List of University of Calcutta people
This is a list of notable people connected to the University of Calcutta.
Fourteen heads of state and government, and four Nobel laureates have been associated with the university.
Fellows
- Joseph Baly, Archdeacon of Calcutta, 1872–1883
- Lal Behari Dey, Bengali Indian journalist who became a Christian missionary
- Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith, British Indologist
- Thomas Holbein Hendley, British medical officer in the Indian Medical Service and Indian art connoisseur
- Nawab Abdul Latif, Bengali nineteenth-century educator
- James Wood-Mason, British zoologist, director of the Indian Museum in Calcutta
Alumni
Royalty and nobility
Science and technology
- Dipak K Banerjee, BSc, MSc & PhD in chemistry from the university, professor of biochemistry
- Chandramukhi Basu, one of the first two female graduates of the British Empire; first female head of an undergraduate academic institution in South Asia
- Kumudini Basu, writer, social reformer, freedom fighter and women's rights activist
- Sasanka Chandra Bhattacharyya, natural product chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
- Katyayanidas Bhattacharya, philosophy professor, Presidency College, Calcutta
- Santanu Bhattacharya, chemical biologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate, N-Bios laureate
- Birendra Bijoy Biswas, molecular biologist
- Nirmal Kumar Bose, Census Commissioner of India
- Debasis Chattopadhyay, plant biologist, N-Bios laureate
- Barun De, chairman, West Bengal Heritage Commission, Calcutta
- Amlan Dutta, former vice chancellor of Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan
- Asim Duttaroy, medical scientist
- Mircea Eliade, religious scholar and philosopher
- Prafulla Chandra Ghosh, English literature scholar
- Sankar Ghosh, chairman of Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Columbia University; co-founder of Theralogics Inc.
- K. S. Krishnan, philosopher
- Dhan Gopal Mukerji, socio-cultural critic; first successful man of letters in the early 20th-century United States
- Kamini Roy, first female honours graduate in the British Empire; first feminist author in India
- Prafulla Chandra Roy, chemist
- Sir Jadunath Sarkar, vice chancellor of the University of Calcutta
- Debi Prasad Sarkar, immunologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
- Brajendra Nath Seal, vice chancellor of Visva-Bharati University and the University of Mysore
- Ashoke Sen, string theorist
- Dinesh Chandra Sen, scholar of early Bengali literature
- Ranjan Sen, biophysicist, N-Bios laureate
- Sanjib Senapati, biotechnologist, N-Bios laureate