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'''List of notable people from Kolkata''' | '''List of notable people from Kolkata'''. The city of [[Kolkata]] has been regarded as the cultural capital of [[India]].<ref>{{cite book | ||
| last = | | last = naiya | ||
| first = | | first = Arijit | ||
|author2=Anita Desai | |author2=Anita Desai | ||
| title = Calcutta: a cultural and literary history | | title = Calcutta: a cultural and literary history | ||
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| year = 2003 | | year = 2003 | ||
| page = xiv | | page = xiv | ||
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=UKfoHi5412UC | | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=UKfoHi5412UC&dq=yet+another+book+on+calcutta&pg=PP16 | ||
| isbn = 978-1-902669-59-5}}</ref> | | isbn = 978-1-902669-59-5}}</ref> | ||
== | {{Dynamic list |date=March 2025}} | ||
== Writers, Including poets == | |||
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*[[S Wajid Ali]] | |||
*[[Syed Mujtaba Ali]] | *[[Syed Mujtaba Ali]] | ||
*[[ | *[[Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay]] | ||
*[[ | *[[Kumudini Basu]] | ||
*[[Suchitra Bhattacharya]] | *[[Suchitra Bhattacharya]] | ||
*[[Sukanta Bhattacharya]] | *[[Sukanta Bhattacharya]] | ||
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*[[Amiya Chakravarty]] | *[[Amiya Chakravarty]] | ||
*[[Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay]] | *[[Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay]] | ||
*[[Shakti Chattopadhyay]] | *[[Shakti Chattopadhyay]] | ||
*[[Nirad C. Chaudhuri]] | *[[Nirad C. Chaudhuri]] | ||
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*[[Sunil Gangopadhyay]] | *[[Sunil Gangopadhyay]] | ||
*[[Joy Goswami]] | *[[Joy Goswami]] | ||
*[[ | *[[Gulzar]] | ||
*[[Asit Kumar Haldar]] | |||
*[[Amelia Horne]] | |||
*[[Kazi Nazrul Islam]] | |||
*[[Sisir Kumar Maitra]] | *[[Sisir Kumar Maitra]] | ||
*[[Binoy Majumdar]] | *[[Binoy Majumdar]] | ||
*[[Mohitolal Majumdar]] | *[[Mohitolal Majumdar]] | ||
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*[[Dinabandhu Mitra]] | *[[Dinabandhu Mitra]] | ||
*[[Premendra Mitra]] | *[[Premendra Mitra]] | ||
*[[Mimi Mondal]], First Indian English writer who nominated for Hugo Award. | |||
*[[Dhan Gopal Mukerji]] | *[[Dhan Gopal Mukerji]] | ||
*[[Shobhanasundari Mukhopadhyay]], Shovana Devi Tagore, folklorist | |||
*[[Subhash Mukhopadhyay (poet)|Subhas Mukhopadhyay]] | *[[Subhash Mukhopadhyay (poet)|Subhas Mukhopadhyay]] | ||
*[[Purnendu Patri]] | *[[Purnendu Patri]] | ||
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*[[Annada Shankar Ray]] | *[[Annada Shankar Ray]] | ||
*[[Dwijendralal Ray]] | *[[Dwijendralal Ray]] | ||
*[[Sukumar Ray]] | |||
*[[Tarapada Ray]] | *[[Tarapada Ray]] | ||
*[[ | *[[Samar Sen (poet)|Samar Sen]] | ||
*[[Badal Sircar]], dramatist and theatre director | |||
*[[Badal Sircar]], dramatist and theatre director | |||
*[[Srijato]] | *[[Srijato]] | ||
*[[ | *[[Rabindranath Tagore]], 1st non-European to win a Nobel Prize | ||
==Philosophers and religious teachers== | ==Philosophers and religious teachers== | ||
