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

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An alumnus of St Stephen's College, Delhi is also called a Stephanian. Alumni of the college include distinguished economists, CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, scientists, mathematicians, historians, writers, bureaucrats, journalists, lawyers, politicians including several Members of Parliament (MP) in India, as well as the Heads of State of three countries, and sportspersons including a number of olympians and international athletes. The names in this list are presented in alphabetical order of surname/family name. This is not an exhaustive list.

Politicians[]

  • Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (1905-1977), former President of India[1]
  • Nuruddin Ahmed (1904-1975), barrister, three-time Mayor of Delhi and Padma Bhushan recipient
  • Salim Ahmed Salim, former Prime Minister of Tanzania
  • Mani Shankar Aiyar, MP, former Cabinet Minister[2]
  • Ranjib Biswal, Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
  • Amir Chand Bombwal, freedom fighter
  • Prodyut Bora, BJP IT cell founder
  • Swapan Dasgupta, Rajya Sabha MP
  • Har Dayal, Indian nationalist revolutionary and freedom fighter
  • Sandeep Dikshit, MP[3]
  • Jarbom Gamlin (1961-2014), former Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh
  • Gopalkrishna Gandhi, IAS, former Governor of West Bengal[4]
  • Rahul Gandhi, MP, President Congress[5]
  • Indrajit Gupta (1919-2001), former MP and Home Minister of India[6]
  • Amit Jogi, member, Janta Congress Chhattisgarh
  • Najeeb Jung, former lieutenant governor of Delhi
  • Salman Khurshid, former MP, External Affairs Minister, former Law Minister
  • Sucheta Kripalani, former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh; India's first woman Chief Minister
  • Ashwani Kumar, former additional solicitor general of India, Rajya Sabha MP
    Ashwani Kumar
  • Atishi Marlena, member of the Political Affairs Committee of Aam Aadmi Party
  • Chandan Mitra, former Rajya Sabha MP
  • Sangay Ngedup, Former Prime Minister of Bhutan
  • Naveen Patnaik, 14th Chief Minister of Odisha (2000–incumbent)[5]
  • Sachin Pilot, Deputy Chief Minister, Rajasthan[5]
    Sachin Pilot
  • Chhotu Ram (1881-1945), pre-partition politician, knighted in 1937[7]
  • Kapil Sibal, MP, former Law Minister of India[8]
  • Digvijaya Singh, 14th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh from 1993 to 2003
  • Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo, Lok Sabha MP, leader of the Biju Janata Dal
  • Lakshman Singh, 5 term Member of Parliament
  • Natwar Singh, MP, former Foreign Minister of India[9]
  • R.K. Singh, IAS, former Home Secretary to the Government of India,[10] 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
  • Shashi Tharoor, MP, former Minister of State, former Under-Secretary-General of the UN[5]
Shashi Tharoor
  • Jigme Thinley, Former Prime Minister of Bhutan
  • Savita Vaidhyanathan, American politician; mayor of Cupertino, California
  • Khandu Wangchuk, Former Prime Minister of Bhutan
  • Sitaram Yechuri, General Secretary of Communist Party of India (Marxist)[5]
  • Bashir Hussain Zaidi, CIE, member of the first Lok Sabha; former Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University
  • Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (1924-1988), former President of Pakistan[5]

Law[]

Bureaucrats[]

Business[]

Performing arts[]

  • Niret Alva, television producer
  • Siddhartha Basu, quiz master
  • Kabir Bedi, actor[32]
    Kabir Bedi
  • Pankaj Butalia, documentary filmmaker
  • Richa Chadha, actress
  • Safdar Hashmi, founding member of Jana Natya Manch[33]
  • Shekhar Kapur, director and producer
  • Amit Khanna, triple National Film Award winning producer, founder chairman of Reliance Entertainment[34]
  • Arunima Kumar, kuchipudi dancer
  • Raam Reddy, director, Thithi
  • Parikshit Sahni, actor
  • Roshan Seth, actor
  • Rajeev Siddhartha, actor
  • Chandrachur Singh, actor
  • Konkana Sen Sharma, actor[35]
  • Suraj Sharma, actor[36] (did not graduate)

Writers, poets, artists and critics[]

  • Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi (1908-1985), Indian Islamic scholar
  • Upamanyu Chatterjee, IAS, author
  • Kanika Dhillon, author and screenwriter
  • Yashica Dutt, writer[37]
  • Mahmood Farooqui, prominent Urdu poet, performer and director
  • Rajmohan Gandhi, biographer, recipient Sahitya Akademi Award[38][39]
  • Amitav Ghosh, author
  • Ramachandra Guha, author
    Ramachandra Guha
  • Mukul Kesavan, historian, novelist and political and social essayist
  • Rajiv Malhotra, author, philanthropist, intellectual, writer[40]
  • Mammen Mathew, Chief Editor of the Malayala Manorama, Padma Shri awardee
  • Anurag Mathur, author and journalist
  • Rajiv Mehrotra, writer, television producer-director, documentary film maker
  • Ningombam Bupenda Meitei, essayist and poet in English and Meitei languages
  • Satyarth Nayak, Author of Sridevi: The Eternal Screen Goddess and The Emperor's Riddles and Screenwriter for Sony TV epic historical series Porus
  • Makarand Paranjape, novelist and poet
  • Janice Pariat, author, first Sahitya Akademi Award recipient for English literature from Meghalaya[41]
  • Prem Behari Narain Raizada, calligrapher and writer of the Constitution of India
  • Maroof Raza, Defence analyst, writer, and educationalist
  • Raam Reddy, author, filmmaker
  • Jaideep Saikia, author
  • Allan Sealy, writer, finalist Booker prize
  • Krishna Kant Shukla, physicist, musician, poet, ecologist and educator
  • Khushwant Singh (1915-2014), author[5]
  • Parismita Singh, author, illustrator, graphic novelist[42]
  • Ashok Vajpeyi, Hindi poet, essayist, and Chairman, Lalit Kala Akademi India's National Academy of Arts, Govt of India
  • Nirmal Verma, writer, novelist, activist and translator
  • Ramkumar Verma (1905-1990), Hindi poet[43]

