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“No account can possibly encompass all the eminent Josephites, and such an endeavour is bound to fall woefully short with the magnitude and sheer breadth of their achievements.”
– Christopher Rego, Old Boy from the class of 1976 in ‘Faith & Toil’, his chronicle on the history of SJBHS
Criteria :
Any OB/OG who has excelled in any field or has any recent noteworthy accomplishments.
Photograph & short 3-5 line write-up/note to be sent to the secretary@sjbhsoba.net by any member of the OBA. This will be posted after verification in due course as per the protocol set by the MC.
Vocations listed Alphabetically in no particular order of priority:
| Armed Forces | Agriculture | Authors |
| Business | Corporate accolades | Civil services |
| Culinary arts (Chefs) | Doctors | Dramatics |
| Engineering | Entertainment | Environmentalists |
| Fine arts (sketching, painting, sculpting, photography etc) | Fashion | Gourmet (food et beverages) |
| Hotel Industry | Hobbies | IT sector |
| Journalism | Karate | Lawyers |
| Music | NGO’ | Politics |
| Restaurants | Religious accolades | Social Activists |
| Sports | Teaching accolades | University accolades |
| Veterinary | World Honours | Wildlife |
| Yoga |
| Abhiraom, N. | Won a medal at a National level Riding Competition | View Profile View Profile |
| Abraham, Sunil | Founder, SURE Athletic Movement, Represented India in its Athletic Team at the Asian Games at New Delhi in 1982 | View Profile View Profile |
| Ahmed, Saqib | Ranked no. 3 among Indian golfing juniors, member of the Indian under-15 team, winner of the South Zone Junior Open Championship held at Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai | View Profile View Profile |
| Aiyangar, Rao Bahadur, Dr. S. Krishnaswamy | Bestowed with the honourable title of ‘Rao Bahadur’ by the Maharaja of Mysore | View Profile View Profile View Profile |
| Aldrin, Anil | Former captain of the Indian Hockey team, represented India in its Hockey team at the Asian Games at Hiroshima in 1994, the Sultan Azlan Shah tournament at Malaysia in 1995, the Olympics at Atlanta in 1996, the Bangkok Asian Games in 1998 | View Profile View Profile |
| Almeida, Austin | Represented India at the Asian Basketball Confederation Championship at Shanghai in 2001 | View Profile View Profile |
| Anklesaria, Jimmy | Founder, Aklesaria Group Inc., former commentator for All India Radio, author of internationally acclaimed books ‘Zero-Base Pricing’ and ‘Supply Chain Cost Management’ | View Profile View Profile |
| Anklesaria, Kersi | Represented Mysore in its State Cricket team | View Profile View Profile |
| Aranha, Gerard | Named in Newsweek’s list of Top Cancer Doctors 2015 | View Profile View Profile |
| Ashok, Ramanand | Represented Karnataka in its State Cricket team | View Profile View Profile |
| Baliga, Ragavendra R. | Leading cardiologist, professor, editor, author, teacher, winner of a NIH National Research Service Award. Invited to Chair the American College of Cardiology (ACC) Personalized Digital Education Task Force in 2016 | View Profile View Profile |
| Banerjee, Padma Shri Dipankar | Honoured with the National Metallurgist Award and DRDO’s Scientist of the Year Award in 1987, the Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award in 1993, appointed Director of the Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory in 1996, conferred the Padma Shri by the President of India in 2005 and the DRDO’s Technology Leadership Award by the Prime Minister in 2008 | View Profile View Profile |
| Basavaraj, Jayaraj | Chairman, HRB Group of Companies | View Profile View Profile |
| Bavikatte, Sanjay | Plays a major role in the activities of the Alternate Law Forum (ALF) |
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| Beck, Capt. P. A. | Represented India in the Triple Jump competition at the Asian Games at New Delhi in 1951 | View Profile View Profile |
| Bharat, Krishna | Research scientist at Google Inc, opened the Research and Development center at Bangalore, creator of Google News | View Profile View Profile |
| Bhatia, Sabeer | Co-founder of Hotmail | View Profile View Profile |
| Castelino, Rohan | Represented India in its Badminton team in the Junior World Championship at Pretoria in 2002, State Mens’ Champion in 2004 & 2005, represented India in the Asian Badminton Championship at Kuala Lumpur in 2006 | View Profile View Profile |
