List of people from Kolkata - wikipedia List of people from Kolkata This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( December 2009 ) Kolkata has been regarded as the cultural capital of India. This is a list of notable people from Kolkata, that is, people born in or associated with the city. Contents 1 Writers in Bengali 1.1 Poets ( in order of surname ) 1.2 Critics, philosophers ( in order of surname ) 1.3 Linguists 1.4 Historians 2 Reformers 3 Scientists ( in order of surname ) 4 Nobel laureates 5 Business people 6 Freedom fighters 7 Ramon Magsaysay Award winners 8 Performing arts 8.1 Artists 8.2 Cinema 8.3 Photography 8.4 Theatre 8.5 Music 8.6 Dance 8.7 Magic 9 Sports 9.1 Summer Olympic medallists 9.2 Other sportspersons 9.3 Sports administrators 10 References Writers in Bengali Nabarun Bhattacharya Aroup Chatterjee ( born 1958 ) -- British Indian atheist physician, author of Mother Teresa : The Untold Story Poets ( in order of surname ) Suchitra Bhattacharya Sukanta Bhattacharya Buddhadev Bose Amiya Chakravarty Shakti Chattopadhyay Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury Dinesh Das Jibanananda Das Bishnu Dey Satyendranath Dutta Sudhindranath Dutta Sunil Gangopadhyay Joy Goswami Kaji Nazrul Islam Binoy Majumdar Mohitolal Majumdar Arun Mitra Premendra Mitra Subhas Mukhopadhyay Purnendu Patri Annada Shankar Ray Dwijendralal Ray Tarapada Ray Sukumar Ray Samar Sen Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel Laureate Srijato Jaydeep Sarangi English poet ( also writes in Bangla ) with six collections Critics, philosophers ( in order of surname ) Syed Mujtaba Ali S. Wajid Ali Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay Samik Bandyopadhyay Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay Nirad C. Chaudhuri Pramath Chowdhury Kedarnath Datta Michael Madhusudan Dutt Kazi Nazrul Islam Shishir Kumar Maitra Dinabandhu Mitra Dhan Gopal Mukerji A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Rajendra Prasad Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Bhaktivinoda Thakur Swami Vivekananda Linguists James Atkinson Brajendranath De Suniti Kumar Chattopadhyay Historians Barun De R.C. Majumdar P.J. Marshall Rajat Kanta Ray Tapan Raychaudhuri Sir Jadunath Sarkar Sumit Sarkar Susobhan Sarkar Reformers Laksmikanta Roy Choudhury Raja Ram Mohun Roy Mother Teresa Keshab Chandra Sen Henry Louis Vivian Derozio David Hare Alexander Duff Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar William Carey Moti Lal Seal Scientists ( in order of surname ) Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose Debendra Mohan Bose Satyendra Nath Bose Anil Kumar Gain J.B.S. Haldane Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Subhash Mukhopadhyay Sisir Kumar Mitra Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy Meghnad Saha Ashoke Sen Nobel laureates Five Nobel Prize winners have been associated with Kolkata : Sir Ronald Ross ( 1902, Medicine ) Rabindranath Tagore ( 1913, Literature ; first Asian to win the Nobel Prize ) CV Raman ( 1930, Physics ) Mother Teresa ( 1979, Peace ) Amartya Sen ( 1998, Economics ) Business people Aditya Vikram Birla Rama Prasad Goenka ( RPG Group ) Lakshmi Mittal Purnendu Chatterjee Sanjiv Goenka Radhe Shyam Agarwal Radhe Shyam Goenka Freedom fighters Sri Aurobindo Benoy Basu Khudiram Bose Rash Behari Bose Subhas 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 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 : Satyajit Ray Mahasweta Devi Samaresh Majumdar Mother Teresa Gour Kishore Ghosh Performing arts Artists Gerry Judah Jamini Roy Sudip Roy Paritosh Sen Paresh Maity Anil Kumar Dutta Jogen Chowdhury Samir Roychoudhury Shanu Lahiri Ganesh Pyne Devajyoti Ray Cinema Satyajit Ray, who won the Oscar for Lifetime Achievement in 1992, lived in Kolkata and is considered among the four 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 Arin Paul Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury Tapan Sinha Aparna Sen Mrinal Sen Manick Sorcar Notable actors Uttam Kumar Utpal Dutt Soumitra Chatterjee Dhritiman Chaterji Tapen Chatterjee Rabi Ghosh Barun Chanda Arun Mukherjee Pahari Sanyal N. Viswanathan Chhabi Biswas Karuna Bannerjee Anil Chatterjee Subir Banerjee Uma Dasgupta Saswata Chatterjee Tarun Kumar Anup Kumar Ashok Kumar Bhanu Bandopadhyay Biswajit Chatterjee Prosenjit Chatterjee Jahor Roy Kanan Devi Razzak Dev Jeet Ruma Guha Thakurta Ranjit Mallick Mirza Abbas Ali Suchitra Sen Moonmoon Sen Riya Sen Raima Sen Reemma Sen Omar Sani Victor Banerjee Parambrata Chatterjee Konkona Sen Sharma Varsha Ashwathi Photography Indrani Pal - Chaudhuri Benu Sen Sunil Das Theatre Badal Sircar ( dramatist ) Rudraprasad Sengupta ( actor and director ) Sambhu Mitra ( actor and director ) Notable theatre groups Nandikar Bohurupi Music Composers Kabir Suman Salil Chowdhury Rahul Dev Burman Sachin Dev Burman Bappi Lahiri Shantanu Moitra Pritam Hindustani classical singers / maestros 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 ( 1917 - 1993 ) Pandit Nikhil Banerjee Ustad Amjad Ali Khan Ustad Bahadur Khan Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty Anjan Chattopadhyay Other singers Dwijendra Lal Roy 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 Ruma Guha Thakurta Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta Suman Chatterjee Sachin Dev Burman Anjan Dutt Rupam Islam Prashant Tamang Shayan Chowdhury Arnob Choir groups Calcutta Youth Choir IPTA Bengali bands Moheener Ghoraguli Bhoomi Prithibi Chandrabindoo Fossils Insomnia Krosswindz Bandage Cactus Contemporary Bollywood musicians Kumar Sanu Alka Yagnik Abhijeet Bhattacharya Babul Supriyo Pritam Shreya Ghoshal Shaan Arijit Singh Monali Thakur Dance Prominent dancers of the city include : Uday Shankar and his wife Amala Shankar Mamata Shankar Tanushree Shankar Ananda Shankar Sadhana Bose Sharmila Biswas Rani Karnaa Magic 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 Summer Olympic medallists Norman Pritchard, track and field, 1900 Richard James Allen, hockey, 1928, 1932, 1936 Leslie Claudius, hockey, 1924, 1928, 1936 Gurbux Singh, hockey, 1964, 1968 Vece Paes, hockey, 1980 Leander Adrian Paes, tennis, 1996 Other sportspersons Sourav Ganguly, cricketer, former India national cricket team 's captain Chhanda Gayen, mountaineer, first Bengali woman to summit Mount Everest Pankaj Roy, cricketer Ashok Dinda, cricketer Wriddhiman Saha, cricketer Deep Dasgupta, cricketer Chuni Goswami, 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 Sudeep Chatterjee, 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 Manoj Tiwary, cricketer Gobar Guha, wrestler Rohan Gavaskar, cricketer ( son of Sunil Gavaskar ) Manohar Aich, body builder, Mr. Universe 1952 Dipu Ghosh, badminton, Arjuna Award Leander Paes, tennis player Saurav Ghosal, squash player Mohammed Shami, cricketer Sports administrators Pankaj Gupta Jagmohan Dalmiya References Jump up ^ Dutta, Krishna ; Anita Desai ( 2003 ). Calcutta : a cultural and literary history. Signal Books. p. xiv. ISBN 978 - 1 - 902669 - 59 - 5. Jump up ^ `` Shanu Lahiri dead ''. The Telegraph ( Calcutta ). Retrieved March 15, 2013. Jump up ^ `` A Tale Of Two Women : In search of their own songs ''. The Telegraph. March 11, 2012. Retrieved June 6, 2013. Jump up ^ `` Katha Kavya Abhinaya ''. Sangeet Natak Akademi. 2011. Retrieved May 28, 2013. Kolkata topics History Bengali renaissance Black Hole of Calcutta Bhurshut Calcutta Flag Direct Action Day Dutch Bengal Gobindapur History of Kolkata Presidency division Job Charnock Kalighat Falta Railway Kalikata Lal Dighi Maratha Ditch Robert Clive Sabarna Roy Choudhury Siege of Calcutta Sutanuti State Archaeological Gallery The Calcutta Quran Petition Warren Hastings Battle of Biderra Nabakrishna Deb Rabindranath Tagore Localities and streets Kolkata Metropolitan Area Neighbourhoods list Streets ( list ) Ethnic enclaves Bow Barracks ( Anglo - Indian ) Chinatown, Kolkata ( Chinese ) Tangra, Kolkata ( Chinese ) Armani - para ( Armenian ) Buildings Belvedere Estate Indian Museum Jorasanko Thakur Bari Calcutta High Court Marble Palace National Library of India Netaji Bhawan Raj Bhavan Sabarna Sangrahashala Shaheed Minar Victoria Memorial St. Paul 's Cathedral Metcalfe Hall Writers ' Building Metropolitan Building Grand Hotel Shobhabazar Rajbari High rises Completed Chatterjee International Center South City Tata Centre Industry House Everest House Jeevan Sudha GOI Building Hiland Park Upcoming The 42 Urbana Uniworld City Education Secondary Calcutta Boys ' School Calcutta Girls ' High School Don Bosco School, Park Circus Hare School Hindu School, Kolkata La Martiniere Calcutta Loreto Schools Ramakrishna, Narendrapur Sainik School, Purulia Scottish Church Collegiate School South Point School St. Xavier 's Collegiate School St. Paul 's School, Darjeeling St. James ' School ( Kolkata ) Higher Aliah University Asiatic Society Asutosh College Vivekananda College Marine Engineering and Research Institute Bethune College Government College of Engineering and Ceramic Technology Medical College and Hospital Calcutta National Medical College Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur Indian Institute of Management Calcutta Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management Indian Statistical Institute Jadavpur University Maulana Azad College Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology