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{{short description|Wikipedia list article}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2017}}
{{alumni|SAL|date=November 2017}}
The [[Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur]] has had numerous notable alumni.

==Academics==
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Name
!Class Year
!Notability
!References
|-
|[[Subhasis Chaudhuri]]
| B.Tech. 1985
|[[Academic ranks in India|Director]] of [[Indian Institute of Technology Bombay|IIT Bombay]]
|<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-04-26|title=New IIT-B director lists priorities: 'Looking to diversify courses, draw more woman students'|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/education/iit-bombay-director-subhasis-chaudhary-indian-institute-of-technology-kharagpur-5695305/|access-date=2021-03-19|website=The Indian Express|language=en}}</ref>
|-
|[[Pushpak Bhattacharyya]]
|
|[[Academic ranks in India|Director]] of [[Indian Institute of Technology Patna|IIT Patna]]
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.iitp.ac.in/|title=Governing Body|website=IIT Patna|accessdate=30 March 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[Partha Pratim Chakraborty]]
|B.Tech. 1985; Ph.D. 1988
|[[Academic ranks in India|Director]] of [[Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur|IIT Kharagpur]]
|<ref>{{Cite web|last=Desk|first=India TV News|date=2013-07-20|title=IIT-Kharagpur alumni protest in Bangalore|url=https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india/iit-kharagpur-alumni-protest-in-bangalore-25318.html|access-date=2021-03-19|website=www.indiatvnews.com|language=en}}</ref>
|-
|[[Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay]]
|
|[[Academic ranks in India|Director]] of [[Indian Statistical Institute|ISI]]
|<ref>{{Cite web|title=12 IIT Kharagpur Alumni Get Distinguished Alumnus Award|url=https://www.ndtv.com/education/12-iit-kharagpur-alumi-get-distinguished-alumnus-award-1734259|access-date=2021-03-19|website=NDTV.com|language=en}}</ref>
|-
|[[Supriyo Datta]]
|
|[[Professors in the United States#Distinguished (Teaching / Research) Professor|Thomas Duncan Distinguished professor]] at the [[Purdue University School of Electrical and Computer Engineering|School of Electrical Engineering]] at [[Purdue University]]
|<ref>[http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Supriyo_Datta Supriyo Datta at IEEE]</ref><ref>[https://www.sigmaxi.org/programs/prizes-awards/william-procter/award-winner/supriyo-datta Biography at Sigma Xi]</ref>
|-
|[[S. Rao Kosaraju]]
|
|Professor of Computer Science at [[Johns Hopkins University]] and division director at the [[National Science Foundation]]
|<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.cs.jhu.edu/faculty/s-rao-kosaraju/|title=S. Rao Kosaraju - Department of Computer Science|work=Department of Computer Science|access-date=2017-10-25|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nsf.gov/staff/staff_bio.jsp?lan=skosaraj&org=CCF&from_org=CCF|title=S. Rao Kosaraju {{!}} NSF - National Science Foundation|website=www.nsf.gov|language=en|access-date=2017-10-25}}</ref>
|-
|[[Pradeep Khosla]]
|
|Computer scientist and eighth Chancellor of [[UC San Diego|University of California, San Diego]]
|<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article3402481.ece|title=IIT Kharagpur alumnus is UCSD Chancellor|date=10 May 2012|newspaper=The Hindu|accessdate=4 April 2015}}</ref>
|-
|[[Gopal Krishna Nayak]]
|
|[[Academic ranks in India|Director]] of [[IIIT Bhubaneswar]]
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.iiit-bh.ac.in/home/governing-body|title=Governing Body|website=IIIT Bhubaneswar|accessdate=30 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718105311/http://www.iiit-bh.ac.in/home/governing-body|archive-date=18 July 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
|[[Mani Lal Bhaumik]]
|Ph. D. 1958
|first PhD student at IIT Kharagpur, physicist, and [[Padma Shri]] awardee
|<ref>{{cite news|url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/from-a-village-boy-150m-and-example-to-follow/836608/0|title=From a village boy, $150 mn and example to follow|last=Singh|first=Shiv Sahay|date=25 August 2011|newspaper=The Indian Express|accessdate=4 April 2015}}</ref>
|-
|[[Satya Prasad Majumder]]
|Ph.D. 1993
| [[Vice-Chancellor]] of [[Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology]]
|<ref>{{Cite web|title=Satya Prasad Majumdar Biography|url=https://www.buet.ac.bd/info/Administration/Vc_Profile|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210319015740/https://www.buet.ac.bd/info/Administration/Vc_Profile|archive-date=19 March 2021|website=[[Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology]]}}</ref>
|}

