List of Modern School alumni explained

The Modern School (informally Modern School or Modern) is an independent day-cum-boarding school in New Delhi, India founded in 1920 by Lala Raghubir Singh, a prominent Delhi philanthropist and businessman. The first principal was Mrs. Kamala Bose who moved from Calcutta to head the school. The best known alumnus is former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

Note: The sub-headings are given as a general guide and some names might fit under more than one category

Government

Prime Ministers

• Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India

Members of Parliament and Legislative Assemblies

• Rahul Gandhi, Member of Parliament and General Secretary, Indian National Congress (completed RSJMS and transferred)^[1]
• Priyanka Gandhi, General Secretary, Eastern Uttar Pradesh, All India Congress Committee
• Sandeep Dikshit, Member of Parliament and Member, Indian National Congress (INC)
• Varun Gandhi, Member of Parliament and National Secretary, Bharatiya Janta Party (completed RSJMS and transferred)
• Raghav Chadha, Rajya Sabha member of the Aam Adami Party

Judiciary

!Name!Class year!Notability!Ref

Justice Bhupinder Nath Kirpal	1954	Chief Justice of India
Justice Mukul Mudgal	1966	Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court	^[2]
Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul	1976	Judge, Supreme Court of India
Justice Sanjiv Khanna	1977	Judge, Supreme Court of India & in-lineChief Justice of India (2024)	^[3]
Justice Madan B. Lokur	1970	Judge, Supreme Court of India & Supreme Court of Fiji.	^[4]
Mukul Rohatgi	1972	Attorney General of India

Business

!Name!Class year!Notability!

Dr. Bharat Ram	1930	Chairman and Managing Director, Delhi Cloth & General Mills. Founded Shri Ram Fibres in 1970 renamed SRF Limited in 1990.	^[5]
Rajat Gupta		Managing Director, McKinsey & Company and Founder, Indian School of Business	^[6] ^[7]
Atul Punj	1976	Chairman, Punj Lloyd Group
Surinder Mehta	1975	Founder of Prime Group
Gurcharan Das	1959	CEO, Procter & Gamble
Rakesh Kapoor		CEO, Reckitt Benckiser

Diplomats and Bureaucrats

!Name!Class year!Notability!

Gopal Krishna Gandhi	1961	Governor of West Bengal and Bihar	^[8] ^[9] ^[10]
Arun Shourie	1958	Minister of Communications and Information Technology (IT)
Amitabh Kant	1973	CEO, NITI Aayog.
Arvind Varma	1957	Secretary to Government of India in the Ministries of Coal, Personnel, Mines and Chemicals & Petrochemicals.
Sanjay Mitra (civil servant)	1975	Joint Secretary to the Prime Minister of India,Chief Secretary, West Bengal & Chairperson of the Defence Research and Development Organisation
Ajay Bisaria	1980	India’s Ambassador to Poland & High Commissioner of India to Pakistan.

Medicine

!Name!Class year!Notability!

Dr. Naresh Trehan	1962	Renowned cardiovascular and cardiothoracic surgeon and a stalwart in the field of medicine. He is the chairman and MD of Medanta The Medicity
Dr. Arvind Lal	1966	Renowned pathologist, and founder of ‘Dr Lal PathLabs.
Noshir Minoo Shroff	1968	Leading Ophthalmologist and founder, Shroff Eye Hospital
Arvinder Singh Soin	1981	Runs India’s largest and the world’s second largest liver transplant program at Medanta Medicity, Gurgaon.
Pramod Kumar Julka		Oncologist & dean All India Institutes of Medical Sciences

Sports

!Name!Class year!Notability!

Gautam Gambhir	2000	International Cricketer & Member of Parliament, Bhartiya Janta Party	^[11] ^[12] ^[13]
Ronjan Sodhi	1997	Shooter - He became the first Indian shooter to defend his world title when he won the gold medal in double trap event at the 2010 World Cup Final in Turkey.
Gaurav Ghei	1986	International Pro Golfer. In 1999, he won the Asian Nations Cup held in Malaysia. In 2006, he won the Taiwan Masters and in 2007 the Pine Valley Beijing Open.	^[14]
Daniel Chopra	1992	Indian-origin Swedish professional golfer.
Bhaskar Pillai	1980	Cricketer
Kirti Azad	1976	Cricketer- Member of the Indian team that won the 1983 Cricket World Cup
Shweta Sehrawat	2022	Vice-captain of the India women's national under-19 cricket team for 2023 Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup	^[15] ^[16]
Sharad Kumar		Paralympic Bronze medalist
Ayush Badoni	2016	Cricketer	^[17]
Himmat Singh	2016	Cricketer
Vaibhav Suri		Chess player	^[18]
Samaresh Jung		Shooter
Jasjit Singh (tennis)	1964	, Davis Cup (1974).
Vishal Uppal		Indian tennis player
Unmukt Chand,		Indian origin cricketer
Prithu Gupta		Grandmaster	^[19]