The most famous religious figure of Kolkata is | The most famous religious figure of Kolkata is [[Mother Teresa]]. Others are (in order of surname): | ||
*[[Bhakti Hridaya Bon]] ( | *[[Bhakti Hridaya Bon]] (1901–1982) | ||
*[[Bhakti Prajnana Kesava Goswami]] ( | *[[Bhakti Prajnana Kesava Goswami]] (1898–1968) | ||
*[[A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada]] ( | *[[Boro Maa]], (1918–2019) | ||
*[[Ramakrishna]] ( | *[[A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada]] (1896–1977), founder of the [[International Society for Krishna Consciousness]] (ISKCON) | ||
*[[Ram Mohan Roy]] ( | *[[Ramakrishna]] (1836–1886) | ||
*[[Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati]] ( | *[[Ram Mohan Roy]] (1772–1833) | ||
*[[Keshab Chandra Sen]] ( | *[[Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati]] (1874–1837), founder of [[Gaudiya Math]] | ||
*[[Debendranath Tagore]] ( | *[[Keshab Chandra Sen]] (1838–1884) | ||
*[[Bhaktivinoda Thakur]] ( | *[[Debendranath Tagore]] (1817–1905) | ||
*[[Swami Vivekananda]] ( | *[[Bhaktivinoda Thakur]] (1838–1914) | ||
*[[Swami Vivekananda]] (1863–1902) | |||
*[[Paramhansa Yogananda]] (1893-1952) | |||
== | ==Engineers and scientists== | ||
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* [[James Atkinson (Persian scholar)|James Atkinson]] ( | *[[James Atkinson (Persian scholar)|James Atkinson]] (1780–1852), surgeon, artist and Persian scholar | ||
*[[Jagadish Chandra Bose|Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose]] ( | *[[Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay]] (born 1968), [[computer scientist]] | ||
*[[Asima Chatterjee]] ( | *[[R. D. Banerji]], archeologist | ||
*[[Debendra Mohan Bose]] ( | *[[Jagadish Chandra Bose|Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose]] (1858–1937), Bengali polymath, physicist, biologist, biophysicist, botanist and archaeologist | ||
*[[Satyendra Nath Bose]] ( | *[[Upendranath Brahmachari]] | ||
*[[Suniti Kumar Chatterji|Suniti Kumar Chattopadhyay]] ( | *[[Bikas K Chakrabarti]] (born 1952), theoretical physicist and econophysicist | ||
*[[Barun De]] ( | *[[Asima Chatterjee]] (1917–2006), chemist | ||
*[[Brajendranath De]] ( | *[[Debendra Mohan Bose]] (1875–1975), physicist | ||
*[[Anil Kumar Gain]] ( | *[[Satyendra Nath Bose]] (1894–1974), physicist and polymath from Bengal | ||
*[[J.B.S. Haldane]] ( | *[[Suniti Kumar Chatterji|Suniti Kumar Chattopadhyay]] (1890–1977), Bengali linguist | ||
*[[Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis]] ( | *[[Barun De]] (1932–2013), historian | ||
*[[R.C. Majumdar]] ( | *[[Brajendranath De]] (1852–1932), civil servant and orientalist | ||
*[[P. J. Marshall]] ( | *[[Anil Kumar Gain]] (1919–1978), mathematician and statistician | ||
*[[Subhash Mukhopadhyay (physician)|Subhash Mukhopadhyay]] ( | *[[J.B.S. Haldane]] (1892–1964), British-Indian scientist, known for his work in the study of [[physiology]], [[genetics]], [[evolutionary biology]], and [[mathematics]] | ||
*[[Sisir Kumar Mitra]] ( | *[[Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis]] (1893–1972), Bengali scientist and applied statistician | ||
*[[Rajat Kanta Ray]], historian | *[[R.C. Majumdar]] (1884–1980), historian | ||
