IITians have played a very important role in improving different technologies world over,here’s part of the list of IITians who made it really big and played vital role in their respective areas.
| Ajit Jain | Kharagpur | 1972 | President, Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group |
| Anil K. Rajvanshi | Kanpur | 1972 | Director, Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute and winner of Jamnalal Bajaj Award 2001 and FICCI award 2002. |
| ANIL THADANI | IIT-Madras | 1968 | Chairman, Schroder Capital Partners investment bank |
| Anurag Dikshit | Delhi | 1994 | Co-Founder,Partygaming |
| Arjun Malhotra | Kharagpur | 1970 | Co-founder, HCL Technologies |
| Arogyaswami Paulraj | Delhi | 1973 | Professor, Stanford University |
| Arun Netravali | Bombay | 1967 | President, Bell Labs, Chief Scientist, Lucent, US National Medal of Technology |
| Arun Sarin | Kharagpur | 1975 | CEO of Vodafone |
| Arvind Kejriwal | Kharagpur | 1989 | Indian social activist and crusader for greater transparency in Government. Winner of Ramon Magsaysay Emergent Leadership award in 2006 |
| Arvind Raghunathan | Madras | 1984 | Managing Director and Head of Global Arbitrage, Deutsche Bank |
| Ashok Soota | Roorkee | 1965 | CEO and Founder of MindTree |
| Bharat Desai | Bombay | 1975 | Chairman and CEO, Syntel |
| Chetan Bhagat | Delhi | 1995 | Best-selling author of “Five Point Someone” and “One Night @ The Call Centre” |
| Debabrata Goswami | Kanpur | 1988 (M.Sc.) | Scientist, famous for his “Adiabatic Quantum Computing” Work with Lasers; Wellcome Trust International Senior Research Fellow |
| DESH DESHPANDE | IIT-Madras | 1973 | Founder, Cascade Communications |
| G. V. Loganathan | Kanpur (M.Tech) | 1978 | Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute |
| Gunjan Sinha | Delhi | 1989 | Chairman, Metricstream |
| Jairam Ramesh | Bombay | 1975 | Member of Parliament, 2004 |
| KANWAL REKHI | IIT-Bombay | 1967 | Venture capitalist.Founder, boardmaker Excelan |
| Kirit Parikh | Kharagpur (M. Tech.) | 1957 | Founder, IGIDR; Member, Planning Commission. |
| Krishna Bharat | Madras | 1982 | Creator of Google News, Principal Scientist, Google |
| Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya | Kharagpur | 1960 | Professor at the University of Warwick and advisor to Britain’s Prime Minister. Padma Bhushan (2002) and Knighthood (2003) |
| Madhu Sudan | Delhi | 1987 | Nevanlinna Prize, 2002 |
| Marti G Subrahmanyam | Madras | 1967 | Charles E. Merrill Professor of Finance at Stern School of Business |
| Mani Lal Bhaumik | Kharagpur (Ph.D) | 1958 | Physicist, contributed to early development of the excimer laser, honorary fellow of the American Physical Society and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, philanthropist and author. |
| Manindra Agarwal | Kanpur | 1986 | Clay Research Award, 2002 ,Godel Prize, 2006 |
| Manohar Parrikar | Bombay | 1978 | Chief Minister, Goa |
| Mriganka Sur | Kanpur | 1974 | Professor of Neuroscience, MIT |
| Muthuraman B. | Madras | 1966 | Managing Director of Tata Steel |
| Narendra Karmarkar | Bombay | 1978 | Polynomial time algorithm for LP problems, which is a leading breakthrough in Operations Research |
| Nandan Nilekani | Bombay | 1978 | Co-founder and CEO of Infosys |
| Naveen Jain | Roorkee | 1979 | CEO and Co-founder, Intelius |
| N.R. Narayana Murthy | Kanpur (M Tech) | 1969 | Co-founder and Chairman of Infosys |
| Padmasree Warrior | Delhi | 1982 | CTO, Motorola |
| Pradeep S Sindhu | Kanpur | 1974 | Co-founder, Vice-President and CTO, Juniper Networks |
| Raghuram Rajan | Delhi | 1985 | Economic Counsellor, IMF; Fischer Black prize |
| RAJ GUPTA | IIT-Bombay | 1967 | CEO, chemical maker Rohm & Haas |
| Raj Kamal Jha | Kharagpur | 1987 | Writer, famous for his Novel “The Blue Bedspread” |
| RAJAT GUPTA | IIT-Delhi | 1967 | Managing Partner, McKinsey & Co. |
| Rajesh Jain | Bombay | 1984 | MD, Netcore Solutions, Founder, IndiaWorld |
| Rajinder Singh | Madras | 1967 | Noted spiritual leader and winner of Colombia’s highest award medal of golden cross. |
| RAKESH GANGWAL | IIT-Kanpur | 1975 | CEO and President, US Airways |
| Ramanathan V. Guha | Madras | 1989 | Invented RSS |
| Ramani Ayer | Bombay | 1969 | CEO of The Hartford |
| Ramesh Agarwal | Bombay | 1968 | IBM Fellow, T.J. Watson Research Center IBM |
| ROMESH WADHWANI | IIT-Bombay | 1969 | CEO, founder, Aspect Development |
| Sundar Pichai | Kharagpur | 1993 | Senior VP, Google |
| SHAILESH MEHTA | IIT-Bombay | 1971 | Chairman, CEO, Providian Financial |
| Shrinivas Kulkarni | Delhi (M.Sc) | 1978 | Astrophysicist, professor at Caltech |
| Srikumar Banerjee | Kharagpur | 1967 | Director, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, (BARC), Trombay |
| Subrah Iyar | Bombay | ? | CEO WebEx Communications |
| SUHAS PATIL | IIT-Kharagpur | 1965 | Founder, chip designer Cirrus Logic |
| UMANG GUPTA | IIT-Kanpur | 1971 | Founder, Gupta Corp. and Keynote Systems |
| VENKY HARINARAYAN, RAKESH MATHUR, ANAND RAJARAMAN, ASHISH GUPTA | IIT-Madras,Bombay, Kanpur | 1978-1993 | Cofounders, internet browser Junglee.com |
| VICTOR J. MENEZES | IIT-Bombay | 1970 | Co-CEO, Corporate & Investment Banking, Citigroup |
| Vikrant Bhargava | Delhi | 1994 | Co-Founder,Partygaming |
| VINOD GUPTA | IIT-Kharagpur | 1967 | Founder, database American Business Information |
| VINOD KHOSLA | IIT-Delhi | 1976 | Partner, Kleiner Perkins. Co-founder, Sun Microsystems |
| V. C. Kulandaiswamy | Kharagpur (M. Tech.) | 1956 | Padma Shri (1992) and Padma Bhushan (2002) |
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