Rohan Murty Age, Girlfriend, Wife, Family, Biography & More

Bio/Wiki
Full Name	Rohan Narayana Murty
Profession	Entrepreneur
Famous For	Being the son of N. R. Narayana Murthy, Infosys co-founder
Physical Stats & More
Height (approx.)	in centimeters- 170 cm in meters- 1.7 m in feet & inches- 5’ 7”
Eye Colour	Black
Hair Colour	Black
Personal Life
Date of Birth	Year, 1983
Age (as of 2024)	41 Years
Birthplace	Hubli, Karnataka
Nationality	Indian
Hometown	Bangalore (now Bengaluru), Karnataka
School	Bishop Cotton Boy’s School, Bangalore
College/University	• Cornell University, New York • Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
Educational Qualification(s)	• Graduation in Computer Science • PhD in Computer Engineering [1]The Hindu Business Life
Hobbies	Reading Books, Dancing, and Travelling
Relationships & More
Marital Status	Married
Affairs/Girlfriends	• Lakshmi Venu (Daughter of TVS Motors Chairman) • Aparna Krishnan
Marriage Date	• First Marriage: Year 2011 • Second Marriage: 2 December 2019
Family
Wife/Spouse	• First Wife: Lakshmi Venu (2011-2013) • Second Wife: Aparna Krishnan
Children	Son- Ekagrah Rohan Murty (born in November 2023 - from his second wife, Aparna Krishnan)
Parents	Father- N. R. Narayana Murthy Mother- Sudha Murthy
Siblings	Sister- Akshata Murty
Favourites
Comedian	Don Rickles
Singer(s)	Shania Twain, Michael Jackson, and Elton John
Music Bands(s)	Led Zeppelin and Guns N’ Roses
Cartoon Character(s)	Tom and Jerry
Superhero	Superman
Money Factor
Net Worth (approx.)	$500 million (2019) [2]Livemint

Some Lesser Known Facts About Rohan Murty 

• Rohan Murty is the son of N. R. Narayana Murthy, co-founder of Infosys.

• He is the founder of the Murty Classical Library of India.

• In his childhood, he suffered from infantile eczema, an allergy to vaccinations.
  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy with Rohan and Akshata

• He completed his schooling from Bangalore. On his official Harvard homepage, he has written,

I don’t remember much from the early years but a bunch of us studied Kannada in middle and senior schools. I attended senior school with an auto-driver, a cricketer, a giraffe, a senior mug pot, another mug pot, a pianist, a geek, a brainiac, a Bong, a lawyer and a pilot.”

• Rohan has been an avid programming enthusiast.

• After completing his graduation, he did PhD which was supported by Siebel Scholars Fellowship and Microsoft Research Fellowship. His PhD thesis on the use of white space (spectrum) is considered as path-breaking research.

• In 2010, Rohan founded the ‘Murty Classical Library of India’ to reintroduce the Indian literary work to the new generation. It was in the continuation of the Clay Sanskrit Library Project headed by Sheldon Pollock.

• In 2011, he got married to Lakshmi Venu but due to some personal issues, they got divorced in 2015. One of their close friends said in an interview,

They are both lovely people. They came together and then some differences cropped up. These things happen. They have now gone their separate ways. Hopefully with this behind them they will both move on and find life partners who are more suited for them.”

• He has been working with Catamaran Ventures, a $127-million venture capital.

• He started working as an executive assistant to his father in June 2013, later, designated as the Vice President of Infosys.

• On 14 June 2014, his father stepped down from the designation of the Executive Chairman. Rohan left the company on the same day.

• He spells his surname different from his father and removes ‘h’ from Murthy.

• He is a dog lover and owns a dog, Gopi.
  

  Rohan Murty with His Dog Gopi

• In 2016, a petition was filed to remove Sheldon Pollock from the position of the Chief editor of the Murty Classical Library, which Rohan rejected.

• Rohan dated Aparna Krishnan for almost three years, the couple announced their marriage to be held on 2 December 2019 in Bengaluru.