These are the top rank holders of the IIT-JEE over the past years.

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Year	Topper	City/State	Zone	Joining Course/Institute
2012	[[]][1]
2011	Immadi Prudhvi Tej[2]	Dwaraka Tirumala	Madras	Electrical engineering/IIT Bombay
2010	Anumula Jithender Reddy[3]	Warangal	Madras	Electrical engineering/IIT Bombay
2009	Nitin Jain[4]	Faridabad	Delhi	Computer Science/IIT Delhi
2008	Shitikanth[5]	Patna,Bihar	Bombay	Computer Science/IIT Kanpur
2007	Achin Bansal[6]	Punjab	Delhi	Computer Science/IIT Bombay
2006	Raghu Mahajan[7]	Chandigarh	Delhi	Computer Science/IIT Delhi/MIT Physics/Cambridge[7]
2005	Piyush Srivastava [8]	Allahabad	Kanpur	Computer Science/IIT Kanpur/UC Berkeley
2004	Sushant Sachdeva[9]	Pune	Bombay	Computer Science/IIT Bombay/Princeton(PhD under Sanjeev Arora)
2003	Shashank S. Dwivedi[10]	Bhilai,chhattisgarh	Kharagpur	Electrical engineering/IIT Bombay
2002	Dungra Ram Chowdhary[11]	Kota		Computer Science/IIT Kanpur/Software company in Bengaluru
2001	Arvind Thiagarajan[10]	Chennai	Madras	Computer Science/IIT Madras/MIT
2000	Nitin Gupta[10]	Bharatpur		Computer Science/IIT Kanpur
1999	Vineet Goyal[12]	Kanpur		Computer Science/IIT Delhi. Now faculty at Columbia University[12]
1998	Abhinav Kumar[10]	Jamshedpur		Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science/MIT & PhD in Mathematics/Harvard. Now MIT Maths faculty
1997	Arvind Saraf[13]	Surat		Computer Science/IIT Kanpur/MIT. Now involved in social service in India, with Swasth Foundation as a Trustee[14]
1996	Prasanna Ganesan[13]	Madras	Madras	Computer Science/IIT Madras/Stanford[15]
1995	Subhash Ajit Khot[10]	New Delhi		Computer Science/IIT Bombay/Princeton (PhD under Sanjeev Arora). Now faculty at NYU.
1994	Munagala V. Kameshwar[10]	Bhopal		Computer Science/IIT Bombay/Stanford. Now faculty at Duke University
1993	Prasoon Kumar kharwar[10]	B.S. City, Jharkhand	Kharagpur	Computer Science/IIT Kanpur. Now Senior Technical Architect at JUSTDIAL[16]
1992	Anil Kumar Ruia[10]	Renukoot, UP		Computer Science/IIT Bombay
1991	Rina Panigrahy[10]	Bombay	Bombay	Computer Science/IIT Bombay/Stanford. Now at Microsoft Research[17]
1990	Ashish Goel[10]	Lucknow	Kanpur	Computer Science/IIT Kanpur/Stanford. Now faculty at Stanford MS&E[18]
1989	Vineet Buch[13]	Bhopal		Computer Science/IIT Kanpur/Cornell. Now Bay Area entrepreneur[19]
1988	A. Raghava Chari[10]	Kolkata		Physics, Maths/Caltech, Ph.D Physics/Princeton, currently Senior Vice President/Dr.Reddy Labs Ltd.
1987	Rajesh Gopakumar[13]	Kolkata	Kharagpur	Physics/IIT Kanpur/Princeton. Now faculty at Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad[20]
1986	Sanjeev Arora[21]	Kota	Bombay	Computer Science/IIT Kanpur[22], transferred after two years to MIT, Mathematics, Computer Science/Ph.D from UC Berkeley. Now faculty at Princeton CS[21]
1985	Vineet Gupta[10]	Chandigarh		Computer Science/IIT Kanpur/Stanford. Now at Google[23]
1984	Navin Budhiraja[10]	Bhilai, Chhattisgarh	Kharagpur	Computer Science/IIT Kanpur/Ph.D from Cornell[24]
1983	R.S. Sundaresh[10]	Madras		Computer Science/IIT Madras/Yale.
1982	Sunil Arya	Delhi		Computer Science/IIT Kanpur/UMCP. Now faculty at Hong Kong Univ./CSE.
1981	Sanjiva Prasad	Delhi		Computer Science/IIT Kanpur/Ph.D from SUNY. Now faculty at IIT Delhi/CSE.
1980	Pandurang Nayak	Bombay		Computer Science/IIT Bombay/Stanford. Now at Google.
1979	Joy A Thomas	Trivandrum		Electrical Engg/IIT Madras/Stanford. Now Chief Scientist at InsightsOne/San Francisco Bay Area
1973	Narendra Karmarkar	Bombay		Electrical engineering/IIT Bombay/Caltech/Ph.D in Computer Science from UC Berkeley/Bell Labs/TIFR, Mumbai/Now in Pune
1969	Rajan Modi	Bombay		Electrical engineering/IIT Bombay
1962	V D Hattangadi	Bombay