Template:Dynamic list An alumnus of St Stephen's College, Delhi is also called a Stephanian. Alumni of the college include distinguished economists, CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, scientists, mathematicians, historians, writers, bureaucrats, journalists, lawyers, politicians including several Members of Parliament (MP) in India, as well as the Heads of State of three countries, and sportspersons including a number of olympians and international athletes. The names in this list are presented in alphabetical order of surname/family name. This is not an exhaustive list.
Politicians
- Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (1905-1977), former President of India[1]
- Nuruddin Ahmed (1904-1975), barrister, three-time Mayor of Delhi and Padma Bhushan recipient
- Salim Ahmed Salim, former Prime Minister of Tanzania
- Mani Shankar Aiyar, MP, former Cabinet Minister[2]
- Ranjib Biswal, Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
- Amir Chand Bombwal, freedom fighter
- Prodyut Bora, BJP IT cell founder
- Swapan Dasgupta, Rajya Sabha MP
- Har Dayal, Indian nationalist revolutionary and freedom fighter
- Sandeep Dikshit, MP[3]
- Jarbom Gamlin (1961-2014), former Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh
- Gopalkrishna Gandhi, IAS, former Governor of West Bengal[4]
- Rahul Gandhi, MP, President Congress[5]
- Indrajit Gupta (1919-2001), former MP and Home Minister of India[6]
- Amit Jogi, member, Janta Congress Chhattisgarh
- Najeeb Jung, former lieutenant governor of Delhi
- Salman Khurshid, former MP, External Affairs Minister, former Law Minister
- Ashwani Kumar, former additional solicitor general of India, Rajya Sabha MP
Ashwani Kumar - Atishi Marlena, member of the Political Affairs Committee of Aam Aadmi Party
- Chandan Mitra, former Rajya Sabha MP
- Naveen Patnaik, 14th Chief Minister of Odisha (2000–incumbent)[5]
- Sachin Pilot, Deputy Chief Minister, Rajasthan[5]
Sachin Pilot - Chhotu Ram (1881-1945), pre-partition politician, knighted in 1937[7]
- Kapil Sibal, MP, former Law Minister of India[8]
- Digvijaya Singh, 14th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh from 1993 to 2003
- Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo, Lok Sabha MP, leader of the Biju Janata Dal
- Natwar Singh, MP, former Foreign Minister of India[9]
- R.K. Singh, IAS, former Home Secretary to the Government of India,[10] Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Power and Renewable Energy, Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
- Virbhadra Singh, Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh
- Shashi Tharoor, MP, former Minister of State, former Under-Secretary-General of the UN[5]
- Jigme Thinley, Former Prime Minister of Bhutan
- Sitaram Yechuri, General Secretary of Communist Party of India (Marxist)[5]
- Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (1924-1988), former President of Pakistan[5]
Law
- Bishwajit Bhattacharyya, former Additional Solicitor General of India
- Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud, Judge, Supreme Court of India[11]
- Ranjan Gogoi, 46th Chief Justice of India (2018–2019)[12][5]
Ranjan Gogoi - Bhupinder Nath Kirpal, 31st Chief Justice of India[13]
- Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Judge, Supreme Court of India[14]
- Hima Kohli, Chief Justice of the Telangana High Court
- Madan Lokur, Judge, Supreme Court of India[15]
- Karuna Nundy, lawyer, Supreme Court of India
- Vikramajit Sen, Judge, Supreme Court of India[16]
- Abhishek Singhvi, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India; MP from West Bengal
Bureaucrats
- Montek Singh Ahluwalia, economist; Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission; former Finance Secretary[17]
- Javeed Ahmad, IPS, Director of National Institute of Criminology and Forensic Sciences, and former Director General of Uttar Pradesh Police[18][19]
- Yamini Aiyar, Chief Executive and President of Centre for Policy Research
- Asaf Ali (1888-1953), Indian ambassador to the US, Governor of Odisha[20][21]
- Pratyaya Amrit, IAS, Principal Secretary in Government of Bihar[22]
- Jaimini Bhagwati, IFS officer and World bank economist
- Sanjay Bhattacharya, Indian ambassador to Turkey
- Ajay Bisaria, IFS, High Commissioner of India to Canada
- Pulok Chatterji, IAS, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India (2011-2014)
- Navin Chawla, former chief election commissioner of India
- Shaktikanta Das, 25th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India[5]
- Parvez Dewan, IAS officer
- Vijay Keshav Gokhale, 32nd Foreign Secretary of India
- Deepak Gupta, Chairman Union Public Service Commission
- Wajahat Habibullah, first Chief Information Commissioner of India
- Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain, high ranking officer of the Indian Army
- Parameswaran Iyer, IAS, led Swachh Bharat Mission
- S. Jaishankar, IFS, Foreign Secretary of India, current External Affairs Minister of India
- Ajay Narayan Jha, former Finance Secretary and member of Fifteenth Finance Commission[5]
- Ashok Kamte (1965-2008), officer of Indian Police Services, killed in action during 26/11 attack.
