IIT Roorkee Distinguished Alumni

Can you list me the names of Distinguished Alumni (DA) of Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee)? Also list me the names of Notable Alumni of Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee)?

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Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee) is a public university established in 1847 in British India by the then lieutenant governor, Sir James Thomason, it was given university status in 1949 and was converted into an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in 2001, thus becoming the seventh IIT to be declared.

Distinguished Alumni (DA)

DA Award Recipient 2015
Manoj Goel
at IIT Roorkee Alumni Day, 25th November 2015

DA Award Recipient 2015
Dr. Roopa Gir
at IIT Roorkee Alumni Day, 25th November 2015

DA Award Recipient 2015
Dr. Jai K. Hakhu
at IIT Roorkee Alumni Day, 25th November 2015

DA Award Recipient 2014
Prof. Satyandra Gupta
at IIT Roorkee Alumni Day, 25th November 2014

DA Award Recipient 2013
Prof. Vipin Kumar
at IIT Roorkee Alumni Day, 25th November 2013

DA Award Recipient 2012
Dr. Amit Singhal
at IIT Roorkee Alumni Day, 25th of November 2012

DA Award Recipient 2012
Prof. Harpreet Singh
at IIT Roorkee Alumni Day, 25th of November 2012

DA Award Recipient 2011
Hersh Kumar
at IIT Roorkee 11th Annual Convocation, 12th of November 2011

DA Award Recipient 2010
Dr. Rakesh Agrawal
at IIT Roorkee 10th Annual Convocation, 13th of November 2010

DA Award Recipient 2010
Ramesh Mehra
at IIT Roorkee 10th Annual Convocation, 13th of November 2010

DA Award Recipient 2009
Mr. Harish Goyal
at IIT Roorkee 9th Annual Convocation, 14th of November 2009

DA Award Recipient 2009
Prof. D. P. Garg
at IIT Roorkee 9th Annual Convocation, 14th of November 2009

DA Award Recipient 2008
Prof. Shamsher Prakash
at IIT Roorkee 8th Annual Convocation, 8th of November 2008

DA Award Recipient 2008
Narendra Patni
at IIT Roorkee 8th Annual Convocation, 8th of November 2008

DA Award Recipient 2005
Vinita Gupta
at IIT Roorkee 5th Annual Convocation, 25th November 2005


Notable Alumni

Nilmani Mitra (1828–1894), 19th century architect, designer of several palaces in Kolkata

Henry Benedict Medlicott (1829–1905), Irish geologist and professor of geology

John Underwood Bateman-Champain (1835–1887), British army officer and engineer in India, instrumental in laying the first electric telegraph line from Britain to India by way of the Persian Gulf

Allan Joseph Champneys Cunningham (1842–1928), number theorist, formulated Mersenne numbers and Fermat numbers

Lala Deen Dayal (1844–1905), photographer to the Viceroy of India and Nizam of Hyderabad, received the Royal Warrant from Queen Victoria in 1897

Charles Palmer (1847–1940), last surviving man to hold the Lucknow medal for his role in the defence of the Residency in Lucknow during the Indian Rebellion of 1857

Sir Ganga Ram (1851–1927), a leading philanthropist and agriculturist. A civil engineer by profession and a graduate of the 1873 batch, Sir Ganga Ram supervised the construction of several prominent structures in Punjab. Referred to as 'Father of modern Lahore'.

William Willcocks (1852–1932), British civil engineer who graduated from 1872 batch, remembered as a renowned irrigation engineer, having proposed the first Aswan Dam and undertaken major projects of irrigation in South Africa and Turkey

Baba Sawan Singh (1858–1948), second Satguru of Radha Soami Satsang Beas

Frederic Oscar Oertel (1862–1942), Indian art historian and archaeologist

Chaudhry Niaz Ali Khan (1880–1976), founder of the Dar ul Islam Movement and the Dar ul Islam Trust in South Asia and the Dar ul Islam Trust Institutes in Pathankot, India and Jauharabad, Pakistan

Lawrence Samuel Durrell (1884–1928), Chief Engineer of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway

Ajudhiya Nath Khosla (1892–1984), eminent Indian engineer, educationist, visionary and recipient of second highest civilian honor of India — Padma Vibhushan, awarded in 1977, served as Member of the Planning Commission, Governor of Orissa, President of National Science Academy and Vice Chancellor of the University of Roorkee (now IIT Roorkee)

Peter de Noronha (1897–1970), businessman, philanthropist, knighted by Pope Paul VI in 1965 for his work for the Christian community in India

Kanwar Sen (1899–1979), Chief Engineer of Bikaner credited with the creation of the Indira Gandhi canal in Rajasthan and Punjab, awarded Padma Bhushan in 1956

Ghananand Pande (1902–1995), Chairman of Indian Railways in 1954 and Chairman of Hindustan Steels, awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 1969

Jai Krishna (1912–1999), eminent scholar on earthquake engineering, instrumental in setting up the first and the only earthquake engineering department in India, at IIT Roorkee, awarded Padma Bhushan in 1956, served as Vice Chancellor of the University of Roorkee in 1969

Jaiprakash Gaur (born c.1930), founder chairman of Jaiprakash Associates and Jaypee Group of companies, ranked by Forbes magazine as the 48th-richest person in India

A. S. Arya (born c.1931), National Seismic advisor and Padma Shri awardee

G. D. Agrawal (born 1932), eminent environmental engineer, Save Ganga activist and former Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at IIT Kanpur, notable for his successful fast in 2009 to stop the damming of the Bhagirathi River

Ashok Soota (born 1942), founder of Happiest Minds Technologies, co-founder of Mindtree, ex-President of Wipro Infotech

Narendra Patni (1943–2014), founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Patni Computer Systems[

Pradip Baijal (born c.1944), IAS and former chairman Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)

Vinita Gupta (born 1949), founder, CEO of Quick Eagle Networks and first Indian-origin-woman to take her company public

Anirudh Agarwal (born 1949), Indian character actor.

Rakesh Agrawal (born 1954), Member, National Academy of Engineering, ex-Microsoft Fellow and ex-IBM fellow widely known as the 'Father of Data Mining'

Mangu Singh (born 1955), Managing Director of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Limited

Dinesh Paliwal (born 1957), Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Harman International Industries

Naveen Jain (born 1959), founder and CEO of Intelius, founder of Moon Express, InfoSpace

Ajit Gupta (born c.1962), founder, President, CEO of Aryaka; founder, Chairman of AAyuja; founder, ex-CEO of Speedera; founder, Chairman of Jantakhoj

Amit Singhal (born 1968), Google Fellow, rewrote the Google search algorithm in 2000

Hitendra Chaturvedi (born 1969), MD, Greendust.com

Amit Agarwal (born 1977), prominent technology columnist at WSJ, India's first professional blogger, currently the highest paid Indian blogger in terms of Google Adsense revenue, founder of Digital Inspiration, founder of Labnol