# List of BITS Pilani alumni

This is a list of notable alumni of BITS Pilani.

## Entrepreneurs

| Name | Achievement | Year of Attendance at BITS |
| Sanjay Mehrotra | Co-founder of SanDisk, CEO of Micron Technology | 1974-1976 |
| Preetish Nijhawan | Co-founder of Akamai Technologies | 1985–1989 |
| Baba Kalyani | Billionaire, Chairman of Bharat Forge | 1965–1970 |
| Sabeer Bhatia | Founder of Hotmail | 1986–1988 |
| Vinod Agarwal | Founder and chairman of SemIndia; founder and former Chairman of LogicVision | 1968–1973 |
| Vijay Chandru | Co-founder and CEO, Strand Life Sciences; Inventor of Simputer | 1971–1975 |
| Rajiv Bapna | Founder and Director of Amkette, a storage media company | 1969–1974 |
| Surendra Kumar Surana | Founder and Managing Director of Compucom Software Ltd and Editor in Chief at Jan TV | 1981–1985 |

## Corporate leaders

| Name | Achievement | Year of Attendance at BITS |
| Revathi Advaithi | CEO of Flex | 1986–1990 |
| Rakesh Kapoor | ex-CEO of Reckitt Benckiser | 1975–1980 |
| Sunil Duggal | ex-CEO of Dabur | 1974–1979 |
| Vivek Paul | ex-CEO of Wipro Technologies; Consulting Professor at Stanford University | |
| SK Roongta | ex-Chairman of Steel Authority of India | 1966–1971 |

## Academia

| Name | Achievement | Year of Attendance at BITS |
| Goverdhan Mehta | Padma Shri Awardee, Fellow of the Royal Society, ex-Director of IISc Bangalore, ex-Vice Chancellor of University of Hyderabad | –1963 |
| Dorairajan Balasubramanian | Former President of Indian Academy of Sciences and Director of Research at L. V. Prasad Eye Institute; recipient of the National Order of Merit (France) and Padma Shri. | 1957–1959 |
| S. P. Kothari | Padma Shri Awardee, Dean of MIT Sloan School of Management | 1974–1979 |
| Krishna Saraswat | Electrical Engineering Professor at Stanford University | 1963–1968 |
| Milind Tambe | Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University | –1986 |
| Autar Kaw | Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Florida | 1976–1981 |
| Arun Sharma | Distinguished emeritus professor, Queensland University of Technology | 2008 |
| G. Ravindra Kumar | Senior professor - Tata Institute of Fundamental Research | 1977–1983 |
| Ravi Gomatam | Director of Bhaktivedanta Institute (Berkeley and Mumbai) | |
| Narendra Ahuja | Founding Director of IIIT Hyderabad (1999–2002) | 1968–1972 |
| Arun K. Somani | Department Chair, Senior Associate Dean in Engineering, Iowa State University | –1973 |
| Govindan Rangarajan | Director & Professor Dept. of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore | 1980–1985 |
| Ravindra Dastikop | Educator and speaker on Cloud Computing |

## Social activists, politics, and government

| Name | Achievement | Year of Attendance at BITS |
| Prithviraj Chavan | Former Chief Minister of Maharashtra; former Union Minister for Science and Technology, Govt. of India | 1963–1967 |
| Dr. C. V. Ananda Bose | 22nd Governor of West Bengal | |

## Film

| Name | Achievement | Year of Attendance at BITS |
| Mani Shankar | Film director | –1978 |
| Anu Hasan | Actress, Tamil/Telugu movies, TV show host | 1988–1993 |
| Baradwaj Rangan | Film critic and writer | 1988–1992 |
| Kanika | Former Actress, Malayalam/Tamil/Kannada/Telugu films, TV show host | 1999-2003 |
| Anu Menon | Film director and screenwriter | |
| Sandeep A. Varma | Award-winning Film Director and Writer | |
| Idlebrain Jeevi | Film critic and entrepreneur | 1991-1995 |
| Siva Ananth | Film writer, producer, lyricist, director and actor | 1991-1995 |

## Arts

| Name | Achievement | Year of Attendance at BITS |
| B. Sandhya | Police officer and author | |
| Dilip D'Souza | Writer of social causes | 1976–1981 |
| Shashi Warrier | Writer of fiction | |
| Vikram Sampath | Writer of historical non-fiction | |
| Hartosh Singh Bal | Journalist and Editor | |
| Padmini Chettur | Dancer | 1987–1991 |
| Dushyanth Sridhar | Noted scholar in Sanskrit and Tamil on ancient Hindu scriptures | 2004–2009 |
| Gaurav Chaudhary | Tech Vlogger | |
| Harish Sivaramakrishnan | Lead vocalist of Carnatic progressive rock band Agam | 1998–2002 |
| Adarsh Iyengar | Indian Singer and Musician | |