- Amitabh Kant, CEO of NITI Aayog (2016–incumbent)[5]
- Vijayendra Nath Kaul, former Comptroller and Auditor General of India (2002-2008)[23]
- Amit Khare, IAS, Principal Secretary (Finance), Government of Jharkhand
- Rahul Khullar, IAS Officer, former Chairman Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
- Neeraj Kumar, IPS, Former Delhi Police Commissioner
- VJ Kurian, Former Managing Director of Cochin International Airport and Addl. Chief Secretary Govt of Kerala
- Arun Maira, member of the Planning Commission
- Ved Marwah, officer of IPS
- Rajiv Mehrishi, IAS, Comptroller and Auditor General of India, former Home Secretary and Finance Secretary of India[5]
- Shivshankar Menon, IFS, former National Security Adviser of India
- Vinay Mittal, Chairman Union Public Service Commission
- Monika Kapil Mohta, Ambassador of India to Switzerland
- Nirmal Kumar Mukarji, officer of ICS
- Vinay Sheel Oberoi, IAS officer
- Armstrong Pame, IAS officer
- S. Y. Quraishi, former Chief Election Commissioner of India
- Aftab Seth, eminent IFS officer
- Ajit Seth, 30th Cabinet Secretary of India
- Kamalesh Sharma, IFS, 5th Secretary General of the Commonwealth of Nations
- Harsh Vardhan Shringla, 33rd Foreign Secretary of India
- A P Singh, former director of CBI
- Alwyn Didar Singh, former secretary general of FCCCI
- N. K. Singh, chairman of Fifteenth Finance Commission of India
- Taranjit Singh Sandhu, IFS, current Indian Ambassador to the United States
- Pradeep Kumar Sinha, IAS, Cabinet Secretary of India[24]
- Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha, former High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom
- Prajapati Trivedi, economist and first Secretary, Performance Management Division, Cabinet Secretariat[25]
- Alok Verma, Former Director of Central Bureau of Investigation[5]
Business
- Ashok Alexander, former Director, McKinsey & Company & Head, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Rahul Bajaj, Chairman, Bajaj Group[26]
Rahul Bajaj - Ajaypal Singh Banga, CEO of MasterCard
- Sarthak Behuria, former Chairman Indian Oil Corporation
- Sanjeev Bikhchandani, founder of Naukri.com
- Piyush Gupta, CEO, DBS Bank
- Deep Kalra, founder and CEO of MakeMyTrip
- Jagdish Khattar, IAS, Former Managing Director, Maruti Suzuki
- Siddhartha Lal, CEO, Eicher Motors
- Ivan Menezes, CEO of Diageo[27]
- Piyush Pandey, Executive Chairman and Creative Director, Ogilvy and Mather India and South Asia
- Vipul Ved Prakash, Internet entrepreneur and co-founder of Topsy and Cloudmark
- Bharat Ram, industrialist, former Chairman and Managing Director Delhi Cloth & General Mills
- Madan Mohan Sabharwal, business executive, social worker and Padma Shri awardee[28]
- Malvinder Mohan Singh, Co-founder, Fortis Healthcare[29]
- Shivinder Mohan Singh, Co-founder, Fortis Healthcare[30]
- Janmejaya Sinha, Management Consultant, Chairman Boston Consulting Group
- Vikram Talwar, Founder & CEO EXL Service
- Gautam Thapar, Chairman Avantha Group
- Ashok Vemuri, former CEO Conduent and iGATE
Performing arts
- Niret Alva, television producer
- Siddhartha Basu, quiz master
- Kabir Bedi, actor[31]
Kabir Bedi - Richa Chadha, actress
- Safdar Hashmi, founding member of Jana Natya Manch[32]
- Shekhar Kapur, director and producer
- Amit Khanna, triple National Film Award winning producer, founder chairman of Reliance Entertainment[33]
- Arunima Kumar, kuchipudi dancer
- Raam Reddy, director, Thithi
- Parikshit Sahni, actor
- Roshan Seth, actor
- Rajeev Siddhartha, actor
- Chandrachur Singh, actor
- Konkana Sen Sharma, actor[34]
- Suraj Sharma, actor[35] (did not graduate)
