List of University of Calcutta people
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This is a list of notable people connected to the University of Calcutta.
Contents
Fellows
- Joseph Baly, Archdeacon of Calcutta from 1872 until 1883
- Lal Behari Dey, Bengali Indian journalist who became a Christian missionary
- Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith, British Indologist
- Thomas Holbein Hendley, British medical officer in the Indian Medical Service and Indian art connoisseur
- Nawab Abdul Latif, Bengali nineteenth-century educator
- James Wood-Mason, British zoologist who was director of the Indian Museum in Calcutta
Faculty
- Harinath De (1877-1911), linguist, first lecturer of the Department of Linguistics, 1907[1]
- C. V. Raman (1917-1932), Winner of the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics.[2]
Alumni
Politics
- Basudeb Acharia, MP from Bankura
- Sultan Ahmed, MP from Uluberia
- Mohammad Hamid Ansari, Vice President of India
- Colonel H.H. Maharaja Sir Nripendra Narayan Bhup Bahadur, Maharaja of Coochbehar
- Surendranath Banerjea, 11th President of the Indian National Congress
- Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister of West Bengal
- Jyoti Basu, former Chief Minister of West Bengal
- Susmita Bauri, MP from Bishnupur
- Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, former Chief Minister of West Bengal
- Muhammad Ali of Bogra, former Prime Minister of Pakistan
- Gopinath Bordoloi, Chief Minister of Assam
- Bhupendra Nath Bose, 29th President of the Indian National Congress
- Biman Bose, Chairman of the Left Front in West Bengal
- Sarat Chandra Bose, Works, Mines and Power Member of the Central Interim Government in Delhi
- Subhas Chandra Bose, 53rd President of the Indian National Congress; founder of the Forward Bloc
- Somnath Chatterjee, Speaker of the Lok Sabha of India
- Jharna Das, member of Rajya Sabha from Tripura
- Tarak Nath Das, freedom fighter
- Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi, Information and Technology Minister of India
- Romesh Chunder Dutt, ICS, 16th President of the Indian National Congress
- B.K. Handique, Union Cabinet Minister, Government of India
- A.K. Fazlul Huq, former Prime Minister of British Bengal
- Amir H. Jamal, former Tanzanian MP and Finance Minister
- Fatima Jinnah, a leader of the Pakistan Movement; Muhammad Ali Jinnah's sister
- Banwari Lal Joshi, former Governor of Meghalaya
- Humayun Kabir, former Education Minister of India
- Brinda Karat, member of the CPI(M) Politburo
- Brington Buhai Lyngdoh, former Chief Minister of Meghalaya
- Maharajadhiraja Bahadur Sir Uday Chand Mahtab, Zamindar of Burdwan
- Madan Mohan Malaviya, educationist and politician, founder of Banaras Hindu University (BHU)
- Ba Maw, first Premier of Burma, 1937–43; first President of Burma, 1943–45
- Ashok Mitra, former Finance Minister of West Bengal
- Harendra Coomar Mookerjee, Governor of West Bengal
- Syama Prasad Mookerjee, former Industries and Supply Member of the Central Interim Government
- Ajoy Mukherjee, former Chief Minister, West Bengal
- Pranab Mukherjee, former Finance Minister, External Affairs Minister, and Defence Minister; 13th President of India
- Subrata Mukherjee, former Union Minister of West Bengal
- Ajit Kumar Panja, former Minister of State for External Affairs of India
- Rajendra Prasad, first President of India
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, President of India
- Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, former Prime Minister of Bangladesh
- Jagjivan Ram, former Deputy Prime Minister of India
- Siddhartha Shankar Ray, former Chief Minister of West Bengal
- Bidhan Chandra Roy, former Chief Minister of West Bengal
- Mohammad Salim, Member, Lok Sabha, India
- Abdus Sattar, former President of Bangladesh
- Ashoke Sen, former Law Minister of India
- Prafulla Chandra Sen, former Chief Minister of West Bengal
- Anugrah Narayan Sinha, first Finance Minister of Bihar
- Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, former Prime Minister of Pakistan
- George Gilbert Swell, member of Rajya Sabha
- Ram Baran Yadav, President of Nepal
Religion
- Durga Mohan Das, leader of the Brahmo Samaj
- Lal Behari Dey, theologian of the Free Church of Scotland
- Swami Gambhirananda, former President of the Ramakrishna Mission Order
- Mahendranath Gupta, author of Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita (The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna)
- A. B. Masilamani, evangelist and theologian, Canadian Baptist Mission
- A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder, International Society for Krishna Consciousness
