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This is a list of notable people connected to the University of Calcutta.
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[edit] Alumni
[edit] Politics
- Fatima Jinnah, one of the leaders of Pakistan Movement and Muhammad Ali Jinnah's sister.
- Mohammad Hamid Ansari, Vice President of India
- Colonel H.H. Maharaja Sir Nripendra Narayan Bhup Bahadur, Maharaja of Coochbehar
- Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister of West Bengal
- Surendranath Banerjea, 11th President of the Indian National Congress
- Jyoti Basu, Former Chief Minister of West Bengal
- Biman Bose, Chairman of the Left Front in West Bengal
- Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, Former Chief Minister of West Bengal
- Muhammad Ali Bogra, Former Prime Minister of Pakistan
- Gopinath Bordoloi, Chief Minister of Assam
- Bhupendra Nath Bose, 29th President of the Indian National Congress
- Subhash Chandra Bose, 53rd President of the Indian National Congress and founder of the Forward Bloc
- Sarat Chandra Bose, Works, Mines and Power Member of the Central Interim Government in Delhi
- Somnath Chatterjee, Speaker of the Lok Sabha of India
- 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 Pakistan
- 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
- Ba Maw, First Premier 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 and present Defence Minister of India
- Subrata Mukherjee, Former Union Minister of West Bengal
- Rajendra Prasad, First President of India
- Ajit Kumar Panja, Former Minister of State for External Affairs of India
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, President of India
- Jagjivan Ram, former Deputy Prime Minister of India
- Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Former Prime Minister of Bangladesh
- 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
- Prafulla Chandra Sen, Former Chief Minister of West Bengal
- Ashoke Sen, Former Law Minister of India
- 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
- Jharna Das, Member of Rajya Sabha from Tripura
- Basudeb Acharia, MP from Bankura
- Sultan Ahmed, MP from Uluberia
- Susmita Bauri, MP from Bishnupur
[edit] 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.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 and leading proponent of Kriya Yoga in the West
[edit] Armed Forces
- Subroto Mukherjee, First Indian Air Chief Marshal of the Indian Air Forces
[edit] Government
- Sir Azizul Haque , B.L, C.I.E, K.C.S.I , D.Litt ,The former Speaker of the Bengal Legislative Assembly (1937-42), Minister of Education ( Government of Bengal), Former Vice-Chancellor of Calcutta University (1938-42),and The High Commissioner for India to London (1942-43)
- Gurusaday Dutt, ICS, Local Self Government and Public Health Secretary of Bengal
- Basanta Kumar De, Commercial Traffic Manager of Bengal Nagpur Railway
- Brajendranath De, ICS, Commissioner of Burdwan
- Sib Chandra Deb, Deputy Collector in Bengal
- Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Pakistani Ambassador to Morocco
- Sukumar Sen, ICS, Chief Election Commissioner of India
- Nitish Sengupta, IAS, Revenue Secretary of India
- Satyendranath Tagore, ICS, District Judge in Gujerat
- Binay Ranjan Sen, ICS, Former Ambassador of India to the USA
- Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh, India's ambassador to Nepal, Japan, Governor of Punjab and Uttar Pradesh
- P.C. Bhattacharya, Controller General of Defence Accounts, Govt. of India
[edit] Jurists
- Debi Prasad Pal, Senior Advocate in Supreme Court of India and Judge of the Calcutta High Court
- Gooroodas Banerjee, Judge of the Calcutta High Court and first Indian Vice Chancellor of the University of Calcutta
- Pannalal Bose, Eminent jurist
- Sudhi Ranjan Das, Chief Justice of India
- Hara Chandra Ghosh, First Bengali judge of the Small Causes Court in Calcutta
- Monomohun Ghose, First practising Indian Barrister of the Calcutta High Court
- Sarat Kumar Ghosh, Chief Justice of Rajasthan
- Ashutosh Mukherjee, Judge of the Calcutta High Court and five times Vice Chancellor of the Calcutta University
- Sabyasachi Mukherjee, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India
- 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 in 1862
[edit] Industry
- Jagmohan Dalmiya, Chairman of M.L.Dalmiya and Co.
- Mani Lal Bhaumik, Inventor of the Excimer Laser
- Rama Prasad Goenka, Chairman Emeritus of the RPG Group
- Ramgopal Ghosh, Wealthy entrepreneur who founded his own firm R.G.Ghosh and Co.
