Discover the notable alumni of University Of Calcutta. The list includes people like Subhas Chandra Bose, Swami Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore, Pranab Mukherjee & Amartya Sen. This list of notable alumni is loosely sorted by popularity and has people from different domains of life, such as leaders, writers, film & theater personalities, intellectuals & academics and musicians etc.
Rabindranath Tagore07 May 1861, Indian
Poet and Author
Subhas Chandra Bose23 January 1897, Indian
Swami Vivekananda12 January 1863, Indian
Leader
Amartya Sen03 November 1933, Indian
Economist & Philosopher
Pranab Mukherjee11 December 1935, Indian
13th President of India
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman17 March 1920, Bangladeshi
First Prime Minister of Bangladesh
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada01 September 1896, Indian
Founder of ISKCON
Paramahansa Yogananda05 January 1893, Indian
Fatima Jinnah31 July 1893, Pakistani
Sister of Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis29 June 1893, Indian
Statistician
Prafulla Chandra Ray02 August 1861, Indian
Chemist
Upendranath Brahmachari19 December 1873, Indian
Scientist
Surya Sen22 March 1894, Indian
Revolutionary
Muhammad Ali Bogra19 October 1909, Pakistani
Former Prime Minister of Pakistan
Sourav Ganguly08 July 1972, Indian
Cricketer
Sunil Chhetri03 August 1984, Indian
Association football player
Kumar Sanu23 September 1957
Singer, Composer
Mamata Banerjee05 January 1955, Indian
Politician, Painter
Rimi Sen21 September 1981, Indian
Actor
Uttam Kumar03 September 1926, Indian
Actor
Mohammad Hamid Ansari01 April 1937, Indian
Diplomat
Mircea Eliade13 March 1907, Romanian
Historian
Paoli Dam04 October 1980, Indian
Actor
Hrishikesh Mukherjee30 September 1922, Indian
Film director, Screenwriter, Film producer, Film
Utpal Dutt29 March 1929, Indian
Actor
Manna Dey01 May 1919, Indian
Actor, Singer, Autobiographer, Composer
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy08 September 1892, Pakistani
Politician
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak24 February 1942, Indian
Writer, Philosopher, University teacher,
Soumitra Chatterjee19 January 1935, Indian, British Indian Ocean Territory
Actor
Mahasweta Devi14 January 1926, Indian
Human rights activist, Writer, Poet, Novelist,
Sugata Bose07 September 1956, Indian
Historian, Author, Politician
M. J. Akbar11 January 1951, Indian
Journalist, Writer, Politician
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Sukumar Ray30 October 1887, Indian
Photographer, Poet, Writer, Illustrator,
Jeet Gannguli24 May 1977, Indian
Music Composer
Ritwik Ghatak04 November 1925, Indian
Film director, Actor, Screenwriter, Film producer,
A. K. Fazlul Huq26 October 1873, Indian
Politician
Radhabinod Pal27 January 1886, Indian
Judge, University teacher
Bagha Jatin07 December 1879, Indian
Philosopher
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay12 September 1894, Indian
Poet, Writer
Ashoke Sen15 July 1956, Indian
Physicist
Nabaneeta Dev Sen13 January 1938, Indian
Author, Writer
P. C. Sorcar23 February 1913, Indian
Stage magician
Pritilata Waddedar05 May 1911, Bangladeshi, Indian
Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar21 May 1921, Indian
Philosopher
Bimal Jalan17 August 1941, Indian
Economist, Politician
Bibek Debroy25 January 1955, Indian
Economist
Tarachand Barjatya10 May 1914, Indian
Film producer
Ram Baran Yadav04 February 1948, Nepalese
Politician
Rupam Islam25 January 1974
Singer, Songwriter
Dipesh ChakrabartyIndian
Historian, Professor, Author
Pritam Chakraborty14 June 1971, Indian
Raj Chandra Bose19 June 1901, Indian
Mathematician, Statistician, University teacher
S.D. Burman01 October 1906, Indian
Subhash Mukhopadhyay16 January 1931, Indian
scientist, physiologist, gynaecologist