List of Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur alumni

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

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Academics

NameClass YearNotabilityReferences
Pushpak Bhattacharyya Director of IIT Patna [1]
Partha Pratim Chakraborty B.Tech 1985; PhD 1988 Director of IIT Kharagpur
Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay Director of ISI
S. Rao Kosaraju Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University and division director at the National Science Foundation [2] [3]
Pradeep Khosla Computer scientist and eighth Chancellor of University of California, San Diego [4]
Gopal Krishna Nayak Director of IIIT Bhubaneswar [5]
Mani Lal Bhaumik Ph. D. 1958first PhD student at IIT Kharagpur, physicist, and Padma Shri awardee [6]

Science and engineering

NameClass YearNotabilityReferences
Kalyan Banerjee 1964Former President of Rotary International [7]
Monisha Ghosh First woman Chief Technology Officer at the US government's Federal Communications Commission.
Kumar Bhattacharyya B. Tech. 1960manager of google India peer [8]
Harish Hande co-founder of social enterprise SELCO India and winner of Ramon Magsaysay Award [9]
V. C. Kulandaiswamy hydrologist, second vice-chancellor of Anna University, awarded Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan [10]
Kirit Parikh civil engineer; professor emeritus and founder director of Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) [11]
Kamal Sagar B. Arch 1992architect; chairman and founder of Total Environment [12]

Politics

NameClass YearNotabilityReferences
Arvind Kejriwal Chief Minister of Delhi [13]
Ashok Khemka Senior Bureaucrat in the Indian state of Haryana [14]
Chaudhary Ajit Singh cabinet minister [15]
Duvvuri Subbarao B. Sc. 1969economist and 22nd Governor of Reserve Bank of India [16]
Surajit Kar Purkayastha former Director General of Police of West Bengal and Police Commissioner of Kolkata

Business

NameClass YearNotabilityReferences
Anuradha Acharya 1995co-founder and CEO of Mapmygenome, a molecular diagnostics company; previously CEO of Ocimum Bio Solutions [17]
Prith Banerjee former director of HP Labs, the research wing of Hewlett-Packard [18]
Ramesh Chandra founder of real estate company Unitech Group [19]
R Gopalakrishnan former executive director of Tata Sons [20]
Vinod Gupta founder of InfoUSA, CEO of Infofree and DatabaseUSA [21]
Ajit Jain President of Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group [22]
Ravi Kant former vice chairman of Tata Motors [23]
Arjun Malhotra co-founder, HCL Technologies
Suhas Patil founder of Cirrus Logic [24]
Sundar Pichai CEO of Google [25]
Arun Sarin former CEO of Vodafone [26]
B.K. Syngal former chairman and Managing Director of VSNL
Suresh Vaswani President of Dell Services [27]

Arts and Entertainment

NameClass YearNotabilityReferences
Rajkumar Barjatya 1962Film producer [28]
Sandipan Deb founder editor of Outlook [29]
Raj Kamal Jha Chief Editor of Indian Express [30]
Arunabh Kumar co-founder of The Viral Fever (TVF) Media Labs [31]
Jitendra Kumar an Indian actor famous for his role in comedy sketch The Viral Fever
Bedabrata Pain film director [32]
Biswapati Sarkar Indian writer and director, presently employed as the Creative Director at The Viral Fever [33]
Kiran Seth founder of Indian culture non-profit SPIC MACAY; Padma Shri awardee [34]
Biswa Kalyan Rath an Indian stand-up comedian and writer

Activists

NameClass YearNotabilityReferences
Vinayak Lohani
Varun Shrivastava

Sports

NameClass YearNotabilityReferences
Malli Mastan Babu mountaineer

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