List of Mayoites

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Alumni of Mayo College and now Mayo College Girls School are often referred to as Old Mayoites, they include Statesmen, Writers, Athletes, Businesspersons, Diplomats etc. Please find below a representative (but not exhaustive) list of well-known Mayoites:

(In no particular order)

1 List of well-known Mayoites:
2 Medicine
3 Media & Journalism
4 Royalty
5 Statesmen, Politicians & Civil Servants
6 Conservationists
7 Writers
8 Education
9 Armed Forces
10 Businessmen
11 Film & Theatre
12 Miscellaneous
13 See also
14 Cited references
15 References
16 External links

[edit] List of well-known Mayoites:

[edit] Medicine

Dr Nishant Singh Ranawat, MRCPI, MD Neurology
Dr Jayant Ranawat, MD Internal Medicine (Rosalind Franklin University, Chicago), MD Hepatology (Univ of Indiana, Indianapolis). In practice in Sanford, Florida.

[edit] Media & Journalism

Manvendra Singh: Member of Parliament, Ex Assistant Editor, Indian Express

Vir Sanghvi: Editor, Hindustan Times, Talk-Show Host

Ashok Mahadevan: Editor in Chief of Readers Digest, India

Tunku Varadarajan: Editorial Features Editor at The Wall Street Journal. He is a former chief TV and media critic for the paper and columnist for OpinionJournal.com, a WSJ sister site. He is a former Oxford law professor who turned to journalism at the age of 32.

[edit] Royalty

HH Hari Singh of Jammu & Kashmir: The last ruler of J & K (father of Dr. Karan Singh)

Fahr Bin Taimur of Oman

HH Late Said Bin Taimur: The twelfth ruler of Oman

Kirit Bikram Deb Burman: Erstwhile Maharaja of Tripura .The second oldest lineage from the single straight line in the world after the Mikados OF Japan

Raja Sawai Man Singh II: Erstwhile Maharaja of Jaipur (Was married to Maharani Gayatri Devi). Also served as Indian Ambassador to Spain

HH Maharao Shri Bhim Singh II: Honorary Brigadier in the Indian Army and also Honorary Colonal of the 17 Poona Horse. During the Second World War he was a member of the Viceroy's War Council. Up-Rajpramukh of Rajasthan State 1948/1956. He has also served as India's alternate delegate to the United Nations General Assembly in 1956

HH Arvind Singh Mewar of Udaipur

HH Maharao Brijraj Singh of Kotah

HH Maharaja Ganga Singh of Bikaner

Prince Shivraj Singh of Marwar-Jodhpur. The Royal Family of Jodhpur can trace its lineage back to 1226 A.D.

The Late Princess Shruti of Nepal

HH Maharaja Prem Singh of Chamba

[edit] Statesmen, Politicians & Civil Servants

Gurjit Singh: Diplomat (Indian Foreign Service), Indian Ambassador to Ethiopia, Permanent Representative of India to the African Union and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa

Jitendra Daulat Singh: Diplomat (Indian Foreign Service), Former Indian Ambassador to Norway

Lt Gen (Retd) Ajai Singh, PVSM, AVSM: Governor of Assam

Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo: Former Chief Minister of Orissa

Deepender Singh Huda: Member of Parliament, Rohtak.

Ajay Vikram Singh Bagsuri: Secretary of Defence, Govt of India.

Naresh Dayal: Additional Secy, Ministry of Environment & Forests, Delhi.

Dr. Rakesh Mohan: Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India

Maharaj Shri Pramodsinhji Vijaysinhji Sahib Of Rajpipla: Queen’s College, Cambridge (B.A), member of the Indian Administrative Service

Nawab Aimanuddin Khan: Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha

Dalip Singh Judeo: Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha

Dr. Yashwant Thorat: Served as Chief General Manager & Executive Director, The Reserve Bank of India & as Managing Director of NABARD

Probir Sen: Director, India International Centre, Member of the Indian Administrative Service. Served as Principal Secretary, Commerce & Industry in the Govt. of Madhya Pradesh

Samir Vyas: Member, Indian Administrative Service

Brijeshwar Singh: Member, Indian Administrative Service

S.R. Mohanty: Member, Indian Administrative Service, Managing Director, Industrial Development Corporation of Madhya Pradesh

Inderjeet Singh Masuda: Diplomat (Indian Foreign Service), Served as Indian Ambassador to Morocco

K.C. Verma, Director General, Narcotics Control Bureau

Abhmanyu Singh, Indian Administrative Service

M.K. Khanna, Indian Administrative Service

[edit] Conservationists

Dr Bentval Ravindra Prabhu: Awarded the Queen's Award for Forestry by Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace

Vikram Najappa: Naturalist

VP Singh Badnore: Member of Parliament. Chairman of the Task Force on Forest & Wildlife Management by the Govt of Rajasthan. He has recently put in a very comprehensive report on the revival of Sariska which also deals with the saving and protection of tigers in Rajasthan. He has recently been given the position of the Chairman of the Steering Committee to implement the report.

