Pichai was born on June 10, 1972^[8][9][10] in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India,^[11][6][12] to a Hindu Tamil Brahmin family.^[13][14] His mother, Lakshmi, was a stenographer, and his father, Regunatha Pichai, was an electrical engineer at GEC, the British conglomerate.^[15][16]