# 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

### 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