[edit] Writers

Vikram Chandra: Author. Wrote Red Earth & Pouring Rain (winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book, and the David Higham Prize for Fiction), Sacred Games, etc. (Senior Lecturer in English at the University of California Berkeley^[1]

Indra Sinha: Author, Animal's People (shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize for Fiction), The Death of Mr Love, The Cybergypsies (non-fiction), Tantra (non-fiction), Kama Sutra (Translation)

Sudeep Chakravarti: Author of Tin Fish, a novel set in Mayo College, and an important non-fiction work Red Sun: Travels in Naxalite Country

Raja Narendra Singh of Sarila: Wrote a book titled "The Shadow of the Great Game, Untold Story of India's Partition" which throws light on some aspects of the partition not known earlier.

Lt. HH Maharaja Rana Sir Shri RAJENDRA SINGHJI Dev Bahadur 1929/1943 (Of Jhalawar), born 15th July 1900, educated at Mayo College, Ajmer and at Oxford, served as a Lieutenant in the Indian Army, keen photographer and poet, he composed poetry under the pen name of ‘Sudhakar’ and Urdu Shairi using the name of ‘Makhmoor’

Rajendra Shekhar: Director General of Police, Rajasthan and Prime Minister V. P. Singh's nominee for CBI chief. Author of "Not A Licence To Kill" a book on police reforms, and his memoirs, Defining Moments which includes sections about Mayo College

Madhukar Yadav: Author, Winning@Call Centre

Ram K. Piparaiya: Author, Bhagvad Gita-A Businessman's Interpretation

Shyam Bhatia: Author, "Portraits Of The Game", a book on Cricket

Preet Inder Singh Aulakh: Associate Professor at Temple University. Wrote a book entitled 'Rethinking Globalisation(s)'.

Airavat Singh: Wrote 'Op Kartikeya- Round Five in South Asia'. The book is a military thriller set in the Indian Sub-continent & describes events leading up to a war between India & Pakistan in 2005.

Major Maroof Raza: Defence Analyst, Writer, Educationist. authored two books, "Low-Intensity Conflicts" & "Wars and No Pace over Kashmir" He was Defence Correspondent at NDTV as well as Associate Editor of the Indian Defence Review. Currently, he is Middlesex University's Regional Director (South Asia) and a Visiting Research Fellow at the War Studies Department of King's College, London. He graduated from St. Stephens College, King's College London & Cambridge University

[edit] Education

Siraj Hasan: Director of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore

Subhash Bhatnagar: Ex Dean of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. Served on The Board of IIM-A

Harsh Wal: Headmaster, The Lawrence School, Lovedale

RK Rajendra Deo Singh of Poonch: Member of The Board of Delhi Public School, Doon School & Mayo College, Ex Principal of DPS Mathura Rd.

Vijay Kapur: Professor of Marketing, Sales and Strategic Management in Faculty of Management Studies, New Delhi (Ex IAS Officer, earned his BA Hons and MBA from St. Stephens College and FMS respectively and his PHD in a record 3 & a half year time frame from the University of South Carolina

Amit Sharma: Assistant Professor of Human Sciences at Iowa State University

Suresh Mathur: Director, The Asian Schools, Dubai

Vijay Daulet Singh: Chairman, Governing Body, Institute of Technology & Management, Gurgaon

Ravi Bapna: Executive Director of the Centre for Information Technology and the Networked Economy (CITNE) at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. He was a faculty member at the College of Business Administration at Northeastern University where he was given the Philip McDonald Curriculum Innovation Award

Preet Inder Singh Aulakh: Associate Professor at Temple University. Wrote a book entitled 'Rethinking Globalisation(s)'.

Dinesh Bhatnagar, Bursar, Mayo College, Ajmer

[edit] Armed Forces

Brigadier Apji Randhir Singh (b 1905): Winner of the Gold Medal at Sandhurst, United Kingdom

HH Maharao Shri Bhim Singh II: Honorary Brigadier in the Indian Army and also Honorary Colonal of the 17 Poona Horse. During the Second World War he was a member of the Viceroy's War Council. Up-Rajpramukh of Rajasthan State 1948/1956. He has also served as India's alternate delegate to the United Nations General Assembly in 1956

Lt Gen (Retd) Ajai Singh, PVSM, AVSM: Governor of Assam

Aditya Singh: Lt. General in The Indian Army. Appointed as C in C, Andamans.

Randhir Singh: Lt General of Indian Army (Retd.)

