# 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

## Faculty

| Name | Affiliation | Notability | References |
| Abandindranath Tagore | Vice-Principal of the Government College of Art and Craft, 1905–1915 | artist, and one of the pioneers of the Bengal School of Art | |
| Abdur Rahim | Tagore Professor of Law | | |
| Abdul Majed Khan | Islamic history and culture | later taught at Victoria University of Wellington | |
| Amitava Raychaudhuri | Professor in Particle physics and Astroparticle physics, 1980 | winner of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology | |
| Basanti Dulal Nagchaudhuri | Palit Professor of Physics, 1953–1959 | | |
| B. N. Mukherjee | Carmichael Professor of Ancient Indian History and Culture, 1975–1998 | historian, numismatist, epigraphist and iconographist | |
| Biswa Ranjan Nag | | physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | |
| Bhabatarak Bhattacharyya | | structural biologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize laureate | |
| C. V. Raman | Palit Professor of Physics, 1917–1932 | winner of the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics | |
| Chinmoy Guha | Professor of Department of English , 2008–2023 | Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Winner, Ordre des Palmes académiques winner | |
| D. R. Bhandarkar | Carmichael Professor of Ancient Indian History and Culture, 1917–1936 | | |
| Debendra Mohan Bose | Palit Professor of Physics, 1932–1938 | | |
| Dineshchandra Sircar | Carmichael Professor of Ancient Indian History and Culture, 1962–1972 | epigraphist, historian, numismatist and folklorist | |
| Durga Mohan Bhattacharyya | Professor of Sanskrit at the Scottish Church College | Sanskrit scholar and Indologist | |
| Nalinaksha Dutt | Professor of Sanskrit and Pali and Head of the Department of Pali | Sanskrit, Pali, Buddhism | . |
| George Thibaut | Carmichael Professor of Ancient Indian History and Culture, 1912–1917 | Indologist | |
| Harinath De | | linguist, first lecturer of the Department of Linguistics, 1907 | |
| Hari Vasudevan | Professor of History of Europe, 1978 - 2017 | Historian | |
| Hem Chandra Raychaudhuri | Carmichael Professor of Ancient Indian History and Culture, 1936–1952 | | |
| Jagadish Chandra Bose | Professor of Physics at Presidency College | | |
| Kalidas Nag | Professor of history at the Scottish Church College | Member of Parliament | |
| Khudiram Das | Ramtanu Lahiri Professor of Bengali and Head of the Department of Modern Indian Languages, 1973–1981 | | |
| Krishna Dhar | Taught journalism | poet and journalist | |
| Malcolm Adiseshiah | Lecturer at St. Paul's Cathedral Mission College, 1930–1936 | | |
| Mahasweta Devi | Lecturer at Vijaygarh Jyotish Ray College, 1964–1977 | English literature | |
| Meghnad Saha | Palit Professor of Physics 1938–1953 | | |
| Mukul Dey | Principal of the Government College of Art and Craft, 1928–1943 | artist | |
| Nrisingha Prasad Bhaduri | Professor at Gurudas College of Department of Sanskrit 1975-2010 | writer, and Indologist. | |
| Rajendra Prasad | Professor of Economics at Calcutta City College | 1st President of India | |
| Rabindranath Tagore | Ramtanu Lahiri Professor in 1932 | Winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature | |
| Sadhan Basu | professor of Physical chemistry, 1965-1985 | Winner of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology | |
| Subodh Sarkar | professor at City College, Kolkata, 1984-2023 | English literature | |
| Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan | Professor of Philosophy occupying the King George V Chair of Mental and Moral Science, 1921–1932 | 2nd President of India | |
| Satyendra Nath Bose | Lecturer of Physics, 1916–1921 | physicist known for his work in the field of quantum mechanics | |
| Suniti Kumar Chatterji | Khaira Professor of Indian Linguistics and Phonetics | linguist, educationist, and Padma Bhushan recipient | |
| Surendranath Banerjee | professor at Vidyasagar College 1875-1908 | English literature | |
| Upendranath Brahmachari | Lecturer of medicine | knighthood by the British Government. | |
| Vishnu Kant Shastri | Lecturer of Hindi | Governor of Uttar Pradesh | |

