Who are the most famous/distinguished alumni who have graduated IIT Roorkee?

IIT Roorkee has produced many successful and accomplished alumni over the years.

Some of the most notable and distinguished IIT Roorkee alumni include:

• Sir Ganga Ram, a leading philanthropist and a Civil engineer by profession, supervised buildings in Punjab, also known as the ‘Father of modern Lahore’
• Pradip Baijal, IAS and former chairman Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)
• Naveen Jain, founder and CEO of Intelius, founder of Moon Express, InfoSpace
• Ajit Gupta, founder, CEO of Aryaka; founder, chairman of AAyuja; founder, ex-CEO of Speedera; founder, chairman of Jantakhoj
• Vinita Gupta, founder, CEO of Quick Eagle Networks and first Indian women to make her company public
• Nilmani Mitra, a well known 19th century, architect who designed many magnificent palaces in Kolkata
• Dinesh Paliwal, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Harman International Industries
• Narendra Patni, founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Patni Computer Systems
• Ashok Soota, founder of Happiest Minds Technologies, co-founder of MindTree, ex-president of Wipro Infotech
• Jaiprakash Gaur, founder chairman of Jaiprakash Associates and Jaypee Group of companies. Ranked by Forbes magazine as the 48th-richest person in India.
• G. D. Agrawal, is the leader of environmental engineers in India. He was responsible for protesting against the damming of the Bhagirathi River through his rigorous fasting
• Rakesh Agrawal can rightly be called the father of data mining and right now he is the head of search labs at Microsoft Research
• Amit Singhal heads Google's core search ranking team

All these successful alumni raise the institutes to flag high and are sources of constant motivation for many.