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The following is a list of notable people associated with the oldPresidency College, Calcutta.

• Partha Chatterjee (scholar), professor ofanthropology at Columbia University
• Abhijit Banerjee, professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2019
• Abhijit Basu, professor ofgeology, Indiana University Bloomington
• Joyoti Basu, cell biologist,N-Bios laureate^[1]
• Ratan Lal Basu, Specialist in ancient economics and Indologist
• Birendra Bijoy Biswas, Botanist and molecular biologist,Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
• Barun De, Former Chairman, West Bengal Heritage Commission and Founder-Director,Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.^[2]
• Jitendra Nath Mohanty, philosopher, former president of the Indian Philosophical Congress
• Sankar Das Sarma, eminent theoretical condensed matter physicist and Richard E Prange Chaired Professor atUniversity of Maryland, US^[3]
• Amartya Sen, Master, Trinity College, Cambridge (1998–2004); winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1998^[4]
• Ashoke Sen, professor at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Bangalore, winner ofDirac Medal in 2014
• Surajit Chandra Sinha, former Vice Chancellor, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan; Maharajkumar of Susanga, Bengal^[5]
• Sourindra Mohan Sircar, one of the greatestbotanist of India. Was appointed the General President ofISCA
• Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic, holder ofUniversity Professor at Columbia University
• Kshirode Prasad Vidyavinode,Bengali poet, novelist, dramatist and nationalist and a professor ofChemistry at Chandernagore Dupleix College and later at Scottish Church College.
• Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya, modernIndian philosopher renowned for his method of"constructive interpretation", a scholarly approach employed to elucidate and elaborate upon the interrelationships and intricacies inherent in ancient Indian philosophy.
• Nabaneeta Dev Sen,Bengali author, academic, professor ofComparative Literature atJadavpur University.
• Amar Nath Bhaduri, an Indian molecularenzymologist andchemical biologist, known for his studies onUDP-glucose 4-epimerase, a homodimeric epimerase found in cells and his work onLeishmania donovani, theprotozoalpathogen forKala-azar.
• Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri,Indianphysicist, known for his research ingeneral relativity andcosmology.
• Dipesh Chakrabarty,historian and leading scholar ofpostcolonial theory andsubaltern studies.
• Gautam Bhadra,historian ofSouth Asia and was a member of the erstwhileSubaltern Studies collective.
• Ranajit Guha, a prominentIndianhistorian and a seminal figure among the early architects of theSubaltern Studies collective.
• Sudipta Kaviraj, distinguished scholar specializing in the domains ofSouth Asian Politics andIntellectualHistory, frequently aligned with the disciplines ofPostcolonial andSubaltern Studies.
• Parama Nath Bhaduri, renownedagricultural scientist.
• Sekhar Bandyopadhyay,historian and a Fellow of theRoyal Society Te Apārangi, known for his research on theDalit caste ofBengal.
• Susobhan Sarkar, renowned Indian historian.
• Sumit Sarkar,historian ofModern India and a founding member of theSubaltern Studies Group as well as one of its most important critics.
• Tanika Sarkar, historian of modern India based at theJawaharlal Nehru University. Sarkar's work focuses on the intersections of religion, gender, and politics in bothcolonial andpostcolonialSouth Asia, in particular on women and theHindu Right.
• Hem Chandra Raychaudhuri, historian, known for his studies onancient India.
• Tapan Raychaudhuri, British-Indian historian specialising inBritish Indian history,Indian economic history and theHistory of Bengal.
• Rajat Kanta Ray, Indian historian of South Asian history, specialising inModern Indian history.
• Ashin Das Gupta, renowned historian.
• Dwijendra Narayan Jha,Marxist historian who studied and wrote on ancient and medieval India.
• Amiya Kumar Bagchi,Indianeconomic historian.
• Jasodhara Bagchi, leading Indian feminist professor, author, critic and activist.
• Sugata Bose, historian and politician who has taught and worked in the United States since the mid-1980s. His fields of study areSouth Asian andIndian Ocean history.
• Samik Bandyopadhyay, Kolkata-based critic of Indian art, theatre and film.
