Anurag Kashyap (born November 23, 1991) was the winner of the 2005 Scripps National Spelling Bee.
[2] In the 19th round of the 2005 Scripps National Spelling Bee, 13-year-old eighth-grader Kashyap successfully spelled the word appoggiatura, which is defined as "a note of embellishment preceding another note and taking a portion of its time.
Kashyap graduated from Rancho Bernardo High School in San Diego, California in 2010, and had also studied at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, first as a summer intern with Inder Verma doing stem cell research in 2008.
[4] He enrolled at MIT with intentions to study biological sciences,[1] graduated with a Bachelor's in 2015, and got his Master of Engineering in 2016.
[5] Kashyap returned to competitive quizzing in adulthood, and won the Mimir's Well Carnation championship in May 2022.