List of University of Calcutta people explained

This is a list of notable people connected to the University of Calcutta.

Fourteen heads of state and government, and four Nobel laureates^[1] have been associated with the university.

Fellows

• Joseph Baly, Archdeacon of Calcutta, 1872–1883
• 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, director of the Indian Museum in Calcutta

Faculty

Name	Affiliation	Notability	References
Abandindranath Tagore	Vice-Principal of the Government College of Art and Craft, 1905–1915	artist, and one of the pioneers of the Bengal School of Art
Abdur Rahim	Tagore Professor of Law
Abdul Majed Khan	Islamic history and culture	later taught at Victoria University of Wellington	^[2]
Amitava Raychaudhuri
Basanti Dulal Nagchaudhuri	Palit Professor of Physics, 1953–1959
B. N. Mukherjee	Carmichael Professor of Ancient Indian History and Culture, 1975–1998	historian, numismatist, epigraphist and iconographist
Biswa Ranjan Nag		physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
Bhabatarak Bhattacharyya		structural biologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize laureate
C. V. Raman	Palit Professor of Physics, 1917–1932	winner of the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics	^[3]
D. R. Bhandarkar	Carmichael Professor of Ancient Indian History and Culture, 1917–1936
Debendra Mohan Bose	Palit Professor of Physics, 1932–1938
Dineshchandra Sircar	Carmichael Professor of Ancient Indian History and Culture, 1962–1972	epigraphist, historian, numismatist and folklorist
Durga Mohan Bhattacharyya		Sanskrit scholar and Indologist
Nalinaksha Dutt	Professor of Sanskrit and Pali and Head of the Department of Pali	Sanskrit, Pali, Buddhism	.^[4]
George Thibaut	Carmichael Professor of Ancient Indian History and Culture, 1912–1917	Indologist
Harinath De		linguist, first lecturer of the Department of Linguistics, 1907^[5]
Hem Chandra Raychaudhuri	Carmichael Professor of Ancient Indian History and Culture, 1936–1952
Jagadish Chandra Bose	Professor of Physics at Presidency College^[6]
Kalidas Nag	Professor of history at the Scottish Church College	Member of Parliament
Khudiram Das	Ramtanu Lahiri Professor of Bengali and Head of the Department of Modern Indian Languages, 1973–1981
Krishna Dhar	Taught journalism	poet and journalist	^[7]
Malcolm Adiseshiah	Lecturer at St. Paul's Cathedral Mission College, 1930–1936
Meghnad Saha	Palit Professor of Physics 1938–1953
Mukul Dey	Principal of the Government College of Art and Craft, 1928–1943	artist
Rajendra Prasad	Professor of Economics at Calcutta City College	1st President of India
Rabindranath Tagore	Ramtanu Lahiri Professor in 1932	Winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature	^[8]
Sadhan Basu
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	Professor of Philosophy occupying the King George V Chair of Mental and Moral Science, 1921–1932	2nd President of India
Satyendra Nath Bose	Lecturer of Physics, 1916–1921	physicist known for his work in the field of quantum mechanics
Suniti Kumar Chatterji	Khaira Professor of Indian Linguistics and Phonetics	linguist, educationist, and Padma Bhushan recipient
Upendranath Brahmachari
Vishnu Kant Shastri	Lecturer of Hindi	Governor of Uttar Pradesh

