Famous Alumni Of IIT Roorkee

Will you please provide the list of notable alumni members of Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee ?

[Kiran Chandar]

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee was founded in the year 1847.It is located at Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India .

Notable alumni Members :

• Nilmani Mitra (1828–1894), 19th century architect, designer of several palaces in Kolkata
• Henry Benedict Medlicott (1829–1905), Irish geologist and professor of geology
• Allan Joseph Champneys Cunningham (1842–1928), number theorist, formulated Mersenne numbers and Fermat numbers
• 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
• Lala Deen Dayal (1844–1905), photographer to the Viceroy of India and Nizam of Hyderabad, received the Royal Warrant from Queen Victoria in 1897
• 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'.[44]
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Ghananand Pande (1902–1995), Chairman of Indian Railways in 1954 and Chairman of Hindustan Steels, awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 1969
• Ashok Soota (born 1942), founder of Happiest Minds Technologies, co-founder of Mindtree, ex-President of Wipro Infotech[47]
• Narendra Patni (1943–2014), founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Patni Computer Systems[48]
• Pradip Baijal (born c.1944), IAS and former chairman Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)[49]
• 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;[54] 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
• Vinita Gupta (born 1949), founder, CEO of Quick Eagle Networks and first Indian-origin-woman to take her company public
• Rakesh Agrawal (born c.1952), Microsoft Fellow and ex-IBM fellow widely known as the 'Father of Data Mining'

Contact :
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Roorkee- Haridwar Highway, Roorkee, Uttarakhand 247667 ‎
01332 285 311 ‎•

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