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7th May 2015, 03:41 PM
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IIT Roorkee Famous Alumni
I have recently joined Indian Institute Of Technology (IIT) , Roorkee . I am looking for Alumni list of IIT Roorkee . Can you tell me who are the famous Alumni of this Institute? Please tell me where they are working and what is their salary ? Is there any Alumni who is now in Politics ?
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9th July 2018, 08:55 AM
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Re: IIT Roorkee Famous Alumni
Hi buddy here I am looking for Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee) Famous Alumni list so would you plz let me know their name ???
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9th July 2018, 08:56 AM
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Re: IIT Roorkee Famous Alumni
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee) is a public engineering university located in Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India. It was established in 1847 in British India by the then lieutenant governor, Sir James Thomason, it is the oldest technical institution in Asia. IIT Roorkee Famous Alumni Nilmani Mitra (18281894), 19th century architect, designer of several palaces in Kolkata[49] Henry Benedict Medlicott (18291905), Irish geologist and professor of geology John Underwood Bateman-Champain (18351887), 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 (18421928), number theorist, formulated Mersenne numbers and Fermat numbers Lala Deen Dayal (18441905), photographer to the Viceroy of India and Nizam of Hyderabad, received the Royal Warrant from Queen Victoria in 1897 Charles Palmer (18471940), 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 (18511927), 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 (18521932), 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 (18581948), second Satguru of Radha Soami Satsang Beas Frederic Oscar Oertel (18621942), Indian art historian and archaeologist S.V. Setty (18791918), The first Indian Aviator Chaudhry Niaz Ali Khan (18801976), 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 (18841928), Chief Engineer of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway Ajudhiya Nath Khosla (18921984), 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 (18971970), businessman, philanthropist, knighted by Pope Paul VI in 1965 for his work for the Christian community in India Kanwar Sen (18991979), Chief Engineer of Bikaner credited with the creation of the Indira Gandhi canal in Rajasthan and Punjab, awarded Padma Bhushan in 1956 Ghananand Pande (19021995), chairman of Indian Railways in 1954 and chairman of Hindustan Steels, awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 1969 Jai Krishna (19121999), 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 Digvijai Singh (born 1934), chemical engineer, former vice chancellor of University of Roorkee, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate Ashok Soota (born 1942), founder of Happiest Minds Technologies, co-founder of Mindtree, ex-President of Wipro Infotech Narendra Patni (19432014), 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) Sri Niwas, (19462012) geophysicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate 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' Shyam Sundar Rai, (born 1954) seismologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate Mangu Singh (born 1955), managing director of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Limited Dinesh Paliwal (born 1957), 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 Sumit Jain (13 June 1984), co-founder and CEO of Indian real estate portal Commonfloor[dot]com |
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