## Alumni
### Arts

| Name | Class year | Degree | College | Notability |
| Abanindranath Tagore | | | Government College of Art & Craft | artist |
| Abhishek Chatterjee | | | Seth Anandram Jaipuria College | actor |
| Anjan Chattopadhyay | | | | sitarist |
| Anup Ghoshal | | | Asutosh College | Playback Singer |
| Abir Chatterjee | 1998 | | Seth Anandram Jaipuria College | Actor |
| Ananya Chatterjee | | | Jogamaya Devi College | actress |
| Arjun Chakrabarty | 2008 | | St. Xavier's College, Kolkata | actor,anchor |
| Badal Sircar | | | Scottish Church College, Bengal Engineering College | dramatist |
| Basdeo Bissoondoyal | | | | pioneering educator, fighter for the right to vote in British Mauritius |
| Biman Bihari Das | | | Government College of Art & Craft | sculptor |
| Birendra Krishna Bhadra | | | Scottish Church College | playwright, actor, narrator and theatre director |
| Bhaswar Chatterjee | 1993 | | Asutosh College | actor, writer, social activist |
| Bhupen Hazarika | | IA | Cotton | playback singer, lyricist, musician, poet and film-maker |
| Bickram Ghosh | | | St. Xavier's College, Kolkata | Musician |
| Buddhadeb Dasgupta | | | Scottish Church College | film director |
| Bulbul Chowdhury | | | Scottish Church College | artist |
| Clarence Barlow | | | | composer |
| Debaki Bose | | | Vidyasagar College | Film Director |
| Diptendu Pramanick | | | Scottish Church College | first Secretary of the Eastern India Motion Pictures Association; former Secretary of Film Federation of India (1953–54) |
| Goutam Ghose | | | | "Banga Bibhushan" Award winner film director |
| Jeet Gannguli | | | | score composer, music director, singer |
| Jeet | | | Bhawanipur Education Society College | Indian Actor |
| Jisshu Sengupta | | | Heramba Chandra College | Indian Actor |
| Kumar Sanu | | | | singer |
| Koel Mallick | 2000 | | Gokhale Memorial Girls' College | actress |
| Madhav Sharma | | | Scottish Church College | comedian and actor based in the UK |
| Manna Dey | | | Vidyasagar College | singer |
| Manoj Mitra | | | Scottish Church College | actor, director and playwright |
| Mithun Chakraborty | | | Scottish Church College | actor |
| Mrinal Sen | 1941 | | Scottish Church College | Padma Bhushan winner film director |
| Nandalal Bose | | | Government College of Art & Craft | artist |
| P. C. Sorcar, Jr. | | | | magician |
| Pankaj Mullick | | | Scottish Church College | music director and composer |
| Pritam | | | Presidency | Music Director |
| Rabi Ghosh | | | Asutosh College | Actor |
| Rituparna Sengupta | | | Lady Brabourne College | actress |
| Raima Sen | 1997 | | Rani Birla Girls' College | actress |
| Rajatava Dutta | | | Netaji Nagar Day College | actor |
| Rudraprasad Sengupta | | | Scottish Church College | director of Nandikar theatre group |
| Rupam Islam | | | Asutosh College | Indian singer, songwriter, music composer, and writer |
| Sachin Dev Burman | | | Comilla Victoria Government College | singer |
| Salil Chowdhury | | | Bangabasi College | Singer, Music Director, lyricist |
| Satyajit Ray | | BA | Presidency | Oscar-winning film director |
| Somnath Hore | | | Government College of Art & Craft | artist |
| Soumitra Chatterjee | | Bachelor of Arts | City College | actor |
| Sohini Sarkar | | | | Actress |
| Suchitra Mitra | | | Scottish Church College | singer |
| Srijit Mukherji | | B.Com | Presidency | Indian Film maker,screenwriter, lyricist, Playwriter, Theater artist |
| Sunil Das | 1959 | | Government College of Art & Craft | artist |
| Tarun Majumdar | | | Scottish Church College | Padma Shri Award winner film director |
| Tripti Mitra | | | Asutosh College | Padma Shri Winner Indian Actress and Theatre Personality |
| Uttam Kumar | | | Goenka College of Commerce and Business Administration | actor, director, producer, composer, singer |
| Utpal Dutt | | | St. Xavier's College, Kolkata | actor |