Alumni

Arts

Name	Classyear	Degree	College	Notability	References
Abanindranath Tagore			Government College of Art & Craft	artist
				actor
Anjan Chattopadhyay				sitarist
Anjan Dutt				musician
Badal Sircar			Scottish Church College, Bengal Engineering College	dramatist
Basdeo Bissoondoyal				pioneering educator, fighter for the right to vote in British Mauritius
Biman Bihari Das			Government College of Art & Craft	sculptor
Birendra Krishna Bhadra			Scottish Church College	playwright, actor, narrator and theatre director
Bhupen Hazarika		IA	Cotton^[9]	playback singer, lyricist, musician, poet and film-maker
			Scottish Church College	film director
			Scottish Church College	artist
Clarence Barlow				composer
Diptendu Pramanick			Scottish Church College	first Secretary of the Eastern India Motion Pictures Association; former Secretary of Film Federation of India (1953–54)
Indrani Sen				singer
				score composer, music director, singer
Kumar Sanu				singer
Madhav Sharma			Scottish Church College	comedian and actor based in the UK
Manna Dey			Scottish Church College, Vidyasagar College	singer
Manoj Mitra			Scottish Church College	actor, director and playwright
Mithun Chakraborty			Scottish Church College	actor
Mrinal Sen			Scottish Church College	film director
Nandalal Bose			Government College of Art & Craft	artist
P. C. Sorcar, Jr.				magician
Pankaj Mullick			Scottish Church College	music director and composer
Rituparna Sengupta			Lady Brabourne College	actress
Rudraprasad Sengupta			Scottish Church College	director of Nandikar theatre group
Sachin Dev Burman			Comilla Victoria Government College	singer
Satyajit Ray		BA	Presidency	Oscar-winning film director
Somnath Hore			Government College of Art & Craft	artist
Soumitra Chatterjee		Bachelor of Arts	City College	actor
Suchitra Mitra			Scottish Church College	singer
Sunil Das	1959		Government College of Art & Craft	artist
Tarun Majumdar			Scottish Church College	Padma Shri Award winner film director
Uttam Kumar			Goenka College of Commerce and Business Administration	actor, director, producer, composer, singer
Utpal Dutt				actor

Business

Name	Classyear	Degree	College	Notability	References
Harsh Goenka				Chairman, RPG Group
Jagmohan Dalmiya			Scottish Church College	Chairman of M.L.Dalmiya and Co.
Lakshmi Niwas Mittal		BCom	St. Xavier's	billionaire, steel tycoon, entrepreneur
Mani Lal Bhaumik			Scottish Church College	inventor of the Excimer Laser
Prafulla Chandra Roy				founder of Bengal Chemicals
Rama Prasad Goenka			Presidency	Chairman, RPG Group	^[10]
Sanjiv Goenka				Chairman, RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group
Vinay Maloo				Chairman of Enso Group
Dilip Shanghvi			Bhawanipur Education Society	Billionaire businessman, founder of Sun Pharmaceuticals

Humanities and social sciences

Name	Classyear	Degree	College	Notability	References
Abhijit Banerjee	1981	B.Sc. (Economics)	Presidency	Winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics	^[11] ^[12]
Amartya Sen		BA (Economics)	Presidency	Winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics	^[13]
Benoy Kumar Sarkar	1905			economist
D. N. Jha		BA (History)	Presidency	Professor of History, Delhi University
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak	1959	BA(English)	Presidency	philosopher, literary theorist
Khudiram Das		MA (Bengali)		linguist
Nirad C. Chaudhuri			Scottish Church College	historian and commentator on culture
R. D. Banerji	1907; 1911	BA; MA	Presidency	discoverer of Mohenjodaro, the principal site of the Harappa culture
Rajat Kanta Ray		BA(History)	Presidency	historian
Ramaprasad Chanda			Scottish Church College	historian, anthropologist and archaeologist
Samita Sen		BA; MA		historian
Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri				political scientist; Fellow of the University of London
Shomie Das				former Headmaster of Mayo College and The Doon School
Sumit Sarkar			Presidency	Professor of History, Delhi University
Suniti Kumar Chatterjee			Scottish Church College	linguist
Surajit Chandra Sinha			Presidency	anthropologist
Susobhan Sarkar			Presidency	Professor and Head of Department of History, Presidency College, Calcutta
Tapan Raychaudhuri		BA (History); DPhil (History)	Presidency	Professor of Indian History and Civilisation, University of Oxford

