69 Notable alumni of Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Updated: June 22, 2026 EliteDegrees

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur is ranked #569 in the world and #7 in India by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 69 notable alumni from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.

Rajendra Rathore

1. Rajendra Rathore

1961-2018 (aged 57)
researcher chemist
Rajendra Rathore was an organic chemist and professor at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin as Pfletschinger-Habermann professor of organic chemistry. He made important contributions in the area of supramolecular chemistry, synthesis of novel electro-active molecules, and drug discovery. Rathore died on 16 February 2018, after complications from chronic pulmonary sarcoidosis.
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Gautam Das

2. Gautam Das

1978-1983 (aged 5)
researcher
Gautam Das is a computer scientist in the field of databases research. He is an ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow (since 2020), as well as an AAIA Fellow.
Vikas Gupta

3. Vikas Gupta

entrepreneur
Vikas Gupta is an Indian American internet entrepreneur. He is known for having founded Jambool, an online company that was acquiredby Google in August 2010. Gupta has also joined Google as the Head of Consumer Payments after the acquisition. Prior to founding Jambool, Gupta worked at Amazon.com, where he led the payments and web services groups. His newest venture is...
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Nikhil Mohan Pattnaik

4. Nikhil Mohan Pattnaik

1949-. (aged 77)
writer science fiction writer
Nikhil Mohan Pattnaik is an Indian scholar, scientist, and science author. He obtained a PhD from the University of Chicago in Biochemistry.
Vijay Vaishnavi

5. Vijay Vaishnavi

1948-. (aged 78)
computer scientist information scientist university teacher
Vijay Kumar Vaishnavi is a noted researcher and scholar in the computer information systems field with contributions mainly in the areas of design science, software engineering, and data structures & algorithms, authoring over 150 publications including seven books in these and related areas, and co-owning a patent. He is currently Professor Emeritus at the Department of Computer Information Systems, Georgia...
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K. VijayRaghavan

6. K. VijayRaghavan

1954-. (aged 72)
geneticist biologist
Krishnaswamy Vijayraghavan is an emeritus professor and former director of the National Centre for Biological Sciences. On 26 March 2018, the Government of India appointed him as the Principal Scientific Adviser to succeed Dr. R Chidamabaram. His term as Principal Scientific Adviser ended on 2 April 2022. In 2012, he was elected a fellow of The Royal Society and in...
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Amit Kumar

7. Amit Kumar

1976-. (aged 50)
computer scientist academic
Amit Kumar is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He received his B.Tech. degree from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1997, and Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2002. He worked as member of technical staff at Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey, U.S. during 2002–2003. He joined IIT...
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Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri

8. Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri

1950-. (aged 76)
computer scientist artificial intelligence researcher
Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri is a senior computer scientist and an emeritus professor of Techno India University in West Bengal, India. He is also adjuncted to Indian Statistical Institute, where he was a professor for about three decades. He was the founding Head of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit (which was established in 1994) of ISI. Moreover, he was a...
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Jagdish Narayan

9. Jagdish Narayan

materials scientist researcher
Jagdish Narayan is an Indian-born American engineer. Since 2001, he has been the John C. C. Fan Family Distinguished Chair Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at North Carolina State University. Narayan has co-authored over 500 publications and is listed as a co-inventor on over 40 US and international patents. He has conducted research on non-equilibrium laser processing...
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Keshav K Pingali

10. Keshav K Pingali

computer scientist professor
Keshav K. Pingali is an American computer scientist, currently the W.A."Tex" Moncrief Chair of Grid and Distributed Computing at the University of Texas at Austin, and also a published author. He previously also held the India Chair of Computer Science at Cornell University and also the N. Rama Rao Professorship at Indian Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of...
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Upinder Singh Bhalla

11. Upinder Singh Bhalla

1963-. (aged 63)
neuroscientist
Upinder Singh Bhalla is an Indian computational neuroscientist, academic and a professor at National Centre for Biological Sciences of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. He is known for his studies on neuronal and synaptic signalling in memory and olfactory coding using computational and experimental methods and is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Indian...
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Vasu Chanchlani

