Vice Admiral Atul Kumar Jain PVSM, AVSM, VSM is a retired Indian naval officer who served as the 2nd Vice Chief of Defence Staff of India.

Previously, he served as Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Naval Command of the Indian Navy.

[2][3] He was commissioned in the Indian Navy in July 1982.

He is an alumnus of Sainik School Rewa; National Defence Academy (Pune); the Defence Services Staff College; the College of Naval Warfare (Mumbai) and the National Defence College (Pretoria, South Africa).

He is a graduate from Jawaharlal Nehru University and has received his Masters in Defence and Strategic Studies from Madras University.