• Krishna Bose, Indian politician, educator, author and social worker.
• Jnan Chandra Ghosh, Indian chemist best known for his contribution to the development of scientific research, industrial development and technology education in India. He served as the director of the newly formedEastern Higher Technical Institute in 1950, which was renamed asIIT Kharagpur in 1951. He was also the director of theIndian Institute of ScienceBangalore and Vice Chancellor of theUniversity of Calcutta.
• Nirmal Kumar Bose, Indian anthropologist, who played a formative role in "building an Indian Tradition in Anthropology".
• Kaliprasanna Vidyaratna, Indian scholar of Sanskrit, academic and author. He was the principal of the Sanskrit College between 1908 and 1910.
• Sukhamoy Chakraborty, Indian economist and one of the key architects of the Five Year Plans.
• Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Indian scientist and statistician. He is best remembered for theMahalanobis distance, a statistical measure, and for being one of the members of thefirst Planning Commission of free India. He made pioneering studies inanthropometry in India.
• Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian theoretical physicist and mathematician. He is best known for his work on quantum mechanics in the early 1920s, in developing the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics, and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate.
• Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, polymath with interests in biology, physics and writing science fiction. He was a pioneer in the investigation of radio microwave optics, made significant contributions to botany, and was a major force behind the expansion of experimental science on the Indian subcontinent.
• Rai Bahadur SirUpendranath Brahmachari, prominent Indian physician and scientist.
• Sir Jadunath Sarkar, prominent Indian historian and a specialist on theMughal dynasty.
• Hara Prasad Shastri, Indian academic,Sanskrit scholar,archivist, and historian ofBengali literature. He is most known for discovering theCharyapada, the earliest known examples of Bengali literature.
• Hem Chandra Dasgupta, Indiangeologist and a professor of geology atPresidency College andCalcutta University.
• Romesh Chunder Dutt, Indian civil servant, economic historian, translator ofRamayana andMahabharata.
• Suniti Kumar Chatterji, Indian linguist, educationist and litterateur.
• Mahendralal Sarkar, Bengali medical doctor (MD), the second MD graduated from theCalcutta Medical College, social reformer, and propagator of scientific studies in nineteenth-century India.
• Muhammad Shahidullah,Bengali linguist, philologist, educationist, and writer.
• Mihir Rakshit, Indian economist, known for his work on fiscal, monetary and other policy, especially issues that concern developing economies.
• Dipak Banerjee, Indian economist and taught at Presidency College, eventually becoming the head of theEconomics Department.
• Debraj Ray, Indian-American economist, who is currently teaching and working atNew York University. His research interests focus ondevelopment economics andgame theory.
• Amita Chatterjee,philosopher of science andlogician, first vice-chancellor ofPresidency University Kolkata.
• Malabika Sarkar, Indian academic, former Vice-Chancellor ofAshoka University, and a former Vice Chancellor of Presidency University, Kolkata.
• Somak Raychaudhury, Indianastrophysicist.
• Sivatosh Mookerjee, researcher and a scientist contributing to the field ofDevelopmental Biology, particularly studies related toHydra andamphibian embryos.
• Benimadhab Barua, Indian scholar ofancient Indian languages,Buddhism andlaw.
• Atindra Mohan Goon, renowned statistician and later joined the Statics department and had strongly pleaded for the autonomy of Presidency College in the early 1980s.
• Prafulla Chandra Ray, Indian chemist, educationist, historian, industrialist and philanthropist.
• Rajnarayan Basu, Indian writer and intellectual of theBengal Renaissance.
• Sisir Kumar Mitra, Indianphysicist.
• Meghnad Saha, Indianastrophysicist and politician who helped devise the theory ofthermal ionisation.
• Peary Chand Mitra, Indian writer, journalist, cultural activist and entrepreneur.
• Peary Charan Sarkar, educationist and textbook writer in nineteenth century Bengal.
• Sukanta Chaudhuri, Indian literary scholar, now Professor Emeritus atJadavpur University, Kolkata.
• Bhabatosh Datta, noted Indian economist, academic and writer.

