List of University of Calcutta people
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This is a list of notable people connected to the University of Calcutta.
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- Ajoy Mukherji, former Chief Minister, West Bengal
- Amlan Dutta, eminent economist and social critic, a former adviser to the IMF, former vice-chancellor of Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, a prolific writer
- Amartya Sen, eminent welfare economist, philosopher and social critic, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in economics, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge and Lamont Professor of Economics at Harvard University
- Anjan Chattopadhyay, Notable Sitarist
- Anjan Dutta, and son Neel Dutt, exponents of the Jeebonmukhi school of music
- Ashesh Prosad Mitra, astronomer, former director of CSIR
- Ashoke Sen, string theorist
- Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, famous Bengali novelist, composer of India's national anthem Bande Mataram
- Barun Sengupta, Editor, Bartaman newspaper
- Benjamin Walker, author
- D. R. Bhandarkar, historian
- Bharati Mukherjee, author
- B. C. Roy, eminent physician, former Chief Minister, West Bengal
- Bimal Kar, novelist
- Bimal Mitra, novelist
- Binay Ranjan Sen, former ambassador of India to the USA, Italy and Yugoslavia, Japan, and Mexico and former Director General, Food and Agriculture Organization
- Binoy Kumar Sarkar, economist
- Binoy Majumdar, poet
- Brajendra Nath Seal, philosopher
- Brinda Karat, Marxist leader and feminist
- 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
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, author
- Clarence Barlow, composer
- Derek O'Brien, nationally famous Quiz Master and television host
- Dhan Gopal Mukerji, socio-cultural critic and first successful man of letters in early 20th century United States of America
- K. David, Theologian, New Testament Scholar
- Dibyendu Palit, ad-man turned novelist
- Dinesh Chandra Sen, scholar of early Bengali literature
- Ganesh Prasad , mathematician
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak philosopher,literary theorist
- Girindra Sekhar Bose, physician, applied psychologist and founder, Indian Psychoanalytical Society
- Gnanchandra Ghosh, chemist
- Hamoodur Rahman , former Chief Justice of Pakistan
- Hemchandra Ray Chowdhury, historian
- Hiren Mukherjee, Communist Parliamentarian and renowned commentator on culture
- Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, ex - Prime Minister of Pakistan
- Indrani Sen, Rabindra Sangeet exponent
- Sir Jadunath Sircar, historian
- Jagadish Chandra Bose
- Jehangir Coyajee, economics
- Jyoti Basu, former Chief Minister, West Bengal
- 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
- Kamini Roy, first female honours graduate in the British Empire, first feminist author in India
- K. S. Krishnan, philosopher
- Kuruvilla Zachariah, historian
- Lakshmi Niwas Mittal, billionaire steel tycoon and entrepreneur
- Leander Paes, former Wimbledon and French Open doubles Champion and former No.1 doubles pair
- Mahasweta Devi, social worker, activist, novelist and feminist turned Marxist
- Mamata Banerjee, Founder and Chief Executive, All India Nationalist Trinamool Congress Party
- Meghnad Saha, physicist
- Michael Madhusudan Dutt, first poet laureate in Bengali and dramatist
- Mircea Eliade, Romanian-American religious scholar and philosopher
- Mrinal Sen, film director
- Muhammad Ali Bogra, ex - Prime Minister of Pakistan
- Nikhilranjan Sen, mathematician
- Nirad C. Chaudhuri, polymath , historian and encyclopedic commentator on culture, acclaimed Victorian scholar and honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Nirmal Kumar Bose, anthropologist. social scientist and freedom fighter [1]
- Nirmal Kumar Ganguly
- Norman Pritchard, Olympic medalist, Hollywood and Broadway star
- P. C. Sorcar Jr, internationally acclaimed magician
- Pannalal Bose, eminent jurist
- Paramahansa Yogananda
- Prafulla Chandra Sen, former Chief Minister West Bengal
- Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
- Prafulla Chandra Ray, chemist
- Prafulla Chandra Ghosh, English literature scholar
- Pranab Mukherjee, formerly Union Finance Minister and current Defence Minister
- Premendra Mitra, writer
- Purnendu Pattrea, writer
- Radha Binod Pal, eminent jurist
- Radhanath Sikdar
- Rajashekhar Basu, writer
- Ramananda Chatterjee, pioneering journalist
- Rituparna Sengupta, actress
- Romesh Chunder Majumder, historian
- Rudra Prasad Sengupta, thespian
- Samaresh Majumdar, writer
- Sanjeeb Chattopadhyay, novelist
- Sankar Ghosh well known scientist at Yale University.
- Sankarlal Bhattacharjee, journalist, author and biographer
- Sasthi Brata, writer
- Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri, eminent political scientist, fellow of the University of London
- Satyajit Ray
- Satyendra Nath Bose, physicist, co-discoverer of Bose-Einstein statistics
- Saurav Ganguly, former cricket captain of India
- Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, one of the first two women to be elected to the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan, Pakistani Ambassador to Morocco , author
- Shankha Ghosh, poet and critic
- Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay, poet and writer
- Shrikumar Banerji, scholar in English and Bengali literature
- Syama Prasad Mookerjee
- Siddharta Shankar Ray, former Chief Minister, West Bengal, ex-Governor of the Punjab and former Ambassador of India to the United States of America
- Somnath Chatterjee, Speaker, Lok Sabha
- Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty of the Calcutta Medical College was the first Indian to achieve the MD degree as University College London in 1849
- Sreelekha Mitra, actress
- Dr. Subhash Mukhopadhyay
- Subodh Chandra Sengupta, internationally acclaimed authority on Victorianism and Shakespeare
- Suchitra Mitra, Rabindra Sangeet exponent
- Sukhamay Chakravarty, economist
- Sunanda Sanyal, social critic and socio-cultural commentator
- Sunil Gangopadhyay
- Suniti Kumar Chatterjee, linguist
- Surajit Chandra Sinha, noted Anthropologist, former director of Anthropolical Survey of India, former vice-chancellor of Visva-Bharati University
- Surendranath Dasgupta, philosophy
- Syed Mustafa Siraj, novelist
- Tanika Sarkar, historian
- Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, novelist
- Upendranath Brahmachari, physician, nominee for the Nobel prize in 1929 in the category of physiology and medicine
- Utpal Dutt, thespian and actor
