This is a list of people associated with the Jawaharlal Nehru University. Excluded are those people whose only connection with JNU is that they were awarded an honorary degree.
Alumni
Arts
Name | Class
Year |
Degree | Notability | References |
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Sanjay Chauhan (screenwriter) | MA, MPhil (Centre for Indian Languages, School of Languages) | Film story, Screenplay, Dialogue writer, Author | ||
P. Jaya Kumar | MA (Arts and Aesthetics) | Filmmaker, Screenwriter, Author | ||
Srijit Mukherji | Bengali film director | |||
Swara Bhaskar | MA (Sociology) | Bollywood actress | ||
Archishman Sarker | MA (Arts and Aesthetics), MPhil (Art History) | Indian art historian | ||
Shaunak Sen | PhD (Arts and Aesthetics) | Indian filmmaker, winner of Golden Eye award | ||
B. V. Nandini Reddy | 1994 | International Politics | Telugu Film Director |
Politics and Law
Heads of State and Government
Name | Class
Year |
Degree | Notability | References |
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Baburam Bhattarai | 1986 | PhD in Urban Planning | 36th Prime Minister of Nepal | |
Ali Zeidan | 24th Prime Minister of Libya |
Others
Name | Class
Year |
Degree | Notability | References |
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Abdul Sattar Murad | 1976 | Minister of Economy, Afghanistan | ||
Ajit Seth | M.Phil | 30th Cabinet Secretary of India | ||
Amitabh Kant | MA | CEO of NITI Aayog | ||
Amitabh Rajan | MA (History); PhD (Sociology) | Home Secretary of Maharashtra,
Chairman of Reserve Bank of India Services Board |
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Arvind Gupta | PhD (School of International Studies) | Deputy National Security Advisor of India | ||
Ashok Tanwar | Former President of Indian Youth Congress | |||
Aishe Ghosh | MA, M.Phil | Student Activist | ||
Muhammed Muhsin | PhD in Social Work | Politician Communist Party of India, MLA - Kerala Legislative Assembly | ||
Dipsita Dhar | Student Activist | |||
Chandan Kumar | Master in Computer Science | Student Activist | ||
Gurjit Singh | ||||
Lê Lương Minh | 13th Secretary General of ASEAN | |||
Jyotindra Dixit | PhD (School of International Studies) | 2nd National Security Adviser | ||
Nirmala Sitharaman | 1984 | MA (Economics); M.Phil. | Former Defense Minister of India | |
Palagummi Sainath | Renowned journalist, Ramon Magsaysay Laureate | |||
Prakash Karat | M.Phil & PhD | Former General Secretary of Communist Party of India Marxist | ||
Ranjit Nayak | MA (Sociology) | World Bank's Chief for Kosovo
Chief Adviser of Macedonia on International & EU affairs |
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Shehla Rashid | MA (Sociology) | student activist | ||
Sitaram Yechury | General Secretary, Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |||
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar | MA (Political Science); M.Phil. & PhD in International Relations | IFS Officer, 30th Foreign Secretary of India | ||
Syed Ibrahim | MA | 24th Director of Intelligence Bureau | ||
Venu Rajamony | MA in International Relations | IFS Officer. Former Press Secretary to President of India Former Indian Ambassador to Netherlands. |
Humanities and Social Sciences
Name | Class
Year |
Degree | Notability | References |
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Abhijit Banerjee | 1983 | MA in Economics | Nobel laureate and Ford Foundation Professor at MIT | |
Anant Kumar | 1990 | BA in German | Award-winning German Writer in Kassel and Resident Writer of Royal City Gotha | |
David Vumlallian Zou | MA; M.Phil. | historian | ||
Mahmood Kooria | M.A. | historian | ||
Muzaffar Alam | 1977 | George V. Bobrinsky Professor of History at University of Chicago | ||
Sanjoy Bhattacharya | MA | historian |
Military and police
Name | Class
Year |
Degree | Notability | References |
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R. Hari Kumar | Chief of naval staff of the Indian Navy | |||
