A Brief Information on Jesuit Societies Education in India and Worldwide
INTRODUCTION -About Society of Jesuits & Jesuit Education
India, USA and Worldwide
-Jesuit Colleges & Institutes in INDIA
-Famous Alumni of Jesuit Colleges & Institutes in India
-Famous Indian Alumni from their respective Jesuit Institutes in India
-Jesuit Colleges and Universities in USA
-Jesuit High Schools in USA
-Famous Jesuit Alumni/ae in United States Congress
UNITED STATES SENATE
UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
-Other Jesuit-educated personalities worldwide
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INTRODUCTION
The Society of Jesus Societas Iesu (S.J.) in Latin) is a Christian religious order of the Roman Catholic Church in direct service to the Pope. Its members, known as Jesuits since the Protestant Reformation, have been called "Foot soldiers of the Pope" in part because the Society's founder, Saint Ignatius of Loyola, was a soldier before he became a monk and eventually a priest. Today, Jesuits number almost 20,000 and comprise the largest single religious order in the Catholic Church. Jesuit priests and brothers are engaged in ministries in 112 nations on six continents. Their work is focused on education and intellectual contributions, primarily at colleges and universities, as well as missionary work and ministry in human rights and social justice
The Society of Jesus is consecrated under the patronage of Madonna Della Strada, a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and is led by a Superior General, presently Peter Hans Kolvenbach. The General Curia of the Society is headquartered in Rome. Its historic complex of buildings includes the Church of the Gesu, the Jesuit Mother Church.
JESUIT EDUCATION
Perhaps the best-known education in India is imparted by Jesuits. They conduct not less than 38 university colleges, 5 Institutes of Business Administration, 22 technical, 11 research centres48 higher secondary schools, 100 high schools, 38 middle schools and 72 primary schools spread throughout the country, almost all of them among its most reputed (for example: St. Xavier’s, Calcutta, Mumbai, Ranchi; Loyola, Chennai, Vijayawada; St. Joseph’s, Bangalore, Trichy; XLRI, Jamshedpur). In them, more than 250,000 students belonging to every religious, linguistic and socio-economic group, receive their education.
Ignatius of Loyola, out of firm in his determination to serve God and His people, founded the Jesuit Order, called the “Society of Jesus”. Pope Paul III approved it as a Religious Order in 1540. Ignatius was an outstanding character of the 16th century. One of his first companions was the then professor of the Paris University, Francis Xavier, who came to India in 1542. The Society of Jesus is the largest religious order in the Catholic Church with 20,563 Jesuits spread all over the world. It has taken up every conceivable form of work, which may, lead to people’s total welfare.
The Jesuits, according to Ignatius, should be ready to undertake in any part of the world, work which will be for the "Greater Glory of God" (the Jesuit motto: Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam). The Order remembers on July 31, it’s Founding Father who died 445 years ago.
Though nowhere in the Order’s Constitution is it stated that education is to be given special importance, the Jesuits have come to be particularly known in the public mind for their educational work and have acquired the reputation of being among the world’s best educators; in every country a Jesuit school or college is synonymous with quality secular education given in an atmosphere conducive to character formation with emphasis laid on spiritual and moral values and the development of an integrated human personality.
India and the United States rank among the most important countries in regard to the size of the Jesuit educational undertakings. In the USA there are no fewer than 45 Jesuit Universities, and 75 high schools. In other Asian countries such as Japan, Nepal, Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam, the Jesuits conduct reputed schools and university establishments, which make a notable contribution to the education of their youth. The situation is the same wherever the Society of Jesus has established itself.
St. Francis Xavier opened the first Jesuit school in Goa in 1543. It was named St. Paul’s College. Nothing exists of this institution today except its memory, but it was the predecessor of hundreds of other schools and colleges. The first Jesuit school to be opened in Europe was in Spain during the lifetime of the Order’s founder. As he explained to one of his close friends, Ignatius saw in the school an opportunity to do good by initiating the young into secular and human knowledge and simultaneously into spiritual and moral values -- the love of God and human person. The success experienced here encouraged the Order to go in for more and more schools and college of every kind, so that soon education came to be considered the primary work of the Society of Jesus. Hence, the Jesuit dictum “ Give us a boy and we will return you a man, a citizen of his country and a child of God.” Any worthwhile book on the history of education will mention the contribution made to European educational thinking and development in the 16th and 17th centuries. It was at this time that Jesuit schools were opened all over Europe and in them the newly discovered classics of Greece and
Rome were successfully used in the formation of the young. The “Rattio Studiorum” or “Guide to Education” produced by the Jesuits at the end of the 16th century remains an educational classic down to our day.
Jesuit educational methods derive directly from the Order’s own spirit. There is first a willingness to use any branch of human knowledge, modern languages, philosophy, theology, medicine, law, media and every branch of science and technology – nothing is taboo in Jesuit education. Secondly, there is the stress on character formation and discipline combined with the development of freedom. Next is the continual drive towards self-improvement, by stretching talents and abilities in every field as far as they can go. Ambition and individual emulation are stimulated by prizes and awards; simultaneously, teamwork is encouraged through the “house system” in schools – a Jesuit innovation
No Jesuit education is complete without attention to the development of the moral and intellectual qualities of leadership: love for the country, integrity, human relations, understanding, hard work, organizational ability, cooperation and teamwork, and the power of expression in speech and writing. A Jesuit school or college aims to form “men and women for others” who will be agents of needed social change in their country. Jesuits view their work as “the service of faith in God and the promotion of Justice in the world”. Special and preferential treatment is given to economically poor students in terms of financial and academic support.
Jesuit educational methods have been criticized by some as being too rigid, too stereotyped, and geared chiefly to the elite, intelligent and the determined, owing to the excessive stimulation of ambition. Modern Jesuits are probably more aware of their educational approaches in the context of the national and local socio-economic realities, and as a result there is a very different atmosphere prevailing in today’s Jesuit institutions, an atmosphere at once more relaxed, less formal, more pluralistic and more tolerant of individual idiosyncrasies.
One may wonder what keeps these Jesuits united or keeps them going. The answer lies in their basic characteristics, which are, first of all the Order’s “humanism” – its refusal to condemn anything that is human – and its willingness to use all human knowledge and achievements in the service of God and people. Another Jesuit Characteristic is obedience or flexibility, willingness to adjust and to compromise. The only thing a Jesuit is taught to be rigid and uncompromising about is moral evil or sin. Another mark of the Jesuit is the way of combining stern inner discipline with maximum freedom for each individual member in external life and in the choice of methods. Finally there is a certain typical thoroughness in all that is undertaken. This is expressed by the frequent use of the word “magis”, “greater”, “higher” in relation to the goals the Jesuits, as individuals and as a community, strive for. Their age-old maxim is to aim at the greater good for the greater number of people. They must not forget to live up to that.
The Indian Assistancy has the highest number with 3,851 Jesuits (18%), followed by USA with 3,635 (17%). Of the 3,851 Jesuits in India, 2,174 are priests, 1,363 scholastics in training and 314 brothers. The ratio of priests/scholastics in India is 1.60. There are 17 Provinces and 3 independent Regions in the South Asian Assistancy. Madurai Province has the highest number with 495 Jesuits, followed by Patna with 376. Karnataka Province has the highest number of scholastics - 146, followed by Patna with 128. Bihar is the most blessed State for Jesuits. There are five Jesuit Provinces with 1,265 Jesuits, one-third of all Jesuits working in India
Jesuits in India - conduct 38 university colleges, 5 Institutes of Business Administration, 22 technical, 11 research centres48 higher secondary schools, 100 high schools, 38 middle schools and 72 primary schools spread throughout the country
Jesuit Colleges & Institutes –INDIA
St.Xavier College -Kolkatta
St.Xavier College -Mumbai
St.Xavier College-Ahmedabad
St.Xavier College-Ranchi
St.Xavier College-Trivandrum
St.Xavier College-Palayamkottai
St.Joseph’s College -Banglore
St.Joseph’s College -Darjeeling
St.Joseph’s College-Tiruchirappalli
Loyola Colllege -Chennai
Loyola College -Pulivendla
Andhara Loyola College-Vijaywada
St.Aloysius College -Manglore
St.Aloysius Evening College -Manglore
St.Joseph’s Commerce College-Banglore
St.Xavier’s College of Education-Kolkata
St.Xavier’s Institue of Education-Mumbai
St.Xavier’s College of Education-Patna
St.Joseph’s Evening College-Bangalore
St.Xavier,s College of Education-Palayamkottai
Loyola Academy-Secunderabad
Loyola College of Education -Jamshedpur
Loyola College of Education -Namchi
Loyola College of Social Sciences-Trivandrum
Jesuits Business & Management Institutes
1. Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI)
