List of Stephanians
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List of Distinguished Alumni of St. Stephen's College, Delhi. A student at or an alumnus of St. Stephen's College, Delhi is called a Stephanian.
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[edit] Politics
- Dr. Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, former President of India
- General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, former President of Pakistan
- Salim Ahmed Salim former Prime Minister of Tanzania and Secretary-General of the OAU.
- Indrajit Gupta, former Home Minister and General Secretary of the Communist Party of India
- Natwar Singh, former Foreign Minister and former Congress Working President
- Rajmohan Gandhi, former Rajya Sabha MP
- Digvijay Singh, former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh
- Rao Birendra Singh, former Chief Minister of Haryana
- Arun Shourie, former Disinvestment Minister and editor of the Indian Express
- Mani Shankar Aiyar, currently Minister for Sports and Youth affairs and Minister for Panchayati Raj
- Safdar Hashmi, CPI(M) activist and theatre personality
- Lala Hardayal, founder of the Ghadar Party
- Arun Singh, former Defence Minister
- Salman Khurshid, former Foreign Minister
- Vir Bhadra Singh, current Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh
- Sucheta Kriplani, the first female Chief Minister, former CM of Uttar Pradesh
- Montek Singh Ahluwalia, current Dy Chairman of the Planning Commission, and former Finance Secretary
- Rahul Gandhi, Congress M.P., (Amethi, U.P.)
- Sachin Pilot, Congress M.P. (Dausa, Rajasthan)
- Sandeep Dikshit, Congress M.P (East Delhi)
- Dushyant Singh, B.J.P. (Dholpur, Rajasthan)
- Jagat Singh, former Congress M.L.A Rajasthan
[edit] Theatre and cinema
- Ketan Anand
- Kabir Bedi
- Siddharth Kak
- Shekhar Kapur, director of Elizabeth and Bandit Queen
- Ali Kazimi
- Amit Khanna
- Rajiv Mehrotra
- Joy Michael
- Benjamin Gilani
- Parikshit Sahni
- Roshan Seth
- Safdar Hashmi.
- Konkona Sen Sharma
[edit] Writers and Novelists
The preponderance of Stephanians in Indo-Anglian writing was so great, for some period of time, that some critics began to speak of the 'St. Stephen's School of Literature'.
- Gopal Gandhi
- Amitav Ghosh, anthropologist and writer of, among others, 'Shadow Lines' and 'The Hungry Tide'
- Upamanyu Chatterjee, 'English August'
- Nirmal Verma, pre-eminent Hindi poet
- Shashi Tharoor, Under Secretary-General of the UN, and author of The Great Indian Novel, India: From Midnight to the Millennium, Nehru - The Invention of India,Riot
- Allan Sealy, 'the Trotter-Nama'
- Anurag Mathur, 'Inscrutable Americans'
- Mukul Kesavan
- Khushwant Singh,'Train to Pakistan'
- Vikram Seth, prior to transferring to Oxford University, was briefly an undergraduate
- Ramachandra Guha, historian and writer on cricket
[edit] Media and Journalism
- Bhaskar Ghose, former Doordarshan chief, TV anchor and columnist
- Swaminathan Aiyar, economist and editor of the The Economic Times
- Barkha Dutt, television anchor and journalist
- Siddharth Basu, television producer and quizmaster
- Sagarika Ghose, news editor and columnist, CNN-IBN
- Satinder Bindra, India Bureau Chief, CNN (Masters only)
- Swapan Dasgupta, journalist and former managing editor of India Today.
- Chandan Mitra, editor of the The Pioneer, Delhi
- Gaurav Banerjee, anchor, Star News
- Suman Dubey, journalist, and head of Dow Jones in South Asia
- Sreenath Sreenivasan , Dean of students, Columbia Journalism School
- Vikram Chandra, television anchor and journalist
- Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Director, School of Convergence
[edit] Other Alumni
- Imtiaz Hassan Qureishi, historian and Vice-Chancellor of Lahore University
- Kirti Azad, cricketer for Delhi and India, and BJP MP
- Arun Lal, cricketer for Bengal and India, and television commentator
- Kaushik Basu, economist and commentator
- Jaspal Rana, Asian Games gold medal shooter
- Rahul Bajaj, chairman of the Bajaj group of companies
- Sanjit Bunker Roy, social worker and former squash player
- P.C. Lall, former Air Chief Marshal
- S.N. Kohli, former Admiral and Chief of Naval Staff
- Ramachandra Guha, historian and cricket writer
- Param Vir, contemporary classical composer,
- Ritwik Bhattacharya, squash player.
- Mohinder Singh Pandher, accused serial killer.
