Scientists / Inventors / Engineers / Doctors
Ancient times to 19th century
- Madhav (8th century A.D.), medical text author and systematizer
- Abhay Ashtekar, loop quantum gravity researcher
- Amartya Sen, economist, Nobel Prize winner
- Anil Kakodkar, nuclear scientist, Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission
- Kalpana Chawla, astronaut
- Sunita Williams, astronaut
- Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, 1930 Nobel Prize Winner in Physics
- R. Chidambaram, Scientific Adviser to Prime Minister; ex-Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission
- Ganapathi Thanikaimoni, palynologist, French Institute of Pondicherry, awarded the Fyson Prize in Natural Science
- Jagadish Chandra Bose, father of radio science
- Marti Subrahmanyam, finance expert, professor at NYU
- C.K. Prahalad, management expert at University of Michigan Business School
- V.S. Ramachandran, neuroscientist, Director Professor at UC San Diego
- S.S. Ratnam, pioneer in Singapore in-vitro fertilisation
- S.R. Ranganathan, devised the five laws of library science
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, 1983 Nobel Prize Winner in Physics
Information Technology
- Ajay Bhatt, co-inventor of USB
- Sabeer Bhatia, co-founder of Hotmail
- Vinod Dham, designed Intel's Pentium processor
- Vinod Khosla, Co-founder of Sun Microsystems, venture capitalist & an influential personality in Silicon Valley.
- N. R. Narayana Murthy, Software engineer & Indian industrialist. He is the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Infosys Technologies Limited.
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