjulal Majmudar | 1943 | Ph.D. | | Professor of Gujarati at Baroda College |

## Journalism

| Name | Notability |
| Homai Vyarawalla | first woman photojournalist of India, Padma Vibushan awardee |
| Samarth Singh | former Times of India writer, foreign affairs blogger, Spain India Council Foundation |
| Sucheta Dalal | business journalist |
| Thrity Umrigar | journalist and author |

## Law

| Name | Class Year | Degree | College | Notability |
| B.N. Srikrishna | | B. Sc.;LLB; LLM | Elphinstone; Government Law College | Judge of the Supreme Court of India |
| Bhulabhai Desai | | | | Indian independence activist and acclaimed lawyer |
| Cyril Shroff | | | | Managing Partner, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas |
| Dilip Babasaheb Bhosale | | | | Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court |
| H. J. Kania | 1912; 1913 | LLB; LLM | Government Law College | 1st Chief Justice of India |
| Kashinath Trimbak Telang | | | | Judge of the Bombay High Court |
| M. C. Chagla | | | | former Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court |
| Madhukar Hiralal Kania | | | Government Law College | 23rd Chief Justice of India |
| Mushtak Ali Kazi | | | | Judge of the High Court of Sindh and Balochistan |
| N. Nagaresh | | | | Judge of the High Court of Kerala |
| Nanabhoy Palkhivala | | | | jurist and economist |
| P. B. Gajendragadkar | 1926 | | ILS | 7th Chief Justice of India |
| P. N. Bhagwati | 1941 | | Elphinstone; Government Law College | 17th Chief Justice of India |
| Dorab Patel | 1944 | LLB | | 1st Chief Justice of Sindh, former judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan |
| S. K. Venkataranga | | | | lawyer; an associate of Mahatma Gandhi |
| Sam Piroj Bharucha | | | Government Law College | 30th Chief Justice of India |
| S. H. Kapadia | | | Government Law College | 38th Chief Justice of India |
| Sujata Manohar | | | Elphinstone | Judge Supreme court of India |
| Cornelia Sorabji | | | | First female graduate from Bombay University, first woman to study law at Oxford University and the first female advocate in India |

## Military

| Name | Class Year | Degree | College | Notability | References |
| Satish Nambiar | | | St. Xavier's | Force Commander and Head of Mission of the United Nations Protection Force; Lieutenant General of the Indian Army | |

## Politics
### Heads of State and Government

| Name | Class Year | Degree | College | Notability |
| Iskander Mirza | did not graduate | | Elphinstone | 1st President of Pakistan |
| John Samuel Malecela | 1959 | B.Com. | | 6th Prime Minister of Tanzania |
| Morarji Desai | | | Wilson | 4th Prime Minister of India |
| Muhammad Ali Jinnah | | | | 1st Governor-General of Pakistan |
| Pratibha Patil | 1963 | | Government Law College | 12th President of India |

### Other politicians, civil servants, and diplomats

| Name | Class Year | Degree | College | Notability |
| Ashley J. Tellis | | | | Tata Chair of Strategic Affairs at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |
| B. R. Ambedkar | 1913 | BA | Elphinstone | economist, social reformer, Chairman of the Constitution Drafting Committee and Minister of Law and Justice |
| Bal Gangadhar Tilak | 1879 | LLB | Government Law College | Nationalist leader, savant, philosopher, mathematician, and advocate of Swaraj (self-rule) |
| Burgula Ramakrishna Rao | 1923 | | Fergusson | former Chief Minister of Hyderabad State and 4th Governor of Uttar Pradesh |
| C. D. Deshmukh | | | Elphinstone | Minister of Finance |
| Chintaman Dwarakanath Deshmukh | | | | 3rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India |
| Dadabhai Naoroji | | | | intellectual, educator, cotton trader, and an early Indian political leader; the first Asian to sit in the British House of Commons |
| Godfrey Serunkuma Lule | 1961 | LLB | | former Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs of Uganda |
| Gopal Krishna Gokhale | | | | social and political leader during the Indian Independence Movement |
| Habib Rahimtoola | | | St. Xavier's | former Governor of Sindh |
| I. G. Patel | | | | 14th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India |
| Jai Pratap Singh | | | | Cabinet Minister In UP Government |
| Kona Prabhakara Rao | | LLB | ILS | State Governor of Maharashtra, Pondicherry and Sikkim; Finance Minister of Andhra Pradesh; former speaker of Andhra Pradesh State Assembly |
| Kshama Sawant | | | | member of the Seattle City Council (2014–present) |
| Lal Krishna Advani | | LLB | Government Law College | former Deputy Prime Minister of India |
| Mahadev Govind Ranade | | | | distinguished scholar, social reformer and author |
| Manohar Joshi | | | | former Chief Minister of Maharashtra |
| Mancherjee Bhownagree | | | | British politician of Indian Parsi heritage. |
| Manubhai Mehta | | | | Dewan of Baroda state; Prime Minister of Bikaner state |
| Mohan Lal Sukhadia | | DE | VJTI | Chief Minister of Rajasthan |
| Nilesh Rane | | | | MP from Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg |
| Pherozeshah Mehta | 1864 | BA; MA | | President of the Indian National Congress; Indian independence activist |
| Praful Patel | | | | MP from Bhandara-Gondiya |
| Rafiq Zakaria | | | | politician and Islamic scholar |
| Raj Thackeray | | | | founder, leader and chairperson of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena |
| Sanjay Dina Patil | | | | MP from Mumbai North East |
| Sanjeev Naik | | | | MP from Thane. |
| Shanti Gandhi | | | | US politician and physician |
| Shivraj Patil | | | | Governor of Punjab and former Home Minister of India |
| Sushilkumar Shinde | | | | former Home Minister of India |
| Swati Dandekar | | | | Member of the Iowa House of Representatives |
| Vasundhara Raje | | | | Chief Minister of Rajasthan, India |
| Yashwantrao Chavan | 1938 | BA | | 1st Chief Minister of Maharashtra; 5th Deputy Prime Minister of India |

