12 Notable alumni of
Anna University
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Anna University is 2894th in the world, 733rd in Asia, and 79th in India by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 12 notable alumni from Anna University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Samantha Prabhu
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- actorfilm director
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Samantha Ruth Prabhu is an Indian actress who works predominantly in Telugu and Tamil films. One of South India's highest-paid actresses, Samantha is the recipient of several accolades, including four Filmfare Awards South, two Nandi Awards and a Tamil Nadu State Film Award.
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Akkineni Nagarjuna
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- actorfilm producer
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Akkineni Nagarjuna is an Indian actor best known for his works primarily in Telugu cinema, as well as in a few Hindi and Tamil films. He has appeared in over 90 films and is a recipient of two National Film Awards for Ninne Pelladata (1996) and Annamayya (1997). Nagarjuna has also won ten Nandi Awards and three Filmfare Awards South. In 2013, he represented the Cinema of South India at the Delhi Film Festival's 100 Years of Indian Cinema's celebration. In 1995, he ventured into film production, with a production unit operating in Seychelles, and was a co-director of an Emmy Award-winning film animation company called Heart Animation. Nagarjuna is the co-owner of Annapurna Studios and is also the president of the non-profit film school Annapurna College of Film and Media based in Hyderabad.
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Sakshi Agarwal
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- actor
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Sakshi Agarwal is an Indian actress and model who has appeared in Tamil films. After beginning her working career as a marketing consultant, she pursued acting and garnered attention through part time modelling commitments. Since then she has taken up various lead and supporting roles in South Indian films. She was also a contestant in the Tamil reality TV show Bigg Boss 3.
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Nara Rohit
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- actor
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Nara Rohith is an Indian actor in, and producer of, Telugu films. An alumnus of New York Film Academy, he is known for works such as Baanam (2009), Solo (2011), Prathinidhi (2014), Rowdy Fellow (2014), Asura (2015) and Jyo Achyutananda (2016). He owns the production house Aran Media Works.
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Mahesh Muthuswami
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India - Occupations
- photographer
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Mahesh Muthuswami is an Indian cinematographer working in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi films.
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Thirumalachari Ramasami
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- 1948-.. (age 78)
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- civil servant
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Thirumalachari Ramasami is a former Indian science and technology secretary. He assumed charge in May 2006. Prior to this assignment, he served as the director of the Central Leather Research Institute, Chennai, India. He is a distinguished researcher and leather scientist. He was awarded India's National Civilian Honour the Padma Shri for excellence in Science and Engineering in 2001 and the Padma Bhushan in 2014. He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award, the highest award for science in India, for notable and outstanding research in Chemical Sciences in 1993.
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Sujana Chowdary
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- entrepreneurpolitician
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Yalamanchili Satyanarayana Chowdary, popularly known as Sujana Chowdary, is an Indian politician from Andhra Pradesh. He is a former Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, elected from the Telugu Desam Party and later moved to Bharatiya Janata Party. He was the Indian union Minister of State for Science, Technology from 9 November 2014 to 8 March 2018.
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A G Ramakrishnan
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- computer scientistelectrical engineer
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Angarai Ganesan Ramakrishnan currently holds an adjunct faculty position in the Department of Heritage Science and Technology at the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad. He is also a Visiting faculty and Member, Board of Studies of the School of Psychology & Education, Rishihood University. He is also the Organizational Development Consultant for the Centre for Brain Research - IISc and IIIT Dharwad. In July 2023, he retired as a senior professor of Dept of Electrical Engineering and an associate faculty of Centre for Neuroscience, both at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. Before retirement, he headed the Medical intelligence and language engineering lab.
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Kanaka Rajan
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- India
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- neuroscientist
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Kanaka Rajan is a computational neuroscientist in the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School and founding faculty in the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University. Rajan trained in engineering, biophysics, and neuroscience, and has pioneered novel methods and models to understand how the brain processes sensory information. Her research seeks to understand how important cognitive functions — such as learning, remembering, and deciding — emerge from the cooperative activity of multi-scale neural processes, and how those processes are affected by various neuropsychiatric disease states. The resulting integrative theories about the brain bridge neurobiology and artificial intelligence.
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C. Anandharamakrishnan
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- India
- Occupations
- scientist
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Anandharamakrishnan Chinnaswamy, commonly referred as Anandharamakrishnan is an Indian scientist and academician, having expertise in Chemical Engineering and Food processing. He is working as director of National Institute of Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. He also served as the Director of CSIR- National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (CSIR- NEERI), Nagpur, Maharashtra (December 31, 2024 to January 30, 2025). Earlier, he served as director of National Institute of Food Technology, Entrepreneurship and Management, Thanjavur (NIFTEM-T) (Formerly known as Indian Institute of Food Processing Technology (IIFPT), Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu during the period April 2022 – November 2022 and as chief scientist at the CSIR - Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysuru, Karnataka.
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Mohan Madan Babu
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- biochemist
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M. Madan Babu FRS FRSC FMedSci is an Indian-American computational biologist and bioinformatician. He is the endowed chair in biological data science and director of the center of excellence for data-driven discovery at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Previously, he served as a programme leader at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.
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Ajayan Vinu
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- scientist
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Ajayan Vinu is a material scientist. He is currently the Global Innovation Chair Professor for Advanced Nanomaterials and the director of Global Innovative Centre for Advanced Nanomaterials, The University of Newcastle since October 2017 which houses more than 60 researchers including PhD students and staff. Before moving to the University of Newcastle, he was a professor of Nanomaterials at the University of South Australia from 2015-2017. and also worked at the University of Queensland as a Professor and ARC Future Fellow from 2011-2015. He is well known in the field of mesoporous carbon nitride and was the first one to introduce porosity in carbon nitride materials which find applications in different areas of research including catalysis, energy storage and conversion and carbon dioxide capture, and photocatalytic water splitting for hydrogen generation.