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

• 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]

• 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

• 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

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

• 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

• Saiyid Nurul Hasan — historian, Union Minister of Education and former Governor of West Bengal, India

• 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

• Mausam Noor — MP, North Malda, West Bengal, elected 2009
• Chandan Mitra ('71 batch) — Gold-medalist, Member of Parliament, journalist

The list of Old Martinians from the Lucknow School includes:

• Shahnaz Husain — beautician and entrepreneur^[3]
• Akshit Harsh — Former business journalist-turned-financial operations specialist. Currently serving as General Manager at FIITJEE.

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

• 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

• 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]

• 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

• FS Hussain — Pakistani Air Commodore^[16]

• Munni Begum — Pakistani Gazal singer

• Krishna Prakash Bahadur — writer, poet and philosopher^[17]
• Mukul Deva — auto didact and polymath, ex-army officer, author, keynote speaker, consultant and entrepreneur^[18]
• Attia Hosain — journalist and writer^[19]
• Allan Sealy — author of The Trotter-Nama,^[20] short-listed for the Booker Prize
• Ruchita Misra — author^[21]
• Srijan Pal Singh — author^[22]
• Rajesh Talwar - author, former UN staff ^[23]

• 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

• 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^[24]

• Vece Paes — Olympian

• 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^[25]

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

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

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

• 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

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• La Martiniere College
• La Martiniere Lyons
• La Martiniere Lucknow
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