| Chandran, Clarence | Chief Operations Officer, Nortel Networks | View Profile View Profile |
| Chinapa, Nikhil | One of India’s best known and highest paid VJ’s | View Profile View Profile |
| Chinnappa, Trishul | Won the South India Junior Golf Championship, represented India in the Singapore Junior Golf Championship | View Profile View Profile |
| Corner, Robin | One of India’s greatest jockeys having won 1,892 races in the course of his career | View Profile View Profile |
| Croning M.B.E., Joe | First non-British Under-Secretary to the British Political Resident of the Persian Gulf. Was awarded the M. B. E. and the I. S. O. | View Profile View Profile |
| Dass, Subroto | Commander, Indian Navy | View Profile View Profile |
| D’ Souza, Augustine | Member of the Customs Excise and Gold Control (Appellate) Tribunal (CEGAT) | View Profile View Profile |
| Da Costa, SJ, Fr. Hedwig | Secured the 2nd Rank at the University of Mysore in 1963, M.A. in English from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, M.S. in Curriculum Development and Instruction from SUNY, Albany, New York, amongst many positions held, was Principal of SJBHS from 1972 to 1977 and Rector of St. Joseph’s College | View Profile View Profile View Profile |
| da Cunha, Dilip | Awarded the Inlaks Scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, author of the critically acclaimed books ‘Deccan Traverses: The Making of Bangalore’s Terrain’ and ;Mississippi Floods: Designing a Shifting Landscape’, faculty at the University of Pennsylvania | View Profile View Profile |
| da Cunha, Sqn. Ldr. Francis | Inventor of India’s first fully indigenous Geographic Information System (GIS) | View Profile View Profile |
| Dashrath, Akshaay | Represented Karnataka in its Shooting team | View Profile View Profile |
| D’Costa, Bossie | Won the long jump at the All India Olympics, selected to represent India at the Olympics | View Profile View Profile |
| D’Cruz, Dereck | Represented Mysore in its State Cricket team | View Profile View Profile |
| de Miranda, Padma Bhushan Mario | One of India’s best known cartoonists | View Profile View Profile |
| De Nazareth, Andrew | Won the Vetch Asian Triathlon Championship at Chennai | View Profile View Profile |
| De Nazareth, David | Represented Karnataka as a swimmer and in the triathlon | View Profile View Profile |
| De Sousa, Walter | Represented India in its Hockey Team at the East African Tour of 1947 and in the 1948 London Olympics | View Profile View Profile |
| Devaya, Col. M. N. | National sailor, trained the Botswana Army, won the gold medal for topping the M. Tech. course in Construction Engineering and Management from IIT Delhi, represented India at the World Enterprise Championship at Bombay in 1990, the Laser Class at the Asian Regatta at Hong Kong in 1991 and at the Asia Pacific Regatta at Hyderabad in 1991, won medals at the National level representing the Corps of Engineers Sailing Club | View Profile View Profile |
| Dias, Frederick | Won the 800m at the All India Athletic Championship at Lucknow in 1949 | View Profile View Profile |
| Dikshit, Sandeep | Member of Indian Parliament | View Profile View Profile |
| Dotiwala, Air Marshal Minoo J. | Awarded President’s Sword of Honour for the Best Flying Cadet and the President’s Trophy for the Best Flying Officer, Commandant of the National Defence Academy, Air Officer Commanding in Chief of Eastern Air Command | View Profile View Profile |
| Dravid, Rahul | Former captain, Indian Cricket team, represented India at the ICC World Cup in 1999, 2007 and 2011 | View Profile View Profile |
| D’Souza, David | Represented India in the India-Pakistan golf competition in 2005, won the South India Crown and the Karnataka Cup | View Profile View Profile |
| D’Souza, Terence | Earned a gallantry award for his part in the Hyderabad Police Action of 1948 | View Profile View Profile |
| D’Souza, Thomas | Represented Mysore in its State Cricket team | View Profile View Profile |
| Fernandes, VSM, Maj. Gen. Michael | Peacekeeper with the United Nations | View Profile View Profile View Profile |
| Fernandes, Paul | One of Bangalore’s best known illustrators, creator of popular poster mural ‘Bang, Bang, Bangalore’, producer of ‘On a High Note’, an illustrated book on music | View Profile View Profile |
| Fernandez, W. J. | Represented the Anglo-Indian community in the Madras State Legislative Assembly | View Profile View Profile |