Jamshedpur
2. Xavier Institute of Social Service (XISS)
Ranchi
3. Xavier Institute of Management Action and Studies (XIDAS)
Jabalpur
4. Loyola Institute of Business Administration
Chennai - Tamil Nadu
5. Loyola Polytechnic College (Y.S.R.R.)
Pulivendla ,Kadapa -Andhra Pradesh
6. St. Aloysius College of Business Administration
Mangalore-Karnataka
7. St. Joseph’s Academy of Information Tech
18 F M Cariappa Road - Bangalore
8.St. Joseph’s College of Business Administration
18 F M Cariappa Road -Bangalore
9.Xavier Institute of Communications
C/O St. Xavier’s College -Mumbai
10.Xavier Institute of Management and Research
C/O St. Xavier’s College- Mumbai
11.Xavier Institute of Management
Xavier Square- Bhubaneswar
Famous Alumni of Jesuit Colleges & Institutes in India
Presidents of India
Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam
Ramaswamy Venkataraman
Vice President of India
M. Hamid Ansari
Industrialists
L. N. Mittal, S. K. Birla, Late.Aditya Birla, Late.Sir,Ratan Jamsetji Tata, G. P. Goenka, B. M. Khaitan, Vijay Mallya, Sanjeev Goenka, Harsh Neotia, Deepak Khaitan, Keshab Mahendra, Adi Godrej &Dr. Swati A. Piramal, Sorab Pinyshah Godrej, Mr. Nadir Godrej, Mr. Rashes & Hemant Mafatlal,
Deepak Parekh (Chairman H.D.F.C.)
Information Technology
Shabeer Bhatia St Joseph's
Art & Architecture
Charles Correa -noted Architect
Politics
The First Chief Minister of undivided Bengal, Mr. Suhrawardy, Shri Jyoti Basu, Late Shri Gani Khan Choudhury, Mr. Kamal Nath, Mr. Manab Mukherjee, Mr.Arun Jaitely, Mr.Ajay Maken, Mr.Amar Singh, Dayanidhi Maran, M.P Prakash, Ashok Chavan, Siddhartha Shankar Ray,
Sports
Sourav Ganguly, Sunil Gavaskar, Premjit Lal and Joydeep Mukherjee, Vijay & Anand Amritraj, Ramanathan & Ramesh Krishnan, Leander Paes, Vishwanathan Anand
Science and Technology
Bhatnagar awardees like U.N. Brahmachari, Dr. S. Nag and Dr. Chattapadhyay, Prof. Ananda Mohan Chakravarty, the US 1975 Best Scientist awardee,
Attorney & Socicitor
Soli Sorabjee, Nani Palkhiwalla, Justice Vikram Jeet Sein
Science & Technology
Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose scientist par excellence, Bhatnagar awardees like U.N. Brahmachari, Dr. S. Nag and Dr. Chattapadhyay, Prof. Ananda Mohan Chakravarty, the US 1975 Best Scientist awardee, Dr. Homi Sethna (Scientist)
Journalists
Rajdeep Sardesai, Raghav Behl, N Ram, Ramananda Chatterjee, the father of Indian journalism
literature, arts and music
Rabindranath Tagore, Shabana Azmi, Zubin Mehta, Charles Correa, Raj Kapoor, Alyque Padamsee, Kavita Krisnamurthy, Ismail Merchant, G.T. Nanavati, Shobha De, Rahul Bose, Zakir Hussain, Nandini Gondhalekar and Cyrus Broacha. , Prof. Lal, Amitrava Chatterjee (writers), Buddhadev Guha, novelist, Mr. Niel O’Brien (father of Indian quiz), Bikram Ghosh (tabla), Mr Argha Sen and Sreekanto Acharya (Rabindra Sangeet)
Famous Indian Alumni from their respective Jesuit Institutes in India
St. Xavier's Collegiate School – Kolkotta
•Shashi Tharoor, former UN undersecretary
•Rabindranath Tagore, writer and Nobel laureate
•Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose, noted scientist
•Jyoti Basu, former Chief Minister of West Bengal
•Sourav Ganguly, former Indian Cricket Captain
•Norman Pritchard, Indian athlete of British descent, first Indian to win an Olympic Medal.
•Raj Kapoor, legendary Bollywood Actor
•Siddhartha Shankar Ray, eminent lawyer, former Chief Minister of West Bengal and former Indian Ambassador to the US
•Lieutenant General J. F. R. Jacob, celebrated war hero, former Governor of Punjab
•General Shankar Roychoudhury, former Chief of Indian Army
•Laxmi Mittal, Industrialist
•Aditya Vikram Birla, Industrialist
•Sanjeev Goenka, Industrialist
•Barun De, Historian, former First-Director of Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
•Dipankar Gupta, former Solicitor General of India
•Neil O'Brien, Derek O' Brien and Barry O' Brien, Quizmasters
•Kishore Bhimani, cricket commentator
•Chandra Hirjee (1958 winner of the inaugural World Amateur Snooker Championship held at Kolkata.
•Arkapratim Roy, eminent guitarist, founder of Hologram
St.Xavier’s College- Kolkotta
Notable alumni include
•M. Hamid Ansari Vice_President of India
•Jyoti Basu[ Former Chief Minister of West Bengal
•Kamal Nath- Union Minister for Commerce and Industries
•Lakshmi N Mittal
•Vijay Mallya
•Amar Singh- Parliamentarian
•A.B.A. Ghani Khan Choudhury
•Rahul Goenka
•Sanjeev Goenka
•Debang Gandhi
•Harsh Neotia
•Sourav Ganguly
•Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose
•Nikhil Bhagat
•Pankaj Roy Burman
•Anil Chatterjee
•Ramananda Chatterjee
•Tapobrata Roy Choudhuri
•Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri
•Utpal Dutt
•Jamal Nazrul Islam
•Buddhadev Guha
•Chandra Hirjee
•P. Lal
•Norman Pritchard
•Hamoodur Rahman
•Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy
•N.Vishwanathan
•Benjamin Walker
•Sanjay Ray Chowdhury
•Amitava Bose
•Ranadev Bose
•Ananda mohan Chakraborti
St.Joseph’s College - Tiruchirappalli
•His Excellency Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam President of India
•Mr.N Gopalaswamy Chief Election Commisioner
•Justice A R.Lakshmanan Judge, Supreme Court
•Mr.C.N.Ramadoss Secretary, Health, Union Government
•Mr.S.S.Vaidyanathan Director, Gas Authority of India
•Mr.N.Vittal Chairman, Telecom, New Delhi
•Mr.A.X.Alexander Former DGP, Tamilnadu Police
Mr.J.Radhakrishnan Vice-President, Bank of America
.Justice Kalibullah Khan Judge, High Court, Chennai
•Justice P.Shanmugam
•Mr.G.P.Muniappan Executive Director, Reserve Bank
•Dr.Ramamoorthy Neuro Surgeon, Chennai
•Dr.Kalyanaraman Neuro Surgeon, Chennai
•Justice Kanagaraj Judge, High Court, Chennai
•Justice Ashok Kumar Judge, High Court, Chennai
•Dr.L.Kannan VC, Thiruvalluvar University, Vellore
•Dr.K.Marimuthu Former VC,Bharathiyar University,Coimbatore
•Dr.S.Ignacimuthu Frmr VC, Madras University
St.Xavier’s College- Palayamkottai
•Prof . K.P. Aravanan, Former VC, MSU, Tirunelveli
•Prof. M.G. Muthuswamy, Former VC, Annamalai University
•Shri. M. Arunachalam,Former Central Minister
•Shri. Vai. Gopalasamy, Former M.P.
•Shri. Peter Alphonso, Former M.P.
•Shri. Thirunavukkarasar, Central Minister
•Shri. Thalavai Sundaram, State Minister
•Shri. Rathinavel Pandian, Supreme Court Judge
•Shri. Ashok kumar, High Court Judge
•Shri. A.S. Pragasam, Director (Film Industry)
•Shri. S.A. Chandrasekar, Director (Film Industry)
•Shri. Uma Chandran, writer
•Shri. P.M. Raasamani, writer
•Dr.P.Babu, Scientist (Bio-Technology), Bangalore
•Dr.K.S.V.Nambi, Scientist (Atomic Energy), Tirunelveli
•Dr. Gunaseelan (Medicine)
•Dr. Sundararajan (Medicine)
St.Joseph’s College – Bangalore
Sited on a compact 10-acre campus in the heart of the garden city, SJC has an aggregate enrollment of 2,500 including 300 postgraduate students instructed by 150 faculty members of whom 60 percent are Ph Ds and 80 percent M. Phil degree holders. Prominent alumni include Sabeer Bhatia, founder of Hotmail; renowned physicist Dr. Raja Ramanna; K. Ramaswamy, president, FKCCI (Federation of Karnataka Chambers of Commerce and Industry); M.P Prakash, deputy chief minister of Karnataka; T.S. Krishna Murthy, chief election commissioner among numerous others who have risen to apex level positions in government and industry
Loyola College, Chennai
•Albert Muthumalai, current principal of Loyola College.
