Mayo College - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

Alumni of Mayo College are known as 'Old Boys' and are sometimes referred to as Old-Mayoites.

• Sawai Man Singh II Maharaja of Jaipur

• Sir Hari Singh Bahadur

• Jaswant Singh (Politician)

• K. Natwar Singh (Politician)

• Indra Sinha (Writer)

• Tinu Anand (Film Director)

A number of students come to Mayo from overseas, including members of royal families from Oman and Nepal. The school has educated two Sultans of Oman, one of which is the current Sultan's father — Sayyid Said bin Taimur and the late Princess Shruti of Nepal.

Mayo College has educated members of many royal families including (but not limited to) Bikaner, Alwar, Jammu and Kashmir, Kishangarh, Jaipur, Udaipur, Jodhpur, Kotah, etc. HH Sawai Man Singh II of Jaipur, Hari Singh of Jammu and Kashmir, Rana Arvind Singh Mewar, Prince Shivraj Singh of Jodhpur (Marwar-Jodhpur) and Kirit Bikram Deb Burman: Erstwhile Maharaja of Tripura from the second oldest continuing ruling lineage after the Mikados of Japan.

Many Old Boys from Mayo have served with distinction in the armed forces and many others serve the country as members of Parliament and senior Civil Servants. Jaswant Singh is one of the few Indian politicians to have been the Minister for Defence, Finance and External Affairs and K. Natwar Singh of the Indian Foreign Service served as India's Ambassador to Pakistan and as External Affairs Minister.

Old Boys have served as Indian ambassadors to Morocco, Spain, Norway, Brazil, Libya, Switzerland and France.

Old Boys have made their mark in commerce and industry and in science and technology. The Vice Chairman of Tata Motors, Ravi Kant, erstwhile Chairman of Shell Oil-India, Ajay Mehta, erstwhile Chairman Emeritus of Nestle-India, Narendra Singh of Sarila, former Chairman of Air India & Indian Airlines, Probir Sen, erstwhile Chairman and MD of Axis Bank, P.J. Nayak, Member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee, Sushil Wadhwani, the retired Chief General Manager & Executive Director of the Reserve Bank of India & erstwhile Managing Director of NABARD, Yashwant Thorat, as well as Rakesh Mohan, who served as Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India have all schooled at Mayo. Mayo has also produced academic economists like Alok Bhargava who researches on food policy issues in developing countries and in developed countries for formulating public policies. Mayo has produced distinguished scientists such as the world renowned scientist in the field of electronic materials, Amit Goyal.

Respected journalists such as Vir Sanghvi, Siddharth Varadarajan, and Manvendra Singh, writers Vikram Chandra (Red Earth & Pouring Rain, Sacred Games) and Indra Sinha (Animal's People, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize), Artist Painter Jaideep Mehrotra, (Red Fashion Designer Raghuvendra Rathore, Celebrity Chef Jiggs Kalra, Actors Ajay Mehta, Bobby Deol, Tinnu Anand, Vivek Oberoi, Sagarika Ghatge, Filmmakers Pradip Krishen (also an environmentalist and writer of Trees of Delhi), Samir Karnik, Goldie Behl, Heeraz Marfatia, etc. and theatre personality, Amir Raza Husain attended Mayo.

The school has produced a number of sportsmen including Charu Sharma, Cricketer Arun Lal and Lokendra S. Ghanerao (who captained India at Polo).