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
editScience
edit- 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[1]
Business and finance
edit- 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
edit- Chhanda Gain — first Bengali woman to climb Mount Everest[2]
- 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
edit- 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
edit- 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
edit- Saiyid Nurul Hasan — historian, Union Minister of Education and former Governor of West Bengal, India
Journalism
edit- 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
edit- Mausam Noor — MP, North Malda, West Bengal, elected 2009
- Chandan Mitra ('71 batch) — Gold-medalist, Member of Parliament, journalist
Notable Martinians – Lucknow
editThe list of Old Martinians from the Lucknow School includes:
Business
edit- Shahnaz Husain — beautician and entrepreneur[3]
Defence
edit- Akhtar Abdur Rahman — director of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan
- FS Hussain — aerobatic pilot of the Pakistan Air Force
Education
edit- 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
edit- Ali Fazal — Indian television and film actor
- Roshan Abbas — TV and radio host[4]
- Muzaffar Ali — painter, clothing designer and film director /producer.[5]
- Priyanka Chopra — actress and former Miss World in 2000[6]
- Namita Dubey — TV and web actress[7]
- Maureen Wadia — fashion entrepreneur and editor of Gladrags; married to noted industrialist Nusli Wadia[8]
- Pankhuri Gidwani — actress and former Miss Grand International 2016[9][10]
- Amit Sadh — Indian television and film actor
- George Baker — Indian TV and film actor
Government
edit- 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[11]
- K. Raghunath — former Foreign Secretary of India[12] and Indian Ambassador to Russia[13]
Journalism
edit- Akash Banerjee — journalist, radio jockey and political satirist
- Vinod Mehta — magazine editor[14]
- Saeed Naqvi — journalist[15]
- Siddharth Varadarajan — founder of The Wire and former editor of The Hindu
Musicians
edit- Munni Begum — Pakistani Gazal singer
Literature
edit- Krishna Prakash Bahadur — writer, poet and philosopher[16]
- Mukul Deva — auto didact and polymath, ex-army officer, author, keynote speaker, consultant and entrepreneur[17]
- Attia Hosain — journalist and writer[18]
- Allan Sealy — author of The Trotter-Nama,[19] short-listed for the Booker Prize
- Ruchita Misra — author[20]
- Srijan Pal Singh — author[21]
Politics
edit- Nawab Sir Sayyid Hassan Ali Mirza Khan — KCIE, the first Nawab of Murshidabad
- Arun Nehru — political analyst, ex-minister and columnist[1]
- Ali Khan Mahmudabad — historian, professor of political science at Ashoka University, member of Samajwadi Party
- Aditya Yadav — MP from Samajwadi Party
Science and technology
edit- 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[22]
Sports
editOthers
edit- 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[23]
Notable Martinians – Lyon
editBusiness
edit- 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
edit- Lumiere Brothers — two of the first filmmakers
- Alexandre Promio — pioneer of cinema
Literature
edit- Frédéric Dard — writer and author of the San-Antonio series
- Henri Béraud — novelist and journalist, won the Prix Goncourt in 1922
Art and architecture
edit- 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
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Mohan, Shriya. "'Stick it out and make good friends'". @businessline. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
- ^ La Martiniere Boys' College website accessed September 2007
- ^ "La Martianere alumni announce meeting in 2002". The Tribune. India. 7 November 2002. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
- ^ Roshan Abbas visits the school Lucknow Newsline 6 August 2005 Archived 10 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine accessed June 2007
- ^ The Old Martians' Association
- ^ Priyanka Chopra at IndianUncle.com accessed June 2007
- ^ "I used to come to La Martinere as a student & now I'm here as a heroine: Namita Dubey". The Times of India. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
- ^ Maureen Wadia, heiress and La Martian[dead link] accessed July 2007
- ^ "Miss India pankhuri gidwani back in school giving boards in lucknow".
- ^ "Miss India Grand scores 97.25 per cent".
- ^ 'Uncivil treatment'. The Tribune (online edition), 14 November 2004. accessed July 2007
- ^ Malhotra, Jyoti. 'The world in his briefcase'. "The Indian Express" (online edition) 1 June 1997 Archived 29 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine accessed June 2007
- ^ New ambassador to Russia. The Tribune (online edition) 16 May 2001 accessed June 2007
- ^ Diary OutlookIndia.com 17 November 2003 Archived 28 January 2004 at the Wayback Machine accessed June 2007
- ^ East of Eton Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine William Dalrymple TravelIntelligence.net accessed June 2007
- ^ Rad Sa, S. Bahadur, Krishna Prakash. The Poems of Suradosa, Abinhay Publications, p367 accessed June 2007
- ^ "Home". mukuldeva.com.
- ^ The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Literature in English Jenny Ed Stringer 1996 ISBN 0-19-212271-1 p316
- ^ Allan Sealy's entry from the website of the New Delhi Office of the Library of Congress
- ^ "Booked for Bollywood – Hindustan Times". 1 May 2012. Archived from the original on 1 May 2012. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
- ^ "About". Srijan Pal Singh. Retrieved 3 September 2023.
- ^ M.S Swaminathan, R.K. Pachauri, Ela Bhatt, Father C. Prakash receive French Govt. awards Archived 28 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine accessed June 2007
- ^ Obituary: Mr. C. G. Palmer – Medal for Lucknow Defence. The Times, 19 August 1940