# List of IIT (BHU) Varanasi people

This is a list of notable alumni and faculty of Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi.

## Notable alumni
### Business

| Name | Notability | Degree and Class Year |
| Nikesh Arora | CEO at Palo Alto Networks, former president at Softbank, ex-Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer at Google | B.tech, 1989 |
| Deepak Ahuja | Former CFO at Tesla, Inc. | B.tech (Ceramic), 1985 |
| Jay Chaudhry | CEO and Founder of ZScalar | B.tech (Electronics) |
| Ram Charan (consultant) | Renowned management consultant and Global Indian of the Year 2010 by Economic Times | B.tech (Mechanical) |
| Sahu Ramesh Chandra Jain | Former Executive Director of Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd., Chairman of Press Trust of India and the Indian Newspaper Society and the only person to edit both The Times of India and Navbharat Times | B.Sc. (Industrial Chemistry) |
| Vinod Kumar Bansal | Indian educationist and founder of Bansal Classes at Kota, a test preparation company | B.tech (Mechanical) |
| Sanjay Sethi | Co-founder and CEO of ShopClues, a Gurgaon-based online marketplace for unbranded goods | B.tech (Mechanical), 1983 |
| Bhupendra Kumar Modi | Chairman of Smart Group and Singapore-based India business conglomerate Spice Global | B.tech (Chemical) |
| Late Krishan Kumar Modi | Former chairman, Modi Group | |
| Salil Prabhakar | President and CEO, Delta ID Inc. | B.tech (Computer Science), 1996 |
| Late Sadhan Dutt | Founder-chairman of Development Consultants, a member of the Kuljian Group of Companies | B.tech |

### Politics and civil services

| Name | Notability | Degree and Class Year |
| Late Krishan Kant | Former vice-president of India, Governor of Andhra Pradesh (1990–97), member of Lok Sabha from Chandigarh (1977–80), and Member of Rajya Sabha from Haryana (1966–1972, 1972–1977) | M.Sc. (Chemical) |
| Manoj Sinha | 2nd Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir and Former Minister of State, Railways and Communication. | B.tech, M.tech (Civil) |
| Late Ashok Singhal | former president, Vishva Hindu Parishad | B.tech (Metallurgy), 1950 |
| Late Ved Prakash Goyal | Former Treasurer of the Bharatiya Janata Party and Union Minister of Shipping | |
| Rajiv Dogra | Indian diplomat, author and commentator. Former Indian Ambassador to Italy and Romania and Consul General to Karachi, Pakistan | B.tech (Electronics), 1969 |
| Tribhuvan Ram | Indian politician and member of the Sixteenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh as a Bahujan Samaj Party candidate representing Ajagara constituency of Uttar Pradesh | B.tech |
| Ajoy Mehta | Chief Secretary of Maharashtra, Former Municipal Commissioner of Mumbai | B.tech |
| Indu Bhushan | First CEO of Ayushman Bharat | B.tech (Electrical), 1981 |

### Science and technology

| Name | Notability | Degree and Class Year |
| Naresh Chandra Murmu | Director at Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute and Dean (Engineering Sciences) at Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research. | PhD (2010) |
| Thomas Anantharaman | One of the 3-member team at IBM who developed IBM Deep Blue supercomputer. | |
| Pulickel Ajayan | Pioneering scientist in the field of carbon nanotubes | B.tech (Metallurgy), 1985 |
| Kota Harinarayana | Padma Shri awardee, Programme director and chief designer of India's Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas Programme. | B.tech (Mechanical), 1964 |
| Late Narla Tata Rao | Padma Shri awardee. Doyen of power sector in India, played a pivotal role in development of NTPC and PowerGrid Corporation of India | |
| Late Patcha Ramachandra Rao | Renowned Metallurgist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize recipient and former vice chancellor of Benaras Hindu University | Ph.D, 1968 |
| Shrikant Lele | Renowned Metallurgist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize recipient and former director of IIT BHU | Ph.D, 1968 |
| Palle Rama Rao | Renowned scientist. Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan awardee | Ph.D. (Metallurgy) |
| Akhlesh Lakhtakia | Charles Godfrey Binder (Endowed) Professor at Penn State University, USA. and pioneer of sculptured thin films | B.tech (Electronics), 1979 |
| N. Ravishankar | Materials scientist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | B.tech (Metallurgy), 1991 |
| Laxmikant Kale | Professor of computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | B.tech (Electrical), 1977 |
| Bir Bhanu | Electronics Engineering, Bourns Presidential Chair in Engineering and Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer EngineeringUniversity of California, Riverside, California | B.Tech. 1972 |
| Madisetti Anant Ramlu | Founder and first Head of the Department of Mining Engineering at IIT Kharagpur | B.tech Mining and Metallurgy |
| Kamanio Chattopadhyay | Materials engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize recipient, best known for his discovery of decagonal nanoquantum quasicrystals | M.tech and Ph.D. |
| Suhas Pandurang Sukhatme | Padma Shri awardee and former chairman of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board of the Government of India | B.tech (Mechanical), 1958 |
| Unnikrishna Pillai | Professor of electrical engineering at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering | B.tech (Electronics), 1977 |
| Pradeep Rohatgi | Distinguished professor at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, world leader in the field of composite materials, particularly metal matrix composites. | B.tech (Metallurgy), 1961 |
| Nikku Madhusudhan | Professor of Astrophysics and Exoplanetary Science at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge. He is credited with developing the technique of atmospheric retrieval to infer the compositions of exoplanets. | B.Tech (Mining) |
| Anil Bhardwaj | Indian astrophysicist, Director of the Physical Research Laboratory, Government of India | Ph.D., 1992 |
| Sandeep Verma | Endowed Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur | M.tech, 1989 |
| K.A. Padmanabhan | Former Director of Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) and a former dean, academic research, IIT Madras | B.tech (Metallurgy), 1968 |
| Sachchida Nand Tripathi | Arjun Dev Joneja Faculty Chair at IIT Kanpur | B.tech, 1992 |
| Prem Jain | Father of Green Buildings in India | B.Sc. (Mechanical), 1952 |

