List of BITS Pilani alumni

This is a list of notable BITS Pilani alumni.[1]

Corporate and Entrepreneurs
Name Achievement Year of Attendance at BITS
Sanjay Mehrotra President and co-founder of Sandisk
Baba Kalyani[2] Billionaire, Chairman of Bharat Forge 1965–1970
Sabeer Bhatia Founder of Hotmail
Rakesh Kapoor CEO of Reckitt Benckiser 1975-1980
Sunil Duggal CEO of Dabur 1974-1979
Rajesh Hukku Chairman and CEO of i-flex Solutions
Vivek Paul Consulting Professor at Stanford University; founder of KineticGlue; CEO of Wipro Technologies
Vinod Agarwal Founder and chairman of SemIndia; founder and former Chairman of LogicVision 1968-73
Vijay Chandru Cofounder and CEO, Strand Life Sciences; Inventor of Simputer 1975
Rajiv Bapna Founder and Director of AMKETTE, a storage media company 1969-1974
Gaurav Chaudhary Indian tech Vlogger
SK Roongta Chairman of Steel Authority of India Ltd. 1966-1971

Academia
Name Achievement Year of Attendance at BITS
Goverdhan Mehta Padma Shri Awardee, Fellow of the Royal Society, ex Director of IISc Bangalore
S. P. Kothari Padma Shri Awardee, Deputy Dean of MIT Sloan School of Management 1974-1979
Milind Tambe Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University
Autar Kaw Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Florida
Krishna Saraswat Stanford University 1963-1968
G. Ravindra Kumar[3][4] Senior professor - Tata Institute of Fundamental Research 1977-1983
Ravi Gomatam Director of Bhaktivedanta Institute (Berkeley and Mumbai)[5]
Narendra Ahuja Founding Director of IIIT Hyderabad (1999-2002). 1968-1972

Social Activists and Politics
Name Achievement Year of Attendance at BITS
Nanaji Deshmukh Social Activism in the fields of education, health, and rural self-reliance and posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna.
Prithviraj Chavan[6] Former Chief Minister of Maharashtra; former Union Minister for Science and Technology, Govt. of India 1963-1967

Arts
Name Achievement Year of Attendance at BITS
B. Sandhya Police officer and author
Dilip D'Souza Writer of social causes 1976–1981
Shashi Warrier Writer of fiction
Anu Haasan Actress, Tamil/Telugu movies, TV show host
Hartosh Singh Bal Journalist and Editor
Kanika Actress, Tamil/Telugu/Kannada/Malayalam movies, TV show host
Mani Shankar Director, Indian movies
Padmini Chettur Dancer 1987-1991
Dushyanth Sridhar Noted scholar in Sanskrit and Tamil on ancient Hindu scriptures 2004-2009
Sandeep A. Varma film director and writer

References
  1. "List of Notable BITS Alumni - BITSAA International". bitsaa.org. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  2. ":: Chairman ::". kalyanigroup.com. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  3. "Indian fellow". Indian National Science Academy. 2017-10-21. Retrieved 2017-10-21.
  4. "Professor G. Ravindra Kumar on ISF". Infosys Science Foundation. 2017-10-21. Retrieved 2017-10-21.
  5. "Bhaktivedanta Institute". bvinst.edu. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  6. http://parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/lok11/biodata/11mh18.htm
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