La Martiniere Calcutta - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

Sports

• P. Sen ('43 batch), cricket: Better known as Khokhon Sen, won 14 test caps for India between '48 and '52 as wicketkeeper. Famous for stumping Bradman in a first class match.
• Oscar Ward, boxing: represented India in the 1952 Olympics as a lightheavyweight
• Ann Lumsden, hockey: first woman to win Arjuna Award
• Jaidip Mukerjea ('59 batch), tennis: Davis Cup team member
• Nafisa Ali, swimming: national champion swimmer; actress and former Miss India, politician
• Rishi Narayan, golf: member of the Indian golf squad in the IX Asiad
• Shunondo Guha Thakurta. (79 batch) Cricket, Football, Rugby for First Class Club. Bengal Junior Cricket. CAB.
• Brandon DeSouza ('79 batch, School Vice Captain), pro golfer and golfing events promoter
• Enrico Piperno ('80 batch), tennis: member of Indian Tennis team to the IX Asiad; Davis Cup team member and current Indian Fed Cup coach.
• Leander Paes ('92 batch), tennis: India's only medallist at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, captain of the Indian Davis Cup team, winner of 12 grand slam doubles titles (men's doubles and mixed doubles) and junior Wimbledon champion in '92. (till Class VII only; he transferred thereafter to the Brittania Academy, Madras)

' Media and journalism

• Sunanda K. Datta-Ray ('54 batch), author, journalist and former editor of The Statesman
• Jug Suraiya ('62 batch), humourist and journalist
• Pritish Nandy ('69 batch), poet, journalist and film producer, former editor of The Illustrated Weekly of India, and former MP in the Rajya Sabha.
• Swapan Dasgupta ('72 batch), journalist and political commentator; former Managing Editor, India Today.
• Chandan Mitra (Gold Medallist, '72 batch), Member of Parliament and journalist; author of "Constant Glory", an authorized history of La Martinière.
• Paranjoy Guha Thakurta ('72 batch), journalist
• Prannoy Roy, founder and Editor-in-Chief, NDTV. (till Class V; he transferred thereafter to Doon School, Dehra Dun)
• Indrajit Gupta ('86 batch), Editor, Forbes India
• D.N. ("Bonny") Mukherjea ('86 batch), Editor, Fortune India
• Jayadiya Gupta ('86 batch), Executive editor of ESPNcricinfo, India
• Suhel Seth ('82 batch), advertising and TV
• Ashok Malik ('88 batch), columnist, The Pioneer

Business and finance

• Catchick Paul Chater (1864 batch), Father of modern Hong Kong, benefactor to the College (Rupees 11 lakh in the 1910s). Chater was a Foundation Scholar.
• Vijay Mallya ('72 batch, Hastings House Captain), "King of Good Times", Chairman of the United Breweries (UB) Group and Rajya Sabha member
• C K Birla, industrialist
• Harsh Neotia, Chairman and CEO, Bengal Ambuja Group
• Atul Singh, India CEO, Coca Cola
• Ronju Dutt ('57 batch), former Chairman and CEO of Bata India
• Pramod Bhasin ('75 batch), founder and first CEO of Genpact and one of the most influential figures in the Indian BPO industry
• Hemant Kanoria ('80 batch), founder and Chairman of SREI Infrastructure Finance

Academia and education

• A. W. Wilson Steel (1855 batch), second Wrangler at Cambridge University, 1859; Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
• John Mason (Good Conduct Medal, '62 batch), educationist, former Principal of Doon School and St. James' School, Kolkata, and Vice Principal, LMB. Mason was a Foundation Scholar.
• Nirmalya Kumar ('77 batch), business writer, Professor and Director for Aditya V. Birla India Centre at London Business School.

Arts, culture and entertainment

• John Campbell Oman, (1859 batch), one of the first English-language writers on Indian religion and spirituality, author of "The Mystics, Ascetics and Saints of India".
• Barry O'Brien (Best All-Rounder, '82 batch), quizmaster and MLA for the Anglo-Indian community
• Bickram Ghosh ('84 batch), tabla pandit
• Aki Narula ('87 batch), fashion designer
• Merle Oberon, Hollywood actress
• Kiran Rao ('85 batch, plus 2 only), film producer ("Dhobi Ghat")

Other

• Gregory Charles Paul, (Gold Medallist 1845), Advocate-General, Bengal Presidency.
• Alfred Lethbridge, (1862 batch, est), British colonial administrator.
• Jiten Chaudhary ('48 batch), Judge of Calcutta High Court
• Kamakhya Prasad Singh Deo ('61 batch), politician, currently head of the Orissa Pradesh Congress Committee and Union Cabinet minister (Information and Broadcasting) in the 1980s
• Mausam Benazir Noor, MP, Lok Sabha, representing Malda North constituency
• Andy Varma ('75 batch), chef/owner, Chakra Restaurant, London; formerly the chef/ owner of Vama restaurant, which was one of the pioneering high-end Indian restaurants in London.
• John Mukherjee ('60 batch), former Chief of Staff, Eastern Command, Indian Army.