12. Vasu Chanchlani

1952-2014 (aged 62)
businessperson
Vasu Chanchlani was an Indian-Canadian serial entrepreneur, philanthropist and trans-nations builder. He is co-founder of the Sigma Group of Companies and a founding member of the Canada India Foundation. He is also an investor in dozens of companies globally consisting of start-ups and turn-arounds. He is best known for his efforts towards improving Canada-India relations through his philanthropic activities and...
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Bhrigu Nath Singh

13. Bhrigu Nath Singh

1968-. (aged 58)
military flight engineer
Bhrigu Nath Singh, also known as B.N. Singh, is an Indian engineering scientist, current vice-chancellor at Rajiv Gandhi National Aviation University and former director general at the IITRAM.
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Rajeev Alur

14. Rajeev Alur

1966-. (aged 60)
computer scientist engineer university teacher
Rajeev Alur is an American professor of computer science at the University of Pennsylvania who has made contributions to formal methods, programming languages, and automata theory, including notably the introduction of timed automata and nested words (Alur and Madhusudan, 2004).
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Prakash Panangaden

15. Prakash Panangaden

1954-. (aged 72)
computer scientist
Prakash Panangaden is an American/Canadian computer scientist noted for his research in programming language theory, concurrency theory, Markov processes and duality theory. Earlier he worked on quantum field theory in curved space-time and radiation from black holes. He is the founding Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Logic and Computation.
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Shridhar Ramachandra Gadre

16. Shridhar Ramachandra Gadre

1950-. (aged 76)
chemist
Shridhar Ramachandra Gadre is an Indian scientist working in computational quantum and theoretical chemistry.
Samir D. Mathur

17. Samir D. Mathur

physicist
Samir Dayal Mathur is a theoretical physicist who specializes in string theory and black hole physics.
Ashutosh Sharma

18. Ashutosh Sharma

1961-. (aged 65)
chemical engineer
Ashutosh Sharma is an Institute Chair Professor and C V Seshadri Chair Professor at the Department of chemical engineering of Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He is the founding Coordinator of DST Thematic Unit of Excellence on Soft Nanofabrication and Chairman of Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering at IIT Kanpur. He is best known for his pioneering research work...
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Swaminathan Sivaram

19. Swaminathan Sivaram

1946-. (aged 80)
chemist
Swaminathan Sivaram is an Indian polymer chemist, inventor, institution builder and a former director of the National Chemical Laboratory, Pune. He is known for his pioneering work on alkylation of tertiary alkyl halides with trialkylaluminum and olefin polymerization and holds the highest number of US patents by an Indian working outside the US. He is a fellow of several significant...
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Rakesh Agrawal

20. Rakesh Agrawal

engineer
Rakesh Agrawal is the Winthrop E. Stone Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. He is a chemical engineer known for contributions to separations, cryogenic gas separation and liquefaction, and for contributions to renewable energy including the conversion of biomass to chemicals and fuels, inorganic solar cell fabrication, and the synergistic use of solar energy.
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Arvind Gupta

21. Arvind Gupta

1953-. (aged 73)
children's writer scientist
Arvind Gupta is an Indian science educator, toy inventor, author, translator and scientist. He received the civilian award Padma Shree from the Indian government on the eve of Republic Day, 2018.
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Ravindra K. Ahuja

22. Ravindra K. Ahuja

1956-. (aged 70)
computer scientist
Ravindra K. Ahuja is an Indian-born American computer scientist and entrepreneur. He is currently Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, and CEO of the automation and optimization solutions provider Optym, which he founded in 2000 as Innovative Scheduling, Inc.
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Rajendra Srivastava

23. Rajendra Srivastava

1951-. (aged 75)
Rajendra K. Srivastava is Novartis Professor of Marketing Strategy and Innovation at the Indian School of Business. He has been a tenured professor and an academic administrator and has worked in the United States, Singapore, and India. He has been listed in the Forbes's Tycoons of Tomorrow 2018. He is also a member of the board of directors of Happiest...
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Dipendra Prasad