## Religion

| Name | College | Notability |
| Oswald Gracias | St. Xavier's | Roman Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of Bombay |
| Simon Pimenta | St. Xavier's | Roman Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop Emeritus of Bombay |
| Virchand Gandhi | | Jain scholar and lawyer known for representing Jainism at the first World Parliament of Religions, Chicago 1893 |

## Royalty and Nobility

| Name | Degree | College | Notability |
| Bhawanrao Shriniwasrao Pant Pratinidhi | | | 9th Raja of Aundh State |
| Karni Singh | PhD | St. Xavier's | titular Maharaja of Bikaner State |
| Udaybhansinhji Natwarsinhji Jethwa | BA | | last Maharaja of Porbandar State |

## Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

| Name | Class Year | Degree | College | Notability |
| Acacio Gabriel Viegas | | | Grant Medical | medical practitioner credited with the discovery of the outbreak of bubonic plague in Mumbai, India in 1896 |
| Amol Dighe | | | | professor of physics in Tata Institute of Fundamental Research |
| Anil Kakodkar | 1963 | | D. G. Ruparel; VJTI | former director of BARC, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary to the Government of India Department of Atomic Energy |
| Ashish Kishore Lele | 1988 | | UDCT | chemical engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate |
| Bal Dattatreya Tilak | | | | former director of National Chemical Laboratory and recipient of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, Padma Bhushan |
| Beena Pillai | | | | microbiologist, N-Bios laureate |
| C. S. Seshadri | 1958 | PhD | | mathematician and recipient of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |
| Chandrashekhar Khare | | | | professor of mathematics at the University of California Los Angeles |
| Chunni Lal Khetrapal | 1965 | PhD | | chemical physicist and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate |
| D. Raghavarao | 1961 | PhD | | statistician and Laura H. Carnell Professor and chair of statistics at Temple University |
| Doraiswami Ramkrishna | 1960 | BE | UDCT | Harry Creighton Peffer Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University |
| Dwarkanath Kotnis | | MBBS | Seth G.S. Medical | doctor practising in China who helped the Chinese communist army during World War II |
| E. V. Sampathkumaran | | | | condensed matter physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate |
| Edward Hamilton Aitken | | | | entomologist and zoologist |
| Gopal Krishna | | | | radio astronomer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate |
| Homi Jahangir Bhabha | | | Elphinstone | nuclear physicist who played a major role in the development of India's atomic energy programme |
| Homi Sethna | | | St. Xavier's | former Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission |
| Jayant B. Udgaonkar | 1979 | | St. Xavier's | molecular biologist and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate |
| John Barnabas | | | | evolutionary biologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (1974) |
| Jyeshtharaj Joshi | | | | Indian chemical engineer and nuclear scientist, emeritus professor at Department of Atomic Energy |
| Keshavrao Krishnarao Datey | | | Seth G.S. Medical | cardiologist |
| Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan | | | | space scientist and former head of the Indian Space Research Organisation |
| Nilima Arun Kshirsagar | | | | Clinical Pharmacologists, former dean of KEM Hospital Mumbai. |
| M. Visvesvaraya | | | College of Engineering, Pune | Engineer responsible for the construction of the Krishna Raja Sagara dam and the flood protection system of Hyderabad. |
| Madhav Gadgil | | | | ecologist and professor at Indian Institute of Science |
| Man Mohan Sharma | | | UDCT | F.R.S., former director of UDCT, Padma Vibhushan and Padma Bhushan awardee |
| Manil Suri | | | | mathematician |
| Mohammad Ali Reza Khan | 1977 | PhD | | ornithologist |
| Mudumbai Seshachalu Narasimhan | | | | mathematician and recipient of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (1975) |
