This great temple of Knowledge has produced several great personalities who have received great recognition across the seas with their excellence and talent. There have been many such iconic personalities who are famous in various fields. Few of them are:
Wrangler D. C. Pawate, a great educationist and also the founder of Karnatak University, Dharwad; Prof. M. I. Savadatti; Prof. M. M. Kalburgi; Prof. Pramod B. Gai. The Chief Justice of India Pralhad Balacharya Gajendragadkar; Judge of the Supreme court of India, Mohan Mallikarjunagouda Shantanagoudar; Padmashri Dr. M. M. Joshi, famous ophthalmologist; Padmashri Dr. R. B. Patil, famous surgeon; Dr. Rajan Deshpande, renowned Children's specialist; Dr. Jaayade V. P; Dr. Suresh Duggani. Information technology icon Shri. Nandan Nilekani, former Chief Administrative Officer of INFOSYS; Dr. V. K. Gokak, famous Professor of English and Jnanapeeth awardee; Dr. Girish Karnad, Jnanapeeth awardee; Nadoj Channaveer Kanavi; Prof. Giraddi Govindaraj, a veteran critic; Dr. R. C. Hiremath, a great linguist; Dr. S. G. Nagalotimath; Nadoj Dr. Patil Puttappa. A national level athlete Trikannada,; Smt. Renuka Hede.
Noted Politicians, Shri. H. K. Patil, Basavaraj Rayareddi, Shri. S. V. Sanknur, Shri. Vinay Kulkarni, Shri. Aravinda Bellad, Shri. Lohit Nayakar, Shri. R. S. Patil, Shri. Manjunath Kunnur.
The Administrators, Shri. Anil Gokak IAS ; Farmer Chief Secretary Government of Karnataka, Shri. B. S. Patil IAS, Shri. Aravind Jannu IAS, Dr. S. M. Jamadhar IAS, Shri. S. B. Bommanhalli IAS, Shri. Guruprasad Hegde IAS, Shri. Ravi D. Channannavar IPS Smt. Sangeetha G. IPS, Shri. Nanjundaswamy, Shri. B. S. Nyamgoudar.
Many students who once studied in this magnificent college have brought laurels to the college as well as to the nation.
Dramas are like true interpreters of our indications, but there is art required to sort and understand them said Michel De Montaigne and it is fact that the Karnatak Arts College the mother of the Karnatak University and also its constituent college is the result of the dream of its founders Dewan Rao Bahadur Rodda Srinivasa Rao and Dewan Bahadur Artal Rudragouda. These two men dared to dream that North Karnataka, then a part of the Bombay Presidency, needed an educational institution for the students of this region they had to go either to Bombay or to Pune to pursue higher studies.
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