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.

Politicians, judges and bureaucrats

• Montek Singh Ahluwalia, economist; Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission; former Finance Secretary[1]

• Javeed Ahmad, IPS, Director of National Institute of Criminology and Forensic Sciences, and former Director General of Uttar Pradesh Police.[2][3]

• Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (1905-1977), former President of India[4]

• Nuruddin Ahmed (1904-1975), barrister, three-time Mayor of Delhi and Padma Bhushan recipient

• Mani Shankar Aiyar, MP, former Cabinet Minister[5]

• Asaf Ali (1888-1953), Indian ambassador to the US, Governor of Odisha[6][7]
• Parvez Dewan ,well known officer of Indian Administrative Services.
• Pratyaya Amrit, IAS, Principal Secretary in Government of Bihar[8]

• Kaushik Basu, economist; Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank; former CEA to the Government[9]
  

  Kaushik Basu

• Jaimini Bhagwati, IFS officer and World bank economist.

• Ranjib Biswal, Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha

• Amir Chand Bombwal, freedom fighter

• Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud, Judge, Supreme Court of India[10]

• Pulok Chatterji, IAS, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India (2011-2014)

• Navin Chawla, former chief election commissioner of India

• Shaktikanta Das, 25th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.[11]

• Swapan Dasgupta, Rajya Sabha MP

• Parvez Dewan,well known IAS officer.

• Sandeep Dikshit, MP[12]

• Jarbom Gamlin (1961-2014), former Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh

• Gopalkrishna Gandhi, IAS, former Governor of West Bengal[13]

• Rahul Gandhi, MP, President Congress[11]

• Ranjan Gogoi, 46th Chief Justice of India (2018–2019)[14][11]
  

  Ranjan Gogoi

• Vijay Keshav Gokhale, IFS, the current and 32nd Foreign Secretary of India

• Indrajit Gupta (1919-2001), former MP and Home Minister of India[15]

• Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain, high ranking officer of the Indian Army

• Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, IFS, Foreign Secretary of India, current External Affairs Minister of India

• Ajay Narayan Jha, former Finance Secretary and member of Fifteenth Finance Commission[11]
• Najeeb Jung, former lieutenant governor of Delhi.

• Ashok Kamte (1965-2008), officer of Indian Police Services,killed in action during 26/11 attack.

• Amitabh Kant, CEO of NITI Aayog (2016–incumbent)[11]

• Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Judge, Supreme Court of India[16]

• Vijayendra Nath Kaul, former Comptroller and Auditor General of India (2002-2008)[17]

• Amit Khare, IAS, Principal Secretary (Finance), Government of Jharkhand

• Salman Khurshid, Ex MP, External Affairs Minister, former Law Minister

• Ashwani Kumar, former additional solicitor general of India, Rajya Sabha MP
  

  Ashwani Kumar

• Madan Lokur, Judge, Supreme Court of India[18]

• Arun Maira, member of the Planning Commission

• Atishi Marlena, member of the Political Affairs Committee of Aam Aadmi Party

• Ved Marwah, Notable Officer of IPS
• Rajiv Mehrishi, IAS, Current Comptroller and Auditor General of India, former Home Secretary and Finance Secretary of India.[11]

• Shivshankar Menon, IFS, former National Security Adviser of India(17 January 2011 – 28 May 2014)

• Chandan Mitra, EX-Rajya Sabha MP

• Nirmal Kumar Mukarji, Well known officer of ICS

• Vinay Sheel Oberoi, notable IAS officer

• Armstrong Pame, well known IAS officer, famously called the 'Miracle Man'.

• Naveen Patnaik, 14th Chief Minister of Odisha (2000–incumbent)[11]

• Sachin Pilot, Deputy Chief Minister, Rajasthan[11]
  

  Sachin Pilot

• Chhotu Ram (1881-1945), pre-partition politician, knighted in 1937[19]
• Ajit Seth,30th Cabinet Secretary of India.
• Kamlesh Sharma, notable IFS officer

• Arun Shourie, journalist and economist with the World Bank[20]

• Harsh Vardhan Shringla, an IFS officer and the current Indian Ambassador to the United States

• Kapil Sibal, MP, former Law Minister of India[21]
• A P Singh, former director of CBI

• Alwyn Didar Singh, a former civil servant and former secretary general of FCCCI.

• Natwar Singh, MP, former Foreign Minister of India[22]

• R.K. Singh, IAS, former Home Secretary to the Government of India,[23] Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Power and Renewable Energy, Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.

• Virbhadra Singh, Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh

• Pradeep Kumar Sinha, IAS, Cabinet Secretary of India[24]

• Arvind Subramanian, Chief Economic Adviser to Government of India

• Shashi Tharoor, MP, former Minister of State, former Under-Secretary-General of the UN[11]

Shashi Tharoor

• Prajapati Trivedi, economist and first Secretary, Performance Management Division, Cabinet Secretariat[25]

• Alok Verma, Former Director of Central Bureau of Investigation[11]

• Arvind Virmani, former Chief Economic Adviser to Government of India

• Sitaram Yechuri, General Secretary of Communist Party of India (Marxist)[11]

• Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (1924-1988), former President of Pakistan[11]

Business

• Rahul Bajaj, Chairman, Bajaj Group[26]
  

