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List of notable people from Kolkata. Kolkata has been regarded as the cultural capital of India.




Poets and writers






Philosophers and religious teachers


The most famous religious figure of Kolkata is Mother Teresa. Others are (in order of surname):

Bhakti Hridaya Bon (1901—1982)
Bhakti Prajnana Kesava Goswami (1898—1968)
Rajendra Pillai (1968-)
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896—1977), founder of ISKCON.
Ramakrishna (1836—1886)
Ram Mohan Roy (1772—1833)
Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati (1874—1837), founder of Gaudiya Math.
Keshab Chandra Sen (1838—1884)
Debendranath Tagore (1817—1905)
Bhaktivinoda Thakur (1838—1914)
Swami Vivekananda (1863—1902)




Scientists


List in order of surname.

James Atkinson (1780—1852), surgeon, artist and Persian scholar
R. D. Banerji, archeologist
Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858—1937), Bengali polymath, physicist, biologist, biophysicist, botanist and archaeologist
Upendranath Brahmachari
Asima Chatterjee (1917—2006), chemist
Debendra Mohan Bose (1875—1975), physicist
Satyendra Nath Bose (1894—1974), physicist and polymath from Bengal
Suniti Kumar Chattopadhyay (1890—1977), Bengali linguist
Krishnendu Chaudhury, computer scientist
Barun De (1932—2013), historian
Brajendranath De (1852—1932), Indian civil servant and orientalist
Anil Kumar Gain (1919—1978), mathematician and statistician.
J.B.S. Haldane (1892—1964), British-Indian scientist, known for his work in the study of physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and mathematics
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893—1972), Bengali scientist and applied statistician
R.C. Majumdar (1884—1980), historian
P. J. Marshall (b. 1933), historian
Ujjwal Maulik (b. 1965), computer scientist
Subhash Mukhopadhyay (1931—1981), physician
Sisir Kumar Mitra (1890—1963), physicist
Rajat Kanta Ray, historian
Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri (1923—2005), physicist, known for his research in general relativity and cosmology
Tapan Raychaudhuri (1926—2014), historian
C. R. Rao (1920–2023), mathematician and statistician
Prafulla Chandra Roy (1861—1944), Bengali chemist, educationist, historian, industrialist and philanthropist
Meghnad Saha (1893—1956), astrophysicist
Sir Jadunath Sarkar (1870—1958), historian
Sumit Sarkar (b. 1939), historian
Susobhan Sarkar (1900—1982), historian
Tapan Kumar Sarkar (1948—2021), electrical engineer
Ashoke Sen (b. 1956), theoretical physicist
Bikas K Chakrabarti (b. 1952), theoretical physicist & econophysicist
Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (b. 1968), computer scientist
Sukumar Sen (linguist) historian of Bengali literature




Gallantry Awards winners


Ashoka Chakra

Flight Lieutenant Suhas Biswas
Maha Vir Chakra

Squadron Leader Madhavendra Banerji




Bankers and business people


Amar Kumar Bera
P. C. Bhattacharya, 7th Governor, Reserve Bank of India
Aditya Vikram Birla
Rama Prasad Goenka (RPG Group)
Sanjiv Goenka
Chandra Shekhar Ghosh (founder of Bandhan Bank)
Radhe Shyam Agarwal
Radhe Shyam Goenka
Rajat Gupta (b. 1948)
Nalini Ranjan Sarkar
Mati Lall Seal
Ellis Jacob (founder of Cineplex Entertainment)
Tiny Rowland (chairman of Lonrho from 1962 to 1993)
Prannoy Roy (b.1949)




Freedom fighters


Sri Aurobindo
Benoy Basu
Khudiram Bose
Rash Behari Bose
Subhash Chandra Bose
Jogesh Chandra Chattopadhyay
Chittaranjan Das
Jatindra Nath Das
Bagha Jatin
Badal Gupta
Dinesh Gupta
Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
Bipin Chandra Pal
Sudhamoy Pramanick
Bidhan Chandra Roy
Ashoke Kumar Sen
Matangini Hazra
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Sisir Kumar Ghosh
Rabindranath Tagore
Rani Rashmani
Swami Vivekananda




Performing arts






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= Directors

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Satyajit Ray, who won the Oscar for Lifetime Achievement in 1992, lived in Kolkata and is considered among the greatest directors of film history.
Other notable filmmakers from Kolkata include:

Nitin Bose
Buddhadeb Dasgupta
Anik Dutta
Kaushik Ganguly
Ritwik Ghatak
Gautam Ghose
Rituparno Ghosh
Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Srijit Mukherji
Shiboprosad Mukherjee
Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury
Tapan Sinha
Aparna Sen
Mrinal Sen