24. Dipendra Prasad

1960-. (aged 66)
mathematician
Dipendra Prasad is an Indian mathematician. He is an Emeritus Fellow of mathematics at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. He is a number theorist known for his work in the areas of automorphic representations and the Gan–Gross–Prasad conjecture. He was the president of Commission for Developing Countries (CDC) of International Mathematical Union (2018–2022) and of Indian Math Society (2021–2022)....
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Kapil Hari Paranjape

25. Kapil Hari Paranjape

mathematician
Kapil Hari Paranjape is an Indian mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry. He is a Professor of Mathematics at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali.
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Anil K. Rajvanshi

26. Anil K. Rajvanshi

1950-. (aged 76)
blogger autobiographer
Anil K. Rajvanshi is an academic from India, and is the current director of the Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute.
Rajesh Tandon

27. Rajesh Tandon

1951-. (aged 75)
Rajesh Tandon is an internationally acclaimed leader and practitioner of participatory research and development He is Founder-President of Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), a global centre for participatory research & training. His work in this field has focused on relationships between the researcher and researched subjects.
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Saurabh Kumar

28. Saurabh Kumar

1966-. (aged 60)
diplomat
Saurabh Kumar is an Indian diplomat currently serving as Ambassador of India to European Union, Belgium and Luxembourg. Before this assignment he was Secretary (East) in the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India. He also served as Ambassador of India to Myanmar and to the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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Bhaskar Pramanik

29. Bhaskar Pramanik

1956-. (aged 70)
businessperson
Bhaskar Pramanik is the former chairman of Microsoft India. He looked after the company's overall sales, marketing and all other transactions across India. He retired from Microsoft in September 2017.
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Amar Gupta

30. Amar Gupta

1953-. (aged 73)
computer scientist university teacher
Amar Gupta is an Indian computer scientist based in the United States. Gupta has worked in academics, private companies, and international organizations in positions that involved analysis and leveraging of opportunities at the intersection of technology and business, as well as the design, development, and implementation of prototype systems that led to widespread adoption of new techniques and technologies.
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Ashok Gadgil

31. Ashok Gadgil

1950-. (aged 76)
inventor university teacher
Ashok Gadgil Is the Andrew and Virginia Rudd Family Foundation Distinguished Chair Emeritus, and Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley. He is an Affiliate (Former Faculty Senior Scientist) and formerly served as Director of the Energy and Environmental Technologies Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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Sartaj Sahni

32. Sartaj Sahni

1949-. (aged 77)
computer scientist engineer university teacher
Professor Sartaj Kumar Sahni is a computer scientist based in the United States, and is one of the pioneers in the field of data structures. He is a distinguished professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the University of Florida.
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U. B. Desai

33. U. B. Desai

1951-. (aged 75)
electrical engineer dean executive university teacher scientist
Uday B. Desai is an Indian academician and the founding director of Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. He is Professor Emeritus in Electrical engineering at IIT Hyderabad, Chancellor ICFAI Dehradun, Chancellor Anurag University, Hyderabad, Vice-President Indian National Academy of Engineering, Honorary Distinguished Professor Plaksha University, Mohali. He is member of Board of Governor of many academic institutions and member or...
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Jayathi Murthy

34. Jayathi Murthy

university teacher mechanical engineer engineer
Jayathi Y. Murthy is an Indian-American mechanical engineer who is the current President of Oregon State University. Previously, she was the Ronald and Valerie Sugar Dean of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of California, Los Angeles where she was also a distinguished professor. Her research interests include macroelectronics, computational fluid dynamics, heat...
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Prem Das Rai

35. Prem Das Rai

1954-. (aged 72)
politician
Prem Das Rai is an Indian politician from the Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) party. Rai was a Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) from the Sikkim constituency of Sikkim, India, first elected in 2009 election and re-elected in 2014 after serving his first term in 2009-2014. In 2019 Lok Sabha election he did not get the ticket from SDF.
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Umang Gupta