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Writers, poets, artists and critics
- Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi (1908-1985), Indian Islamic scholar
- Upamanyu Chatterjee, IAS, author
- Kanika Dhillon, author and screenwriter
- Yashica Dutt, writer[36]
- Mahmood Farooqui, prominent Urdu poet, performer and director
- Rajmohan Gandhi, biographer, recipient Sahitya Akademi Award[37][38]
- Amitav Ghosh, author
- Ramachandra Guha, author
Ramachandra Guha - Mukul Kesavan, historian, novelist and political and social essayist
- Rajiv Malhotra, author, philanthropist, intellectual, writer[39]
- Harsh Mander, columnist and human rights activist[40]
- Mammen Mathew, Chief Editor of the Malayala Manorama, Padma Shri awardee
- Anurag Mathur, author and journalist
- Rajiv Mehrotra, writer, television producer-director, documentary film maker
- Satyarth Nayak, Author of Sridevi: The Eternal Screen Goddess and The Emperor's Riddles and Screenwriter for Sony TV epic historical series Porus
- Janice Pariat, author, first Sahitya Akademi Award recipient for English literature from Meghalaya[41]
- Prem Behari Narain Raizada, calligrapher and writer of the Constitution of India
- Maroof Raza, Defence analyst, writer, and educationalist
- Raam Reddy, author, filmmaker
- Jaideep Saikia, author
- Allan Sealy, writer, finalist Booker prize
- Khushwant Singh (1915-2014), author[5]
- Parismita Singh, author, illustrator, graphic novelist[42]
- Ashok Vajpeyi, Hindi poet, essayist, and Chairman, Lalit Kala Akademi India's National Academy of Arts, Govt of India
- Nirmal Verma, writer, novelist, activist and translator
- Ramkumar Verma (1905-1990), Hindi poet[43]
Art
- Aditya Arya, photographer
- Shakti Maira,[44] artist, sculptor, writer
- Rajeev Sethi, art curator, scenographer, designer
- Ram Kumar (artist), artist, awarded Padma Bhushan
Academics
Social Sciences and Humanities
- Economics
- Kaushik Basu, economist; Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank; former CEA to the Government[45]
Kaushik Basu - Bhaskar Chakravorti, economist; Dean, The Fletcher School at Tufts University
- Pradeep Dubey, game theorist and professor at Yale University
- Ranjay Gulati, organizational behaviour scholar, Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School
- Sanjay Jain, development economist; Senior Fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Oxford
- Rajiv Kumar, economist, vice-chairman of the NITI Aayog
- Shailendra Raj Mehta, economist, president and director of MICA
- Deepak Nayyar, economist; former Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India
- Rohini Pande, development economist; professor at Yale University
- Manoj Pant, Director Indian Institute of Foreign Trade
- Abhijit Sen, former member of planning commission
- Arunava Sen, economist; recipient of the Infosys Prize
- Mihir Shah, former member of planning commission
- Arvind Subramanian, economist; former Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India
- Arvind Virmani, economist; former Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India
- History
- Nayanjot Lahiri, historian; recipient of the Infosys Prize
- Amrita Narlikar, Fellow, Darwin College, Cambridge
- Upinder Singh, historian; recipient of the Infosys Prize
- Philosophy
- Divya Dwivedi, philosopher
- Shaj Mohan, philosopher
Natural and Mathematical Sciences
- V. Balakrishnan, theoretical physicist[46]Template:Page needed
- Charusita Chakravarty, chemical physicist and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
- Suraj N. Gupta, theoretical physicist
- Deepak Kumar (1946-2016), physicist and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
