# List of IIT Kharagpur alumni

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

## Academics

| Name | Class Year | Notability |
| Subhasis Chaudhuri | B.Tech. 1985 | Director of IIT Bombay |
| Pushpak Bhattacharyya | | Director of IIT Patna |
| Partha Pratim Chakraborty | B.Tech. 1985; Ph.D. 1988 | Director of IIT Kharagpur |
| Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay | | Director of ISI |
| Supriyo Datta | | Thomas Duncan Distinguished professor at the School of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University |
| 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 |
| S. Rao Kosaraju | | Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University and division director at the National Science Foundation |
| Pradeep Khosla | | Computer scientist and eighth Chancellor of University of California, San Diego |
| Gopal Krishna Nayak | | Director of IIIT Bhubaneswar |
| Mani Lal Bhaumik | Ph. D. 1958 | First PhD student at IIT Kharagpur, physicist, and Padma Shri awardee |
| Satya Prasad Majumder | Ph.D. 1993 | Vice-Chancellor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology |

## Science and engineering

| Name | Class Year | Notability |
| Kalyan Banerjee | 1964 | Former President of Rotary International |
| Monisha Ghosh | | First woman Chief Technology Officer at the US government's Federal Communications Commission. |
| Srikumar Banerjee | | Indian metallurgical engineer. Former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India and the secretary of Department of Atomic Energy |
| Kumar Bhattacharyya | B. Tech. 1960 | Manager of Google India peer |
| Harish Hande | | Co-founder of social enterprise SELCO India and winner of Ramon Magsaysay Award |
| V. C. Kulandaiswamy | | Hydrologist, second vice-chancellor of Anna University, awarded Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan |
| Kirit Parikh | | Civil engineer; professor emeritus and founder director of Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) |
| K. Radhakrishnan | Ph.D. 2000 | Indian space scientist who headed the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) |
| Kamal Sagar | B. Arch. 1992 | An architect; chairman and founder of Total Environment |
| V. Narayanan | M.Tech. Cryogenic Engineering 1989 PhD Aerospace Engineering 2001 | Aerospace Engineer and Rocket Technologist serving as 11th Chairman of ISRO |

## Politics and Administration

| Name | Class Year | Notability |
| Arvind Kejriwal | B.Tech Mechanical Engineering 1989 | Former Chief Minister of Delhi |
| Ashok Khemka | B.Tech Computer Science Engineering 1988 | Senior Bureaucrat in the Indian state of Haryana |
| Chaudhary Ajit Singh | | Former minister of Agriculture, Commerce and I dustry and Civil Aviation |
| Duvvuri Subbarao | BSc Physics 1969 | economist and 22nd Governor of Reserve Bank of India |
| Surajit Kar Purkayastha | | Former DGP of West Bengal Police and Police Commissioner of Kolkata |

## Business

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

## Arts and Entertainment

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

## Activists

| Name | Class Year | Notability |
| Vinayak Lohani | | |
| Varun Shrivastava | 2009 | Founder of UPAY NGO (NGO working for the education and skill development of underprivileged children) |
| J. Sai Deepak | 2011 | Lawyer, political commentator, historian and activist |

## Sports

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