*[[Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri]] ( | *[[P. J. Marshall]] (born 1933), historian | ||
*[[Tapan Raychaudhuri]] ( | *[[Ujjwal Maulik]] (born 1965), computer scientist | ||
*[[C R Rao|C. R. Rao]] ( | *[[Subhash Mukhopadhyay (physician)|Subhash Mukhopadhyay]] (1931–1981), physician | ||
*[[Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy|Prafulla Chandra Roy]] ( | *[[Sisir Kumar Mitra]] (1890–1963), physicist | ||
*[[Meghnad Saha]] ( | *[[Shehla Pervin]], Indian scientist and scholar | ||
*[[Sir]] [[Jadunath Sarkar]] ( | *[[Rajat Kanta Ray]], historian | ||
*[[Sumit Sarkar]] ( | *[[Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri]] (1922–2005), physicist, known for his research in [[general relativity]] and [[cosmology]] | ||
*[[Susobhan Sarkar]] ( | *[[Tapan Raychaudhuri]] (1926–2014), historian | ||
*[[Tapan Kumar Sarkar]] ( | *[[Tapati Guha-Thakurta]] (born 1957), historian | ||
*[[Ashoke Sen]] ( | *[[Sukanta Chaudhuri]] (born 1950), literary scholar | ||
*[[Ananda Lal]] (born 1955), academic and theatre scholar | |||
*[[Sukumar Sen (linguist)]] historian of Bengali literature | *[[C R Rao|C. R. Rao]] (1920–2023), mathematician and statistician | ||
*[[Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy|Prafulla Chandra Roy]] (1861–1944), Bengali chemist, educationist, historian, industrialist and philanthropist | |||
*[[Meghnad Saha]] (1893–1956), [[Astrophysics|astrophysicist]] | |||
*[[Sir]] [[Jadunath Sarkar]] (1870–1958), historian | |||
*[[Sumit Sarkar]] (born 1939), historian | |||
*[[Susobhan Sarkar]] (1900–1982), historian | |||
*[[Tapan Kumar Sarkar]] (1948–2021), electrical engineer | |||
*[[Ashoke Sen]] (born 1956), [[Theoretical physics|theoretical physicist]] | |||
*[[Sukumar Sen (linguist)|Sukumar Sen]], historian of Bengali literature | |||
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== Gallantry Awards winners == | == Gallantry Awards winners == | ||
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==Bankers and business people== | ==Bankers and business people== | ||
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*[[A K Bera|Amar Kumar Bera]] | <!---♦♦♦ Please keep the list in alphabetical order by LAST NAME ♦♦♦---> | ||
*[[Radhe Shyam Agarwal]] | |||
*[[A. K. Bera|Amar Kumar Bera]] | |||
*[[P. C. Bhattacharya]], 7th Governor, [[Reserve Bank of India]] | *[[P. C. Bhattacharya]], 7th Governor, [[Reserve Bank of India]] | ||
*[[Aditya Vikram Birla]] | *[[Aditya Vikram Birla]] | ||
*[[ | *[[Radhe Shyam Goenka]] | ||
*[[R. P. Goenka]] ([[RPG Group]]) | |||
*[[Sanjiv Goenka]] | *[[Sanjiv Goenka]] | ||
*[[Chandra Shekhar Ghosh]] (founder of [[Bandhan Bank]]) | *[[Chandra Shekhar Ghosh]] (founder of [[Bandhan Bank]]) | ||
*[[Rajat Gupta]] (b. 1948) | *[[Rajat Gupta]] (b. 1948) | ||
*[[Ellis Jacob]] (founder of [[Cineplex Entertainment]]) | |||
*[[Lakshmi Mittal]] | |||
*[[Tiny Rowland]] (chairman of [[Lonrho]] from 1962 to 1993) | |||
*[[Prannoy Roy]] (b.1949) | |||
*[[Nalini Ranjan Sarkar]] | *[[Nalini Ranjan Sarkar]] | ||
*[[Mutty | *[[Mutty Lall Seal]] | ||
==Freedom fighters== | ==Freedom fighters== | ||
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*[[Sri Aurobindo]] | *[[Sri Aurobindo]] | ||
