List of alumni of St. Stephen's College, Delhi

An alumnus of St Stephen's College, Delhi is also called a Stephanian. Alumni of the college include distinguished people from various fields, including several Members of Parliament (MP) in India, as well as the Presidents of three countries. The names in this list are presented in alphabetical order of surname/family name. This is not an exhaustive list.

Politics and government

• Arun Maira, member of the Planning Commission
• Arun Shourie, journalist and economist with the World Bank^[1]
• Arvind Virmani, former Chief Economic Adviser to Government of India
• Asaf Ali, Indian ambassador to USA, Governor of Odisha^[2][3]
• Chhotu Ram, pre-partition politician, knighted in 1937^[4]
• Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, former President of India^[5]
• Gopalkrishna Gandhi, former Governor of West Bengal^[6]
• Indrajit Gupta, former MP and Home Minister of India^[7]
• Jarbom Gamlin, former Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh
• Kapil Sibal, MP, former Law Minister of India^[8]
• Kaushik Basu, economist; Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank; former CEA to the Government^[9]
• Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain, highest ranking Muslim officer of the Indian Army
• Mani Shankar Aiyar, MP, former Cabinet Minister^[10]
• Montek Singh Ahluwalia, economist; Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission; former Finance Secretary^[11]
• Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, former President of Pakistan^[12]
• Natwar Singh, MP, former Foreign Minister of India^[13]
• Prajapati Trivedi, economist and first Secretary, Performance Management Division, Cabinet Secretariat^[14][15]
• Pulok Chatterji, IAS, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India (2011-2014)
• Rahul Gandhi, MP, Vice President Congress^[16]
• Ranjib Biswal, Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
• Sachin Pilot, former Union Minister
• Salman Khurshid, MP, External Affairs Minister, former Law Minister^[17]
• Sandeep Dikshit, MP^[18]
• Shashi Tharoor, MP, former Minister of State, former Under-Secretary-General of the UN^[17]
• Vijayendra Nath Kaul, former Comptroller and Auditor General^[19][20] of India^[21] (2002-2008)^[22]
• Virbhadra Singh, Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh
• Merin Joseph, Indian Police Service

Business

• Ajaypal Singh Banga, CEO of MasterCard
• Ivan Menezes, CEO of Diageo^[23]
• Piyush Pandey, Executive Chairman and National Creative Director, Ogilvy and Mather India
• Vipul Ved Prakash, Internet entrepreneur
• Madan Mohan Sabharwal, Business executive, social worker and Padma Shri awardee^[24]
• Sanjeev Bikhchandani, founder of Naukri.com
• Amit Kumar, Managing Director Accenture
• Siddhartha Lal, CEO, Eicher Motors
• Chetan Chawla , Chawla Chole wale

Theatre and cinema

• Kabir Bedi, actor^[25]
• Konkana Sen Sharma, actor^[26]
• Richa Chadda, Bollywood actress
• Safdar Hashmi, founding member of Jana Natya Manch^[27]
• Siddhartha Basu, quiz master
• Suraj Sharma, actor^[28]

Writers, poets, artists and critics

• Amitav Ghosh, author^[29]
• Janice Pariat, author^[30]
• Khushwant Singh, author
• Mammen Mathew, Chief Editor of the Malayala Manorama, Padma Shri awardee
• Mukul Kesavan
• Rajiv Malhotra, author, philanthropist, intellectual, writer; speaker on current affairs, world religions and cross cultural interactions between East and West^[31]
• Rajmohan Gandhi, biographer^[32][33]
• Ramachandra Guha, author
• Ramkumar Verma, Hindi poet^[34]
• Yashica Dutt, writer^[35]
• Upamanyu Chatterjee, IAS, author

Art

• Rajeev Sethi, art curator, scenographer, designer

Science and academics

• Amrita Narlikar, reader ininternational political economy at the University of Cambridge^[36]
• Maroof Raza, defence analyst, writer, educationalist
• V. Balakrishnan, theoretical physics

Media and journalism

• Ajit Bhattacharjea (1924-2011), newspaper editor, The Hindustan Times, The Times of India and The Indian Express^[37]
• George Verghese, editor of The Hindustan Times and The Indian Express, winner of the Ramon Magsaysay Award
• Swapan Dasgupta, senior journalist and political columnist^[38]
• Barkha Dutt, television journalist, columnist, group editor with NDTV^[39][40]
• David Devadas, journalist, writer and columnist. An expert on Kashmir conflict, known for critically acclaimed book In_Search_of_a_Future:_The_Story_of_Kashmir
• Sagarika Ghose^[41]
• Satish Jacob, veteran journalist and writer
• Siddharth Kak, documentary filmmaker and creator of TV show Surabhi^[42][43]
• Anup Kutty, chief editor, Maxim India^[44]
• Arun Shourie^[45]
• Avantika Vishwanathan, senior journalist and political columnist
• Parag Kumar Das, Human rights activist and Assamese journalist assassinated in 1996
• Shereen Bhan, Managing Editor of CNBC-TV18 and World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders 2009
• Sonia Singh, Editorial Director of NDTV ^[46]

Sports

• Ranjib Biswal, (President) Odisha Cricket Association
• George Abraham, founder of World Blind Cricket Council^[47]
• Unmukt Chand, cricketer^[28]

References

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8. India's Changing Innovative System. p. 182.
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27. "Safdar Hashmi". Sahmat. Retrieved 29 Oct 2013.
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33. Guha, Ramachandra (6 October 2009). "Hardselling Gandhi®". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 13 August 2013. In 20 years of studying Gandhi, I have had as friends and advisers, three brothers who grew up in a flat in Connaught Place owned by the Hindustan Times (of which paper their father was then the editor). They all went to the same school (Modern) and college (St Stephen’s), and all had a deep scholarly interest in the life and legacy of Gandhi
34. Bhattacharjea, Aditya and Chatterji, Lola (2000). The Fiction of St. Stephen. pp. xviii. ISBN 9788175300309.
35. http://www.huffingtonpost.in/yashica-dutt-/so-you-want-to-meaningful_b_9129308.html
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43. Jaitly, Ashok (2006). St. Stephen's College: a history. Lotus Collection, Roli Books. p. 82. ISBN 8174364439.
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45. "Tehelka - India's Independent Weekly News Magazine". Tehelka - India's Independent Weekly News Magazine. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
46. "Reunion 2011" (PDF). St. Stephen's College, Delhi. Retrieved 19 February 2016.
47. Madhumita Puri, George Abraham (2004). Handbook of Inclusive Education for Educators, Administrators and Planners. p. 301. ISBN 9780761932666.

External links

• Official Alumni List