| Fownes, Caspar | Hong Kong’s champion horse trainer and winner of the Trainers’ Premiership Championship in 2006-07, 2008-09 and 2013-14 | View Profile View Profile |
| Fownes, Lawrence | Champion horse trainer in India and pioneer of the sport’s professional era in Hong Kong | View Profile View Profile |
| Friedel, Frederic | Developer of the chess database appraised by Gary Kasparov | View Profile View Profile |
| Fullinfaw, Cecil | Record breaker in the University Meet at Allahabad in 1951 and in a meet at Colombo | View Profile View Profile |
| Furtado, SJ, Fr. Simon | Entered the Novitiate in 1939, Prefect of Senior Dorm at SJBHS, Vice Principal of SJBHS from 1960 to 1975, taught Mathematics, English, Chemistry and French at SJBHS, active sportsman and took keen interest in the Scouting movement | View Profile View Profile View Profile |
| Gomes, Ben | Lead for Google’s engineering efforts on search features, has worked on Page Rank – Google’s search ranking system as well as the crawl and indexing system | View Profile View Profile |
| Gowda, Rajeev | Member of Parliament – Rajya Sabha, Former faculty at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, National runner-up on BBC TV’s Mastermind India, Founder, Resurgent India Trust | View Profile View Profile |
| Habibulla, Hakimuddin |
Former captain, Indian Swimming team at the Asian Swimming Championship at Pusan, Korea in 2000, Represented India in the Senior mens’ team in the SAF Games at Dhaka in 1993, honoured with the Ekalavya Award by the Government of Karnataka in 1995, represented India at the 2000 Sydney Olympics | View Profile View Profile |
| Hariprasad | Represented India in the 30th World Karate Championship at Tokyo |
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| Hayde, Brigadier Desmond | Earned the Mahavir Chakra in the Battle of Dograi, 1965 | View Profile View Profile |
| Jansen, Patrick | Represented India in the East African Tour of 1947 and in the 1948 London Olympics | View Profile View Profile |
| Jayaram, K. P. | Member of the Indian Railway Board | View Profile View Profile |
| Jerome, Jayakar | Ex-Commissioner, Bangalore Development Authority | View Profile View Profile |
| Jolly, Prakash | Represented Karnataka in its Badminton team | View Profile View Profile |
| Kapadia, Jayant N. | Represented Mysore State in Cycling, won Gold Medal in Track Cycling in 1965, won Bronze Medal in Patiala National Cycling in 1966, won Road Races conducted by the Karnataka State Cycling Association | View Profile View Profile |
| Kamath, Nandan | Awarded the Rhodes Scholarship, represented Oxford University in its cricket team, represented Karnataka in the State Cricket Team and the South Zone in its under-16 Cricket team | View Profile View Profile |
| Kasi, Vijay | First Cardiologist in Florida to use Robotic assistance to deliver stents to coronary arteries, first physician in Orlando to deliver stem cells directly into the myocardium | View Profile View Profile |
| Khaleel, Fazal | Represented Karnataka in the Ranji Trophy | View Profile View Profile |
| Khanna, Tarun | Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School, elected ‘Young Global Leader’ by the World Economic Forum | View Profile View Profile |
| Kheny, Rajesh | Teacher and Career Counselor at SJBHS from 2003 to 2011, Programme Manager, Submarine Cables at Facebook | View Profile View Profile |
| KK, Raghava | One of India’s most successful young artists, named by CNN as one of the 10 most remarkable people of 2010 | View Profile View Profile |
| Krishnaswamy, Sudhir | Awarded the Rhodes Scholarship | View Profile View Profile |
| Kumar, Hemant | Represented Mysore in its State Cricket team | View Profile View Profile |
| Kurian, George | Chief Executive Officer, NetApp | View Profile View Profile |
| Kurian, Thomas | President, Product Development, Oracle Corporation | View Profile View Profile |
| Kuttanna, Belliappa | Intel Fellow and chief architect of the Intel Atom processor family for the Platform Engineering Group at Intel Corporation | View Profile View Profile |
| Lasrado, Maj. General George | Major General (Artillery) of the Army Western Command | View Profile View Profile |
| Liang, Lawrence | Plays a major role in the activities of the Alternate Law Forum (ALF) | View Profile View Profile |
| Lobo, Neil | Research faculty at the University of Notre Dame, works on a Bill and Melinda Gates-finded grant looking at malaria transmission | View Profile View Profile |