*[[Maulana Azad]] | |||
*[[Benoy Basu]] | *[[Benoy Basu]] | ||
*[[Khudiram Bose]] | *[[Khudiram Bose]] | ||
*[[Rash Behari Bose]] | *[[Rash Behari Bose]] | ||
*[[Subhas Chandra Bose]] | *[[Subhas Chandra Bose]] | ||
*[[Jogesh Chandra | *[[Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee]] | ||
*[[Chittaranjan Das]] | *[[Chittaranjan Das]] | ||
*[[Jatindra Nath Das]] | *[[Jatindra Nath Das]] | ||
*[[ | *[[Sisir Kumar Ghosh]] | ||
*[[Badal Gupta]] | *[[Badal Gupta]] | ||
*[[Dinesh Gupta]] | *[[Dinesh Gupta]] | ||
*[[ | *[[Basanti Devi|Basanti Devi Haldar]] | ||
*[[Matangini Hazra]] | |||
*[[Bagha Jatin]] | |||
*[[Bipin Chandra Pal]] | *[[Bipin Chandra Pal]] | ||
*[[Sudhamoy Pramanick]] | *[[Sudhamoy Pramanick]] | ||
*[[Bidhan Chandra Roy]] | *[[Bidhan Chandra Roy]] | ||
*[[Ashoke Kumar Sen]] | *[[Ashoke Kumar Sen]] | ||
==Performing arts== | ==Performing arts== | ||
===Artists=== | ===Artists=== | ||
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*[[Sukanta Basu]] | |||
*[[Jogen Chowdhury]] | |||
*[[Anil Kumar Dutta]] | |||
*[[Gerry Judah]] | *[[Gerry Judah]] | ||
*[[Shanu Lahiri]]<ref name=Telegraph>{{cite news|title=Shanu Lahiri dead|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130202/jsp/calcutta/story_16510654.jsp#.UUISlTeEnuo|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130207013732/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130202/jsp/calcutta/story_16510654.jsp#.UUISlTeEnuo|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 February 2013|newspaper=The Telegraph (Calcutta)|access-date=15 March 2013}}</ref> | |||
*[[William Laidlay]] | |||
*[[Paresh Maity]] | |||
*[[Ganesh Pyne]] | |||
*[[Devajyoti Ray]] | |||
*[[Jamini Roy]] | *[[Jamini Roy]] | ||
*[[Sudip Roy]] | *[[Sudip Roy]] | ||
*[[Samir Roychoudhury]] | |||
*[[Paritosh Sen]] | *[[Paritosh Sen]] | ||
===Directors=== | ===Directors=== | ||
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*[[Nitin Bose]] | *[[Nitin Bose]] | ||
*[[Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury]] | |||
*[[Buddhadeb Dasgupta]] | *[[Buddhadeb Dasgupta]] | ||
*[[Anik Dutta]] | *[[Anik Dutta]] | ||
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*[[Gautam Ghose]] | *[[Gautam Ghose]] | ||
*[[Rituparno Ghosh]] | *[[Rituparno Ghosh]] | ||
*[[Sujoy Ghosh]] | |||
*[[Atiul Islam]] | |||
*[[Farha Khatun]] | |||
*[[Tarun Majumdar]] | |||
*[[Hrishikesh Mukherjee]] | *[[Hrishikesh Mukherjee]] | ||
*[[Kamaleshwar Mukherjee]] | |||
*[[Shiboprosad Mukherjee]] | |||
*[[Srijit Mukherji]] | *[[Srijit Mukherji]] | ||
*[[ | *[[Satyajit Ray]], winner of [[Academy Honorary Award|Oscar for Lifetime Achievement]] in 1992 and considered among the greatest director of film history. | ||
*[[ | *[[Bimal Roy]] | ||
*[[ | *[[Shakti Samanta]] | ||
*[[Aparna Sen]] | *[[Aparna Sen]] | ||
*[[Avijit Sen]] | |||
*[[Mrinal Sen]] | *[[Mrinal Sen]] | ||
*[[ | *[[Tapan Sinha]] | ||
=== Cinema actors === | === Cinema actors === | ||
*[[Uttam Kumar]] | *[[Debshankar Haldar|Pt. Debshankar Haldar]], actor | ||
*[[ | *[[Nabadwip Haldar]], actor and comedian | ||
*[[ | *[[Goutam Halder]], actor and director | ||
*[[ | *[[Uttam Kumar]], actor, singer, composer, producer, director and screenwriter | ||
