List of University of Calcutta people
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This is a list of notable people connected to the University of Calcutta.
Fourteen heads of state and government, and four Nobel laureates[note 1] have been associated with the university.
Fellows
- Joseph Baly, Archdeacon of Calcutta from 1872 until 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 who was director of the Indian Museum in Calcutta
Faculty
Alumni
Arts
Business
| Name | Class
Year |
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[note 2] | Chairman, RPG Group | [4] | ||
| Ramgopal Ghosh | wealthy entrepreneur; founded his own firm, R.G. Ghosh and Co. | ||||
| Sanjiv Goenka | Chairman, RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group | ||||
| Vinay Maloo | billionaire businessman | ||||
| Dilip Shanghvi | Bhawanipur Education Society | Billionaire businessman, founder of Sun Pharmaceuticals |
Humanities and Social Sciences
| Name | Class
Year |
Degree | College | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abhijit Banerjee | 1981 | B.Sc. (Economics) | Presidency[note 2] | Winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics | [5][6] |
| Amartya Sen | BA (Economics) | Presidency[note 2] | Winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics | [7] | |
| Benoy Kumar Sarkar | 1905 | economist | |||
| D. N. Jha | BA (History) | Presidency[note 2] | Professor of History, Delhi University | ||
| Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak | 1959 | Presidency[note 2] | 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[note 2] | discoverer of Mohenjodaro, the principal site of the Harappa culture | |
| Rajat Kanta Ray | Ph.D. | Presidency[note 2] | 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[note 2] | Professor of History, Delhi University | |||
| Suniti Kumar Chatterjee | Scottish Church College | linguist | |||
| Surajit Chandra Sinha | Presidency[note 2] | anthropologist | |||
| Susobhan Sarkar | Presidency[note 2] | Professor and Head of Department of History, Presidency College, Calcutta | |||
| Tapan Raychaudhuri | BA (History); DPhil (History) | Presidency[note 2] | Professor of Indian History and Civilisation, University of Oxford |
Law
Literature
Military
| Name | Class
Year |
Degree | College | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adhar Kumar Chatterji | 1933 | Presidency[note 2] | |||
| Subroto Mukherjee | Chief of Air Staff of the Indian Air Force |
Politics
Heads of State and Government
| Name | Class
Year |
Degree | College | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem | Presidency[note 2] | 6th President of Bangladesh | |||
| Abu Sayeed Chowdhury | 1940; 1942 | Presidency[note 2] | 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 | [9] | ||
| Mohammad Mohammadullah | 1948 | LLB | Ripon | 3rd President of Bangladesh | |
| Muhammad Ali of Bogra | Presidency[note 2] | former Prime Minister of Pakistan | |||
| Pranab Mukherjee | Suri Vidyasagar[note 4] | 13th President of India | |||
| Rajendra Prasad | 1905; 1907 | BA; MA | Presidency[note 2] | 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[note 4] | Prime Minister of Nepal |
Others
Civil Servants and Diplomats
| Name | Class
Year |
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 | Class
Year |
Degree | College | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nripendra Narayan | Presidency[note 2] | Maharaja of Cooch Behar State | |||
| Uday Chand Mahtab | Zamindar of Burdwan |
Religion
| Name | Class
Year |
Degree | College | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. B. Masilamani | Serampore | evangelist and theologian, Canadian Baptist Mission | |||
| A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada | Scottish Church | founder, International Society for Krishna Consciousness | |||
| 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[note 2] | 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
| Name | Class
Year |
Degree | College | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amar Nath Bhaduri | enzymologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [10] | |||
| Amitabha Bhattacharyya | production engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate[11] | ||||
| Amitabha Mukhopadhyay | cell biologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [12] | |||
| Anil Kumar Gain | Surendranath | mathematician and statistician; founder of Vidyasagar University | |||
| Anil Kumar Mandal | 1981 | MBBS | Nil Ratan Sircar[note 7] | ophthalmologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [13] |
| Ashesh Prosad Mitra | Bangabasi | former Director of CSIR | |||
| Biman Bagchi | 1974; 1976 | Presidency[note 2] | theoretical physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate[14] | ||
| Birendra Nath Mallick | 1978; 1981 | B.Sc. | neurobiologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [15] | |
| Biraja Sankar Guha | Scottish Church | first Director of the Anthropological Survey of India | |||
| Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya | PhD | theoretical high energy physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate[16] | |||
| C. R. Rao | 1943 | MA in Statistics | statistician | ||
| Chinmoy Sankar Dey | molecular biologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [17] | |||
| Deb Shankar Ray | physical chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [18] | |||
| Dipak K. Das | Professor of surgery, now under investigation for fraudulent publications | [19] | |||
