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This is a list of notable alumni of BITS Pilani.[1]
Name | Achievement | Year of Attendance at BITS |
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Sanjay Mehrotra | Co-founder of SanDisk, CEO of Micron Technology | 1974-1976 |
Preetish Nijhawan | Co-founder of Akamai Technologies | 1985–1989 |
Baba Kalyani[2] | Billionaire, Chairman of Bharat Forge | 1965–1970 |
Sabeer Bhatia | Founder of Hotmail | 1986–1988 |
Vinod Agarwal | Founder and chairman of SemIndia; founder and former Chairman of LogicVision | 1968–1973 |
Vijay Chandru | Co-founder and CEO, Strand Life Sciences; Inventor of Simputer | 1971–1975[3] |
Rajiv Bapna | Founder and Director of Amkette, a storage media company | 1969–1974 |
Surendra Kumar Surana | Founder and Managing Director of Compucom Software Ltd and Editor in Chief at Jan TV | 1981–1985 |
Name | Achievement | Year of Attendance at BITS |
---|---|---|
Revathi Advaithi | CEO of Flex | 1986–1990 |
Rakesh Kapoor | ex-CEO of Reckitt Benckiser | 1975–1980 |
Sunil Duggal | ex-CEO of Dabur | 1974–1979 |
Vivek Paul | ex-CEO of Wipro Technologies; Consulting Professor at Stanford University | |
SK Roongta | ex-Chairman of Steel Authority of India | 1966–1971 |
Name | Achievement | Year of Attendance at BITS |
---|---|---|
Goverdhan Mehta | Padma Shri Awardee, Fellow of the Royal Society, ex-Director of IISc Bangalore, ex-Vice Chancellor of University of Hyderabad | –1963[4] |
Dorairajan Balasubramanian | Former President of Indian Academy of Sciences and Director of Research at L. V. Prasad Eye Institute; recipient of the National Order of Merit (France) and Padma Shri. | 1957–1959[5] |
S. P. Kothari | Padma Shri Awardee, Dean of MIT Sloan School of Management | 1974–1979 |
Krishna Saraswat | Electrical Engineering Professor at Stanford University | 1963–1968 |
Milind Tambe | Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University | –1986 |
Autar Kaw | Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Florida | 1976–1981 |
Arun Sharma | Distinguished emeritus professor, Queensland University of Technology | 2008 |
G. Ravindra Kumar[6][7] | Senior professor - Tata Institute of Fundamental Research | 1977–1983 |
Ravi Gomatam | Director of Bhaktivedanta Institute (Berkeley and Mumbai)[8] | |
Narendra Ahuja | Founding Director of IIIT Hyderabad (1999–2002) | 1968–1972 |
Arun K. Somani | Department Chair, Senior Associate Dean in Engineering, Iowa State University | –1973 |
Govindan Rangarajan | Director & Professor Dept. of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore | 1980–1985 |
Ravindra Dastikop | Educator and speaker on Cloud Computing |
Name | Achievement | Year of Attendance at BITS |
---|---|---|
Prithviraj Chavan[9] | Former Chief Minister of Maharashtra; former Union Minister for Science and Technology, Govt. of India | 1963–1967 |
Name | Achievement | Year of Attendance at BITS |
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Mani Shankar | Film director | –1978[10][11] |
Anu Hasan | Actress, Tamil/Telugu movies, TV show host | 1988–1993[12][10] |
Baradwaj Rangan | Film critic and writer | 1988–1992[12] |
Kanika | Former Actress, Malayalam/Tamil/Kannada/Telugu films, TV show host | 1999-2003 |
Anu Menon | Film director and screenwriter | [13] |
Sandeep A. Varma | Award-winning Film Director and Writer | |
Idlebrain Jeevi | Film critic and entrepreneur | 1991-1995 |
Siva Ananth | Film writer, producer, lyricist, director and actor | 1991-1995[14] |
Name | Achievement | Year of Attendance at BITS |
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B. Sandhya | Police officer and author | |
Dilip D'Souza | Writer of social causes | 1976–1981 |
Shashi Warrier | Writer of fiction | |
Vikram Sampath | Writer of historical non-fiction | |
Hartosh Singh Bal | Journalist and Editor | |
Padmini Chettur | Dancer | 1987–1991 |
Dushyanth Sridhar | Noted scholar in Sanskrit and Tamil on ancient Hindu scriptures | 2004–2009 |
Gaurav Chaudhary | Tech Vlogger | |
Harish Sivaramakrishnan | Lead vocalist of Carnatic progressive rock band Agam | 1998–2002 |
Adarsh Iyengar | Indian Singer and Musician |
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