*[[ | *[[Kaushik Ganguly]], actor, director and screenwriter | ||
*[[ | *[[Kaushik Sen|Koushik Sen]], actor and TV personality | ||
*[[ | *[[Mithun Chakraborty]], actor, dancer and TV personality | ||
*[[Rabi Ghosh]], actor and comedian | |||
*[[Ranjit Mallick]], actor | |||
*[[Dhritiman Chatterjee|Dhritiman Chaterji]], actor | |||
*[[Tapen Chatterjee]], actor | |||
*[[Barun Chanda]] | *[[Barun Chanda]] | ||
*[[Pahari Sanyal]] | *[[Pahari Sanyal]] | ||
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*[[Chhabi Biswas]] | *[[Chhabi Biswas]] | ||
*[[Karuna Bannerjee]] | *[[Karuna Bannerjee]] | ||
*[[Koel Mallick]], actress and daughter of [[Ranjit Mallick]] | |||
*[[Anil Chatterjee]] | *[[Anil Chatterjee]] | ||
*[[Arpita Pal|Arpita Chatterjee]], actress and TV personality; wife of [[Prosenjit Chatterjee]] | |||
*[[Subir Banerjee]] | *[[Subir Banerjee]] | ||
*[[Roopa Ganguly]] | *[[Roopa Ganguly]] | ||
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*[[Ashok Kumar]] | *[[Ashok Kumar]] | ||
*[[Bhanu Bandopadhyay]] | *[[Bhanu Bandopadhyay]] | ||
*[[Biswajit Chatterjee]] | *[[Biswajit Chatterjee]], actor, producer, director and politician | ||
*[[Prosenjit Chatterjee]] | *[[Prosenjit Chatterjee]], actor, producer and TV personality; son of [[Biswajit Chatterjee]] | ||
*[[Debashree Roy]], actress, dancer, choreographer, animal rights activist and politician; ex-wife of [[Prosenjit Chatterjee]] | |||
*[[Jahor Roy]] | *[[Jahor Roy]] | ||
*[[Kanan Devi]] | *[[Kanan Devi]] | ||
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*[[Swastika Mukherjee]] | *[[Swastika Mukherjee]] | ||
*[[Abdur Razzak (actor)|Razzak]] | *[[Abdur Razzak (actor)|Razzak]] | ||
*[[Dev (Bengali actor)|Dev, | *[[Dev (Bengali actor)|Dev]], actor, singer, producer, screenwriter and politician | ||
*[[Jeet (actor)|Jeet]] | *[[Jeet (actor)|Jeet]], actor, producer and TV personality | ||
*[[Ruma Guha Thakurta]] | *[[Ruma Guha Thakurta]] | ||
*[[ | *[[Tapas Paul]] | ||
*[[Mahua Roy Choudhury]] | |||
*[[Abbas (actor)|Mirza Abbas Ali]] | *[[Abbas (actor)|Mirza Abbas Ali]] | ||
*[[Suchitra Sen]] | *[[Suchitra Sen]] | ||
*[[ | *[[Antara Biswas]], actress | ||
*[[Aparna Sen]], actress, filmmaker and scriptwriter | |||
*[[Moonmoon Sen]] | *[[Moonmoon Sen]] | ||
*[[Riya Sen]] | *[[Riddhi Sen]], actor | ||
*[[Raima Sen]] | *[[Riya Sen]], actress | ||
*[[Reema Sen]] | *[[Raima Sen]], actress | ||
*[[Reema Sen]], actress | |||
*[[Rituparna Sengupta]], actress | |||
*[[Omar Sani]] | *[[Omar Sani]] | ||
*[[Victor Banerjee]] | *[[Victor Banerjee]], actor | ||
*[[Moushumi Chatterjee]] | |||
*[[Parambrata Chatterjee]] | *[[Parambrata Chatterjee]] | ||
*[[Konkona Sen Sharma]] | *[[Konkona Sen Sharma]], actress and filmmaker | ||
*[[Varsha Ashwathi]] | *[[Varsha Ashwathi]] | ||
*[[Abhishek Chatterjee]] | *[[Abhishek Chatterjee]] | ||
*[[Tathagata Mukherjee]] | *[[Tathagata Mukherjee]] | ||
*[[Monali Thakur]], singer and actress | *[[Monali Thakur]], singer and actress | ||
*[[Yash Dasgupta]], actor, producer and TV personality | |||
*[[Yash Dasgupta]] | *[[Bonny Sengupta]], actor and politician | ||
*[[Bonny Sengupta]] | *[[Nusrat Jahan]], actress, politician and former Miss Kolkata 2010; wife of [[Yash Dasgupta]] | ||