•Ramaswamy Venkataraman, former President of India
•Dr Rangaswamy Srinivasan, inventor of LASIK laser surgery, IBM Research Labs, USA
•Dr S Rajappa, Former Deputy Director, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune
•C. Rangarajan, former Governor, Reserve Bank of India
•Dayanidhi Maran, Former Member of Parliament, Former Minister for communication and Information Technology, Government of India
•Narasimhan Ram, editor-in-chief The Hindu, Frontline
Vishwanathan Anand, World Chess Champion
•C. K. Prahalad, management writer
•Ramanathan Krishnan Tennis Player
•Ramesh Krishnan Tennis Player
•Vijay & Anand Amritraj, tennis players
•Leander Paes, Indian tennis player
•Verghese Kurien, architect of India's dairy development program Operation Flood.
•Arjun Appadurai, founder of the School of International Relations, Delhi, which is now part of Jawaharlal Nehru University
XLRI-B School Jamsedpur Illustrious Alumni
Being one of the earliest business schools in India, XLRI enjoys a strong network of 6000 + alumni. Many of whom have been the drivers of growth in their respective organizations.
•Aquil Busrai / Executive Director / Motorola
•Avijit Ghosh / Dy Dean / Stern School of Business
•George Zacharias / MD / Sify
•Jagdish V Dore / Managing Director / Novartis Enterprises Pvt.Ltd
•Rajiv Kaul / Managing Director / Microsoft India
•Jaswant Nair / CEO – Sale / Marico Industries
•K G Muthukumar / Director / Compaq Computer Corpn ( USA )
•Kalyan Ganguly / President (Brewaries) / The UB Group
•Madan Mohan Pillutla / Professor ( OB ) / London Business School
•Madhukar Kamath / CEO and MD / Mudra Communications
•Manet Pias / Managing Director / Alliiance Airways
•Mervyn Raphael / Country Manager / William M Mercer ( India ) Pvt. Ltd
•Percy Signaporia / Managing Director / Tata Tea
•N Krishnakumar / Founder / Mindtree Consulting
•Naveen Jain / CEO & Founder / Infospace.com- USA
•Ravi Virmani / CEO / Hewitt Associates India
•Robert G Lyngdoh / Home Minister / Meghalaya
Sundaresan Raghunandan / Regional Head / Standard Chartered Bank ( Singapore
St.Xavier’s High School Bombay-Alumni
•Mr. M.C. Chagla
•(Minister for Education, Government of India)
•Ashok Chavan -Chief Minister of Maharashtra
•Dr. Homi Sethna (Scientist)
•Mr. Soli Sorabjee - Legal Luminary
•Sunil Gavaskar - Cricketer & Sheriff Of Bombay
•Deepak Parekh (Chairman H.D.F.C.)
•Mr. Adi Godrej (Industrialist)
•Sorab Pinyshah Godrej (Industrialist)
•Mr. Nadir Godrej (Industrialist)
•Mr. Burjor P. Godrej (Industrialist)
•Arvind Mafatlal (Industrialist)
•Mr. Rashes Mafatlal (Industrialist)
•Hemant Mafatlal (Industrialist)
•Mr. Akhtar Tobaccowala 1940 (Director Voltas )
•Digveer Solanki (Maharaja of Vansda)
•Charles Correa -noted Architect
•Mr. Justice Madhu Kania (former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India )
•Gen. Sunith Rodrigues (Ex. Army Chief)
•Julio Ribeiro -Ex Director General of Police, Punjab
•Dr. Ernest Borges (Cancer Specialist)
Jesuit Colleges and Universities- USA
Twenty-eight colleges and universities are affiliated with the Society of Jesus in the United States. These institutions enroll more than 183,000 students and offer more than 260 undergraduate, graduate and professional programs of study. There are well over one million living alumni who have shared in our tradition of educating men and women for others.
The Jesuit schools of higher education form the institutional membership of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU). For more information on the individual schools and AJCU, please visit www.ajcunet.edu.
California Province
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Chicago Province
Loyola University, Chicago, IL
Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH
Detroit Province
John Carroll University, Cleveland, OH
University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, MI
Maryland Province
Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Loyola College, Baltimore, MD
St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA
University of Scranton, Scranton, PA
Wheeling Jesuit University, Wheeling, WV
Missouri Province
Regis University, Denver, CO
Rock Hurst University Kansas City, MO
St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO
New England Province
Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT
New Orleans Province
Loyola University, New Orleans, LA
Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL
New York Province
Canisius College, Buffalo, NY
Fordham University, Bronx, NY
LeMoyne College, Syracuse, NY
St. Peter’s College, Jersey City, NJ
Oregon Province
Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA
Seattle University, Seattle, WA
Wisconsin Province
Creighton University, Omaha, NE
Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
Jesuit High Schools- USA
Among the 48 Jesuit high schools in the United States, Georgetown Preparatory School, founded in 1789, is the oldest and the sole remaining Jesuit boarding-day school in the country. Two new Jesuit high schools have been established since the start of the 21st century, Arrupe Jesuit High School in Denver (2003) and Cristo Rey High School, Sacramento (2006). Both are modeled after Cristo Rey Jesuit High School founded in 1996 by the Jesuits of the Chicago Province to serve the immigrant families of that city’s near southwest side. A third such school, Verbum Dei, became jointly sponsored by the California Province of the Society of Jesus and the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in 2005. Cristo Rey schools are known as “schools that work” because they incorporate into their college preparatory program a work study program that helps to finance their students’ education.
Jesuit high schools form the institutional membership of the Jesuit Secondary Education Association (JSEA), headquartered in Washington, D.C. JSEA links these schools with the wider community of both public and private secondary education in the United States as well as with the educational institutions of the Society of Jesus worldwide.
California Province (7)
Bellarmine College Preparatory, San Jose, CA
Brophy College Prep, Phoenix, AZ
Cristo Rey High School, Sacramento, CA
Jesuit High School, Sacramento, CA
Loyola High School, Los Angeles, CA
St. Ignatius College Preparatory, San Francisco, CA
Verbum Dei High School, Los Angeles, CA
Chicago Province (5)
Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School, Indianapolis, IN
Cristo Rey Jesuit High School, Chicago, IL
Loyola Academy, Wilmette, IL
St. Ignatius College Prep, Chicago, IL
St. Xavier High School, Cincinnati, OH
Detroit Province (5)
Loyola High School, Detroit, MI
St. Ignatius High School, Cleveland, OH
St. John’s Jesuit High School & Academy, Toledo, OH
University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy, Detroit, MI
Walsh Jesuit High School, Cuyahoga Falls, OH
Maryland Province (5)
Georgetown Preparatory School, N. Bethesda, MD
Gonzaga College High School, Washington, DC
Loyola Blakefield, Towson, MD
St. Joseph’s Preparatory School, Philadelphia, PA
Scranton Preparatory School, Scranton, PA
Missouri Province (5)
Arrupe Jesuit High School, Denver, CO
De Smet Jesuit High School, St. Louis, MO
Regis Jesuit High School, Aurora, CO
Rockhurst High School, Kansas City, MO
St. Louis University High School, St. Louis, MO
New England Province (3)
Boston College High School, Boston, MA
Cheverus High School, Portland, ME
Fairfield College Preparatory School, Fairfield, CT
New Orleans Province (4)
Jesuit College Preparatory School, Dallas, TX
Jesuit High School, New Orleans, LA
Jesuit High School of Tampa, Tampa, FL
Strake Jesuit College Preparatory, Houston, TX
New York Province (7)
Canisius High School, Buffalo, NY
Fordham Preparatory School, Bronx, NY
Loyola School, New York, NY
McQuaid Jesuit High School, Rochester, NY
Regis High School, New York, NY
St. Peter’s Preparatory School, Jersey City, NJ
Xavier High School, New York, NY
Oregon Province (4)
Bellarmine Preparatory School, Tacoma, WA
Gonzaga Preparatory School, Spokane, WA
Jesuit High School, Portland, OR
Seattle Preparatory School, Seattle, WA
Wisconsin Province (3)
Creighton Preparatory School, Omaha, NE
Marquette University High School, Milwaukee, WI
Red Cloud High School, Pine Ridge, SD
Famous Jesuit Alumni/ae in United States Congress
More than ten percent of 110th U.S. Congress are Jesuit College and University alumni/ae
The Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU) reports that among the 535 Members of the 110th U.S. Congress, 53 of them, or more than 10 percent, are alumni/ae of Jesuit colleges and universities. This is an increase of close to 15 percent compared to the 109th Congress when there was a total of 47 Jesuit alumni/ae in the House and Senate.