Lt. HH Maharaja Rana Sir Shri RAJENDRA SINGHJI Dev Bahadur 1929/1943 (Of Jhalawar), born 15th July 1900, educated at Mayo College, Ajmer and at Oxford, served as a Lieutenant in the Indian Army, keen photographer and poet, he composed poetry under the pen name of ‘Sudhakar’ and Urdu Shairi using the name of ‘Makhmoor’

Bhawani Singh: Commanding Officer of the 61st Cavalry at Jaipur

Karan Yadav: Brigadier in the Indian Army

[edit] Businessmen

Ravi Kant: Managing Director of Tata Motors

Anil Sood: Vice President, Strategy and Resource Management, The World Bank (Studied at IIT-Delhi, Cornell University & Harvard Business School, where he graduated at the top of the class as a Baker Scholar

Vikram Singh Mehta: Served as Chairman, Shell India

Manu Anand: Managing Director, Frito-Lays (Pepsico India Holdings)

Arvind Wable- Executive Director, FCB Ulka Advertising (Indian arm of Foote Cone & Belding Advertising), Graduated from St. Stephens College & IIM-A

Surendra Daulat Singh: former Banker (BBME, Grindlays etc.), C.E.O. Executive Search

Arun Sahu: Managing Director of Goldman Sachs Japan, in Tokyo.

Arun Keswani: ING Americas, Asst Vice President, Asset Management Division.

Saurav Adhikari: CEO HCL Infinet

Pranaam Wahi: Country Head, DSB.

Abhishek Mathur: Owner of Magic Feet Canada, Toronto based Event Management Company

Pradeep Saxena: Ex Managing Director & CEO, ING Barings, India

Harpal Duggal: Former CEO, Standard Chartered Bank, India

Anand Sagar Bhatia: Former Executive Director of the State Trading Corporation of India & Former Chairman of the Cement Corporation of India

[edit] Film & Theatre

Tinu Anand : Actor, Film Director
Vivek Oberoi: Actor
Sagarika Ghatge: Actress, Chak De India
Aamir Raza Hussain: Well known Theatre Personality, Recipient of the Padma Shree Award
Goldie Behl: Film Producer
Samir Karnik: Film Director (Kyun! Ho Gaya Na)
Heeraz Marfatia: Filmmaker, 'Birju', which won awards at Sundance Film Festival & the Berlin Film Festival
Rukhshida David: Assistant Director (Marigold and Bluffmaster)
Imran Mashkoor Khan (Millee, Kulvadhu, Dil se Dosti and 50 Day War a production by Aamir Raza Hussain)

[edit] Miscellaneous

Charu Sharma: Well known international Cricket commentator

Jiggs Kalra: Celebrity Chef^[2]

Raghuvendra Rathore from the Royal Family of Jodhpur – famous Fashion Designer from India^[3]
Sanjay Puri: Renowned Architect
Mr. Sharat S. Javali: A distinguished Advocate of the Supreme Court of India.
JK Dutt: Director of CBI. Awarded the Police Medal for Gallantry in 1977, Police Medal for Meritorious Service in 1988 and the Presidents Police Medal for Distinguished Service in 1997.
Jaspal Singh: Director of the Police Training Institute at Hyderabad
KC Verma: Director General, Police, Narcotics Control Bureau
Justice Dalip Singh Kunadi: Judge of the Rajasthan High Court

Justice Kamaljeet Singh Garewal: Judge of the Punjab High Court

Justice Ashutosh Mohanta: Judge of the Haryana High Court

Dr. Ambuj Choudhary: Senior Consultant, Cardio Thoracic & Vascular Surgery at Fortis Healthcare

Probir Sen: Director, India International Centre, Member of the Indian Administrative Service. Served as Principal Secretary, Commerce & Industry in the Govt. of Madhya Pradesh

Ajay Saxena: Inspector General, Uttaranchal Police

Lokendra Singh Ghanerao: Captain of the Indian Polo Team at the World Cup

Amit Goyal: Named as one of the world's Top 100 Innovators by MIT. He is a Distinguished Scientist & Inventor at Oak Ridge National Lab. working on Advanced Electronic Materials such as Superconductors. He received the "Pride of India" Gold Award (sponsored by the NRI Institute) from the Ambassador of India in 2007.

Ajay Singh Peelwa: Artist

Major Maroof Raza: Defence Analyst, Writer, Educationist. authored two books, "Low-Intensity Conflicts" & "Wars and No Pace over Kashmir" He was Defence Correspondent at NDTV as well as Associate Editor of the Indian Defence Review. Currently, he is Middlesex University's Regional Director (South Asia) and a Visiting Research Fellow at the War Studies Department of King's College, London. He graduated from St. Stephens College, King's College London & Cambridge University