List of alumni of Scottish Church College

This list contains notable alumni of Scottish Church College, an undergraduate and postgraduate college affiliated with the University of Calcutta, India.

Social reformers and religious leaders

• Swami Vivekananda, Monk, philosopher, social reformer and founder of the Ramakrishna Mission
• Rev. Lal Behari Dey, theologian of the Free Church of Scotland
• Brahmabandhav Upadhyay, theologian and preacher of New Dispensation Brahmoism, Protestantism, and Roman Catholicism
• Sitanath Tattwabhushan, theologian and former president of the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj ^[1]
• Krishna Kumar Mitra, former president of the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj ^[2]
• Paramahansa Yogananda, proponent of Kriya Yoga in the West and founder of the Self-Realization Fellowship
• A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, proponent of Gaudiya Vaishnavism and founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness ^{[3] [4]}
• Rev. Aurobindo Nath Mukherjee, first Indian to serve as the bishop of Calcutta and as the Metropolitan bishop of India within the Church of India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon
• Swami Gambhirananda, former president of the Ramakrishna Mission ^[5]
• Mohanananda

Independence activists and politicians

• Subhas Chandra Bose, former president of the Indian National Congress, founder president of the All India Forward Bloc, co-founder of the Indian National Army and head of state, Provisional Government of Free India
• Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala, first democratically elected prime minister of Nepal ^[6]
• Amarendranath Chatterjee, revolutionary associated with Anushilan Samiti, and Jugantar
• Saroj Dutta, veteran communist leader, co-founder of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) and the Naxalite movement
• Ambica Charan Mazumdar, former president of the Indian National Congress
• Nirmal Chandra Chatterjee, former president of the All India Hindu Mahasabha
• Gopinath Bordoloi, prominent freedom fighter, first chief minister of Assam ^[7]
• Prafulla Chandra Sen, former chief minister of West Bengal
• Yangmasho Shaiza, former chief minister of Manipur
• Brington Buhai Lyngdoh, former chief minister of Meghalaya
• S.C. Marak, former chief minister of Meghalaya
• S.C. Jamir, former chief minister of Nagaland, former governor of Maharashtra, Gujarat and Goa, and governor of Odisha
• Rishang Keishing, former chief minister of Manipur
• George Gilbert Swell, former deputy speaker of the Lok Sabha and former ambassador to Norway and Burma
• Birendra Narayan Chakraborty, former governor of Haryana
• Banwari Lal Joshi, former governor of Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, ^[8] Meghalaya ^[9] and Uttarakhand
• Ajit Kumar Panja, former minister of state for external affairs ^[10]
• Shawkat Ali Khan, a framer of the Constitution of Bangladesh ^[11]
• Fazle Haque, West Bengal state minister ^[12]

Jurists

• Sir Gooroodas Banerjee, former judge at the Calcutta High Court
• Sudhi Ranjan Das, former Chief Justice of India
• Amal Kumar Sarkar, former Chief Justice of India ^[13]
• Subimal Chandra Roy, former judge of the Supreme Court of India ^[14]
• Sambhunath Banerjee, former judge of the Calcutta High Court
• Amarendra Nath Sen, former chief justice of the Calcutta High Court, and former judge of the Supreme Court of India ^[15]
• Samarendra Chandra Deb, former chief justice of the Calcutta High Court
• Anil Kumar Sen, former chief justice of the Calcutta High Court
• Anandamoy Bhattacharjee, former chief justice of the Sikkim, Calcutta and the Bombay High Courts ^[16]
• Ganendra Narayan Ray, former chief justice of the Gujarat High Court, and former judge of the Supreme Court of India ^[17]
• Umesh Chandra Banerjee, former chief justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court and former judge of the Supreme Court of India ^[18]
• Mukul Gopal Mukherjee, former chief justice of the Rajasthan High Court
• Shyamal Kumar Sen, former chief justice of the Allahabad High Court, and former governor of West Bengal

Scholars and academic administrators

• Chandramukhi Basu, one of the first female graduates of the British Empire, and the first female head of an undergraduate college in South Asia (as principal of Bethune College, Calcutta) ^[19]
• Sir Gooroodas Banerjee, first Indian vice chancellor of the University of Calcutta
• Sir Brajendra Nath Seal, first chancellor of Visva-Bharati University, former vice chancellor of the University of Mysore ^[20]
• Sir Jnan Chandra Ghosh, formerly director of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, founder-director of the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and former vice chancellor of the University of Calcutta
• Tarak Nath Das, formerly professor of political science at Columbia University
• Sarat Chandra Roy, pioneering anthropologist, often regarded as the father of Indian ethnography, and as the first Indian anthropologist
• Biraja Sankar Guha, pioneering anthropologist, one of the first PhD recipients in anthropology in the world (Harvard University, 1924) ^[21] and founder-director of the Anthropological Survey of India ^[22]
• Nirmal Kumar Bose, eminent anthropologist and freedom fighter ^[23]
• Ramaprasad Chanda, anthropologist and archaeologist ^[24]
• Hem Chandra Raychaudhuri, formerly Carmichael Professor of Ancient Indian History and Culture, University of Calcutta
• Kalidas Nag, historian, author and parliamentarian
• Kaliprasanna Vidyaratna, Sanskrit scholar, author and academician
• Tapan Raychaudhuri, ad hominem professor of Indian history and civilization and emeritus fellow, St Antony's College, Oxford
• Rabindra Kumar Das Gupta, formerly Tagore professor of Bengali literature, University of Delhi, and former director of the National Library of India
• Asima Chatterjee, first Indian woman to earn a doctorate in science, first female recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, and first female president of the Indian Science Congress ^[25]
• Animesh Chakravorty, recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in chemistry, formerly chair of the department of chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
• Sambhunath Banerjee, Nirmal Kumar Sidhanta, Ramendra Kumar Podder, and Santosh Bhattacharyya, former vice chancellors of the University of Calcutta
• Nityananda Saha, former vice chancellor of the University of Kalyani
• Purabi Roy, noted scholar, author and Netaji researcher

