List of Presidencians
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List of Eminent Alumni of Presidency College, Kolkata. A former or present student of Presidency College, Kolkata including Hindu College is called a Presidencian. See also Category: Alumni of Presidency College, Kolkata
[edit] Missionaries
- Swami Vivekananda - Founder of Ramakrishna Mission and Ramakrishna Math
- Mahendranath Gupta - Author of Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita (The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna)
[edit] Politicians
Eminent Leader of the National Movement
- Subhash Chandra Bose[1] - legendary freedom fighter (he had to discontinue his studies before being re-admitted at Scottish Church College. His expulsion from Presidency College was symbolically rescinded in 1994.)
President of India
Union Cabinet Ministers
- Somnath Chatterjee - Speaker of the Lok Sabha, India, 2004-
- Pratap Chandra Chunder - Minister of Education and Social Welfare, Government of India (1977-1980)
- Shyamaprasad Mookerjee - Minister of Industry and Supply, Government of India
- Ashoke Kumar Sen - Minister of Law and Justice, Government of India
State Level Prime Minister and Chief Ministers
- Jyoti Basu - Former Chief Minister of West Bengal (1977-2000)
- Buddhadeb Bhattacharya - Chief Minister of West Bengal (2001- )
- A.K. Fazlul Huq - Prime Minister of Bengal (1939-1943)
- Dr. Bidhan Chandra Ray - former Chief Minister of West Bengal (1948-1962); Bharat Ratna awardee
- Siddhartha Shankar Ray - former Chief Minister of West Bengal (1972-1977)
State Cabinet Ministers
- Sir Surendranath Banerjea - Minister in the first elected cabinet in Bengal under the system of dyarchy after 1919
- Dr. Anugrah Narayan Sinha - first Finance Minister of Bihar
Presidents of Political Parties
- Pandit Yamuna Karjee - President of the Bihar Kisan Sabha and Member of the Bihar and Orissa Assembly, 1937-
- Mohit Sen - General Secretary of United Communist Party of India
Nationalists and Revolutionaries
- Ullaskar Dutta - Member of Jugantar Party
- Atulkrishna Ghosh - Member of the Anushilan Samiti, and a leader of the Jugantar movement
- Nolini Kanta Gupta - Revolutionary who participated in the Alipore Bomb case
[edit] Industrialists and Entrepreneurs
- Rama Prasad Goenka - Chairman Emeritus of the RPG Group
- Ramgopal Ghosh - Wealthy entreprenuer who founded his own firm R.G.Ghosh and Co.
- Sir Rajen Mookerjee - Founder of the Indian Iron and Steel Company at Burnpur
- Raja Subodh Chandra Mullick - Founder of Life of Asia Insurance Company and Trustee of National Council of Education
- Prafulla Chandra Roy - Founder of Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals
[edit] Landlords
- Pramathesh Barua - Zamindar of Gouripur in Assam, Member of the Assam Legislative Assembly and eminent Actor, director and screenwriter
- Pramatha Chaudhuri - Zamindar of Haripur in Bengal, and editor of Sabuj Patra
- Brajkishore Prasad - Zamindar of Shrinagar in Bihar, lawyer and founder of Bihar Vidyapeet
- Maharajadhiraja Bahadur Sir Uday Chand Mahtab - Zamindar of Burdwan in Bengal
- Raja Dakshinaranjan Mukherjee - Taluqdar of Shankarpore in the United Provinces and a leader of the Young Bengal movement
- Birendrakishore Raychaudhuri - Zamindar of Gouripur in Bengal and First-Dean of the Faculty of Music, Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta
[edit] Officers of the Armed Forces
- Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee - First Indian Chief of the Air Staff of the I.A.F.
