An alumnus of St Stephen's College, Delhi is called a Stephanian. Alumni of the college include distinguished economists, CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, scientists, mathematicians, historians, writers, bureaucrats, journalists, lawyers, politicians including several Members of Parliament (MP) in India, as well as the Heads of State of four countries, and sportspersons including a number of olympians and international athletes. The names in this list are presented in alphabetical order of surname/family name. This is not an exhaustive list.
Politicians
Nuruddin Ahmed (1904–1975), barrister, three-time Mayor of Delhi and Padma Bhushan recipient Salim Ahmed Salim, former Prime Minister of Tanzania S. Jaishankar, IFS, former Foreign Secretary of India, current Minister of External Affairs of India Mani Shankar Aiyar, MP, former Cabinet Minister Ranjib Biswal, Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha Amir Chand Bombwal, freedom fighter Prodyut Bora, BJP IT cell founder Brij Krishna Chandiwala, Indian freedom fighter and social worker; political associate of Mahatma Gandhi Swapan Dasgupta, former Rajya Sabha MP Lala Har Dayal, Indian nationalist revolutionary and freedom fighter Sandeep Dikshit, MP Jarbom Gamlin (1961–2014), former Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh Gopalkrishna Gandhi, IAS, former Governor of West Bengal Indrajit Gupta (1919–2001), Longest serving Lok Sabha MP (11 times) and former Home Minister of India Amit Jogi, member of Janta Congress Chhattisgarh Najeeb Jung, IAS, former Lieutenant Governor of Delhi. Salman Khurshid, former MP, External Affairs Minister, former Law Minister Sucheta Kripalani, former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh; India's first woman Chief Minister Ashwani Kumar, former Additional Solicitor General of India, Rajya Sabha MP Atishi Marlena Singh, former Chief Minister of Delhi Chandan Mitra, former Rajya Sabha MP Sangay Ngedup, former Prime Minister of Bhutan Oommen Chandy, former MLA, former Chairman of the National Outreach Cell of Indian Youth Congress, former Chief Minister of Kerala Naveen Patnaik, former Chief Minister of Odisha Sachin Pilot, MLA, former Deputy Chief Minister of Rajasthan, former Union Minister Chhotu Ram (1881–1945), pre-partition politician, knighted in 1937 Kapil Sibal, MP, former Law Minister of India Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo, Lok Sabha MP, leader of the Biju Janata Dal Lakshman Singh, 5 term Member of Parliament Natwar Singh, MP, former Foreign Minister of India R.K. Singh, IAS, former Home Secretary to the Government of India, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Power and Renewable Energy, Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Virbhadra Singh, former Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh Vikramaditya Singh, Cabinet Minister of Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly Shashi Tharoor, MP, former Minister of State, former Under-Secretary-General of the UN
Jigme Thinley, former Prime Minister of Bhutan Savita Vaidhyanathan, American politician; mayor of Cupertino, California Khandu Wangchuk, former Prime Minister of Bhutan Sitaram Yechuri, former General Secretary of Communist Party of India (Marxist) Bashir Hussain Zaidi, CIE, member of the first Lok Sabha; former Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (1924–1988), former President of Pakistan
Law Badar Durrez Ahmed, former Chief Justice (Acting) of the Delhi High Court Bishwajit Bhattacharyya, former Additional Solicitor General of India Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud, 50th Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, 46th Chief Justice of India (2018–2019) Bhupinder Nath Kirpal, 31st Chief Justice of India Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Judge, Supreme Court of India Sanjiv Khanna, 51st Chief Justice of India, Supreme Court of India Hima Kohli, Judge, Supreme Court of India Madan Lokur, Judge, Supreme Court of India Click on "Profile" under #4. Karuna Nundy, lawyer, Supreme Court of India Vikramajit Sen, Judge, Supreme Court of India Abhishek Singhvi, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India; Rajya Sabha MP from West Bengal
