This is a list of notable people related to Savitribai Phule Pune University. Excluded from this list are those people whose only connection with Savitribai Phule Pune University is that they were awarded an honorary degree.
Politics and government
Heads of state and government
Note that P.V. Narasimha Rao, 9th Prime Minister of India, graduated from Fergusson College, when the college was under the University of Mumbai.
Others
Business
Military
Science and engineering
Akhil Chandra Banerjea, virologist, N-BIOS laureate
John Barnabas, evolutionary biologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (1974) Dipshikha Chakravortty, microbiologist, N-Bios laureate Shridhar Ramachandra Gadre, chemist and professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur; recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Chemical Science (1993) Sanjeev Galande, epigeneticist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (2010) laureate Faisal Hawar, engineer and entrepreneur, CEO/President and co-founder of the International Somalia Development Foundation as well as the Maakhir Resource Company Yogesh M. Joshi, rheologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (2015) laureate Thomas Kailath, electrical engineer, information theorist; recipient of the 2007 IEEE Medal of Honor; recipient of the 2014 National Medal of Science; Hitachi America Professor of Engineering at Stanford University Nissim Kanekar, astrophysicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate Vistasp Karbhari, civil engineer, President of the University of Texas at Arlington Sulabha K Kulkarni, physicist, Visiting Faculty, IISER Pune Kantilal Mardia, statistician and Guy Medallist, Senior Research Professor at the University of Leeds Goverdhan Mehta, chemist, recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Chemical Science (1978) Pranav Keskar, Hydrogen specialist Kullal Chickappu Naik, agricultural scientist Deepak T. Nair, molecular biologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate Suhas Patankar, mechanical engineer and professor at the University of Minnesota; pioneer in the field of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and finite volume method C. Kumar N. Patel, electrical engineer, inventor of the carbon dioxide laser; recipient of the 1996 National Medal of Science; vice Chancellor for Research at the University of California, Los Angeles Kanury Venkata Subba Rao, immunologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (1997) laureate Bhaskar Saha, immunologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (2009) laureate K. B. Sainis, immunologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (1994) laureate Vinod Scaria, bioinformatician, sequenced the first Indian genome Krityunjai Prasad Sinha, theoretical physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (1974) laureate K. George Thomas, nanotechnologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (2006) laureate Mohan R. Wani, cell biologist, N-BIOS laureate
Humanities and social sciences
Satish Alekar, playwright
Purushottam Laxman Deshpande, Marathi writer
Vijay Kelkar, economist, academic and Chairman of the 13th Finance Commission of India Nagnath Lalujirao Kottapalle, educationist and Marathi writer; taught at the Marathi department Kiran Nagarkar, novelist, recipient of the 2001 Sahitya Akademi Award Sharmila Rege, Indian sociologist and formerly Director of the Women's Studies Centre at the University of Pune Ram Shankar Tripathi, Indian Sanskrit scholar and Padma Shri awardee Jyoti Gogte, Indian academician