• Ashok Kumar, Actor
• Chhabi Biswas, Actor
• Dhritiman Chatterjee, Actor
• Ritwik Ghatak, Film Maker
• Pritish Nandy, Film Maker
• Pramathesh Barua, Actor and Film Maker
• Satyajit Ray, Film Maker
• Bikash Roy, Actor
• Aparna Sen, Actor, Film Maker
• Srijit Mukherji, Film Maker

• Gurusaday Dutt, ICS, Secretary, Local Self Government and Public Health Secretary, Government of Bengal^[6]
• Mahendranath Roy,CIE, lawyer, educationist, politician, first elected chairperson of theHowrah Municipal Corporation^[7]
• Satyendranath Tagore, Indian civil servant, poet, composer, writer, social reformer and linguist from Calcutta, Bengal. He was the first Indian who became an Indian Civil Service officer in 1863.
• Romesh Chunder Dutt, Indian civil servant, economic historian.
• Bimal Jalan,Indianeconomist andbureaucrat who served as 20thGovernor of Reserve Bank of India.

• Ramgopal Ghosh, leader of theYoung Bengal Group, a successful businessman, orator and social reformer. He is called the 'Demosthenes of India'.
• Raja Ram Mohan Roy,Indian reformer,writer and one of the founders of theHindu College.
• Babu Mathurmohan Biswas, IndianZamindar, businessman, philanthropist and the son-in-law ofRani Rashmoni, he was one of the chief disciples ofShri Ramakrishna and his patron, he was instrumental in the founding of theDakshineswar Kali Temple, he was also responsible for founding theAnnapurna Temple atTitagarh.
• Radhakanta Deb, a scholar,leader of the Calcutta conservative Hindu society and one of the founders of theHindu College.
• David Hare, Scottish watchmaker, philanthropist, and educationist in Bengal. He founded many educational institutions inCalcutta (nowKolkata), such as theHindu School, andHare School and helped in foundingPresidency College.
• Henry Louis Vivian Derozio,a radical thinker of his time and one of the first Indian educators to disseminate Western learning and science among the young men of Bengal.
• Mahendralal Sarkar, Bengali medical doctor (MD), the second MD graduated from the Calcutta Medical College, social reformer, and propagator of scientific studies in nineteenth-century India. He was the founder of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science.

• Subodh Chandra Mallik, Bengali Indian industrialist, philanthropist and nationalist. Mallik is noted as a nationalist intellectual who was one of the co-founders of theBengal National College, of which he was the principal financial supporter. He was close toAurobindo Ghosh and financed the latter's nationalist publications, includingBande Mataram.
• Basant Kumar Birla, Indian industrialist and philanthropist of theBirla family.
• Ramnath Goenka, Indian newspaper publisher. He bought the majority stake ofThe Indian Express in 1930s.
• Gagan Chandra Biswas, industrialist and landlord, one of the longest serving members of theBengal Legislative Council, Co-founder ofMartin Burn.

• Dipak Banerjee, former Head of the Department of Economics of Presidency College, Kolkata^[8]
• Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, radical thinker of his time and one of the first Indian educators to disseminate Western learning and science among the young men of Bengal.
• Charles Henry Tawney, English educator and scholar, primarily known for his translations of Sanskrit classics into English.

