Famous Personalities from IITs 

For many students, entry into the hallowed walls of IIT is a dream in itself. But for some, it is just the first step to creating unthinkable success stories. From top-notch CEOs to famous scientists, from young entrepreneurs to quirky entertainers, successful IIT alumni have inspired generations of students.

Here’s the underlying message—dare to dream and the world can do nothing but admire you. Across the Indian start-up sector, there’s a growing network of alumni from some of the best-known institutions in India. IITians have taken India by a storm in the past few years and managed to make a mark in almost every profession you can think of under the sun.

Why don’t you spare just a few minutes to read some of their success stories? Who knows, you might be the next!  Let’s shift our focus towards what the famous IIT alumni are up to, right now. Here we go!

Successful IIT Alumni Who Made India Proud

Sundar Pichai

Sundar Pichai chased his starry-eyed technology dreams and is currently the Senior Vice President at Google. Responsible for the launch of the dominant Chrome web browser, he was previously the product head for Android, Chrome, Maps, and other popular Google products. He earned his Bachelor of Engineering degree from IIT Kharagpur in Metallurgical Engineering. Holding an M.S. from Stanford University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, he was also named a Siebel Scholar and a Palmer Scholar. He is one of the most renowned and successful IIT alumni at the moment!

N.R. Narayana Murthy

The co-founder and ex-chairman of the mighty Infosys, Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy, is famous across the globe. An M.Tech from IIT Kanpur, he studied electrical engineering at the University of Mysore. In the year 1981, he co-founded the MNC Infosys, which provides business technology, consulting, engineering, and outsourcing services all over the world. In 2013, he became the Additional Director and Executive Chairman of the same. Murthy has received the prestigious Padma Shri and Padma Vibushan awards. Time Magazine also described him as the Father of Indian IT.

Sachin Bansal

It took Sachin Bansal, 32, a mere six years to build Flipkart, the country’s best-known online retail brand. This IIT-Delhi alumnus co-founded the company with college friend Binny Bansal in a small flat in southeast Bangalore in 2007 with Rs. 4 lakh. Flipkart’s success has come not just from online retail, but also from its focus on building technology services at the back end.

Vinod Khosla

This American businessman has been listed as a billionaire by Forbes magazine. Khosla made his early fortune as one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems, a company which created the Java programming language and Network File System (NFS). He then went on to form his venture capital firm, Khosla Ventures in 2004. He attended Mount St. Marys High School in Delhi and is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering).

Nikesh Arora

The Vice Chairman of SoftBank Corp. and CEO of SoftBank Internet and Media, Inc. (SIMI), Nikesh Arora graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, India, with a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering. He also holds a degree from Boston College and an MBA from Northeastern University. Nikesh has worked for Deutsche Telekom, Putnam Investments and Fidelity Investments in the past.

Amit Singhal

Winner of the Outstanding Achievement in Science and Technology award at the Asian Awards 2011, Amit Singhal is an ex-student of IIT Roorkee. He is the Senior Vice President at Google Inc. He had rewritten Google in the year 2001 and had been honored  as a “Google Fellow.” Singhal says that he was persuaded to join Google by his friend Krishna Bharat, who is a principal scientist at the web search giant. His last day at Google was February 26, 2016, and his next journey will involve philanthropy.

Chetan Bagath 

Again his name is just enough to conclude who he is.Popularly known as the voice of Indian youths, the IIT Delhi  1995 batch alumnus also holds MBA degree from IIM A. He is india's best selling english author, a blogger and profound speaker also, selling millions copies of his all the six books he has penned down.He ocassionally writes editorials in newspapers( some of the best of them i have read in TOI) also mostly about politics and social issues.Times magazine named him as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. 

           

Jairam Ramesh: 

  

He known to be the only honest face in the entire Congress Party,the former environmental minister is a 1975 batch IIT B alumnus from mechanical engineering.From 1977-1978 he studied economics engineering and Management at Massachussets Institute of Technology.He is the founding member of the prestigious Indian School Of Business,Hyderabad.

Arvind Khejriwal : 

Everyone knows about him.The famous social activist and anti corruption crusader is a IIT KGP alumnus holds his B-Tech in mechanical engineering and  is the founder of the newly formed Aam Admi Party.He is credited to have brought the Right to Information act ,2005 along with Anna Hazare.He joined IRS but later left it.