36. Umang Gupta

1949-2022 (aged 73)
businessperson
Umang Gupta was an Indian-American entrepreneur and Silicon Valley, California, executive credited with writing the first business plan for Oracle Corporation. He was also the founder of enterprise software company Gupta Technologies and was later the CEO of Keynote Systems.
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Atish Dabholkar

37. Atish Dabholkar

1963-. (aged 63)
theoretical physicist
Atish Dabholkar is an Indian theoretical physicist. He is currently the Director of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) with the rank of Assistant Director-General, UNESCO. Prior to that, he was head of ICTP's High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics section, and also Directeur de Recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) at Sorbonne...
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Anil K. Jain

38. Anil K. Jain

1948-. (aged 78)
computer scientist engineer
Anil Kumar Jain is an Indian-American computer scientist and University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University. He is one of the most highly cited researchers in computer science, and is internationally recognized for his foundational contributions to pattern recognition, computer vision, and biometric recognition, particularly in fingerprint recognition and face recognition.
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Veena Sahajwalla

39. Veena Sahajwalla

inventor scientist
Veena Sahajwalla is an Indian-Australian inventor who is Professor of Materials Science in the Faculty of Science at the University of New South Wales, Australia. She is the Director of the UNSW SM@RT Centre for Sustainable Materials Research and Technology and an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow.
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Shiraz Minwalla

40. Shiraz Minwalla

1972-. (aged 54)
physicist university teacher
Shiraz Naval Minwalla is an Indian theoretical physicist and string theorist. He is a faculty member in the Department of Theoretical Physics at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. Prior to his present position, Minwalla was a Harvard Junior Fellow and subsequently an assistant professor at Harvard University.
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Ram Sewak Sharma

41. Ram Sewak Sharma

1955-. (aged 71)
civil servant
Ram Sewak Sharma is a retired Indian bureaucrat and former civil servant. He is currently a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Kanpur), where he teaches Technology and Policy. He also serves as the non-executive Chairperson of Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), a non-profit organisation aimed at fostering digital commerce.
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Nitin Saxena

42. Nitin Saxena

1981-. (aged 45)
computer scientist mathematician
Nitin Saxena is an Indian scientist in mathematics and theoretical computer science. His research focuses on computational complexity.
Jitendra Malik

43. Jitendra Malik

1960-. (aged 66)
computer scientist engineer electrotechnician university teacher
Jitendra Malik is an Indian-American academic who is the Arthur J. Chick Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He is known for his research in computer vision.
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Padmanabhan Balaram

44. Padmanabhan Balaram

1949-. (aged 77)
biochemist
Padmanabhan Balaram is an Indian biochemist and a former director of the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India. He is a recipient of the third highest Indian civilian honour of Padma Bhushan as well as the TWAS Prize (1994). He has been conferred the 2021 R. Bruce Merrifield Award by the American Peptide Society.
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Mukul Sinha

45. Mukul Sinha

1951-2014 (aged 63)
human rights defender lawyer physicist
Mukul Sinha was an Indian human rights activist and a lawyer at the Gujarat High Court in Ahemdabad. He was an active trade union leader and a trained physicist. He legally represented the families of the individuals who were killed in Gujarat following the 2002 riots and in Manipur, in which he secured convictions of the politicians and police officers...
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Pradeep Sindhu

46. Pradeep Sindhu

1953-. (aged 73)
businessperson
Pradeep Sindhu is an Indian-American business executive. He is the chairman, chief development officer and co-founder of data center technology company Fungible. Previously, he co-founded Juniper Networks, where he was the chief scientist and CEO until 1996.
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Radha Krishna Mathur

47. Radha Krishna Mathur

1953-. (aged 73)
civil servant
Radha Krishna Mathur is a retired Indian IAS officer and Indian bureaucrat, who served as the 1st Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh from 2019 to 2023. He retired as the Chief Information Commissioner of India (CIC) in November 2018. Mathur had retired as the India's Defence Secretary, two years after being appointed to the post on 25 May 2013. He was...
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Sanjay Sarma