There are nine Jesuit alumni in the Senate and 44 in the House of Representatives. Among the top leadership, both the Majority and Minority Leaders in the House of Representatives, Congressmen Steny Hoyer (D-MD) and John Boehner (R-OH) respectively, the Senate Majority Whip, Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL), and the Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Congressman Chris Van Hollen, are all Jesuit alumni.
Of these 53 alumni/ae, 32 received graduate or professional degrees from Jesuit universities. There are 14 Jesuit institutions represented by alumni/ae in the U.S. Congress, and Georgetown University has the most alumni/ae with a total of 21.
"This number (of our alumni/ae in Congress) is an important reminder that a Jesuit education is meant to lead to lives of leadership and service," said AJCU President Fr. Charles Currie, S.J. "We are proud that that goal is realized at the highest levels of public service, as well as in countless other ways across the country and around the world. It is a privilege to work with these women and men, and with our other friends in Congress, in addressing the issues facing our nation. We appreciate the challenges they face as public servants and the many ways they reflect the competence, compassion and commitment we pursue on our campuses."
The following is the full list of the Jesuit college and university alumni/ae in Congress:
UNITED STATES SENATE
Senator John Barrasso
(R-WY) Appointed 2007
B.A. Georgetown University 1974
M.D. Georgetown University 1978
Senator Jim Bunning
(R-KY), Elected 1998
B.S. Xavier University (1953)
Senator Robert P. Casey Jr.
(D-PA), Elected 2006
B.A., Holy Cross College (1982)
Senator Richard J. Durbin
(D-IL), Elected 1996
B.S.F.S. Georgetown University (1966)
J.D. Georgetown University (1969)
Senator John F. Kerry
(D-MA), Elected 1984
J.D. Boston College (1976)
Senator Patrick J. Leahy
(D-VT), Elected 1974
J.D. Georgetown University (1964)
Senator Robert Menendez
(D-NJ), Appointed & Elected 2006
B.A. Saint Peter's College (1976)
Senator Barbara A. Mikulski
(D-MD), Elected 1986
B.A. Loyola College in Maryland (1958)
Senator Lisa Murkowski
(R-AK), Elected 2004
B.A. Georgetown University (1980)
Senator Jim Webb
(D-VA), Elected 2006
J.D. Georgetown University (1975)
UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Representative Timothy H. Bishop
(D-NY), Elected 2002
B.A. College of the Holy Cross (1972)
Representative John A. Boehner
(R-OH), Elected 1990
B.S. Xavier University (1977)
Representative Vern Buchanan
(R-FL), Elected 2006
MBA, University of Detroit Mercy (1986)
Representative Michael Capuano
(D-MA), Elected 1998
J.D. Boston College (1977)
Representative Michael N. Castle
(R-DE), Elected 1992
L.L.B. Georgetown University (1964)
Representative Barbara Cubin
(R-WY), Elected 1994
B.S. Creighton University (1969)
Representative Henry Cuellar
(D-TX) Elected 2004
B.S. Georgetown (1978)
Representative William D. Delahunt
(D-MA), Elected 1996
J.D. Boston College (1967)
Representative John D. Dingell
(D-MI), Elected 1955
B.A. Georgetown University (1949)
J.D. Georgetown University (1952)
Representative Michael Ferguson
(R-NJ), Elected 2000
M.P.P. Georgetown University (1995)
Representative Jeff Fortenberry
(R-NE) Elected (2004)
M.A. Georgetown University (1986)
Representative Luis G. Fortuno
(R-PR) Elected (2004)
B.S. Georgetown University (1982)
Representative Vito Fossella
(R-NY), Elected 1996
J.D. Fordham University (1993)
Representative Wayne T. Gilchrest
(R-MD), Elected 1990
Attended, Loyola College Maryland (1990)
Representative John J. Hall
(D-NY), Elected 2006
Attended, Loyola College Maryland (1965-66)
Representative Stephanie Herseth
(D-SD), Elected 2004
B.A. Georgetown University (1993)
M.A. Georgetown University (1996)
J.D. Georgetown University (1996)
Representative Mazie K.Hirono
(D-HI), Elected 2006
J.D. Georgetown University (1978)
Representative Paul W. Hodes
(D-NH), Elected 2006
J.D. Boston College (1978)
Representative Steny H. Hoyer
(D-MD), Elected 1981
J.D. Georgetown University (1966)
Representative William J. Jefferson
(D-LA), Elected 1990
L.L.M. Georgetown University (1996)
He received his L.L.M. while serving as a Member of Congress
Representative Mark Steven Kirk
(R-IL), Elected 2000
J.D. Georgetown University (1992)
Representative Frank A. LoBiondo
(R-NJ), Elected 1994
B.S. St. Joseph's University (1968)
Representative Zoe Lofgren
(D-CA), Elected 1994
J.D. University of Santa Clara (1975)
Representative Daniel E. Lungren
(R-CA), Elected 2004
J.D. Georgetown Law School (1971)
Representative Donald Manzullo
(R-IL), Elected 1992
J.D. Marquette University (1970)
Representative Edward J. Markey
(D-MA), Elected 1976
B.A. Boston College (1968)
J.D. Boston College (1972)
Representative Thaddeus McCotter
(R-MI), Elected 2002
B.A. University of Detroit Mercy (1987)
J.D. University of Detroit Mercy (1991)
Representative Michael R. McNulty
(D-NY), Elected 1988
B.A. College of the Holy Cross (1969)
Representative Gwen Moore
(D-WI) Elected (2004)
B.A. Marquette University (1978)
Representative James P. Moran
(D-VA), Elected 1990
B.A. College of the Holy Cross (1967)
Representative Timothy F. Murphy
(R-PA), Elected 2002
B.A. Wheeling Jesuit College (1974)
Representative Jerrold Nadler
(D-NY), Elected 1992
J.D. Fordham University (1978)
Representative William J. Pascrell Jr.
(D-NJ), Elected 1996
B.A. Fordham University (1959)
M.A. Fordham University (1961)
Representative Robert C. Scott
(D-VA), Elected 1992
J.D. Boston College (1973)
Representative Albio Sires
(D-NJ), Elected 2006
B.A. Saint Peter's College (1974)
Representative Adam Smith
(D-WA), Elected 1996
B.A. Fordham University (1987)
Representative Lee Terry
(R-NE), Elected 1998
J.D. Creighton University (1987)
Representative Chris Van Hollen Jr.
(D-MD), Elected 2002
J.D. Georgetown University (1990)
Representative Peter J. Visclosky
(D-IN), Elected 1984
L.L.M. Georgetown University (1982)
Representative Peter Welch
(D-VT), Elected 2006
A.B. College of Holy Cross (1969)
Representative Frank Wolf
(R-VA), Elected 1980
J.D. Georgetown University (1965)
Representative Lynn Woolsey
(D-CA), Elected 1992
B.S. University of San Francisco (1980)
Representative Albert R. Wynn
(D-MD), Elected 1992
J.D. Georgetown University (1977)
Other Jesuit-educated leading personalities worldwide include:
• Bill Clinton, former U.S. president
•Francois Mitterand, former President of France
*Pierre Trudeau, former Prime Minister of Canada
• Vicente Fox, President of Mexico
• Fidel Castro, leader of Cuba
•Denzel Washington, Academy Award-winning actor
• Patrick Ewing and Bill Russell, NBA stars
• Vince Lombardi, legendary football coach
• Mary Higgins Clark, bestselling mystery novelist
• Antonin Scalia, Supreme Court justice
• Alex Trebek, host of “Jeopardy”
• Dee Dee Myers, President Clinton’s press secretary
• Sting, rock star
• Robert C. Wright, chairman of NBC
• Alan Alda, Emmy Award-winning actor
• Tim Russert, host of “Meet the Press”
INTRODUCTION -About Society of Jesuits & Jesuit Education
India, USA and Worldwide
-Jesuit Colleges & Institutes in INDIA
-Famous Alumni of Jesuit Colleges & Institutes in India
-Famous Indian Alumni from their respective Jesuit Institutes in India
-Jesuit Colleges and Universities in USA
-Jesuit High Schools in USA
-Famous Jesuit Alumni/ae in United States Congress
UNITED STATES SENATE
UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
-Other Jesuit-educated personalities worldwide
Note: - The above information on Jesuit Education has been collected and compiled by Mr.Nitin Jain from various sources. Mr. Nitin Jain is an alumnus of ST.XAVIER’S Delhi an institute run and conducted by Jesuit Society of India.