| Muffazal Lakdawala | | MBBS | Grant Medical | obesity surgeon; laparoscopic expert; founder of the Centre for Obesity and Digestive Surgery |
| Mustansir Barma | | | | Director of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research |
| N. S. Satya Murthy | 1967 | PhD | | physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate |
| Nissim Kanekar | | | | astrophysicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate |
| Nuggehalli Raghuveer Moudgal | | | | endocrinologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate |
| Raja Ramanna | | M.Sc. | | nuclear scientist |
| Raghavan Narasimhan | 1963 | | | mathematician and professor at University of Chicago |
| Raghunath Mashelkar | 1966; 1969 | BE; PhD | UDCT | former Director General of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research |
| Ramakrishnan Nagaraj | | | | biochemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate |
| Ravi Gomatam | 1998 | Ph.D. | | quantum physicist, director of Bhaktivedanta Institute |
| Rena D'Souza | 1977 | BDS | | dentist, developmental biologist, Director of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research |
| Renee M. Borges | | | | ecologist |
| Salim Ali | | did not graduate | St. Xavier's | Ornithologist and naturalist |
| Sekhar Basu | 1974 | | VJTI | Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India |
| Sethunathasarma Krishnaswami | 1974 | PhD | | geochemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate |
| Sharad Panday | | | Seth G.S. Medical | cardio-thoracic surgeon |
| Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar | | | The Institute of Science | Mathematician known for his contributions to algebraic geometry, and former Marshall Professor and chair of mathematics at Purdue University |
| Tehemton Erach Udwadia | | | Seth G.S. Medical | surgeon |
| Vidita Vaidya | | | St. Xavier's | |
| Vijay Gupchup | 1958 | BE | VJTI | expert in the field of civil engineering and structural engineering. |
| Vijay Kumar Kapahi | 1975 | PhD | | astrophysicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate |
| Virendra Nath Pandey | 1985 | PhD | | molecular virologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate |
| Vivek Ranade | 1983; 1988 | BTech; PhD | UDCT | chemical engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate |

## Sports

| Name | Degree | College | Notability |
| Ajit Agarkar | | D. G. Ruparel | cricketer |
| Anjali Bhagwat | | Kirti M. Doongursee | shooter |
| Ashok Mankad | | St. Xavier's | cricketer |
| Aryaman Birla | | | cricketer |
| Datta Gaekwad | | | cricketer |
| Dattu Phadkar | | Elphinstone | cricketer |
| Dilip Sardesai | | Wilson | cricketer |
| Farokh Engineer | | | cricketer |
| Harish Kapadia | | | mountaineer |
| Jude Menezes | BA | St. Andrew's | field hockey goalkeeper |
| Kamlesh Mehta | | Podar College | table tennis player |
| Leo Pinto | | St. Xavier's | field hockey player |
| Madhav Apte | | Elphinstone | cricketer |
| Michael Ferreira | BA | St. Xavier's | amateur billiards player |
| Milind Rege | | St. Xavier's | cricketer |
| Nari Contractor | | St. Xavier's | cricketer |
| Polly Umrigar | | St. Xavier's | cricketer |
| Ravi Shastri | | | cricketer and current head coach of the Indian national cricket team |
| Rohan Gavaskar | | Podar College | cricketer |
| Sanjay Manjrekar | | Podar College | cricketer |
| Saurabh Netravalkar | | SPIT | cricketer |
| Shreyas Iyer | | Podar College | cricketer |
| Sunil Gavaskar | | St. Xavier's | cricketer and former captain of the Indian national cricket team |
| Vijay Merchant | | Elphinstone | cricketer |
| Yasin Merchant | | Narsee Monjee | snooker player |

## Notable faculty

| Name | Affiliation | Notability |
| Anuradha Misra | professor and head of department of physics | physicist |
| Asaf Ali Asghar Fyzee | Principal and Perry Professor of Jurisprudence in Government Law College | writer and diplomat |
| Mohanlal Lallubhai Dantwala | professor and head of department of economics | Indian independence activist, agricultural economist, academic and writer |