Stella Maris College Notable Alumni

Stella Maris college notable alumni have made a name for themselves in the community. They behold their success to the time they spent studying at Stella Maris College. The institute has a unique credit for starting a bachelor's degree in Western music and Art history and a Master's degree in Social Work and Indian Music from the University of Madras. The institute is known for its western music and fine art programs, contributing to providing opportunities for women and its famous alumni. 

List of Stella Maris College Notable Alumni

Stella Maris college notable alumni come from various backgrounds and specialities. The alumni excel in various fields like acting, fine arts and many more. Several of them are talented and popular among youths. Listed below are the notable alumni of Stella Maris College. 

• Sheela Murthy
• Divya Ajit Kumar
• Samantha Akkineni
• Preetha Reddy
• Shweta Mohan
• Manjima Mohan
• Savitha Sastry

Sheela Murthy

Sheela Murthy is a successful lawyer and an entrepreneur, philanthropist, best known for Murthy Law firm. The firm is ranked as one of the world's leading US Immigration law firms. Sheela Murthy established the Murthy Nayak Foundation with her husband for their significant benefaction to nonprofits organizations in education and healthcare which help to fulfil the requirement of women, children and immigrants.

Sheela Murthy is also one of several nonprofit board members in the Baltimore -Washington region and somewhere in the northeast part of America. One of the best speakers on immigration law and entrepreneurship and motivation, leadership, and women's issues.

Profession: Lawyer

Divya Ajith Kumar

Divya is the first Indian female to become the first lady cadet in the history of the Indian Army. The Army awarded her with the coveted Sword of Honour, and during Republic day, she led an all-women contingent of 154 women officers and cadets. Besides, Divya is the first generation soldier with no army family background in her past.

Divya completed her schooling at Good Shepherd Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Chennai and did her bachelor's at Stella Maris College, Chennai. She joined NCC, and that encouraged her to connect with the Indian Army and engaged in the NCC women contingent in Rajpath and later joined OTA. She is a versatile character. Divya is popularly known as an accomplished Bharatanatyam dancer, instrumentalist and sportsperson.

Profession: Military Officer

Samantha Akkineni

Samantha Akkineni, an actress who established a Telugu and Tamil film industry career, is a prominent alumnus of Stella Maris college. And she received several awards, including four-film fare awards. She is amongst the leading actresses in the film industry.

For her schooling, Samathana was schooled at Holy Angel Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School and then completed a degree in commerce at Stella Maris College, Chennai. After her undergraduate degree, Samantha became involved in modelling, through which filmmaker Ravi Varman first spotted her.

Profession: Actress

Preetha Reddy

Preetha Reddy is the vice-chairperson of one among the leading Hospital chains in India. In September 2012, she was elected to the board as an independent director of medical technology company Medtronic. She is the vice-chairperson of Apollo Hospitals. Reddy graduated from Madras University with her Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry and a master's degree in public administration from Annamalai University.

Preetha Reddy joined Apollo hospitals in 1989 as a joint MD before becoming Managing Director. Under her impact, there is an increase in the number of beds which helped Apollo hospital to gain a quality certificate. In 2012, she was elected to the Board of directors as an independent member of the board of Medical Technology at Medtronic. After some time Reddy replaced her father as vice-president of the Apollo Hospital.  

Profession: Businessperson/Chartered Accountant

Shweta Mohan

Shweta Mohn is one of the best Indian playback singers; she has recorded songs for film music and albums in all four South Indian languages. She has established herself as a leading playback singer of South Indian cinema in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Hindi. Her personal life was that she was born into a Malayali family in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Her schooling was done at Good Shepherd Convent, Chennai, and she graduated from Stella Maris College, Chennai. 

 Shweta has several songs in her list for Music directors in India like IIayaraja, Vidyasagar, MM Keeravani. She even sang for A.R. Rahman, Devi Sri Prasad; currently, she is learning Carnatic classical music from Smt.Binni Krishnakumar. She has won a total of four film Awards in south for best female Playback singer, the Kerala State Film Award and Tamil Nadu State Film Award. 

Profession: Playback Singer

Manjima Mohan

Manjima was born on 11th March 1993 in Thiruvananthapuram and started her career as a child artist in the late 1990s and early 2000s Malayalam films. Manjima has received the Best Female Debut at 64th Filmfare Awards South 2017 for her first and second Malayalam films.

Manjima Mohan did her B.Sc degree in Mathematics from Stella Maris College, Chennai. Despite the fact that she has gained much experience as an actor, she said that she was not sure when she started acting in the movie, and for the first few days were petrified. Oru Vadakkan Selfie, directed by G. Parit, and written by Vineet Srinivasan, cast Manjima Mohan as the main female lead. 

Profession: Actress

Savitha Sastry

Savitha is a well-known Bharatanatyam dancer famous for her theme-based production based on novel stories, not based on Indian Mythology or religion. Her dance innovations have been described as path-breaking, and she is considered a renaissance architect of the dance form.

She was born on 11th December 1969 in Hyderabad, India. Savita Sastry initiated her Bharatanatyam training, from Guru Mahalingam Pillai of Sri Rajarajeswari Bharatha Natya Kala Mandir, in Mumbai, and after some time with Adyara K Lakshmana and Dhananjayana in Chennai. Savitha pursued her graduation from Stella Maris College in Chennai. She got her kinetics of dance degree of technical proficiency in her kinetics of the dance form to deliver it with elegance and techniques demanded by Bharatnatyam performers.

Profession: Choreographer

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Stella Maris Official Alumni Community

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