Bureaucrats Parag Jain, IPS, Secretary of Research & Analysis Wing External Intelligence Agency of India
Montek Singh Ahluwalia, economist; Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission; former Finance Secretary
Pramod Chandra Mody (IRS), 13th Secretary General of the Rajya Sabha
Javeed Ahmad, IPS, Director of National Institute of Criminology and Forensic Sciences, and former Director General of Uttar Pradesh Police
Yamini Aiyar, Chief Executive and President of Centre for Policy Research Asaf Ali (1888–1953), Indian ambassador to the US, Governor of Odisha Pratyaya Amrit, IAS, Principal Secretary in Government of Bihar Jaimini Bhagwati, IFS officer and World bank economist Ajay Bisaria, IFS, High Commissioner of India to Canada M. N. Buch, IAS officer and urban planner, helped develop modern Bhopal” Pulok Chatterji, IAS, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India (2011–2014) Navin Chawla, former chief election commissioner of India Shaktikanta Das, 25th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India Parvez Dewan, IAS officer Vijay Keshav Gokhale, 32nd Foreign Secretary of India Deepak Gupta, Chairman Union Public Service Commission Wajahat Habibullah, first Chief Information Commissioner of India Salman Haidar, IFS, Foreign Secretary of India Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain, high-ranking officer of the Indian Army Gulrez Hoda, IAS officer Parameswaran Iyer, IAS, led Swachh Bharat Mission S. Jaishankar, IFS, Foreign Secretary of India, current External Affairs Minister of India Ajay Narayan Jha, former Finance Secretary and member of Fifteenth Finance Commission Ashok Kamte (1965–2008), officer of Indian Police Services, killed in action during 26/11 attack. Amitabh Kant, CEO of NITI Aayog (2016–incumbent) Vijayendra Nath Kaul, former Comptroller and Auditor General of India (2002–2008) Amit Khare, IAS, Principal Secretary (Finance), Government of Jharkhand Rahul Khullar, IAS Officer, former Chairman Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Neeraj Kumar, IPS, Former Delhi Police Commissioner VJ Kurian, Former managing director of Cochin International Airport and Addl. Chief Secretary Govt of Kerala Ved Marwah, officer of IPS Rajiv Mehrishi, IAS, Comptroller and Auditor General of India, former Home Secretary and Finance Secretary of India Shivshankar Menon, IFS, former National Security Adviser of India Vinay Mittal, Chairman Union Public Service Commission Monika Kapil Mohta, Ambassador of India to Switzerland Nirmal Kumar Mukarji, officer of ICS Anshu Prakash, IAS, former Chief Secretary of Delhi Vinay Sheel Oberoi, IAS officer Armstrong Pame, IAS officer S. Y. Quraishi, former Chief Election Commissioner of India MK Ranjitsinh, IAS, former Chairman of the Wildlife Trust of India Aftab Seth, eminent IFS officer Ajit Seth, 30th Cabinet Secretary of India Kamalesh Sharma, IFS, 5th Secretary General of the Commonwealth of Nations Harsh Vardhan Shringla, 33rd Foreign Secretary of India A P Singh, former director of CBI Alwyn Didar Singh, former secretary general of FCCCI N. K. Singh, chairman of Fifteenth Finance Commission of India Taranjit Singh Sandhu, IFS, current Indian Ambassador to the United States Pradeep Kumar Sinha, IAS, Cabinet Secretary of India Ravi Sinha, Director of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha, former High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom Rakesh Sood, eminent IFS officer Vikram Sood, former director of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) Prajapati Trivedi, economist and first Secretary, Performance Management Division, Cabinet Secretariat Alok Verma, Former Director of Central Bureau of Investigation Asim Arun Indian Police Service S. Krishnan, IAS, Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology Ajay Yadav, Indian Administrative Service, 2010 batch, Tamil Nadu cadre.