Law

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References
Abdur Rahim			Presidency	British Indian judge
Ajit Nath Ray			Presidency	14th Chief Justice of India
Altamas Kabir			Presidency	39th Chief Justice of India
Amal Kumar Sarkar			Scottish Church Bangabasi University Law College	8th Chief Justice of India
Amarendra Nath Sen			Scottish Church University Law College	Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court
Amin Ahmed			Presidency	Chief Justice of the Dacca High Court
Aniruddha Bose		BCom; LLB	St. Xavier's Surendranath Law	Chief Justice of Jharkhand High Court
Ashok Kumar Mathur	1968			Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court
Ashutosh Mukherjee	1883; 1885	BA; MA	Presidency	Judge of the Calcutta High Court
Bhaskar Bhattacharya			Jogesh Chandra Chaudhuri	Chief Justice of Gujarat High Court
Bijan Kumar Mukherjea			Surendranath Law	4th Chief Justice of India
Chittatosh Mookerjee				Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court
Debasish Kar Gupta	1976; 1980	BCom; LLB		Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court
Debi Prasad Pal				Judge of the Calcutta High Court
Fazal Akbar			St. Xavier's	6th Chief Justice of Pakistan
Gooroodas Banerjee			Scottish Church College	Judge of the Calcutta High Court
Hamoodur Rahman		BA	St. Xavier's	7th Chief Justice of Pakistan
Hara Chandra Ghosh				first Bengali judge of the Small Causes Court in Calcutta
Jyotirmay Bhattacharya			St. Xavier's	Judge of the Calcutta High Court
Kulada Charan Das Gupta			Presidency	Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court
Manmatha Nath Mukherjee			Surendranath Law	Judge of the Calcutta High Court
Monomohun Ghose				first practising Indian Barrister of the Calcutta High Court
Mukul Gopal Mukherjee			Scottish Church University Law College	Chief Justice of the Rajasthan High Court
Pannalal Bose				jurist
Radha Binod Pal				Judge of the Calcutta High Court
Sabyasachi Mukherjee			Presidency	20th Chief Justice of India
Sarat Kumar Ghosh				Chief Justice of Jaipur State
Sudhi Ranjan Das			Scottish Church Bangabasi	5th Chief Justice of India
Umesh Chandra Banerjee	1961		Scottish Church	Judge of the Supreme Court of India

Literature

Name	Classyear	Degree	College	Notability	References
Bani Basu			Scottish Church	writer
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay			Presidency	writer, poet and journalist
Barun Sengupta			City	journalist
Benjamin Walker			St. Xavier's	writer
Bharati Mukherjee			Loreto
Bimal Mitra				novelist
Bimal Kar				novelist
Binoy Majumdar			Presidency	poet
Buddhadeb Guha			St. Xavier's	popular Bengali fiction writer and poet
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni				writer
Dibyendu Palit				writer
Farrukh Ahmed			Scottish Church	poet
Kuber Nath Rai				writer
Mahasweta Devi		I.A.,M.A.	Ashutosh	fiction writer and socio-political activist
Michael Madhusudan Dutt			Presidency	poet
Nabarun Bhattacharya				writer	^[14]
Nabinchandra Sen			Scottish Church	poet and writer
Parvati Prasad Baruwa			Scottish Church	litterateur
Premendra Mitra	1925		Scottish Church	novelist
Purnendu Pattrea				writer
Rajshekhar Basu			Presidency	writer
Ramananda Chatterjee			City	journalist; founder, editor, and owner of the Modern Review
Samaresh Majumdar			Scottish Church	writer
Sanjeev Chattopadhyay			Scottish Church	journalist
Sanjib Chattopadhyay			Scottish Church	novelist
Sasthi Brata			Presidency	writer
Satyendranath Dutta	did not graduate		Scottish Church	poet and writer
Shankha Ghosh			Presidency	eminent poet
Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay				writer
Subhash Mukhopadhyay	1941		Scottish Church	writer
Sudhindranath Dutta			Scottish Church	author and poet
Sunil Gangopadhyay			Surendranath Motijheel City	novelist, poet and children's fiction writer
Syed Mustafa Siraj				writer
Tarashankar Bandopadhyay			Asutosh	novelist; Padma Bhushan recipient
Utpal K. Banerjee	1955			writer

Military

Name	Classyear	Degree	College	Notability	References
Adhar Kumar Chatterji	1933		Presidency
Subroto Mukherjee				Chief of Air Staff of the Indian Air Force

Politics

Heads of state and government

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References
Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem			Presidency	6th President of Bangladesh
Abu Sayeed Chowdhury	1940; 1942		Presidency	2nd President of Bangladesh
Abdus Sattar				8th President of Bangladesh
Ba Maw	1924			Head of State and Prime Minister of the State of Burma
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy	1913	B. Sc.; MA	St. Xavier's	former Prime Minister of Pakistan
Khaleda Zia			Surendranath	9th Prime Minister of Bangladesh	^[15]
Mohammad Mohammadullah	1948	LLB	Ripon	3rd President of Bangladesh
Muhammad Ali of Bogra			Presidency	former Prime Minister of Pakistan
Pranab Mukherjee			Suri Vidyasagar^[16]	13th President of India
Rajendra Prasad	1905; 1907	BA; MA	Presidency	1st President of India
Ram Baran Yadav			Calcutta Medical College	1st President of Nepal
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman	1944; 1947		Islamia	2nd Prime Minister of Bangladesh
Tulsi Giri			Suri Vidyasagar	Prime Minister of Nepal

