As a potential remedy for addressing water scarcity challenges, advanced oxidation processes (AOP) present the opportunity of alleviating the water demand in water scarce regions. In this study appropriate doping of N and Pt into the titanium dioxide (TiO2) lattice using different dendrimers as templates and sources of nitrogen was demonstrated. The resulting N, Pt co‐doped TiO2 with small particle sizes was synthesized through a simple modified sol‐gel method. The N, Pt co‐doped TiO2 photocalysts were characterized through High Resolution Scanning Electron Microscopy (HR‐SEM) coupled with Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS), Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), Brunauer‐Emmett‐Teller (BET), Raman Spectroscopy (RS), X‐ Ray Diffraction (XRD), Fourier‐transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), Thermo‐gravimetric analysis (TGA), Ultraviolet and visible (UV‐Vis) absorption spectroscopy (UV‐Vis) and Photoluminescence (PL). The band gap reduction was more pronounced for the Poly (amidoamine) generation 1 (PAMAM G1) templated N, Pt co‐doped TiO2 (Eg=3.149 eV) compared to Poly (amidoamine) generation 0 (PAMAM G0) and Hyperbranched polyethylenimine (HPEI) templated N, Pt co‐doped TiO2. Co‐doping led to an enhancement in the photocatalytic activity of the photocatalysts for the degradation of brilliant black (99.83%) after 3 hours of visible light irradiation. Therefore, the synthesized photocatalysts can find applications in wastewater treatment using solar light.