29 Notable alumni of
Manipal Academy of Higher Education
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The Manipal Academy of Higher Education is 1363rd in the world, 299th in Asia, and 34th in India by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 29 notable alumni from the Manipal Academy of Higher Education sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Satya Nadella
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- engineermanagercomputer scientistchief executive officerbusinessperson
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Satya Narayana Nadella is an Indian-born American business executive who is the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Microsoft, succeeding Steve Ballmer in 2014 as CEO and John W. Thompson in 2021 as chairman. Before becoming CEO, he was the executive vice president of Microsoft's cloud and enterprise group, responsible for building and running the company's computing platforms.
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Nithya Menen
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- actorsinger
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N. S. Nithya, known professionally as Nithya Menen is an Indian actress and singer who works predominantly in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada films. Having appeared in over 59 films, she is noted for her strong portrayals. Menen is a recipient of several accolades including a National Film Award, four Filmfare Awards South, two South Indian International Movie Awards and two Nandi Awards.
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Esha Gupta
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- modelactorbeauty pageant contestant
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Esha Gupta is an Indian actress, model, and beauty pageant titleholder. She works in Hindi films. She was crowned Femina Miss India International 2007 and represented India at Miss International 2007. She made her acting debut with the crime thriller Jannat 2 (2012) receiving a Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut nomination.
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Nag Ashwin
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India - Occupations
- film directorscreenwriter
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Singireddy Nag Ashwin Reddy is an Indian film director and screenwriter known for his work in Telugu cinema. He is the recipient of a National Film Award, a Nandi Award, and a Filmfare Award. A graduate of the New York Film Academy, Ashwin began his career as an assistant director to Sekhar Kammula. He made his directorial debut in 2015 with the coming-of-age film Yevade Subramanyam, which earned him the Nandi Award for Best Debut Director.
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Kamala Surayya
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- short story writerwriterautobiographerpoet
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Kamala Surayya, popularly known by her one-time pen name Madhavikutty and married name Kamala Das, was an Indian poet in English as well as an author in Malayalam from Kerala, India. Her fame in Kerala primarily stems from her short stories and autobiography, My Story, whereas her body of work in English, penned under the pseudonym Kamala Das, is renowned for its poems and candid autobiography. Her works are known for originality, versatility and indigenous flavour of the soil. She was also a widely read columnist and wrote on diverse topics including women's issues, child care, politics, etc. Her liberal treatment of female sexuality, marked her as an iconoclast in popular culture of her generation. On 31 May 2009, aged 75, she died at Jehangir Hospital in Pune.
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Vikas Khanna
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- film directorfilm producertelevision actorrestaurateurchef
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Vikas Khanna is an Indian celebrity chef, restaurateur, cookbook writer, and filmmaker based in New York City. He is one of the judges of MasterChef India since its beginning.
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Devi Shetty
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- surgeon
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Devi Prasad Shetty is an Indian cardiac surgeon who is the chairman and founder of Narayana Health, a chain of 24 medical centers in India. He has performed more than 100,000 heart operations. In 2004 he was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award, followed by the Padma Bhushan in 2012, the third highest civilian award by the Government of India for his contribution to the field of affordable healthcare.
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Rajeev Chandrasekhar
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- computer scientistpolitician
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Rajeev Chandrasekhar is an Indian entrepreneur and politician. He is a former junior minister, Minister of State for the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, and Ministry of Jal Shakti. From 2006 to 2024, he was also a member of parliament in the Rajya Sabha representing Karnataka. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He lost his ministerial credentials after losing his elections in Thiruvananthapuram and was not offered a ministerial position in new coalition formed under National Democratic Alliance.
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Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor
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- astronautsurgeon
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Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor Al Masrie bin Sheikh Mustapha is a Malaysian doctor and spaceflight participant. He launched to the International Space Station aboard Soyuz TMA-11 with the Expedition 16 crew on 10 October 2007. Sheikh Muszaphar flew under an agreement with Russia through the Angkasawan program, and returned to Earth on 21 October 2007, aboard Soyuz TMA-10 with the Expedition 15 crew members, Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov.
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Shamsheer Vayalil
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- radiologist
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Shamsheer Vayalil Parambath is an Indian radiologist and businessman. He is the founder and chairman of Burjeel Holdings. Through VPS Healthcare, his family office, he oversees an extensive investment portfolio including Burjeel Holdings, RPM, LifePharma, Lakeshore Hospital, Ziva, Keita, and Educare Institute. As of April 2023, Vayalil has a net worth of US$2.4 billion.
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Adnan Khan
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- actortelevision actor
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Adnan Khan is an Indian actor who appears in Hindi Films, Hindi Television and Web series. He is best known for his role as Mawlawi Kabeer Ahmed in Zee TV's drama series Ishq Subhan Allah and Viaan Raghuvanshi in Sony Entertainment Television's Katha Ankahee.
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Parvati Nair
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- modelactor
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Parvati Venugopal Nair is an Indian model and actress who works in the South Indian film industry. Born into a Malayali family in Abu Dhabi, she trained as a software professional from Manipal Institute of Technology. She started modelling at the age of 15.
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T. M. A. Pai
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- banker
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Tonse Madhava Ananth Pai, was an Indian physician, educationist, banker and philanthropist, most well-known for building the university town of Manipal, India.
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Belle Monappa Hegde
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- surgeon
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Belle Monappa Hegde is a cardiologist, professor of medicine, and author. He was the vice chancellor of Manipal Academy of Higher Education from 1999 to 2003. He was awarded Padma Bhushan in 2010 and Padma Vibhushan in 2021. He has supported homeopathy a pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine and quantum healing.
