This may or may not mean anything to some people, but Sanjeev Arora is one of the few people who scored rank #1 in India's IIT JEE (1986) (joint entrance exam for the prestigious IITs) [1]

It's a little factoid stuck in my brain since I was a kid.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjeev_Arora_(computer_scient...

Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach

That first bit is helpful to understanding what this is linking to.