*[[Nusrat Jahan]], | *[[Mimi Chakraborty]], actress, producer and politician | ||
*[[Mimi Chakraborty]], | |||
*[[Anirban Bhattacharya]] | *[[Anirban Bhattacharya]] | ||
*[[Sayani Gupta]], actress | |||
*[[Sayantani Ghosh]], actress and TV personality | |||
*[[Sayak Chakraborty]] | |||
*[[Sulakshana Pandit]], singer and actress | |||
*[[Vijayta Pandit]], singer and actress | |||
===Theatre figures=== | ===Theatre figures=== | ||
*[[Rudraprasad Sengupta]], actor and director | *[[Rudraprasad Sengupta]], actor and director | ||
*[[Sambhu Mitra]], actor and director | *[[Sambhu Mitra]], actor and director | ||
*[[Girishchandra Ghosh]] father of Bengali theatre | *[[Girishchandra Ghosh]] father of Bengali theatre | ||
*[[Chitra Sen]] | |||
*[[Koushik Sen]] | |||
===Photographers=== | ===Photographers=== | ||
*[[Benu Sen]] | *[[Benu Sen]] | ||
*[[Sunil Das]] | *[[Sunil Das]] | ||
*[[Sunil Janah]] | |||
===Composers=== | ===Composers=== | ||
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*[[Pritam]] | *[[Pritam]] | ||
*[[Hemanta Mukhopadhyay]] | *[[Hemanta Mukhopadhyay]] | ||
*[[Rupam Islam]] | |||
*[[Nachiketa Ghosh]] | *[[Nachiketa Ghosh]] | ||
*[[Sudhin Dasgupta]] | *[[Sudhin Dasgupta]] | ||
*[[Anupam Roy]] | *[[Anupam Roy]] | ||
*[[Anjan Dutt]] | *[[Anjan Dutt]] | ||
*[[Jaimin Rajani]] | |||
* [[Pankaj Mullick]] | * [[Pankaj Mullick]] | ||
* [[Anil Biswas (composer)|Anil Biswas]] | * [[Anil Biswas (composer)|Anil Biswas]] | ||
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*[[Pandit Bhimsen Joshi]] | *[[Pandit Bhimsen Joshi]] | ||
*[[Rashid Khan (musician)|Rashid Khan]] | *[[Rashid Khan (musician)|Rashid Khan]] | ||
* [[Naina Devi (singer)|Naina Devi]]<ref name=tele12>{{cite news |title=A Tale Of Two Women: In search of their own songs|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120311/jsp/opinion/story_15229162.jsp#.UbBLt9I3CHg |newspaper=The Telegraph |date= 11 March 2012 |access-date=6 June 2013}}</ref> | * [[Naina Devi (singer)|Naina Devi]]<ref name=tele12>{{cite news |title=A Tale Of Two Women: In search of their own songs|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120311/jsp/opinion/story_15229162.jsp#.UbBLt9I3CHg |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140729005248/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120311/jsp/opinion/story_15229162.jsp#.UbBLt9I3CHg |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 July 2014 |newspaper=The Telegraph |date= 11 March 2012 |access-date=6 June 2013}}</ref> | ||
*[[Pandit Nikhil Banerjee]] | *[[Pandit Nikhil Banerjee]] | ||
*[[Ustad Amjad Ali Khan]] | *[[Ustad Amjad Ali Khan]] | ||
*[[Ustad Bahadur Khan]] | *[[Ustad Bahadur Khan]] | ||
*[[Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty]] | *[[Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty]] | ||
*[[ | *[[Kaushiki Chakraborty]] | ||
=== Hindustani classical instrumentalists === | === Hindustani classical instrumentalists === | ||
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*[[Dwijendra Lal Roy]] | *[[Dwijendra Lal Roy]] | ||
*[[Suprakash Chaki]] | |||
*[[K. C. Dey]] | *[[K. C. Dey]] | ||
*[[Gauhar Jan]] | *[[Gauhar Jan]] | ||