- Sitanath Tattwabhushan, theologian of Sadharan Brahmo Samaj
- Swami Vivekananda, founder of the Ramakrishna Mission Order
- Paramahansa Yogananda, Hindu mystic; yogi; leading proponent of Kriya Yoga in the West
Armed forces
- Subroto Mukherjee, first Indian Air Chief Marshal of the Indian Air Forces
Government
- P.C. Bhattacharya, Controller General of Defence Accounts, Govt. of India
- Brajendranath De, ICS, Commissioner of Burdwan
- Sib Chandra Deb, Deputy Collector in Bengal
- Gurusaday Dutt, ICS, Local Self Government and Public Health Secretary of Bengal
- Sir Azizul Haque, B.L, C.I.E, K.C.S.I, D.Litt, former Speaker of the Bengal Legislative Assembly (1937–42); Minister of Education (Government of Bengal),; former Vice-Chancellor of Calcutta University (1938–42); High Commissioner for India to London (1942–43)
- Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Pakistani Ambassador to Morocco
- Binay Ranjan Sen, ICS, former Ambassador of India to the USA
- Sukumar Sen, ICS, Chief Election Commissioner of India
- Nitish Sengupta, IAS, Revenue Secretary of India
- Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh, India's ambassador to Nepal, Japan, Governor of Punjab and Uttar Pradesh
- Satyendranath Tagore, ICS, District Judge in Gujerat
Jurists
- Gooroodas Banerjee, Judge of the Calcutta High Court; first Indian Vice Chancellor of the University of Calcutta
- Pannalal Bose, jurist
- Sudhi Ranjan Das, Chief Justice of India
- Monomohun Ghose, first practising Indian Barrister of the Calcutta High Court
- Hara Chandra Ghosh, first Bengali judge of the Small Causes Court in Calcutta
- Sarat Kumar Ghosh, Chief Justice of Rajasthan
- Ashutosh Mukherjee, Judge of the Calcutta High Court; five times Vice Chancellor of the Calcutta University
- Sabyasachi Mukherjee, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India
- Debi Prasad Pal, Senior Advocate in Supreme Court of India; Judge of the Calcutta High Court
- Radha Binod Pal, Judge of the Calcutta High Court
- Hamoodur Rahman, former Chief Justice of Pakistan
- Ajit Nath Ray, former Chief Justice of India
- Amal Kumar Sarkar, former Chief Justice of India
- Gnanendramohan Tagore, first Asian barrister (1862)
Industry
- Mani Lal Bhaumik, inventor of the Excimer Laser
- Jagmohan Dalmiya, Chairman of M.L.Dalmiya and Co.
- Ramgopal Ghosh, wealthy entrepreneur; founded his own firm, R.G. Ghosh and Co.
- Rama Prasad Goenka, Chairman Emeritus of the RPG Group
- Lakshmi Niwas Mittal, billionaire, steel tycoon, entrepreneur
- Prafulla Chandra Roy, founder of Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals
Medicine
- Dipak K. Das, professor of surgery, now under investigation for fraudulent publications
- Lt. Col. Jyotish Chandra De, I.M.S., Principal of Calcutta Medical College, Calcutta
- Subhash Mukhopadhyay, first physician in India (and second in the world) to perform in vitro fertilization
- Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, eminent physician of India of his time; medical adviser to Pt. Jawharlal Nehru (then Prime Minister of India); became the Chief Minister of West Bengal
Academics
- Jamal Nazrul Islam, physicist, mathematician, cosmologist, astronomer
- Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay, discoverer of Mohenjodaro, the principal site of the Harappa culture
- Chandramukhi Basu, one of the first two female graduates of the British Empire; first female head of an undergraduate academic institution in South Asia
- Jagadish Chandra Bose
- Nirmal Kumar Bose, Census Commissioner of India[3]
- Satyendra Nath Bose, physicist, co-discoverer of Bose-Einstein statistics
- Mani Lal Bhaumik, physicist
- Upendranath Brahmachari, physician, nominee for the Nobel prize in 1929 in the category of physiology and medicine
- Ramaprasad Chanda, historian, anthropologist and archaeologist
- Suniti Kumar Chatterjee, linguist
- Nirad C. Chaudhuri, historian and commentator on culture
- Shomie Das, Headmaster of The Doon School
- Barun De, Chairman, West Bengal Heritage Commission, Calcutta
- Mahasweta Devi, social worker, activist, novelist and feminist turned Marxist
- Amlan Dutta, former Vice Chancellor of Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan
- Mircea Eliade, religious scholar and philosopher
- Anil Kumar Gain, prominent mathematician and statistician from the University of Cambridge; Fellow of the Royal Society
- Prafulla Chandra Ghosh, English literature scholar
- Sankar Ghosh Chairman of Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Columbia University; co-founder of Theralogics Inc.
