19 Notable alumni of
Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University
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Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University is 1668th in the world, 375th in Asia, and 40th in India by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 19 notable alumni from Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur 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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P. V. Narasimha Rao
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- novelistfreedom fighterjuristpoetminister
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Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao was an Indian independence activist, lawyer, and statesman from the Indian National Congress who served as the prime minister of India from 1991 to 1996. He was the first person from South India and the second person from a non-Hindi speaking background to be prime minister. He is known for his role in initiating India's economic liberalisation following an economic crisis in 1991, a process that has been sustained and expanded by every successive prime minister of the country.
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Nitin Gadkari
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- politician
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Nitin Jairam Gadkari is an Indian politician who is serving as the 40th Minister of Road Transport & Highways since 2014. He is also the longest serving Minister for Road Transport & Highways, currently in his tenure for over eleven years, and is the only person to serve under a single portfolio for three consecutive terms. A senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he served as the President of his party from 2009 to 2013.
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Shrikant Jichkar
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- politician
- Biography
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Shrikant Jichkar Marathi: श्रीकांत जिचकार was an Indian civil servant and politician. He earned 20 university degrees and was elected as the youngest MLA in the country at age 26. The title now belongs to Maithili Thakur, elected at 25 on November 14, 2025
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Madhukar Dattatraya Deoras
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- politician
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Madhukar Dattatraya Deoras, also known as Balasaheb Deoras, was the third Sarsanghchalak (Chief) of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing Hindutva paramilitary organisation.
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Mukul Wasnik
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- 1959-.. (age 67)
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- politician
- Biography
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Mukul Balkrishna Wasnik is an Indian Politician and a member of the Parliament. He was the Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment in Government of India. He represented the Ramtek constituency of Maharashtra from 2009 to 2014. He is a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) political party. He is also a General Secretary of the All India Congress Committee. In 2022, Wasnik was elected member of the Rajya Sabha.
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Ramkrishnan Suryabhan Gavai
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- 1929-2015 (aged 86)
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- politician
- Biography
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Ramkrishna Suryabhan Gavai, popularly known as Dadasaheb Gavai, was an Indian politician, social activist, senior leader of the Ambedkarite movement, and founder of the Republican Party of India (Gavai). He was the President of Ambedkar's ideological party Republican Party of India, through this party, he did many works in political and social fields. Gavai also worked with Babasaheb Ambedkar, a polymath. He was the Governor of the three states of Bihar, Sikkim and Kerala, as well as he has served in both houses of the Indian Parliament, the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha. Gavai was a 30-year member (MLC) of the Maharashtra Legislative Council during which he served on the posts of the chairman, the deputy chairman, and the Opposition leader of the council.
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Nitin Raut
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- politician
- Biography
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Nitin Kashinath Raut is an Indian politician, Businessman and social activist from Maharashtra. He was a former Cabinet minister in the Uddhav Thackeray ministry, Government of Maharashtra. He is the Working President of the Indian National Congress party Maharashtra and Chairman AICC (All India Congress Committee) for SC Department. He was the Cabinet Minister of Employment Guarantee and Water Conservation in the Government of Maharashtra, India until 2014.
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Frank Anthony
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- lawyerpolitician
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Frank Anthony was a leader of the Anglo-Indian and Christian community in India, and was until his death the Anglo-Indian nominated representative in the Parliament of India except during the 6th and 9th Lok Sabha. He served as the president of the All India Anglo-Indian Association.
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Ranjeet Deshmukh
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- politician
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Ranjeet Arvindbabu Deshmukh was an Indian politician and Senior Congress leader. He held the position as state unit president of the party on two occasions was the president of Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee. He was first elected to the MLA in 1985 from the Savner constituency.
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Sharad Arvind Bobde
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- judge
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Sharad Arvind Bobde is a retired Indian judge who served as the 47th Chief Justice of India from 18 November 2019 to 23 April 2021.
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Vasant Sathe
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- autobiographerauthorbadminton executive and administratorpolitician
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Vasant Purushottam Sathe was an Indian politician of the Indian National Congress party. He was a lawyer by training and became a parliamentarian in 1972 and a cabinet minister during the 1980s. He was a socialist and came to prominence in the congress after Indira Gandhi split the party for a second time in 1978. He was also known for his tenure as Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting when he initiated the process which led to Indian television moving into colour broadcasting for the Asian Games 1982 and Hum Log the first colour Indian soap-opera.
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Basanta Choudhury
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- actorfilm actor
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Basanta Choudhury also known as Basanta Chowdhury, was an Indian actor in Bengali and Hindi films. He worked with directors Asit Sen, Rajen Tarafdar, Ajay Kar and Bijay Bose, often in leading roles. He is a former Sheriff of Kolkata.
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Shankar Shesh
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- writer
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Shanker Shesh was an Indian playwright, author, poet and story writer.
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Swati Dandekar
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- politician
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Swati A. Dandekar is a former Iowa state legislator and former U.S. Executive Director at the Asian Development Bank. She is a Democratic member of the Iowa Utilities Board, awaiting Senate confirmation in 2012. Previously, she was a member of the Iowa House of Representatives for the 36th District from 2003 to 2009 and a member of the Iowa Senate for the 18th District from 2009 to 2011. She received her B.S. degree in Biology and Chemistry from Nagpur University and a graduate diploma in dietetics from University of Mumbai. As of 2011 Dandekar serves as the Chair (formerly President) of the National Foundation for Women Legislators and as a board member of the Iowa Math and Science Coalition, the Greater Cedar Rapids Foundation, and the Belin-Blank International Center for Gifted & Talented. Dandekar previously served on the Iowa Association of School Boards, and as a board member of the Women in Public Policy (Iowa Charter), and the U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy. On July 23, 2013 Dandekar announced that she would be running for the U.S. Congress from the 1st congressional district; she lost in the primary to former state house speaker Pat Murphy, who himself lost to Rod Blum.
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Ardhendu Bhushan Bardhan
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- politician
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Ardhendu Bhushan Bardhan was a trade union leader and the former general secretary of the Communist Party of India (CPI), one of the oldest political parties in India.
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Vishnu Bhikaji Kolte
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- 1908-1998 (aged 90)
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- writer
- Biography
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Vishnu Bhikaji Kolte, popularly called Bhausaheb Kolte was a Marathi writer and researcher of old Marathi literature. He hailed from Maharashtra, India. He served as Vice chancellor in Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University.
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Abdullah Quraishi Al-Azhari
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Maulana Abdullah Quraishi Al-Azhari was an Islamic scholar from Hyderabad, India. He served as the khateeb and imam of the Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad and the vice chancellor of Jamia Nizamia University.
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Wasudev Waman Patankar
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- 1908-1997 (aged 89)
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- poet
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Wasudev Waman Patankar, popularly known by the name Bhausaheb Patankar (Marathi: भाऊसाहेब पाटणकर), was a prominent Marathi shayar, and one of the first to pen Marathi shayari, until then Shayari was an outcome of Urdu language. W.W Patankar was an Advocate by profession.
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Nanda Jichkar
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- politician
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Nanda Jichkar is an Indian politician.