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*[[Kishore Kumar]] | *[[Kishore Kumar]] | ||
*[[Sandhya Mukhopadhyay]] | *[[Sandhya Mukhopadhyay]] | ||
*[[Geeta Dutt]] | |||
*[[Debabrata Biswas]] | *[[Debabrata Biswas]] | ||
*[[Begum Akhtar]] | *[[Begum Akhtar]] | ||
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*[[Ruma Guha Thakurta]] | *[[Ruma Guha Thakurta]] | ||
*[[Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta]] | *[[Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta]] | ||
*[[Srikanta Acharya]] | |||
*[[Anwesshaa]] | |||
*[[Suman Chatterjee]] | *[[Suman Chatterjee]] | ||
*[[Sachin Dev Burman]] | *[[Sachin Dev Burman]] | ||
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=== Contemporary Bollywood musicians === | === Contemporary Bollywood musicians === | ||
*[[Abhijeet Bhattacharya]], playback singer | *[[Abhijeet Bhattacharya]], playback singer | ||
*[[Anupam Roy]] (b.1982), [[Singer-Songwriter|singer-songwriter]] | *[[Anupam Roy]] (b.1982), [[Singer-Songwriter|singer-songwriter]] | ||
*[[Alka Yagnik]] (b. 1966), playback singer | *[[Alka Yagnik]] (b. 1966), playback singer | ||
*[[Arijit Singh]] (b. 1987), singer, music producer, recordist and music programmer | *[[Arijit Singh]] (b. 1987), singer, music producer, recordist and music programmer | ||
*[[Babul Supriyo]] (b. 1970), playback singer, live performer, television host, actor and politician | *[[Babul Supriyo]] (b. 1970), playback singer, live performer, television host, actor and politician | ||
*[[Kumar Sanu]] (b. 1957), playback singer | *[[Kumar Sanu]] (b. 1957), playback singer | ||
*[[Pritam]] (b. 1971) | *[[Pritam]] (b. 1971) | ||
*[[Sagarika]] (b. 1970), playback singer and actress | *[[Sagarika]] (b. 1970), playback singer and actress | ||
*[[Shreya Ghoshal]] (b. 1984), playback singer | *[[Shreya Ghoshal]] (b. 1984), playback singer | ||
*[[Shaan (singer)|Shaan]] (b. 1972), playback singer and actor | *[[Shaan (singer)|Shaan]] (b. 1972), playback singer and actor | ||
===Dancers=== | ===Dancers=== | ||
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* [[Shila Mehta]], classical dance artist, choreographer, teacher, and composer | * [[Shila Mehta]], classical dance artist, choreographer, teacher, and composer | ||
* [[Rani Karnaa]] | * [[Rani Karnaa]] | ||
* [[Rajeswari Vaidyanathan]], Tedx Speaker, trainer, performer and choreographer | |||
===Magicians=== | ===Magicians=== | ||
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==Sports== | ==Sports== | ||
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*[[A. T. M. Mustafa]], Pakistani cricketer. | |||
*[[Mohammed Ali Qamar]], Indian Boxer, Gold medal in the [[Commonwealth Games]]. | |||
*[[Norman Pritchard]], track and field, [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] medallist (1900) | *[[Norman Pritchard]], track and field, [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] medallist (1900) | ||
*[[Richard Allen (field hockey)|Richard James Allen]], hockey, [[Olympic Games|Olympic]](1928, 1932, 1936) | *[[Richard Allen (field hockey)|Richard James Allen]], hockey, [[Olympic Games|Olympic]](1928, 1932, 1936) | ||
