Alumni of the Doon School, who are also known as Doscos, include some of India's most prominent business leaders and innovators. Listed below are a selection of Doscos who have lead major enterprises, primarily in India:
Armed Forces
- Air Chief Marshal Lakshman Madhav Katre
- Air Marshal Brijesh Dhar Jayal
- Air Marshal Trilochan Singh Brar
- Air Vice Marshal CG Devashar
- Lt. General Adi M Sethna
- Lt. General Tilak Bahadur Nanda
- Lt. General Bhupinder Singh
- Lt. General BC Nanda
- Lt. General Deepak Summanwar
- Lt. General Gurbir Man Singh
- Lt. General FN Billimoria
- Lt. General KS Brar
- Lt. General TPS Brar
- Maj. General Jagdish Narain
- Maj. General Surrinder Singh Chhachhi
- Maj. General VV Bhide
- Maj. General John Verghese
- Maj. General HN Hoon
- Maj. General Ram Nath
- Rear Admiral RV Singh
- Rear Admiral Santosh Kumar Gupta
- Lt. General Gulam Jilani Khan, Pakistan
- Maj. General Wahid Mohammed, Pakistan
Aerospace and Airlines
- Pushpinder Singh Chopra, CEO Dornier/Daimler Benz India
- JRD Rao, Dy.Managing Director Indian Airlines& Managing Director,[Alliance Air] (Retired)
- Mhd. Rafique Saigol, Chairman Pakistan International Airlines
Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals
- Minoo Karani, Managing Director Ciba Geigy
- Mohammed Afzal Khan, Chairman Pakistan Oil Fields
- Vittal Mallya, Chairman United Breweries Limited, Hoechst AG Chemicals and other companies
- Jamsheed Rezaur Rahim, Chairman ICI Group Pakistan
- Dr. Parvinder Singh, Managing Director Ranbaxy
- Anand Swaminathan, Chairman Hindustan Antibiotics Limited
Consulting
- AK Mahindra, Chairman Delloite Haskins and Sells India
- Vikram Malhotra, head of McKinsey & Co.'s New York office
- Ranjit Pandit, Chairman of Mckinsey & Co.'s India office
- Anand Chatarth,Managing Partner B M Chatrath & Co. India
Finance and Banking
- Shamsunder Aggarwal, Chairman Diners Club India
- Vikram Atal, head of Citibank Credit Cards North America
- Rajdharee Lall, Chairman Andrew Yule and Company Ltd.
- Kali Moddy, Chairman Diners Club India
- M. CT. Muthiah, Chairman Indian Overseas Bank, United Fire & General Insurance
- Kai Nagorwalla, Head of Standard Chartered Asian Pacific
- Sunil Sreenivasan, Chief Country Officer Citibank
- Analjit Singh, Chairman Max India, Max New York Life, etc.
Fiber and Mills
- Arun Bharat Ram, Managing Director Sriram Fibres
- M.CT Pethachi, Chairman Travancore Rayons and Tamil Nadu Synthetic Fibres
- MM Thapar, Managing Director J.C.T Mills
Manufacturing
- Dev Aggarwal, Managing Director Bralco Metal Industries
- RK Atal, Chairman V.S.T
- Ajay Swarup, Managing Director [Globus Spirits]
- Vivek Bharat Ram, Managing Director D.C.M Toyota
- Ravindra Bhargava, Managing Director Maruti-Suzuki
- Siddhartha Charat Ram, Managing Director Sriram Refrigeration Industries
- Ishaat Hussain, Tata Sons
- Jagatjit Jaiswal, Managing Director Jagajit Industries
- Vikram Lal, Chairman Eicher Group
- Vijay Lamba, Managing Director Bata Shoes
- SC Malhotra, Chairman Empire Industries
- MA Murugappan, Chairman Coromandel Engineering
- Sunil Kant Munjal, Managing Director Hero Cycles Ltd
- Rajan Nanda, Managing Director Escorts
- Ashok Pandit, Managing Director, Tata Sponge Iron Ltd.
- Ashok Pradhan, Managing Director Reckitt & Coleman
- Pran Prasad, Chairman Heilgers
- Habibur Rahman, Chairman Lever Bros., Pakistan
- Vasant Rajadhyaksha, Chairman Hindustan Lever
- PL Roy Sr., Manager director, Genelec
- Lt. Gen. AM Sethna, Chairman I.T.D.C
- Ranjit Sikand, Managing Director Reckitt & Coleman
- CK Sinha, Chairman Balmer Lawrie & Co.
