# List of people from Vidyasagar College Kolkata

Vidyasagar College has produced a large number of notable people, who has kept a remark on the society, since the foundation. The institute was previously a public school named "Metropolitan Institution", before upgrading to College. In 1871, the institute was upgraded to college and in 1917, the institute was named Vidyasagar College.

## Notable alumni before upgradation to college (before 1871)

The notable alumnus of Metropolitan Institution before 1971, which was then a notable school, include:
* Swami Vivekananda, philosopher and Hindu monk
* Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, philosopher and Hindu monk
* Brahmabandhav Upadhyay, theologian, journalist and Indian freedom fighter
* Charu Chandra Bhattacharya, Bengali writer on scientific articles mainly for children
* Priyanath Bose, circus performer and entrepreneur

## Notable alumni after upgradation to college (after 1871)

The following list consists notable alumnus passed from or associated with Vidyasagar College after upgrading to College.

### Freedom fighters, activists and revolutionaries

* Abinash Chandra Bhattacharya, noted for his role in the Indo-German Conspiracy of World War I
* Barada Bhushan Chakraborty, Communist peasant leader, one of the prominent faces of Tebhaga movement
* Birendranath Sasmal, freedom fighter, Barrister, politician, popularly known as "Deshopran" and "The Uncrowned King of Medinipur"
* Chintamani Panigrahi, freedom fighter, participated in Indian Independence Movement
* Ganesh Man Singh, Nepalese freedom fighter, termed as "Father of Democracy" or the "Iron-man of Nepali politics"
* Ram Manohar Lohia, activist in Quit India Movement, Indian Independence Movement, editor of its mouthpiece Congress Socialist who broadcast Congress Radio, secretly from various places in Bombay during dependant India

### Literature personalities

* Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury, famous Bengali writer
* Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, Bengali novelist
* Ananda Chandra Agarwala, Assamese writer, poet
* Durga Mohan Bhattacharyya, scholar of Sanskrit
* Sarat Chandra Goswami, writer in Assam, founder member of Asam Sahitya Sabha
* Himanish Goswami, writer, journalist, and cartoonist
* Ajit Dutta, Bengali poet & author
* Dhirendralal Dhar, Indian National Award winner for his contributions to Children's literature

### Scholers, scientists and academic heads

* Ajoy Home, aviculturist, ornithologist and naturalist
* Durga Mohan Bhattacharyya, scholar of Sanskrit
* Jagat Jiban Ghosh, researcher and scientist in Biological Sciences, Biochemistry, Neurobiochemistry; associated with teaching and research activities of J.J.Ghosh researth institutes.
* Prafulla Chandra Ray, chemist, regarded as the father of chemical science in India
* Radheshyam Brahmachari, scholer
* Sarada Charan Das, scientist
* Saratchandra Mitra, scholer, scientist on plants and trees and founding head of the department of anthropology at the University of Calcutta
* Satya Churn Law, Ornithologist

### Cine personalities

* Chhabi Biswas, Notable Bengali actor and theatre artist
* Debaki Bose, film director, awarded with Padma Shri
* Himangshu Dutta, Bengali music director
* Madhu Bose, film director, actor, singer and screenwriter
* Paoli Dam, notable Bengali actress
* Subhra Sourav Das, notable actor worked at Kaushik Sen's theatre group Swapnasandhani.
* Tarachand Barjatya, actor and founder of Rajshri Productions

### Singers

* Manna Dey, notable singer
* Ruprekha Banerjee, notable singer specialised in Rabindrasangeet and Hindustani Classical Music
* Sailajaranjan Majumdar, Rabindra Sangeet singer and teacher
* Silajit Majumder, Bengali singer
* Vishmadev Chattopadhyay, eminent vocal artist in Indian Classical Music, a revered Guru in the Delhi Gharana of the vocal classical genre

### Politicians

* Chintamani Panigrahi, former Governor of Manipur
* Ganesh Man Singh, leader of the democratic movement of 1990 in Nepal, referred as "Iron Man of Nepal Politics".
* Jyotipriya Mallick, Cabinet Minister, Minister for Department of Forest Affairs and Non-Conventional and Renewable Energy Sources in Government of West Bengal
* Ram Manohar Lohia, founder of the Congress Socialist Party
* Ram Sunder Das, former Chief Minister of Bihar
* Sadhan Pande, former Minister for Consumer Affairs & Self Help Group & Self-Employment
* Tarit Baran Topdar, former Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha in Government of West Bengal
* Shyamaprasanna Bhattacharyya, former Member of Legislative Assembly in Government of West Bengal

### Sports

* Gostha Pal, Indian footballer
* Asim Mukhopadhyay, mountaineer
* Brojen Das, Bangadeshi swimmer, first Asian to swim across the English Channel, and the first person to cross it six times
* Dipankar Ghosh, mountaineer
* Pankaj Roy, Indian cricketer
* Priyanath Bose, circus performer, considered to be one the pioneers of circus in India.

### Other personalities

* Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, religious leader, philosopher and founder of Ananda marga spiritual organization also founder of PROUT, author of Neohumanism, Prabhat Samgiita
* Mitter Bedi, notable photographer specialising in industrial photography
* Jitendra Nath Ghosh, chairman of Netaji Research Bureau

## Notable Faculty

* Kshirode Prasad Vidyavinode, poet, novelist, dramatist and nationalist
* Surendranath Banerjee