List of Kolkata Presidencians

The following is a list of notable people associated with the old Presidency College, Calcutta.

Administration

 * Gurusaday Dutt, ICS, Secretary, Local Self Government and Public Health Secretary, Government of Bengal

Academics

 * Abhijit Banerjee, professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2019
 * Abhijit Basu, professor of geology, Indiana University Bloomington
 * Ashoke Sen, professor at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Bangalore, winner of Dirac Medal in 2014
 * Joyoti Basu, cell biologist, N-Bios laureate
 * Ratan Lal Basu, Specialist in ancient economics and Indologist
 * Raunak Sinha, Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Wisconsin Madison
 * Mrinalini Hoon, Associate Professor, Department of Opthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Wisconsin Madison
 * Birendra Bijoy Biswas, Botanist and molecular biologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
 * Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic, holder of University Professor at Columbia University
 * Jitendra Nath Mohanty, philosopher, former president of the Indian Philosophical Congress
 * Sankar Das Sarma, eminent theoretical condensed matter physicist and Richard E Prange Chaired Professor at University of Maryland, US
 * Surajit Chandra Sinha, former Vice Chancellor, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan; Maharajkumar of Susanga, Bengal
 * Amartya Sen, Master, Trinity College, Cambridge (1998–2004); winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1998
 * Barun De, Former Chairman, West Bengal Heritage Commission and Founder-Director, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.

Politics

 * Bidhan Chandra Roy, 2nd Chief Minister of West Bengal (1948–1962); 5th Mayor of Kolkata (1931–1933)
 * Siddhartha Shankar Ray, 5th Chief Minister of West Bengal (1972–77); Education Minister, Government of India; Governor of Punjab; Ambassador to U.S.A.
 * Jyoti Basu, 6th Chief Minister of West Bengal (1977-2000)
 * Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, 7th Chief Minister of West Bengal (2000–11)
 * Bishnu Ram Medhi, Chief Minister of Assam (1950–57)
 * MJ Akbar, Minister of State for External Affairs, Government of India (2016–2018)
 * Abdus Salam Khan, Minister of Public Works and Communication (1955–1956) in the East Pakistan provincial cabinet
 * Md. Hafizur Rahman, Minister of Food and Agriculture of Pakistan (1958–1960); Minister of Commerce of Pakistan (1960–1962); Provincial Minister of Finance and Planning of East Pakistan (1962–1965)
 * Amit Mitra, Finance Minister of West Bengal (2011–21)
 * Syama Prasad Mukherjee, founder of Bharatiya Jana Sangh; Industry and Supply Member, Government of India (1946–50)
 * Maharajadhiraja Sir Uday Chand Mahtab, Member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly (1937–52), Member, Indian Constituent Assembly, 1946-47 & Maharajadhiraja Bahadur of Burdwan.
 * Subhas Chandra Bose, Freedom Fighter, Commander of INA, First Leader of Free Indian Territory, Mayor of Calcutta; 53rd President of the Indian National Congress; founder of the Forward Bloc ;
 * Colonel H.H. Maharaja Nripendra Narayan Bhup Bahadur of Coochbehar
 * Raja Narasingha Malla Deb, OBE, MP, of Jhargram Raj

Judiciary

 * Sir Sarat Kumar Ghosh, I.C.S, Chief Justice of Jaipur and Kashmir.

Writers

 * Henry Louis Vivan Derozio, poet
 * Ratan Lal Basu, fiction author

Religious leader

 * Swami Vivekananda, the great Nationalist Indian Hindu monk, a chief disciple of the 19th-century Indian teacher Ramakrishna, key figure in the introduction of the Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world and is credited with raising interfaith awareness, bringing Hinduism to the status of a major world religion during the late 19th century and founded the Ramakrishna Math and the Ramakrishna Mission.

Faculty Members

 * Dipak Banerjee, former Head of the Department of Economics of Presidency College, Kolkata