List of BITS alumni
This is a list of notable BITS Pilani alumni.

List of BITS alumni

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Table Section Text: This is a list of notable BITS Pilani alumni.

Name	Category	Achievement	Year

Baba Kalyani	Corporate	Chairman of Bharat Forge	1965–1970

Sanjay Mehrotra	Corporate	President and co-founder of Sandisk

Nanaji Deshmukh	Social activist and Politician	Social Activism in the fields of education, health, and rural self-reliance; honoured with the Padma Vibhushan in 1999, and posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna.

Deendayal Upadhyaya	Social activist and Politician	RSS thinker and former leader of the political party Bharatiya Jana Sangh

Autar Kaw	Professor	2012 U.S. Professor of the Year; Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Florida

Vijay Chandru	Corporate	Cofounder and CEO, Strand Life Sciences; Inventor of Simputer	1975

Prithviraj Chavan	Polity	Former Chief Minister of Maharashtra; former Union Minister for Science and Technology, Govt. of India	1963-1967

Gulu L. Mirchandani	Corporate	Founder and CEO of Onida Electronics	1965–1970

Rakesh Kapoor	Corporate	CEO of Reckitt Benckiser	1975-1980

Sunil Duggal	Corporate	CEO of Dabur	1974-1979

G. Ravindra Kumar	Educators-researchers	Senior professor - Tata Institute of Fundamental Research	1977-1983

Suvrit Sra	Educators-researchers	Researcher at MIT. Former Senior Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems.

Manu Sawhney	Corporate	CEO of International Cricket Council (ICC), Former CEO of ESPN Star Sports, Director of Manchester United F.C.	1984-1988

B. Sandhya	Government institutions	Police officer and author

Rajesh Hukku	Corporate	Chairman and CEO of i-flex Solutions; named Star of Asia by Businessweek in 2003

Vivek Paul	Corporate	Consulting Professor at Stanford; founder of KineticGlue; partner at TPG; Vice Chairman of Wipro Ltd.; CEO of Wipro Technologies; named one of the world's ten best managers by Businessweek (2003), Top 30 Global CEOs by Barrons in 2005, and "2004 Business influentials" by Time

SK Roongta	Corporate	Chairman of Steel Authority of India Ltd.

Saket Agarwal	Corporate	CEO of Spice Digital	1988-93

Vinod Agarwal	Entrepreneurs	Founder and chairman of SEMINDIA, India's first semiconductor fab; founder and former Chairman of LogicVision ($100 million NASDAQ traded company: LGVN)	1968-73

Rajiv Bapna	Entrepreneurs	Founder and Director of AMKETTE, a storage media company	1969-1974

Sabeer Bhatia	Entrepreneurs	Founder of Hotmail (sold to Microsoft for $400 million); joined Caltech after two years of study in BITS Pilani

Phanindra Sama	Entrepreneurs	Co-founder and CEO of Redbus.in, online bus-ticketing company	1998–2002

Prof. S. P. Kothari	Educators-researchers	Deputy Dean of MIT Sloan School of Management	1974-1979

Prof. Krishna Saraswat	Educators-researchers	Stanford University	1963-1968

Prof. Ravi Gomatam	Educators-researchers	Director of Bhaktivedanta Institute and Institute of Semantic Information Sciences and Technology, Berkeley and Mumbai

Dilip D'Souza	Writers	Writer of social causes	1976–1981

Shashi Warrier	Artists/entertainers	Writer of fiction

Anu Haasan	Artists/entertainers	Actress, Tamil/Telugu movies, TV show host

Kanika	Artists/entertainers	Actress, Tamil/Telugu/Kannada/Malayalam movies, TV show host

Mani Shankar	Artists/entertainers	Director, Indian movies

Padmini Chettur	Artists/entertainers	Dancer	1987-1991

Dushyanth Sridhar	Speaker/writer	Noted scholar in Sanskrit and Tamil on ancient Hindu scriptures	2004-2009

Sandeep A. Varma	Artists/entertainers	film director and writer

Sanjay Jalona	Corporate	CEO and MD of L&T Infotech	1986-1990

Rahul Chandra	Corporate	Co-founder and MD of Helion Venture Partners	1990-1993

Sanjay V. Padode	Entrepreneur	Secretary of Center for Developmental Education, Bengaluru	1984-89

Tulsi Mirchandaney	Corporate	MD of Blue_Dart_Aviation	1967-1970

Sharat Dhall	Corporate	President of Yatra.com	1987-1991

Ravi Garikipati	Corporate	CTO and Head of Engineering, Flipkart.

Dr. Sanjay Putrevu	Educators-researchers	Dean of College of Business, Cleveland State University

Amitabh Chaudhry	Corporate	MD and CEO of HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company Ltd	2010-present

Rakesh Verma	Corporate	Co-founder and CEO of MapmyIndia

Baba Sehgal	Artists/entertainers	Rapper; considered to be the world's first Hindi rap megastar

Richa Kar	Corporate	Co-founder and CEO of Zivame.com

Gaurav Chaudhary	YouTuber and Engineer	YouTuber (Technical Guruji), Dubai police certified Security Systems engineer

G.S.K. Velu	Corporate	Indian Businessman, Co-founder and CEO of Trivitron Healthcare Group

Payal Sharma Sood	Corporate	Head of Technology at Haymarket Media Group	2011 - Present

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Vinod Agarwal is recognized on the List of Notable BITS alumni.

final_sentence: Vinod Agarwal is recognized on the List of Notable BITS alumni.