- Biraja Sankar Guha, first Director of the Anthropological Survey of India
- K. S. Krishnan, philosopher
- Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, founder of the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta
- Ashesh Prosad Mitra, former Director of CSIR
- Ashok Mitra, professor of Delhi University and later Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Dhan Gopal Mukerji, socio-cultural critic; first successful man of letters in early 20th-century USA
- Ganesh Prasad, mathematician
- C. R. Rao, statistician
- Rajat Kanta Ray, Upacharya, Vishwa Bharati, Santiniketan
- Tapan Raychaudhuri, Professor of Indian History and Civilisation, University of Oxford
- Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri, political scientist; Fellow of the University of London
- Kamini Roy, first female honours graduate in the British Empire; first feminist author in India
- Prafulla Chandra Roy, chemist
- Megh Nad Saha, physicist
- Binoy Kumar Sarkar, economist
- Sumit Sarkar, Professor of History, Delhi University
- Susobhan Sarkar, Professor and Head of Department of History, Presidency College, Calcutta
- Sir Jadunath Sarkar, Vice Chancellor of the University of Calcutta
- Amartya Sen, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge; winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in economics
- Ashoke Sen, string theorist
- Dinesh Chandra Sen, scholar of early Bengali literature
- Brajendra Nath Seal, Vice Chancellor of Visva-Bharati University and the University of Mysore
- Surajit Chandra Sinha, anthropologist
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, philosopher, literary theorist
Literature
- Farrukh Ahmed, poet
- Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, novelist
- Parvati Prasad Baruwa, litterateur
- Bani Basu, author
- Rajshekhar Basu, writer
- Birendra Krishna Bhadra, poet remembered for his recital of Mahishashura Mardini
- Nabarun Bhattacharya, writer, magazine editor[4]
- Sasthi Brata, writer
- Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Bengali novelist; composer of India's national song, "Bande Mataram"
- Sanjeev Chattopadhyay, novelist
- Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty, Calcutta Medical College; first Indian to achieve the MD degree as University College London (1849)
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, author
- Michael Madhusudan Dutt, first poet laureate in Bengali and dramatist
- Satyendranath Dutta, poet
- Sudhindranath Dutta, author and poet
- Sunil Gangopadhyay, novelist, poet and children's fiction writer
- Kadambini Ganguly, one of the first two female graduates of the British Empire; first female physician of South Asia to be trained in the European system of medicine
- Nirmal Kumar Ganguly
- Shankha Ghosh, poet and critic
- Buddhadeb Guha, popular Bengali fiction writer and poet
- Bimal Kar, novelist
- Binoy Majumdar, poet
- Samaresh Majumdar, novelist
- Bimal Mitra, novelist
- Premendra Mitra, novelist
- Bharati Mukherjee, author
- Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay, poet and writer
- Subhash Mukhopadhyay, Bengali poet
- Dibyendu Palit, ad-man turned novelist
- Purnendu Pattrea, writer
- Acharya Kuber Nath Rai, writer of Hindi Literature
- Radhanath Sikdar
- Syed Mustafa Siraj, novelist
- Benjamin Walker, author
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Journalism
- Barun Sengupta, Editor, Bartaman newspaper
- Derek O'Brien, nationally famous Quiz Master and television host
- Ramananda Chatterjee, pioneering journalist
- Sanjeev Chattopadhyay, Bengali journalist
- MJ Akbar, eminent journalist
Films, theatre and music
- Clarence Barlow, composer
- Shishir Kumar Bhaduri, playwright
- Sachin Dev Burman, singer
- Mithun Chakraborty, National Film Award-winning actor
- Soumitra Chatterjee, actor
- Anjan Chattopadhyay, sitarist
- Buddhadeb Dasgupta, film director
- Manna Dey, singer
- Anjan Dutt, musician
- Utpal Dutt, actor
- Manoj Mitra, dramatist
- Suchitra Mitra, singer
- Pankaj Mullick, music director and composer
- Diptendu Pramanick, first Secretary of the Eastern India Motion Pictures Association; Secretary of Film Federation of India (1953–54)
- Satyajit Ray, Oscar-winning film director
- Kumar Sanu, singer
- Indrani Sen, singer
- Mrinal Sen, film director
- Rituparna Sengupta, actress
- Rudraprasad Sengupta, director of Nandikar theatre group
- Madhav Sharma, comedian and actor based in the UK
- Badal Sircar, dramatist
- P. C. Sorcar, Jr., magician
Artists
- Bulbul Chowdhury, artist
Sports
- Talimeran Ao, former member of the Indian football team in the 1948 Olympics Games
- Saurav Ganguly, former captain of the India cricket team
- Surya Shekhar Ganguly, chess grandmaster, national chess champion
- Chhanda Gayen, mountaineer, first Bengali woman to climb Mount Everest
- Gourgopal Ghosh, football player for the Mohun Bagan Club
- Sailen Manna, captain of the Indian football team in the London Olympics in 1948; gold medallist in 1951 Asian Games
- Leander Paes, former Olympic bronze medallist; Wimbledon and French Open doubles champion
- Vece Paes, former Olympic hockey player
- Norman Pritchard, former Olympic silver medalist
References
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