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List of IIT Kharagpur alumni

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

Academics

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Name Class Year Notability References
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]
Mohan Dutta B.Tech. 1995 Dean's Chair Professor of Communication and Director, Center for Culture-centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE) at School of Communication, Journalism, and Marketing at Massey University [7][8]
S. Rao Kosaraju Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University and division director at the National Science Foundation [9][10]
Pradeep Khosla Computer scientist and eighth Chancellor of University of California, San Diego [11]
Gopal Krishna Nayak Director of IIIT Bhubaneswar [12]
Mani Lal Bhaumik Ph. D. 1958 First PhD student at IIT Kharagpur, physicist, and Padma Shri awardee [13]
Satya Prasad Majumder Ph.D. 1993 Vice-Chancellor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology [14]

Science and engineering

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Name Class Year Notability References
Kalyan Banerjee 1964 Former President of Rotary International [15]
Monisha Ghosh First woman Chief Technology Officer at the US government's Federal Communications Commission. [16]
Srikumar Banerjee Indian metallurgical engineer. Former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India and the secretary of Department of Atomic Energy [17]
Kumar Bhattacharyya B. Tech. 1960 Manager of Google India peer [18]
Harish Hande Co-founder of social enterprise SELCO India and winner of Ramon Magsaysay Award [19]
V. C. Kulandaiswamy Hydrologist, second vice-chancellor of Anna University, awarded Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan [20]
Kirit Parikh Civil engineer; professor emeritus and founder director of Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) [21]
K. Radhakrishnan Ph.D. 2000 Indian space scientist who headed the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) [22]
Kamal Sagar B. Arch. 1992 An architect; chairman and founder of Total Environment [23]

Politics and Administration

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Name Class Year Notability References
Arvind Kejriwal Chief Minister of Delhi [24]
Ashok Khemka Senior Bureaucrat in the Indian state of Haryana [25]
Chaudhary Ajit Singh Former minister of Agriculture, Commerce and I dustry and Civil Aviation [26][27]
Duvvuri Subbarao B. Sc. 1969 economist and 22nd Governor of Reserve Bank of India [28]
Surajit Kar Purkayastha Former DGP of West Bengal Police and Police Commissioner of Kolkata

Business

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Name Class Year Notability References
Ajit Jain B.Tech. 1972 President of Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group [29]
Anuradha Acharya 1995 Co-founder and CEO of Mapmygenome, a molecular diagnostics company; previously CEO of Ocimum Bio Solutions [30]
Arjun Malhotra Co-founder, HCL Technologies
Arun Sarin Former CEO of Vodafone [31]
B.K. Syngal Former chairman and Managing Director of VSNL
Gopalakrishnan R Former executive director of Tata Sons [32]
Prith Banerjee Former director of HP Labs, the research wing of Hewlett-Packard [33]
Ramesh Chandra Founder of real estate company Unitech Group [34]
Ravi Kant Former vice chairman of Tata Motors [35]
Rono Dutta CEO of InterGlobe Aviation Limited which operates IndiGo Airlines. Also President of United Airlines [1999 - 2002] [36]
Suhas Patil Founder of Cirrus Logic [37]
Sundar Pichai CEO of Google and Alphabet inc. [38]
Suresh Vaswani President of Dell Services [39]
Vinod Gupta Founder of InfoUSA, CEO of Infofree and DatabaseUSA [40]

Arts and Entertainment

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Name Class Year Notability References
Rajkumar Barjatya 1962 Film producer [41]
Sandipan Deb Founder editor of Outlook [42]
Raj Kamal Jha Chief Editor of Indian Express, writer, novelist [43]
Arunabh Kumar Co-founder of The Viral Fever (TVF) Media Labs [44]
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 [45]
Biswapati Sarkar Indian writer and director, Former Creative Director at The Viral Fever, currently working at Pushpam Pa Pictures. [46]
Kiran Seth Founder of Indian culture non-profit SPIC MACAY; Padma Shri awardee [47]
Biswa Kalyan Rath An Indian stand-up comedian and writer

Activists

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Name Class Year Notability References
Vinayak Lohani
Varun Shrivastava 2009 Founder of UPAY NGO (NGO working for the education and skill development of underprivileged children)

Sports

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Name Class Year Notability References
Malli Mastan Babu M. Tech. 1998 Mountaineer

References

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