= Cinema actors

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Uttam Kumar
Utpal Dutt
Guru Dutt
Ashok Kumar
Keshto Mukherji
Soumitra Chatterjee
Sabyasachi Chakrabarty
Koushik Sen
Dhritiman Chaterji
Tapen Chatterjee
Rabi Ghosh
Barun Chanda
Pahari Sanyal
N. Viswanathan
Chhabi Biswas
Karuna Bannerjee
Anil Chatterjee
Subir Banerjee
Roopa Ganguly
Uma Dasgupta
Saswata Chatterjee
Tarun Kumar
Anup Kumar
Ashok Kumar
Bhanu Bandopadhyay
Biswajit Chatterjee
Prosenjit Chatterjee
Jahor Roy
Kanan Devi
Sagarika Mukherjee
Swastika Mukherjee
Razzak
Dev, MP, actor and film producer
Jeet
Ruma Guha Thakurta
Ranjit Mallick
Mirza Abbas Ali
Suchitra Sen
Sharmila Tagore
Aparna Sen
Sushmita Sen
Moonmoon Sen
Riya Sen
Raima Sen
Reema Sen
Omar Sani
Victor Banerjee
Parambrata Chatterjee
Konkona Sen Sharma
Varsha Ashwathi
Abhishek Chatterjee
Tathagata Mukherjee
Monali Thakur, singer and actress
Ankush Hazra
Yash Dasgupta
Bonny Sengupta
Nusrat Jahan, MP and actress
Mimi Chakraborty, MP and actress
Anirban Bhattacharya
Sayani Gupta
Sayak Chakraborty




= Theatre figures

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Rudraprasad Sengupta, actor and director
Sambhu Mitra, actor and director
Girishchandra Ghosh father of Bengali theatre
Chitra Sen
Koushik Sen




= Photographers

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Benu Sen
Sunil Das
Sunil Janah




= Composers

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Jeet Ganguly
Kabir Suman
Salil Chowdhury
Rahul Dev Burman
Shashi Preetam
Sachin Dev Burman
Bappi Lahiri
Shantanu Moitra
Pritam
Hemanta Mukhopadhyay
Nachiketa Ghosh
Sudhin Dasgupta
Anupam Roy
Anjan Dutt
Jaimin Rajani
Pankaj Mullick
Anil Biswas
Nachiketa Ghosh
Shyamal Mitra




= Hindustani classical singers/maestros

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Ustad Allauddin Khan
Ustad Ali Akbar Khan
Pandit Ravi Shankar
Ananda Shankar
Ustad Vilayat Khan
Pandit Jasraj
Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan
Pandit Bhimsen Joshi
Rashid Khan
Naina Devi
Pandit Nikhil Banerjee
Ustad Amjad Ali Khan
Ustad Bahadur Khan
Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty
Anjan Chattopadhyay




= Hindustani classical instrumentalists

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Jyoti Goho
Sourabh Goho




= Other singers

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Dwijendra Lal Roy
Suprakash Chaki
K. C. Dey
Gauhar Jan
Pankaj Mullick
Kanan Devi
Kanika Bandyopadhyay
Suchitra Mitra
Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay
Manabendra Mukhopadhyay
Manna Dey
Kishore Kumar
Sandhya Mukhopadhyay
Debabrata Biswas
Begum Akhtar
Usha Uthup
Indrani Sen
Ruma Guha Thakurta
Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta
Suman Chatterjee
Sachin Dev Burman
Anjan Dutt
Rupam Islam
Prashant Tamang
Shayan Chowdhury Arnob




= Contemporary Bollywood musicians

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Abhijeet Bhattacharya, playback singer
Anupam Roy (b.1982), singer-songwriter
Alka Yagnik (b. 1966), playback singer
Arijit Singh (b. 1987), singer, music producer, recordist and music programmer
Babul Supriyo (b. 1970), playback singer, live performer, television host, actor and politician
Kumar Sanu (b. 1957), playback singer
Pritam (b. 1971)
Sagarika (b. 1970), playback singer and actress
Shreya Ghoshal (b. 1984), playback singer
Shaan (b. 1972), playback singer and actor




= Dancers

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Prominent dancers of the city include:

Uday Shankar and his wife Amala Shankar
Mamata Shankar
Tanushree Shankar
Ananda Shankar
Sadhana Bose
Sharmila Biswas
Shila Mehta, classical dance artist, choreographer, teacher, and composer
Rani Karnaa
Rajeswari Vaidyanathan, Tedx Speaker, trainer, performer and choreographer




