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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===

* Dr. [[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.<ref name=":1" />

===Business===
* [[Birla family|C K Birla]], industrialist.
* Sir [[Catchick Paul Chater]], philanthropist, father of modern [[Hong Kong]], Benefactor of La Martiniere Calcutta.
* Dr. [[Vijay Mallya]], billionaire businessman, [[chairman]] of [[United Breweries Group|United Breweries]] and [[Kingfisher Airlines]] and a [[Rajya Sabha]] [[Member of parliament|MP]].
*[[Harshavardhan Neotia]], chairman of Ambuja Neotia Group
*[[Hemant Kanoria]], industrialist, chairman and managing director, Srei Infrastructure Finance Limited.
*[[Pramod Bhasin]], founder and first CEO of Genpact.

===Sports===
* [[Nafisa Ali]], swimming champion, actress, former [[Femina Miss India|Miss India]] and politician.
* Ann Lumsden, first woman to win the [[Arjuna Award]] for hockey.<ref name=hockey>[http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=250052 Carrots & Sticks Kolkata Newsline]{{Dead link|date=March 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} accessed 10 August 2007</ref>
* [[Chhanda Gayen|Chhanda Gain]], first Bengali woman to climb [[Mount Everest]]<ref name=Calcutta>[https://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/agarodia/laMartiniere/lmcmain.html&date=2009-10-25+12:06:12 La Martiniere Boys' College website] accessed September 2007</ref>
* [[Leander Paes]], tennis player, India's only medallist at the [[1996 Summer Olympics]] in [[Atlanta]], Captain of the Indian [[Davis Cup]] team.
* [[Enrico Piperno]], member of the Indian Tennis team at the [[1982 Asian Games]] and [[Davis Cup]] team member.<ref name=Calcutta/>
* Oscar Ward, Light-heavyweight boxer who represented India at the [[1952 Summer Olympics|1952 Helsinki Olympics]].<ref name=om>[http://www.oldMartians.com/lmcb-luc.html The Old Martians' Association]</ref>

===Education===
* [[John Mason (Schoolmaster)|John Mason]], schoolmaster and educationist.

===Entertainment===
*[[Ali Fazal]], actor.
* [[Merle Oberon]], actress.
*[[Bickram Ghosh|Bikram Ghosh]], tabla player.
*[[Kiran Rao]], filmmaker, producer.
*[[Pritish Nandy]], film producer.
*[[Rajiv Mehrotra]], documentary filmmaker, television anchor.
*[[Anuvab Pal]], comedian, author and scriptwriter.

===Government===
* Dr [[Saiyid Nurul Hasan]], historian, Union Minister of Education and former Governor of West Bengal, India.

===Journalism===
* [[Swapan Dasgupta]], journalist, columnist and former managing editor of [[India Today]].
* [[Sunanda K. Datta-Ray]], former editor of [[The Statesman (India)|The Statesman]].
* [[Jug Suraiya]], [[Associate Editor]] of the [[Times of India]], author and columnist.
* [[Sanjoy Narayan]], journalist, [[Editor-in-Chief]] of the [[Hindustan Times]]
* [[Suhel Seth]], columnist and CEO of Counselage, advertising and TV.
*[[Paranjoy Guha Thakurta]], journalist.

===Politics===
* Brigadier [[Kamakhya Prasad Singh Deo]], politician and former Minister.{{Citation needed|date=July 2007}}
* [[Mausam Noor]], MP, North Malda, West Bengal, elected 2009
*[[Chandan Mitra]], Member of Parliament and eminent journalist.

==Notable Martinians - Lucknow==
The list of Old Martinians from the Lucknow School includes.