• SirSarat Kumar Ghosh, I.C.S, Chief Justice of Jaipur and Kashmir.^[9]
• Gooroodas Banerjee, a judge of theCalcutta High Court inBritish India. In 1890, he also became the first Indian Vice-Chancellor ofUniversity of Calcutta.
• Altamas Kabir, Indian lawyer and judge who served as the 39thChief Justice of India.
• Sarat Chandra Bose, Indian barrister and independence activist.
• Chittaranjan Das, popularly called Deshbandhu (friend of the country), was an Indian freedom fighter, political activist and lawyer during the Indian Independence Movement and the political guru of Indian freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. He was the founder-leader of the Swaraj Party in undivided Bengal during the period of British Colonial rule in India. His name is abbreviated as C. R. Das.
• Subimal Chandra Roy, Indian jurist who served on theSupreme Court of India.
• Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem,Bangladeshi jurist, statesman,Chief Justice of Bangladesh from 1972 to 1975 and thePresident of Bangladesh from 1975 to 1977.
• Gnanendramohan Tagore, firstBengali,Indian orAsian to be called to thebar inEngland, in 1862.
• Radhabinod Pal, Indian jurist who was a member of theUnited Nations' International Law Commission from 1952 to 1966.

• Subhas Chandra Bose, Freedom Fighter, Commander of INA, First Leader of Free Indian Territory, Mayor of Calcutta; 53rd President of the Indian National Congress; founder of theAll India Forward Bloc;^[10]
• Rajendra Prasad, Indian politician, lawyer, journalist and scholar who served as the firstpresident of India from 1950 to 1962.
• Syama Prasad Mukherjee, founder ofBharatiya Jana Sangh; Industry and Supply Member,Government of India (1946–50)
• Bidhan Chandra Roy, 2ndChief Minister of West Bengal (1948–1962); 5th Mayor of Kolkata (1931–1933)
• Ajoy Mukherjee, 4thChief Minister of West Bengal (1 March 1967 – 21 November 1967)^[11]
• Siddhartha Shankar Ray, 5th Chief Minister of West Bengal (1972–77); Education Minister, Government of India; Governor of Punjab; Ambassador to U.S.A.
• Jyoti Basu, 6thChief Minister of West Bengal (1977–2000)
• Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, 7thChief Minister of West Bengal (2000–2011)
• Mahendranath Roy, lawyer, politician and the first elected chairperson of theHowrah Municipal Corporation^[12]
• Ashim Chatterjee, Communist Revolutionary^[13]
• Bishnu Ram Medhi, 2ndChief Minister of Assam (1950–57)^[14][15]
• MJ Akbar, Minister of State for External Affairs, Government of India (2016–2018)^[16]
• Abdus Salam Khan, Minister of Public Works and Communication (1955–1956) in the East Pakistan provincial cabinet^[17]
• Md. Hafizur Rahman, Minister of Food and Agriculture of Pakistan (1958–1960); Minister of Commerce of Pakistan (1960–1962); Provincial Minister of Finance and Planning of East Pakistan (1962–1965)
• Amit Mitra, Finance Minister of West Bengal (2011–21)
• Gagan Chandra Biswas, industrialist and landlord, one of the longest serving members of theBengal Legislative Council
• MaharajadhirajaSirUday Chand Mahtab, Member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly (1937–52), Member, Indian Constituent Assembly, 1946–47 & Maharajadhiraja Bahadur of Burdwan.^[18]
• ColonelH.H.MaharajaNripendra Narayan Bhup Bahadur of Coochbehar^[19]
• RajaNarasingha Malla Deb,OBE,MP, of Jhargram Raj
• Kalyan Roy – former member of theupper house of the Parliament of India
• Shamsuddin Ahmed – Minister of pre-1947 Bengal and first Pakistani ambassador to Burma.
• Ullaskar Dutta,Indian revolutionary associated withAnushilan Samiti andJugantar of Bengal, and was a close associate ofBarindra Ghosh.
• Romesh Chunder Dutt, Indian civil servant, economic historian, translator ofRamayana andMahabharata and the president ofIndian National Congress in 1899 and a member of the Bengal Legislative Council.
• Mohammad Ali Bogra, Pakistani politician and diplomat who served as the thirdprime minister of Pakistan from 1953 to 1955.
• Humayun Kabir (Bengal politician), Indian educationist and politician. He was also a poet, essayist and novelist in theBengali-language.
• Kiran Shankar Roy, Indian politician, academic, and freedom fighter.
• Asim Dasgupta, Indian economist and politician affiliated toCommunist Party of India (Marxist)and Minister of Finance and Excise in the Left Front ministry in the Indian state of West Bengal (1987-2011).
• Somnath Chatterjee, Indian politician who was associated with the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and theSpeaker of the Lok Sabha (House of the People) from 2004 to 2009.
• Prafulla Chandra Ghosh, the firstPremier of West Bengal, India from 15 August 1947 to 14 August 1948 and served as theChief Minister of West Bengal in the "Progressive Democratic Alliance Front" government from 21 November 1967 to 20 February 1968.
• Pratap Chandra Chunder, union minister of India, educationist and writer.