### Business

| Name | Degree | College | Notability |
| Harsh Goenka | | | Chairman, RPG Group |
| Jagmohan Dalmiya | | Scottish Church College | Chairman of M.L.Dalmiya and Co. |
| Lakshmi Niwas Mittal | BCom | St. Xavier's | billionaire, steel tycoon, entrepreneur |
| Mani Lal Bhaumik | | Scottish Church College | inventor of the Excimer Laser |
| Prafulla Chandra Roy | | | founder of Bengal Chemicals |
| Rama Prasad Goenka | | Presidency | Chairman, RPG Group |
| Sanjiv Goenka | | | Chairman, RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group |
| Vinay Maloo | | | Chairman of Enso Group |
| Dilip Shanghvi | | Bhawanipur Education Society | Billionaire businessman, founder of Sun Pharmaceuticals |

### Humanities and social sciences

| Name | Class year | Degree | College | Notability |
| Abhijit Banerjee | 1981 | B.Sc. (Economics) | Presidency | Winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics |
| Amartya Sen | | BA (Economics) | Presidency | Winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics |
| Benoy Kumar Sarkar | 1905 | | | economist |
| D. N. Jha | | BA (History) | Presidency | Professor of History, Delhi University |
| Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak | 1959 | BA(English) | Presidency | philosopher, literary theorist |
| Khudiram Das | | MA (Bengali) | | linguist |
| Nirad C. Chaudhuri | | | Scottish Church College | historian and commentator on culture |
| R. D. Banerji | 1907; 1911 | BA; MA | Presidency | discoverer of Mohenjodaro, the principal site of the Harappa culture |
| Rajat Kanta Ray | | BA(History) | Presidency | historian |
| Ramaprasad Chanda | | | Scottish Church College | historian, anthropologist and archaeologist |
| Samita Sen | | BA; MA | | historian |
| Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri | | | | political scientist; Fellow of the University of London |
| Shomie Das | | | | former Headmaster of Mayo College and The Doon School |
| Sumit Sarkar | | | Presidency | Professor of History, Delhi University |
| Suniti Kumar Chatterjee | | | Scottish Church College | linguist |
| Surajit Chandra Sinha | | | Presidency | anthropologist |
| Susobhan Sarkar | | | Presidency | Professor and Head of Department of History, Presidency College, Calcutta |
| Tapan Raychaudhuri | | BA (History); DPhil (History) | Presidency | Professor of Indian History and Civilisation, University of Oxford |

### Law

| Name | Class year | Degree | College | Notability |
| Abdur Rahim | | | Presidency | British Indian judge |
| Ajit Nath Ray | | | Presidency | 14th Chief Justice of India |
| Altamas Kabir | | | Presidency | 39th Chief Justice of India |
| Amal Kumar Sarkar | | | Scottish Church;Bangabasi; University Law College | 8th Chief Justice of India |
| Amarendra Nath Sen | | | Scottish Church; University Law College | Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court |
| Amin Ahmed | | | Presidency | Chief Justice of the Dacca High Court |
| Aniruddha Bose | | BCom; LLB | St. Xavier's; Surendranath Law | Chief Justice of Jharkhand High Court |
| Ashok Kumar Mathur | 1968 | | | Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court |
| Ashutosh Mukherjee | 1883; 1885 | BA; MA | Presidency | Judge of the Calcutta High Court |
| Bhaskar Bhattacharya | | | Jogesh Chandra Chaudhuri | Chief Justice of Gujarat High Court |
| Bijan Kumar Mukherjea | | | Surendranath Law | 4th Chief Justice of India |
| Chittatosh Mookerjee | | | | Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court |
| Debasish Kar Gupta | 1976; 1980 | BCom; LLB | | Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court |
| Debi Prasad Pal | | | | Judge of the Calcutta High Court |
| Fazal Akbar | | | St. Xavier's | 6th Chief Justice of Pakistan |
| Gooroodas Banerjee | | | Scottish Church College | Judge of the Calcutta High Court |
| Hamoodur Rahman | | BA | St. Xavier's | 7th Chief Justice of Pakistan |
| Hara Chandra Ghosh | | | | first Bengali judge of the Small Causes Court in Calcutta |
| Jyotirmay Bhattacharya | | | St. Xavier's | Judge of the Calcutta High Court |
| Kulada Charan Das Gupta | | | Presidency | Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court |
| Manmatha Nath Mukherjee | | | Surendranath Law | Judge of the Calcutta High Court |
| Monomohun Ghose | | | | first practising Indian Barrister of the Calcutta High Court |
| Mukul Gopal Mukherjee | | | Scottish Church; University Law College | Chief Justice of the Rajasthan High Court |
| Pannalal Bose | | | | jurist |
| Radha Binod Pal | | | | Judge of the Calcutta High Court |
| Sabyasachi Mukherjee | | | Presidency | 20th Chief Justice of India |
| Sarat Kumar Ghosh | | | | Chief Justice of Jaipur State |
| Sudhi Ranjan Das | | | Scottish Church;Bangabasi | 5th Chief Justice of India |
| Umesh Chandra Banerjee | 1961 | | Scottish Church | Judge of the Supreme Court of India |