[edit] Judges
- Phani Bhushan Chakrabarty - First Indian Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court
- Sir Sarat Kumar Ghosh - ICS, Chief Justice of Rajasthan and also of the Indian States of Kashmir and Jaipur
- Rai Bahadur Hara Chandra Ghosh - First Bengali judge of the Small Causes Court in Calcutta and member of the Young Bengal movement
- Sir Ashutosh Mookerjee - Four times Vice Chancellor of Calcutta University and Judge of the Calcutta High Court
- Chittatosh Mookerjee - Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court and Bombay High Court and Governor of Maharashtra
- Radhabinod Pal - Judge of the Calcutta High Court, Vice Chancellor of Calcutta University and only Indian member of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East's trials of Japanese war crimes
[edit] Civilians
- Champak Chatterjee, IAS - Secretary, Department of Education, Government of India
- Ranajit Datta - Chairman and Managing Director, Braithwaite, Burn and Jessop Limited, and senior officer of the Southeastern Railways
- Sib Chandra Deb - Deputy Collector in Bengal and a leading member of the Young Bengal movement
- Basanta Kumar De - Second Indian Commercial Traffic Manager (Chief Commercial Manager) of Bengal Nagpur Railway
- Gurusaday Dutt - ICS, Secretary, Department of Local Self Government and Public Health, Government of Bengal, Chief Government Whip of the Bengal Legislative Assembly and founder of the Bratachari Movement in Bengal
- Romesh Dutt, - ICS, Commissioner of Orissa, Dewan of Baroda; President of the Indian National Congress
- Ashok Mitra (Civil Servant), ICS; later Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Bhudev Mukhopadhyay, CIE, Director of Public Instructions and Member of the Governor General's Council
- Prasad Ranjan Ray, IAS - Secretary, Home Department, Government of West Bengal
- Sukumar Sen (Chief Election Commissioner, India) - also Chief Secretary, Government of West Bengal
- Nitish Sengupta, IAS - Secretary, Revenue Department, Government of India
- Satyendranath Tagore, ICS - District Judge in Gujerat; social and religious reformer
[edit] Academicians
[edit] Science
Chemistry
- Upendranath Brahmachari - First to synthesise urea stibamine
Mathematics
- Amiya Charan Banerjee - Vice Chancellor of Allahabad University
- Radhanath Sikdar - First to calculate the height of Mount Everest
Physics
- Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose - Inventor of wireless communications, crescograph
- Satyendranath Bose - Discovered Bose-Einstein statistics along with Albert Einstein. Bosons, particles with integral spin, are named after him.
- Sisir Kumar Mitra - Padmabhushan awardee; an crater on the moon is named after him
- Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri - Physicist
- Megh Nad Saha - Discovered the Saha ionization equation
- Ashoke Sen - Physicist
- Pradeep Kumar Sengupta - Senior Scientist, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta
- Bikash Sinha - Director, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta and Member, Prime Minister's Scientific Advisory Council, New Delhi
Psychology
- P.K.Roy - First Indian Principal of Presidency College, Calcutta; also Registrar of Calcutta University
Statistics
- Malay Ghosh - Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Florida
- Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis - Founder of the Indian Statistical Institute
Zoology
- Shivatosh Mookerjee - Professor and Dean of the School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- Sudhansu Kumar Ghosal - Ex-Faculty, McGill University
- Nirmal Kumar Sarkar - Convenor, Molbio & Genetics, Presydency College, Kolkata.
[edit] Social Sciences
Economics
- Amiya Bagchi - Padmashree awardee; Professor of Economics and Director, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta; First-Director, Institute of Development Studies, Calcutta
- Abhijit Banerjee - Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
- Dipak Banerjee - Professor and Head of Department of Economics, Presidency College, Calcutta
- Pranab Bardhan - Professor at University of California at Berkeley
- Amit Bhaduri - Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- Sanjit Bose - Professor at Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta
- Sukhomoy Chakroborty - Chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India and Member, Planning Commission, Government of India
- Kalyan Chatterjee - economist
- Bhabotosh Dutta - Finance Secretary to the Government of West Bengal, and Financial Advisor to the Governor of West Bengal
- Bibek Debroy - Director of the Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies, New Delhi
- Subhasis Gangopadhyay - IDF
- Bimal Jalan - Former governor of the Reserve Bank of India (2000-2004)
- Ashok Lahiri - Ex-Advisor to Finance Minister
- Mukul Majumdar - economist
- Tapas Majumdar - Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- Tapan Mitra - Professor at Cornell University
