List of people from Kolkata explained
List of notable people from Kolkata. Kolkata has been regarded as the cultural capital of India.[1]
Philosophers and religious teachers
The most famous religious figure of Kolkata is Mother Teresa. Others are (in order of surname):
Scientists
List in order of surname.
- James Atkinson (1780—1852), surgeon, artist and Persian scholar
- R. D. Banerji, archeologist
- Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858—1937), Bengali polymath, physicist, biologist, biophysicist, botanist and archaeologist
- Debendra Mohan Bose (1875—1975), physicist
- Satyendra Nath Bose (1894—1974), physicist and polymath from Bengal
- Suniti Kumar Chattopadhyay (1890—1977), Bengali linguist
- Krishnendu Chaudhury, computer scientist
- Barun De (1932—2013), historian
- Brajendranath De (1852—1932), Indian civil servant and orientalist
- Anil Kumar Gain (1919—1978), mathematician and statistician.
- J.B.S. Haldane (1892—1964), British-Indian scientist, known for his work in the study of physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and mathematics
- Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893—1972), Bengali scientist and applied statistician
- R.C. Majumdar (1884—1980), historian
- P. J. Marshall (b. 1933), historian
- Ujjwal Maulik (b. 1965), computer scientist
- Subhash Mukhopadhyay (1931—1981), physician
- Sisir Kumar Mitra (1890—1963), physicist
- Rajat Kanta Ray, historian
- Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri (1923—2005), physicist, known for his research in general relativity and cosmology
- Tapan Raychaudhuri (1926—2014), historian
- C. R. Rao (1920–2023), mathematician and statistician
- Prafulla Chandra Roy (1861—1944), Bengali chemist, educationist, historian, industrialist and philanthropist
- Meghnad Saha (1893—1956), astrophysicist
- Sir Jadunath Sarkar (1870—1958), historian
- Sumit Sarkar (b. 1939), historian
- Susobhan Sarkar (1900—1982), historian
- Tapan Kumar Sarkar (1948—2021), electrical engineer
- Ashoke Sen (b. 1956), theoretical physicist
- Bikas K Chakrabarti (b. 1952), theoretical physicist & econophysicist
- Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (b. 1968), computer scientist
- Sukumar Sen (linguist) historian of Bengali literature
Gallantry Awards winners
Ashoka Chakra
Maha Vir Chakra
Bankers and business people
Freedom fighters
Performing arts
Directors
Satyajit Ray, who won the Oscar for Lifetime Achievement in 1992, lived in Kolkata and is considered among the greatest directors of film history.
Other notable filmmakers from Kolkata include:
Cinema actors
Theatre figures
Photographers
Composers
Hindustani classical singers/maestros
- Ustad Allauddin Khan
- Ustad Ali Akbar Khan
- Pandit Ravi Shankar
- Ananda Shankar
- Ustad Vilayat Khan
- Pandit Jasraj
- Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan
- Pandit Bhimsen Joshi
- Rashid Khan
- Naina Devi[4]
- Pandit Nikhil Banerjee
- Ustad Amjad Ali Khan
- Ustad Bahadur Khan
- Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty
- Anjan Chattopadhyay
Hindustani classical instrumentalists
Other singers
Contemporary Bollywood musicians
- Abhijeet Bhattacharya, playback singer
- Anupam Roy (b.1982), singer-songwriter
- Alka Yagnik (b. 1966), playback singer
- Arijit Singh (b. 1987), singer, music producer, recordist and music programmer
- Babul Supriyo (b. 1970), playback singer, live performer, television host, actor and politician
- Kumar Sanu (b. 1957), playback singer
- Pritam (b. 1971)
- Sagarika (b. 1970), playback singer and actress
- Shreya Ghoshal (b. 1984), playback singer
- Shaan (b. 1972), playback singer and actor
Dancers
Prominent dancers of the city include:
Magicians
Kolkata is the magic capital of India and has produced internationally famous magicians and performers, including:
Sports
- Norman Pritchard, track and field, Olympic medallist (1900)
- Richard James Allen, hockey, Olympic(1928, 1932, 1936)
- Leslie Claudius, hockey, Olympic medallist (1924, 1928, 1936)
- Gurbux Singh, hockey, Olympic medallist (1964, 1968)
- Vece Paes, hockey, Olympic medallist (1980)
- Leander Paes, tennis, Olympic medallist (1996)
- Sourav Ganguly, cricketer, former India national cricket team's captain, sports administrator, former BCCI president