### Literature

| Name | Class year | Degree | College | Notability |
| Afsar Amed | | | | writer |
| Abul Bashar | | B.com | | Novelist |
| Bani Basu | | | Scottish Church | writer |
| Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay | | | Presidency | writer, poet and journalist |
| Barun Sengupta | | | City | journalist |
| Benjamin Walker | | | St. Xavier's | writer |
| Bharati Mukherjee | 1958 | | Loreto | |
| Bimal Mitra | | | | novelist |
| Bimal Kar | | | | novelist |
| Binoy Majumdar | | | Presidency | poet |
| Buddhadeb Guha | 1954 | | St. Xavier's | popular Bengali fiction writer and poet |
| Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | | | | writer |
| Dibyendu Palit | | | | writer |
| Farrukh Ahmed | | | Scottish Church | poet |
| Kuber Nath Rai | | | | writer |
| Leela Majumdar | | | | fiction writer |
| Manik Bandopadhyay | | | Presidency College | fiction writer |
| Mahasweta Devi | | I.A.,M.A. | Ashutosh | fiction writer and socio-political activist |
| Michael Madhusudan Dutt | | | Presidency | poet |
| Nabarun Bhattacharya | | | | writer |
| Nabinchandra Sen | | | Scottish Church | poet and writer |
| Parvati Prasad Baruwa | | | Scottish Church | litterateur |
| Premendra Mitra | 1925 | | Scottish Church | novelist |
| Purnendu Pattrea | | | | writer |
| Rajshekhar Basu | | | Presidency | writer |
| Ramananda Chatterjee | | | City | journalist; founder, editor, and owner of the Modern Review |
| Samaresh Majumdar | | | Scottish Church | writer |
| Sanjeev Chattopadhyay | | | Scottish Church | journalist |
| Sanjib Chattopadhyay | | | Scottish Church | novelist |
| Sasthi Brata | | | Presidency | writer |
| Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay | | | Vidyasagar College | writer |
| Satyendranath Dutta | did not graduate | | Scottish Church | poet and writer |
| Shankha Ghosh | | | Presidency | eminent poet |
| Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay | 1953 | | | writer |
| Subhash Mukhopadhyay | 1941 | | Scottish Church | writer |
| Sudhindranath Dutta | | | Scottish Church | author and poet |
| Suchitra Bhattacharya | 1968 | | Jogamaya Devi College | novelist and children's fiction writer |
| Sunil Gangopadhyay | | | Surendranath;Motijheel;City | novelist, poet and children's fiction writer |
| Syed Mustafa Siraj | 1948 | | | writer |
| Tarashankar Bandopadhyay | | | Asutosh | novelist; Padma Bhushan recipient |
| Utpal K. Banerjee | 1955 | | | writer |
| Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury | | | Vidyasagar College | writer |

### Military

| Name | Class year | Degree | College | Notability | References |
| Adhar Kumar Chatterji | 1933 | | Presidency | | |
| Subroto Mukherjee | | | | Chief of Air Staff of the Indian Air Force | |

### Politics
#### Heads of state and government

| Name | Class year | Degree | College | Notability |
| Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem | | | Presidency | 6th President of Bangladesh |
| Abu Sayeed Chowdhury | 1940; 1942 | | Presidency | 2nd President of Bangladesh |
| Abdus Sattar | | | | 8th President of Bangladesh |
| Ba Maw | 1924 | | | Head of State and Prime Minister of the State of Burma |
| Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy | 1913 | B. Sc.; MA | St. Xavier's | former Prime Minister of Pakistan |
| Khaleda Zia | | | Surendranath | 9th Prime Minister of Bangladesh |
| Mohammad Mohammadullah | 1948 | LLB | Ripon | 3rd President of Bangladesh |
| Muhammad Ali of Bogra | | | Presidency | former Prime Minister of Pakistan |
| Pranab Mukherjee | | | Suri Vidyasagar | 13th President of India |
| Rajendra Prasad | 1905; 1907 | BA; MA | Presidency | 1st President of India |
| Ram Baran Yadav | | | Calcutta Medical College | 1st President of Nepal |
| Sheikh Mujibur Rahman | 1944; 1947 | | Islamia | 2nd Prime Minister of Bangladesh |
| Tulsi Giri | | | Suri Vidyasagar | Prime Minister of Nepal |

