page_title: Ballygunge Government High School
section_title: Notable alumni
hierarchical_section_title: Ballygunge Government High School / Notable alumni
caption_attribution_description: English: Potrait of Satyajit Ray, painted by Rishiraj Sahoo in 1997
context_page_description: Ballygunge Government High School, or BGHS, is a school in West Bengal, India. This is a boys only school for secondary and higher secondary level students. Its medium of instruction is English. It was once considered one of the best Bengali medium schools in Kolkata and continues to be a good one. The campus includes a fairly large play-ground and the school offers variety of extracurricular activities for its students. The school has produced many well known academics, film and theater personalities, journalist and musicians.
  Currently, there are over 1200 students enrolled at this school. The school is adjacent to Kolkata Regional Transport Office /Ballygunge police station and Kolkata Motor Vehicles Department
context_section_description: Ajit Kumar Banerjee - Environmentalist
  Gautam Bhattacharya - Sports journalist
  Nabarun Bhattacharya - Novelist
  R.D. Burman - Film score composer and music director
  Rajat Kanta Ray - Historian
  Rajatava Dutta - Actor
  Ritwik Ghatak - Filmmaker and script-writer
  Rupankar Bagchi - Singer
  Satyajit Ray - Author, composer, lyricist, poet and filmmaker
  Sombhu Mitra - Actor, director
  Subrata Mitra - Cinematographer
  Sukhamoy Chakraborty - Economist
  Partha Sarathi Gupta - Historian
  Sabyasachi Bhattacharya - Historian
  Surajit Chandra Sinha - aAnthropologist
  Tapan Raychaudhuri - Historian
caption: Satyajit Ray was a student of this school
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