List of Modern School alumni
The Modern School (informally Modern School or Modern) is an independent day-cum-boarding school in New Delhi, India founded in 1920 by Lala Raghubir Singh, a prominent Delhi philanthropist and businessman. The first principal was Mrs. Kamala Bose, who moved from Calcutta to head the school.
Old students of Modern School are commonly known as Modernites. Although the total number of Modernites is relatively small (estimated at 15,000 since the school was founded in 1920), they include some of India's most prominent politicians, government officials, and business leaders. The best known alumnus is former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
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Government
Prime Ministers
Cabinet Ministers
Chief Ministers & Governors
- Gopal Krishna Gandhi, Governor of West Bengal and Bihar[1][2]
Members of Parliament and Legislative Assemblies
- Rahul Gandhi, Member of Parliament and General Secretary, India National Congress (completed RSJMS and transferred)[3]
- Sandeep Dikshit, Member of Parliament and Member, India National Congress (INC)
- Varun Gandhi, Member of Parliament and National Secretary, Bharatiya Janta Party (completed RSJMS and transferred)
Diplomats and Bureaucrats
- Kamlesh Sharma, Indian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
Judiciary
- Bhupinder Nath Kirpal, Chief Justice of India
- Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Judge, Supreme Court of India
- Madan B. Lokur, Judge, Supreme Court of India.
Armed Forces
- Surinder Kumar Mehra, Chief of Air Staff, Indian Air Force[4]
- Pratap Chandra Lal, Chief of Air Staff, Indian Air Force
- Subhash Bhojwani, Air Marshal, Indian Air Force
Business
- Rajat Gupta, Managing Director, McKinsey & Company and Founder, Indian School of Business
- Gurcharan Das, CEO, Procter & Gamble
- Varun Thapar, Director, KCT Coal
- Atul Punj, Chairman, Punj Lloyd Group
- Surinder Mehta, Founder of Prime Group, Padma Shri awardee
- Rakesh Kapoor, CEO, Reckitt Benckiser
Journalism
- Barkha Dutt
- Pallavi Aiyar,China Bureau Chief, The Hindu
Literature
Non-Fiction
- Valmik Thapar, Naturalist, Conservationist, and Writer
Fiction, Poetry and Drama
- Khushwant Singh, Novelist, Columnist, Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha), and former Editor of The Illustrated Weekly of India, The National Herald, and The Hindustan Times
- Amitava Kumar, Novelist, Journalist and Professor of English on the Helen D Lockwood Chair at Vassar College [5]
Arts
Fine & Performing Arts
- Yamini Reddy, Indian Classical Dancer and Kuchipudi exponent
- Geeta Kapur, Art Critic and Art Historian
Architecture & Design
- Ratish Nanda, Architect, Conservationist, and Project Director, Aga Khan Trust for Culture, India
Films & Entertainment
- Shekhar Kapur, Filmmaker
- Amrita Singh, Actress
- Kabir Khan, Filmmaker
- Abhishek Bachchan, Actor
- Ekta Chowdhry, Model and Miss India winner
- Mallika Dua, Actress and comedian
Music
- Amjad Ali Khan, Sarod Maestro
- Ayaan Ali Khan & Amaan Ali Khan, Sarod players
- Madhup Mudgal, Indian Classical vocalist
Education
- Kiran Seth, Professor Emeritus at Indian institute of Technology, Delhi, and founder of SPIC MACAY
- Sriram Ramaswamy, former Director of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences in Hyderabad.
- Sunita Narain, Director General, Centre for Science and Environment
- Syeda Saiyidain Hameed, Former Member of the Planning Commission of India, Former Chancellor of Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Padma Shri awardee
Life Science and Medicine
- Naresh Trehan, Surgeon and Chairman, Medicity
- Noshir Minoo Shroff, Ophthalmologist and Founder, Shroff Eye Hospital
- Arvinder Singh Soin, Liver-transplant Surgeon
- Aditi Shankardass, Neuroscientist
Sports
- Daniel Chopra, Professional golfer
- Gaurav Ghei, Professional golfer[6]
- Gautam Gambhir, Indian International cricketer, Delhi Daredevils[7][8][9]
- Kirti Azad, international cricketer
- Vishal Uppal, tennis player
- Samaresh Jung, sport shooter
- Unmukt Chand, cricketer
See also
References
- ↑ "Modern School Turns 91". The Hindu. The Hindu. Retrieved October 2, 2015. Check date values in:
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(help) - ↑ Guha, Ramachandran. "Merchandizing Gandhi". Retrieved October 2, 2015.
- ↑ Ramachandran, Aarthi (2012). Decoding Rahul Gandhi. New Delhi, India: Tranqebar Press. ISBN 978-9381626696.
- ↑ Surinder Kumar Mehra. "Bharat Rakshak". Bharat Rakshak. Bharat Rakshak. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
- ↑ Amitava Kumar
- ↑ "Golf Roll of Honour" (PDF). Modern School. Modern School. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
- ↑ "The School that Shaped Gautam Gambhir". NDTV. NDTV. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
- ↑ "Interview with Gautam Gambhir". Yahoo. Yahoo. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
- ↑ "Teachers Over the Moon at Boy's Success". The Hindustan Times. The Hindustan Times. Retrieved 7 September 2015.