==Science and engineering==
{| class="wikitable"
!Name
!Class Year
!Notability
!References
|-
|[[Kalyan Banerjee (Rotary International)|Kalyan Banerjee]]
|1964
|Former President of [[Rotary International]]
|<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/indian-technocrat-kalyan-banerjee-to-lead-rotary-as-its-101st-president/441028/|title=Indian technocrat Kalyan Banerjee to lead Rotary as its 101st president|date=30 June 2011|newspaper=Business Standard|accessdate=1 July 2011}}</ref>
|-
|[[Monisha Ghosh]]
|
|First woman [[Chief Technology Officer]] at the [[US government]]'s [[Federal Communications Commission]].
|<ref>{{Cite news|title=Indian-American Dr Monisha Ghosh named 1st woman Chief Technology Officer of US' communications commission|work=The Economic Times|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/nris-in-news/indian-american-dr-monisha-ghosh-named-1st-woman-chief-technology-officer-of-us-communications-commission/articleshow/72921066.cms|access-date=2021-03-19}}</ref>
|-
|[[Srikumar Banerjee]]
|
|Indian metallurgical engineer. Former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India and the secretary of Department of Atomic Energy
|<ref>{{cite web |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee awardee Dr Srikumar Banerjee |url=https://ssbprize.gov.in/content/Detail.aspx?AID=393 |publisher=CSIR Human Resource Development Group, New Delhi |access-date=24 May 2021}}</ref>
|-
|[[Kumar Bhattacharyya]]
|B. Tech. 1960
|manager of google India peer
|<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2005/jun/19/theobserver.observerbusiness6|title=A Brahmin of business|last=Morgan|first=Oliver|date=18 June 2005|newspaper=The Guardian|accessdate=4 April 2015}}</ref>
|-
|[[Harish Hande]]
|
|co-founder of social enterprise [[SELCO India]] and winner of [[Ramon Magsaysay Award]]
|<ref>{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com//india/Nileema-Mishra-Harish-Hande-win-Magsaysay-award/articleshow/9385363.cms|title=Nileema Mishra, Harish Hande win Magsaysay award|date=27 July 2011|newspaper=The Times of India|accessdate=18 February 2012|agency=Press Trust of India (PTI)}}</ref>
|-
|[[V. C. Kulandaiswamy]]
|
|hydrologist, second vice-chancellor of [[Anna University]], awarded [[Padma Shri]] and Padma Bhushan
|<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.annauniv.edu/cpde/Forms/BIO/VCK_Bio-Data.pdf|title=Dr V.C. Kulandaiswamy|date=28 March 2012|website=Anna University|accessdate=4 April 2015}}</ref>
|-
|[[Kirit Parikh]]
|
|civil engineer; professor emeritus and founder director of [[Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research]] (IGIDR)
|<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iitkgp.ac.in/top-awardees/daa1.php?Sl=25|title=Distinguished Alumnus Awardee: Dr. Kirit Shantilal Parikh|website=IIT Kharagpur|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101217001353/http://iitkgp.ac.in/top-awardees/daa1.php?Sl=25|archivedate=17 December 2010|url-status=dead|accessdate=4 April 2015|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
|-
|[[K. Radhakrishnan]]
|Ph.D. 2000
|Indian space scientist who [[Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation|headed]] the [[Indian Space Research Organisation]] (ISRO)
|<ref name="toi_jan_14">{{cite news |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/Isro-IISc-men-get-top-national-honour/articleshow/29375165.cms |title=Isro, IISc men get top national honour |work=[[The Times of India]] |date=26 January 2014 |access-date=26 January 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[Kamal Sagar]]
|B. Arch. 1992
|architect; chairman and founder of Total Environment
|<ref>{{cite news|url=http://forbesindia.com/article/work-in-progress/total-architecture-different-kind-of-builders/24422/1|title=Total Architecture: Different Kind of Builders|date=29 April 2011}}</ref>
|}