- Lakshmi Niwas Mittal, billionaire steel tycoon and entrepreneur
- Prafulla Chandra Roy, Founder of Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals
[edit] Medicine
- 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, an eminent phisician of India of his time. He was a medical adviser to Pt. Jawharlal Nehru (the then Prime Minister of India). In his later life he became the Chief Minister of West Bengal.
[edit] Academics
- Jamal Nazrul Islam, Eminent 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 and first female head of an undergraduate academic institution in South Asia
- Jagadish Chandra Bose
- Nirmal Kumar Bose, Census Commissioner of India [1]
- Satyendra Nath Bose, Physicist, co-discoverer of Bose-Einstein statistics
- Mani Lal Bhaumik, renowned 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, Internationally renowned 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, Eminent 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.
- 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 and first successful man of letters in early 20th century United States of America
- Ganesh Prasad , Mathematician
- C. R. Rao, Legendary Indian statistician
- Rajat Kanta Ray, Upacharya, Vishwa Bharati, Santiniketan
- Tapan Raychaudhuri, Professor of Indian History and Civilisation, University of Oxford
- Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri, Eminent 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 and 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
[edit] Literature
- Acharya Kuber Nath Rai Eminent writer of Hindi Literature
- Birendra Krishna Bhadra, poet widely remembered for his recital of Mahishashura Mardini
- Satyendranath Dutta, poet
- Sudhindranath Dutta, author and poet
- Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, famous Bengali novelist, composer of India's national song Bande Mataram
- Benjamin Walker, author
- Bharati Mukherjee, author
- Bimal Kar, novelist
- Bimal Mitra, novelist
- Binoy Majumdar, poet
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, author
- Dibyendu Palit, ad-man turned novelist
- Kadambini Ganguly, one of the first two female graduates of the British Empire and first female physician of South Asia to be trained in the European system of medicine
- Michael Madhusudan Dutt, first poet laureate in Bengali and dramatist
- Nabarun Bhattacharya, writer, magazine editor[1]
- Nirmal Kumar Ganguly
- Paramahansa Yogananda
- Premendra Mitra, writer
- Purnendu Pattrea, writer
- Radhanath Sikdar
- Rajshekhar Basu, writer
- Samaresh Majumdar, writer
- Sanjeev Chattopadhyay, novelist
- Sasthi Brata, writer
- Shankha Ghosh, poet and critic
- Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay, poet and writer
- Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty of the Calcutta Medical College was the first Indian to achieve the MD degree as University College London in 1849
- Sunil Gangopadhyay
- Syed Mustafa Siraj, novelist
- Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, novelist
- Premendra Mitra, novelist
- Subhash Mukhopadhyay, Bengali poet
- Sunil Gangopadhyay, eminent novelist, poet and children's fiction writer.
- Buddhadeb Guha, popular Bengali fiction writer and poet.
- Parvati Prasad Baruwa, litterateur
- Samaresh Majumdar, novelist
- Bani Basu, author
- Farrukh Ahmed, poet
[edit] 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
[edit] Films, Theatre and Music
- Clarence Barlow, composer
- Shishir Kumar Bhaduri, noted playwright
- Mithun Chakraborty, National Film Award winning Indian film actor
- Soumitra Chatterjee, legendary actor
- Anjan Chattopadhyay, Sitarist
- Buddhadeb Dasgupta, film director
- Manna Dey, singer
- Sachin Dev Burman, singer
- Anjan Dutta, 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 Award 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
- P. C. Sorcar, Jr., internationally acclaimed magician
- Badal Sircar, dramatist
[edit] Artists
- Bulbul Chowdhury, artist
[edit] 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, FIDE Chess Grandmaster, and National Champion
- Gourgopal Ghosh, Football player for the Mohun Bagan Club
- Sailen Manna, Captain of the Indian Football Team in the London Olympics in 1948 and Gold Medalist 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
[edit] References
- ^ Kartik Chandra Dutt (ed.) (1999). Who's who of Indian Writers, 1999: A-M. Sahitya Akademi. p. 164. ISBN 8126008733. http://books.google.co.in/books?id=QA1V7sICaIwC&pg=PA164&dq=Nabarun+Bhattacharya&hl=en&ei=I06NTrn8OomIrAfZlNGhAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CEcQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=Nabarun%20Bhattacharya&f=false.
