List of Martinians

• C K Birla, industrialist.
• Sir Catchick Paul Chater, philanthropist, Father of modern Hong Kong, Benefactor of La Martiniere Calcutta.
• Dr. Vijay Mallya, billionaire businessman, Chairman of United Breweries and Kingfisher Airlines and a Rajya Sabha MP.
• Harshavardhan Neotia, Chairman of Ambuja Neotia Group
• Hemant Kanoria, Industrialist, Chairman and Managing Director, Srei Infrastructure Finance Limited.
• Pramod Bhasin, Founder and first CEO of Genpact.

• Nafisa Ali, swimming champion, actress, former Miss India and politician.
• Ann Lumsden, first woman to win the Arjuna Award for hockey.[1]
• Rishi Narayan, golfer and gold medallist at the 1982 Asian Games[2][3]
• Chhanda Gain, first Bengali woman to climb Mount Everest[2]
• Leander Paes, tennis player, India's only medallist at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Captain of the Indian Davis Cup team.
• Enrico Piperno, member of the Indian Tennis team at the 1982 Asian Games and Davis Cup team member.[2]
• Oscar Ward, Light-heavyweight boxer who represented India at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics.[4]

• John Mason, schoolmaster and educationist.

• Ali Fazal, actor.
• Merle Oberon, actress.
• Kumar Mukherjee, Hindustani Classical vocalist and composer.
• Bikram Ghosh, tabla player.
• Kiran Rao, filmmaker, producer.
• Pritish Nandy, film producer.
• Rajiv Mehrotra, documentary filmmaker, television anchor.
• Anuvab Pal, comedian, author and scriptwriter.

• Dr Saiyid Nurul Hasan, historian, Union Minister of Education and former Governor of West Bengal, India.

• Swapan Dasgupta, journalist, columnist and former managing editor of India Today.
• Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, former editor of The Statesman.
• Jug Suraiya, Associate Editor of the Times of India, author and columnist.
• Sanjoy Narayan, journalist, Editor-in-Chief of the Hindustan Times
• Suhel Seth, columnist and CEO of Counselage, advertising and TV.
• Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, journalist.

• Brigadier Kamakhya Prasad Singh Deo, politician and former Minister.
• Mausam Noor, MP, North Malda, West Bengal, elected 2009
• Chandan Mitra, Member of Parliament and eminent journalist.

The Masters and Boys of the School were collectively awarded battle colours by Queen Victoria in 1860 for the defence of the Martiniere post against a huge force at the old Bailey Gate during the 1857 siege of Lucknow. Sir Colin Campbell's report to the East India court of Governors reads "During this six month period many individual acts of valor were performed and young lives sacrificed in the fierce and tenacious defence of the Bailey Gate. The Constantia boys fought off the repeated attacks of a determined and persistent enemy and took their place in the line of battle alongside the regular regiments of the East India army...... The East India Army is honoured that Her Imperial Majesty has most graciously commanded the award of The Royal standard for courage, given to our bravest regiments, to the boys and masters of La Martiniere School..."

The list of Old Martinians from the Lucknow School is distinguished by Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 with Al Gore.[5]

The School scores heavily with its contribution to defence, police and administrative services.

Sadly with the partition of the country many of the school's former Muslim pupils, who came from the former predominantly Muslim area of Lucknow, had to leave for Pakistan in the mass exodus of the Muslim population. Amongst the millions who left many have been forgotten, but here in the La Martiniere list a tiny number of Muslim boys, who were alumni of the school will be remembered for their contribution to the administration of undivided India and to their valour in great wars that the British Indian Army fought.

The history of the school is a long one, A large number of Anglo Indians boys are missing in this list of fame. Many Anglo Indians identities have been submerged within the identities of the British, Australian and Canadian populations. This small community has had outstanding achievements at every level of society for hundreds of years, but that record of achievement has been hidden, passed over or co-opted as British, by British historians hiding the fact that they were actually (Anglo) Indians who were born and educated in India in schools like La Martiniere.[6]

• Shahnaz Husain, beautician and entrepreneur.[7]

• Lieutenant General Gul Hassan Khan, Chief of Army Staff, Pakistan Army.
• Lieutenant General Akhtar Abdur Rahman, Director of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan, Masterminded the Jihad against the Soviet Army Pakistan Army.
• Brigadier Leonard Raza, PVSM, soldier, Burma Campaign see note.[8]

• Frederick James Rowe, poet, former English teacher at the Lucknow school and composer of the official school song Vive La Martiniere.

