| Sisir Kumar Ghosh | |
| Native Name: | শিশির কুমার ঘোষ |
| Birth Date: | 1840 |
| Death Date: | 10 January 1911 (aged 70–71) |
| Death Place: | Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India |
| Occupation: | Journalist, Freedom fighter, playwright, biographers |
| Nationality: | Indian |
| Known For: | Founders of Amrita Bazar Patrika |
| Alma Mater: | Hare School,Presidency College, Calcutta University |
| Movement: | Indian Independence Movement |
Sisir Kumar Ghosh (1840–1911), also spelled Shishir Kumar Ghose, was an Indian journalist, founder of the Amrita Bazar Patrika, a Bengali language newspaper, in 1868,[1] [2] and an independence activist from Bengal.
He started the India League in 1875 intending to stimulate the sense of nationalism amongst the people.[3] He was also a Vaishnavite, remembered for writings on mystic saint Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (Gauranga), and for penning a book on him titled Lord Gauranga or Salvation for All in 1897.[4] [5] He also writes several biographies for example: Narottam Charit.[6] He was one of the first batch of students who passed the first entrance examination of Calcutta University in 1857.[7]