===Business===
* [[Shahnaz Husain]], beautician and entrepreneur.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2002/20021108/cth1.htm |title=La Martianere alumni announce meeting in 2002 |work=Chandigarh Tribune |date=7 November 2002 | accessdate=26 March 2012}}</ref>

===Defence===
* [[Lieutenant General]] [[Gul Hassan Khan]], Chief of Army Staff, [[Pakistan Army]].
* [[Lieutenant General]] [[Akhtar Abdur Rahman]], Director of [[Inter-Services Intelligence]] (ISI) of Pakistan, Masterminded the Jihad against the Soviet Army [[Pakistan Army]].
* [[Brigadier]] [[Leonard Raza]], [[PVSM]], soldier, [[Burma Campaig]]n see note.<ref>Leonard Raza is the Officer mentioned in the Golden Galley: The story of the Second Punjab Regiment By Sir Geoffrey Betham to illustrate British racism. "It was decided to honor the Indians, and a young Indian, Major Raza, was selected to take the Surrender of the Japanese Military Police in Rangoon, as the officer had been decorated for gallantry, as well as being mentioned in dispatches three times. But the following day he was refused entry into the white only Rangoon Club, The golden galley : the story of the 2nd Punjab Regiment 1761-1947. London: Oxford University Press, 1956.</ref>

===Education===
* [[F. J. Rowe|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===
* [[Roshan Abbas]], TV and radio host.<ref>[http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=142534 Roshan Abbas visits the school Lucknow Newsline 6 August 2005] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080610102122/http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=142534 |date=10 June 2008 }} accessed June 2007</ref>
* [[Muzaffar Ali]], painter, clothing designer and film director /producer.<ref name=om/>
* [[Priyanka Chopra]], actress and former [[Miss World]] in 2000.<ref>[http://www.indianuncle.com/2005/11/priyanka-chopra-profile.html Priyanka Chopra at IndianUncle.com] accessed June 2007</ref>
* [[Nusli Wadia|Maureen Wadia]], fashion entrepreneur and editor of ''Gladrags''. Her husband is the noted industrialist [[Nusli Wadia]].<ref>[http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=166662 Maureen Wadia, heiress and La Martian]{{Dead link|date=March 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} accessed July 2007</ref>
* [[Amit Sadh]], Indian television and film actor.
* [[Ali Fazal]], Indian television and film actor.
* [[George Baker (Bengali actor)|George Baker]], Indian television and film actor.

===Government===
* [[Isha Basant Joshi]], [[I.C.S.]] the first lady officer in the [[Indian Civil Service]] and the first Indian girl to be admitted to the Girls' College.<ref>
[http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20041114/women.htm#1 'Uncivil treatment'. ''The Tribune'' (online edition), 14 November 2004.] accessed July 2007</ref>
* [[K. Raghunath]], former [[Foreign Secretary of India]]<ref>[http://www.indianexpress.com/res/web/pIe/ie/daily/19970601/15250483.html Malhotra, Jyoti. 'The world in his briefcase'. "The Indian Express" (online edition) 1 June 1997] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929102909/http://www.indianexpress.com/res/web/pIe/ie/daily/19970601/15250483.html |date=29 September 2007 }} accessed June 2007</ref> and Indian Ambassador to Russia.<ref>[http://www.tribuneindia.com/2001/20010516/spotlite.htm New ambassador to Russia. ''The Tribune'' (online edition) 16 May 2001] accessed June 2007</ref>
* [[Sameer Sharma]] [[Indian Administrative Service]], [[Civil Services of India|Secretary]] to [[Government of Andhra Pradesh|Government]], [[Andhra Pradesh]]{{Citation needed|date=September 2008}}

===Journalism===
* [[Vinod Mehta]], magazine editor<ref name=omi>[http://www.outlookindia.com/diary.asp?listauth=r&fodname=20031117 Diary OutlookIndia.com 17 November 2003] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040128092057/http://www.outlookindia.com/diary.asp?listauth=r&fodname=20031117 |date=28 January 2004 }} accessed June 2007</ref>
* [[Saeed Naqvi]], a leading journalist in [[Delhi]] brother of Shanney Naqvi.<ref name=eoe>[http://www.travelintelligence.net/wsd/articles/art_834.html East of Eton] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927195943/http://www.travelintelligence.net/wsd/articles/art_834.html |date=27 September 2007 }} William Dalrymple TravelIntelligence.net accessed June 2007</ref>
* [[Siddharth Varadarajan]], founder of [[The Wire]] and former editor of [[The Hindu]].

