List of Mayoites
Alumni of Mayo College and now Mayo College Girls School are often referred to as Mayoites, they include Statesmen, Writers, Athletes, Businesspersons, Diplomats, etc.
Art
Name |
Profession |
Notability |
Jaideep Mehrotra | Artist | He started his sojourn since 1967 and has 18 solo shows and more than 30 Groups to his credit. A pioneer of digital media in Indian art [1][2] |
Shakti Maira | Artist | Internationally renowned artist, sculptor and writer. His work is in the National Gallery of Modern Art and in many private collections in India and around the world. Author of 'Towards Ananda: Rethinking Indian Art and Aesthetics.' (Penguin Viking, 2006)[3][4][5] |
Civil Servants
Name |
Profession |
Notability |
Amber Sen | IPS officer | Educated at St. Stephen's College, Delhi University. Formerly Special Secretary, Research and Analysis Wing and Strategic Intelligence Advisor, National Security Council (Government of India). During his 38-year career he focused on issues related to Bangladesh, Pakistan, West Asia, Afghanistan, Terrorism, and counter-terrorism.[6][7][8] | |
JK Dutt | IPS officer | Head and Commander [9] of India's National Security Guard.[10] Awarded the Police Medal for Gallantry in 1977, Police Medal for Meritorious Service in 1988 and the President's Police Medal for Distinguished Service in 1997. |
Arup Patnaik | IPS officer | Additional Director-General, Commissioner of Police, Mumbai Maharashtra. Police Medal for Meritorious Service and President's Police Medal for Distinguished Service |
Amar Pratap Singh | Director | He was the Director, Central Bureau of Investigation when the 2G Spectrum case had taken place.[11] |
K. C. Verma | Secretary (Security) | Served as Director General, Narcotics Control Bureau and Director Research and Analysis Wing, India [12] |
Probir Sen | Director, India International Centre | Member of the Indian Administrative Service. Served as Principal Secretary, Commerce & Industry in the Govt. of Madhya Pradesh, former Chairman & Managing Director of Air India & Indian Airlines |
Amitabh Kant | IAS officer | CEO & MD of Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation Limited[13] |
Conservationists
Diplomats
Media and journalism
Name |
Profession |
Notability |
Vir Sanghvi | Editor | Ex-Editor, Hindustan Times, Talk-Show Host[19] |
Charu Sharma | Anchor | Sports anchor on television |
Tunku Varadarajan | Editor | Editor, Newsweek |
Siddharth Varadarajan | Editor | Ex-Editor, The Hindu and Visiting Professor of Journalism at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley[20] |
Dhiren Bhagat (Oxon) | Journalist, Poet | Died at 31 in Delhi. Wrote for the Spectator (London), the Sunday Observer, the Indian Post, and the Illustrated Weekly of India, the Telegraph, the Hindustan Times, the Indian Express, India Today, Sunday, Harpers and Queen, and the London Magazine. Also wrote short stories and poetry.[21] |
Manvendra Singh | Member of Parliament, Editor | Ex Assistant Editor, Indian Express |
Royalty
Name |
Notability |
HH Maharaja Hari Singh of Jammu & Kashmir | The last ruler of J & K (father of Dr. Karan Singh) |
HH Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II of Jaipur | Erstwhile Maharaja of Jaipur. Ace polo player, Indian Ambassador to Spain,(married Maharani Gayatri Devi) |
Prince Jagat Singh of Jaipur | Son of Sawai Man Singh and Gayatri Devi. Schooled at Mayo and at the Harrow School. |
HH Maharaja Sawai Kumar Padmanabh Singh | Maharaja of Jaipur [22] |
HH Maharaja Ganga Singh GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, GBE, KCB, GCStJ | Erstwhile Maharaja of the princely state of Bikaner from 1888 to 1943. He is widely remembered as a modern reformist visionary, and he was also the only "non-White" member of the British Imperial War Cabinet during World War I. |
Maharajkumar of Vizianagram | Cricketer and politician. Educated at Mayo College and at Haileybury and Imperial Service College. Was knighted although he renounced his knighthood after India gained her independence. |
Yuvaraja Sri Sir Kanteerava Narasimharaja Wadiyar, GCIE | Heir Apparent of the princely state of Mysore. |
HH Maharaja Rajendra Singh of Rajpipla | Polo player, son of HH Maharaja Sir Vijaysinhji of Rajpipla, Gohil dynasty which traces its lineage to the 6th century A.D. |
Maharaj Nagendra Singh of the State of Dungarpur | Born 18 March 1914, was educated at Mayo College, Ajmer, and Cambridge, England. He obtained his Doctorate in Law from the same university and joined the Indian Civil Service. Appointed a Judge, he later became the Chief Justice of the International Court of Justice at The Hague. |
HH Maharana Mahendra Singh Mewar | Erstwhile ruler of Udaipur (Mewar Dynasty) |
HH Rana Arvind Singh | Ruler of Udaipur (Mewar Dynasty) |
Kirit Bikram Deb Burman | Maharaja of Tripura (princely state). The second-oldest lineage in the world after the Mikados of Japan [23] |
HH Maharaja Prem Singh | From the erstwhile royal family of Chamba |
HH Maharao Brijraj Singh of Kotah | From the erstwhile royal family of Kotah |
Prince Shivraj Singh of Marwar-Jodhpur | Prince of the erstwhile Royal Family of Jodhpur, which can trace its lineage back to 1226 A.D. |
HH Maharaja Jitendra Singh | From the erstwhile royal family of Alwar |
HRH Princess Shruti | Princess of Nepal. A member of the Rana Dynasty. |
HRH HH Said Bin Taimur | The twelfth Sultan of Oman |
Pragmulji III of Cutch | Present titular head of Cutch in Gujarat, India |
HH Nawab Muhammad Mahabat Khan III GCIE, KCSI | Babi Bahadur of Junagadh. He is credited with a conservation effort that helped ensure the survival of the asiatic lion.[15][16] |
Politicians
Writers
Name |
Profession |
Notability |
Vikram Chandra | Writer | Wrote Red Earth & Pouring Rain (winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book, and the David Higham Prize for Fiction), Sacred Games, etc. (Senior Lecturer in English at the University of California Berkeley[26] |
Indra Sinha, Cantab. | Writer | Author, Animal's People, short-listed for the 2007 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and Winner of 2008 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Europe and South Asia; The Death of Mr Love; The Cybergypsies (non-fiction); Tantra (non-fiction); Kama Sutra (Translation) |
Ruchir Joshi | Writer | Author of The Last Jet-Engine Laugh and of Electric Feather, India's first anthology of erotica.[21] |
Sudeep Chakravarti | Writer | Author of Tin Fish, a novel set in Mayo College,[27] and an important non-fiction work Red Sun: Travels in Naxalite Country |
Raja Narendra Singh of Sarila, Cantab. | Royalty, IFS Officer | Wrote a book titled "The Shadow of the Great Game, Untold Story of India's Partition" which throws light on some aspects of the partition not known earlier. Has also recently published his autobiography entitled "Once a Prince of Sarila".[28] |
R Chandrasekhar | Writer | Author of The Goat, the Sofa, and Mr. Swami and The School of Core Incompetence [29] |
Maroof Raza | Defence Analyst, Writer, Educationalist | He has authored two books, "Low-Intensity Conflicts" & "Wars and No Pace over Kashmir" He was Defence Correspondent at NDTV as well as Associate Editor of the Indian Defence Review. Currently, he is Middlesex University's Regional Director (South Asia) and a Visiting Research Fellow at the War Studies Department of King's College, London. He graduated from St. Stephens College, King's College London & Cambridge University |
Armed Forces
Name |
Profession |
Notability |
Admiral Sunil Lanba, PVSM, AVSM | Indian Navy | Chief of Naval Staff of the Indian Navy and the erstwhile Commandant of National Defence College.[30][31] |
Lt. Gen. Nathu Singh Rathore | Indian Army | The first Lt. General of the Indian Army. He was favoured by Field Marshal Claude Auchinleck to be the first Indian Army Chief, but declined the position to Jawaharlal Nehru because he felt it would not be fair to supersede his senior General Cariappa. |
Lt Gen (Retd) Ajai Singh, PVSM, AVSM | Indian Army | Governor of Assam |
Lt. Gen Sanjeev Anand, PVSM, AVSM | Indian Army | Former Adjutant General of the Indian Army.[32] |
Lt Gen Randhir Singh (Retd.) | Indian Army | |
Lt Gen Aditya Singh | Indian Army | C in C, Andamans, C in C Southern Command |
HH Maharao Shri Bhim Singh II | Indian Army | Honorary Brigadier in the Indian Army and also Honorary Colonel of the 17 Poona Horse. During the Second World War he was a member of the Viceroy's War Council. Up-Rajpramukh of Rajasthan State 1948/1956. He has also served as India's alternate delegate to the United Nations General Assembly in 1956 |
Commerce and Industry
Manufacturing
Energy & Petrochemicals
Telecom
Name |
Profession |
Notability |
Balesh Sharma | CEO | Vodafone Czech Republic [34] |
Hospitality
Name |
Profession |
Notability |
Veer Vijay Singh | COO | The Taj Vivanta. Has been with Taj for over 30 years and was included in Hotelier India's Top 50 Power List.[35] |
FMCG
Alcoholic Beverages and Distilleries
Information Technology
Finance & Banking
Name |
Profession |
Notability |
Dr. Sushil Wadhwani, CBE | Central Banker | Bank of England Monetary policy Committee. Former London School of Economics Reader (7 years), he was appointed a full-time independent member of the Monetary Policy Committee after various private sector roles including Director, Equity Strategy at Goldman Sachs. |
Dr. Rakesh Mohan | Central Banker | Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India |
Yogen Dalal | Venture Capitalist | Mayfield Fund, PhD, Stanford University, BTech, IIT-Bombay,[39][40] |
Gautam Vir | CEO | Development Credit Bank (Graduated from IIM-A and worked at Bank of America and Citi)[41] |
Arvind Sethi (Oxon) | CEO & MD | Tata Asset Management Ltd.[42] |
Aditya Mishra | Regional Head | Indian Subcontinent/ NRI Banking at Credit Suisse, London [43] |
PJ Nayak | Chairman and M.D. | Axis Bank[44] and Country Head Morgan Stanley[45] |
Brij Singh | Founder & CEO | Baer Capital Partners, UAE [46] |
Consulting
Name |
Profession |
Notability |
Piyush Singh | Managing Director | Accenture Financial Services Group, India [47] |
Aviation
Film and theatre
Vivek Oberoi at Sailor Today Awards
Goldie Behl at Suzanne Roshan's The Charcoal Project Launch.
Name |
Profession |
Notability |
Ajay Mehta | Hollywood Actor | He has appeared in many TV shows, including Eli Stone, Sex and the City, Numb3rs, CSI: NY, Modern Family and Outsourced, etc. He played Citigroup CEO, Vikram Pandit, in the television movie Too Big to Failand, and as the leader of India in G.I. Joe: Retaliation. |
Tinnu Anand | Actor, Film Director | He has worked in more than 100 Bollywood movies. |
Vijay Crishna | Directors Godrej Group, Actor | He has worked in many Bollywood movies, some of which are - Guzaarish, Devdas and Gandhi.[48] |
Vivek Oberoi | Actor | Know for Shootout at Lokhandwala, Omkara (2006 film), Yuva, etc. |
Rishi Kapoor | Actor | Did not graduate. Attended Mayo for less than one year before being transferred to the Campion School in Mumbai due to an illness.[49] |
Sagarika Ghatge | Actress | Know for her role in Chak De India |
Deeksha Seth | Actress | Active performer in Hindi and regional cinema of India |
Aamir Raza Hussain | Director, Actor | Well known Theatre Personality, Recipient of the Padma Shree Award |
Goldie Behl | Director, Producer | He has Directed and written Bas Itna Sa Khwaab Hai and Drona (2008 film). He has also Produced London, Paris, New York. |
Aditya Lakhia | Actor and Director | Has appeared in Lagaan, Shootout at Lokhandwala, Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar, etc. |
Samir Karnik | Director, Producer | Has Directed Heroes (2008 film), Yamla Pagla Deewana, Kyun! Ho Gaya Na..., etc. |
Heeraz Marfatia | Filmmaker | He Directed Birju,[50] which won awards at Sundance Film Festival & the Berlin Film Festival |
Karan Kundra | TV Actor | Lead role in Kitni Mohabbat Hai |
Pradip Krishen | Filmmaker | Married to Booker Prize–winning author Arundhati Roy, Krishen read at St Stephens College, New Delhi and at Oxford before teaching History at Delhi University |
Rahul Singh | Actor | Mayo College Batch of 1990. Has acted in Zubeidaa, 24 (Indian TV series) and various other plays and films. |
Bobby Deol | Bollywood Actor | He is a well known actor and is the son of Dharmendra. |
Priya Wal | TV Actress | Known for her role in Remix, CID, Pyar Kii Ye Ek Kahaani. |
Vedita Pratap Singh | Actress | Bhindi Baazaar Inc. and Mumbai 125 KM |
Law
Sportspersons and Athletes
Education
Miscellaneous
Name |
Profession |
Notability |
Jiggs Kalra | Chef | Celebrity Chef[52] |
Raghuvendra Rathore | Fashion Designer | Comes from the Royal Family of Jodhpur[53] |
Dr. Amit Goyal | Scientist, Inventor | Named as one of the world's Top 100 Innovators by MIT. Among the numerous national and international awards he has received the "Pride of India" Gold Award (sponsored by the NRI Institute) from the Ambassador of India in 2007. |
Atul Khanna | Knight, First Class, of the Order of the Lion of Finland | Founder and Chairman of the Board of Systems Biology Worldwide, he was awarded by the President of the Republic of Finland.[54] |
Karan Grover | Architect | Award-winning Architect [55] |
Abhimanyu Dalal | Architect | A graduate in urban design from Harvard University, he was associated with the Chandni Chowk redevelopment master-plan in New Delhi[56] |
Vineet Gupta | Architect | Director of Planning, Boston Transportation Department [57] |
Pratyoosh Chandan | Designer | Award-winning Designer [58] |
Chhavi Rajawat | Sarpanch | Soda Village |
Yogendra Durlabhji | Jeweller, widely known as 'The Emerald King' | Head of KS Durlabhji. Erstwhile teacher of History and English at Mayo College and Doon School. Studied at St Stephen's College and Cambridge [59] |
Anirudh Chaudhry | Secretary | Haryana Cricket Association. Also Treasurer of the Board of Control for Cricket in India |
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References
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Ashish Chopra of 1990 batch, a world record holder.