| Lobo, Ryan | Noted photographer, writer and documentary filmmaker | View Profile View Profile |
| Loganadan, Ajay | Won the under-14 National Championship Tennis tournament at Bombay in 1981 | View Profile View Profile |
| Loganadan, Nikhil | Won the sub-junior singles and doubles titles in the Karnataka State Tennis Tournament in 1974, earned NAIA All-American honours in 1981, inducted into the Limestone College Athletics Hall of Fame in 2013 | View Profile View Profile |
| Lynn, Christopher | Served as Chief Secretary to the Chief Minister of Karnataka, as the Industries and Home Secretary, as Chairman of the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC), in the Departments of Coal and Personnel Ministries, Chairman of the Food Corporation of India in the rank of Secretary to the Goverment of India, appointed as Karnataka’s first banking ombudsman | View Profile View Profile |
| Maini, Chetan | Founder, REVA Electric Car Company, manufacturers of India’s first electric vehicle | View Profile View Profile |
| Mani, Arvind | Won the gold medal in the 200 metre backstroke event at the 12th South Asian Games at Guwahati in 2016 | View Profile View Profile |
| Martin, Gerard | Assistant Curator, Madras Crocodile Bank Trust, India’s first National Geographic Channel Adventurer | View Profile View Profile |
| Malhotra, Commander Rahul | Conferred the Vishisht Seva Medal | View Profile View Profile |
| Mascarenhas, Gerard | Dean, St. John’s Medical College | View Profile View Profile |
| Mascarenhas, Jimmy | Founder of Outreach, noted for pioneering participatory approaches for watershed management and conservation across three South Indian states | View Profile View Profile |
| Mascarenhas, Mark | Founder, World Tel Inc., Karnataka state shot putt champion, represented Karnataka in the National Games in 1972 & 1974-75, fomer football commentator for All India Radio | View Profile View Profile |
| Mathias, Christopher J. |
Awarded the Rhodes Scholarship | View Profile View Profile |
| McBride, Alan | Represented Mysore in its State Hockey team | View Profile View Profile |
| Melwani, Ravi | Speaker, author, singer, poet, philanthropist, one of India’s earliest successful retailers who launched the country’s largest store of over 3,00,000 sq.ft., founder of RVM (Rejoice, Value Life and Make a Difference) Foundation | View Profile View Profile |
| Menon, Brigadier Venu | Peacekeeper with the United Nations | View Profile View Profile |
| Miranda, Luis | Foremost Private Equity investor and CEO of IDFCPE | View Profile View Profile |
| Mirza, Padma Shri Humayun | President of the Oxford Union at Oxford University, Dewan of Baganapalle State, Ambassador to Brussels, Secretary to the Government of India | View Profile View Profile |
| Mogul, Commander Tehmasp | Awarded President’s Sword of Honour, represented India in its yachting team at the 1972 Munich Olympics and at the Finn Class Yachting Competition at Kiel | View Profile View Profile |
| Muduliar, Rao Sahib B. A. Madhavaraya | Bestowed with the honourable title of ‘Rao Sahib’ by the Maharaja of Mysore | View Profile View Profile |
| Naidu, Maj. Gen. Deepak Paul | Peacekeeper with the United Nations | View Profile View Profile |
| Nambiar, Ajit | Chairman and Managing Director, BPL Group | View Profile View Profile |
| Narrain, Arvind | Co-founder, Alternate Law Forum (ALF) | View Profile View Profile |
| Nayak, Anand | Former Executive Vice President, Corporate Human Resources, ITC Limited | View Profile View Profile |
| Nayak, Ashok | Chairman (Chief Executive) of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) | View Profile View Profile |
| Naylor, D. L. | Skippered the Scotch International Hockey Team in 1934 | View Profile View Profile |
| Nazareth, Salus | Represented Mysore in the Ranji Trophy | View Profile View Profile |
| Noronha, Cecil | Served as Chief Secretary to the Chief Minister of Karnataka | View Profile View Profile |
| Noronha, Denis | Secretary of the OBA from 1977 to 1988, conceptualised and created the ‘OBA Calling’, played a major role in expanding the global OBA family by being directly involved in setting up a number of chapters of the OBA | View Profile View Profile |
| Osman, Air Marshal T. J. S. | Served as Aide de Camp to Presidents Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan and Dr. Zakir Hussain, Vice Chief of Air Staff, awarded Param Vishisht Seva Mandal (PVSM) | View Profile View Profile |