===Musicians===
* [[Munni Begum]] Famous Pakistani Gazal Singer, Now lives in the USA

===Literature===
* [[Krishna Prakash Bahadur]], writer, poet and philosopher.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=v2oVqTXgFWkC&pg=PA367&dq=Martiniere+Lucknow&ie=ISO-8859-1&sig=wviJtIo5QPNKT2-f1UR6q46cKKA#PPA367 Rad Sa, S. Bahadur, Krishna Prakash. ''The Poems of Suradosa'', Abinhay Publications, p367] accessed June 2007</ref>
* [[Mukul Deva]], an [[auto didact]] and well-known [[polymath]], he is an ex-army officer, best-selling author, keynote speaker, executive coach, mentor, facilitator, consultant and entrepreneur.<ref>http://www.mukuldeva.com</ref>
* [[Attia Hosain]], journalist and writer.<ref>''The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Literature in English'' Jenny Ed Stringer 1996 {{ISBN|0-19-212271-1}} p316</ref>
* [[Allan Sealy]], author of ''The Trotter-Nama'',<ref>[https://www.loc.gov/acq/ovop/delhi/salrp/iallansealy.html Allan Sealy's entry from the website of the New Delhi Office of the Library of Congress]</ref> short-listed for the [[Booker Prize]].

===Politics===
* [[Nawab]] [[Sir]] [[Sayyid]] [[Hassan Ali Mirza Khan]], [[Order of the Indian Empire|KCIE]], the first [[Nawab of Murshidabad]].
* Satish Agarwal MLA [[Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh]] (RSS) Vice President [[Vishwa Hindu Parishad]] leader Ramjanambhumi action Ayodhya.
* [[Arun Nehru]], political analyst, ex-minister and columnist.<ref name=":1">Mohan, Shriya. "'[https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/blink/meet/stick-it-out-and-make-good-friends-says-gagandeep-kang/article26952625.ece Stick it out and make good friends]'". ''@businessline''. Retrieved 2019-10-02.</ref>
* [[Ali Khan Mahmudabad]], [[historian]], professor of political science at [[Ashoka University]], member of [[Samajwadi Party]].
* Faisal Ali Khan Alias Faisal Nawab (Son of Mr. [[Bukkal Nawab]], MLC, U.P Govt.) Municipal Corporator in [[Lucknow Municipal Corporation]] from [[BJP]], Member of the executive committee, Lucknow Development Authority.

===Science and technology===
* [[Praveen Chaudhari]], [[physicist]], pioneer in [[superconductor]] [[research]], former Vice President of Science at [[IBM]] {{Citation needed|date=July 2007}}, and recipient of [[National Medal of Technology]].
* [[Rajendra K. Pachauri]], chairman of the [[Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]] The IPCC, led by Dr. Pachauri, shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with [[Al Gore]].<ref name="france-in-india.org">[http://www.france-in-india.org/en/article.php3?id_article=1317 M.S Swaminathan, R.K. Pachauri, Ela Bhatt, Father C. Prakash receive French Govt. awards] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928000015/http://www.france-in-india.org/en/article.php3?id_article=1317 |date=28 September 2007 }} accessed June 2007</ref>

===Sports===
* [[Merv Adams]], Australia's National hockey [[coach (sport)|coach]] in 1974. At the [[1976 Summer Olympics|Montreal Olympics]] the Australian men won a silver medal.<ref name=om/><ref name=wao>[http://launch.olympics.com.au/wa/files/19/WAOC_History_Package_30Nov06.pdf Western Australia's information package including history 1912-2006]{{Dead link|date=March 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} accessed June 2007</ref>
* [[Fred Browne]], Australia's first (1956) Olympic hockey coach.<ref name=om/><ref name=wao/>
* [[Vece Paes]], [[Olympic Games|Olympian]] and father of Leander Paes