| 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 | [20] | |||
| Jyoti Bhusan Chatterjea | hematologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [21] | |||
| Kshitindramohan Naha, geologist and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate[22] | Presidency[note 2] | ||||
| Mani Lal Bhaumik | B.Sc. | Scottish Church | physicist | ||
| Megh Nad Saha | Presidency[note 2] | physicist | |||
| Mihir Chowdhury | 1955; 1957 | physical chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate[23] | |||
| Mihir Kumar Bose | 1965 | B.Sc.; M.Sc.; Ph.D. | geologist and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate[24] | ||
| Nirmal Kumar Dutta | MBBS | Calcutta Medical College[note 5] | pharmacologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate[25] | ||
| Nirmal Kumar Ganguly | R. G. Kar[note 8] | microbilogist | |||
| P. V. Manoranjan Rao | physicist, space scientist | ||||
| Pradyut Ghosh | 1990; 1992 | inorganic chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate[26] | |||
| Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis | founder of the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta | ||||
| Radhanath Sikdar | mathematician best known for calculating the height of Mount Everest | ||||
| Rahul Banerjee | 1998; 2000 | chemist and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate[27] | |||
| S. C. Dutta Roy | electrical engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate[28] | ||||
| Sadhan Basu | physical chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate[29] | ||||
| Sagar Sengupta | cancer biologist, N-Bios laureate[30] | ||||
| Sanjeev Das | cancer biologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [31] | |||
| Santasabuj Das | immunologist, N-Bios laureate | [32] | |||
| Satyendra Nath Bose | 1913; 1915 | BSc; MSc | physicist, co-discoverer of Bose–Einstein statistics | ||
| Saumitra Das | 1992 | PhD | virologist, N-Bios laureate, and | [33] | |
| Snehasikta Swarnakar | cancer biologist, N-Bios laureate[34] | ||||
| Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty | Calcutta Medical College[note 5] | ||||
| Soumen Basak | immunologist, N-Bios laureate[35] | ||||
| Soumitro Banerjee | 1981 | electrical engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate[36] | |||
| Srinivasan Ramachandran | bioinformatician, N-Bios laureate[37] | ||||
| Subhash Chandra Lakhotia | 1964 1966 | cytogeneticist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate[38] | |||
| Subhash Mukhopadhyay | 1955; 1958 | Calcutta National Medical[note 9] | first physician in India (and second in the world) to perform in vitro fertilization | ||
| Subir Kumar Ghosh | BSc; MSc; PhD | Presidency[note 2] | geologist and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate[39] | ||
| Sumit Bhaduri | organic chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate[40] | ||||
| Sumit Ranjan Das | high energy physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate[41] | ||||
| Sunil Kumar Manna | immunologist, N-Bios laureate[42] | ||||
| Upendranath Brahmachari | 1893; 1894; 1900; 1902; 1904 | MD; PhD | Presidency;[note 2] Calcutta Medical College[note 5] | ||
| Usha Ranjan Ghatak | 1953 | BSc; MSc | Asutosh | synthetic organic chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate[43] | |
| Vikram Marwah | 1948 | Calcutta Medical College[note 5] |
- 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[44]
- Katyayanidas Bhattacharya, Philosophy, Professor, Presidency College, Calcutta
- Santanu Bhattacharya, bioorganic chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate[45]
- Birendra Bijoy Biswas, molecular biologist
- Nirmal Kumar Bose, Census Commissioner of India[46]
- Barun De, Chairman, West Bengal Heritage Commission, Calcutta
- Amlan Dutta, former Vice Chancellor of Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan
- 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[47]
- 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[48]
- Sanjib Senapati, biotechnologist, N-Bios laureate[49]
- Debasis Chattopadhyay, plant biologist, N-Bios laureate[50]
Sports
| Name | Class
Year |
Degree | College | Notability | 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[note 4] | 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[note 8] | former captain of the Indian football team in the 1948 Olympic Games | |||
| Vece Paes | former Olympic hockey player |
Notes
- ^ Rabindranath Tagore, C. V. Raman, Amartya Sen, and Abhijit Banerjee.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak The Presidency College (now known as Presidency University) was affiliated to the University of Calcutta between 1857 and 2010.
- ^ a b The Cotton College (now known as Cotton University) was affiliated to the University of Calcutta between 1901 and 1948.
- ^ a b c The Suri Vidyasagar College was affiliated to the University of Calcutta between 1942 and 1960.
- ^ a b c d e The Calcutta Medical College was affiliated to the University of Calcutta between 1857 and 2003.
- ^ The Midnapore College was affiliated to the University of Calcutta between 1873 and 1985.
- ^ The Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College and Hospital was affiliated to the University of Calcutta between 1873 and 2003.
- ^ a b The R. G. Kar Medical College was affiliated to the University of Calcutta between 1916 and 2003.
- ^ The Calcutta National Medical College was affiliated to the University of Calcutta between 1921 and 2003.
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