==Politics==
{| class="wikitable"
!Name
!Class Year
!Notability
!References
|-
|[[Arvind Kejriwal]]
|
|[[Chief Minister of Delhi]]
|<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Pradhan|first1=Kunal|last2=Vij-Aurora|first2=Bhavna|date=27 December 2013|title=An Uncommon Life: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who led an uncommon life|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/newsmaker-2013-arvind-kejriwal-aam-aadmi-party-iit-graduate/1/333235.html|journal=India Today|location=Noida, India|accessdate=4 April 2015}}</ref>
|-
|[[Ashok Khemka]]
|
|Senior Bureaucrat in the Indian state of [[Haryana]]
|<ref>{{cite news|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-10-17/india/34524670_1_ashok-khemka-transfer-order-cases-of-land-scams|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140105162725/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-10-17/india/34524670_1_ashok-khemka-transfer-order-cases-of-land-scams|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 January 2014|title=My conscience compelled me to speak up: Ashok Khemka|last=Siwach|first=Sukhbir|date=17 October 2012|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|accessdate=19 April 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[Chaudhary Ajit Singh]]
|
|cabinet minister
|<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.mid-day.com/news/2011/dec/191211-With-Lucknow-in-mind-Congress-gifts-Ajit-Singh-civil-aviation.htm|title=With Lucknow in mind, Congress gifts Ajit Singh civil aviation|last=Sharma|first=Surender|date=19 December 2011|newspaper=MiD DAY|accessdate=9 July 2012|location=Mumbai, India}}</ref>
|-
|[[Duvvuri Subbarao]]
|B. Sc. 1969
|economist and [[List of Governors of Reserve Bank of India|22nd Governor]] of [[Reserve Bank of India]]
|<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120718/jsp/frontpage/story_15741766.jsp|title=Inflation? Splitting hair is more easy|date=18 July 2012|newspaper=The Telegraph|accessdate=4 April 2015|location=Calcutta, India}}</ref>
|-
|[[Surajit Kar Purkayastha]]
|
|former [[Director General of Police]] of West Bengal and [[Police Commissioner of Kolkata]]
|
|}

