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.
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Name | Class year | Notability | Ref |
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Justice Bhupinder Nath Kirpal | 1954 | Former Chief Justice of India | [2] |
Justice Mukul Mudgal | 1966 | Former Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court Chairman, FIFA Governance, Audit and Compliance Committee | [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 Madan B. Lokur | 1970 | Judge, Supreme Court of India & Supreme Court of Fiji. | [2] [5] |
Mukul Rohatgi | 1972 | Attorney General of India | [2] |
Name | Class year | Notability | |
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Dr. Bharat Ram | 1930 | Chairman and Managing Director, Delhi Cloth & General Mills. Founded Shri Ram Fibres in 1970 renamed SRF Limited in 1990. | [2] [6] |
Rajat Gupta | Managing Director, McKinsey & Company and Founder, Indian School of Business | [7] [8] | |
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 |
Name | Class year | Notability | |
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Gopal Krishna Gandhi | 1961 | Governor of West Bengal and Bihar | [2] [9] [10] |
Arun Shourie | 1958 | Minister of Communications and Information Technology (IT) | [2] |
Amitabh Kant | 1973 | CEO, NITI Aayog. | [7] |
Arvind Varma | 1957 | Secretary to Government of India in the Ministries of Coal, Personnel, Mines and Chemicals & Petrochemicals. | [7] |
Sanjay Mitra (civil servant) | 1975 | Joint Secretary to the Prime Minister of India,Chief Secretary, West Bengal & Chairperson of the Defence Research and Development Organisation | [7] |
Ajay Bisaria | 1980 | India’s Ambassador to Poland & High Commissioner of India to Pakistan. | [7] |
Name | Class year | Notability | |
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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. | [7] |
Noshir Minoo Shroff | 1968 | Leading Ophthalmologist and founder, Shroff Eye Hospital | [2] |
Arvinder Singh Soin | 1981 | Runs India’s largest and the world’s second largest liver transplant program at Medanta Medicity, Gurgaon. | [2] |
Pramod Kumar Julka | Oncologist & dean All India Institutes of Medical Sciences | [ citation needed ] |
Name | Class year | Notability | |
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Gautam Gambhir | 2000 | International Cricketer & Member of Parliament, Bhartiya Janta Party | [11] [12] [13] [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. | [14] [2] |
Daniel Chopra | 1992 | Indian-origin Swedish professional golfer. | [7] |
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 | [15] [16] |
Sharad Kumar | Paralympic Bronze medalist | ||
Ayush Badoni | 2016 | Cricketer | [17] |
Himmat Singh | 2016 | Cricketer | [17] |
Vaibhav Suri | Chess player | [18] | |
Samaresh Jung | Shooter | ||
Jasjit Singh (tennis) [2] | 1964 | , Davis Cup (1974). | |
Vishal Uppal | Indian tennis player | ||
Unmukt Chand, | Indian origin cricketer | ||
Prithu Gupta | Grandmaster | [19] |
Name | Class year | Notability | Ref |
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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] |
Subhash Bhojwani | 1962 | Air Marshal, Indian Air Force | [2] |
Sonam Wangchuk | 1981 | Colonel, Indian Army and recipient of the Maha Vir Chakra for his actions in the Kargil War | [2] |
Name | Class year | Notability | Ref |
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Shekhar Kapur | 1962 | filmmaker | [2] |
Amjad Ali Khan | 1963 | sarod maestro | [2] |
Madhup Mudgal | 1973 | Indian classical vocalist | [2] |
Name | Class year | Notability | Ref |
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Sriram Ramaswamy | 1973 | Former Director of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences in Hyderabad. | [2] |
Syeda Saiyidain Hameed | 1959 | Former member of the Planning Commission of India &Padma Shri awardee | [2] |
Kiran Seth | 1965 | Professor Emeritus at Indian institute of Technology, Delhi, and founder of SPIC MACAY | [2] |
Ranjay Gulati | 1980 | Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor at Harvard Business School | |
Sunita Narain | 1980 | Director general, Centre for Science and Environment | [2] |
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