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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

Faculty

Alumni

Arts

Business

Humanities and social sciences

Law

Literature

Military

Politics

Heads of state and government

Others

Civil servants and diplomats

Royalty and nobility

Religion

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
• 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
• 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
• Debasis Chattopadhyay, plant biologist, N-Bios laureate

Sports

Notes

1. Rabindranath Tagore, C. V. Raman, Amartya Sen, and Abhijit Banerjee.
2. ^ The Presidency College (now known as Presidency University) was affiliated to the University of Calcutta between 1857 and 2010.
3. ^ The Cotton College (now known as Cotton University) was affiliated to the University of Calcutta between 1901 and 1948.
4. ^ The Suri Vidyasagar College was affiliated to the University of Calcutta between 1942 and 1960.
5. ^ The Calcutta Medical College was affiliated to the University of Calcutta between 1857 and 2003.
6. The Midnapore College was affiliated to the University of Calcutta between 1873 and 1985.
7. The Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College and Hospital was affiliated to the University of Calcutta between 1873 and 2003.
8. ^ The R. G. Kar Medical College was affiliated to the University of Calcutta between 1916 and 2003.
9. The Calcutta National Medical College was affiliated to the University of Calcutta between 1921 and 2003.

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