List of Kolkata Presidencians

According to the [http://www.education.nic.in/collegedir/collegedir.asp college directory] of the University Grants Commission (India) there are eleven colleges that have the word "Presidency" in their titles. Among them, four are primarily referred to as "Presidency College" only. The following list contains only the names of the eminent alumni of Presidency College, Kolkata. A former or current student, who had been admitted into the college, but did or did not complete the course, as well as a teacher of the college, who taught for a lengthy period of time, is called a 'Presidencian'. Names of former students of Hindu College, which was its predecessor from 1817-1855, are also included in this list.

Religion

*Durga Mohan Das, Leader of the Brahmo Samaj
*Mahendranath Gupta, Author of "Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita" ("The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna")
*Swami Vivekananda, Founder of Ramakrishna Mission and Ramakrishna Math (for one year)

Politics

*Col. H.H. Maharaja Sir Nripendra Narayan Bhup Bahadur, Maharaja of Coochbehar [http://www.uq.net.au/~zzhsoszy/ips/c/coochbehar.html Indian Princely States: Coochbehar] ]
*Sir Surendranath Banerjea, 11th President of the Indian National Congress
*Jyoti Basu, Chief Minister of West Bengal (1977-2000)
*Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, Chief Minister of West Bengal (2001- )
*Biman Bose, Present Chairman of the Left Front in Bengal
*Subhash Chandra Bose, 53rd President of the Indian National Congress and founder of the Forward Bloc (later expelled) [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9080806/Subhas-Chandra-Bose/ Encyclopedia Britannica Online: Subhas Chandra Bose] ]
*Bhupendra Nath Bose, 29th President of the Indian National Congress
*Krishna Bose, Member, Lok Sabha of India
*Sarat Chandra Bose, Works, Mines and Power Member of India, (1946)
*Somnath Chatterjee, Speaker of the Lok Sabha, India, (2004- )
*Pratap Chandra Chunder, Education and Social Welfare Minister of India, (1977-1980)
*Asim Dasgupta, Present Finance Minister of West Bengal
*Romesh Dutt, ICS, 16th President of the Indian National Congress
*Ullaskar Dutta, Member of Jugantar Party
*Abdul Gafur, First Muslim Sheriff of Bengal
*Atulkrishna Ghosh, Member of the Anushilan Samiti
*Nolini Kanta Gupta, Participated in the Alipore Bomb case
*Bihari Lal Gupta, ICS, Chief Minister of Baroda
*A.K. Fazlul Huq, Prime Minister of Bengal, (1939-1943)
*Humayun Kabir, Education Minister of India, (1958-1967)
*Pandit Yamuna Karjee, Member of the Bihar and Orissa Assembly, (1937-1942)
*Maharajadhiraja Bahadur Sir Uday Chand Mahtab, "Zamindar" of Burdwan in Bengal [http://www.uq.net.au/~zzhsoszy/ips/b/burdwan.html Indian Princely States: Burdwan] ]
*Bishnu Ram Medhi, Chief Minister of Assam (1950-1957) [http://assamassembly.gov.in/cm-list.html Assam Legislative Assembly] ;see also [http://www.tripurainfo.com/citizen_services/helping_bytes/april_born.html Eminent Personalities] ]
*Shyamaprasad Mookerjee, Industry and Supply Member of India, (1946-1950)
*Raja Dakshinaranjan Mukherjee, "Taluqdar" of Shankarpore in the United Provinces
*Hirendranath Mukherjee, Member of the Lok Sabha, India, (1952-1977)
*Maharaja Somendra Chandra Nandi, "Zamindar" of Cossimbazar in Bengal
*Maharaja Bahadur Sir Krishna Narendra, Additional Member, Viceroy's Executive Council
*Brajkishore Prasad, "Zamindar" of Shrinagar in Bihar
*Dr. Rajendra Prasad, First-President of India
*Sir Abdur Rahim, Member, Bengal Executive Council (Administration of Justice, Jail and other Allied Subjects), 1921-1925
*Dr. Bidhan Chandra Ray, Chief Minister of West Bengal (1948-1962)
*Siddhartha Shankar Ray, Chief Minister of West Bengal (1972-1977)
*Kiran Shankar Ray, Home Minister of West Bengal
*Amiya Kumar Raychaudhuri, "Zamindar" of Kirtipasha in Bengal
*Sudarshan Raychaudhuri, Present-Education Minister of West Bengal
*Maharajah Sir Manmatha Nath Roy Chowdhury, Kt., Minister of Local Self Government, GOB
*Ashoke Kumar Sen, Law and Justice Minister of India
*Mohit Sen, Member of the Communist Party of India
*Anugrah Narayan Sinha, First-Finance Minister of Bihar
*Atis Sinha, Minister in the Government of West Bengal, (1972-1977)
*Maharaja Bhupendra Chandra Sinha, "Zamindar" of Susanga in Bengal. [http://www.uq.net.au/~zzhsoszy/ips/s/susanga.html Indian Princely States: Susanga] ]
*Bimal Sinha, Land Reforms Minister in West Bengal in the 1950s

