# List of alumni of Scottish Church College

This list contains notable alumni of Scottish Church College, an undergraduate and postgraduate college affiliated with the University of Calcutta, India.

## Social reformers and religious leaders

* Swami Vivekananda, Monk, philosopher, social reformer and founder of the Ramakrishna Mission.
* Rev. Lal Behari Dey, theologian of the Free Church of Scotland
* Brahmabandhav Upadhyay, theologian and preacher of New Dispensation Brahmoism, Protestantism, and Roman Catholicism
* Sitanath Tattwabhushan, theologian and former president of the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj
* Krishna Kumar Mitra, former president of the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj
* Paramahansa Yogananda, proponent of Kriya Yoga in the West and founder of the Self-Realization Fellowship
* A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, proponent of Gaudiya Vaishnavism and founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness
* Rev. Aurobindo Nath Mukherjee, first Indian to serve as the bishop of Calcutta and as the Metropolitan bishop of India within the Church of India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon
* Swami Gambhirananda, former president of the Ramakrishna Mission
* Mohanananda

## Independence activists and politicians

* Subhas Chandra Bose, former president of the Indian National Congress, founder president of the All India Forward Bloc, co-founder of the Indian National Army and head of state, Provisional Government of Free India
* Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala, first democratically elected prime minister of Nepal
* Amarendranath Chatterjee, revolutionary associated with Anushilan Samiti, and Jugantar
* Saroj Dutta, veteran communist leader, co-founder of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) and the Naxalite movement.
* Ambica Charan Mazumdar, former president of the Indian National Congress
* Nirmal Chandra Chatterjee, former president of the All India Hindu Mahasabha
* Gopinath Bordoloi, prominent freedom fighter, first chief minister of Assam
* Prafulla Chandra Sen, former chief minister of West Bengal
* Yangmasho Shaiza, former chief minister of Manipur
* Brington Buhai Lyngdoh, former chief minister of Meghalaya
* S.C. Marak, former chief minister of Meghalaya
* S.C. Jamir, former chief minister of Nagaland, former governor of Maharashtra, Gujarat and Goa, and governor of Odisha
* Rishang Keishing, former chief minister of Manipur
* George Gilbert Swell, former deputy speaker of the Lok Sabha and former ambassador to Norway and Burma
* Birendra Narayan Chakraborty, former governor of Haryana
* Banwari Lal Joshi, former governor of Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Meghalaya and Uttarakhand
* Ajit Kumar Panja, former minister of state for external affairs
* Shawkat Ali Khan, a framer of the Constitution of Bangladesh

## Jurists

* Sir Gooroodas Banerjee, former judge at the Calcutta High Court
* Sudhi Ranjan Das, former Chief Justice of India
* Amal Kumar Sarkar, former Chief Justice of India
* Subimal Chandra Roy, former judge of the Supreme Court of India
* Sambhunath Banerjee, former judge of the Calcutta High Court
* Amarendra Nath Sen, former chief justice of the Calcutta High Court, and former judge of the Supreme Court of India
* Samarendra Chandra Deb, former chief justice of the Calcutta High Court
* Anil Kumar Sen, former chief justice of the Calcutta High Court
* Anandamoy Bhattacharjee, former chief justice of the Sikkim, Calcutta and the Bombay High Courts
* Ganendra Narayan Ray, former chief justice of the Gujarat High Court, and former judge of the Supreme Court of India
* Umesh Chandra Banerjee, former chief justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court and former judge of the Supreme Court of India
* Mukul Gopal Mukherjee, former chief justice of the Rajasthan High Court
* Shyamal Kumar Sen, former chief justice of the Allahabad High Court, and former governor of West Bengal

## Scholars and academic administrators

* Chandramukhi Basu, one of the first female graduates of the British Empire, and the first female head of an undergraduate college in South Asia (as principal of Bethune College, Calcutta)
* Sir Gooroodas Banerjee, first Indian vice chancellor of the University of Calcutta
* Sir Brajendra Nath Seal, first chancellor of Visva-Bharati University, former vice chancellor of the University of Mysore
* Sir Jnan Chandra Ghosh, formerly director of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, founder-director of the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and former vice chancellor of the University of Calcutta
* Tarak Nath Das, formerly professor of political science at Columbia University
* Sarat Chandra Roy, pioneering anthropologist, often regarded as the father of Indian ethnography, and as the first Indian anthropologist
* Biraja Sankar Guha, pioneering anthropologist, one of the first PhD recipients in anthropology in the world (Harvard University, 1924) and founder-director of the Anthropological Survey of India
* Nirmal Kumar Bose, eminent anthropologist and freedom fighter
* Ramaprasad Chanda, anthropologist and archaeologist
* Hem Chandra Raychaudhuri, formerly Carmichael Professor of Ancient Indian History and Culture, University of Calcutta
* Kalidas Nag, historian, author and parliamentarian
* Kaliprasanna Vidyaratna, Sanskrit scholar, author and academician
* Tapan Raychaudhuri, ad hominem professor of Indian history and civilization and emeritus fellow, St Antony's College, Oxford
* Rabindra Kumar Das Gupta, formerly Tagore professor of Bengali literature, University of Delhi, and former director of the National Library of India
* Asima Chatterjee, first Indian woman to earn a doctorate in science, first female recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, and first female president of the Indian Science Congress
* Animesh Chakravorty, recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in chemistry, formerly chair of the department of chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
* Sambhunath Banerjee, Nirmal Kumar Sidhanta, Ramendra Kumar Podder, and Santosh Bhattacharyya, former vice chancellors of the University of Calcutta
* Nityananda Saha, former vice chancellor of the University of Kalyani
* Purabi Roy, noted scholar, author and Netaji researcher

