List of notable BITS Pilani Alumni[1]
| Name | Category | Achievement | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baba Kalyani[2] | Corporate | Chairman, Bharat Forge | 1965-1970 |
| Vijay Chandru | Corporate | Cofounder & CEO, Strand Life Sciences; Inventor of Simputer | 1975 |
| Prithviraj Chavan[3] | Government Institutions | Chief Minister of Maharashtra | ? |
| Gulu L. Mirchandani | Corporate | Founder and CEO of Onida Electronics | 1965-1970 |
| B. Sandhya | Government Institutions | Police Officer and Author | ? |
| Rajesh Hukku | Corporate | Chairman & CEO, i-flex Solutions - Named Star of Asia, Businessweek 2003 | ? |
| Vivek Paul | Corporate | Partner, Texas Pacific Group, Ex-Vice Chairman,Wipro Ltd. CEO, Wipro Technologies. Named one of the world's 10 best managers by Businessweek(2003), Also Named 2004 Business influentials by Time | ? |
| SK Roongta | Corporate | Chairman, Steel Authority of India Ltd. | ? |
| Saket Agarwal | Corporate | CEO, Cellebrum Technologies Limited | 1988-93 |
| Vinod Agarwal | Entrepreneur | Founder & Chairman, SEMINDIA, India's first semiconductor fab.Founder & Former Chairman, LogicVision ($100 million NASDAQ traded company: LGVN) | 1968-73 |
| Rajiv Bapna | Entrepreneur | Founder, Director of AMKETTE, a storage media company | ? |
| Sabeer Bhatia | Entrepreneur | Founder of Hotmail (sold to Microsoft for $400 million), joined Caltech after two years of study in BITS Pilani | ? |
| Mukesh Chatter | Entrepreneur | Founder, Axiowave (now defunct). Founder, Nexabit (sold to Lucent for $900 million, but Nexabit was never deployed by customers.) | ? |
| Ajay Chopra | Entrepreneur | Founder & Chairman, Pinnacle Systems, A $350 million company (NASDAQ: PCLE) sold to Avid Technology Inc.(NASDAQ: AVID) in 2005 | ? |
| Prof. S. P. Kothari | Educators/Researchers | Head of Dept of Economics, Finance & Accounting, MIT Sloan School of Management | ? |
| Prof. Kartik Hosanagar[4] | Corporate & Academic | Chairman, Yodle, Inc, Professor, Wharton School of Business | 1994-1999 |
| Prof. Krishna Saraswat | Educators/Researchers | Stanford University | ? |
| Prof. Arun Somani | Educators/Researchers | Jerry R. Junkins Endowed Chair Professor, Iowa State University | ? |
| Prof. Srinivasan Ramasubramanian | Educators/Researchers | University of Arizona | 1993-1997 |
| Prof. Ravi Gomatam | Educator/Researcher | Director of Bhaktivedanta Institute[5] and Institute for Semantic Information Sciences and Technology,[6] Berkeley, and Mumbai | ? |
| Dilip D'Souza | Writers | Writer of social causes | 1976-1981 |
| Shashi Warrier | Artists/Entertainers | Writer of Fiction | ? |
| Anu Haasan | Artists/Entertainers | Actress, Tamil/Telugu Movie, TV Show host | 1993-2009 |
| Kanika | Artists/Entertainers | Actress, Tamil/Telugu/Kannada/Malayalam Movies, TV Show host | 1999-2010 |
| Mani Shankar | Artists/Entertainers | Director, Indian Movies | ? |
| Padmini Chettur | Artists/Entertainers | Dancer | 1987-1991 |
| Deendayal Upadhyaya | Politician | Founder of BJP | |
| Nanaji Deshmukh | Social Activist and politician | RSS functionary | |
| Ashok Pandey | Film Producer | Producer of Phas Gaye Re Obama | 1974-1979 |
| Manoj Gaur | Chairman | Jaiprakash Associates, Flagship of the Jaypee Group | |
| Raj Kishor Pareek | Corporate | Regional Technical Head, DLF,Gurgaon |