- Satish Chandra Maheshwari (1933-2019), molecular biologist and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize recipient
- Venkatesh Narayanamurti, physicist, former Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University[47]
- Pran Nath, particle physicist, recipient Alexander von Humboldt Prize
- Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash, the "fastest human calculator in the world"
- Ramamurti Rajaraman, theoretical physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate, Leo Szilard Awardee, former Co-Chair International Panel on Fissile Materials
- Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman, computer pioneer, Padma Bhushan recipient and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
- Anupam Saikia, mathematician, Cambridge Math Wrangler[48]
- Dinesh Singh, mathematician, 21st Vice-Chancellor of the University of Delhi
- Manik Varma, computer scientist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
Media and journalism
- Shiv Aroor, editor and anchor at India Today (TV channel)
- Raghav Bahl, former Director of Network 18, founder of The Quint
- Shereen Bhan, Managing Editor of CNBC-TV18 and World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders 2009
- Ajit Bhattacharjea (1924-2011), newspaper editor, the Hindustan Times, The Times of India and The Indian Express[49]
- Vikram Chandra, former CEO, NDTV Group
- Arvind Narayan Das, Founding Editor, Biblio
- Parag Kumar Das, human rights activist and Assamese journalist assassinated in 1996
- David Devadas, journalist, writer and columnist; expert on Kashmir conflict
- Barkha Dutt, television journalist, columnist, group editor with NDTV[50][51]
Barkha Dutt - Bhaskar Ghose, former Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, former Director General of Doordarshan
- Sagarika Ghose,[52] journalist, news anchor and author
- Samir Jain, Vice-Chairman of media group Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd.
- Siddharth Kak, documentary filmmaker and creator of TV show Surabhi[53][54]
- Ritu Kapur, media entrepreneur[55]
- Arun Shourie,[56] journalist, author and politician; winner of the Ramon Magsaysay Award
- Sonia Singh, Editorial Director of NDTV[57]
- Sreenath Sreenivasan, former Dean Columbia School of Journalism[58]
- Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, journalist, writer, and documentary maker; former Editor, Economic and Political Weekly
- George Verghese (1927–2014), editor of the Hindustan Times and The Indian Express, winner of the Ramon Magsaysay Award
Sports
- George Abraham, founder of World Blind Cricket Council (WBC)[59]
- Neha Aggarwal, Olympian[60]
- Kirti Azad, Cricketer, winner of the 1983 Cricket World Cup[61]
- Ajeet Bajaj, mountaineer, part of first father-daughter duo to scale Mount Everest
- Ranjit Bhatia, Olympian[62]
- Unmukt Chand, Captain of the Indian U-19 Cricket team; Winner of the 2012 Under-19 Cricket World Cup[63]
- Anjum Chopra, former Captain of Indian Women Cricket Team
- Michael Dalvi, Indian Cricketer
- Piyush Kumar, Represented India in the 2000 Sydney Olympics[64][60]
- Arun Lal, Indian Cricketer
- Mirza Masood, Olympic Gold Medalist[65]
- Akanksha Singh, Captain, India Women's National Basketball Team
- Karni Singh, Olympian[66]
- Mansher Singh, Olympian
- Ranjit Singh (athlete), Olympian[60]
- Randhir Singh (sport shooter), Olympian; Indian representative to the International Olympic Committee[67]
- Mandip Singh Soin, mountaineer, explorer, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
- Arun Sondhi, represented India at the 1992 and 1996 Paralympics[68][60]
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