==Business==
{| class="wikitable"
!Name
!Class Year
!Notability
!References
|-
|[[Anuradha Acharya]]
|1995
|co-founder and CEO of [[Mapmygenome]], a molecular diagnostics company; previously CEO of [[Ocimum Bio Solutions]]
|<ref>{{cite journal|last=Singh|first=Shreyasi|date=April 2013|title=A Genealogy of Success|url=http://issuu.com/incindia/docs/inc_india_vol-04_issue-03_april_2013|journal=Inc. India|location=New Delhi|volume=4|issue=3|pages=23–26|accessdate=4 April 2015}}</ref>
|-
|[[Prith Banerjee]]
|
|former director of [[HP Labs]], the research wing of Hewlett-Packard
|<ref>{{cite news|url=http://allthingsd.com/20120404/exclusive-hp-labs-head-prith-banerjee-leaving/#|title=Exclusive: HP Labs Head Prith Banerjee Leaving|date=4 April 2012|work=All Things Digital|accessdate=4 April 2015}}</ref>
|-
|[[Ramesh Chandra]]
|
|founder of real estate company [[Unitech Group]]
|<ref>{{cite news|url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-2733073,prtpage-1.cms|title=Unitech Supremo: A Reluctant Tycoon|last1=Dewan|first1=Neha|date=26 January 2008|newspaper=The Economic Times|accessdate=7 February 2012|last2=Mukherjee|first2=Shubham}}</ref>
|-
|[[Rono Dutta]]
|
|CEO of InterGlobe Aviation Limited which operates [[IndiGo]] Airlines. He served as the President of the [[United Airlines]] from 1999 to 2002.
|<ref name="Rono Dutta">{{cite web|title=Rono Dutta|url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=309849&ticker=AIR&previousCapId=169142&previousTitle=US%20AIRWAYS%20GROUP%20INC|publisher=Bloomberg Businessweek|accessdate=10 January 2013}}</ref>
|-
|[[R Gopalakrishnan]]
|
|former executive director of [[Tata Sons]]
|<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.tata.com/article/inside/Qhy9EZPGrKk=/TLYVr3YPkMU=|title=Gopalakrishnan does not seek re-election on Tata Motors board|date=3 August 2010|newspaper=Business Standard|accessdate=5 April 2015}}</ref>
|-
|[[Vinod Gupta]]
|
|founder of InfoUSA, CEO of [[Infofree]] and DatabaseUSA
|<ref>{{cite journal|last=Rogers|first=Bruce|date=7 January 2014|title=Vin Gupta's InfoFree.com Reinvents CRM and Lead Gen Tools For Small Business|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucerogers/2014/01/07/vin-guptas-infofree-com-reinvents-crm-and-lead-gen-tools-for-small-business/|journal=Forbes|accessdate=4 April 2015}}</ref>
|-
|[[Ajit Jain]]
|B.Tech. 1972
|President of Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group
|<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303877604577380593015786140|title=In Ajit Jain, Some See Next Buffett|last1=Holm|first1=Erik|date=May 5, 2012|newspaper=The Wall Street Journal|accessdate=5 April 2015|last2=Ng|first2=Serena|pages=B1–B2}}</ref>
|-
|[[Ravi Kant (Indian executive)|Ravi Kant]]
|
|former vice chairman of [[Tata Motors]]
|<ref>{{cite news|url=https://people.forbes.com/profile/ravi-kant/76754|title=Ravi Kant Profile|accessdate=3 June 2012|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140420012153/http://www.forbes.com/profile/ravi-kant/|archivedate=20 April 2014|work=Forbes}}</ref>
|-
|[[Arjun Malhotra (entrepreneur)|Arjun Malhotra]]
|
|co-founder, [[HCL Technologies]]
|
|-
|[[Suhas Patil]]
|
|founder of [[Cirrus Logic]]
|<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=558566|title=Suhas S. Patil: Executive Profile & Biography|website=Bloomberg Business|accessdate=5 April 2015}}</ref>
|-
|[[Sundar Pichai]]
|
|CEO of [[Google]] and [[Alphabet Inc.|Alphabet inc.]]
|<ref>[http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/08/google-alphabet.html G is for Google]</ref>
|-
|[[Arun Sarin]]
|
|former CEO of [[Vodafone]]
|<ref>{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/Arun-Sarin-walks-out-of-Vodafone-rich/articleshow/3120112.cms|title=Arun Sarin walks out of Vodafone rich|date=11 June 2008|work=The Times Of India|accessdate=5 April 2015|agency=Press Trust of India (PTI)}}</ref>
|-
|[[B.K. Syngal]]
|
|former chairman and Managing Director of [[VSNL]]
|
|-
|[[Suresh Vaswani]]
|
|President of [[Dell]] Services
|<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/uscorp1/bios/suresh-vaswani|title=Suresh C. Vaswani|website=Dell|accessdate=5 April 2015}}</ref>
|}

