A partial list of notable alumni is given below: Babubhai J Patel - 6th Chief Minister of Gujarat Balasaheb Thorat - Member, Legislative Assembly of Maharshtra and Current Minister of Revenue and Khar Lands, Government of Maharashtra Bhalchandra Nemade - Famous Marathi writer of books like Kosala,Bidhar,Jhool,Jarila,Hool,Hindu-Jagnyachi Samruddha Adgal Bhaskar Chandavarkar - Composer - Sitar Player Dr. Burgula Ramakrishna Rao- 2nd Chief Minister of the erstwhile Hyderabad State; Activist for freedom of Hyderabad from Nizam's rule Pandit Chandrakant Sardeshmukh - Sitar Player, First Master Fellow of the National Centre for the Performing Arts (India) Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi - Marxist Historian, Indologist, Mathematician,Statistician and former head of the Dept of Mathematics at FC D.R. Kaprekar - Mathematician, Discovered the Kaprekar Constant and the Kaprekar Number Dattatreya Gopal Karve - Economist, First Principal of Brihan Maharashtra College of Commerce, Pune Jivatram Bhagwandas Kriplani - Indian Independence Activist, Senior Congress Leader, Founder of the Praja Socialist Party John M. Omenge- Chief Geologist, Ministry of Energy, Kenya Kranti Kanade- National Award winning Film Director & Screenwriter (Gandhi Of The Month, Mahek, Chaitra) Kiran Nagarkar - Playwright, novelist Milind Date Composer - Flautist Vasant Bhalwankar Composer, guitarist and noted international musician Nandini Nimbkar - President, Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute; Member, Senate and Academic Council, Shivaji University P L Deshpande - Playwright, Actor, Icon of Modern Marathi Literature PV Narasimha Rao - 12th Prime Minister of India Padmanabhan Balaram - Professor and current Director of IISc, Bangalore. Pooja Batra - Model, Miss India 1993; Actress Prahalad Kakkar - ad film maker Prahlad Keshav Atre- Playwright (Shyamchi Aai (film)); leader of The Samyukta Maharashtra Movement R. P. Paranjpe - Mathematician(Senior Wrangler) and former Principal of the college Ram Ganesh Gadkari- Playwright Shriram Lagoo, stage and film actor Gautam Joglekar, Film actor and Director, son of noted Film Director, Sai Paranjpe Smita Patil - Actress (Mirch Masala, Manthan, Chakra); Double National Award Winner for Best Actress Sonali Kulkarni - Actress (Mission Kashmir, Dil Chahta Hai, Fuoco Su Di Me),columnist and writer Suresh Kalmadi - MP from Pune Trilokjit Sengupta - Fashion Photographer. Creative Director and Founding Member of Saints and Warriors and Metal Communications. Vasant Kanetkar - Playwright, Padma Shri awardee Vinayak Damodar Savarkar - Indian Independence activist, Icon of the Hindu Nationalism Ideology, President of the Hindu Mahasabha Vishwanath Pratap Singh - 10th Prime Minister of India Vitthal Ramji Shinde- Social Activist; Founder of Depressed Classes Mission in Mumbai Mahmoud Gudra Al anakrih - Jordanian Government Shri.Ranjan Mathai, Foreign Secretary, Government of India Prof. Ganesh Wankhede, Professor and Head, Department of Zoology, Sant Gadgebaba University, Amravati .