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

List of Distinguished Alumni of St. Stephen's College, Delhi. A student at or an alumnus of St. Stephen's College, Delhi is called a Stephanian.

Politics

• Omar Abdullah, Congress M.P. (Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir)
• Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission, and former Finance Secretary
• Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, Former President of India
• Mani Shankar Aiyar, Union Minister for Sports and Youth affairs, and Panchayati Raj
• Sandeep Dikshit, Congress M.P. (East Delhi)
• Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Governor of West Bengal
• Rahul Gandhi, Congress M.P. (Amethi, U.P.)
• Rajmohan Gandhi, Former Rajya Sabha MP
• Indrajit Gupta, Former Home Minister and General Secretary of the Communist Party of India
• Lala Hardayal, Founder of the Ghadar Party
• Salman Khurshid, Former Foreign Minister
• Sucheta Kripalani, Former CM of Uttar Pradesh, India's first lady Chief Minister
• Sachin Pilot, Congress M.P. (Dausa, Rajasthan)
• Salim Ahmed Salim Former Prime Minister of Tanzania and Secretary-General of the OAU
• Kamalesh Sharma, Secretary General of the Commonwealth
• Arun Shourie, former Union Minister for Disinvestment, and editor of the Indian Express
• Kapil Sibal, Congress M.P. Chandni Chowk, Delhi
• Arun Singh, Former Minister of State for Defence
• Digvijay Singh, Former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh
• Dushyant Singh, B.J.P. M.P. (Dholpur, Rajasthan)
• Natwar Singh, Former Foreign Minister and former Congress Working President
• Rao Birendra Singh, Former Chief Minister of Haryana
• Vir Bhadra Singh, Former Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh
• Shashi Tharoor, United Nations official and writer
• Sitaram Yechury, Head of the International Department, CPI(M)
• Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Former President of Pakistan
• Lalitha Kumaramangalam, member, National executive, BJP

Theatre and cinema

• Ketan Anand
• Kabir Bedi
• Mahmood Farooqui
• Benjamin Gilani
• Safdar Hashmi
• Siddharth Kak
• Shekhar Kapur
• Ali Kazimi
• Amit Khanna
• Anurag Sinha
• Rajiv Mehrotra
• Joy Michael
• Sumit Roy
• Parikshit Sahni
• Roshan Seth
• Chandrachur Singh
• Konkona Sen Sharma

Writers, poets and critics

The preponderance of Stephanians in Indo-Anglian writing was so great for some time that some critics began to speak of the "St. Stephen's School of Literature". This issue has been heavily debated in the book The Fiction of St. Stephen's, by various writers and scholars, including Amitav Ghosh, Shashi Tharoor, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Mukul Kesavan, Khushwant Singh, Tapan Basu, Brinda Bose, etc. The book is edited by Aditya Bhattacharjea and Lola Chatterjee.

• S. Amir Hasan Abidi
• Rukun Advani
• Pankaj Rag
• Upamanyu Chatterjee
• Leela Gandhi
• Amitav Ghosh
• Ramachandra Guha
• Mukul Kesavan
• Arjun Mahey
• Anurag Mathur
• Makarand Paranjpe
• Balachandra Rajan
• Chandra Rajan
• Nilanjana S. Roy
• I. Allan Sealy
• Brijraj Singh
• Khushwant Singh
• Madan Gopal Singh
• Ashok Vajpeyi
• Pavan K. Varma
• Vijay Singh
• Nirmal Verma
• Ghulam Yazdani

Media and journalism

• Pallavi Aiyar, author and China correspondent of The Hindu
• Swaminathan Aiyar, economist and editor of the The Economic Times
• Niret J. Alva, television producer and CEO, Miditech
• Shiv Aroor, defence correspondent, Headlines Today
• Gaurav Banerjee, anchor, Star News
• Siddhartha Basu, television producer and quizmaster
• Satinder Bindra, India Bureau Chief, CNN (Masters only)
• George Binoy, correspondent for Cricinfo
• Vikram Chandra, television anchor and journalist
• Sreeram Chaulia, international affairs analyst at Asia Times Online
• Parag Kumar Das, journalist, Novelist; editor of Assamese newspapers like Asamiya Pratidin, Budhbar and Aagaan.
• Swapan Dasgupta, journalist, political analyst and former Managing Editor of India Today
• Suman Dubey, journalist and head of Dow Jones in South Asia
• Barkha Dutt, television anchor and journalist
• Sonia Faleiro, journalist and author
• Bhaskar Ghose, former Doordarshan chief, TV anchor and columnist
• Sagarika Ghose, news editor and columnist, CNN-IBN
• Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Director, School of Convergence
• Prem Shankar Jha, journalist and columnist
• Manoj Joshi, journalist and deputy editor at Mail Today
• Mammen Mathew, editor and Managing Director, Malayala Manorama
• Chandan Mitra, editor of the The Pioneer, Delhi
• Anshuman Sen photographer
• Sreenath Sreenivasan, Dean of Students, Columbia Journalism School

Mountaineer & Explorer

• Mandip Singh Soin FRGS, Explorer and Mountaineer and Eco Tourism expert. Owner Award winning travel company - Ibex Expeditions P Ltd. www.ibexexpeditions.com

Sports

• Kirti Azad, cricketer for Delhi and India, and BJP MP
• Ritwik Bhattacharya, squash player
• Ankita Bhambri and Sanaa Bhambri, tennis players who were undergraduates briefly
• Arun Lal, cricketer for Bengal and India, and television commentator
• M.N. Masud, Olympian hockey player
• Salil Oberoi, Cricketer for Delhi and Oxford University
• Allan Daniel Peoples, shooter
• Jaspal Rana, Asian Games gold medallist shooter
• Maharaja Karni Singh, Olympian shooter
• Mansher Singh, Commonwealth Games gold medallist shooter

Other alumni

• Rahul Bajaj, Chairman of the Bajaj Group
• Rohit Bal, fashion designer
• Kaushik Basu, economist and commentator
• Vivek Bhandari, director, Institute of Rural Management, Anand
• Sanjiv Bikhchandani, co-founder and CEO, Naukri.com
• Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud, jurist
• Vinod Chowdhury, economist and international relations expert
• John Dayal, Dalit rights activist and Head of the All India Christian Council
• Ashok Kamte, Additional Commissioner of Police killed in the Mumbai terrorist attacks
• S.N. Kohli, former Admiral and Chief of Naval Staff
• Pratap Chandra Lal, former Air Chief Marshal
• Arun Maira, India chairperson, The Boston Consulting Group
• Rajendra Prasad, Principal, Ramjas College, Delhi
• Ishtiaq Hussain Qureishi, Historian and former Vice-Chancellor of Lahore University
• Bharat Ram, Chairperson Emeritus, DCM Group
• Shikha Swaroop, Miss India
• Param Vir, contemporary classical composer

Researchers

• Manik Varma, Researcher: Microsoft Research India

Infamous

• Moninder Singh Pandher, accused serial killer. St. Stephen's has claimed, however, that he obtained admission into College but did not join.
• Jagat Singh, former Congress M.L.A Rajasthan accused by a U.N. Independent Enquiry Committee (popularly known as the Paul Volcker Committee) as a beneficiary of illegal payoffs from the United Nation’s Oil for Food Programme in Iraq. His father Natwar Singh had to resign from Cabinet as India’s Foreign Minister and also lost membership from the Congress Working Committee due to the allegations.

External links

• Official Alumni List