#### Others

| Name | Class year | Degree | College | Notability |
| A. K. Fazlul Huq | 1894; 1896; 1897 | LLB | Presidency; Faculty of Law | former Home Minister of Pakistan |
| Abdullah al Mahmood | 1920 | BL and MA in Arabic | | former Pakistani Minister of Industries |
| Ajit Kumar Panja | | | Scottish Church | |
| Ajoy Mukherjee | | | | former Chief Minister, West Bengal |
| Amar Kumar Bera | | M.A. (Economics) | | Principal CGM, Reserve Bank of India |
| Amir H. Jamal | | B. Com. | | former Tanzanian MP and Minister of Finance |
| Anugrah Narayan Sinha | | | | first Finance Minister of Bihar |
| Ashok Mitra | | | | former Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India |
| Ashoke Kumar Sen | | | | former Minister of Law and Justice |
| Bagha Jatin | | | Calcutta Central College, now Khudiram Bose Central College | freedom fighter and the principal leader of the Jugantar party |
| Banwari Lal Joshi | | | Scottish Church | former Governor of Meghalaya |
| Basudeb Acharia | | | | Member of Parliament |
| Bidhan Chandra Roy | | | Calcutta Medical College | former Chief Minister of West Bengal |
| Bijoy Kumar Handique | | MA | Presidency | Member of Parliament |
| Biman Bose | | | Maulana Azad | Chairman of the Left Front in West Bengal |
| Bhupendra Nath Bose | | | | 29th President of the Indian National Congress |
| Brinda Karat | | | | |
| Brington Buhai Lyngdoh | | | Scottish Church | former Chief Minister of Meghalaya |
| Buddhadeb Bhattacharya | | BA | Presidency | former Chief Minister of West Bengal |
| Derek O'Brien | | | Scottish Church | Member of Parliament |
| Fatima Jinnah | | | | Leader of the Pakistan Movement |
| George Gilbert Swell | | | Scottish Church | Member of Parliament |
| Gopinath Bordoloi | 1909; 1911; 1914 | IA; BA; MA | Cotton; Scottish Church | former Chief Minister of Assam |
| Gyan Singh Sohanpal | | | Midnapore | |
| Harendra Coomar Mookerjee | | | | former Governor of West Bengal |
| Humayun Kabir | | | | former Minister of Education |
| Jagjivan Ram | 1931 | BSc | | former Deputy Prime Minister of India |
| Jharna Das | | | | Member of Parliament |
| Jyoti Basu | | | | former Chief Minister of West Bengal |
| K. S. Hegde | | | Presidency | former Speaker of the Lok Sabha |
| M. J. Akbar | | | | Member of Parliament |
| Madan Mohan Malaviya | | B.A. | | former President of the Indian National Congress |
| Mamata Banerjee | | | | Chief Minister of West Bengal |
| Mohammad Hamid Ansari | | | St. Xavier's | former Vice President of India |
| Mohammed Salim | | | Maulana Azad | Member of Parliament |
| Osman Ghani Khan | 1943, 1945 | BA, MA (Economics) | | former C&AG of Bangladesh and chairman of the United Nations Board of Auditors |
| Prafulla Chandra Sen | | BSc | Scottish Church | former Chief Minister of West Bengal |
| Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi | | | | former Minister of Information and Broadcasting |
| Romesh Chunder Dutt | | | | 16th President of the Indian National Congress |
| Ronen Sen | | | St. Xavier's | former Ambassador of India to the United States |
| Sarat Chandra Bose | | | | Indian independence activist and lawyer |
| Siddhartha Shankar Ray | | | | former Chief Minister of West Bengal |
| Somnath Chatterjee | | | | Speaker of the Lok Sabha |
| Subhas Chandra Bose | 1918 | BA (Philosophy) | Scottish Church | 53rd President of the Indian National Congress; founder of the Forward Bloc |
| Subrata Mukherjee | | | | |
| Sultan Ahmed | | | Maulana Azad | Member of Parliament |
| Susmita Bauri | | | | Member of Parliament |
| Surendranath Banerjee | | | Presidency | 11th President of the Indian National Congress |
| Syama Prasad Mookerjee | | | | |
| Tarak Nath Das | | | Scottish Church | revolutionary |

