Editing Osmania University (section)

==Notable alumni and faculty==
{{main|List of Osmania University people}}
Notable alumni of Osmania University include 9th [[Prime Minister of India]] [[P. V. Narasimha Rao]],<ref name="PV Narasimha Rao"/> [[Jaipal Reddy]], cabinet minister, 16th and last Chief Minister of united [[Andhra Pradesh]] with [[Telangana]] [[Nallari Kiran Kumar Reddy]], CEO Adobe systems [[Shantanu Narayen]] and senior advocate [[Subodh Markandeya]].

Other alumni include spiritual guide and founder of [https://www.srmd.org Shrimad Rajchandra Mission Dharampur], [[Rakesh Jhaveri|Pujya Gurudevshri Rakeshji]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Gurudev Rakesh Bhai |url=https://spiritualsciencemuseum.org/Home/Master/223/Gurudev-Rakesh-Bai |website=Spiritual Science Museum |publisher=Puremindz |access-date=21 July 2022 |archive-date=16 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220316233815/http://spiritualsciencemuseum.org/Home/Master/223/Gurudev-Rakesh-Bai |url-status=live }}</ref> pro chancellor of khaja bandanawaz university Syed Muhammad Ali Al Hussaini, former Indian Cricket team captain [[Mohammed Azharuddin]], cricket commentator [[Harsha Bhogle]], novelist [[Venkatesh Kulkarni]], author and poet Sneha Narayanan, PDSU founder [[George Reddy]], former Union Home Minister [[Shivraj Patil]], former governor of the [[Reserve Bank of India]] [[Yaga Venugopal Reddy]], chemist [[Garikapati Narahari Sastry]], Metallurgist and former Vice Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University [[Patcha Ramachandra Rao]] and physicist [[Raziuddin Siddiqui]]. [[Rakesh Sharma]], cosmonaut and the first Indian to travel in space, was a graduate of Osmania.<ref>{{cite news|title=Nizam College fete from tomorrow|url=http://www.hindu.com/2008/02/19/stories/2008021958240200.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080304010048/http://www.hindu.com/2008/02/19/stories/2008021958240200.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 March 2008|access-date=1 October 2013|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=19 February 2008}}</ref> [[Karan Bilimoria, Baron Bilimoria|Karan Bilimoria]], founder of [[Cobra Beer]], Member of the [[House of Lords]], and the seventh Chancellor of the [[University of Birmingham]] earned his [[Bachelor of Commerce]] degree from Osmania in 1981.<ref>{{cite web|title=Lord Bilimoria appointed as Chancellor of the University of Birmingham|url=http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/latest/2014/05/lord-bilimoria.aspx|publisher=Birmingham University|access-date=17 December 2014}}</ref> [[Rafi Ahmed]], a well-known virologist and immunologist graduated from Osmania University in 1968.

Notable former faculty members of the university include [[Bhadriraju Krishnamurti]], Dravidianist and linguist, and founder of linguistics department at the university, physicist [[Suri Bhagavantam]], and linguist [[Masud Husain Khan]].{{Citation needed|date=November 2019}}