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Can you list me the names of some of the Notable Alumni of IITR (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee)?

[Vishal Kotkar]

The names of some of the Notable Alumni of IITR (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee) are as follows:

Nilmani Mitra (1828–1894), 19th century architect, designer of several palaces in Kolkata

Henry Benedict Medlicott (1829–1905), Irish geologist and professor of geology

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

Allan Joseph Champneys Cunningham (1842–1928), number theorist, formulated Mersenne numbers and Fermat numbers

Lala Deen Dayal (1844–1905), photographer to the Viceroy of India and Nizam of Hyderabad, received the Royal Warrant from Queen Victoria in 1897

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

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'

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

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 — Padma Vibhushan, awarded in 1977, served as Member of the Planning Commission, Governor of Orissa, President of National Science Academy and Vice Chancellor of the University of Roorkee (now IIT Roorkee)

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

Ghananand Pande (1902–1995), Chairman of Indian Railways in 1954 and Chairman of Hindustan Steels, awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 1969

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, served as Vice Chancellor of the University of Roorkee in 1969

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

A. S. Arya (born c.1931), National Seismic advisor and Padma Shri awardee

G. D. Agrawal (born 1932), eminent environmental engineer, Save Ganga activist and former Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at IIT Kanpur, notable for his successful fast in 2009 to stop the damming of the Bhagirathi River

Digvijai Singh (born 1934), chemical engineer, former vice chancellor of University of Roorkee, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate

Ashok Soota (born 1942), founder of Happiest Minds Technologies, co-founder of Mindtree, ex-President of Wipro Infotech

Narendra Patni (1943–2014), founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Patni Computer Systems

Pradip Baijal (born c.1944), IAS and former chairman Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)

Sri Niwas, (1946–2012) geophysicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
Vinita Gupta (born 1949), founder, CEO of Quick Eagle Networks and first Indian-origin-woman to take her company public

Anirudh Agarwal (born 1949), Indian character actor

Rakesh Agrawal (born 1954), Member, National Academy of Engineering, ex-Microsoft Fellow and ex-IBM fellow widely known as the 'Father of Data Mining'

Shyam Sundar Rai, (born 1954) seismologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
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; 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

Sumit Jain (13 June 1984), co-founder and CEO of Indian real estate portal Commonfloor.com

Sachin Gupta, graduated in 2012 from Computer Science department, founder of HackerEarth.

Nirmaljeet Singh Kalsi, IAS, graduated in Electrical Engineering, currently working as Additional Chief Secretary (Development), Government of Punjab.