, an alumnus of Elphinstone College •
B. R. Ambedkar, an Indian jurist,
Bharat Ratna, economist, scholar, political leader, a
Buddhist revivalist, and the chief architect of the
Constitution of India. •
Kishori Amonkar,
Padma Vibhushan,
Hindustani classical music performer. •
Dhiruben Patel, a
Novelist,
Playwright and
Translator.
Sahitya Akademi Award and Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak Award Winner. •
Arjun Appadurai, postcolonial scholar of global media and culture. •
Dilip Abreu, economics professor, game theorist,
Princeton University. •
Madhav Apte, cricketer. •
Mirza Kalich Beg, writer, poet, scholar from Sindh. Given the title of 'Shams Ul Ulama' by the British government. •
Homi J. Bhabha,
nuclear physicist who had a major role in the development of the Indian atomic energy program. •
Homi K. Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Language and Director of the Humanities Center,
Harvard University •
P. N. Bhagwati,
Chief Justice of India (1985-1986). •
R. G. Bhandarkar, scholar and social reformer. •
Devdatta Dabholkar, educationist,
Gandhian and
socialist. •
Amit Chaudhuri, Indian English writer,
Sahitya Akademi award winner •
Bhulabhai Desai, lawyer involved in the
Indian independence movement. •
Mahadev Desai, independence activist and writer best remembered as
Mahatma Gandhi's personal secretary. •
Xerxes Desai, first managing director of Titan Watches (
Titan Company) •
C. D. Deshmukh, economist and former
Finance Minister of India. •
Purushottam Laxman Deshpande,
Marathi author, playwright, performing artist, director and music director. •
Sanjay Dutt, Filmfare winning
Bollywood actor. •
Shapurji Edalji, thought to be the first South Asian to become a
vicar in England. • Rena Fonseca, Director of Executive Education and International Programs,
Harvard Graduate School of Design •
Virchand Gandhi, represented
Jainism at the first
World Parliament of Religions held in
Chicago in 1893. •
Kunal Ganjawala, singer. • Sayantan Ghosal, FRSE, FAcSS, FRSA, Adam Smith Chair in Political Economy, University of Glasgow. https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/business/staff/sayantanghosal/ •
Vishnu Vasudev Narlikar, famous physicist •
G. S. Ghurye, founder of
Indian sociology; President of
Indian Sociological Society; Professor & Head (Dept. of Sociology) at
University of Mumbai (Erstwhile,
University of Bombay) •
M. N. Srinivas, sociologist & social anthropologist; Professor at
Delhi School of Economics; Fellow at
All Souls College, Oxford (
University of Oxford) •
Anuradha Ghandy, political leader and member of Central Committee of
Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) •
Sanjay Ghose, rural management, community health, development media. •
Gopal Krishna Gokhale, founding member of the
Indian independence movement, social reformer. •
Ranjit Hoskote,
poet,
art critic, cultural theorist and
curator. •
Syeda Bilgrami Imam, writer, activist and a member of the
National Commission for Minorities (NCM) •
Raghavan N. Iyer, philosopher and academic. •
Suresh Joshi, major Gujarati writer, critic and editor who established modernism in Gujarati. •
Manilal Nabhubhai Dwivedi, Gujarati writer, poet and editor •
Mukesh Khanna, television actor. •
Manish Malhotra, fashion designer. •
Mahesh Manjrekar, actor, director, producer •
Sujata Manohar, former judge of the
Supreme Court of India. •
Sonal Mansingh,
Padma Vibhushan,
Odissi dancer. •
Pherozeshah Mehta, a political leader, activist, and leading lawyer, who was knighted by the British Government for his service to the law. •
Vijay Merchant, cricketer. •
Iskander Mirza, last Governor-General of the
Dominion of Pakistan and the first
President of Pakistan. •
Dadabhai Naoroji, intellectual, educator, cotton trader, and an early Indian political leader, being the first Asian to sit in the
British House of Commons. •
Shernaz Patel, theatre and film actor. •
Smita Patil, National Film Award for Best Actress, 1977 and 1980. •
Dattu Phadkar, cricketer. •
M.V. Rajadhyaksha, Marathi writer and critic. •
Mahadev Govind Ranade, judge, author, and social reformer. •
Soni Razdan Bollywood actress and film director •
Swaroop Sampat, former Miss India and
Bollywood actress. •
Arshia Sattar, Translation of classical
Sanskrit texts, author, documentary film maker, director of courses on Indian culture •
Hormasji Maneckji Seervai, former Advocate General of Maharashtra. •
Teesta Setalvad, Civil rights activist and journalist •
Jamsetji Tata, entrepreneur and industrialist, founder of the
Tata Group. •
Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata, Parsi businessman. •
Nanabhai Haridas, first Indian judge at the
Bombay High Court. •
Kashinath Trimbak Telang, judge and oriental scholar. • Nakul Chopra, CEO of
BARC India & Former CEO of
Publicis South Asia •
Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Nationalist, social reformer and freedom fighter, who was the first popular leader of the
Indian Independence Movement. •
Ajit Wadekar, international cricketer, later served as both captain and manager of the Indian cricket team. •
Saryu Doshi, art historian and Padma Shri awardee •
Salman Khan, Bollywood actor and promoter of
Being Human trust. •
Zubeida Habib Rahimtoola, political activist •
Premchand Roychand, businessman •
Kavasji Naegamvala, Astronomer •
Karanvir Bohra, Indian television actor •
Shoma Sen, women's rights activist •
Shashikala Kakodkar, Second Chief Minister of Goa, Daman & Diu (India), succeeding her father, Dayanand Bandodkar, who was the First Chief Minister •
Karsandas Mulji, journalist, social reformer and administrator •
Narmadashankar Lalshankar Dave, Indian
Gujarati-language poet, playwright, essayist, orator, lexicographer and reformer •
Mahipatram Rupram Nilkanth,
Gujarati educationist, reformer, novelist and biographer •
Tribhuvandas Kalyandas Gajjar, industrial chemist, educator and industrialist == See also ==