| Paes, Vece | Represented India in its Hockey team in the Hamburg Festival at Germany in 1966, the first World Cup at Barcelona in 1970 and at the 1972 Munich Olympics, National Selector and Sports Medical Advisor to both the Hockey and Indian Davis Cup teams | View Profile View Profile |
| Pai, Arun | Creator of ‘Bangalore Walks’ | View Profile View Profile |
| Pande, Vivek | Represented India in the National Under-15 cricket team | View Profile View Profile |
| Perkins, George | Won the Bengal Lawn Tennis Championship, the Bombay Hardcourt Tennis Tournament and the Southern India Hardcourt Tennis Championship in the 1920s | View Profile View Profile |
| Pillay, Joe | Former Chairman of Singapore Airlines, former Chairman of Development Bank of Singapore, High Commissioner to London, Chairman of the Singapore Stock Exchange | View Profile View Profile |
| Ponappa, AVSM, VSM, ADG, Lt. Gen. Bansi | Peacekeeper with the United Nations | View Profile View Profile View Profile View Profile View Profile |
| Poncha, Rehan | Awarded the Ekalavya Award by the Government of Karnataka, awarded title of the Best Male Athlete of the National Games thrice – in 2002, 2006 & 2007 and that of the Best Overall Athlete at the Karnataka State Olympics in 2008 | View Profile View Profile |
| Prasad, M. R. Srinivasa | Represented Karnataka in its State Cricket team | View Profile View Profile |
| Punja, Girish | Won the sub-junior doubles title in the Karnataka State Tennis Tournament in 1974 | View Profile View Profile |
| Punjabi, Vijay | Represented India in its Tenpin Bowling team at the Asian Games in Doha in 2006, at the Asian Bowling Championships in Bangkok and at the World Championships in Germany. Won the National Championship in 2007 and 2008 and the Karnataka State Tenpin Bowling Championship in 2015 | View Profile View Profile |
| Rajamanya, Kumardev | State and National Level Badminton Champion in the Sub-junior category | View Profile View Profile |
| Rajan, Clement | Head, Department of Surgery & Diplomate of the National Board (DNB) Coordinator at St. Martha’s Hospital, Bangalore, National Inspector & City Appraiser for the National Board of Examinations (NBE), New Delhi, President of the Surgical Society | View Profile View Profile |
| Ratnam, Maj. Sylvester Rajesh |
Batch of 1987- 1988 |
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| Razak, Irfan | Co-founder, Prestige Constructions, President of the Bangalore Commercial Association (BCA), CREDAI, Karnataka, special invitee to the southern regional council of the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) | View Profile View Profile |
| Razak, Rizwan | Co-founder, Prestige Constructions | View Profile View Profile |
| Rego, Air Commodore Melville | Honorary Head, Maria Seva Sangha | View Profile View Profile |
| Rego, Lt. Col. Christopher | Alumnus of the National Defence Academy (NDA), avid traveller, herpetologist and photographer, author of ‘Faith & Toil’, a chronicle on the history of SJBHS | View Profile View Profile |
| Reuben, David | Former Chief Justice, Patna High Court | View Profile View Profile |
| Roshan, Rahul | Represented Karnataka in its Badminton team | View Profile View Profile |
| Rozario, Clifton | Co-founder, Alternate Law Forum (ALF) | View Profile View Profile |
| Sachdev, Subir | Awarded the ‘Presidential Young Investigator’ by the National Science Foundation, Professor of Physics, Harvard University | View Profile View Profile |
| Santosh, CS | Represented India at the Dakar Rally at South America in 2015 (first Indian to race in the Dakar Rally), highest ranked Indian on the Asian Motocross and Supercross Circuit | View Profile View Profile |
| Saldanha, Carlton | Represented Karnataka in the Ranji Trophy | View Profile View Profile |
| Saldanha, Rui | Represented Kenya in its Hockey team in the Hamburg Festival at Germany in 1966, represented England in its Hockey team at the 1972 Munich Olympics, was capped for England in its Hockey team more than 35 times between 1969 and 1978 | View Profile View Profile |
| Sarpeshkar, Rahul | Awarded the Packard Fellows Award, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | View Profile View Profile |
| Sathe, R. D. | Secretary, Department of Foreign Affairs, Government of India | View Profile View Profile |
| Shetty, Nitesh | Founder, Nitesh Estates | View Profile View Profile |