*[[Leslie Claudius]], hockey, [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] medallist (1924, 1928, 1936) | *[[Leslie Claudius]], hockey, [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] medallist (1924, 1928, 1936) | ||
*[[Gurbux Singh]], hockey, [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] medallist (1964, 1968) | *[[Gurbux Singh (field hockey)|Gurbux Singh]], hockey, [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] medallist (1964, 1968) | ||
*[[Vece Paes]], hockey, [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] medallist (1980) | *[[Vece Paes]], hockey, [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] medallist (1980) | ||
*[[Leander Paes]], tennis, [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] medallist (1996) | *[[Leander Paes]], tennis, [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] medallist (1996) | ||
*[[Sourav Ganguly]], cricketer, former [[India national cricket team]]'s captain, sports administrator | *[[Sourav Ganguly]], cricketer, former [[India national cricket team]]'s captain, sports administrator, former BCCI president | ||
*[[Chhanda Gayen]], mountaineer, first Bengali woman to summit Mount Everest | *[[Chhanda Gayen]], mountaineer, first Bengali woman to summit Mount Everest | ||
*[[Pankaj Roy]], cricketer | *[[Pankaj Roy]], cricketer | ||
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*[[Wriddhiman Saha]], cricketer | *[[Wriddhiman Saha]], cricketer | ||
*[[Mohammed Shami]], cricketer | *[[Mohammed Shami]], cricketer | ||
*[[Len Stubbs]], former cricketer | |||
*[[Chuni Goswami]], footballer | *[[Chuni Goswami]], footballer | ||
*[[Gautam Sarkar]], footballer | *[[Gautam Sarkar]], footballer | ||
*[[Shailen Manna]], footballer, former [[India national football team]]'s captain (guided India to Gold medal in 1951 Asiad) | *[[Shailen Manna]], footballer, former [[India men's national football team|India national football team]]'s captain (guided India to Gold medal in 1951 Asiad) | ||
*[[Pradip Kumar Banerjee]], footballer | *[[P. K. Banerjee|Pradip Kumar Banerjee]], footballer | ||
*[[Krishanu Dey]], footballer | *[[Krishanu Dey]], footballer | ||
*[[Sudip Chatterjee (footballer)|Sudip Chatterjee]], footballer | *[[Sudip Chatterjee (footballer)|Sudip Chatterjee]], footballer | ||
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*[[Jaidip Mukerjea]], tennis player | *[[Jaidip Mukerjea]], tennis player | ||
*[[Jagmohan Dalmiya]], sports administrator | *[[Jagmohan Dalmiya]], sports administrator | ||
*[[Pankaj Gupta]], sports administrator | *[[Pankaj Gupta (sports administrator)|Pankaj Gupta]], sports administrator | ||
*[[John Holman (British Army officer)|John Holman]], cricketer | *[[John Holman (British Army officer)|John Holman]], cricketer | ||
*[[William Laidlay]], cricketer | *[[William Laidlay]], cricketer | ||
*[[Hira Mondal]], Footballer | |||
*[[Usha Rani Das]], Footballer | |||
*[[Rimpa Haldar]], Footballer | |||
}} | |||
==Nobel laureates== | ==Nobel laureates== | ||
Six [[Nobel Prize]] winners have been associated with Kolkata: | |||
*[[Sir Ronald Ross]] ( | *[[Sir Ronald Ross]] (1857–1932) – Medicine, 1902 | ||
*[[Rabindranath Tagore]] ( | *[[Rabindranath Tagore]] (1861–1941) – