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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.
Name | Class year | Degree | College | Notability | References |
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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 | [7] | ||
Sanjiv Goenka | Chairman, RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group | ||||
Vinay Maloo | Chairman of Enso Group | ||||
Dilip Shanghvi | Bhawanipur Education Society | Billionaire businessman, founder of Sun Pharmaceuticals |
Name | Class year | Degree | College | Notability | References |
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Abhijit Banerjee | 1981 | B.Sc. (Economics) | Presidency [note 2] | Winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics | [8] [9] |
Amartya Sen | BA (Economics) | Presidency [note 2] | Winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics | [10] | |
Benoy Kumar Sarkar | 1905 | Economist | |||
D. N. Jha | BA (History) | Presidency [note 2] | Professor of History, Delhi University | ||
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak | 1959 | BA(English) | 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 | BA (History) | 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 |
Name | Class year | Degree | College | Notability | References |
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Adhar Kumar Chatterji | 1933 | Presidency [note 2] | |||
Subroto Mukherjee | Chief of Air Staff of the Indian Air Force |
Name | Class year | Degree | College | Notability | References |
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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 | [12] | ||
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 |
Name | Class year | Degree | College | Notability | References |
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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 |
Name | Class year | Degree | College | Notability | References |
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Nripendra Narayan | Presidency [note 2] | Maharaja of Cooch Behar State | |||
Uday Chand Mahtab | Zamindar of Burdwan |
Name | Class year | Degree | College | Notability | References |
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A. B. Masilamani | Serampore | Evangelist and theologian, Canadian Baptist Mission | |||
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada | Scottish Church | Founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) | |||
Gyanendra Nath Chakravarti | LL.B.,M.A. | Muir Central College | Indian theosophist and scholar | [13] | |
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 |
Name | Class year | Degree | College | Notability | References |
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Amar Nath Bhaduri | Enzymologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [14] | |||
Amitabha Bhattacharyya | Production engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [15] | ||||
Amitabha Mukhopadhyay | Cell biologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [16] | |||
Anil Kumar Gain | Surendranath | Mathematician and statistician; founder of Vidyasagar University | |||
Anil Kumar Mandal | 1981 | MBBS | Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College and Hospital [note 7] | Ophthalmologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [17] |
Ashesh Prosad Mitra | Bangabasi | Former director of CSIR | |||
Benoy Krishna Tikader | Ph.D; D.Sc | Arachnologist | |||
Biman Bagchi | 1974; 1976 | Presidency [note 2] | Theoretical physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [18] | ||
Birendra Nath Mallick | 1978; 1981 | B.Sc | Neurobiologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [19] | |
Biraja Sankar Guha | Scottish Church | First director of the Anthropological Survey of India | |||
Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya | Ph.D | Theoretical high energy physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [20] | |||
C. R. Rao | 1943 | MA in Statistics | Statistician | ||
Chinmoy Sankar Dey | Molecular biologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [21] | |||
Deb Shankar Ray | Physical chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [22] | |||
Dipak K. Das | Professor of surgery, now under investigation for fraudulent publications | [23] | |||
Ganesh Prasad | Mathematician | ||||
Jagadish Chandra Bose | Physicist, botanist | ||||
Jamal Nazrul Islam | B.Sc. | St. Xavier's College, Kolkata | Physicist, mathematician, cosmologist, astronomer | ||
Joyoti Basu | Cell biologist, N-Bios laureate | [24] | |||
Jyoti Bhusan Chatterjea | Hematologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [25] | |||
Kshitindramohan Naha, geologist and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [26] | Presidency College [note 2] | ||||
Mani Lal Bhaumik | B.Sc; M.Sc in Physics | Scottish Church College; Rajabazar Science College | Physicist | ||
Megh Nad Saha | Presidency College [note 2] | Physicist | |||
Mihir Chowdhury | 1955; 1957 | Physical chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [27] | |||
Mihir Kumar Bose | 1965 | B.Sc.; M.Sc.; Ph.D. | Geologist and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [28] | ||
Nirmal Kumar Dutta | MBBS | Calcutta Medical College [note 5] | Pharmacologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [29] | ||
Nirmal Kumar Ganguly | R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital [note 8] | Microbiologist | |||
Prafulla Chandra Ray | Vidyasagar College | Chemist, industrialist and philanthropist | |||
P. V. Manoranjan Rao | Physicist, space scientist | ||||
Pradyut Ghosh | 1990; 1992 | Inorganic chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [30] | |||
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis | Founder of the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta | ||||
Radhanath Sikdar | BA in Mathematics | Presidency College | Mathematician best known for calculating the height of Mount Everest | ||
S. C. Dutta Roy | Ph.D | Rajabazar Science College | Electrical engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [31] | ||
Sadhan Basu | 1942; 1944; 1948 | B.Sc; M.Sc; Ph.D | Rajabazar Science College | Physical chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [32] | |
Sagar Sengupta | Cancer biologist, N-Bios laureate [33] | ||||
Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay | 1985-1991 | PhD | Presidency College, Calcutta University | Computer scientist, first female director of Indian Statistical Institute, Padma Shri, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate in Engineering Science, 2010, TWAS Prize for Engineering Sciences, 2018, [34] Infosys Prize 2017 in Engineering and Computer Science [35] | |
Sanjeev Das | Cancer biologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [36] | |||
Santasabuj Das | Immunologist, N-Bios laureate | [37] | |||
Satyendra Nath Bose | 1913; 1915 | BSc; MSc | Physicist, co-discoverer of Bose–Einstein statistics | ||
Saumitra Das | 1992 | PhD | Virologist, N-Bios laureate | [38] | |
Snehasikta Swarnakar | Cancer biologist, N-Bios laureate [39] | ||||
Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty | Calcutta Medical College [note 5] | ||||
Soumen Basak | Immunologist, N-Bios laureate [40] | ||||
Soumitro Banerjee | 1981 | Electrical engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [41] | |||
Srinivasan Ramachandran | Bioinformatician, N-Bios laureate [42] | ||||
Subhash Chandra Lakhotia | 1964–1966 | Cytogeneticist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [43] | |||
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 [44] | ||
Sumit Bhaduri | Organic chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [45] | ||||
Sumit Ranjan Das | High energy physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [46] | ||||
Sunil Kumar Manna | Immunologist, N-Bios laureate [47] | ||||
Ujjwal Maulik | 1983–1989 | PhD | Calcutta University | Computer scientist, worked at Stanford University, Univ. of Maryland. Los Alamos National Lab, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg University, IEEE fellow, [48] Stanford List of Scientists [49] | |
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 [50] | |
Vikram Marwah | 1948 | Calcutta Medical College [note 5] |
Name | Class year | Degree | College | Notability | References |
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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 | ||||