  Rahul Bajaj
• Ajaypal Singh Banga, CEO of MasterCard
• Sanjeev Bikhchandani, founder of Naukri.com
• Piyush Gupta, CEO, DBS Bank
• Siddhartha Lal, CEO, Eicher Motors
• Ivan Menezes, CEO of Diageo[27]
• Piyush Pandey, Executive Chairman and Creative Director, Ogilvy and Mather India and South Asia
• Vipul Ved Prakash, Internet entrepreneur and co-founder of Topsy and Cloudmark
• Madan Mohan Sabharwal, business executive, social worker and Padma Shri awardee[28]
• Malvinder Mohan Singh, Co-founder, Fortis Healthcare[29]
• Shivinder Mohan Singh, Co-founder, Fortis Healthcare[30]
• Shradha Sharma, Founder & CEO yourstory.com
• Niren Chaudhary, CEO Panera Bread[31]
• Raghav Bahl,former executive at network 18

Performing arts

• Siddhartha Basu, quiz master
• Kabir Bedi, actor[32]
  

  Kabir Bedi
• Richa Chadha, actress
• Safdar Hashmi, founding member of Jana Natya Manch[33]
• Shekhar Kapur, director and producer
• Arunima Kumar, kuchipudi dancer
• Raam Reddy, director, Thithi
• Roshan Seth, actor
• Konkana Sen Sharma, actor[34]
• Suraj Sharma, actor[35] (did not graduate)

Writers, poets, artists and critics

• Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi (1908-1985), Indian Islamic scholar, served St. Stephen's College, Delhi as lecturer in his career.
• Upamanyu Chatterjee, IAS, author
• Kanika Dhillon, author and screenwriter

• Yashica Dutt, writer[36]
• Rajmohan Gandhi, biographer[37][38]
• Amitav Ghosh, author
• Ramachandra Guha, author
  

  Ramachandra Guha
• Mukul Kesavan
• Rajiv Malhotra, author, philanthropist, intellectual, writer; speaker on current affairs, world religions and cross cultural interactions between East and West[39]
• Mammen Mathew, Chief Editor of the Malayala Manorama, Padma Shri awardee
• Janice Pariat, author[40]
• Prem Behari Narain Raizada, calligrapher and writer of the Constitution of India
• Raam Reddy, author, filmmaker
• Jaideep Saikia, author
• Raja Pandit, educationist and advocate
• Khushwant Singh (1915-2014), author[11]
• Satyarth Nayak, Author of Sridevi - The Eternal Screen Goddess and The Emperor's Riddles and Screenwriter for Sony TV epic historical series Porus
• Ramkumar Verma (1905-1990), Hindi poet[41]

Art

• Shakti Maira,[42] artist, sculptor, writer
• Rajeev Sethi, art curator, scenographer, designer

Science and academics

Some of the topmost researchers of the country at institutions like TIFR, JNCASR, IISc, IISERs are Stephanians.

• V. Balakrishnan, Theoretical physicist[43]
• Suraj N. Gupta, Theoretical physicist
• Deepak Kumar (1946-2016), Celebrated physicist & Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
• Divya Dwivedi, Noted Philosopher
  

  Divya Dwivedi
• Satish Chandra Maheshwari (1933-2019), Molecular biologist & Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize recipient
• Shaj Mohan, Celebrated Philosopher
• Amrita Narlikar,
• Sanjay Jain,Reader in international political economy at the University of Cambridge[44]
• Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman, Computer pioneer & Padma Bhushan recipient
• Maroof Raza, Defence analyst, writer & educationalist
• Anupam Saikia, Noted mathematician[45]
• Sanjay Jain, British Economist
• Pradeep Dubey, Game theorist and professor at Yale
• Pran Nath, Noted particle physicist.
• Shailendra Raj Mehta, President & Director of MICA
• Deepak Nayyar, Professor of Economics at JNU
• Arvind Virmani, Noted Economist
• Mihir Shah, Member of erstwhile planning commission
• Rohini Pande, a well known economist in the field of developmental economics
• Abhijit Sen, Former member of planning commission
• Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Benjamin Pierce Research Professor of Technology and Public Policy at Harvard University [46]
• Rajiv Kumar, noted economist
• Yamini Aiyar, well known economist and academic
• Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash, the fastest human calculator in the world

Media and journalism

• Raghav Bahl, former Director of Network 18 Group, founder of The Quint
• Shereen Bhan, Managing Editor of CNBC-TV18 and World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders 2009
• Ajit Bhattacharjea (1924-2011), newspaper editor, the Hindustan Times, The Times of India and The Indian Express[47]
• Ritu Kapur, media entrepreneur[48]
• Parag Kumar Das, human rights activist and Assamese journalist assassinated in 1996
• Swapan Dasgupta, senior journalist and political columnist[49]
• David Devadas, journalist, writer and columnist; expert on Kashmir conflict, known for critically acclaimed book In Search of a Future: The Story of Kashmir
• Barkha Dutt, television journalist, columnist, group editor with NDTV[50][51]
  

  Barkha Dutt
• Sagarika Ghose,[52] journalist, news anchor and author
• Siddharth Kak, documentary filmmaker and creator of TV show Surabhi[53][54]
• Arun Shourie,[55] journalist, author and politician
• Sonia Singh, Editorial Director of NDTV[56]
• George Verghese (1927–2014), editor of the Hindustan Times and The Indian Express, winner of the Ramon Magsaysay Award

Sports

• George Abraham, founder of World Blind Cricket Council (WBC)[57]

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External links

• Official alumni list