- Dilip Mukherjee - Faculty at Boston University
- Radhakamal Mukerjee - Professor of Economics and Sociology, Vice-chancellor, University of Lucknow
- Mihir Rakshit - economist
- Amartya Sen[2] - Nobel laureate (Economics, 1998), First-Asian Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
- Chanakya Narayan Haldar - Tabulator of Calcutta University, Member of Indian Economic Association
History
- Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay - Manindra Chandra Nandy Professor of Ancient Indian History and Culture at Benaras Hindu University, discoverer of Mohenjodaro, the principal site of the Harappa Culture
- Sabyasachi Bhattacharya - Vice Chancellor, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, and Chairman, ICHR, Delhi
- Ashin Dasgupta - Padmashree awardee; Professor of History and Vice Chancellor, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan; Director, National Library, Calcutta
- Barun De - Chairman, West Bengal Heritage Commission, Calcutta and First-Director of Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
- Bratin Mukherjee, Padmashree awardee; Professor of Ancient History, University of Calcutta
- Rajat Kanta Ray - Professor and Head of Department of History, Presidency College, Calcutta; Vice Chancellor, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan
- Tapan Raychaudhuri - Padmabhushan awardee and retired Professor of Indian History and Civilisation, University of Oxford
- Sumit Sarkar - Professor of History, Delhi University, Delhi
- Susobhan Sarkar - Professor and Head of Department of History, Presidency College, Calcutta
- Sir Jadunath Sarkar - Vice Chancellor of the University of Calcutta
- Amalesh Tripathy - Professor and Head of Department of History, Presidency College, Calcutta; Ashutosh Professor of History, University of Calcutta
Law
- Monomohun Ghose - First practising Indian Barrister of the Calcutta High Court
- Gnanendramohan Tagore - First Asian Barrister in 1862; also Professor of Hindu Law at the University of London
Political Science
- Partha Chatterjee - Professor of Political Science and Director, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta; Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University, New York
- Sudipta Kaviraj - Professor of Political Science, Columbia University, New York
[edit] Humanities
Bengali
- Muhammad Shahidullah - Writer and linguist
- Madan Mohan Tarkalankar - Renowned textbook writer
English
- Jasodhara Bagchi - Professor of English, Jadavpur University, Calcutta; Chairperson, West Bengal Women's Commission
- Sukanta Chaudhuri - translator of Sukumar Ray's Abol Tabol; Professor and Head of Department of English, Presidency College, Calcutta; Professor of English, Jadavpur University, Calcutta
- Nabaneeta Dev Sen - Padmashree awardee; Professor of Comparative Litrature, Jadavpur University, Calcutta
- Peary Charan Sarkar - Assistant Professor of English, Presidency College, Calcutta and Headmaster, Colootollah School
- Tarak Nath Sen - Professor of English, Presidency College, Calcutta
Sanskrit
- Kshetresa Chandra Chattopadhyaya - Professor of Sanskrit at Allahabad University and editor of Sarasvati Bhavana Granthamala and the journal Sarasvati Susama
- Haraprasad Shastri - Professor of Sanskrit and Principal of Sanskrit College, Calcutta, and discoverer of Charyapada
[edit] Journalists
- M.J.Akbar - Editor of The Asian Age
- Krishna Mohan Banerjee - Publisher of Inquirer and a prominent member of Young Bengal
- Sasthi Brata - Journalist
- Rasik Krishna Mallick - Editor of Jnananwesan and publisher of Parthenon
[edit] Poets and Novelists
- Manik Bandopadhyay - Novelist
- Rajnarayan Basu - Writer and prominent Brahmo
- Rajsekhar Basu - Novelist; also Manager of Bengal Chemical Works
- Samit Basu - Novelist
- Bankim Chandra Chatterjee - Poet and Novelist
- Jibanananda Das - Poet
- Henry Louis Vivan Derozio - Poet
- Michael Madhusudan Dutt - Poet
- Shankha Ghosh - Poet
- Sukumar Ray - Poet and Humourist
- Jyotirindranath Tagore - Poet and Novelist
- Rabindranath Tagore - Poet and Novelist; winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature
- Shahidullah Kaiser - Writer; winner of Bangla Academy Award
[edit] Filmmakers, Theatre Personalities, Artists and Musicians
- Bratya Basu - Dramatist
- Ashok Kumar - Actor, winner of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award (1988)
- Pritam - Bollywood music director
- Pritish Nandy - Film producer
- Aparna Sen - Actress and director; also a Padmashree awardee
- Devajyoti Ray - Artist
- Satyajit Ray - Film Director, winner of the Oscar for Lifetime Achievement (1992)
- Dilipkumar Roy - Musician
- Dwijendranath Tagore - Musician and co-founder of Patha Bhavana, Santiniketan
[edit] Sportspersons
- Vece Paes - Hockey player
- Sanjay Ray - Cricketer; played for Assam in the Ranji Trophy; also Divisional Manager of Williamson Magor, a tea company in Assam.
