.List of notable alumni of the Indian Institutes of Technology, sorted by the year they graduated.
Name Campus Year Achievement
V. C. Kulandaiswamy Kharagpur (M. Tech.) 1956 Padma Shri (1992) and Padma Bhushan (2002)
Kirit Parikh Kharagpur (M. Tech.) 1957 Founder, IGIDR; Member, Planning Commission.
Mani Lal Bhaumik Kharagpur (Ph.D) 1958 Physicist, contributed to early development of the excimer laser, honorary fellow of the American Physical Society and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, philanthropist and author.
L.........................................................................................................................................................................................................ord Kumar Bhattacharyya Kharagpur 1960 Professor at the University of Warwick and advisor to Britain's Prime Minister. Padma Bhushan (2002) and Knighthood (2003)
Ashok Soota Roorkee 1965 CEO and Founder of MindTree
Suhas S. Patil Kharagpur 1965 Founder and Chairman Emeritus Cirrus Logic Inc.
Muthuraman B. Madras 1966 Managing Director of Tata Steel
Arun Netravali Bombay 1967 President, Bell Labs, Chief Scientist, Lucent, US National Medal of Technology
Kanwal Rekhi Bombay 1967 CEO Ensim Corporation; Ex-CTO Novell;Founder of TiE - The IndUS Entrepreneurs
Suresh P Sethi Bombay 1967 Charles and Nancy Davidson Distinguished Professor at School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas and Director, Center for Intelligent Supply Networks (C4iSN)
Rajinder Singh Madras 1967 Noted spiritual leader. Winner of Colombia's highest award medal of golden cross. Retired Bell Labs 1989
Srikumar Banerjee Kharagpur 1967 Director, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, (BARC), Trombay
Vinod Gupta Kharagpur 1967 Founder and Chairman of InfoUSA Inc.
Marti G Subrahmanyam Madras 1967 Charles E. Merrill Professor of Finance at Stern School of Business
Ramesh Agarwal Bombay 1968 IBM Fellow, T.J. Watson Research Center IBM
Rajendra S. Pawar Delhi Co-founder and Chairman of NIIT
N.R. Narayana Murthy Kanpur (M Tech) 1981 Co-founder and Chairman of Infosysand Padma Vibhushan
Duvvuri Subbarao Kharagpur 1969 Governor of Reserve Bank of India
Arjun Malhotra Kharagpur 1970 Co-founder, HCL Technologies
Victor Menezes Bombay 1970 Senior Vice Chairman, Citigroup
Rajat Gupta Delhi 1971 Managing Director, McKinsey
Ajit Jain Kharagpur 1972 President, Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group
Anil K. Rajvanshi Kanpur 1972 Director, Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute and winner of Jamnalal Bajaj Award 2001, FICCI award 2002, Globe Award 2009.
Arogyaswami Paulraj Delhi 1973 Professor, Stanford Universityand Padma Bhushan
Mriganka Sur Kanpur 1974 Professor of Neuroscience, MIT
Pradeep S Sindhu Kanpur 1974 Co-founder, Vice-President and CTO, Juniper Networks
Arun Sarin Kharagpur 1975 Former CEO of Vodafone
Bharat Desai Bombay 1975 Chairman and CEO, Syntel
Jairam Ramesh Bombay 1975 Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Environment and Forests, Member of Parliament since 2004
Vinod Khosla Delhi 1976 Co-founder Sun Microsystems
Vijay K. Thadani Delhi 1981 Co-founder and CEO of NIIT
Manohar Parrikar Bombay 1978 Ex-Chief Minister, Goa
Nandan Nilekani Bombay 1978 Co-founder and CEO of Infosys
Narendra Karmarkar Bombay 1978 Polynomial time algorithm for LP problems, which is a leading breakthrough in Operations Research
Shrinivas Kulkarni Delhi (M.Sc) 1978 Astrophysicist, professor at Caltech
G. V. Loganathan Kanpur (M.Tech) 1978 Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Naveen Jain Roorkee 1979 CEO and Co-founder, Intelius
Krishna Bharat Madras 1982 Creator of Google News, Principal Scientist, Google
Padmasree Warrior Delhi 1982 CTO, Motorola
Arvind Raghunathan Madras 1984 Managing Director and Head of Global Arbitrage, Deutsche Bank
Rajesh Jain Bombay 1984 MD, Netcore Solutions, Founder, IndiaWorld
Raghuram Rajan Delhi 1985 Economic Counsellor, IMF; Fischer Black prize
Manindra Agarwal Kanpur 1986 Clay Research Award, 2002, Godel Prize, 2006
Madhu Sudan Delhi 1987 Nevanlinna Prize, 2002
Raj Kamal Jha Kharagpur 1987 Writer, famous for his Novel "The Blue Bedspread"
Debabrata Goswami Kanpur 1988 (M.Sc.) Scientist, famous for his "Adiabatic Quantum Computing" Work with Lasers; Wellcome Trust International Senior Research Fellow
Arvind Kejriwal Kharagpur 1989 Indian social activist and crusader for greater transparency in Government. Winner of Ramon Magsaysay Emergent Leadership award in 2006
Gunjan Sinha Delhi 1989 Chairman, Metricstream
Ramanathan V. Guha Madras 1989 Invented RSS
Anurag Dikshit Delhi 1994 Co-Founder, Partygaming
Vikrant Bhargava Delhi 1994 Co-Founder, Partygaming
Satyendra Dubey Kanpur 1994 Whistle-blower
Chetan Bhagat Delhi 1995 Best-selling author of "Five Point Someone" and "One Night @ The Call Centre"
Subrah Iyar Bombay ? CEO WebEx Communications
Anant Koppar Kharagpur ? Founder President of Kshema Technologies, one of India's first venture capital funded software services companies
Gururaj Deshpande Madras ? Co-founder of Sycamore Networks
Aniruddha M. Gole Bombay ? Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Manitoba
Sudhakar Muddu Madras 1990 CEO and Founder of Kazeon
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