Anjana Sinha | Master of Arts | Director of National Industrial Security Academy | ||
Soumen Mitra | MPhill | Police Commissioner of Kolkata |
Science and Technology
Name | Class
Year |
Degree | Notability | References |
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Alok Bhattacharya | 1976 | PhD | Parasitologist and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | |
Apurva Sarin | Cell biologist, N-Bios laureate | |||
Arun Kumar Shukla | 2002 | M.Sc. | Structural Biologist, N-Bios laureate, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate, Infosys Prize laureate | |
Gaiti Hasan | 1980 | MPhil | microbiologist | |
Seyed E. Hasnain | 1980 | PhD | biologist | |
Srinivasan Ramachandran | bioinformatician, N-Bios laureate | |||
Suman Kumar Dhar | Molecular biologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | |||
Somdatta Sinha | 1982 | PhD | Biologist |
Others
- Brahma Chellaney, columnist and author on geostrategic affairs
- Harun Rashid Khan, Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India (2011 to 2016)
- Umesh Upadhyay, President & Director Media at Reliance Industries Limited
- Pankaj Mishra, novelist and essayist.
- Ashok Kumar Sarangi, Chief Vigilance Officer and CGM-in-Charge, Reserve Bank of India
- Jawed Habib, hairdresser and businessman
- Geetanjali Shree, Novelist and short-story writer, winner of International Booker prize
- Asad Zaidi, Hindi poet, literary critic, publisher, and translator
- Vijoo Krishnan, General Secretary, All India Kissan Sabha
- Yogendra Yadav, Phsephologist , Founder member of Aam Aadmi Party .
- Sanal Edamaruku, Indian Rationalist
Faculty
See also: Category:Academic staff of Jawaharlal Nehru UniversityName | Affiliation | Notability | References |
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Anvita Abbi | Professor of Linguistics | ||
Ayesha Kidwai | Professor of Linguistics | theoretical linguist and Infosys Prize recipient | |
Balaji Prakash | biochemist, N-Bios laureate | ||
Birendra Nath Mallick, | Neurobiologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | ||
Brahm Shanker Srivastava, | microbiologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | ||
Deepak Kumar | Professor of Physics between 1988 and 2016 | physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | |
Franson Manjali | Professor of linguistics. | ||
Joy Pachuau | Professor of Historical studies | historian | |
Kapil Kapoor | Professor of Linguistics & English, Chairman Indian Institute of Advanced Study | ||
Kavita Singh | Professor of Art History between 2001 and 2023 | ||
Mahendra P. Lama | Professor, JNU | vice chancellor of Sikkim University | |
Makarand Paranjape | Professor of English between 1999 and 2018 | author, poet, and director of Indian Institute of Advanced Study | |
Muchkund Dubey | Former Professor of International Relations | 17th Foreign Secretary of India | |
Nivedita Menon | Professor of Political thought | ||
Pius Malekandathil | Former Professor of History | Historian and author | |
Prabhat Patnaik | Former Professor of Economics | ||
Pratiksha Baxi | |||
Pushpesh Pant | Professor of International relations | food critic and writer | |
Raja Mohan | |||
Robert L. Holmes | philosopher | ||
Sanjay Puri | held various positions since 1987 | Statistical physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | |
Syed Iqbal Hasnain | glaciologist, writer, and climate change activist | ||
Gopal Guru | Professor of Political Studies, Editor of Economic and Political Weekly | He received Malcolm Adiseshiah Award for Distinguished Contribution to Development Studies for 2013–14 | |
Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya | Professor of Political Studies | Political Scientist | |
Zoya Hassan | Professor of Political Studies | Member of the National Commission for Minorities from 2006 to 2009, Political Scientist | |
Ajay Gudavarthy | Professor of Political Studies |
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