### Other Academia

| Name | Notability | Degree and Class Year |
| Dan Gode | Clinical Associate Professor of Accounting, Taxation, and Business law at New York University Stern School of Business | B.tech (Electrical), 1986 |
| Pankaj Chandra | Vice Chancellor, Ahmedabad University and former director, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore | B.tech 1983 |
| Devesh Kapur | Director of Asia Programs and Starr Foundation Professor of South Asian Studies at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies | B.tech (Chemical), 1983 |

### Arts

| Name | Notability | Degree and Class Year |
| Varun Grover | National Film Award-winning Lyricist and Songwriter. Famous for writing the songs of Gangs of Wasseypur | B.tech (Civil), 2003 |
| Manick Sorcar | Award-winning artist and animator | |
| Nikhil Sachan | Indian author and columnist | B.tech (Electronics), 2009 |
| Puneet Krishna | Indian Author and Screen Writer and creator of famous 1 & 2 season of popular TV series Mirzapur, CA Topper | B.tech , 1998 |

### Humanities and society

| Name | Notability | Degree and Class Year |
| Late Veer Bhadra Mishra | Professor, founder of Sankat Mochan Foundation and was a TIME Magazines "Hero of the Planet" recipient in 1999 for his work related to cleaning of the Ganges | |
| Sandeep Pandey | Ramon Magsaysay awardee who started the Asha for Education foundation | |
| Satinath Sarangi | Activist and founder and manager of Sambhavna Trust (a charitable trust for Bhopal disaster victims) | |
| Amartya Talukdar | Blogger and advocate of men's rights in the fields of alimony, dowry and marriage | M.tech (Mechanical) |

### Others

| Name | Notability | Degree and Class Year | References |
| Prem Saran Satsangi | Leader of Radhasoami Faith, Dayalbagh, Chairman ACE, DEI. Noted System Scientist and Physicist. (Ex Dean IIT Delhi, Ex Vice-Chancellor, Dayalbagh Educational Institute) | | |
| Satyendra Dubey | former Assistant Project Director at the National Highways Authority of India who was murdered after exposing corruption | | |

## Notable faculty

| Name | Notability | Term |
| Shrikant Lele | Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate and former director of the institute from 2002 to 2005 | Director, 2002–05 |
| Late Veer Bhadra Mishra | former professor of Civil Engineering; environmentalist; founder of Swatcha Ganga Campaign | |
| Palle Rama Rao | Renowned scientist. Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan awardee | 1962-82 |
| Kamanio Chattopadhyay | Materials engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize recipient, best known for his discovery of decagonal nanoquantum quasicrystals | Lecturer, 1975–78 |
| Prof. B. Mishra | Head of Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering & Technology and has published about 247 papers in peer-reviewed international & national journals. He has 3 patents, 6111 citations to his credit. He has been recognized as among the top 2% of the world's most-cited scientists by the prestigious Stanford University, on the basis of standardized citation indicators like information on citations, h-index, co-authorship, and a composite indicator. | |
| M.S. Muthu | An associate professor from the Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering & Technology, notable contribution in the nanomedicine, theranostics for cancer. He is among the top 2% scientists in the world list compiled by Stanford University. | 2016-on going |
| Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi | Former director of IIT Roorkee | 1994-1996 |
| Ajit Ram Verma | Former director of the National Physical Laboratory, SS Bhatnagar Prize awardee | 1959-65 |