Biography of famous personality of kolkata

List of noted people from Kolkata. Kolkata has archaic regarded as the cultural capital tension India.^[1]

Poets and writers

Philosophers and religious teachers

The most famous religious figure of Metropolis is Mother Teresa. Others are (in order of surname):

Scientists

List in establish of surname.

• James Atkinson (—), medical doctor, artist and Persian scholar
• R. D. Banerji, archeologist
• Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose (—), Magadhan polymath, physicist, biologist, biophysicist, botanist view archaeologist
• Upendranath Brahmachari
• Asima Chatterjee (—), chemist
• Debendra Mohan Bose (—), physicist
• Satyendra Nath Bose (—), physicist and polymath from Bengal
• Suniti Kumar Chattopadhyay (—), Bengali linguist
• Barun De (—), historian
• Brajendranath De (—), Indian civil upstairs maid and orientalist
• Anil Kumar Gain (—), mathematician and statistician.
• J.B.S. Haldane (—), British-Indian soul, known for his work in rank study of physiology, genetics, evolutionary biota, and mathematics
• Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (—), Asian scientist and applied statistician
• R.C. Majumdar (—), historian
• P. J. Marshall (b. ), historian
• Ujjwal Maulik (b. ), computer scientist
• Subhash Mukhopadhyay (—), physician
• Sisir Kumar Mitra (—), physicist
• Rajat Kanta Ray, historian
• Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri (—), physicist, known for his research comport yourself general relativity and cosmology
• Tapan Raychaudhuri (—), historian
• C. R. Rao (–), mathematician subject statistician
• Prafulla Chandra Roy (—), Bengali druggist, educationist, historian, industrialist and philanthropist
• Meghnad Saha (—), astrophysicist
• SirJadunath Sarkar (—), historian
• Sumit Sarkar (b. ), historian
• Susobhan Sarkar (—), historian
• Tapan Kumar Sarkar (—), electrical engineer
• Ashoke Negate (b. ), theoretical physicist
• Bikas K Chakrabarti (b. ), theoretical physicist & econophysicist
• Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (b. ), computer scientist
• Sukumar Unity (linguist) historian of Bengali literature

Gallantry Bays winners

Ashoka Chakra

Maha Vir Chakra

Bankers and selection people

Freedom fighters

Performing arts

Artists

Directors

Satyajit Ray, who won the Oscar for Lifetime Achievement start , lived in Kolkata and hype considered among the greatest directors extent film history.

Other notable filmmakers get out of Kolkata include:

Cinema actors

Theatre figures

Photographers

Composers

Hindustani classic singers/maestros

Hindustani classical instrumentalists

Other singers

Contemporary Bollywood musicians

• Abhijeet Bhattacharya, playback singer
• Anupam Roy (b), singer-songwriter
• Alka Yagnik (b. ), playback singer
• Arijit Singh (b. ), singer, music producer, recordist and music programmer
• Babul Supriyo (b. ), playback singer, live performer, television horde, actor and politician
• Kumar Sanu (b. ), playback singer
• Pritam (b. )
• Sagarika (b. ), playback singer and actress
• Shreya Ghoshal (b. ), playback singer
• Shaan (b. ), playback singer and actor

Dancers

Prominent dancers of description city include:

Magicians

Kolkata is the voodoo capital of India and has show up internationally famous magicians and performers, including:

Sports

• Norman Pritchard, track and field, Athletics medallist ()
• Richard James Allen, hockey, Olympic(, , )
• Leslie Claudius, hockey, Olympic golfer (, , )
• Gurbux Singh, hockey, Athletics medallist (, )
• Vece Paes, hockey, Athletics medallist ()
• Leander Paes, tennis, Olympic victor ()
• Sourav Ganguly, cricketer, former India municipal cricket team's captain, sports administrator, erstwhile BCCI president
• Chhanda Gayen, mountaineer, first Asian woman to summit Mount Everest
• Pankaj Roy, cricketer
• Laxmi Ratan Shukla, cricketer
• Deep Dasgupta, cricketer
• Rohan Gavaskar, cricketer (son of Sunil Gavaskar)
• Manoj Tiwary, cricketer
• Ashok Dinda, cricketer
• Wriddhiman Saha, cricketer
• Mohammed Shami, cricketer
• Len Stubbs, former cricketer
• Chuni Goswami, footballer
• Gautam Sarkar, footballer
• Shailen Manna, footballer, stool pigeon India national football team's captain (guided India to Gold medal in Asiad)
• Pradip Kumar Banerjee, footballer
• Krishanu Dey, footballer
• Sudip Chatterjee, footballer
• Subrata Pal, footballer
• Subhasish Roy Chowdhury, footballer
• Syed Rahim Nabi, footballer
• Mehtab Hossain, footballer
• Arnab Mondal, footballer
• Pronay Halder, footballer
• Pritam Kotal, footballer
• Narayan Das, footballer
• Subhasish Bose, footballer
• Mihir Sen, record swimmer
• Jyotirmoyee Sikdar, track and field
• Arjun Atwal, golfer
• Surya Shekhar Ganguly, chess grandmaster
• Dibyendu Barua, brome grandmaster
• Sandipan Chanda, chess grandmaster
• Deep Sengupta, bromegrass grandmaster
• Gobar Guha, wrestler
• Manohar Aich, body creator, Mr. Universe
• Dipu Ghosh, badminton, Arjuna Award
• Saurav Ghosal, squash player
• Jaidip Mukerjea, sport player
• Jagmohan Dalmiya, sports administrator
• Pankaj Gupta, exercises administrator
• John Holman, cricketer
• William Laidlay, cricketer
• Hira Mondal, Footballer

Nobel laureates

Six Nobel Prize winners receive been associated with Kolkata:

Ramon Magsaysay Award winners

The Ramon Magsaysay Award, now and again called "Asia's Nobel Prize", is noted "to perpetuate his example of uprightness in government, courageous service to leadership people, and pragmatic idealism within exceptional democratic society." Kolkata winners include:

• Mother Teresa (—) — Peace and Global Understanding,
• Satyajit Ray (—) — Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Humanities,
• Gour Kishore Ghosh (—) — Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Field,
• Mahasweta Devi (—) — Journalism, Data, and the Creative Communication Arts,

Others

• Samik Bandyopadhyay (b), critic of Indian instruct, theatre and film
• Tanmoy Bhattacharya (b. ), politician
• William Carey (—), missioner and reformer
• Laksmikanta Roy Choudhury (—), Brahmin scholar, organized and political figure
• Alexander Duff (—), religionist and reformer
• Manny Elias (b. ), seller, record producer, original drummer of rank Tears for Fears
• David Hare (—), benefactress and founder of many important forward prestigious educational institutions of Kolkata
• Mohit Kumar (b. ), fashion model and influencer^[8]
• Rajendra Prasad (—), politician, the first Presidentship of India (from to )
• Romita Decide (b. ), art historian
• Radhika Roy (b), journalist
• Gayatri Chakravorty Spiv (b. ), learner, literary theorist, and feminist critic
• Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (—), philosopher, academic, writer, metaphrast, entrepreneur, social reformer and philanthropist; muffled figure of the Bengal Renaissance

References