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Social Reformers and Religious Leaders

• Swami Vivekananda , proponent of Advaita Vedanta in the West andfounder of Ramakrishna Mission
• Rev. Lal Behari Dey , litterateur and theologian of the Free Church of Scotland
• Brahmabandhav Upadhyay , theologian and preacher of New Dispensation Brahmoism, Protestantism, and Roman Catholicism
• Benoyendranath Sen , theologian of New Dispensation Brahmoism
• Sitanath Tattwabhushan , theologian and former president of Sadharan Brahmo Samaj
• Krishna Kumar Mitra , former president of Sadharan Brahmo Samaj
• Paramahansa Yogananda , proponent of Kriya Yoga in the West and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship
• A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada , proponent of Gaudiya Vaishnavism and founder of International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON)
• Rt. Rev. Aurobindo Nath Mukherjee , first Indian to serve as the Bishop of Calcutta and as the Metropolitan Bishop of India within the Church of Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon
• Swami Gambhirananda , former president of  Ramakrishna Mission
• Mohanananda Brahmachari , second Mohanta (Head) of Ram Niwas Brahmacharya Ashram

Independence Activists and Politicians

• Subhas Chandra Bose , former president of Indian National Congress , founder president of All India Forward Bloc , co-founder of Indian National Army (INA) 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
• Syed Abul Mansur Habibullah , co-founder of Bengal Provincial KrishakSabha, and Students Federation of India
• Saroj Dutta , veteran communist leader, co-founder of Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) and Naxalite movement
• Ambica Charan Mazumdar , former president of Indian National Congress
• Nirmal Chandra Chatterjee , former president of 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 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 afairs
• Shawkat Ali Khan , Barrister, freedom fighter and former Member of Parliament, Bangladesh

Jurists

• Sir Gooroodas Banerjee , former judge Calcutta High Court
• Sudhi Ranjan Das , former Chief Justice of India
• Amal Kumar Sarkar , former Chief Justice of India
• Subimal Chandra Roy , former judge, Supreme Court of India
• Sambhunath Banerjee , former judge, Calcutta High Court
• Amarendra Nath Sen , former Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court, and former judge of Supreme Court of India
• Samarendra Chandra Deb , former Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court
• Anil Kumar Sen , former Chief Justice, of Calcutta High Court
• Anandamoy Bhattacharjee , former Chief Justice of Sikkim , Calcutta and Bombay High Courts
• Ganendra Narayan Ray , former Chief Justice of Gujarat High Court , and former judge of Supreme Court of India
• Umesh Chandra Banerjee , former Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court and former judge of Supreme Court of India
• Mukul Gopal Mukherjee , former Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court
• Shyamal Kumar Sen , former Chief Justice of 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 SouthAsia (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 nnthropooogist
• Biraja Sankar Guha , pioneering anthropologist, one of the first Ph.D. recipients in anthropology in the world (Harvard University, 1924) andfounder-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 , Professor of Indian History and Civilization andEmeritus 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, University of Kalyani

Performing Arts, Theater and Cinema

• Sisir Bhaduri , noted playwright
• Pankaj Mullick , Bollywood and Bengali cinema music director andcomposer
• 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
• 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
• Arun Kumar Shaha, sitarist with achievement across different continents
• Partha Pratim Chowdhury , film director and playwright
• Manoj Mitra , dramatist and actor
• Madhav Sharma , actor, comedian, theater director
• Pulak Bandyopadhyay , lyricist and composer
• Bratya Basu, actor, stage director, playwright, film director, professor and politician
• Puja Banerjee , actress
• Aninda Chatterjee, singer, song writer and film director

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
• Satyendranath Dutta , poet
• Sudhindranath Dutta , author and poet
• Ashok Kumar Sarkar , former editor of Desh literary magazine and Editor-in-Chief, Anandabazar Patrika (1958–1983)
• Lakshminath Bezbaroa , writer, editor and social critic
• Parvati Prasad Baruwa , litterateur
• Premendra Mitra , novelist, short story and science fiction writer, andfilm director
• 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, author and politician
• Bina Sarkar Ellias , founder-editor and publisher of Internationao Gaooerie, a global arts and ideas magazine
• Mustafa Manwar , artist and media personality
• Madhu Rye , playwright, novelist and short story writer

Administrators, Industrialists and Organization Lleaders

• Binay Ranjan Sen , former Director General, Food and Agriculture Organization (1956–1967)
• Nitish Chandra Laharry , first Indian (and Asian) president, Rotary International (1962–63)
• Jagmohan Dalmiya , former President, Board of Control for Cricket in India| and first Indian Chairman, International Cricket Council
• Mani Lal Bhaumik , scientist (laser technology) turned entrepreneur, inventor of excimer laser and author
• Diptendu Pramanick , first Secretary, Eastern India Motion Pictures Association, and Secretary, Film Federation of India (1953–54)
• Evelyn Norah Shullai , pioneer of Girl Guides Movement in India
• Samson H. Chowdhury , Industrialist

Sports Persons

• Gourgopal Ghosh , football player, Mohun Bagan Club and Mathematician
• Dharma Bhakta Mathema , bodybuilder, political activist and anti-royalistmartyr in the Kingdom of Nepal
• Surya Shekhar Ganguly , Chess Grandmaster and national champion
• Sreerupa Bose , former member, India National Women's Cricket Team

Padma Awardees

• Sri Manna Dey - Padma Shri - Indian Music - 1971
• Smt. Suchitra Mitra - Padma Shri - Indian Music - 1974
• Sri Mrinal Sen - Padma Bhushan - Arts - 1981
• Sri Manna Dey - Padma Bhushan - Arts - 2005
• Sri Tapan Raychaudhuri - Padma Bhushan - Literature and Education - 2007
• Sri S.C. Jamir - Padma Bhushan - Public Afairs - 2020
• Sri Kazi Masum Akhtar - Padma Shri - Literature and Education - 2020