List of IIT Kharagpur alumni

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The Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur has had numerous notable alumni.

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Academics

NameClass YearNotabilityReferences
Subhasis Chaudhuri B.Tech. 1985 Director of IIT Bombay [1]
Pushpak Bhattacharyya Director of IIT Patna [2]
Partha Pratim Chakraborty B.Tech. 1985; Ph.D. 1988 Director of IIT Kharagpur [3]
Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay Director of ISI [4]
Supriyo Datta Thomas Duncan Distinguished professor at the School of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University [5] [6]
S. Rao Kosaraju Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University and division director at the National Science Foundation [7] [8]
Pradeep Khosla Computer scientist and eighth Chancellor of University of California, San Diego [9]
Gopal Krishna Nayak Director of IIIT Bhubaneswar [10]
Mani Lal Bhaumik Ph. D. 1958First PhD student at IIT Kharagpur, physicist, and Padma Shri awardee [11]
Satya Prasad Majumder Ph.D. 1993 Vice-Chancellor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology [12]

Science and engineering

NameClass YearNotabilityReferences
Kalyan Banerjee 1964Former President of Rotary International [13]
Monisha Ghosh First woman Chief Technology Officer at the US government's Federal Communications Commission. [14]
Srikumar Banerjee Indian metallurgical engineer. Former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India and the secretary of Department of Atomic Energy [15]
Kumar Bhattacharyya B. Tech. 1960Manager of Google India peer [16]
Harish Hande Co-founder of social enterprise SELCO India and winner of Ramon Magsaysay Award [17]
V. C. Kulandaiswamy Hydrologist, second vice-chancellor of Anna University, awarded Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan [18]
Kirit Parikh Civil engineer; professor emeritus and founder director of Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) [19]
K. Radhakrishnan Ph.D. 2000Indian space scientist who headed the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) [20]
Kamal Sagar B. Arch. 1992An architect; chairman and founder of Total Environment [21]

Politics and Administration

NameClass YearNotabilityReferences
Arvind Kejriwal Chief Minister of Delhi [22]
Ashok Khemka Senior Bureaucrat in the Indian state of Haryana [23]
Chaudhary Ajit Singh Former minister of Agriculture, Commerce and I dustry and Civil Aviation [24] [25]
Duvvuri Subbarao B. Sc. 1969economist and 22nd Governor of Reserve Bank of India [26]
Surajit Kar Purkayastha Former DGP of West Bengal Police and Police Commissioner of Kolkata

Business

NameClass YearNotabilityReferences
Ajit Jain B.Tech. 1972President of Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group [27]
Anuradha Acharya 1995Co-founder and CEO of Mapmygenome, a molecular diagnostics company; previously CEO of Ocimum Bio Solutions [28]
Arjun Malhotra Co-founder, HCL Technologies
Arun Sarin Former CEO of Vodafone [29]
B.K. Syngal Former chairman and Managing Director of VSNL
Gopalakrishnan R Former executive director of Tata Sons [30]
Prith Banerjee Former director of HP Labs, the research wing of Hewlett-Packard [31]
Ramesh Chandra Founder of real estate company Unitech Group [32]
Ravi Kant Former vice chairman of Tata Motors [33]
Rono Dutta CEO of InterGlobe Aviation Limited which operates IndiGo Airlines. Also President of United Airlines [1999 - 2002] [34]
Suhas Patil Founder of Cirrus Logic [35]
Sundar Pichai CEO of Google and Alphabet inc. [36]
Suresh Vaswani President of Dell Services [37]
Vinod Gupta Founder of InfoUSA, CEO of Infofree and DatabaseUSA [38]

Arts and Entertainment

NameClass YearNotabilityReferences
Rajkumar Barjatya 1962Film producer [39]
Sandipan Deb Founder editor of Outlook [40]
Raj Kamal Jha Chief Editor of Indian Express, writer, novelist [41]
Arunabh Kumar Co-founder of The Viral Fever (TVF) Media Labs [42]
Jitendra Kumar Indian film actor famous for his roles in comedy sketches of The Viral Fever
Bedabrata Pain Former NASA senior researcher and film director [43]
Biswapati Sarkar Indian writer and director, Former Creative Director at The Viral Fever, currently working at Pushpam Pa Pictures. [44]
Kiran Seth Founder of Indian culture non-profit SPIC MACAY; Padma Shri awardee [45]
Biswa Kalyan Rath An Indian stand-up comedian and writer
Gaurav TanejaA YouTuber with three channels Flying Beast with 7.9 million subscribers as of July 2023, FitMuscle TV with 2.1 million subscribers as of July 2023, and Rasbhari Ke Papa with 1.2 million subscribers as of July 2023, for vlogging, bodybuilding and cricketing respectively. He was also a undergraduate law student at Delhi University; an ex-pilot for IndiGo and AIX Connect. [46] [47]

Activists

NameClass YearNotabilityReferences
Vinayak Lohani
Varun Shrivastava 2009Founder of UPAY NGO (NGO working for the education and skill development of underprivileged children)

Sports

NameClass YearNotabilityReferences
Malli Mastan Babu M. Tech. 1998Mountaineer

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