Armed Forces

*Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee - First Indian Chief of the Air Staff of the Indian Air Force

Judiciary

*Gooroodas Banerjee, Judge of the Calcutta High Court
*Phani Bhushan Chakrabarty, First Indian Permanent Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court
*Rai Bahadur Hara Chandra Ghosh, First Bengali judge of the Small Causes Court in Calcutta
*Pratul Chandra Chatterjee, Judge, Chief Court, Punjab
*Ashutosh Chaudhuri, Barrister-at-Law, Judge of the Calcutta High Court
*Monomohun Ghose, First practising Indian Barrister of the Calcutta High Court
*Sir Sarat Kumar Ghosh, ICS, Chief Justice of Rajasthan
*Altmas Kabir, Judge of the Supreme Court of India
*Sir Ashutosh Mookerjee, Judge of the Calcutta High Court
*Sabyasachi Mukherjee, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India
*Saktinath Mukherjee, Senior Advocate of the Calcutta High Court
*Chittatosh Mookerjee, Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court
*Ramaprasad Mookerjee, Judge of the Calcutta High Court
*Radhabinod Pal, Judge of the Calcutta High Court
*Ajit Nath Roy, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India
*Dipak Sen, Chief Justice of Patna High Court
*Gnanendramohan Tagore, First Asian Barrister

Government

*Amalendu Banerjee, IAS, Chief Secretary, Government of Punjab
*Ashok Banerjee, IAS, Secretary to the President of India
*Alapan Bandopadhyay, IAS, Chief Municipal Commissioner of Calcutta
*Debabrata Bandopadhyay, IAS, Agriculture Secretary of India
*Anandaram Barooah, ICS, District Magistrate and Collector of Noakhali in Bengal
*Ashok Chatterjee, IAS, Member, Board of Revenue of West Bengal
*Sir Atul Chandra Chatterjee, ICS, Indian High Commissioner to UK
*Champak Chatterjee, IAS, Education Secretary of India
*Ranajit Datta, Chairman and Managing Director, Braithwaite, Burn and Jessop Limited
*Basanta Kumar De, Commercial Traffic Manager of Bengal Nagpur Railway
*Sib Chandra Deb, Deputy Collector in Bengal
*Gurusaday Dutt, ICS, Local Self Government and Public Health Secretary of Bengal
*Azizul Haque, Police officer; founder of the Henry Classification System
*Azizul Huque, Indian High Commissioner to Great Britain
*Ashok Mitra, ICS, Secretary to the President of India
*Prasad Ranjan Ray, IAS, Home Secretary of West Bengal
*Amiya Samanta, IPS, Additional Director General of Police of West Bengal
*Jawahar Sarkar, IAS, Development Commissioner of India
*Sukumar Sen, ICS, Chief Election Commissioner of India
*Nitish Sengupta, IAS, Revenue Secretary of India
*Himachal Som, IFS, Indian Ambassador to Italy
*Satyendranath Tagore, ICS, District Judge in Gujerat

Industry

*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
*Prafulla Chandra Roy, Founder of Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals
*Aurobindo Ray, Chairman of Martin Burn, Ltd.
*Rahul Sen, Managing Director of Gillanders Arbuthnot & Co. Ltd.

Academics

Chemistry

*Amar Bhaduri, Director, Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Calcutta
*Upendranath Brahmachari, First to synthesise urea stibamine
*Manotosh Dasgupta

Mathematics

*Amiya Charan Banerjee, Vice Chancellor of Allahabad University
*Radhanath Sikdar, First to calculate the height of Mount Everest

Medicine

*Mahendralal Sarkar, Founder of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Sciences, Calcutta

Physics

*Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, Inventor of wireless communications, crescograph
*Satyendranath Bose, Discovered Bose-Einstein statistics along with Albert Einstein; Bosons
*Ashesh Prasad Mitra, Director, Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research, Delhi
*Sisir Kumar Mitra, 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

Psychology

*P.K.Roy, First Indian Principal of Presidency College, Calcutta

tatistics

*Malay Ghosh, Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Florida, USA
*Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Founder of the Indian Statistical Institute

Zoology

*Sudhansu Kumar Ghosal, Ex-Faculty, McGill University, Canada
*Shivatosh Mookerjee, Professor and Dean of the School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
*Nirmal Kumar Sarkar, Convenor, Molbio & Genetics, Presidency College, Kolkata.

