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Kolkata has been regarded as the cultural capital of India.[1] This is a list of notable people from Kolkata, that is, people born in or associated with the city.
Authors
Poets (In order of surname)
- Sukanta Bhattacharya
- Buddhadev Bose
- Amiya Chakravarty
- Shakti Chattopadhyay
- Dinesh Das
- Jibanananda Das
- Bishnu Dey
- Satyendranath Dutta
- Sudhindranath Dutta
- Sunil Gangopadhyay
- Joy Goswami
- Kaji Nazrul Islam
- Rupam Islam
- Mohitolal Majumdar
- Arun Mitra
- Premendra Mitra
- Subhas Mukhopadhyay
- Purnendu Patri
- Annada Shankar Ray
- Dwijendralal Ray
- Tarapada Ray
- Sukumar Ray
- Samar Sen
- Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel Laureate
Novelists (In order of surname)
- Syed Mujtaba Ali
- Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
- Nabarun Bhattacharya
- Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay
- Tarashankar Bandopadhyay
- Bani Basu
- Samaresh Basu
- Rajsekhar Basu
- Sibram Chakraborty
- Suchitra Bhattacharya
- Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay
- Upamanyu Chatterjee
- Sanjeev Chattopadhyay
- Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay
- Amit Chaudhuri
- Anita Desai
- Ashapoorna Devi
- Mahasweta Devi
- Sukanta Gangopadhyay
- Sunil Gangopadhyay
- Amitav Ghosh
- Bimal Kar
- Leela Majumdar
- Samaresh Majumdar
- Bimal Mitra
- Premendra Mitra
- Suketu Mehta
- Bharati Mukherjee
- Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay
- Mani Shankar Mukhopadhyay (Shankar)
- Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay
- Moti Nandi
- Taslima Nasrin
- Dibyendu Palit
- Satyajit Ray
- Vikram Seth
- Syed Mustafa Siraj
- Rabindranath Tagore
- William Makepeace Thackeray
- Benjamin Walker
Critics, philosophers
- A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
- Rajendra Prasad,
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
- Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
- Kazi Nazrul Islam
- S. Wajid Ali
- Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
- Shishir Kumar Maitra
- Dinabandhu Mitra
- Michael Madhusudan Dutt
- Dhan Gopal Mukerji
- Syed Mujtaba Ali
- Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay
- Pramath Chowdhury
- Nirad C. Chaudhuri
- Swami Vivekananda
Linguists
- James Atkinson
- Suniti Kumar Chattopadhyay
- [[Shankar Lal Choudhuri
Historians
Reformers
- Raja Ram Mohun Roy
- Mother Teresa
- Keshab Chandra Sen
- Henry Louis Vivian Derozio
- David Hare
- Alexander Duff
- Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
- William Carey
- Moti Lal Seal
Scientists
- C. V. Raman
- Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose
- Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy
- Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
- Meghnad Saha
- Satyendra Nath Bose
- Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan
- Sisir Kumar Mitra
- Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri
- Subhash Mukhopadhyay
- J.B.S. Haldane
Nobel laureates
Five Nobel Prize winners have been associated with Kolkata:
- Sir Ronald Ross (1902, Medicine)
- Rabindranath Tagore (1913, Literature; first Asian to win the Nobel Prize)
- C V Raman (1930, Physics)
- Mother Teresa (1979, Peace)
- Amartya Sen (1998, Economics)
Business tycoons
Many Marwari and Gujarati business tycoons hail from the city. Some of the notables among them are:
Freedom fighters
- Subhas Chandra Bose
- Rash Behari Bose
- Badal Gupta
- Benoy Basu
- Bipin Chandra Pal
- Sri Aurobindo
- Chittaranjan Das
- Jatindra Nath Das
- Dinesh Gupta
- Jogesh Chandra Chattopadhyay
- Bidhan Chandra Roy
- Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
- Ashoke Kumar Sen
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:
Performing arts
Artists
Kolkata saw the beginning of the Bengal school of art, founded by Abanindranath Tagore, nephew of Rabindranath Tagore.[2] Other notable artists:
Cinema
Satyajit Ray, who won the Oscar for Lifetime Achievement in 1992, lived in Kolkata and is considered among the four greatest directors of film history. Other notable filmmakers from Kolkata include:
- Mrinal Sen
- Ritwik Ghatak
- Buddhadeb Dasgupta
- Gautam Ghose
- Aparna Sen
- Rituparno Ghosh
- Nitin Bose
- Arin Paul
Notable actors include:
- Uttam Kumar
- Utpal Dutt
- Pramathesh Barua
- Robi Ghosh
- Kanan Devi
- Ruma Guha Thakurta
- Suchitra Sen
- Prosenjit
- Victor Banerjee
- Dhritiman Chaterji
- Soumitra Chatterjee
- Amitabh Bachchan
- Mithun Chakraborty
- Rani Mukherji
- Jaya Bachchan
Photography
Theatre
Kolkata, once the cultural capital of India, still retains a strong tradition in cinema and theatre. Renowned figures include:
- Badal Sircar (dramatist)
- Rudraprasad Sengupta (actor and director)
- Sambhu Mitra (actor and director)
- Bibhas Chakraborty (actor and director, cultural icon)
- Mohit Chattopddhyay (dramatist)
- Anish Ghosh (actor and director)
Notable theatre groups:
Music
Famous Composers:
Hindustani Classical Singers/Maestros:
- Allauddin Khan
- Ali Akbar Khan
- Ravi Shankar
- Ananda Shankar
- Vilayat Khan
- Bade Ghulam Ali Khan
- Rashid Khan
- Nikhil Banerjee
- Amjad Ali Khan
- Bahadur Khan
- Ajoy Chakraborty
- Anjan Chattopadhyay
Other singers
- Dwijendra Lal Roy
- K. C. Dey
- Gauhar Jan
- Pankaj Mullick
- Kanan Devi
- Ritu Guha
- Kanika Bandyopadhyay
- Suchitra Mitra
- Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay
- Manna Dey
- Kishore Kumar
- Sandhya Mukhopadhyay
- Debabrata Biswas
- Begum Akhtar
- Geeta Dutt
- Usha Uthup
- Sumita Ghosh
- Ruma Guha Thakurta
- Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta
- Suman Chatterjee
- Sachin Dev Burman
- Anjan Dutta
- Rupam Islam
- Nachiketa
- Rabin Nandy
Choir groups:
Bengali bands:
- Moheener Ghoraguli
- Bhoomi
- Prithibi
- Cactus
- Chandrabindoo
- Fossils
- Insomnia
- Ishaan
- Krosswindz
- Lakkhichhara
- Parash Pathar
- Shohor
- Calcutta Blues
- Shankhochil
Contemporary Bollywood musicians:
Dance
Prominent dancers of the city include:
- Uday Shankar and his wife Amala Shankar
- Ananda Shankar
Among the many different dance forms prevalent in Kolkata, notable are:
Magic
Kolkata is the magic capital of India and has produced internationally famous magicians and performers, including:
Sports
Summer Olympic medallists
- Norman Pritchard, track and field, 1900
- Richard James Allen, hockey, 1928, 1932, 1936
- Leslie Claudius, hockey, 1924, 1928, 1936
- Gurbux Singh, hockey, 1964, 1968
- Vece Paes, hockey, 1980
- Leander Adrian Paes, tennis, 1996
Other sportspersons
- Sourav Ganguly, cricketer
- Pankaj Roy, cricketer
- Chuni Goswami, footballer
- Shailen Manna, footballer, India's football captain guides to Gold in 1951 Asiad
- Pradip Kumar Banerjee, footballer
- Krishanu Dey, footballer
- Sudeep Chatterjee, footballer
- Mihir Sen, record swimmer
- Jyotirmoyee Sikdar, track and field
- Arjun Atwal, golfer
- Surya Shekhar Ganguly, chess grandmaster
- Dibyendu Barua, chess grandmaster
- Manoj Tiwary, cricketer
- Zafar Imam, Taekwondo, Kick Boxing
- Robindra Nath Das, Taekwondo
- Gobar Guha,Wrestler
Sports administrators
References
- ^ Dutta, Krishna (2003). Calcutta: a cultural and literary history. Signal Books. p. xiv. ISBN 9781902669595.
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