## Performing arts, theater and cinema

* Sisir Bhaduri, noted playwright
* Pankaj Mullick, Bollywood and Bengali cinema music director and composer
* Birendra Krishna Bhadra, broadcaster, playwright, and theater director
* Suchitra Mitra, Rabindra Sangeet exponent
* Manna Dey, Bollywood film music exponent
* Mrinal Sen, internationally acclaimed art film director and cultural commentator
* Buddhadeb Dasgupta, noted parallel cinema director and poet
* Tarun Majumdar, film director. the Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri.
* Utpalendu Chakrabarty, film director and thespian
* Mithun Chakraborty, Bollywood action hero and social activist
* Shyamanand Jalan, thespian and theatre director
* Kaushik Sen, noted theatre personality, director of Swapnasandhani theatre group
* Silajit Majumder, singer and actor
* Badal Sircar, dramatist
* Rudraprasad Sengupta, eminent theatre personality, director of Nandikar theatre group and cultural critic
* Partha Pratim Chowdhury, film director and playwright
* Manoj Mitra, dramatist
* Madhav Sharma, actor, comedian, theater director
* Pulak Bandyopadhyay, lyricist and composer
* Puja Banerjee, actress
* Tridha Choudhury, actress
* Padmanabha Dasgupta, Screenplay Writer, actor.
* Sailajaranjan Majumdar, distinguished exponent and teacher of Rabindrasangeet.
* Anamika Saha, actress

## Writers, poets and journalists

* Dhan Gopal Mukerji, socio-cultural critic and first successful Indian man of letters in the United States of America; winner of Newbery Medal (1928)
* Nirad C. Chaudhuri, polymath, historian and commentator on culture, and Commander of the Order of the British Empire
* Dipendranath Bandyopadhyay, author
* Ajit Kumar Chakravarty, translator and critic
* Satyendranath Dutta, poet
* Sudhindranath Dutta, author and poet
* Ashok Kumar Sarkar, former editor of Desh literary magazine and editor-in-chief of the Anandabazar Patrika (1958–1983)
* Lakshminath Bezbaroa, writer, editor and social critic
* Parvati Prasad Baruwa, litterateur
* Premendra Mitra, novelist, short story and science fiction writer, and film director
* Pracheta Gupta, writer.
* Subhas Mukhopadhyay, poet
* Samaresh Majumdar, novelist
* Sajanikanta Das, critic, poet and editor of Shanibarer Chithi
* Sanjib Chattopadhyay, journalist, author and critic
* Bani Basu, essayist, novelist, and poet
* Kanhaiyalal Sethia, poet
* Kali Nath Roy, editor in chief of The Tribune magazine
* Farrukh Ahmed, poet, writer, activist of the Language Movement
* Derek O'Brien, quiz-master and author
* Bina Sarkar Ellias, poet, fiction writer, art curator & founder-editor and publisher of International Gallerie, a global arts and ideas magazine
* Mustafa Manwar, artist and media personality
* Madhu Rye, playwright, novelist and short story writer
* Ajit Krishna Basu, Indian writer and magician

## Administrators and organization leaders

* Binay Ranjan Sen, former director general of the Food and Agriculture Organization (1956–1967)
* Nitish Chandra Laharry, first Indian (and Asian) president of Rotary International (1962–63)
* Jagmohan Dalmiya, former president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India and the first Indian chairman of the International Cricket Council
* Mani Lal Bhaumik, scientist (laser technology) turned entrepreneur, inventor of the excimer laser and author
* Diptendu Pramanick, first secretary of the Eastern India Motion Pictures Association, and secretary of the Film Federation of India (1953–54)
* Evelyn Norah Shullai, pioneer of the Girl Guides Movement in India

## Sportspersons

* Gourgopal Ghosh, football player for the Mohun Bagan club and mathematician
* Dharma Bhakta Mathema, bodybuilder, political activist and anti-royalist martyr in the Kingdom of Nepal
* Surya Shekhar Ganguly, chess grandmaster and national champion
* Sreerupa Bose, former member, India national women's cricket team

## Industrialists, businessmen and philanthropists

* Rameshwarlall Daulatram Nopany - founder of Nopany group based in Calcutta and a philanthropist
* Samson H. Chowdhury - Industrialist