sunil bharti mittal was born in punjabi family. his father, sat paul mittal, had been the member of parliament, rajya sabha (indian national congress) from ludhiana, punjab, he was elected from punjab for two terms (1976 & 1982) and nominated to the rajya sabha once (1988). he first joined the wynberg allen school in mussoorie, but later attended scindia school at gwalior and he graduated in 1976 from panjab university, chandigarh, with a bachelor of arts and science for which he studied in arya college, ludhiana. his father died of cardiac arrest in 1992.