Others

Name	Classyear	Degree	College	Notability	References
A. K. Fazlul Huq	1894; 1896; 1897	LLB	Presidency Faculty of Law	former Home Minister of Pakistan
Abdullah al Mahmood	1920	BL and MA in Arabic		former Pakistani Minister of Industries
Ajit Kumar Panja			Scottish Church
Ajoy Mukherjee				former Chief Minister, West Bengal
Amar Kumar Bera		M.A. (Economics)
Amir H. Jamal		B. Com.		former Tanzanian MP and Minister of Finance
Anugrah Narayan Sinha				first Finance Minister of Bihar
Ashok Mitra				former Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India
Ashoke Kumar Sen				former Minister of Law and Justice
Bagha Jatin			Calcutta Central College, now Khudiram Bose College	freedom fighter and the principal leader of the Jugantar party
Banwari Lal Joshi			Scottish Church	former Governor of Meghalaya
Basudeb Acharia				Member of Parliament
Bidhan Chandra Roy			Calcutta Medical College	former Chief Minister of West Bengal
Bijoy Kumar Handique		MA	Presidency	Member of Parliament
Biman Bose			Maulana Azad	Chairman of the Left Front in West Bengal
Bhupendra Nath Bose				29th President of the Indian National Congress
Brinda Karat
Brington Buhai Lyngdoh			Scottish Church	former Chief Minister of Meghalaya
Buddhadeb Bhattacharya		BA	Presidency	former Chief Minister of West Bengal
Derek O'Brien			Scottish Church	Member of Parliament
Fatima Jinnah				Leader of the Pakistan Movement
George Gilbert Swell			Scottish Church	Member of Parliament
Gopinath Bordoloi	1909; 1911; 1914	IA BA; MA	Cotton Scottish Church	former Chief Minister of Assam
Gyan Singh Sohanpal			Midnapore^[17]
Harendra Coomar Mookerjee				former Governor of West Bengal
Humayun Kabir				former Minister of Education
Jagjivan Ram	1931	BSc		former Deputy Prime Minister of India
Jharna Das				Member of Parliament
Jyoti Basu				former Chief Minister of West Bengal
K. S. Hegde			Presidency	former Speaker of the Lok Sabha
M. J. Akbar				Member of Parliament
Madan Mohan Malaviya		B.A.		former President of the Indian National Congress
Mamata Banerjee				Chief Minister of West Bengal
Mohammad Hamid Ansari			St. Xavier's	former Vice President of India
Mohammed Salim			Maulana Azad	Member of Parliament
Osman Ghani Khan	1943, 1945	BA, MA (Economics)		former C&AG of Bangladesh and chairman of the United Nations Board of Auditors
Prafulla Chandra Sen		BSc	Scottish Church	former Chief Minister of West Bengal
Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi				former Minister of Information and Broadcasting
Romesh Chunder Dutt				16th President of the Indian National Congress
Ronen Sen			St. Xavier's	former Ambassador of India to the United States
Sarat Chandra Bose				Indian independence activist and lawyer
Siddhartha Shankar Ray				former Chief Minister of West Bengal
Somnath Chatterjee				Speaker of the Lok Sabha
Subhas Chandra Bose	1918	BA (Philosophy)	Scottish Church	53rd President of the Indian National Congress; founder of the Forward Bloc
Subrata Mukherjee
Sultan Ahmed			Maulana Azad	Member of Parliament
Susmita Bauri				Member of Parliament
Surendranath Banerjee			Presidency	11th President of the Indian National Congress
Syama Prasad Mookerjee
Tarak Nath Das			Scottish Church	revolutionary

Civil servants and diplomats

Name	Classyear	Degree	College	Notability	References
Binay Ranjan Sen			Scottish Church	former Ambassador of India to the United States
Azizul Haque				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)
Brajendranath De				ICS, Commissioner of Burdwan
Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh				India's ambassador to Nepal, Japan, Governor of Punjab and Uttar Pradesh
Gurusaday Dutt				ICS, Local Self Government and Public Health Secretary of Bengal
Nitish Sengupta
P.C. Bhattacharya				Controller General of Defence Accounts
Satyendranath Tagore				Revenue Secretary of India
Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah				Ambassador of Pakistan to Morocco
Sib Chandra Deb				Deputy Collector in Bengal
Sukumar Sen				ICS, Chief Election Commissioner of India