Performing arts, theater and cinema

• Sisir Bhaduri, noted playwright ^[26]
• Pankaj Mullick, Bollywood and Bengali cinema music director and composer
• Biman Mukhopadhyay, Bengali singer
• Birendra Krishna Bhadra, broadcaster, playwright, and theater director
• Suchitra Mitra, Rabindra Sangeet exponent
• Manna Dey, Bollywood and Bengali film music exponent ^{[27] [28]}
• Mrinal Sen, internationally acclaimed art film director and cultural commentator ^{[29] [30]}
• Buddhadeb Dasgupta, noted parallel cinema director and poet ^[31]
• Tarun Majumdar, film director ^[32]
• Utpalendu Chakrabarty, film director and thespian
• Mithun Chakraborty, Bollywood and Bengali film actor and social activist
• Shyamanand Jalan, thespian and theatre director ^[33]
• Kaushik Sen, noted theatre personality, director of Swapnasandhani theatre group
• Silajit Majumder, singer and actor
• Badal Sircar, dramatist ^[34]
• Rudraprasad Sengupta, eminent theatre personality, director of Nandikar theatre group and cultural critic
• Partha Pratim Chowdhury, film director and playwright
• Manoj Mitra, dramatist ^[35]
• Madhav Sharma, actor, comedian, theater director ^[36]
• Pulak Bandyopadhyay, lyricist and composer
• Puja Banerjee, actress
• Tridha Choudhury, actress
• Padmanabha Dasgupta, screenplay writer, actor
• Sailajaranjan Majumdar, distinguished exponent and teacher of Rabindrasangeet
• Anamika Saha, actress

Writers, poets and journalists

• Dhan Gopal Mukerji, socio-cultural critic and first successful Indian man of letters in the United States of America; winner of Newbery Medal (1928)
• Nirad C. Chaudhuri, polymath, historian and commentator on culture, and Commander of the Order of the British Empire ^[37]
• Dipendranath Bandyopadhyay, author ^[38]
• Ajit Kumar Chakravarty, translator and critic ^[39]
• Satyendranath Dutta, poet ^[40]
• Sudhindranath Dutta, author and poet ^{[41] [42]}
• Ashok Kumar Sarkar, former editor of Desh literary magazine and editor-in-chief of the Anandabazar Patrika (1958–1983)
• Lakshminath Bezbaroa, writer, editor and social critic
• Parvati Prasad Baruwa, litterateur ^[43]
• Premendra Mitra, novelist, short story and science fiction writer, and film director
• Pracheta Gupta, writer
• Subhas Mukhopadhyay, poet ^[44]
• Samaresh Majumdar, novelist
• Sajanikanta Das, critic, poet and editor of Shanibarer Chithi
• Sanjib Chattopadhyay, journalist, author and critic
• Bani Basu, essayist, novelist, and poet ^{[45] [46] [47]}
• Kanhaiyalal Sethia, poet
• Kali Nath Roy, editor in chief of The Tribune magazine
• Farrukh Ahmed, poet, writer, activist of the Language Movement
• Derek O'Brien, quiz-master and author
• Bina Sarkar Ellias, poet, fiction writer, art curator & founder-editor and publisher of International Gallerie, a global arts and ideas magazine ^[48]
• Mustafa Manwar, artist and media personality ^[49]
• Madhu Rye, playwright, novelist and short story writer
• Tilottama Majumdar, Bangali novelist, short story writer, poet, lyricist, and essayist

Bina Sarkar Ellias, Poet, Founder-Editor-Designer-Publisher of International Gallerie, Art Curator, Writer & Cultural Activist. Studied English Hons. between 1968-1971.

Administrators and organization leaders

• Binay Ranjan Sen, former director general of the Food and Agriculture Organization (1956–1967)
• Nitish Chandra Laharry, first Indian (and Asian) president of Rotary International (1962–63)
• Jagmohan Dalmiya, former president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India and the first Indian chairman of the International Cricket Council ^[50]
• Mani Lal Bhaumik, scientist (laser technology) turned entrepreneur, inventor of the excimer laser and author ^{[51] [52]}
• Diptendu Pramanick, first secretary of the Eastern India Motion Pictures Association, and secretary of the Film Federation of India (1953–54)
• Evelyn Norah Shullai, pioneer of the Girl Guides Movement in India ^[53]

Sportspersons

• Gourgopal Ghosh, football player for the Mohun Bagan club and mathematician ^[54]
• Dharma Bhakta Mathema, bodybuilder, political activist and anti-royalist martyr in the Kingdom of Nepal ^{[55] [56]}
• Surya Shekhar Ganguly, chess grandmaster ^{[57] [58]} and national champion ^[59]
• Sreerupa Bose, former member, India national women's cricket team

Industrialists, businessmen and philanthropists

• Rameshwarlall Daulatram Nopany, founder of Nopany group based in Calcutta and a philanthropist
• Samson H Chowdhury, Industrialist

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