Art[]

  • Aditya Arya, photographer
  • Shakti Maira,[44] artist, sculptor, writer
  • Rajeev Sethi, art curator, scenographer, designer
  • Ram Kumar (artist), artist, awarded Padma Bhushan

Academics[]

Social Sciences and Humanities[]

Economics
  • Kusum Ailawadi, economist; Professor of Marketing at Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College
  • Amit Bando, economist; inaugural Executive Director, International Partnership for Energy Efficiency Cooperation (IPEEC), OECD
  • Kaushik Basu, economist; Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank; former CEA to the Government[45]
    Kaushik Basu
  • Bhaskar Chakravorti, economist; Dean, The Fletcher School at Tufts University
  • Ajay Chhibber, economist; first Director General of the Independent Evaluation Office, Government of India
  • Siddhartha Chib, econometrician; Fellow of the American Statistical Association
  • Pradeep Dubey, game theorist and professor at Yale University
  • Ranjay Gulati, organizational behaviour scholar, Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School
  • Sanjay Jain, development economist; Senior Fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Oxford
  • Rajiv Kumar, economist, vice-chairman of the NITI Aayog
  • Deepak Lal (1940 – 2020), economist; former President of Mont Pelerin Society
  • Shailendra Raj Mehta, economist, president and director of MICA
  • Deepak Nayyar, economist; former Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India
  • Rohini Pande, development economist; professor at Yale University
  • Manoj Pant, Director Indian Institute of Foreign Trade
  • Prabhat Patnaik, Marxist economist[46]
  • Sunder Ramaswamy, development economist, Inaugural Vice Chancellor of Krea University
  • Abhijit Sen, former member of planning commission
  • Arunava Sen, economist; recipient of the Infosys Prize
  • Mihir Shah, former member of planning commission
  • Arvind Subramanian, economist; former Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India
  • Bhaskar Vira, economist and geographer; professor of Political Economy, Head of Department of Geography, University of Cambridge[47]
  • Arvind Virmani, economist; former Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India
History
Philosophy
  • Divya Dwivedi, philosopher
  • Shaj Mohan, philosopher

Natural and Mathematical Sciences[]

  • Siva Athreya, mathematician and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
  • Raghu Raj Bahadur, theoretical statistician; considered "one of the architects of the modern theory of mathematical statistics"[48]
  • V. Balakrishnan, theoretical physicist[49][50]
  • Utpal Banerjee, molecular biologist; Distinguished Professor at UCLA; Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Charusita Chakravarty, chemical physicist and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
  • Eknath Prabhakar Ghate, mathematician and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
  • Suraj N. Gupta, theoretical physicist
  • Naeem Ahmad Khan, Pakistani nuclear physicist; former secretary Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission
  • Deepak Kumar (1946-2016), physicist and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
  • Satish Chandra Maheshwari (1933-2019), molecular biologist and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize recipient
  • Venkatesh Narayanamurti, physicist, former Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University[51]
  • Pran Nath, particle physicist, recipient Alexander von Humboldt Prize
  • Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash, the "fastest human calculator in the world"
  • Ramamurti Rajaraman, theoretical physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate, Leo Szilard Awardee, former Co-Chair International Panel on Fissile Materials
  • Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman, computer pioneer, Padma Bhushan recipient and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
  • Kamalini Ramdas, Professor of Management Science and Operations and Deloitte Chair in Innovation & Entrepreneurship at London Business School
  • Anupam Saikia, mathematician, Cambridge Math Wrangler[52]
  • Dinesh Singh, mathematician, 21st Vice-Chancellor of the University of Delhi
  • Manik Varma, computer scientist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate

Media and journalism[]

Sports[]

Social Work[]

  • John Dayal, human rights and Christian political activist
  • Vrinda Grover, lawyer, researcher, and human rights and women's rights activist
  • Harsh Mander, former IAS officer, human rights activist[73]
  • Sanjit Roy, social activist and educator; founder Barefoot College

Faculty[]

This list includes notable faculty members who served at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, but did not receive any degree from the college. This is not an exhaustive list.

  • Mohammad Amin, historian; Padma Bhushan Awardee
  • CF Andrews, educator, social reformer, and activist for Indian Independence
  • PL Bhatnagar, mathematician, known for Bhatnagar–Gross–Krook operator; Padma Bhushan Awardee
  • Virander Singh Chauhan, scientist; worked on genetic engineering and biotechnology; known for contributions to the development of a recombinant vaccine for malaria[74][75]
  • Gopi Chand Narang, poet and literary critic; Padma Bhushan Awardee
  • S. K. Rudra, first Indian principal of St Stephen's College, Delhi
  • Percival Spear, OBE (1901–1982); historian of modern South Asia
  • Valson Thampu, former Principal; served from 2009-2016
  • Anil Wilson, former Principal; served from 1991-2007

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