Since the information has been collected & compiled from various sources, any discrepancy in the information if any may be ignored and disregarded
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INTRODUCTION
The Society of Jesus Societas Iesu (S.J.) in Latin) is a Christian religious order of the Roman Catholic Church in direct service to the Pope. Its members, known as Jesuits since the Protestant Reformation, have been called "Foot soldiers of the Pope" in part because the Society's founder, Saint Ignatius of Loyola, was a soldier before he became a monk and eventually a priest. Today, Jesuits number almost 20,000 and comprise the largest single religious order in the Catholic Church. Jesuit priests and brothers are engaged in ministries in 112 nations on six continents. Their work is focused on education and intellectual contributions, primarily at colleges and universities, as well as missionary work and ministry in human rights and social justice
The Society of Jesus is consecrated under the patronage of Madonna Della Strada, a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and is led by a Superior General, presently Peter Hans Kolvenbach. The General Curia of the Society is headquartered in Rome. Its historic complex of buildings includes the Church of the Gesu, the Jesuit Mother Church.
JESUIT EDUCATION
Perhaps the best-known education in India is imparted by Jesuits. They conduct not less than 38 university colleges, 5 Institutes of Business Administration, 22 technical, 11 research centres48 higher secondary schools, 100 high schools, 38 middle schools and 72 primary schools spread throughout the country, almost all of them among its most reputed (for example: St. Xavier’s, Calcutta, Mumbai, Ranchi; Loyola, Chennai, Vijayawada; St. Joseph’s, Bangalore, Trichy; XLRI, Jamshedpur). In them, more than 250,000 students belonging to every religious, linguistic and socio-economic group, receive their education.
Ignatius of Loyola, out of firm in his determination to serve God and His people, founded the Jesuit Order, called the “Society of Jesus”. Pope Paul III approved it as a Religious Order in 1540. Ignatius was an outstanding character of the 16th century. One of his first companions was the then professor of the Paris University, Francis Xavier, who came to India in 1542. The Society of Jesus is the largest religious order in the Catholic Church with 20,563 Jesuits spread all over the world. It has taken up every conceivable form of work, which may, lead to people’s total welfare.
The Jesuits, according to Ignatius, should be ready to undertake in any part of the world, work which will be for the "Greater Glory of God" (the Jesuit motto: Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam). The Order remembers on July 31, it’s Founding Father who died 445 years ago.
Though nowhere in the Order’s Constitution is it stated that education is to be given special importance, the Jesuits have come to be particularly known in the public mind for their educational work and have acquired the reputation of being among the world’s best educators; in every country a Jesuit school or college is synonymous with quality secular education given in an atmosphere conducive to character formation with emphasis laid on spiritual and moral values and the development of an integrated human personality.
India and the United States rank among the most important countries in regard to the size of the Jesuit educational undertakings. In the USA there are no fewer than 45 Jesuit Universities, and 75 high schools. In other Asian countries such as Japan, Nepal, Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam, the Jesuits conduct reputed schools and university establishments, which make a notable contribution to the education of their youth. The situation is the same wherever the Society of Jesus has established itself.
St. Francis Xavier opened the first Jesuit school in Goa in 1543. It was named St. Paul’s College. Nothing exists of this institution today except its memory, but it was the predecessor of hundreds of other schools and colleges. The first Jesuit school to be opened in Europe was in Spain during the lifetime of the Order’s founder. As he explained to one of his close friends, Ignatius saw in the school an opportunity to do good by initiating the young into secular and human knowledge and simultaneously into spiritual and moral values -- the love of God and human person. The success experienced here encouraged the Order to go in for more and more schools and college of every kind, so that soon education came to be considered the primary work of the Society of Jesus. Hence, the Jesuit dictum “ Give us a boy and we will return you a man, a citizen of his country and a child of God.” Any worthwhile book on the history of education will mention the contribution made to European educational thinking and development in the 16th and 17th centuries. It was at this time that Jesuit schools were opened all over Europe and in them the newly discovered classics of Greece and
Rome were successfully used in the formation of the young. The “Rattio Studiorum” or “Guide to Education” produced by the Jesuits at the end of the 16th century remains an educational classic down to our day.
Jesuit educational methods derive directly from the Order’s own spirit. There is first a willingness to use any branch of human knowledge, modern languages, philosophy, theology, medicine, law, media and every branch of science and technology – nothing is taboo in Jesuit education. Secondly, there is the stress on character formation and discipline combined with the development of freedom. Next is the continual drive towards self-improvement, by stretching talents and abilities in every field as far as they can go. Ambition and individual emulation are stimulated by prizes and awards; simultaneously, teamwork is encouraged through the “house system” in schools – a Jesuit innovation
No Jesuit education is complete without attention to the development of the moral and intellectual qualities of leadership: love for the country, integrity, human relations, understanding, hard work, organizational ability, cooperation and teamwork, and the power of expression in speech and writing. A Jesuit school or college aims to form “men and women for others” who will be agents of needed social change in their country. Jesuits view their work as “the service of faith in God and the promotion of Justice in the world”. Special and preferential treatment is given to economically poor students in terms of financial and academic support.
Jesuit educational methods have been criticized by some as being too rigid, too stereotyped, and geared chiefly to the elite, intelligent and the determined, owing to the excessive stimulation of ambition. Modern Jesuits are probably more aware of their educational approaches in the context of the national and local socio-economic realities, and as a result there is a very different atmosphere prevailing in today’s Jesuit institutions, an atmosphere at once more relaxed, less formal, more pluralistic and more tolerant of individual idiosyncrasies.
One may wonder what keeps these Jesuits united or keeps them going. The answer lies in their basic characteristics, which are, first of all the Order’s “humanism” – its refusal to condemn anything that is human – and its willingness to use all human knowledge and achievements in the service of God and people. Another Jesuit Characteristic is obedience or flexibility, willingness to adjust and to compromise. The only thing a Jesuit is taught to be rigid and uncompromising about is moral evil or sin. Another mark of the Jesuit is the way of combining stern inner discipline with maximum freedom for each individual member in external life and in the choice of methods. Finally there is a certain typical thoroughness in all that is undertaken. This is expressed by the frequent use of the word “magis”, “greater”, “higher” in relation to the goals the Jesuits, as individuals and as a community, strive for. Their age-old maxim is to aim at the greater good for the greater number of people. They must not forget to live up to that.
The Indian Assistancy has the highest number with 3,851 Jesuits (18%), followed by USA with 3,635 (17%). Of the 3,851 Jesuits in India, 2,174 are priests, 1,363 scholastics in training and 314 brothers. The ratio of priests/scholastics in India is 1.60. There are 17 Provinces and 3 independent Regions in the South Asian Assistancy. Madurai Province has the highest number with 495 Jesuits, followed by Patna with 376. Karnataka Province has the highest number of scholastics - 146, followed by Patna with 128. Bihar is the most blessed State for Jesuits. There are five Jesuit Provinces with 1,265 Jesuits, one-third of all Jesuits working in India
Jesuits in India - conduct 38 university colleges, 5 Institutes of Business Administration, 22 technical, 11 research centres48 higher secondary schools, 100 high schools, 38 middle schools and 72 primary schools spread throughout the country
Jesuit Colleges & Institutes –INDIA
St.Xavier College -Kolkatta
St.Xavier College -Mumbai
St.Xavier College-Ahmedabad
St.Xavier College-Ranchi
St.Xavier College-Trivandrum
St.Xavier College-Palayamkottai
St.Joseph’s College -Banglore
St.Joseph’s College -Darjeeling
St.Joseph’s College-Tiruchirappalli
Loyola Colllege -Chennai
Loyola College -Pulivendla
Andhara Loyola College-Vijaywada
St.Aloysius College -Manglore
St.Aloysius Evening College -Manglore
St.Joseph’s Commerce College-Banglore
St.Xavier’s College of Education-Kolkata
St.Xavier’s Institue of Education-Mumbai
St.Xavier’s College of Education-Patna
St.Joseph’s Evening College-Bangalore
St.Xavier,s College of Education-Palayamkottai
Loyola Academy-Secunderabad
Loyola College of Education -Jamshedpur
Loyola College of Education -Namchi
Loyola College of Social Sciences-Trivandrum
Jesuits Business & Management Institutes
1. Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI)
