List of Jawaharlal Nehru University people
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.
Alumni
Arts
Politics and Law
Heads of State and Government
Others
Humanities and Social Sciences
Military and police
Science and Technology
Others
- Harun Rashid Khan, Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India
- Umesh Upadhyay, President & Director Media at Reliance Industries Limited
- Pankaj Mishra, novelist and essayist.
- Ashok Kumar Sarangi, Chief Vigilance Officer and CGM-in-Charge, Reserve Bank of India
- Jawed Habib, hairdresser and businessman
Faculty
| Name | Affiliation | Notability | References |
| Anvita Abbi | Professor of Linguistics | ||
| Ayesha Kidwai | Professor of Linguistics | theoretical linguist and Infosys Prize recipient | |
| Balaji Prakash | biochemist, N-Bios laureate | ||
| Birendra Nath Mallick, | Neurobiologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | ||
| Brahm Shanker Srivastava, | microbiologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | ||
| Deepak Kumar | Professor of Physics between 1988 and 2016 | physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | |
| Franson Manjali | Professor of linguistics. | ||
| Joy Pachuau | Professor of Historical studies | historian | |
| Kapil Kapoor | Professor of Linguistics & English, Chairman Indian Institute of Advanced Study | ||
| Mahendra P. Lama | Professor, JNU | vice chancellor of Sikkim University | |
| Makarand Paranjape | Professor of English between 1999 and 2018 | author, poet, and director of Indian Institute of Advanced Study | |
| Muchkund Dubey | Former Professor of International Relations | 17th Foreign Secretary of India | |
| Nivedita Menon | Professor of Political thought | ||
| Prabhat Patnaik | Former Professor of Economics | ||
| Pushpesh Pant | Professor of International relations | food critic and writer | |
| Raja Mohan | |||
| Robert L. Holmes | philosopher | ||
| Sanjay Puri | held various positions since 1987 | Statistical physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | |
| Syed Iqbal Hasnain | glaciologist, writer, and climate change activist |