===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. Anjali began working on issues related to HIV/AIDS and marginalised communities in the United States. In 2012, Time placed Gopalan in its list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
* [[George Abraham (India)|George Abraham]], [[Organizational founder|founder]] and [[CEO]] of Score Foundation, which runs Project Eyeway. He is also the founding chairman of the World Blind Cricket Council (WBCC) and the Association for Cricket for the Blind in India (ACBI).
* [[Edward Hilton]], author of an eye-witness guide to the [[siege of Lucknow]].
* [[Charles Palmer (engineer)|Charles Palmer]], [[civil engineer]] and survivor of the [[siege of Lucknow]].<ref>Obituary: ''Mr. C. G. Palmer – Medal for Lucknow Defence''. ''The Times'', 19 August 1940</ref>
* [[Joseph Smith, Canal engineer|Joseph Smith]] (1894), civil [[engineer]] on leading canal projects. He was awarded a knighthood in 1932.<ref name=om/>
* Siddhartha Varma, [[Director (business)|Director]] [[Marketing]] [[Asia Pacific]] & [[India]] - [[Ducati]] Motorcycles

==Notable Martinians - Lyon==
===Business===
*[[Nicolas Grillet]], industrialist and chemist, founder of [[Rhodia (company)|Rhodia]] and first president of [[Rhône-Poulenc]];<ref>{{cite web |title=In Memoriam|url=http://clio.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/patrons/AC000007403/AC000007403Doc597.pdf|website=cnrs.fr|date=November–December 1947|accessdate=15 July 2017}}</ref>
*[[Inabata Katsutarō]], industrialist and pioneer of [[japanese cinema]];
*[[Édouard Rochet]], French industrialist, founder of [[Rochet-Schneider]] in [[Lyon]] with [[Théodore Schneider]];<ref>{{cite web |language=French |title=Une Fabrique de l'Innovation. Trois siècles de révolutions industrielles en Rhône-Alpes - L'influx|publisher=L'influx |date=2013-09-10 |url=http://www.linflux.com/2013/une-fabrique-de-linnovation-trois-siecles-de-revolutions-industrielles-en-rhone-alpes/ |accessdate=2017-07-15}}</ref>
*[[François Gillet]], [[textile]] and [[dye]] industrialist of Lyon, first member of [[Gillet family|Gillet dynasty]];
*[[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 & Architecture ===
* [[Tony Garnier (architect)|Tony Garnier]], Garnier is considered the forerunner of 20th century French architects. He learnt painting and drafting at the École Technique de la Martinière in Lyon (1883–86). It is his designed building which house the weaving school at La Martiniere Diderot.
* [[Étienne Pagny]], noted French sculptor who studied Architecture at La Martiniere Lyon and later practiced as a sculptor.

===Sciences===
*[[Nicolas Guinon]], chemist, inventor of a new method for tinting [[silk]] with [[picric acid]];<ref name=":0">{{cite web |title=Histoire croisée des textiles et de la chimie en région lyonnaise|url=http://www.millenaire3.com/content/download/2515/41084/version/1/file/chimie_textile.pdf|website=millenaire3.com|accessdate=16 July 2017}}</ref>
*[[François-Emmanuel Verguin]], chemist having synthesized [[Fuchsine]];<ref name=":0" />
*[[Etienne Marnas]], chemist, inventor of "French purple";<ref name=":0" />
*[[Paul Sisley]], chemist, specialist in artificial colors and chemicals, professor at [[University of Lyon]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Paul Sisley 1867 -1933|url=http://clio.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/patrons/AC000007546/AC000007546Doc539.pdf|website=cnrs.fr|date=4 March 1933|accessdate=17 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Les autochromes - Une famille de pionniers - L'entourage fraternel - Les proches collaborateurs|url=http://www.autochromes.culture.fr/index.php?id=61|website=www.autochromes.culture.fr|language=en|accessdate=2017-07-17}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[La Martiniere Calcutta]]
* [[La Martiniere College]]
* [[La Martiniere Lyons]]
* [[La Martiniere Lucknow]]
* [[Claude Martin]]
* [[s:The will of Claude Martin|The will of Claude Martin]]

==References==
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