Mahamahopadhyaya (Hindi: महामहोपाध्याय) is an honorific title given to prestigious scholars by the Government of India. Prior to 1947, the title was bestowed by the British Raj, and before them, by the kings of ancient India. In ancient India, a scholar that wrote works based on topics related to the shastras was granted the title Mahopadhyaya. The title Mahamahopadhyaya was bestowed on the best amongst the Mahopadhyaya scholars.
Some of the notable recipients are:
Rewa Prasad Dwivedi (22 August 1935-), Sanskrit scholar based in Varanasi, originally from Nadner on the banks of Narmada river in Madhya PradeshHaraprasad Shastri (1853–1931), Sanskrit scholar, archivist and historian of Bengali literaturePandurang Vaman Kane (1880–1963), Sanskrit scholarJayamant Mishra (1925–2010), Sanskrit scholarVedam Venkataraya Sastry (1853–1929), Sanskrit and Telugu poet, critic and dramatistRam Avatar Sharma (1877–1929), Sanskrit scholarDatto Vaman Potdar (1890–1979), historian, writer, and oratorBishweshwar Nath Reu (1890–1966), historian, epigraphist, numismatist and SanskritistVasudev Vishnu Mirashi (1893–1985), Sanskrit scholar, in 1941Ramacharya Narsimhacharya Galagali (1892-1981), Sanskrit Scholar, Sanskrit Poet, Author of two incomplete Mahakavyam.Jagannath Mishra (Puri, Odisha), Sanskrit scholarHathibhai Shastri, Sanskrit scholar, writer, and orator. High priest of the Kingdom of Jamnagar.T. Ganapati Sastri, Received the Mahamahopadhyaya title in 1918U Ve Swaminatha Iyer (1855–1942), Tamil scholarPandithamani Kathiresan Chettiar, (1881-1953), Tamil and Sanskrit scholar, translatorGopinath Kaviraj (1887 – 1976) in 1934, Sanskrit scholar, philosopher, Padma Vibhushan (1964) Acharya Gangaram Shastri (Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh and only one in history from the state to be conferred the honour), (1923 - 2014), Sanskrit and Hindi scholarSri Dongare Veereswara Krishna Sastry, Sanskrit ScholarSri Remella SuryaPrakasa Sastry, Sanskrit Scholar, Purva Mimamsa exponent from Rajahmundry Andhra PradeshSri Sannidhanam Lakshminarayana Murthy Sastry, Sanskrit Scholar, Purva Mimamsa exponent from Rajahmundry Andhra PradeshProf. Sri Pullela Sri Ramachandrudu, Sanskrit/Telugu Scholar, Director of Sanskrit Academy Osmania University, HyderabadSri Viswanatha Gopalakrishna Sastry, Sanskrit Scholar, Nyaya exponent from Rajahmundry Andhra PradeshBhadreshdas Swami, Sanskrit ScholarYogacharya Dr Ashoke Kumar Chatterjee, World Kriyayoga Master, Conferred by Tirupati Sanskrit University with title of Mahamahopadhyaya on 6 March 2013, for His 6 decades of spiritual and literary contribution and inimatable contribution to Indology.