Business
Ashok Alexander, former director, McKinsey & Company & Head, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Rahul Bajaj, chairman, Bajaj Group Ajaypal Singh Banga, former CEO of MasterCard Sarthak Behuria, former Chairman Indian Oil Corporation Sanjeev Bikhchandani, Internet entrepreneur, founder Info Edge, founder Ashoka University Sanjay Dalmia, Chairman Dalmia Group Dinesh Dayal, Chief Operating Officer at L'Oréal India Manisha Girotra, CEO Moelis & Company India Srini Gopalan, CEO of T-Mobile US Piyush Gupta, CEO, DBS Bank Deep Kalra, founder and CEO of MakeMyTrip Jagdish Khattar, IAS, former managing director, Maruti Suzuki Siddhartha Lal, CEO, Eicher Motors Arun Maira, former Chairman Boston Consulting Group Vikram Singh Mehta, former CEO of Shell India Ivan Menezes, CEO of Diageo Piyush Pandey, Executive Chairman and Creative Director, Ogilvy and Mather India and South Asia Vipul Ved Prakash, Internet entrepreneur and co-founder of Topsy and Cloudmark Deepak Puri, founder, chairman and managing director of Moser Baer Dev Sanyal, CEO of VARO Energy Group, Switzerland and former group executive committee member, bp plc, London Bharat Ram, industrialist, former chairman and Managing Director Delhi Cloth & General Mills Madan Mohan Sabharwal, business executive, social worker and Padma Shri awardee Malvinder Mohan Singh, co-founder, Fortis Healthcare Shivinder Mohan Singh, co-founder, Fortis Healthcare Janmejaya Sinha, Chairman Boston Consulting Group Vikram Talwar, Founder & CEO EXL Service Gautam Thapar, Chairman Avantha Group Ashok Vemuri, former CEO Conduent and iGATE
Performing arts
Niret Alva, television producer Siddhartha Basu, quiz master Kabir Bedi, actor Pankaj Butalia, documentary filmmaker Richa Chadha, actress Safdar Hashmi, founding member of Jana Natya Manch Shekhar Kapur, director and producer Amit Khanna, triple National Film Award winning producer, founder chairman of Reliance Entertainment Arunima Kumar, kuchipudi dancer Raam Reddy, director, Thithi Parikshit Sahni, actor Divya Seth, actor Roshan Seth, actor Rajeev Siddhartha, actor Chandrachur Singh, actor Konkana Sen Sharma, actor Suraj Sharma, actor
Writers, poets, artists and critics
Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi (1908–1985), Indian Islamic scholar Upamanyu Chatterjee, IAS, author Kanika Dhillon, author and screenwriter Yashica Dutt, writer Mahmood Farooqui, prominent Urdu poet, performer and director Rajmohan Gandhi, biographer, recipient Sahitya Akademi Award Amitav Ghosh, author Ramachandra Guha, author Mukul Kesavan, historian, novelist and political and social essayist Rajiv Malhotra, author, philanthropist, intellectual, writer Mammen Mathew, Chief Editor of the Malayala Manorama, Padma Shri awardee Anurag Mathur, author and journalist Rajiv Mehrotra, writer, television producer-director, documentary film maker Ningombam Bupenda Meitei, essayist and poet in English and Meitei languages Satyarth Nayak, Author of Sridevi: The Eternal Screen Goddess and The Emperor's Riddles and Screenwriter for Sony TV epic historical series Porus Makarand Paranjape, novelist and poet Janice Pariat, author, first Sahitya Akademi Award recipient for English literature from MeghalayaBahuguna, Urvashi (September 12, 2012). "A Careful Listener". Helter Skelter. retrieved August 30, 2013. Prem Behari Narain Raizada, calligrapher and writer of the Constitution of India Maroof Raza, Defence analyst, writer, and educationalist Raam Reddy, author, filmmaker Allan Sealy, writer, finalist Booker Prize Krishna Kant Shukla, physicist, musician, poet, ecologist and educator Khushwant Singh (1915–2014), author Parismita Singh, author, illustrator, graphic novelist Ashok Vajpeyi, Hindi poet, essayist, and chairman, Lalit Kala Akademi India's National Academy of Arts, Govt of India Nirmal Verma, writer, novelist, activist and translator Ramkumar Verma (1905–1990), Hindi poet
Art
Shakti Maira, artist, sculptor, writer