List of Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur alumni

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

Academics

• Gopal Krishna Nayak, Director of IIIT Bhubaneswar^[1]
• Gyanendra Nath Pande, Emeritus Professor at Swansea University

Science and engineering

• Kalyan Banerjee, President of Rotary International (2011–2012)^[2]
• Kumar Bhattacharyya, industrialist and life peer^[3]
• Mani Lal Bhaumik, first PhD student at IIT Kharagpur, physicist, and Padma Shri awardee^[4]
• Asit Kumar Biswas, international consultant on water resources and environmental management; Stockholm Water Prize laureate^[5][6][7]
• Harish Hande, co-founder of social enterprise SELCO India and winner of Ramon Magsaysay Award^[8]
• Pradeep Khosla, computer scientist and eighth chancellor of UC San Diego^[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, architect; chairman and founder of Total Environment ^[12]

Government

• 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, economist and 22nd Governor of Reserve Bank of India^[16]

Corporate

• Anuradha Acharya, co-founder and CEO of genomics software and services company 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,^[21] CEO of Infofree and DatabaseUSA.
• Ajit Jain, President of Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group^[22]
• Ravi Kant, former vice chairman of Tata Motors^[23]
• Suhas Patil, founder of Cirrus Logic^[24]
• Sundar Pichai, CEO Google^[25]
• Arun Sarin, former CEO of Vodafone^[26]
• Suresh Vaswani, President of Dell Services^[27]
• Soubhagya Sahoo '05- CEO and co-founder of Gray Routes^[28]

Entertainment

• Arunabh Kumar, co-founder of The Viral Fever (TVF) Media Labs^[29]
• Jitendra Kumar, comedian on comedy sketch videos for The Viral Fever
• Bedabrata Pain, film director^[30]
• Kiran Seth, founder of Indian culture non-profit SPIC MACAY; Padma Shri awardee^[31]
• Biswa Kalyan Rath, an Indian stand-up comedian and YouTuber.
• Biswapati Sarkar, an Indian writer and director, presently employed as the Creative Director at The Viral Fever (TVF)

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30. Vats, Rohit (12 April 2012). "Chittagong has a sense of victory, says director Bedabrata Pain". IBN Live. Retrieved 17 April 2012.
31. Chaturvedi, Devika (25 February 2011). "Is the magic of classical music fading?". DNA. Mumbai, India: Diligent Media Corporation. Retrieved 5 April 2015.