• Swami Vivekananda, the great NationalistIndianHindumonk, a chief disciple of the 19th-century Indian teacherRamakrishna, key figure in the introduction of the Indian philosophies ofVedanta andYoga to the Western world and is credited with raisinginterfaith awareness, bringingHinduism to the status of a major world religion during the late 19th century and founded theRamakrishna Math and theRamakrishna Mission.
• Babu Mathurmohan Biswas, IndianZamindar, businessman, philanthropist and the son-in-law ofRani Rashmoni, he was one of the chief disciples ofShri Ramakrishna and his patron, he was instrumental in the founding of theDakshineswar Kali Temple, he was also responsible for founding theAnnapurna Temple atTitagarh.
• Mahendranath Gupta, disciple ofRamakrishna and a mystic himself.

• Vece Paes, Indian Hockey Player, studied Pre-Medical at Presidency College, Calcutta during 1964–65

• Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay,Indian Bengali novelist, poet, essayist.
• Jyotirindranath Tagore, Bengali playwright, musician, editor, and painter.
• Rabindranath Tagore, Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter of the Bengal Renaissance. He attended classes at Presidency College for a single day.
• Manik Bandyopadhyay, author regarded as one of the major figures of 20th century Bengali literature.
• Rajshekhar Basu, Bengali chemist, author and lexicographer. He was chiefly known for his comic and satirical short stories, and is considered the greatest Bengali humorist of the 20th century.
• Ratan Lal Basu, economist and English fiction author.
• Shakti Chattopadhyay, poet and writer who wrote in Bengali, known for his realistic depictions of rural life. He was a green poet, many of his poems raised the issue of nature in crisis.
• Henry Louis Vivan Derozio, poet^[20]
• Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Poet, Dramatist
• Sankha Ghosh, Indian poet and literary critic.
• Binoy Majumdar, Bengali poet who received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2005.
• Pritish Nandy, Indian poet, painter, journalist, politician, media and television personality, animal activist and maker of films, television and streaming content.
• Satyajit Ray, Fiction Author and fim director.
• Bibek Debroy, Scholar, Translator, Economist
• Ketaki Kushari Dyson, Bengali-born poet, novelist, playwright, translator and critic,diaspora writer and scholar.
• Alokeranjan Dasgupta, Bengali poet who was the author of over 20 books of poetry. He translated Bengali and Santal poetry and plays into English and German, and also translated literature from German and French into Bengali.
• Sukumar Ray, Bengali writer and poet from British India. He is remembered mainly for his writings for children.
• Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury, Bengali writer, painter and entrepreneur.
• Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Indian writer and academic.
• Jibanananda Das, often called the Rupashi Banglar Kabi (lit. Poet of Beautiful Bengal), he was an Indian poet, writer, novelist and essayist in the Bengali language.
• Dinabandhu Mitra,Bengali-language writer and dramatist, notable for his play'Nil Darpan' based on the atrocities inflicted by the British Indigo planters on the farmers of Bengal.

• Pritam, Music Director

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