Armed Forces

!Name!Class year!Notability!Ref

Pratap Chandra Lal	1933
Surinder Mehra	1948	Chief of Air Staff, Indian Air Force
Subhash Bhojwani	1962	Air Marshal, Indian Air Force
Sonam Wangchuk	1981	Colonel, Indian Army and recipient of the Maha Vir Chakra for his actions in the Kargil War

Literature

• Khushwant Singh (1930), Novelist, Columnist, Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha), and former Editor of The Illustrated Weekly of India, The National Herald, and The Hindustan Times

Arts

!Name!Class year!Notability!Ref

Shekhar Kapur	1962	filmmaker
Amjad Ali Khan	1963	sarod maestro
Madhup Mudgal	1973	Indian classical vocalist

Fine & Performing Arts

• Yamini Reddy, Indian classical dancer and Kuchipudi exponent
• Anuradha Kapur, director, National School of Drama

Architecture

• Ratish Nanda, architect, conservationist, and project director, Aga Khan Trust for Culture, India
• Aman Nath, founder, INTACH and co-founder and chairman, Neemrana Hotels
• Rajeev Sethi, designer, scenographer and art curator

Films and entertainment

• Abhishek Bachchan, actor
• Gauri Khan, film producer
• Sanjana Sanghi, actress
• Amrita Singh, actress
• Karan Soni, Indian born American actor

Music

• Ustad Amjad Ali Khan - Indian classical sarod player, best known for his clear and fast ekhara taans. Awarded with India's second highest civilian honor Padma Vibhushan in 2001.

Education

!Name!Class year!Notability!Ref

Sriram Ramaswamy	1973	Former Director of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences in Hyderabad.
Syeda Saiyidain Hameed	1959	Former member of the Planning Commission of India &Padma Shri awardee
Kiran Seth	1965	Professor Emeritus at Indian institute of Technology, Delhi, and founder of SPIC MACAY
Ranjay Gulati	1980	Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor at Harvard Business School
Sunita Narain	1980	Director general, Centre for Science and Environment

Notes and References

1. Book: Ramachandran, Aarthi. Decoding Rahul Gandhi. Tranqebar Press. 2012. 978-9381626696. New Delhi, India.
2. Web site: Former Judges . 2024-07-20 . dhc.nic.in.
3. Web site: Next 8 Chief Justices of India . 2024-07-20 . Supreme Court Observer . en-US.
4. Web site: 2013-01-17 . Hon'ble Mr. Justice Madan Bhimarao Lokur . 2024-07-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130117214127/http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/sjud/mblokur.htm . 2013-01-17 .
5. Web site: Story SRF . 2024-07-20 . www.srf.com.
6. Web site: Famous Alumni . 2024-07-20 . Modern School . en-US.
7. Web site: Welcome To Delhi Highcourt . 2024-07-20 . delhihighcourt.nic.in.
8. Web site: Famous Alumni . 2023-06-22 . Modern School . en-US.
9. Web site: Guha . Ramachandran . Merchandizing Gandhi . October 2, 2015.
10. Web site: November 1, 2011 . Modern School Turns 91 . October 2, 2015 . The Hindu.
11. Web site: The School that Shaped Gautam Gambhir . 7 September 2015 . NDTV .
12. Web site: Interview with Gautam Gambhir . 7 September 2015 . Yahoo .
13. Web site: Teachers Over the Moon at Boy's Success . 7 September 2015 . The Hindustan Times .
14. Web site: Golf Roll of Honour . 7 September 2015 . Modern School .
15. News: Basu . Arani . 2023-01-29 . Shweta Sehrawat: From playing with boys as a kid to Under-19 World Cup cricket star . 2023-05-20 . The Times of India . 0971-8257.
16. Web site: THE MODERN SCHOOL WEEKLY - Issue 350 .
17. Web site: THE MODERN SCHOOL WEEKLY - Issue 252 .
18. Web site: Rathi . Devanshi . 2018-06-08 . Vaibhav Suri: Chess and Education go hand-in-hand for this Grandmaster . 2023-10-14 . www.sportskeeda.com . en-us.
19. News: 2018-03-20 . Delhi boy Prithu Gupta earns his 1st Grand Master norm at 13 . 2023-05-20 . The Times of India . 0971-8257.