#### Civil servants and diplomats

| Name | College | Notability |
| Binay Ranjan Sen | Scottish Church | former Ambassador of India to the United States |
| Azizul Haque | | former Speaker of the Bengal Legislative Assembly (1937–42); Minister of Education (Government of Bengal); former Vice-Chancellor of Calcutta University (1938–42); High Commissioner for India to London (1942–43) |
| Brajendranath De | | ICS, Commissioner of Burdwan |
| Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh | | India's ambassador to Nepal, Japan, Governor of Punjab and Uttar Pradesh |
| Gurusaday Dutt | | ICS, Local Self Government and Public Health Secretary of Bengal |
| Nitish Sengupta | | |
| P.C. Bhattacharya | | Controller General of Defence Accounts |
| Satyendranath Tagore | | Revenue Secretary of India |
| Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah | | Ambassador of Pakistan to Morocco |
| Sib Chandra Deb | | Deputy Collector in Bengal |
| Sukumar Sen | | ICS, Chief Election Commissioner of India |

### Royalty and nobility

| Name | Class year | Degree | College | Notability | References |
| Nripendra Narayan | | | Presidency | Maharaja of Cooch Behar State | |
| Uday Chand Mahtab | | | | Zamindar of Burdwan | |

### Religion

| Name | Class year | Degree | College | Notability |
| A. B. Masilamani | | | Serampore | evangelist and theologian, Canadian Baptist Mission |
| A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada | | | Scottish Church | Founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) |
| Gyanendra Nath Chakravarti | | LL.B.,M.A. | Muir Central College | Notable Indian Theosophist and Scholar |
| Durga Mohan Das | | | | leader of the Brahmo Samaj |
| Lal Behari Dey | | | Scottish Church | theologian of the Free Church of Scotland |
| Mahendranath Gupta | 1874 | BA | Presidency | author of Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita (The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna) |
| Paramahansa Yogananda | | | Scottish Church;Serampore | Hindu mystic; yogi; leading proponent of Kriya Yoga in the West |
| Sitanath Tattwabhushan | | | Scottish Church | theologian of Sadharan Brahmo Samaj |
| Swami Gambhirananda | | | Scottish Church | former President of the Ramakrishna Mission Order |
| Swami Vivekananda | | | Scottish Church | founder of the Ramakrishna Mission Order |

