Narayana Murthy was born on 20 August 1946 in Shidlaghatta, Chikkaballapura district, Karnataka[16] into a middle-class Brahmin family.[17] After completing his school education, he went to the National Institute of Engineering and graduated in 1967 with a degree in Electrical Engineering. In 1969 he received his master's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.[18][19]