= Magicians

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Kolkata is the magic capital of India and has produced internationally famous magicians and performers, including:

P.C. Sorcar
P.C. Sorcar, Jr.
P.C. Sorcar, Young




Sports


Norman Pritchard, track and field, Olympic medallist (1900)
Richard James Allen, hockey, Olympic(1928, 1932, 1936)
Leslie Claudius, hockey, Olympic medallist (1924, 1928, 1936)
Gurbux Singh, hockey, Olympic medallist (1964, 1968)
Vece Paes, hockey, Olympic medallist (1980)
Leander Paes, tennis, Olympic medallist (1996)
Sourav Ganguly, cricketer, former India national cricket team's captain, sports administrator, former BCCI president
Chhanda Gayen, mountaineer, first Bengali woman to summit Mount Everest
Pankaj Roy, cricketer
Laxmi Ratan Shukla, cricketer
Deep Dasgupta, cricketer
Rohan Gavaskar, cricketer (son of Sunil Gavaskar)
Manoj Tiwary, cricketer
Ashok Dinda, cricketer
Wriddhiman Saha, cricketer
Mohammed Shami, cricketer
Len Stubbs, former cricketer
Chuni Goswami, footballer
Gautam Sarkar, footballer
Shailen Manna, footballer, former India national football team's captain (guided India to Gold medal in 1951 Asiad)
Pradip Kumar Banerjee, footballer
Krishanu Dey, footballer
Sudip Chatterjee, footballer
Subrata Pal, footballer
Subhasish Roy Chowdhury, footballer
Syed Rahim Nabi, footballer
Mehtab Hossain, footballer
Arnab Mondal, footballer
Pronay Halder, footballer
Pritam Kotal, footballer
Narayan Das, footballer
Subhasish Bose, footballer
Mihir Sen, record swimmer
Jyotirmoyee Sikdar, track and field
Arjun Atwal, golfer
Surya Shekhar Ganguly, chess grandmaster
Dibyendu Barua, chess grandmaster
Sandipan Chanda, chess grandmaster
Deep Sengupta, chess grandmaster
Gobar Guha, wrestler
Manohar Aich, body builder, Mr. Universe 1952
Dipu Ghosh, badminton, Arjuna Award
Saurav Ghosal, squash player
Jaidip Mukerjea, tennis player
Jagmohan Dalmiya, sports administrator
Pankaj Gupta, sports administrator
John Holman, cricketer
William Laidlay, cricketer
Hira Mondal, Footballer




Nobel laureates


Six Nobel Prize winners have been associated with Kolkata:

Sir Ronald Ross (1857—1932) — medicine, 1902
Rabindranath Tagore (1861—1941) — literature, 1913; first Asian to win the Nobel Prize
Mother Teresa (1910—1997) — peace, 1979
Amartya Sen (b. 1933) — economics, 1998
Abhijit Banerjee (b. 1961) - economics, 2019
CV Raman - physics




Ramon Magsaysay Award winners


The Ramon Magsaysay Award, sometimes called "Asia's Nobel Prize", is given "to perpetuate his example of integrity in government, courageous service to the people, and pragmatic idealism within a democratic society." Kolkata winners include:

Mother Teresa (1910—1997) — Peace and International Understanding, 1962
Satyajit Ray (1921—1992) — Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Arts, 1967
Gour Kishore Ghosh (1923—2000) — Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Arts, 1981
Mahasweta Devi (1926—2016) — Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Arts, 1997




Others


Samik Bandyopadhyay (b.1940), critic of Indian art, theatre and film
Tanmoy Bhattacharya (b. 1958), politician
William Carey (1761—1834), missioner and reformer
Laksmikanta Roy Choudhury (1570—1649), Brahmin scholar, social and political figure
Alexander Duff (1806—1878), missioner and reformer
Manny Elias (b. 1953), drummer, record producer, original drummer of the Tears for Fears
David Hare (1775—1842), philanthropist and founder of many important and prestigious educational institutions of Kolkata
Mohit Kumar (b. 1992), fashion model and influencer
Rajendra Prasad (1884—1963), politician, the first President of India (from 1950 to 1962)
Romita Ray (b. 1970), art historian
Radhika Roy (b.1948), journalist
Gayatri Chakravorty Spiv (b. 1942), scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820—1891), philosopher, academic, writer, translator, entrepreneur, social reformer and philanthropist; key figure of the Bengal Renaissance




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