Anthropology

*Professor Surajit Chandra Sinha, Former-Vice Chancellor of Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan

Economics

*Amiya Bagchi, First-Director, Institute of Development Studies, Calcutta
*Abhijit Banerjee, Ford Foundation Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
*Dipak Banerjee, Professor and Head of Department of Economics, Presidency College, Kolkata
*Pranab Bardhan, Professor at University of California at Berkeley
*Amit Bhaduri, Emeritus-Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
*Sanjit Bose, Professor of Economics, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta
*Sukhomoy Chakroborty, Member, Planning Commission of India, 1971-1977
*Kalyan Chatterjee, Economist
*Bhabotosh Dutta, Finance Secretary of West Bengal
*Bibek Debroy, Former-Director, 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 of India
*Mukul Majumdar, Economist
*Tapas Majumdar, Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
*Tapan Mitra, Professor at Cornell University, USA
*Dilip Mukherjee, Faculty at Boston University, USA
*Radhakamal Mukerjee, Vice-chancellor of University of Lucknow
*Mihir Rakshit, Professor, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
*Debraj Ray, Julius Silver Professor of Economics, New York University
*Amartya Sen, [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9126420/Amartya-Sen/ Encyclopedia Britannica Online: Amartya Sen] ] - Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1998
*Chanakya Narayan Haldar, Tabulator of Calcutta University

History

*Ajay Banerjee, Professor of History, Presidency College, Calcutta
*Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay, Discoverer of Mohenjodaro, the principal site of the Harappa Culture
*Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Chairman, Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi
*Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of History, Harvard University, USA
*Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Professor of South Asian History, University of Chicago, USA
*Suranjan Das, Vice Chancellor, University of Calcutta
*Ashin Dasgupta, Former-Vice Chancellor, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan
*Barun De, Chairman, West Bengal Heritage Commission, Calcutta
*Tapati Guha Thakurta, Professor of History, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
*R. C. Majumdar, Vice Chancellor of University of Dacca
*Bratin Mukherjee, Professor of Ancient History, University of Calcutta
*Rajat Kanta Ray, Vice Chancellor, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan
*Tapan Raychaudhuri, Ad Hominem-Professor of Indian History and Civilisation, University of Oxford
*Sumit Sarkar, Professor of History, Delhi University
*Susobhan Sarkar, Professor and Head of Department of History, Presidency College, Calcutta
*Tanika Sarkar, Professor of History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
*Sir Jadunath Sarkar, Vice Chancellor, University of Calcutta
*Amalesh Tripathy, Ashutosh Professor of History, University of Calcutta

Political Science

*Partha Chatterjee, Director of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
*Sudipta Kaviraj, Professor of Political Science, Columbia University, New York

Bengali

*Muhammad Shahidullah, Writer and linguist
*Madan Mohan Tarkalankar, Renowned textbook writer

English

*Jasodhara Bagchi, Chairperson, West Bengal Women's Commission, Calcutta
*Sukanta Chaudhuri, Translator of Sukumar Ray's "Abol Tabol"
*Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Professor of Comparative Litrature, Jadavpur University, Calcutta
*Peary Charan Sarkar, Headmaster, Hare School, Calcutta
*Tarak Nath Sen, Professor of English, Presidency College, Calcutta

anskrit

*Kshetresa Chandra Chattopadhyaya, Professor of Sanskrit at Allahabad University
*Bhudev Mukhopadhyay, CIE, Director of Public Instructions
*Haraprasad Shastri, Principal of Sanskrit College, Calcutta

Journalists

*M.J.Akbar, Editor of "The Asian Age"
*Krishna Mohan Banerjee, Publisher of "Inquirer"
*Sasthi Brata, Journalist
*Hiranmoy Karlekar, Editor of "Pioneer"
*Rudrangshu Mukherjee, Opinions Editor, "The Telegraph"
*Rasik Krishna Mallick, Editor of "Jnananwesan"
*Pritish Nandy, Editor, "Illustrated Weekly of India"
*Avik Sarkar, Editor-in-Chief, "The Telegraph"

Poets and Novelists

*Manik Bandopadhyay, Novelist
*Rajnarayan Basu, Writer and prominent Brahmo
*Rajsekhar Basu, Novelist
*Samit Basu, Novelist
*Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Poet and Novelist
*Pramatha Chaudhuri, Editor of "Sabuj Patra"
*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, Winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature
*Shahidullah Kaiser, Winner of Bangla Academy Award

Artists and Musicians

*Devajyoti Ray, Artist
*Dilipkumar Roy, Musician
*Birendrakishore Raychaudhuri, Dean, Faculty of Music, Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta
*Dwijendranath Tagore, Musician

Filmmakers, Theatre Personalities and Actors

*Pramathesh Barua, Actor
*Bratya Basu, Dramatist
*Ashok Kumar, Winner of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award (1988)
*Dinabandhu Mitra, Author of "Nildarpan"
*Pritam, Bollywood music director
*Aparna Sen, Actress
*Satyajit Ray, Winner of the Oscar Award for Lifetime Achievement (1992)

portspersons

*Vece Paes, Member of the Bronze medal winning Indian Hockey team at the Munich Olympics, 1972
*Sanjay Ray, Member of the Assam Ranji Trophy cricket team

References