| Singh, Squadron Leader Baldev | Former Executive Director, Flight Operations and Chief Test Pilot, HAL | View Profile View Profile |
| Skandan, Shreyas | Won medals in the individual Junior Men’s Shooting competition at the Karnataka State Olympic Games in 2004 | View Profile View Profile |
| Somesh, Sandeep | Represented India in its Hockey team in the Sydney World Cup in 1994 and the Bangkok Asian Games in 1998 | View Profile View Profile |
| Soonawalla, Naushir |
Former Vice-Chairman, Tata Sons | View Profile View Profile |
| Sridhar, Anup | Former captain, Indian Badminton team, National Champion in 2005 & 2006, represented India in the 2008 Beijing Olympics | View Profile View Profile |
| Srinivasan, K. | Represented Karnataka in its Rowing team in 2000 & 2001, won the silver medal in the Double Sculls and Coxed Fours events | View Profile View Profile |
| Stracey, Cyril | Former Indian Ambassador to Madagascar and Finland | View Profile View Profile |
| Stracey, Eric | Former Director General of Police, Tamil Nadu | View Profile View Profile |
| Stracey, Patrick | Former Chief Conservator of Forests, Assam | View Profile View Profile |
| Stracey, Ralph | Former District Magistrate of Bengal | View Profile View Profile |
| Sukumar, Anand | Won the All India Tennis Tournament at Mysore | View Profile View Profile |
| Sunawala, Darius | Programme Director, Fever 104 FM | View Profile View Profile |
| Sweeney, Pat | Selected to represent India at the Western Asiatic Games at Palestine in 1938 | View Profile View Profile |
| Tarapore, Keki | Represented Karnataka in its State Cricket team, coach under the elite Rajkumari Sports Coaching Scheme, Karnataka State NIS coach, BCCI coach, received the Rajyotsava Award from the Karnataka Government in 1991 | View Profile View Profile |
| Tarapore, Shavir | Represented Karnataka in the Ranji Trophy, on the All India panel of umpires of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) | View Profile View Profile |
| Thekaekara, Stany | Received a National Award from Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi for his leadership and development work with tribals in Gudalm | View Profile View Profile |
| Thekkethala, Thomas | Entrepreneur, Investor and Philanthropist. Founder, Learn for Life Foundation, USA | View Profile View Profile |
| Thomas, Sidney | Represented the Anglo-Indian community in the Mysore Legislature |
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| Thumboo Chetty, Rajasabhabhushana T. | Former Private Secretary to the Mysore Maharaja | View Profile View Profile |
| Uthappa, Robin | Represented India in its National Cricket team at the 2007 ICC World Cup and 2007 ICC Twenty-20 World Cup | View Profile View Profile |
| Vaidyanathan, Siddhartha | Writes for CricInfo and takes up assignments for BBC Radio | View Profile View Profile |
| Vardhan, Venkat | Founder, DNA Networks, amongst the pioneers of event management in India | View Profile View Profile |
| Varghese, Mathai | Awarded the Australian Mathematical Society Medal, Australian Research Council (ARC) Senior Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide | View Profile View Profile |
| Vedantam, Shankar | Science Correspondent at the National Public Radio (NPR), United States of America, author of the bestseller ‘The Hidden Brain’, national correspondent and columnist for the Washington Post and a 2009 Neimann Fellow | View Profile View Profile |
| Vijay, S | Represented Karnataka in its under-12 Tennis team | View Profile |
| Vijayadev, Group Captain Rohith | Won the National title in the children’s Kata (forms) at the age of 8, honoured with the Karnataka Government Sports Award in 1984, participated in the VII Nationals at Goa, retained the under-14 Kata crown in the X State Championships in 1987, selected to represent India in the world Shotokan Championships at Tokyo in 1992, Conferred the Vayu Sena Medal | View Profile View Profile |
| Vincent, Lloyd | Awarded the DST-Lockheed Martin Innovation Award at the India Innovation Growth Programme – 2015 for his presentation ‘A novel preventive technique to help patients manage kidney disease’ | View Profile View Profile |
| Vishwanath, Sadanand | Represented India in its National Cricket team | View Profile View Profile |
| Wilson, Eustace | First civilian Surveyor General of India | View Profile View Profile |
| Wilson, Leslie | Former Karnataka State Snooker Champion | View Profile View Profile |