- Chhanda Gayen, mountaineer, first Bengali woman to summit Mount Everest
- Pankaj Roy, cricketer
- Laxmi Ratan Shukla, cricketer
- Deep Dasgupta, cricketer
- Rohan Gavaskar, cricketer (son of Sunil Gavaskar)
- Manoj Tiwary, cricketer
- Ashok Dinda, cricketer
- Wriddhiman Saha, cricketer
- Mohammed Shami, cricketer
- Len Stubbs, former cricketer
- Chuni Goswami, footballer
- Gautam Sarkar, footballer
- Shailen Manna, footballer, former India national football team's captain (guided India to Gold medal in 1951 Asiad)
- Pradip Kumar Banerjee, footballer
- Krishanu Dey, footballer
- Sudip Chatterjee, footballer
- Subrata Pal, footballer
- Subhasish Roy Chowdhury, footballer
- Syed Rahim Nabi, footballer
- Mehtab Hossain, footballer
- Arnab Mondal, footballer
- Pronay Halder, footballer
- Pritam Kotal, footballer
- Narayan Das, footballer
- Subhasish Bose, footballer
- Mihir Sen, record swimmer
- Jyotirmoyee Sikdar, track and field
- Arjun Atwal, golfer
- Surya Shekhar Ganguly, chess grandmaster
- Dibyendu Barua, chess grandmaster
- Sandipan Chanda, chess grandmaster
- Deep Sengupta, chess grandmaster
- Gobar Guha, wrestler
- Manohar Aich, body builder, Mr. Universe 1952
- Dipu Ghosh, badminton, Arjuna Award
- Saurav Ghosal, squash player
- Jaidip Mukerjea, tennis player
- Jagmohan Dalmiya, sports administrator
- Pankaj Gupta, sports administrator
- John Holman, cricketer
- William Laidlay, cricketer
- Hira Mondal, Footballer
Nobel laureates
Six Nobel Prize winners have been associated with Kolkata:
- Sir Ronald Ross (1857—1932) — medicine, 1902
- Rabindranath Tagore (1861—1941) — literature, 1913; first Asian to win the Nobel Prize
- Mother Teresa (1910—1997) — peace, 1979
- Amartya Sen (b. 1933) — economics, 1998
- Abhijit Banerjee (b. 1961) - economics, 2019
- CV Raman - physics
Ramon Magsaysay Award winners
The Ramon Magsaysay Award, sometimes called "Asia's Nobel Prize", is given "to perpetuate his example of integrity in government, courageous service to the people, and pragmatic idealism within a democratic society." Kolkata winners include:
- Mother Teresa (1910—1997) — Peace and International Understanding, 1962
- Satyajit Ray (1921—1992) — Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Arts, 1967
- Gour Kishore Ghosh (1923—2000) — Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Arts, 1981
- Mahasweta Devi (1926—2016) — Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Arts, 1997
Others
- Samik Bandyopadhyay (b.1940), critic of Indian art, theatre and film
- Tanmoy Bhattacharya (b. 1958), politician
- William Carey (1761—1834), missioner and reformer
- Laksmikanta Roy Choudhury (1570—1649), Brahmin scholar, social and political figure
- Alexander Duff (1806—1878), missioner and reformer
- Manny Elias (b. 1953), drummer, record producer, original drummer of the Tears for Fears
- David Hare (1775—1842), philanthropist and founder of many important and prestigious educational institutions of Kolkata
- Mohit Kumar (b. 1992), fashion model and influencer[6]
- Rajendra Prasad (1884—1963), politician, the first President of India (from 1950 to 1962)
- Romita Ray (b. 1970), art historian
- Radhika Roy (b.1948), journalist
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spiv (b. 1942), scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic
- Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820—1891), philosopher, academic, writer, translator, entrepreneur, social reformer and philanthropist; key figure of the Bengal Renaissance
Notes and References
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- Web site: Rajendra Pillai Penguin Random House. PenguinRandomhouse.com. en-US. 2019-01-28.
- News: A Tale Of Two Women: In search of their own songs. https://web.archive.org/web/20140729005248/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120311/jsp/opinion/story_15229162.jsp#.UbBLt9I3CHg . dead . 29 July 2014 . The Telegraph . 11 March 2012 . 6 June 2013.
- Web site: Katha Kavya Abhinaya . 2011 . Sangeet Natak Akademi . 28 May 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130927144520/http://sangeetnatak.gov.in/RabindraPranati2011/sharmila-biswas.html . 27 September 2013 .
- https://medium.com/@wearemojocreatives/mohit-kumar-fashion-model-of-kolkata-wins-male-model-of-the-year-west-bengal-2023-dce7214ffb6a
