List of Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur alumni

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

Academics
Name Class Year Notability References
Pushpak Bhattacharyya Director of IIT Patna [1]
Partha Pratim Chakraborty B.Tech 1985; PhD 1988 Director of IIT Kharagpur
S. Rao Kosaraju Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University and division director at the National Science Foundation [2][3]
Pradeep Khosla Computer scientist and eighth Chancellor of University of California, San Diego [4]
Gopal Krishna Nayak Director of IIIT Bhubaneswar [5]
Mani Lal Bhaumik Ph. D. 1958 first PhD student at IIT Kharagpur, physicist, and Padma Shri awardee [6]

Science and engineering
Name Class Year Notability References
Kalyan Banerjee 1964 Former President of Rotary International [7]
Monisha Ghosh First woman Chief Technology Officer at the US government's Federal Communications Commission.
Kumar Bhattacharyya B. Tech. 1960 manager of google India peer [8]
Harish Hande co-founder of social enterprise SELCO India and winner of Ramon Magsaysay Award [9]
V. C. Kulandaiswamy hydrologist, second vice-chancellor of Anna University, awarded Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan [10]
Kirit Parikh civil engineer; professor emeritus and founder director of Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) [11]
Kamal Sagar B. Arch 1992 architect; chairman and founder of Total Environment [12]

Politics
Name Class Year Notability References
Arvind Kejriwal Chief Minister of Delhi [13]
Ashok Khemka Senior Bureaucrat in the Indian state of Haryana [14]
Chaudhary Ajit Singh cabinet minister [15]
Duvvuri Subbarao B. Sc. 1969 economist and 22nd Governor of Reserve Bank of India [16]
Surajit Kar Purkayastha former Director General of Police of West Bengal and Police Commissioner of Kolkata

Business
Name Class Year Notability References
Anuradha Acharya 1995 co-founder and CEO of Mapmygenome, a molecular diagnostics company; previously CEO of Ocimum Bio Solutions [17]
Prith Banerjee former director of HP Labs, the research wing of Hewlett-Packard [18]
Ramesh Chandra founder of real estate company Unitech Group [19]
R Gopalakrishnan former executive director of Tata Sons [20]
Vinod Gupta founder of InfoUSA, CEO of Infofree and DatabaseUSA [21]
Ajit Jain President of Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group [22]
Ravi Kant former vice chairman of Tata Motors [23]
Arjun Malhotra co-founder, HCL Technologies
Suhas Patil founder of Cirrus Logic [24]
Sundar Pichai CEO of Google [25]
Arun Sarin former CEO of Vodafone [26]
B.K. Syngal former chairman and Managing Director of VSNL
Suresh Vaswani President of Dell Services [27]

Arts and Entertainment
Name Class Year Notability References
Sandipan Deb founder editor of Outlook [28]
Raj Kamal Jha Chief Editor of Indian Express [29]
Arunabh Kumar co-founder of The Viral Fever (TVF) Media Labs [30]
Jitendra Kumar an Indian actor famous for his role in comedy sketch The Viral Fever
Bedabrata Pain film director [31]
Biswapati Sarkar Indian writer and director, presently employed as the Creative Director at The Viral Fever [32]
Kiran Seth founder of Indian culture non-profit SPIC MACAY; Padma Shri awardee [33]
Biswa Kalyan Rath an Indian stand-up comedian and writer

Activists
Name Class Year Notability References
Vinayak Lohani
Varun Shrivastava

Sports
Name Class Year Notability References
Malli Mastan Babu mountaineer

References
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  10. "Dr V.C. Kulandaiswamy" (PDF). Anna University. 28 March 2012. Retrieved 4 April 2015.
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  28. "FE's Sandipan Deb to join RPG Group's publishing division". www.afaqs.com. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
  29. Soofi, Mayank Austen (10 January 2015). "Raj Kamal Jha: 'We journalists are not the stories'". livemint.com/. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
  30. Saxena, Aditi (6 February 2015). "This IIT Kharagpur alumnus is the brain behind The Viral Fever Media". The Economic Times. Retrieved 21 March 2015.
  31. Vats, Rohit (12 April 2012). "Chittagong has a sense of victory, says director Bedabrata Pain". IBN Live. Retrieved 17 April 2012.
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