I whanau a Pichai i Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India i roto i te whanau Tamil. Ko tana whaea ko Lakshmi he stenographer me tana papa, ko Regunatha Pichai he miihini hiko i te GEC, te konglomerate o Ingarangi. Ko tana papa ano he tipu whakangao e whakaputa ana i nga waahanga hiko. I tipu ake a Pichai i roto i te ruuma e rua-ruuma i Ashok Nagar, Chennai. I whakaotihia e Pichai tana kura i Jawahar Vidya Vidyalaya, he poari o te kura tuarua o te kura tuarua i Ashok Nagar, Chennai ka whakaoti i te akomanga XII mai i te kura Vana Vani i te Indian Institute of Technology o Madras. I whiwhi ia i tana tohu mai i te Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur i roto i te hangarau whakarewa. He akonga rongonui ia i tenei wa. Kei a ia te MS mai i te Stanford i nga rauemi me te hangarau, me te MBA mai i te Wharton School o te Whare Wananga o Pennsylvania, i reira i whanau ai a Pichai.
Ko te reo Tamil