List of BITS Pilani alumni
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This is a list of notable BITS Pilani alumni.[1]
Entrepreneurs[edit]
| Name | Achievement | Year of Attendance at BITS |
| Sanjay Mehrotra | President and co-founder of Sandisk, CEO Micron Technology | 1974-1976 |
| Bill Malhotra | Founder of Claridge Homes | 1966-1971 |
| Preetish Nijhawan | Co-founder of Akamai Technologies | 1985–1989 |
| Baba Kalyani[2] | Billionaire, Chairman of Bharat Forge | 1965–1970 |
| Sabeer Bhatia | Founder of Hotmail |
| 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 | 1975 |
| 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 |
| Sriharsha Majety | Co-founder and CEO of Swiggy | 2003–2008 |
| Nandan Reddy | Co-founder of Swiggy | 2005–2010 |
| Abhinav Asthana | Co-founder of Postman API | 2006–2010 |
| Abhijit Kane | Co-founder of Postman API | 2008–2013 |
| Kaushik Mukherjee | Co-founder of Sugar Cosmetics | 2000–2004 |
| Hari Menon | Co-founder, CEO of BigBasket | |
| Richa Kar | Co-founder of Zivame | 2002–2007 |
| Ishan Bansal | Co-founder of Groww | 2005–2009 |
| Shubh Malhotra | Co-founder of Mobile Premier League | 2005–2009 |
| Narendra Khatri | Co-founder of Insubuy | 1991-1995 |
| Bhuvan Gupta | Co-founder of OfBusiness | 1996–2000 |
| Phanindra Sama | Co-founder of RedBus | |
| Sudhakar Pasupunuri | Co-founder of RedBus | |
| Charan Padmaraju | Co-founder of RedBus |
| Shivkumar Ganesan | Co-founder of Exotel | 2000–2004 |
| Abhishek Nayak | Co-founder of Appsmith | 2005–2010 |
| Arpit Mohan | Co-founder of Appsmith | 2005–2009 |
| Srivatsan Chari | Co-founder of ClearTax | 2004–2008 |
| Abhinay Peddisetty | Co-founder of BukuWarang |
Corporate leaders[edit]
Academia[edit]
| 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 | |
| S. P. Kothari | Padma Shri Awardee, 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 | 1976–1981 |
| Arun Sharma | Distinguished emeritus professor, Queensland University of Technology | 2008 |
| Krishna Saraswat | Electrical Engineering Professor at 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 |
| Arun K. Somani | Department Chair, Senior Associate Dean in Engineering, Iowa State University | 2003–2010, 2013–present (as of 2023[update]) |
| Govindan Rangarajan | Director & Professor Dept. of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore | 1980–1985 |
| Seshadri Vasan | First Rhodes Scholar alumnus, COVID-19 scientist, Honorary Professor, University of York | 1991–1996 |
| T. N. Vijaykumar | Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University | 1990 |
| Ravindra Dastikop | Educator and speaker on Cloud Computing |
Social activists, politics, and government[edit]
| Name | Achievement | Year of Attendance at BITS |
| Mani Shankar | Legendary, Award-winning Director, Indian movies |
| Anu Haasan | Actress, Tamil/Telugu movies, TV show host |
| Kanika | Former Actress, Malayalam/Tamil/Kannada/Telugu films, TV show host | 1999-2003 |
| Sandeep A. Varma | Award-winning Film Director and Writer |
| AK Srikanth | Award-winning Short Film Maker and Writer |
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