48. Sanjay Sarma

1968-. (aged 58)
mechanical engineer
Sanjay E. Sarma is ex-CEO, ex-President, and ex-Dean at the Asia School of Business. Additionally, he holds esteemed titles as the Fred Fort Flowers (1941) and Daniel Fort Flowers (1941) Professor of Mechanical Engineering, as well as vice president for Open Learning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Mahan Mj

49. Mahan Mj

1968-. (aged 58)
mathematician
Mahan Maharaj, also known as Mahan Mj and Swami Vidyanathananda, is an Indian mathematician and monk of the Ramakrishna Order. He is currently Professor of Mathematics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai. He is a recipient of the 2025 Vigyan Shree Award 2011 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in mathematical sciences and the Infosys Prize 2015 for Mathematical...
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Manu Prakash

50. Manu Prakash

bioengineer university teacher biophysicist designer inventor
Manu Prakash is an Indian scientist who is a professor of bioengineering at Stanford University. Manu was born in Meerut, India. He is best known for his contributions to the Foldscope and Paperfuge. Prakash received the MacArthur Fellowship in September 2016. He and his team at Stanford University have developed a synchronous computer that operates using the physics of moving...
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Muralee Thummarukudy

51. Muralee Thummarukudy

1964-. (aged 62)
Muralee Thummarukudy is the Director of the Coordination Office of UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). Prior to UNCCD Muralee was the Chief of Disaster Risk Reduction in the UN Environment Programme. An internationally renowned expert in disaster response, Muralee has been involved in post-disaster response and follow-up of almost all major disasters of the twenty-first century, including the 2004...
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Amitabh Thakur

52. Amitabh Thakur

1968-. (aged 58)
police officer
Amitabh Thakur is an ex-Indian Police Service (IPS) officer and a political activist. He was forced to undergo compulsory retirement in March 2021. During service, Amitabh was known for his strict adherence to rules and regulations as well as for his work in the field of administrative accountability.
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Ajay Kumar

53. Ajay Kumar

1962-. (aged 64)
civil servant
Ajay Kumar is an Indian civil servant who currently serves as the Chairperson of the Union Public Service Commission. A 1985-batch officer of the Indian Administrative Service, he earlier served as the 38th Defence Secretary of India. (2019–2022), Defence Production Secretary (2017–2019), and held senior roles in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, where he contributed to the Digital...
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Rahul Ram

54. Rahul Ram

composer
Rahul Ram is an Indian bass guitarist, social activist and music composer. He plays bass guitar for musical band Indian Ocean, which he joined in 1991. He is also one of the three members of 'Aisi Taisi Democracy,' along with Varun Grover and Sanjay Rajoura.
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Sudha Bharadwaj

55. Sudha Bharadwaj

1961-. (aged 65)
politician activist
Sudha Bharadwaj is an Indian trade-unionist, activist and lawyer who has lived and worked in Chhattisgarh for over three decades. She is an active member of the Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha (Mazdoor Karyakrta Committee).
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Pawan Kumar Goenka

56. Pawan Kumar Goenka

1954-. (aged 72)
Pawan Kumar Goenka is an Indian businessman, and the retired Managing Director of Mahindra & Mahindra, an Indian multinational automobile manufacturing corporation headquartered in Mumbai, and the chairman of SsangYong Motor Company in Korea. He is currently the Chairman of INSPACE, a part of India's Space Program. He is also the present Chairman of the Board of Governors of IIT...
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Manindra Agrawal

57. Manindra Agrawal

1966-. (aged 60)
computer scientist mathematician university teacher
Manindra Agrawal is an Indian computer scientist and director of Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He is also a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He was the recipient of the first Infosys Prize for Mathematics, the Godel Prize in 2006; and the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Mathematical Sciences...
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B. V. R. Mohan Reddy

58. B. V. R. Mohan Reddy

1950-. (aged 76)
businessperson
B. V. R. Mohan Reddy is an Indian business executive and engineering manager who founded and served as Executive Chairman of Cyient. He joined the DCM Group in 1974, and has subsequently worked with MICO Bosch, HCL, and OMC Computers Limited. He was the Chairman of NASSCOM from 2014–2015, and is a business analyst.
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N. R. Narayana Murthy

