List of people from Vidyasagar College Kolkata

Swami Vivekananda, the most notable alumni, passed from the former institute Metropolitan Institution

Vidyasagar College has produced a large number of notable people, who has kept a remark on the society, since the foundation. The institute was previously a public school named "Metropolitan Institution", before upgrading to College. In 1871, the institute was upgraded to college and in 1917, the institute was named Vidyasagar College.

Notable alumni before upgradation to college (before 1871)

The notable alumnus of Metropolitan Institution before 1971, which was then a notable school, include:

• Swami Vivekananda, philosopher and Hindu monk
• Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, philosopher and Hindu monk
• Brahmabandhav Upadhyay, theologian, journalist and Indian freedom fighter
• Charu Chandra Bhattacharya, Bengali writer on scientific articles mainly for children
• Priyanath Bose, circus performer and entrepreneur

Notable alumni after upgradation to college (after 1871)

The following list consists notable alumnus passed from or associated with Vidyasagar College after upgrading to College.

Freedom fighters, activists and revolutionaries

• Abinash Chandra Bhattacharya, noted for his role in the Indo-German Conspiracy of World War I
• Barada Bhushan Chakraborty, Communist peasant leader, one of the prominent faces of Tebhaga movement
• Birendranath Sasmal, freedom fighter, Barrister, politician, popularly known as "Deshopran" and "The Uncrowned King of Medinipur"
• Chintamani Panigrahi, freedom fighter, participated in Indian Independence Movement
• Ganesh Man Singh, Nepalese freedom fighter, termed as "Father of Democracy" or the "Iron-man of Nepali politics"
• Ram Manohar Lohia, activist in Quit India Movement, Indian Independence Movement, editor of its mouthpiece Congress Socialist who broadcast Congress Radio, secretly from various places in Bombay during dependant India

Literature personalities

• Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury, famous Bengali writer
• Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, Bengali novelist
• Ananda Chandra Agarwala, Assamese writer, poet
• Durga Mohan Bhattacharyya, scholar of Sanskrit
• Sarat Chandra Goswami, writer in Assam, founder member of Asam Sahitya Sabha
• Himanish Goswami, writer, journalist, and cartoonist
• Ajit Dutta, Bengali poet & author
• Dhirendralal Dhar, Indian National Award winner for his contributions to Children's literature

Scholers, scientists and academic heads

• Ajoy Home, aviculturist, ornithologist and naturalist
• Durga Mohan Bhattacharyya, scholar of Sanskrit
• Jagat Jiban Ghosh, researcher and scientist in Biological Sciences, Biochemistry, Neurobiochemistry; associated with teaching and research activities of J.J.Ghosh researth institutes. ^[1]
• Prafulla Chandra Ray, chemist, regarded as the father of chemical science in India
• Radheshyam Brahmachari, scholer ^[2]
• Sarada Charan Das, scientist
• Saratchandra Mitra, scholer, scientist on plants and trees and founding head of the department of anthropology at the University of Calcutta
• Satya Churn Law, Ornithologist

Cine personalities

• Chhabi Biswas, Notable Bengali actor and theatre artist
• Debaki Bose, film director, awarded with Padma Shri
• Himangshu Dutta, Bengali music director
• Madhu Bose, film director, actor, singer and screenwriter
• Paoli Dam, notable Bengali actress
• Subhra Sourav Das, notable actor worked at Kaushik Sen's theatre group Swapnasandhani.
• Tarachand Barjatya, actor and founder of Rajshri Productions

Singers

• Manna Dey, notable singer
• Ruprekha Banerjee, notable singer specialised in Rabindrasangeet and Hindustani Classical Music
• Sailajaranjan Majumdar, Rabindra Sangeet singer and teacher
• Silajit Majumder, Bengali singer
• Vishmadev Chattopadhyay, eminent vocal artist in Indian Classical Music, a revered Guru in the Delhi Gharana of the vocal classical genre

Politicians

• Chintamani Panigrahi, former Governor of Manipur
• Ganesh Man Singh, leader of the democratic movement of 1990 in Nepal, referred as "Iron Man of Nepal Politics".
• Jyotipriya Mallick, Cabinet Minister, Minister for Department of Forest Affairs and Non-Conventional and Renewable Energy Sources in Government of West Bengal
• Ram Manohar Lohia, founder of the Congress Socialist Party
• Ram Sunder Das, former Chief Minister of Bihar
• Sadhan Pande, former Minister for Consumer Affairs & Self Help Group & Self-Employment
• Tarit Baran Topdar, former Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha in Government of West Bengal
• Shyamaprasanna Bhattacharyya, former Member of Legislative Assembly in Government of West Bengal

Sports

• Gostha Pal, Indian footballer ^[3]
• Asim Mukhopadhyay, mountaineer
• Brojen Das, Bangadeshi swimmer, first Asian to swim across the English Channel, and the first person to cross it six times
• Dipankar Ghosh, mountaineer
• Pankaj Roy, Indian cricketer
• Priyanath Bose, circus performer, considered to be one the pioneers of circus in India.

Other personalities

• Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, religious leader, philosopher and founder of Ananda marga spiritual organization also founder of PROUT, author of Neohumanism, Prabhat Samgiita
• Mitter Bedi, notable photographer specialising in industrial photography
• Jitendra Nath Ghosh, chairman of Netaji Research Bureau ^[4]

Notable Faculty

• Kshirode Prasad Vidyavinode, poet, novelist, dramatist and nationalist
• Surendranath Banerjee

References

1. "History and Biography of Prof. J.J.Ghosh". Prof. J.J.Ghosh Foundation Website.
2. "Dr. Radheshyam Brahmachari".
3. Chakraborty, Rana (20 August 2019). "প্রাচীরের নাম গোষ্ঠ পাল" [The Wall Named Gostha Pal]. ekhonkhobor.com (in Bengali). Kolkata: Ekhon Khobor Bangla. Archived from the original on 22 October 2022. Retrieved 22 October 2022.
4. The Oracle, Volume 6. 1984. p. 51.