### Science and technology

| Name | Class year | Degree | College | Notability |
| Amar Nath Bhaduri | | | | enzymologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate |
| Amitabha Bhattacharyya | | | | production engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate |
| Amitabha Mukhopadhyay | | | | cell biologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate |
| Anil Kumar Gain | | | Surendranath | mathematician and statistician; founder of Vidyasagar University |
| Anil Kumar Mandal | 1981 | MBBS | Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College and Hospital | ophthalmologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate |
| Ashesh Prosad Mitra | | | Bangabasi | former Director of CSIR |
| Benoy Krishna Tikader | | Ph.D; D.Sc | | arachnologist |
| Biman Bagchi | 1974; 1976 | | Presidency | theoretical physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate |
| Birendra Nath Mallick | 1978; 1981 | B.Sc | | neurobiologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate |
| Biraja Sankar Guha | | | Scottish Church | first Director of the Anthropological Survey of India |
| Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya | | Ph.D | | theoretical high energy physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate |
| C. R. Rao | 1943 | MA in Statistics | | statistician |
| Chinmoy Sankar Dey | | | | molecular biologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate |
| Deb Shankar Ray | | | | physical chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate |
| Dipak K. Das | | | | professor of surgery, now under investigation for fraudulent publications |
| Ganesh Prasad | | | | mathematician |
| Jagadish Chandra Bose | | | | physicist, botanist |
| Jamal Nazrul Islam | | B.Sc. | St. Xavier's College, Kolkata | physicist, mathematician, cosmologist, astronomer |
| Joyoti Basu | | | | cell biologist, N-Bios laureate |
| Jyoti Bhusan Chatterjea | | | | hematologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate |
| Kshitindramohan Naha, geologist and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | | | Presidency College | |
| Mani Lal Bhaumik | | B.Sc; M.Sc in Physics | Scottish Church College; Rajabazar Science College | physicist |
| Megh Nad Saha | | | Presidency College | physicist |
| Mihir Chowdhury | 1955; 1957 | | | physical chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate |
| Mihir Kumar Bose | 1965 | B.Sc.; M.Sc.; Ph.D. | | geologist and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate |
| Nirmal Kumar Dutta | | MBBS | Calcutta Medical College | pharmacologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate |
| Nirmal Kumar Ganguly | | | R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital | microbilogist |
| Prafulla Chandra Ray | | | Vidyasagar College | chemist, Physics, industrialist and philanthropist |
| P. V. Manoranjan Rao | | | | physicist, space scientist |
| Pradyut Ghosh | 1990; 1992 | | | inorganic chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate |
| Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis | | | | founder of the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta |
| Radhanath Sikdar | | BA in Mathematics | Presidency College | mathematician best known for calculating the height of Mount Everest |
| S. C. Dutta Roy | | Ph.D | Rajabazar Science College | electrical engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate |
| Sadhan Basu | 1942; 1944; 1948 | B.Sc; M.Sc; Ph.D | Rajabazar Science College | physical chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate |
| Sagar Sengupta | | | | cancer biologist, N-Bios laureate |
| Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay | 1985-1991 | PhD | Presidency College, Calcutta University | Computer Scientist, First woman Director of Indian Statistical Institute, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate in Engineering Science, 2010, TWAS Prize for Engineering Sciences, 2018, Infosys Prize 2017 in Engineering and Computer Science |
| Sanjeev Das | | | | cancer biologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate |
| Santasabuj Das | | | | immunologist, N-Bios laureate |
| Satyendra Nath Bose | 1913; 1915 | BSc; MSc | | physicist, co-discoverer of Bose–Einstein statistics |
| Saumitra Das | 1992 | PhD | | virologist, N-Bios laureate |
| Snehasikta Swarnakar | | | | cancer biologist, N-Bios laureate |
| Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty | | | Calcutta Medical College | |
| Soumen Basak | | | | immunologist, N-Bios laureate |
| Soumitro Banerjee | 1981 | | | electrical engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate |
| Srinivasan Ramachandran | | | | bioinformatician, N-Bios laureate |
| Subhash Chandra Lakhotia | 1964–1966 | | | cytogeneticist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate |
| Subhash Mukhopadhyay | 1955; 1958 | | Calcutta National Medical | first physician in India (and second in the world) to perform in vitro fertilization |
| Subir Kumar Ghosh | | BSc; MSc; PhD | Presidency | geologist and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate |
| Sumit Bhaduri | | | | organic chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate |
| Sumit Ranjan Das | | | | high energy physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate |
| Sunil Kumar Manna | | | | immunologist, N-Bios laureate |
| Ujjwal Maulik | 1983–1989 | PhD | Calcutta University | Computer scientist, INAE and IEEE fellow, Stanford List of Scientists |
| Upendranath Brahmachari | 1893; 1894; 1900; 1902; 1904 | MD; PhD | Presidency; Calcutta Medical College | |
| Usha Ranjan Ghatak | 1953 | BSc; MSc | Asutosh | synthetic organic chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate |
| Vikram Marwah | 1948 | | Calcutta Medical College | |
* 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
* 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

| Name | College | Notability |
| Chhanda Gayen | | mountaineer, first Bengali woman to climb Mount Everest |
| Chuni Goswami | | former captain of Indian football team |
| Gourgopal Ghosh | Scottish Church | football player for the Mohun Bagan Club |
| Leander Paes | St. Xavier's | former Olympic bronze medallist; Wimbledon and French Open doubles champion |
| Norman Pritchard | St. Xavier's | former Olympic silver medalist |
| Pradip Kumar Banerjee | Suri Vidyasagar | footballer |
| Sailen Manna | Surendranath | captain of the Indian football team in the London Olympics in 1948; gold medallist in 1951 Asian Games |
| Saurav Ganguly | St. Xavier's | former captain of the India cricket team |
| Sunil Chhetri | Asutosh | captain of the Indian football team |
| Surya Shekhar Ganguly | Scottish Church | chess grandmaster, national chess champion |
| Talimeran Ao | R. G. Kar | former captain of the Indian football team in the 1948 Olympic Games |
| Vece Paes | | former Olympic hockey player |