List of Martinians

The following is a list of notable Martinians, former pupils and masters of the three schools established by Claude Martin.

• La Martiniere Calcutta in Kolkata, India
• La Martiniere Lucknow in Lucknow, India.
• La Martiniere Lyon in Lyon, France

La Martinière Lyon was divided into three independent colleges in the 1960s:

• La Martiniere Monplaisir in Lyon, France
• La Martiniere Duchère in Lyon, France
• La Martiniere Diderot in Lyon, France

Notable Martinians — Calcutta

Science

• Gagandeep Kang, vaccine scientist at CMC Vellore (known as India’s 'vaccine godmother'), first Indian woman to be elected as a Fellow of Royal Society, London

Business and finance

• C. K. Birla ('73 batch), industrialist
• Catchick Paul Chater (1863 batch), trader and entrepreneur in Hong Kong
• Vijay Mallya ('72 batch), fugitive billionaire businessman, chairman of United Breweries and Kingfisher Airlines and a Rajya Sabha MP
• Harshavardhan Neotia, chairman of Ambuja Neotia Group
• Hemant Kanoria, industrialist, chairman and managing director of Srei Infrastructure Finance Limited
• Pramod Bhasin, founder and first CEO of Genpact, pioneer of BPO industry in India
• Suhel Seth ('82 batch), advertising and marketing
• Asma Khan ('87 batch), restaurateur

Sports

• Chhanda Gain, first Bengali woman to climb Mount Everest
• Leander Paes ('92 batch), tennis player, medalist at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, multiple Tennis Grand Slam doubles champion, captain of the Indian Davis Cup team
• Khokhan Sen (‘43 batch), India Test cricketer, 14 Test caps
• Anne Lumsden, field hockey player, Arjuna Award-winner
• Anush Agarwalla (2018 batch), equestrian sports
• Rahil Gangjee ('97 batch), pro golfer

Education

• John Mason ('62 batch), winner of the Good Conduct Medal, schoolmaster and educationist
• Nirmalya Kumar, professor of marketing and management, art collector

Arts, culture and entertainment

• Merle Oberon ('28 batch), Hollywood actress
• Nafisa Ali (‘72 batch), House Captain, actress and winner of Miss India contest 1975
• Pandit Bikram Ghosh ('84 batch), tabla player
• Kiran Rao, filmmaker, producer
• Pritish Nandy ('63 batch), poet, journalist and film producer
• Rajiv Mehrotra ('69 batch), documentary filmmaker, television anchor
• Nilanjana Roy (‘89 batch), author and critic
• Anuvab Pal ('95 batch), comedian, author and scriptwriter
• Adrit Roy, actor

Journalism

• Swapan Dasgupta ('71 batch), journalist, columnist and former managing editor of India Today
• Sunanda K. Datta-Ray (‘54 batch), former editor of The Statesman
• Jug Suraiya ('62 batch), associate editor of the Times of India, author and columnist
• Sanjoy Narayan, journalist, editor-in-chief of the Hindustan Times
• Ashok Malik ('88 batch), journalist, official spokesman for the President of India '17 to '19
• Paranjoy Guha Thakurta ('71 batch), journalist
• Prannoy Roy, TV presenter and founder of NDTV
• Indrajit Hazra ('90 batch), author and columnist

Politics and Government

• Mausam Noor — MP, North Malda, West Bengal, elected 2009
• Chandan Mitra ('71 batch) — Gold-medalist, Member of Parliament, journalist
• Kamakhya Prasad Singh Deo (‘58 batch) — Union cabinet

Notable Martinians – Lucknow

The list of Old Martinians from the Lucknow School includes:

Business

• Shahnaz Husain — beautician and entrepreneur

Education

• Frederick James Rowe — poet, former English teacher at the Lucknow school and composer of the official school song Hail Hail the Name we Own

Entertainment

• Ali Fazal — Indian television and film actor
• Roshan Abbas — TV and radio host
• Muzaffar Ali — painter, clothing designer and film director /producer.
• Priyanka Chopra — actress and former Miss World in 2000
• Namita Dubey — TV and web actress
• Maureen Wadia — fashion entrepreneur and editor of Gladrags; married to noted industrialist Nusli Wadia
• Pankhuri Gidwani — actress and former Miss Grand International 2016
• Amit Sadh — Indian television and film actor
• George Baker — Indian TV and film actor

Government

• Isha Basant Joshi — I.A.S. the second lady officer in the Indian Administrative Service and the first Indian girl to be admitted to the Girls' College
• K. Raghunath — former Foreign Secretary of India and Indian Ambassador to Russia

Journalism

• Akash Banerjee — journalist, radio jockey and political satirist
• Vinod Mehta — magazine editor
• Saeed Naqvi — journalist
• Siddharth Varadarajan — founder of The Wire and former editor of The Hindu

Military

• FS Hussain — Pakistani Air Commodore
• Abrar Hussain — Pakistani Major General

Musicians

• Munni Begum — Pakistani Gazal singer

Literature

• Krishna Prakash Bahadur — writer, poet and philosopher
• Mukul Deva — auto didact and polymath, ex-army officer, author, keynote speaker, consultant and entrepreneur
• Attia Hosain — journalist and writer
• Allan Sealy — author of The Trotter-Nama, short-listed for the Booker Prize
• Ruchita Misra — author
• Srijan Pal Singh — author
• Rajesh Talwar - author, former UN staff

Politics

• Nawab Sir Sayyid Hassan Ali Mirza Khan — KCIE, the first Nawab of Murshidabad
• Arun Nehru — political analyst, ex-minister and columnist
• Ali Khan Mahmudabad — historian, professor of political science at Ashoka University, member of Samajwadi Party
• Aditya Yadav — MP from Samajwadi Party

Science and technology

• Praveen Chaudhari — physicist, pioneer in superconductor research, and recipient of National Medal of Technology
• Rajendra K. Pachauri — chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore

Sports

• Vece Paes — Olympian

Others

• Anjali Gopalan — founder and executive director of The Naz Foundation (India) Trust, an NGO dedicated to the fight against the HIV/AIDS epidemic in India; 2012 Time Magazine list of the 100 most influential people in the world
• Edward Hilton — author of an eye-witness guide to the siege of Lucknow
• Charles Palmer — civil engineer and survivor of the siege of Lucknow

Notable Martinians – Lyon

Business

• Inabata Katsutarō — industrialist and pioneer of japanese cinema
• François Gillet — textile and dye industrialist of Lyon
• Jean-Michel Aulas — businessman, president of Olympique lyonnais

Entertainment

• Lumiere Brothers — two of the first filmmakers
• Alexandre Promio — pioneer of cinema

Literature

• Frédéric Dard — writer and author of the San-Antonio series
• Henri Béraud — novelist and journalist, won the Prix Goncourt in 1922

Art and architecture

• Tony Garnier — the forerunner of 20th century French architects
• Étienne Pagny — noted French sculptor who studied Architecture at La Martiniere Lyon and later practiced as a sculptor

See also

• La Martiniere Calcutta
• La Martiniere College
• La Martiniere Lyons
• La Martiniere Lucknow
• Claude Martin

References