Jamshedpur
2. Xavier Institute of Social Service (XISS)
Ranchi
3. Xavier Institute of Management Action and Studies (XIDAS)
Jabalpur
4. Loyola Institute of Business Administration
Chennai - Tamil Nadu
5. Loyola Polytechnic College (Y.S.R.R.)
Pulivendla ,Kadapa -Andhra Pradesh
6. St. Aloysius College of Business Administration
Mangalore-Karnataka
7. St. Joseph’s Academy of Information Tech
18 F M Cariappa Road - Bangalore
8.St. Joseph’s College of Business Administration
18 F M Cariappa Road -Bangalore
9.Xavier Institute of Communications
C/O St. Xavier’s College -Mumbai
10.Xavier Institute of Management and Research
C/O St. Xavier’s College- Mumbai
11.Xavier Institute of Management
Xavier Square- Bhubaneswar
Famous Alumni of Jesuit Colleges & Institutes in India
Presidents of India
Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam
Ramaswamy Venkataraman
Vice President of India
M. Hamid Ansari
Industrialists
L. N. Mittal, S. K. Birla, Late.Aditya Birla, Late.Sir,Ratan Jamsetji Tata, G. P. Goenka, B. M. Khaitan, Vijay Mallya, Sanjeev Goenka, Harsh Neotia, Deepak Khaitan, Keshab Mahendra, Adi Godrej &Dr. Swati A. Piramal, Sorab Pinyshah Godrej, Mr. Nadir Godrej, Mr. Rashes & Hemant Mafatlal,
Deepak Parekh (Chairman H.D.F.C.)
Information Technology
Shabeer Bhatia St Joseph's
Art & Architecture
Charles Correa -noted Architect
Politics
The First Chief Minister of undivided Bengal, Mr. Suhrawardy, Shri Jyoti Basu, Late Shri Gani Khan Choudhury, Mr. Kamal Nath, Mr. Manab Mukherjee, Mr.Arun Jaitely, Mr.Ajay Maken, Mr.Amar Singh, Dayanidhi Maran, M.P Prakash, Ashok Chavan, Siddhartha Shankar Ray,
Sports
Sourav Ganguly, Sunil Gavaskar, Premjit Lal and Joydeep Mukherjee, Vijay & Anand Amritraj, Ramanathan & Ramesh Krishnan, Leander Paes, Vishwanathan Anand
Science and Technology
Bhatnagar awardees like U.N. Brahmachari, Dr. S. Nag and Dr. Chattapadhyay, Prof. Ananda Mohan Chakravarty, the US 1975 Best Scientist awardee,
Attorney & Socicitor
Soli Sorabjee, Nani Palkhiwalla, Justice Vikram Jeet Sein
Science & Technology
Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose scientist par excellence, Bhatnagar awardees like U.N. Brahmachari, Dr. S. Nag and Dr. Chattapadhyay, Prof. Ananda Mohan Chakravarty, the US 1975 Best Scientist awardee, Dr. Homi Sethna (Scientist)
Journalists
Rajdeep Sardesai, Raghav Behl, N Ram, Ramananda Chatterjee, the father of Indian journalism
literature, arts and music
Rabindranath Tagore, Shabana Azmi, Zubin Mehta, Charles Correa, Raj Kapoor, Alyque Padamsee, Kavita Krisnamurthy, Ismail Merchant, G.T. Nanavati, Shobha De, Rahul Bose, Zakir Hussain, Nandini Gondhalekar and Cyrus Broacha. , Prof. Lal, Amitrava Chatterjee (writers), Buddhadev Guha, novelist, Mr. Niel O’Brien (father of Indian quiz), Bikram Ghosh (tabla), Mr Argha Sen and Sreekanto Acharya (Rabindra Sangeet)
Famous Indian Alumni from their respective Jesuit Institutes in India
St. Xavier's Collegiate School – Kolkotta
•Shashi Tharoor, former UN undersecretary
•Rabindranath Tagore, writer and Nobel laureate
•Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose, noted scientist
•Jyoti Basu, former Chief Minister of West Bengal
•Sourav Ganguly, former Indian Cricket Captain
•Norman Pritchard, Indian athlete of British descent, first Indian to win an Olympic Medal.
•Raj Kapoor, legendary Bollywood Actor
•Siddhartha Shankar Ray, eminent lawyer, former Chief Minister of West Bengal and former Indian Ambassador to the US
•Lieutenant General J. F. R. Jacob, celebrated war hero, former Governor of Punjab
•General Shankar Roychoudhury, former Chief of Indian Army
•Laxmi Mittal, Industrialist
•Aditya Vikram Birla, Industrialist
•Sanjeev Goenka, Industrialist
•Barun De, Historian, former First-Director of Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
•Dipankar Gupta, former Solicitor General of India
•Neil O'Brien, Derek O' Brien and Barry O' Brien, Quizmasters
•Kishore Bhimani, cricket commentator
•Chandra Hirjee (1958 winner of the inaugural World Amateur Snooker Championship held at Kolkata.
•Arkapratim Roy, eminent guitarist, founder of Hologram
St.Xavier’s College- Kolkotta
Notable alumni include
•M. Hamid Ansari Vice_President of India
•Jyoti Basu[ Former Chief Minister of West Bengal
•Kamal Nath- Union Minister for Commerce and Industries
•Lakshmi N Mittal
•Vijay Mallya
•Amar Singh- Parliamentarian
•A.B.A. Ghani Khan Choudhury
•Rahul Goenka
•Sanjeev Goenka
•Debang Gandhi
•Harsh Neotia
•Sourav Ganguly
•Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose
•Nikhil Bhagat
•Pankaj Roy Burman
•Anil Chatterjee
•Ramananda Chatterjee
•Tapobrata Roy Choudhuri
•Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri
•Utpal Dutt
•Jamal Nazrul Islam
•Buddhadev Guha
•Chandra Hirjee
•P. Lal
•Norman Pritchard
•Hamoodur Rahman
•Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy
•N.Vishwanathan
•Benjamin Walker
•Sanjay Ray Chowdhury
•Amitava Bose
•Ranadev Bose
•Ananda mohan Chakraborti
St.Joseph’s College - Tiruchirappalli
•His Excellency Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam President of India
•Mr.N Gopalaswamy Chief Election Commisioner
•Justice A R.Lakshmanan Judge, Supreme Court
•Mr.C.N.Ramadoss Secretary, Health, Union Government
•Mr.S.S.Vaidyanathan Director, Gas Authority of India
•Mr.N.Vittal Chairman, Telecom, New Delhi
•Mr.A.X.Alexander Former DGP, Tamilnadu Police
Mr.J.Radhakrishnan Vice-President, Bank of America
.Justice Kalibullah Khan Judge, High Court, Chennai
•Justice P.Shanmugam
•Mr.G.P.Muniappan Executive Director, Reserve Bank
•Dr.Ramamoorthy Neuro Surgeon, Chennai
•Dr.Kalyanaraman Neuro Surgeon, Chennai
•Justice Kanagaraj Judge, High Court, Chennai
•Justice Ashok Kumar Judge, High Court, Chennai
•Dr.L.Kannan VC, Thiruvalluvar University, Vellore
•Dr.K.Marimuthu Former VC,Bharathiyar University,Coimbatore
•Dr.S.Ignacimuthu Frmr VC, Madras University
St.Xavier’s College- Palayamkottai
•Prof . K.P. Aravanan, Former VC, MSU, Tirunelveli
•Prof. M.G. Muthuswamy, Former VC, Annamalai University
•Shri. M. Arunachalam,Former Central Minister
•Shri. Vai. Gopalasamy, Former M.P.
•Shri. Peter Alphonso, Former M.P.