National Library of India Netaji Subhas Open University Presidency University Rabindra Bharati University Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics School of Tropical Medicine Scottish Church College St. Xavier 's College University of Calcutta West Bengal University of Health Sciences West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences Calcutta School of Music Industry and economy ABP Group Allahabad Bank AMRI Hospitals Andrew Yule and Company Baidyanath Group Balmer Lawrie Batanagar Bengal Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals Berger Paints Bharat Bhari Udyog Nigam Biecco Lawrie Birds Jute and Export Birla Corporation Braithwaite & Co. Braithwaite, Burn & Jessop Construction Company Bridge and Roof Company Britannia Industries Burn & Company Burnpur Burn Standard Company Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation ( CESC ) Calcutta Stock Exchange Chandras ' Chemical Factory Coal India Damodar Valley Corporation Emami Exide Industries Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers GKB Opticals Hawkers Hind Motor Hindustan Ambassador IISCO India Government Mint, Kolkata ITC Limited Jai Balaji group Jessop & Company Kolkata Port Trust Lexulous Limtex Lux Industries Magma Fincorp National Insurance Company Peerless Group Saregama Sinclairs Hotels Limited Tata Global Beverages The Juice Station The Park Hotels UCO Bank United Bank of India VISA Steel Transportation Road Calcutta Tramways Company Calcutta State Transport Corporation Kalyani Expressway Kolkata Bus Rapid Transit System West Bengal Surface Transport Corporation South Bengal State Transport Corporation Howrah Bridge ( Rabindra Setu ) Belghoria Expressway Vidyasagar Setu Vivekananda Setu Nivedita Setu Golden Quadrilateral Rickshaw Hand - pulled rickshaw Rail Kolkata Metro Kolkata Circular Railway Kolkata Suburban Railway Eastern Railway South Eastern Railway Trams in Kolkata Kolkata LRTS Howrah Junction railway station Kolkata railway station Sealdah railway station Shalimar railway station Kolkata Monorail Sea Port of Kolkata Air Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport List of airports Culture Kolkata Book Fair Calcutta Youth Choir Coffee House Dwarkin Festivals Kolkata International Film Festival Dover Lane Music Conference Kolkata in the media Music of Bengal Nandan Priya Rabindra Nritya Natya Rabindra Sangeet Ritwik Ghatak Satyajit Ray Feluda Byomkesh Bakshi Tollywood Ghosts in Bengali culture Adda P.C. Sorcar Football Kolkata Derby Group theatre of Kolkata Places of worship Hindu Belur Math Dakshineswar Kali Temple Kalighat Christian St. Paul 's Cathedral Portuguese Church St. John 's Church Parasnath Temple Tipu Sultan Mosque Birla Mandir, Kolkata Chinese temples in Kolkata Magen David Synagogue Sports ATK Barasat Stadium B.C. Roy Trophy Beighton Cup Bengal cricket team Calcutta Cricket and Football Club Calcutta Polo Club Calcutta South Club Bengal Tigers Bhawanipore F.C. Calcutta Cricket and Football Club Calcutta Football League Dalhousie A.C. East Bengal Club East Bengal Ground Eastern Railway F.C. Eden Gardens Indian Football Association IFA Shield Kalighat F.C. Kishore Bharati Krirangan Kolkata Derby Kolkata Knight Riders No Dada No KKR Kolkata Police Friendship Cup Football Tournament Kolkata Vipers Mohammedan Sporting Club Mohammedan Sporting Ground Mohun Bagan Athletic Club Mohun Bagan Ground Netaji Indoor Stadium Pailan Arrows United S.C. Rabindra Sarobar Stadium Royal Bengal Tigers Salt Lake Stadium Sunfeast Open Southern Samity Subroto Cup Aryan F.C. Tollygunge Agragami F.C. West Bengal football team Other topics Someplace Else Princeton Club Calcutta Club Adwaita Zoological Garden, Alipore Bengal Club Central Forensic Science Laboratory Calcutta Rowing Club Electoral constituencies List of people from Kolkata Fort William Hooghly River Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden Kundu Special Chinese of Calcutta Early phase of printing in Calcutta Legendary personalities in Bengal Maidan Missionaries of Charity Rabindra Sarobar Royal Calcutta Golf Club South Park Street Cemetery Sundarbans National Park Tolly Portal Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_from_Kolkata&oldid=804411157 '' Categories : People from Kolkata Lists of people by city in India Hidden categories : Articles needing additional references from December 2009 All articles needing additional references Talk Contents About Wikipedia বাংলা اردو Edit links This page was last edited on 8 October 2017, at 21 : 00. About Wikipedia

Question: which nobel prize winner started career as an accountant in kolkata
Answer: Amartya Sen