Royalty and nobility

Name	Classyear	Degree	College	Notability	References
Nripendra Narayan			Presidency	Maharaja of Cooch Behar State
Uday Chand Mahtab				Zamindar of Burdwan

Religion

Name	Classyear	Degree	College	Notability	References
A. B. Masilamani				evangelist and theologian, Canadian Baptist Mission
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada			Scottish Church	Founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON)
Gyanendra Nath Chakravarti		LL.B.,M.A.	Muir Central College	Notable Indian Theosophist and Scholar	^[18]
Durga Mohan Das				leader of the Brahmo Samaj
Lal Behari Dey			Scottish Church	theologian of the Free Church of Scotland
Mahendranath Gupta	1874	BA	Presidency	author of Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita (The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna)
Paramahansa Yogananda			Scottish Church Serampore	Hindu mystic; yogi; leading proponent of Kriya Yoga in the West
Sitanath Tattwabhushan			Scottish Church	theologian of Sadharan Brahmo Samaj
Swami Gambhirananda			Scottish Church	former President of the Ramakrishna Mission Order
Swami Vivekananda			Scottish Church	founder of the Ramakrishna Mission Order

Science and technology

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References
Amar Nath Bhaduri				enzymologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate	^[19]
Amitabha Bhattacharyya				production engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate^[20]
Amitabha Mukhopadhyay				cell biologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate	^[21]
Anil Kumar Gain			Surendranath	mathematician and statistician; founder of Vidyasagar University
Anil Kumar Mandal	1981	MBBS	Nil Ratan Sircar^[22]	ophthalmologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate	^[23]
Ashesh Prosad Mitra			Bangabasi	former Director of CSIR
Biman Bagchi	1974; 1976		Presidency	theoretical physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate^[24]
Birendra Nath Mallick	1978; 1981	B.Sc.		neurobiologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate	^[25]
Biraja Sankar Guha			Scottish Church	first Director of the Anthropological Survey of India
Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya		PhD		theoretical high energy physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate^[26]
C. R. Rao	1943	MA in Statistics		statistician
Chinmoy Sankar Dey				molecular biologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate	^[27]
Deb Shankar Ray				physical chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate	^[28]
Dipak K. Das				professor of surgery, now under investigation for fraudulent publications	^[29]
Ganesh Prasad				mathematician
Jagadish Chandra Bose				physicist, botanist
Jamal Nazrul Islam		B.Sc.	St. Xavier's	physicist, mathematician, cosmologist, astronomer
Joyoti Basu				cell biologist, N-Bios laureate	^[30]
Jyoti Bhusan Chatterjea				hematologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate	^[31]
Kshitindramohan Naha, geologist and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate^[32]			Presidency
Mani Lal Bhaumik		B.Sc.	Scottish Church	physicist
Megh Nad Saha			Presidency	physicist
Mihir Chowdhury	1955; 1957			physical chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate^[33]
Mihir Kumar Bose	1965	B.Sc.; M.Sc.; Ph.D.		geologist and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate^[34]
Nirmal Kumar Dutta		MBBS	Calcutta Medical College	pharmacologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate^[35]
Nirmal Kumar Ganguly			R. G. Kar	microbilogist
P. V. Manoranjan Rao				physicist, space scientist
Pradyut Ghosh	1990; 1992			inorganic chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate^[36]
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis				founder of the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta
Radhanath Sikdar				mathematician best known for calculating the height of Mount Everest
S. C. Dutta Roy				electrical engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate^[37]
Sadhan Basu				physical chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate^[38]
Sagar Sengupta				cancer biologist, N-Bios laureate^[39]
Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay	1985-1991	PhD	Presidency College, Calcutta University	Computer Scientist, First woman Director of Indian Statistical Institute, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate in Engineering Science, 2010, TWAS Prize for Engineering Sciences, 2018,^[40] Infosys Prize 2017 in Engineering and Computer Science^[41]
Sanjeev Das				cancer biologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate	^[42]
Santasabuj Das				immunologist, N-Bios laureate	^[43]
Satyendra Nath Bose	1913; 1915	BSc; MSc		physicist, co-discoverer of Bose–Einstein statistics
Saumitra Das	1992	PhD		virologist, N-Bios laureate	^[44]
Snehasikta Swarnakar				cancer biologist, N-Bios laureate^[45]
Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty			Calcutta Medical College
Soumen Basak				immunologist, N-Bios laureate^[46]
Soumitro Banerjee	1981			electrical engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate^[47]
Srinivasan Ramachandran				bioinformatician, N-Bios laureate^[48]
Subhash Chandra Lakhotia	1964–1966			cytogeneticist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate^[49]
Subhash Mukhopadhyay	1955; 1958		Calcutta National Medical^[50]	first physician in India (and second in the world) to perform in vitro fertilization
Subir Kumar Ghosh		BSc; MSc; PhD	Presidency	geologist and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate^[51]
Sumit Bhaduri				organic chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate^[52]
Sumit Ranjan Das				high energy physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate^[53]
Sunil Kumar Manna				immunologist, N-Bios laureate^[54]
Ujjwal Maulik	1983–1989	PhD	Calcutta University	Computer scientist, INAE and IEEE fellow,^[55] Stanford List of Scientists^[56]
Upendranath Brahmachari	1893; 1894; 1900; 1902; 1904	MD; PhD	Presidency Calcutta Medical College^[57]
Usha Ranjan Ghatak	1953	BSc; MSc	Asutosh	synthetic organic chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate^[58]
Vikram Marwah	1948		Calcutta Medical College