- L. M. Thapar, Chairman Ballarpur Industries Limited
Politicians
Tea
- Narendar Nath Atal, Chairman Makum Tea
- Mumtaz Ahmed, Managing Director Namdung Tea
- Basant Dube, Managing Director Goodricke India
- Govind Jauhar, Managing Director J. Thomas and Company
- SK Mehera, President Tata Tea
Tobacco
- AN Haksar, Chairman ITC Ltd.
- Zia Shaffi Khan, Chairman Pakistan Tobacco
TV and entertainment
- Bhaskar Menon, President EMI Music, President Capitol industries
- Peter Mukherji, CEO STAR TV, India
- Prannoy Roy, CEO NDTV
- Karan Thapar
- Shivraj Parshad
- Sanjeev Ratna Singh
Poets & Novelists
- Aamir Ali (Conflict, Via Geneva etc.)
- Vimal Bhagat (Stage Whispers)
- Ashok Chakravarti
- Pushpinder Singh Chopra (Touching the Sky etc.)
- Kam Afzal Faruki
- Amitav Ghosh
- Aminuddin Khan (A Shift in the Wind)
- Saurabh Saklani (What Teens Need but Can't Quite Say)
- Samit Sawhny (All the World's a Spittoon)
- Aftab Seth (Pillars of a Landscape)
- Vikram Seth
- Ardashir Vakil
Historians, Essayists & Academic Writers
- Mani Shankar Aiyar
- Kanti Bajpai
- PM Das (Storms and Sunsets in the Himalaya)
- Jagjit Singh Dulat (Partners in Victory)
- Siddharth Dube (In the Land of Poverty; Sex, Lies and Aids)
- Ramchandra Guha
- Rohit Kumar Handa (Policy for India's Defense; Comrade Sahib)
- Prem Shankar Jha (The Perilous Road to the Market; Kashmir 1947: The Origins of a Dispute)
- Saurabh Saklani (What Teens Need But Can't Quite Say)
- Deepak Lal (eleven books on economics)
- Piloo Mody (Zulfy My Friend)
- Shomit Mitter (Systems of Rehearsal)
- Naveen Patnaik
- Vijay Prashad (Untouchable Freedom; Karma of Brown Folk)
- Shiv Kunal Verma (Ocean to Sky: India from the Air)
Print Journalists
- Syed Mohsin Ali
- Swaminathan Aiyar, Chief Editor of the Economic Times
- Inderjit Bhadwar, former Editor of India Today and author (Sniffing Papa, The Chamber of Perfumes etc.)
- Shyam Bhatia, Foreign Editor of the Deccan Herald
- Subrata N Chakravarty, Bloomberg News, formerly Forbes and Institutional Investor
- MN Deb
- Suman Dubey, former Editor of India Today
- Jahangir Guzder
- Prem Shankar Jha, former Editor of the Hindustan Times, Economic Times and Financial Express, former information adviser to the Prime Minister of India
- Rahul Khushwant Singh, Editor of Reader's Digest
- AK Naupariya
- Aroon Purie, founder of India Today
- Suraj Rai
- Ashok Thapar
- Upendra Tankha
- Atul Varshnei, Editor of the European Business Report
- B George Verghese, former Editor of the Times of India, Magsaysay Award winner and author (Agenda for India etc.)
- Gautam Vohra
- Shiv Singh, Co-publisher of Sommelier India
- Nikhil Deogun, Deputy Washington bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal
Educationalists
- Kanti Bajpai, Headmaster of Doon
- Shomie Das, Headmaster of Doon, Mayo College, Sanawar
- Gulab Ramchandani, Headmaster of Doon & Education Consultant
- Vivek Ramchandani, Founder Principal, The Shri Ram School, Delhi, Education Planner and now Education Officer, UNICEF
- Sumer Singh, Headmaster of Sanawar
- Ravi Mathai, Director of Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad)
- Gaurav Saklani, Co-Founder (iDiscoveri Education)
Miscellaneous
- Rajiv Dutta, President PayPal
- Jagdish Mammi, Managing Director McNeill and Magor
- SC Malhotra, Chairman Empire Industries
- Deepak Nirula, Nirula's Restaurants
- Lalit Nirula, Nirula's Restaurants
- Arjun Malhotra, CEO Headstrong, Co-Founder HCL
- Ajay Miglani, Founder and President, Kankei Group of Companies www.kankei.com
Sources
- The Dosco Record, last published in 1996 by the Doon School Old Boys Society.
- Doon Online, independent blog with up-to-date alumni news.
- Ex-Doscos Community Site - Where Doscos come together