==Arts and Entertainment==
{| class="wikitable"
!Name
!Class Year
!Notability
!References
|-
|[[Rajkumar Barjatya]]
|1962
|Film producer
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/bollywood/film-producer-rajkumar-barjatya-father-of-sooraj-barjatya-dies-in-mumbai/story-tGu59Mq8reSOnIJ3yaIRJN.html}}</ref>
|-
|[[Sandipan Deb]]
|
|founder editor of Outlook
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.afaqs.com/news/story/20107_FEs-Sandipan-Deb-to-join-RPG-Groups-publishing-division|title=FE's Sandipan Deb to join RPG Group's publishing division|website=www.afaqs.com|language=en|access-date=2017-12-01}}</ref>
|-
|[[Raj Kamal Jha]]
|
|Chief Editor of Indian Express
|<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/boKAWisoKEuQ3MoYujtXbM/Raj-Kamal-Jha-We-journalists-are-not-the-stories.html|title=Raj Kamal Jha: 'We journalists are not the stories'|last=Soofi|first=Mayank Austen|date=2015-01-10|work=livemint.com/|access-date=2017-12-01}}</ref>
|-
|[[Arunabh Kumar]]
|
|co-founder of [[The Viral Fever]] (TVF) Media Labs
|<ref>{{cite web|url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/this-iit-kharagpur-alumnus-is-the-brain-behind-the-viral-fever-media/articleshow/46142385.cms|title=This IIT Kharagpur alumnus is the brain behind The Viral Fever Media|last=Saxena|first=Aditi|date=6 February 2015|work=The Economic Times|accessdate=21 March 2015}}</ref>
|-
|[[Jitendra Kumar]]
|
|an Indian actor famous for his role in comedy sketch The Viral Fever
|
|-
|[[Bedabrata Pain]]
|
|film director
|<ref>{{cite news|url=http://ibnlive.in.com/news/chittagong-has-a-sense-of-victory-director/248181-8-66.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120413173806/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/chittagong-has-a-sense-of-victory-director/248181-8-66.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=13 April 2012|title=''Chittagong'' has a sense of victory, says director Bedabrata Pain|last=Vats|first=Rohit|date=12 April 2012|work=IBN Live|accessdate=17 April 2012}}</ref>
|-
|[[Biswapati Sarkar]]
|
|Indian writer and director, former Creative Director at The Viral Fever, currently working at Pushpam Pa Pictures.
|<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/brunch/the-unusual-suspects/story-6iCh1aknfg49D3VCMroBiN.html|title=The unusual suspects|last1=Moorjani|first1=Manit|date=19 January 2013|work=[[Hindustan Times]]|accessdate=21 January 2018|language=en}}</ref>
|-
|[[Kiran Seth]]
|
|founder of Indian culture non-profit [[SPIC MACAY]]; [[Padma Shri]] awardee
|<ref>{{cite news|url=http://dnasyndication.com/dna/article/DNAHM41054|title=Is the magic of classical music fading?|last=Chaturvedi|first=Devika|date=25 February 2011|newspaper=DNA|accessdate=5 April 2015|publisher=Diligent Media Corporation|location=Mumbai, India}}</ref>
|-
|[[Biswa Kalyan Rath]]
|
|an Indian [[stand-up comedian]] and writer
|
|}

==Activists==
{| class="wikitable"
!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)
|
|}

== Sports ==
{| class="wikitable"
!Name
!Class Year
!Notability
!References
|-
|[[Malli Mastan Babu]]
|M. Tech. 1998
|mountaineer
|
|}

==References==
{{reflist|2}}

{{Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur}}
{{Indian Institutes of Technology}}

[[Category:Indian Institutes of Technology alumni]]
[[Category:Lists of people by university or college in India|Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur alumni]]
[[Category:Indian Institutes of Technology people]]

List of IIT Kharagpur alumni - Revision history

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