• Dipak K Banerjee, BSc, MSc & PhD in Chemistry from the University, Professor of biochemistry
• Chandramukhi Basu, one of the first two female graduates of the British Empire; first female head of an undergraduate academic institution in South Asia
• Sasanka Chandra Bhattacharyya, natural product chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate^[59]
• Katyayanidas Bhattacharya, philosophy professor, Presidency College, Calcutta
• Santanu Bhattacharya, chemical biologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate, N-Bios laureate^[60]
• Birendra Bijoy Biswas, molecular biologist
• Nirmal Kumar Bose, Census Commissioner of India^[61]
• Barun De, Chairman, West Bengal Heritage Commission, Calcutta
• Amlan Dutta, former Vice Chancellor of Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan
• Asim Duttaroy, medical scientist
• Mircea Eliade, religious scholar and philosopher
• Prafulla Chandra Ghosh, English literature scholar
• Sankar Ghosh, Chairman of Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Columbia University; co-founder of Theralogics Inc.
• K. S. Krishnan, philosopher
• Dhan Gopal Mukerji, socio-cultural critic; first successful man of letters in the early 20th-century United States
• Kamini Roy, first female honours graduate in the British Empire; first feminist author in India
• Prafulla Chandra Roy, chemist
• Sir Jadunath Sarkar, Vice Chancellor of the University of Calcutta
• Debi Prasad Sarkar, immunologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate^[62]
• Brajendra Nath Seal, Vice Chancellor of Visva-Bharati University and the University of Mysore
• Ashoke Sen, string theorist
• Dinesh Chandra Sen, scholar of early Bengali literature
• Ranjan Sen, biophysicist, N-Bios laureate^[63]
• Sanjib Senapati, biotechnologist, N-Bios laureate^[64]
• Debasis Chattopadhyay, plant biologist, N-Bios laureate^[65]

Sports

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References
Chhanda Gayen				mountaineer, first Bengali woman to climb Mount Everest
Chuni Goswami				former captain of Indian football team
Gourgopal Ghosh			Scottish Church	football player for the Mohun Bagan Club
Leander Paes			St. Xavier's	former Olympic bronze medallist; Wimbledon and French Open doubles champion
Norman Pritchard			St. Xavier's	former Olympic silver medalist
Pradip Kumar Banerjee			Suri Vidyasagar	footballer
Sailen Manna			Surendranath	captain of the Indian football team in the London Olympics in 1948; gold medallist in 1951 Asian Games
Saurav Ganguly			St. Xavier's	former captain of the India cricket team
Sunil Chhetri			Asutosh	captain of the Indian football team
Surya Shekhar Ganguly			Scottish Church	chess grandmaster, national chess champion
Talimeran Ao			R. G. Kar^[66]	former captain of the Indian football team in the 1948 Olympic Games
Vece Paes				former Olympic hockey player

Notes and References

1. [Rabindranath Tagore]
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