List of IIT Kharagpur alumni

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

Academics

Name	Class Year	Notability	References
Subhasis Chaudhuri	B.Tech. 1985	Director of IIT Bombay	[1]
Pushpak Bhattacharyya		Director of IIT Patna	[2]
Partha Pratim Chakraborty	B.Tech. 1985; Ph.D. 1988	Director of IIT Kharagpur	[3]
Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay		Director of ISI	[4]
Supriyo Datta		Thomas Duncan Distinguished professor at the School of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University	[5][6]
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	[7][8]
S. Rao Kosaraju		Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University and division director at the National Science Foundation	[9][10]
Pradeep Khosla		Computer scientist and eighth Chancellor of University of California, San Diego	[11]
Gopal Krishna Nayak		Director of IIIT Bhubaneswar	[12]
Mani Lal Bhaumik	Ph. D. 1958	First PhD student at IIT Kharagpur, physicist, and Padma Shri awardee	[13]
Satya Prasad Majumder	Ph.D. 1993	Vice-Chancellor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology	[14]

Science and engineering

Name	Class Year	Notability	References
Kalyan Banerjee	1964	Former President of Rotary International	[15]
Monisha Ghosh		First woman Chief Technology Officer at the US government's Federal Communications Commission.	[16]
Srikumar Banerjee		Indian metallurgical engineer. Former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India and the secretary of Department of Atomic Energy	[17]
Kumar Bhattacharyya	B. Tech. 1960	Manager of Google India peer	[18]
Harish Hande		Co-founder of social enterprise SELCO India and winner of Ramon Magsaysay Award	[19]
V. C. Kulandaiswamy		Hydrologist, second vice-chancellor of Anna University, awarded Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan	[20]
Kirit Parikh		Civil engineer; professor emeritus and founder director of Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR)	[21]
K. Radhakrishnan	Ph.D. 2000	Indian space scientist who headed the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)	[22]
Kamal Sagar	B. Arch. 1992	An architect; chairman and founder of Total Environment	[23]
V. Narayanan	M.Tech. Cryogenic Engineering 1989 PhD Aerospace Engineering 2001	Aerospace Engineer and Rocket Technologist serving as 11th Chairman of ISRO	[24]

Politics and Administration

Name	Class Year	Notability	References
Arvind Kejriwal	B.Tech Mechanical Engineering 1989	Former Chief Minister of Delhi	[25]
Ashok Khemka	B.Tech Computer Science Engineering 1988	Senior Bureaucrat in the Indian state of Haryana	[26]
Chaudhary Ajit Singh		Former minister of Agriculture, Commerce and I dustry and Civil Aviation	[27][28]
Duvvuri Subbarao	BSc Physics 1969	economist and 22nd Governor of Reserve Bank of India	[29]
Surajit Kar Purkayastha		Former DGP of West Bengal Police and Police Commissioner of Kolkata
Anurag Jain	B.Tech Mechanical Engineering	Chief Secretary of Madhya Pradesh	[30]

Business

Name	Class Year	Notability	References
Ajit Jain	B.Tech. 1972	President of Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group	[31]
Anuradha Acharya	1995	Co-founder and CEO of Mapmygenome, a molecular diagnostics company; previously CEO of Ocimum Bio Solutions	[32]
Arjun Malhotra		Co-founder, HCL Technologies
Arun Sarin		Former CEO of Vodafone	[33]
B.K. Syngal		Former chairman and Managing Director of VSNL
Gopalakrishnan R		Former executive director of Tata Sons	[34]
Prith Banerjee		Former director of HP Labs, the research wing of Hewlett-Packard	[35]
Ramesh Chandra		Founder of real estate company Unitech Group	[36]
Ravi Kant		Former vice chairman of Tata Motors	[37]
Rono Dutta		CEO of InterGlobe Aviation Limited which operates IndiGo Airlines. Also President of United Airlines [1999 - 2002]	[38]
Suhas Patil		Founder of Cirrus Logic	[39]
Sundar Pichai	1993	CEO of Google and Alphabet inc.	[40][41]
Suresh Vaswani		President of Dell Services	[42]
Vinod Gupta		Founder of InfoUSA, CEO of Infofree and DatabaseUSA	[43]

Arts and Entertainment

Name	Class Year	Notability	References
Rajkumar Barjatya	1962	Film producer	[44]
Sandipan Deb		Founder editor of Outlook	[45]
Raj Kamal Jha		Chief Editor of Indian Express, writer, novelist	[46]
Arunabh Kumar		Co-founder of The Viral Fever (TVF) Media Labs	[47]
Jitendra Kumar		Indian film actor famous for his roles in comedy sketches of The Viral Fever and Panchayat
Bedabrata Pain		Former NASA senior researcher and film director	[48]
Biswapati Sarkar		Indian writer and director, Former Creative Director at The Viral Fever, currently working at Pushpam Pa Pictures.	[49]
Kiran Seth		Founder of Indian culture non-profit SPIC MACAY; Padma Shri awardee	[50]
Biswa Kalyan Rath		An Indian stand-up comedian and writer

Activists

Name	Class Year	Notability	References
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