•Shri. Thirunavukkarasar, Central Minister
•Shri. Thalavai Sundaram, State Minister
•Shri. Rathinavel Pandian, Supreme Court Judge
•Shri. Ashok kumar, High Court Judge
•Shri. A.S. Pragasam, Director (Film Industry)
•Shri. S.A. Chandrasekar, Director (Film Industry)
•Shri. Uma Chandran, writer
•Shri. P.M. Raasamani, writer
•Dr.P.Babu, Scientist (Bio-Technology), Bangalore
•Dr.K.S.V.Nambi, Scientist (Atomic Energy), Tirunelveli
•Dr. Gunaseelan (Medicine)
•Dr. Sundararajan (Medicine)
St.Joseph’s College – Bangalore
Sited on a compact 10-acre campus in the heart of the garden city, SJC has an aggregate enrollment of 2,500 including 300 postgraduate students instructed by 150 faculty members of whom 60 percent are Ph Ds and 80 percent M. Phil degree holders. Prominent alumni include Sabeer Bhatia, founder of Hotmail; renowned physicist Dr. Raja Ramanna; K. Ramaswamy, president, FKCCI (Federation of Karnataka Chambers of Commerce and Industry); M.P Prakash, deputy chief minister of Karnataka; T.S. Krishna Murthy, chief election commissioner among numerous others who have risen to apex level positions in government and industry
Loyola College, Chennai
•Albert Muthumalai, current principal of Loyola College.
•Ramaswamy Venkataraman, former President of India
•Dr Rangaswamy Srinivasan, inventor of LASIK laser surgery, IBM Research Labs, USA
•Dr S Rajappa, Former Deputy Director, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune
•C. Rangarajan, former Governor, Reserve Bank of India
•Dayanidhi Maran, Former Member of Parliament, Former Minister for communication and Information Technology, Government of India
•Narasimhan Ram, editor-in-chief The Hindu, Frontline
Vishwanathan Anand, World Chess Champion
•C. K. Prahalad, management writer
•Ramanathan Krishnan Tennis Player
•Ramesh Krishnan Tennis Player
•Vijay & Anand Amritraj, tennis players
•Leander Paes, Indian tennis player
•Verghese Kurien, architect of India's dairy development program Operation Flood.
•Arjun Appadurai, founder of the School of International Relations, Delhi, which is now part of Jawaharlal Nehru University
XLRI-B School Jamsedpur Illustrious Alumni
Being one of the earliest business schools in India, XLRI enjoys a strong network of 6000 + alumni. Many of whom have been the drivers of growth in their respective organizations.
•Aquil Busrai / Executive Director / Motorola
•Avijit Ghosh / Dy Dean / Stern School of Business
•George Zacharias / MD / Sify
•Jagdish V Dore / Managing Director / Novartis Enterprises Pvt.Ltd
•Rajiv Kaul / Managing Director / Microsoft India
•Jaswant Nair / CEO – Sale / Marico Industries
•K G Muthukumar / Director / Compaq Computer Corpn ( USA )
•Kalyan Ganguly / President (Brewaries) / The UB Group
•Madan Mohan Pillutla / Professor ( OB ) / London Business School
•Madhukar Kamath / CEO and MD / Mudra Communications
•Manet Pias / Managing Director / Alliiance Airways
•Mervyn Raphael / Country Manager / William M Mercer ( India ) Pvt. Ltd
•Percy Signaporia / Managing Director / Tata Tea
•N Krishnakumar / Founder / Mindtree Consulting
•Naveen Jain / CEO & Founder / Infospace.com- USA
•Ravi Virmani / CEO / Hewitt Associates India
•Robert G Lyngdoh / Home Minister / Meghalaya
Sundaresan Raghunandan / Regional Head / Standard Chartered Bank ( Singapore
St.Xavier’s High School Bombay-Alumni
•Mr. M.C. Chagla
•(Minister for Education, Government of India)
•Ashok Chavan -Chief Minister of Maharashtra
•Dr. Homi Sethna (Scientist)
•Mr. Soli Sorabjee - Legal Luminary
•Sunil Gavaskar - Cricketer & Sheriff Of Bombay
•Deepak Parekh (Chairman H.D.F.C.)
•Mr. Adi Godrej (Industrialist)
•Sorab Pinyshah Godrej (Industrialist)
•Mr. Nadir Godrej (Industrialist)
•Mr. Burjor P. Godrej (Industrialist)
•Arvind Mafatlal (Industrialist)
•Mr. Rashes Mafatlal (Industrialist)
•Hemant Mafatlal (Industrialist)
•Mr. Akhtar Tobaccowala 1940 (Director Voltas )
•Digveer Solanki (Maharaja of Vansda)
•Charles Correa -noted Architect
•Mr. Justice Madhu Kania (former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India )
•Gen. Sunith Rodrigues (Ex. Army Chief)
•Julio Ribeiro -Ex Director General of Police, Punjab
•Dr. Ernest Borges (Cancer Specialist)
Jesuit Colleges and Universities- USA
Twenty-eight colleges and universities are affiliated with the Society of Jesus in the United States. These institutions enroll more than 183,000 students and offer more than 260 undergraduate, graduate and professional programs of study. There are well over one million living alumni who have shared in our tradition of educating men and women for others.
The Jesuit schools of higher education form the institutional membership of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU). For more information on the individual schools and AJCU, please visit www.ajcunet.edu.
California Province
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Chicago Province
Loyola University, Chicago, IL
Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH
Detroit Province
John Carroll University, Cleveland, OH
University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, MI
Maryland Province
Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Loyola College, Baltimore, MD
St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA
University of Scranton, Scranton, PA
Wheeling Jesuit University, Wheeling, WV
Missouri Province
Regis University, Denver, CO
Rock Hurst University Kansas City, MO
St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO
New England Province
Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT
New Orleans Province
Loyola University, New Orleans, LA
Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL
New York Province
Canisius College, Buffalo, NY
Fordham University, Bronx, NY
LeMoyne College, Syracuse, NY
St. Peter’s College, Jersey City, NJ
Oregon Province
Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA
Seattle University, Seattle, WA
Wisconsin Province
Creighton University, Omaha, NE
Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
Jesuit High Schools- USA
Among the 48 Jesuit high schools in the United States, Georgetown Preparatory School, founded in 1789, is the oldest and the sole remaining Jesuit boarding-day school in the country. Two new Jesuit high schools have been established since the start of the 21st century, Arrupe Jesuit High School in Denver (2003) and Cristo Rey High School, Sacramento (2006). Both are modeled after Cristo Rey Jesuit High School founded in 1996 by the Jesuits of the Chicago Province to serve the immigrant families of that city’s near southwest side. A third such school, Verbum Dei, became jointly sponsored by the California Province of the Society of Jesus and the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in 2005. Cristo Rey schools are known as “schools that work” because they incorporate into their college preparatory program a work study program that helps to finance their students’ education.
Jesuit high schools form the institutional membership of the Jesuit Secondary Education Association (JSEA), headquartered in Washington, D.C. JSEA links these schools with the wider community of both public and private secondary education in the United States as well as with the educational institutions of the Society of Jesus worldwide.
California Province (7)
Bellarmine College Preparatory, San Jose, CA
Brophy College Prep, Phoenix, AZ
Cristo Rey High School, Sacramento, CA
Jesuit High School, Sacramento, CA
Loyola High School, Los Angeles, CA
St. Ignatius College Preparatory, San Francisco, CA
Verbum Dei High School, Los Angeles, CA
Chicago Province (5)
Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School, Indianapolis, IN
Cristo Rey Jesuit High School, Chicago, IL
Loyola Academy, Wilmette, IL
St. Ignatius College Prep, Chicago, IL
St. Xavier High School, Cincinnati, OH
Detroit Province (5)
Loyola High School, Detroit, MI
St. Ignatius High School, Cleveland, OH
St. John’s Jesuit High School & Academy, Toledo, OH
University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy, Detroit, MI
Walsh Jesuit High School, Cuyahoga Falls, OH
Maryland Province (5)
Georgetown Preparatory School, N. Bethesda, MD
Gonzaga College High School, Washington, DC
Loyola Blakefield, Towson, MD
St. Joseph’s Preparatory School, Philadelphia, PA
Scranton Preparatory School, Scranton, PA
Missouri Province (5)
Arrupe Jesuit High School, Denver, CO
De Smet Jesuit High School, St. Louis, MO
Regis Jesuit High School, Aurora, CO
Rockhurst High School, Kansas City, MO
St. Louis University High School, St. Louis, MO
New England Province (3)
Boston College High School, Boston, MA
Cheverus High School, Portland, ME
Fairfield College Preparatory School, Fairfield, CT
New Orleans Province (4)
Jesuit College Preparatory School, Dallas, TX
Jesuit High School, New Orleans, LA
Jesuit High School of Tampa, Tampa, FL
Strake Jesuit College Preparatory, Houston, TX
New York Province (7)
Canisius High School, Buffalo, NY
Fordham Preparatory School, Bronx, NY
Loyola School, New York, NY
McQuaid Jesuit High School, Rochester, NY
Regis High School, New York, NY
St. Peter’s Preparatory School, Jersey City, NJ
Xavier High School, New York, NY
Oregon Province (4)
Bellarmine Preparatory School, Tacoma, WA
Gonzaga Preparatory School, Spokane, WA
Jesuit High School, Portland, OR
Seattle Preparatory School, Seattle, WA
Wisconsin Province (3)
Creighton Preparatory School, Omaha, NE
Marquette University High School, Milwaukee, WI
Red Cloud High School, Pine Ridge, SD
Famous Jesuit Alumni/ae in United States Congress
More than ten percent of 110th U.S. Congress are Jesuit College and University alumni/ae
The Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU) reports that among the 535 Members of the 110th U.S. Congress, 53 of them, or more than 10 percent, are alumni/ae of Jesuit colleges and universities. This is an increase of close to 15 percent compared to the 109th Congress when there was a total of 47 Jesuit alumni/ae in the House and Senate.