59. N. R. Narayana Murthy

1946-. (aged 80)
entrepreneur businessperson
Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy is an Indian billionaire businessman. He is the founder of Infosys, and was the chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president, and chief mentor of the company before retiring and becoming chairman emeritus. As of January 2025, his net worth was estimated at US$5.0 billion, according to Forbes.
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Ashwini Vaishnaw

60. Ashwini Vaishnaw

1970-. (aged 56)
Ashwini Vaishnaw is an Indian politician, former IAS officer and an enterpreneur who is serving as the 39th Minister of Railways, 35th Minister of Information and Broadcasting and 2nd Minister of Electronics and Information Technology since 2024.
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Arvind Krishna

61. Arvind Krishna

1962-. (aged 64)
chief executive officer
Arvind Krishna is an Indian-American business executive, and the chairman and CEO of IBM. He has been CEO of IBM since April 2020 and chairman since January 2021. Krishna began his career at IBM in 1990, at its Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and was promoted to senior vice president in 2015, managing IBM Cloud & Cognitive Software and IBM...
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Krishnamurthy Subramanian

62. Krishnamurthy Subramanian

1971-. (aged 55)
academic economist
Krishnamurthy Venkata Subramanian is an Indian economist who served as the 17th Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India. Subramanian is a leading expert on economic policy, banking and corporate governance, who was the youngest Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India, serving from 2018 to 2021. He has been appointed to the post of India's Executive Director...
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Rajeev Motwani

63. Rajeev Motwani

1962-2009 (aged 47)
computer scientist mathematician university teacher
Rajeev Motwani was an Indian-American professor of computer science at Stanford University whose research focused on theoretical computer science. He was a special advisor to Sequoia Capital. He was a winner of the Gödel Prize in 2001.
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Shahid Jameel

64. Shahid Jameel

1957-. (aged 69)
researcher virologist
Shahid Jameel is an Indian virologist and academic. Dr. Jameel is the Sultan Qaboos bin Said Fellow at Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and Research Fellow, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford. He serves as the Principal Investigator for the Centre's project on Public Health, Science and Technology in Muslim societies. Previously he was the director of the Trivedi School...
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Pushpak Bhattacharyya

65. Pushpak Bhattacharyya

1962-2025 (aged 63)
computer scientist artificial intelligence researcher university teacher
Pushpak Bhattacharyya was an Indian computer scientist and professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the IIT Bombay. He served as the Director of the IIT Patna from 2015 to 2021.
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Duvvuri Subbarao

66. Duvvuri Subbarao

1949-. (aged 77)
economist
Duvvuri Subbarao is an Indian economist, central banker, and retired IAS officer. He served as the 22nd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) from 2008 to 2013, with an extension granted in 2011 under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. After leaving the RBI, he became a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the National University of Singapore, and later at the...
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Debabrata Goswami

67. Debabrata Goswami

1986-1988 (aged 2)
researcher
Debabrata Goswami FInstP FRSC, is an Indian chemist and the Prof. S. Sampath Chair Professor of Chemistry, at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He is also a professor (Higher Administrative Grade) of The Department of Chemistry and The Center for Lasers & Photonics at the same Institute. Goswami is an associate editor of the open-access journal Science Advances. He...
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Ashoke Sen

68. Ashoke Sen

1956-. (aged 70)
physicist university teacher
Ashoke Sen FRS is an Indian theoretical physicist and ICTS-Infosys Madhava Chair Professor at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Bangalore. A former Distinguished Professor at the Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Prayagraj, He is also an honorary fellow in National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER) India. He is also a Morningstar Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of...
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Durga Shanker Mishra

69. Durga Shanker Mishra

1961-. (aged 65)
civil servant
Durga Shanker Mishra is a 1984 batch retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre. He served as Chief Secretary to Government of Uttar Pradesh from 30 December 2021 till 30 June 2024. Previously, he served as Housing and Urban Affairs Secretary and Chairman of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation.
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