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.
Name | Class
Year |
Degree | Notability | References |
---|---|---|---|---|
Sanjay Chauhan (screenwriter) | MA, MPhil (Centre for Indian Languages, School of Languages) | Film story, Screenplay, Dialogue writer, Author [ I am Kalam; Sahib Biwi aur Gangster; Paan Singh Tomar; Urmi, Main Aur Pradhan Mantri] | ||
P. Jaya Kumar | MA (Arts and Aesthetics) | Filmmaker, Screenwriter, Author | [1] | |
Srijit Mukherji | Bengali film director | [2] | ||
Swara Bhaskar | MA (Sociology) | Bollywood actress | [3] | |
Archishman Sarker | MA (Arts and Aesthetics), MPhil (Art History) | Indian art historian | [4] [5] | |
Shaunak Sen | PhD (Arts and Aesthetics) | Indian filmmaker, winner of Golden Eye award | [6] | |
B. V. Nandini Reddy | 1994 | International Politics | Telugu Film Director |
Name | Class
Year |
Degree | Notability | References |
---|---|---|---|---|
Baburam Bhattarai | 1986 | PhD in Urban Planning | 36th Prime Minister of Nepal | [7] |
Ali Zeidan | 24th Prime Minister of Libya | [8] [9] |
Name | Class
Year |
Degree | Notability | References |
---|---|---|---|---|
Abdul Sattar Murad | 1976 | Minister of Economy, Afghanistan | [10] | |
Ajit Seth | M.Phil | 30th Cabinet Secretary of India | [11] [12] | |
Amitabh Kant | MA | CEO of NITI Aayog | [13] | |
Amitabh Rajan | MA (History); PhD (Sociology) |
Home Secretary of Maharashtra,
Chairman of Reserve Bank of India Services Board |
[14] | |
Arvind Gupta | PhD (School of International Studies) | Deputy National Security Advisor of India | [15] | |
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 | [16] | ||
Jyotindra Dixit | PhD (School of International Studies) [17] | 2nd National Security Adviser | [17] | |
Nirmala Sitharaman | 1984 | MA (Economics); M.Phil. | Former Defense Minister of India | [18] |
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 |
||
Shehla Rashid | MA (Sociology) | student activist | [19] | |
Sitaram Yechury | General Secretary, Communist Party of India (Marxist) | [20] | ||
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar | MA (Political Science); M.Phil. & PhD in International Relations | IFS Officer, 30th Foreign Secretary of India | [21] [22] | |
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. |
[23] [24] |
Name | Class
Year |
Degree | Notability | References |
---|---|---|---|---|
Abhijit Banerjee | 1983 | MA in Economics | Nobel laureate and Ford Foundation Professor at MIT | [25] [26] [27] |
Anant Kumar | 1990 | BA in German | Award-winning German Writer in Kassel and Resident Writer of Royal City Gotha | [28] |
David Vumlallian Zou | MA; M.Phil. | historian | ||
Muzaffar Alam | 1977 | George V. Bobrinsky Professor of History at University of Chicago | [29] | |
Sanjoy Bhattacharya | MA | historian | [30] |
Name | Class
Year |
Degree | Notability | References |
---|---|---|---|---|
R. Hari Kumar | Chief of naval staff of the Indian Navy | [31] | ||
Anjana Sinha | Master of Arts | Director of National Industrial Security Academy | ||
Soumen Mitra | MPhill | Police Commissioner of Kolkata | [32] |
Name | Class
Year |
Degree | Notability | References |
---|---|---|---|---|
Alok Bhattacharya | 1976 | PhD | Parasitologist and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [33] |
Apurva Sarin | Cell biologist, N-Bios laureate | [34] | ||
Arun Kumar Shukla | 2002 | M.Sc. | Structural Biologist, N-Bios laureate, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate, Infosys Prize laureate | [35] |
Gaiti Hasan | 1980 | MPhil | microbiologist | [36] |
Seyed E. Hasnain | 1980 | PhD | biologist | [37] |
Srinivasan Ramachandran | bioinformatician, N-Bios laureate | [38] | ||
Suman Kumar Dhar | Molecular biologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [39] | ||
Somdatta Sinha | 1982 | PhD | Biologist | [40] |
Name | Affiliation | Notability | References |
---|---|---|---|
Anvita Abbi | Professor of Linguistics | [44] [45] | |
Ayesha Kidwai | Professor of Linguistics | theoretical linguist and Infosys Prize recipient | |
Balaji Prakash | biochemist, N-Bios laureate | [46] | |
Birendra Nath Mallick, | Neurobiologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [47] | |
Brahm Shanker Srivastava, | microbiologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [48] | |
Deepak Kumar | Professor of Physics between 1988 and 2016 | physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [49] |
Franson Manjali | Professor of linguistics. | ||
Joy Pachuau | Professor of Historical studies | historian | [50] |
Kapil Kapoor | Professor of Linguistics & English, Chairman Indian Institute of Advanced Study | [ citation needed] | |
Kavita Singh | Professor of Art History between 2001 and 2023 | [51] | |
Mahendra P. Lama | Professor, JNU | vice chancellor of Sikkim University | [52] [53] |
Makarand Paranjape | Professor of English between 1999 and 2018 | author, poet, and director of Indian Institute of Advanced Study | [54] [55] |
Muchkund Dubey | Former Professor of International Relations | 17th Foreign Secretary of India | |
Nivedita Menon | Professor of Political thought | [56] | |
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 | [57] |
Raja Mohan | [58] | ||
Robert L. Holmes | philosopher | ||
Sanjay Puri | held various positions since 1987 | Statistical physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [59] |
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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