There are nine Jesuit alumni in the Senate and 44 in the House of Representatives. Among the top leadership, both the Majority and Minority Leaders in the House of Representatives, Congressmen Steny Hoyer (D-MD) and John Boehner (R-OH) respectively, the Senate Majority Whip, Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL), and the Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Congressman Chris Van Hollen, are all Jesuit alumni.
Of these 53 alumni/ae, 32 received graduate or professional degrees from Jesuit universities. There are 14 Jesuit institutions represented by alumni/ae in the U.S. Congress, and Georgetown University has the most alumni/ae with a total of 21.
"This number (of our alumni/ae in Congress) is an important reminder that a Jesuit education is meant to lead to lives of leadership and service," said AJCU President Fr. Charles Currie, S.J. "We are proud that that goal is realized at the highest levels of public service, as well as in countless other ways across the country and around the world. It is a privilege to work with these women and men, and with our other friends in Congress, in addressing the issues facing our nation. We appreciate the challenges they face as public servants and the many ways they reflect the competence, compassion and commitment we pursue on our campuses."
The following is the full list of the Jesuit college and university alumni/ae in Congress:
UNITED STATES SENATE
Senator John Barrasso
(R-WY) Appointed 2007
B.A. Georgetown University 1974
M.D. Georgetown University 1978
Senator Jim Bunning
(R-KY), Elected 1998
B.S. Xavier University (1953)
Senator Robert P. Casey Jr.
(D-PA), Elected 2006
B.A., Holy Cross College (1982)
Senator Richard J. Durbin
(D-IL), Elected 1996
B.S.F.S. Georgetown University (1966)
J.D. Georgetown University (1969)
Senator John F. Kerry
(D-MA), Elected 1984
J.D. Boston College (1976)
Senator Patrick J. Leahy
(D-VT), Elected 1974
J.D. Georgetown University (1964)
Senator Robert Menendez
(D-NJ), Appointed & Elected 2006
B.A. Saint Peter's College (1976)
Senator Barbara A. Mikulski
(D-MD), Elected 1986
B.A. Loyola College in Maryland (1958)
Senator Lisa Murkowski
(R-AK), Elected 2004
B.A. Georgetown University (1980)
Senator Jim Webb
(D-VA), Elected 2006
J.D. Georgetown University (1975)
UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Representative Timothy H. Bishop
(D-NY), Elected 2002
B.A. College of the Holy Cross (1972)
Representative John A. Boehner
(R-OH), Elected 1990
B.S. Xavier University (1977)
Representative Vern Buchanan
(R-FL), Elected 2006
MBA, University of Detroit Mercy (1986)
Representative Michael Capuano
(D-MA), Elected 1998
J.D. Boston College (1977)
Representative Michael N. Castle
(R-DE), Elected 1992
L.L.B. Georgetown University (1964)
Representative Barbara Cubin
(R-WY), Elected 1994
B.S. Creighton University (1969)
Representative Henry Cuellar
(D-TX) Elected 2004
B.S. Georgetown (1978)
Representative William D. Delahunt
(D-MA), Elected 1996
J.D. Boston College (1967)
Representative John D. Dingell
(D-MI), Elected 1955
B.A. Georgetown University (1949)
J.D. Georgetown University (1952)
Representative Michael Ferguson
(R-NJ), Elected 2000
M.P.P. Georgetown University (1995)
Representative Jeff Fortenberry
(R-NE) Elected (2004)
M.A. Georgetown University (1986)
Representative Luis G. Fortuno
(R-PR) Elected (2004)
B.S. Georgetown University (1982)
Representative Vito Fossella
(R-NY), Elected 1996
J.D. Fordham University (1993)
Representative Wayne T. Gilchrest
(R-MD), Elected 1990
Attended, Loyola College Maryland (1990)
Representative John J. Hall
(D-NY), Elected 2006
Attended, Loyola College Maryland (1965-66)
Representative Stephanie Herseth
(D-SD), Elected 2004
B.A. Georgetown University (1993)
M.A. Georgetown University (1996)
J.D. Georgetown University (1996)
Representative Mazie K.Hirono
(D-HI), Elected 2006
J.D. Georgetown University (1978)
Representative Paul W. Hodes
(D-NH), Elected 2006
J.D. Boston College (1978)
Representative Steny H. Hoyer
(D-MD), Elected 1981
J.D. Georgetown University (1966)
Representative William J. Jefferson
(D-LA), Elected 1990
L.L.M. Georgetown University (1996)
He received his L.L.M. while serving as a Member of Congress
Representative Mark Steven Kirk
(R-IL), Elected 2000
J.D. Georgetown University (1992)
Representative Frank A. LoBiondo
(R-NJ), Elected 1994
B.S. St. Joseph's University (1968)
Representative Zoe Lofgren
(D-CA), Elected 1994
J.D. University of Santa Clara (1975)
Representative Daniel E. Lungren
(R-CA), Elected 2004
J.D. Georgetown Law School (1971)
Representative Donald Manzullo
(R-IL), Elected 1992
J.D. Marquette University (1970)
Representative Edward J. Markey
(D-MA), Elected 1976
B.A. Boston College (1968)
J.D. Boston College (1972)
Representative Thaddeus McCotter
(R-MI), Elected 2002
B.A. University of Detroit Mercy (1987)
J.D. University of Detroit Mercy (1991)
Representative Michael R. McNulty
(D-NY), Elected 1988
B.A. College of the Holy Cross (1969)
Representative Gwen Moore
(D-WI) Elected (2004)
B.A. Marquette University (1978)
Representative James P. Moran
(D-VA), Elected 1990
B.A. College of the Holy Cross (1967)
Representative Timothy F. Murphy
(R-PA), Elected 2002
B.A. Wheeling Jesuit College (1974)
Representative Jerrold Nadler
(D-NY), Elected 1992
J.D. Fordham University (1978)
Representative William J. Pascrell Jr.
(D-NJ), Elected 1996
B.A. Fordham University (1959)
M.A. Fordham University (1961)
Representative Robert C. Scott
(D-VA), Elected 1992
J.D. Boston College (1973)
Representative Albio Sires
(D-NJ), Elected 2006
B.A. Saint Peter's College (1974)
Representative Adam Smith
(D-WA), Elected 1996
B.A. Fordham University (1987)
Representative Lee Terry
(R-NE), Elected 1998
J.D. Creighton University (1987)
Representative Chris Van Hollen Jr.
(D-MD), Elected 2002
J.D. Georgetown University (1990)
Representative Peter J. Visclosky
(D-IN), Elected 1984
L.L.M. Georgetown University (1982)
Representative Peter Welch
(D-VT), Elected 2006
A.B. College of Holy Cross (1969)
Representative Frank Wolf
(R-VA), Elected 1980
J.D. Georgetown University (1965)
Representative Lynn Woolsey
(D-CA), Elected 1992
B.S. University of San Francisco (1980)
Representative Albert R. Wynn
(D-MD), Elected 1992
J.D. Georgetown University (1977)
Other Jesuit-educated leading personalities worldwide include:
• Bill Clinton, former U.S. president
•Francois Mitterand, former President of France
*Pierre Trudeau, former Prime Minister of Canada
• Vicente Fox, President of Mexico
• Fidel Castro, leader of Cuba
•Denzel Washington, Academy Award-winning actor
• Patrick Ewing and Bill Russell, NBA stars
• Vince Lombardi, legendary football coach
• Mary Higgins Clark, bestselling mystery novelist
• Antonin Scalia, Supreme Court justice
• Alex Trebek, host of “Jeopardy”
• Dee Dee Myers, President Clinton’s press secretary
• Sting, rock star
• Robert C. Wright, chairman of NBC
• Alan Alda, Emmy Award-winning actor
• Tim Russert, host of “Meet the Press”
A good account of illustrious Jesuit alumni/ae in India and the United States. More institutions and states in India could be covered.
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