List of Modern School alumni

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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

  

  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 Justice B.N. Kirpal	1954	Former Chief Justice of India	[2]
Justice Mukul Mudgal	1966	Chairman, FIFA Governance, Audit and Compliance Committee Former Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court	[2][3]
Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul	1976	Judge, Supreme Court of India	[2]
Justice Sanjiv Khanna	1977	Chief Justice of India (2024)	[2][4]
Justice Manmohan	1981	Judge, Supreme Court of India	[5][6]
Justice Madan B. Lokur	1970	Judge, Supreme Court of India & Supreme Court of Fiji.	[2][7]
Mukul Rohatgi	1972	Attorney General of India	[2]

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.	[2][8]
Rajat Gupta		Managing Director, McKinsey & Company and Founder, Indian School of Business	[9][10]
Atul Punj	1976	Chairman, Punj Lloyd Group	[2]
Surinder Mehta	1975	Founder of Prime Group	[2]
Gurcharan Das	1959	CEO, Procter & Gamble	[2]
Rakesh Kapoor		CEO, Reckitt Benckiser

Diplomats and Bureaucrats

Name	Class year	Notability
Gopal Krishna Gandhi	1961	Governor of West Bengal and Bihar	[2][11][12]
Arun Shourie	1958	Minister of Communications and Information Technology (IT)	[2]
Amitabh Kant	1973	CEO, NITI Aayog.	[9]

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	[2]
Dr. Arvind Lal	1966	Renowned pathologist, and founder of ‘Dr Lal PathLabs.	[9]
Noshir Minoo Shroff	1968	Leading Ophthalmologist and founder, Shroff Eye Hospital	[2]

Sports

Name	Class year	Notability
Gautam Gambhir	2000	International Cricketer & Member of Parliament, Bhartiya Janta Party	[13][14][15][2]
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.	[2]
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.	[16][2]
Daniel Chopra	1992	Indian-origin Swedish professional golfer.	[9]
Bhaskar Pillai	1980	Cricketer	[2]
Kirti Azad	1976	Cricketer- Member of the Indian team that won the 1983 Cricket World Cup	[2]
Shweta Sehrawat	2022	Vice-captain of the India women's national under-19 cricket team for 2023 Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup	[17][18]
Sharad Kumar		Paralympic Bronze medalist
Ayush Badoni	2016	Cricketer	[19]
Himmat Singh	2016	Cricketer	[19]
Vaibhav Suri		Chess player	[20]
Samaresh Jung		Shooter
Jasjit Singh (tennis)[2]	1964	, Davis Cup (1974).
Vishal Uppal		Indian tennis player
Unmukt Chand,		Indian origin cricketer
Prithu Gupta		Grandmaster	[21]

Armed Forces

Name	Class year	Notability	Ref
Pratap Chandra Lal	1933	Chief of Air Staff, Indian Air Force and recipient of the Padma Bhushan & Padma Vibhushan	[2]
Surinder Mehra	1948	Chief of Air Staff, Indian Air Force	[2]

Literature

Khushwant Singh

• 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^[2]

Arts

Name	Class year	Notability	Ref
Shekhar Kapur	1962	filmmaker	[2]
Amjad Ali Khan	1963	sarod maestro	[2]
Madhup Mudgal	1973	Indian classical vocalist	[2]
Yamini Reddy		classical dancer and Kuchipudi exponent

Architecture

• Ratish Nanda, Architect, Aga Khan Trust for Culture, India
• Aman Nath, Chairman, Neemrana Hotels
• Rajeev Sethi, designer, scenographer and art curator

Films and entertainment

• Abhishek Bachchan, actor

  

  Amjad Ali Khan

• Gauri Khan, film producer
• 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.