This article contains a list of British Indians members of the Indian Civil Service (ICS) in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
| Name | Year of examination | Year of joining | Year of resignation/ disqualification | Rank | Final posting | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Satyendranath Tagore | 1863 | 1864 | Judge, Satara, First Indian ever, who qualified as well as served Imperial Civil Service.[1] | |||
| Romesh Dutt | 1869 | 1871 | Officiating Commissioner of Orissa; later Dewan, Baroda | |||
| Behari Lal Gupta | 1869 | 1871 | Sessions judge, Bengal; later chief minister, Baroda | |||
| Surendranath Banerjee (later Sir) | 1869 | 1871 | 1871 (Disqualification) | Minister in the Dyarchy Cabinet in Bengal, 1921-1926 | ||
| Ananda Ram Baruah | 1870 | 1872 | The first ICS from Assam/North-East | District Magistrate and Collector in Bengal | ||
| Krishna Govinda Gupta (later Sir) | 1871 | 1873 | Commissioner, Bengal; later member, Secretary of State's Council, UK | |||
| Brajendranath De | 1873 | 1875 | 17th | Magistrate and Collector of Hooghly, (1910); also Commissioner (offg.), Burdwan, Bengal (1905) | ||
| Maharajadhiraj Sir Rameshwar Singh Bahadur | 1878 | 1885 | 1885 | Magistrate and Collector of Darbhanga, Chhapra, and Bhagalpur. | ||
| Perungavur Rajagopalachari (later Diwan Bahadur and Sir) | 1886 | 1888 | Chairman of the Madras Legislative Council | |||
| Basanta Kumar Mullick | 1887 | 1889 | Puisne Judge of the Patna High Court | |||
| Albion Rajkumar Banerjee (later Sir) | 1894 | 1895 | Prime Minister of Kashmir; Dewan of Mysore | |||
| Atul Chandra Chatterjee (later Sir) | 1896 | 1897 | ||||
| Pulicat Ratnavelu Chetty[2] [3] | 1876 | 1876 | 1881 | first from madras presidency | Death in palakkad age 25, Acting Head Assistant Collector, Malabar[4] | |
| Abdullah Yusuf Ali[5] [6] | 1894 | 1896 | Resigned in 1914 | Ranked seventh. | Kanpur? |
| Name | Year of examination | Year of joining | Year of resignation/ disqualification | Rank | Final posting | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sarat Kumar Ghosh (later Sir) | 1903 | 1903 | Chief Justice of Jaipur & of Kashmir | |||
| Gurusaday Dutt | 1905 | 1905 | First Indian to come first in any part of the Open Competitive Services examination; 1st (in the 2nd Part) | Secretary, Local Self Government and Public Health | ||
| Benegal Narsing Rau (later Sir) | 1908 | 1909 | Prime Minister of Kashmir | |||
| Benegal Rama Rau (later Sir) | Governor, Reserve Bank of India | |||||
| Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi (later Sir) | Governor of the Punjab | |||||
| S. V. Ramamurthy (later Sir) | 1911 | Acting governor of Bombay | ||||
| Chintaman Dwarakanath Deshmukh (later Sir, CIE) | 1918 | 1st | 1st Indian Governor of Reserve Bank of India; Finance Minister of India | |||
| Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari Jr. (later Sir) | 1918 | 1919 | Governor of Assam | |||
| Sukumar Sen | 1919 | 1921 | Chief Election Commissioner of India | |||
| Subhas Chandra Bose | 1920 | 1921 | 1921(Resignation) | 4th | ||
| Y. N. Sukthankar (later CIE) | 1921 | Second Cabinet Secretary of India | ||||
| Sudhansu Kumar Das | 1921 | Acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India | ||||
| K. P. S. Menon | 1922 | 1st | First Foreign Secretary (India) | |||
| Nilakanta Mahadeva Iyer (later CIE) | 1922 | |||||
| Binay Ranjan Sen (later CIE) | 1922 | |||||
| N. R. Pillai (later Sir) | 1923 | First Cabinet Secretary of India | ||||
| C. S. Venkatachari | 1923 | Chief Minister of Rajasthan | ||||
| Girija Shankar Bajpai (later Sir) | Governor of Maharashtra | |||||
| S. Venkateswaran | 1925 | |||||
| Annada Shankar Ray | 1927 | |||||
| Jaipal Singh Munda | 1927 | 1927 | 1928 (resignation) | member Constituent Assembly | ||
| Birendra Narayan Chakraborty | 1928 | |||||
| Subimal Dutt | 1928 | Foreign Secretary (India) | ||||
| Dharma Vira | 1931 | Governor of West Bengal | ||||
| S. Bhoothalingam | 1931 | Finance Secretary of India | ||||
| Bhairab Dutt Pande | Governor of West Bengal | |||||
| Lallan Prasad Singh | Governor of Assam | |||||
| Lakshmi Kant Jha | Indian Ambassador to United States | |||||
| Haribhai M. Patel | Defence Minister, Government of India | |||||
| Abul Hasan Quraishi | 1933 | 1933 | ||||
| MS Randhawa | 1934 | Chief Commissioner of Chandigarh | ||||
| Zafrul Ahsan Lari | 1934 | 1934 | ||||
| Maharaj Sri Nagendra Singh | President of the International Court of Justice, The Hague | |||||
| Aditya Nath Jha | First Lieutenant Governor of Delhi | |||||
| K.B. Lall | Secretary, Defence, GOI | |||||
| Tarlok Singh | 1937 | Member of the Planning Commission of India | ||||
| V. K. Rao | 1937 | 1938 | ||||
| Triloki Nath Kaul | 1939 | Ambassador, Foreign Secretary | ||||
| Govind Narain | 1939 | Governor of Karnataka | ||||
| H.V.R. Iyengar | Governor of the Reserve Bank of India | |||||
| S. Jagannathan | Governor of the Reserve Bank of India | |||||
| Chandrika Prasad Srivastava (later Sir) | Secretary General of International Maritime Organization, London | |||||
| Sushil Chandra Mishra | 1940 | Collector of Satna and Tikamgarh, Chairman of M.P.E.B | ||||
| M A Quraishi | 1941 | |||||
| Nirmal Kumar Mukarji | 1941 | 1943 | 1st Rank from the Last Batch of ICS | |||
| Bhagwan Singh (later Captain) | 1946 | Indian High Commissioner to Fiji |