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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

Humanities and social sciences

Law

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

Politics

Heads of state and government

Others

• 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

Sports

Others

• 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).

See also

• List of people associated with Allahabad
• Allahabad

References

Notes

1. The Muhammadan Anglo Oriental College (now known as Aligarh Muslim University) was affiliated to the University of Allahabad between 1885 and 1920.

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