List of University of Calcutta people

This is a list of notable people connected to the University of Calcutta.

Alumni

• Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, novelist
• Michael Madhusudan Dutt, first poet laureate in Bengali and dramatist
• K. S. Krishnan , philosopher
• D. R. Bhandarkar , historian
• Ganesh Prasad , mathematician
• Dhan Gopal Mukerji, socio-cultural critic and first successful man of letters in early 20th century United States of America
• Brajendra Nath Seal , philosopher
• Subodh Chandra Sengupta , internationally acclaimed authority on Victorianism and Shakespeare]]
• Hiren Mukherjee , Communist Parliamentarian and renowned commentator on culture
• Nikhilranjan Sen , mathematician
• Gnanchandra Ghosh , chemist
• Suniti Kumar Chattopadhyay , linguist
• Romesh Chunder Majumder , historian
• Hemchandra Ray Chowdhury , historian
• Binoy Kumar Sarkar , economist
• Dinesh Chandra Sen , scholar of early Bengali literature
• Syama Prasad Mookerjee
• Paramahansa Yogananda
• Radhanath Sikdar
• Satyajit Ray
• Satyendra Nath Bose
• Meghnad Saha, physicist
• Jagadish Chandra Bose
• Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
• Prafulla Chandra Ray , chemist
• Girindra Sekhar Bose , physician, applied psychologist and founder, Indian Psychoanalytical Society
• Surendranath Dasgupta , philosophy
• Prafulla Chandra Ghosh , English literature scholar
• Shrikumar Banerji , scholar in English and Bengali literature
• Kuruvilla Zachariah , historian
• Jehangir Coyajee , economics
• Tarashankar Bandopadhyay , journalist and writer
• Nirad C. Chaudhuri
• Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
• Sir Jadunath Sircar , historian
• Samaresh Majumdar , writer
• Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay , poet and writer
• Bimal Mitra , novelist
• Dibyendu Palit , ad-man turned novelist
• Purnendu Pattrea , writer
• Tarashankar Bandopadhyay , novelist
• Rajashekhar Basu , writer
• Premendra Mitra , writer
• Syed Mustafa Siraj , novelist
• Mahashweta Devi , social worker, activist, novelist and feminist turned Marxist
• Sanjeeb Chattopadhyay , novelist
• Bimal Kar , novelist
• Sunil Gangopadhyay
• Bharati Mukherjee
• Mrinal Sen, film director
• Dr. Subhash Mukhopadhyay
• Sasthi Brata, writer
• P. C. Sorcar Jr , internationally acclaimed magician
• Sunanda Sanyal , social critic and socio-cultural commentator
• Suchitra Mitra , Rabindra Sangeet exponent
• B. C. Roy, former Chief Minister, West Bengal
• Prafulla Chandra Sen , former Chief Minister West Bengal
• Ajoy Mukherji , former Chief Minister, West Bengal
• Siddharta Shankar Ray , former Chief Minister, West Bengal, ex-Governor of the Punjab and former Ambassador of India to the United States of America
• Jyoti Basu, former Chief Minister, West Bengal
• Pranab Mukherjee, formerly Union Finance Minister and current Defence Minister
• Somnath Chatterjee, Speaker, Lok Sabha
• Rudra Prasad Sengupta , thespian
• Barun Sengupta , Editor, Bartaman newspaper
• Mamata Banerjee , Founder and Chief Executive, All India Nationalist Trinamool Congress Party
• Derek O'Brien , nationally famous Quiz Master and television host
• Indrani Sen , Rabindra Sangeet exponent
• Anjan Dutt , and son Neel Dutt , exponents of the Jeebonmukhi school of music
• Rituparna Sengupta , actress
• Sreelekha Mitra , actress
• Nirmal Kumar Ganguly
• Ashesh Prosade Mitra