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This is a '''list of notable [[Birla Institute of Technology and Science|BITS Pilani]] alumni'''.<ref>{{cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=List of Notable BITS Alumni - BITSAA International|url=https://www.bitsaa.org/page/list-of-notable-bits-alumni|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|accessdate=8 August 2015|work=bitsaa.org}}</ref>
==Entrepreneurs==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! Achievement
! Year of Attendance at BITS
|-
| [[Sanjay Mehrotra]]
| President and co-founder of [[Sandisk]]
|
|-
|[[Preetish Nijhawan]]
|Co-founder of [[Akamai Technologies]]
|1985-1989
|-
| [[Baba Kalyani]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kalyanigroup.com/chairman.asp|title=:: Chairman ::|work=kalyanigroup.com|accessdate=8 August 2015}}</ref>
| Billionaire, Chairman of [[Bharat Forge]]
| 1965–1970
|-
| [[Sabeer Bhatia]] (transferred)
| Founder of Hotmail
|-
| [[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
|-
|}

==Corporate Leaders ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! Achievement
! Year of Attendance at BITS
|-
| [[Rakesh Kapoor]]
| CEO of [[Reckitt Benckiser]]
|1975-1980
|-
| [[Sunil Duggal]]
| CEO of [[Dabur]]
|1974-1979
|-
| [[Vivek Paul]]
| Consulting Professor at [[Stanford University]]; founder of KineticGlue; CEO of [[Wipro]] Technologies
|-
| [[SK Roongta]]
| Chairman of [[Steel Authority of India Ltd.]]
|1966-1971
|-
|}

==Academia==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! 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, 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]]
|
|-
| [[Arun Sharma (Indian Australian professor)|Arun Sharma]]
| Distinguished emeritus professor, [[Queensland University of Technology]]
|2008
|-
| [[Krishna Saraswat]]
| Stanford University
|1963-1968
|-
| [[G. Ravindra Kumar]]<ref name="Indian fellow">{{Cite web |url=http://insaindia.res.in/detail/P08-1461 |title=Indian fellow |date=2017-10-21 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy |access-date=2017-10-21}}</ref><ref name="Professor G. Ravindra Kumar on ISF">{{Cite web |url=http://www.infosys-science-foundation.com/prize/laureates/2015/ravindra-kumar-g.asp |title=Professor G. Ravindra Kumar on ISF |date=2017-10-21 |website=Infosys Science Foundation |access-date=2017-10-21}}</ref>
| Senior professor - [[Tata Institute of Fundamental Research]]
|1977-1983
|-
| [[Ravi Gomatam]]
| Director of Bhaktivedanta Institute (Berkeley and Mumbai)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bvinst.edu|title=Bhaktivedanta Institute |work=bvinst.edu|accessdate=8 August 2015}}</ref>
|
|-
|[[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-Contd
|-
|}

==Social Activists and Politics==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! 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]]<ref>http://parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/lok11/biodata/11mh18.htm</ref>
| Former [[Chief Minister of Maharashtra]]; former Union Minister for Science and Technology, Govt. of India
|1963-1967
|-
|}

==Film==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! 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 (actress)|Kanika]]
| Former Actress, Tamil/Telugu/Kannada/Malayalam movies, TV show host
|-
| [[Sandeep A. Varma]]
| Award-winning Film Director and Writer
|-
|}

==Art, Music, Writers & Dance==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! 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
|-
| [[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
|-
| [[Praveen Kumar]]
| Stand up comic|
|-
|[[Gaurav Chaudhary]]
|Indian tech Vlogger
|-
|}Harish Sivaramakrishnan
Indian playback singer,lead vocalist of the Banglore based popular Carnatic progressive rock band Agam and
Chief design officer at CRED

==References==
{{reflist}}
* [http://www.bitsaa.org/?page=whoswho BITSAA (Birla Institute of Technology & Science Alumni Association]

[[Category:Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani alumni]]
[[Category:Lists of people by university or college in India]]

List of BITS Pilani alumni - Revision history

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