- Source: 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
Dr. 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) — accused in India's MeToo movement, 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
= Government
=Saiyid Nurul Hasan — historian, Union Minister of Education and former Governor of West Bengal, India
= Journalism
=Swapan Dasgupta ('71 batch) — journalist, columnist and former managing editor of India Today
Sunanda K. Datta-Ray — 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
=Mausam Noor — MP, North Malda, West Bengal, elected 2009
Chandan Mitra ('71 batch) — Gold-medalist, Member of Parliament, journalist
Notable Martinians – Lucknow
The list of Old Martinians from the Lucknow School includes:
= Business
=Shahnaz Husain — beautician and entrepreneur
= Defence
=Akhtar Abdur Rahman — director of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan
FS Hussain — aerobatic pilot of the Pakistan Air Force
= 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
= 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
= 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
The will of Claude Martin
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- List of Martinians
- La Martinière Calcutta
- Martinian and Processus
- List of Roman emperors
- List of Byzantine emperors
- Ferapontov Monastery
- List of Indian Air Force Gallantry Award winners
- List of early Christian saints
- La Martinière College, Lucknow
- Chronological list of saints in the 1st century