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Girish Kasaravalli
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- screenwriterfilm directorfilm producer
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Girish Kasaravalli is an Indian film director, in the Kannada cinema, and one of the pioneers of the Parallel Cinema. Known internationally for his works, Kasaravalli has garnered fourteen National Film Awards, including four Best Feature Films; Ghatashraddha (1977), Tabarana Kathe (1986), Thaayi Saheba (1997) and Dweepa (2002). In 2011, he was awarded with the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award by Government of India.
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Ramdas Pai
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- businesspersonwriter
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Ramdas Madhava Pai is an Indian health administrator and the incumbent Chancellor at the Manipal Academy of Higher Education, and chairman of the Manipal Education and Medical Group.
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M G George Muthoot
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- entrepreneur
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Mathai George George Muthoot was an Indian entrepreneur and businessman. He was the third generation of his family to be chairman of the Muthoot Group, and the former Lay Trustee of the Indian Orthodox Church. He was also a member of the National Executive Committee of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and the Chairman of the FICCI Kerala State Council.
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M. S. Valiathan
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- surgeonphysiciancardiac surgeon
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Marthanda Varma Sankaran Valiathan was an Indian cardiac surgeon. He was a president of the Indian National Science Academy and a National Research Professor of the Government of India.
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Sharan Patil
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- surgeon
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Dr. Sharan Shivraj Patil is an Indian entrepreneur, philanthropist and orthopaedic surgeon. He is the founder of Sparsh Hospitals.
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Mirza Faizan
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- India
- Occupations
- computer scientist
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Mirza Faizan is an Indian-American aerospace scientist who developed the Ground Reality Information Processing System.
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Arun Shenoy
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- composer
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Arun Shenoy is an Indian-Singaporean musician and songwriter. He is best known for his Grammy Award nomination at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards for his debut full-length studio album Rumbadoodle released in 2012. "Bliss", the first song from his Indian Fusion project released as a single in 2013 was featured on a worldwide Exclusive First Look on Grammy.com. His second album A Stagey Bank Affair, released in 2016 was chosen as the Critics's Pick for Best Album of the Year by Jazziz Magazine. He was conferred the Outstanding Computing Alumni Award by the School of Computing at NUS in 2018 and is also a Distinguished Alumni of MIT, Manipal. He is the founder of record label, Narked Records. Looking back at Shenoy's music over the years, music critic Jonathan Widran has noted that Shenoy's discography may sound a bit scattered, but it's reflective of a brilliant, multi-faceted creative mind, pushed relentlessly by a restless spirit. He has stated that (band) name shifts aside, it's some of the most compelling, heartfelt and life affirming music he has heard. Shenoy has been featured by Zen Magazine in the best dressed couples list at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards red carpet arrivals in 2014; and again by Le Guide Noir at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards red carpet arrivals in 2015.
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Niyaz Ahmed
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- 1971-.. (age 54)
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- biologistbloggermicrobiologist
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Niyaz Ahmed is an Indian molecular epidemiologist, professor of microbial sciences, genomicist, and a veterinarian by training, based in Hyderabad.
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Ramesh C. Deka
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- scientist
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Ramesh C. Deka is an Indian Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) specialist and the former Director of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, which is globally recognised as the premier medical institute of India. He is one of the pioneers of cochlear implant surgery in India and performed the country's first bilateral cochlear implantation surgery.
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Shriya Kishore
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- beauty pageant contestant
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Shriya Kishore is an Indian model and beauty pageant titleholder. She was crowned as Pantaloons Femina Miss India Earth 2009 in Mumbai on 5 April 2009. She became a semifinalist in Miss Earth 2009.
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P. K. R. Warrier
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- 1921-2011 (aged 90)
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- writersurgeonautobiographer
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P. K. Raghava Warrier FRCS was an Indian Cardiothoracic surgeon, author and social activist from Kerala.
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Karthik Nagesh
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- 20th Century
- Occupations
- neonatologist
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Dr. Karthik Nagesh is a neonatologist in India. He has been practicing neonatal intensive care since 1992 at the Manipal Hospital in Bangalore. He is well known in India for his pioneering work in intensive care for sick neonates especially, Surfactant Therapy and ventilation for sick babies with respiratory distress. He is currently the Chairman of the Manipal Advanced Children's Center and Chairman and HOD of Neonatology and Neonatal ICUs at the Manipal Hospitals Group as well as an adjunct professor of paediatrics, KMC at Manipal University.
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Gayathri Prabhu
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- 1974-.. (age 51)
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- novelist
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Gayathri Prabhu is an Indian novelist who currently lives in Manipal, Karnataka. Her most recent work is the novella Love in Seven Easy Steps (2021), preceded by Vetaal and Vikram: Riddles of the Undead, published by HarperCollins in 2019.
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Prithveesh K. Bhat
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- mosaicistspeedcuber
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Prithveesh K. Bhat or Prathvish K. Bhat is an Indian Rubik's Cube speedcuber and mosaic artist. He has set several Rubik's Cube records, including two Guinness World Records namely ′Largest Dual Sided Rubik’s Cube Mosaic′, leading a team of 20 members and ′Most contributions to a Rubik's cube mosaic′, leading a team of 293 people.
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Sajjad Fazel
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- 1991-.. (age 34)
- Occupations
- researcher
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Sajjad Sherally Fazel is a Canadian clinical pharmacist, public health researcher, and the founder of Afya Yako, Tanzania's first online health promotion initiative. Afya Yako impacted thousands of Tanzanians and inspired an online health movement in Tanzania.
