List of University of Calcutta people

This is a list of notable people connected to the University of Calcutta.

Fourteen heads of state and government, and four Nobel laureates have been associated with the university.

Fellows

 * Joseph Baly, Archdeacon of Calcutta, 1872–1883
 * Lal Behari Dey, Bengali Indian journalist who became a Christian missionary
 * Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith, British Indologist
 * Thomas Holbein Hendley, British medical officer in the Indian Medical Service and Indian art connoisseur
 * Nawab Abdul Latif, Bengali nineteenth-century educator
 * James Wood-Mason, British zoologist, director of the Indian Museum in Calcutta

Science and technology

 * Dipak K Banerjee, BSc, MSc & PhD in Chemistry from the University, Professor of biochemistry
 * Chandramukhi Basu, one of the first two female graduates of the British Empire; first female head of an undergraduate academic institution in South Asia
 * Sasanka Chandra Bhattacharyya, natural product chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
 * Katyayanidas Bhattacharya, philosophy professor, Presidency College, Calcutta
 * Santanu Bhattacharya, chemical biologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate, N-Bios laureate
 * Birendra Bijoy Biswas, molecular biologist
 * Nirmal Kumar Bose, Census Commissioner of India
 * Barun De, Chairman, West Bengal Heritage Commission, Calcutta
 * Amlan Dutta, former Vice Chancellor of Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan
 * Asim Duttaroy, medical scientist
 * Mircea Eliade, religious scholar and philosopher
 * Prafulla Chandra Ghosh, English literature scholar
 * Sankar Ghosh, Chairman of Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Columbia University; co-founder of Theralogics Inc.
 * K. S. Krishnan, philosopher
 * Dhan Gopal Mukerji, socio-cultural critic; first successful man of letters in the early 20th-century United States
 * Kamini Roy, first female honours graduate in the British Empire; first feminist author in India
 * Prafulla Chandra Roy, chemist
 * Sir Jadunath Sarkar, Vice Chancellor of the University of Calcutta
 * Debi Prasad Sarkar, immunologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
 * Brajendra Nath Seal, Vice Chancellor of Visva-Bharati University and the University of Mysore
 * Ashoke Sen, string theorist
 * Dinesh Chandra Sen, scholar of early Bengali literature
 * Ranjan Sen, biophysicist, N-Bios laureate
 * Sanjib Senapati, biotechnologist, N-Bios laureate
 * Debasis Chattopadhyay, plant biologist, N-Bios laureate