Alumni
Notable Alumni
Beholding a glorious past of 149 years and an equally promising future the gates of Sherwood have seen countless students who have gone out into the world to make a name for themselves and their alma mater.
These are the shining stars of Sherwood who have ventured into the world and carved an enviable niche for themselves in the national and international arena covering a broad spectrum from the armed forces to Theatre, Films, Civil Services, Judiciary, Business, education , sports and the Spiritual world.
Armed Forces
Major Som Nath Sharma
awarded India's first Param Vir Chakra in the Indo-Pak War of 1947
Field Marshall S.H.F.J. (Sam) Manekshaw - Military Cross (MC)
Order of the British Empire (OBE), Order of Merit (US), Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan
Lt. Gen. Sir Martin Garrod (Retd.) KCB, OBE(U.K)
Former Head of Bosnia Task Force
General Vishwa Nath Sharma
PVSM, former Chief of the Army Staff
Maj. Gen. Hari Badhwar
World War II hero, a former General Officer Commanding in Chief for Maharashtra and Gujara
Air Vice Marshall Michael McMahon (1959)
SASO , Eastern Air Command, IAF
Lt. Gen. G.S. Rawat (Retd.) PVSM, AVSM
Former Vice Chief of Army Staff
Major General Stanley Burrett AVSM
Former Director General, Border Roads
Lt. Gen. S.N. "Tindi" Sharma (Retd.)
PVSM, AVSM, form er Engineer-in-Chief of the Indian Army
Brig S.P.S. Shrikent (Retd.)
Maha Vir Chakra
Capt. Pratap Singh
Maha Vir Chakra Has a peak named after him in Kashmir
Captain Thakor G. Patel
Medical Corps, U.S. Navy
Public Service (IAS/IFS etc.)
Justice Ravi Dhawan
Chief Justice of the Patna High Court
Padam Shree Virendra Dayal
UN Diplomat assisting the Secretary
Salman Haider IFS Retd.
Former Foreign Secretary and High Commissioner to UK
F.C. Badhwar
OBE Recipient of the Padma Vibhushan and the first Indian Chairman of the Indian Railway Board
Inderjit Khanna
IAS, Chief Secretary of Rajasthan
Mukesh Joshi
Chairman, Central Board of Direct Taxes.
Theatre / Cinema/Fine Arts
Amitabh Bachchan
Bollywood legend and BBC's Star of the Millennium
Kabir Bedi
Indian film actor and director
Late Marcus Murch
Theatre personality, part of the original "Shakespearana" (Kendal Touring Company of Actors)
Dalip Tahil
Film actor
Alexander Souri
Producer
Vivek Mushran
Television and film actor
Vivek Mushran
Television and film actor
Ram Kapoor
Television and film actor.
Business/Commerce/Industry
Sir Kul Rattan Chadha
CEO Mexx International
George MacFarlaine
Entrepreneur & Master Gunsmith
Education
Professor. Andrew Garrod
Head Deptt. of Education, Dartmouth College, USA
Professor Gyanendra Pandey
Head Deptt. of Anthropology, Johns Hopkin University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Publishing/Scholarship
Ravi Dayal
Well known editor-publisher and former head of Oxford University Press.