• Roshan Abbas, TV and radio host.[9]
• Muzaffar Ali, painter, clothing designer and film director /producer.[4]
• Priyanka Chopra, actress and former Miss World in 2000.[10]
• Maureen Wadia, fashion entrepreneur and editor of Gladrags. Her husband is the noted industrialist Nusli Wadia.[11]
• Amit Sadh, Indian television and film actor.
• Ali Fazal, Indian television and film actor.
• George Baker, Indian television and film actor.

• Isha Basant Joshi, I.C.S. the first female officer in the Indian Civil Service and the first Indian girl to be admitted to the Girls' College.[12]
• K. Raghunath, former Foreign Secretary of India[13] and Indian Ambassador to Russia.[14]
• Sameer Sharma Indian Administrative Service, Secretary to Government, Andhra Pradesh

• Vinod Mehta, magazine editor[15]
• Saeed Naqvi, a leading journalist in Delhi brother of Shanney Naqvi.[16]
• Siddharth Varadarajan, founder of The Wire and former editor of The Hindu.

• Munni Begum Famous Pakistani Gazal Singer, Now lives in the USA

• Krishna Prakash Bahadur, writer, poet and philosopher.[17]
• Mukul Deva, an auto didact and well-known polymath, he is an ex-army officer, best-selling author, keynote speaker, executive coach, mentor, facilitator, consultant and entrepreneur.[18]
• Attia Hosain, journalist and writer.[19]
• Allan Sealy, author of The Trotter-Nama,[20] short-listed for the Booker Prize.

• Nawab Sir Sayyid Hassan Ali Mirza Khan, KCIE, the first Nawab of Murshidabad.
• Satish Agarwal MLA Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Vice President Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Ramjanambhumi action Ayodhya.
• Arun Nehru, political analyst, ex-minister and columnist.[21]
• Ali Khan Mahmudabad, historian, professor of political science at Ashoka University, member of Samajwadi Party.
• Faisal Ali Khan Alias Faisal Nawab, Municipal Corporator in Lucknow Municipal Corporation from BJP, Member of the executive committee, Lucknow Development Authority.

• Praveen Chaudhari, physicist, pioneer in super conductor research, former Vice President of Science at IBM , and recipient of National Medal of Technology.
• Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.[5] The IPCC, led by Dr. Pachauri, shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore.

• Merv Adams, Australia's National hockey coach in 1974. At the Montreal Olympics the Australian men won a silver medal.[4][22]
• Fred Browne, Australia's first (1956) Olympic hockey coach.[4][22]
• Vece Paes, Olympian and father of Leander Paes.
• Mohammad Adil Rizvi, International Hockey Player.
• Philip Webber, International Hockey Player.

• Anjali Gopalan founder and executive director of The Naz Foundation (India) Trust, an NGO dedicated to the fight against the HIV/AIDS epidemic in India. Anjali began working on issues related to HIV/AIDS and marginalized communities in the United States. In 2012, Time placed Gopalan in its list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
• George Abraham, founder and CEO of Score Foundation, which runs Project Eyeway. He is also the founding chairman of the World Blind Cricket Council (WBCC) and the Association for Cricket for the Blind in India (ACBI).
• Edward Hilton, author of an eye-witness guide to the siege of Lucknow.
• Charles Palmer, civil engineer and survivor of the siege of Lucknow.[23]
• Joseph Smith (1894), civil engineer on leading canal projects. He was awarded a knighthood in 1932.[4]

• Nicolas Grillet, industrialist and chemist, founder of Rhodia and first president of Rhône-Poulenc;[24]
• Inabata Katsutarō, industrialist and pioneer of japanese cinema;
• Édouard Rochet, French industrialist, founder of Rochet-Schneider in Lyon with Théodore Schneider;[25]
• François Gillet, textile and dye industrialist of Lyon, first member of Gillet dynasty;
• Jean-Michel Aulas, businessman, president of Olympique lyonnais.

• Lumiere Brothers, two of the first filmmakers;
• Alexandre Promio, pioneer of cinema.

• Frédéric Dard, writer and author of the San-Antonio series;
• Henri Béraud, novelist and journalist, won the Prix Goncourt in 1922.

• Tony Garnier, Garnier is considered the forerunner of 20th century French architects. He learnt painting and drafting at the École Technique de la Martinière in Lyon (1883–86). It is his designed building which house the weaving school at La Martiniere Diderot.

• Nicolas Guinon, chemist, inventor of a new method for tinting silk with picric acid;[26]
• François-Emmanuel Verguin, chemist having synthesized Fuchsine;[26]
• Etienne Marnas, chemist, inventor of "French purple";[26]
• Paul Sisley, chemist, specialist in artificial colors and chemicals, professor at University of Lyon.[27][28]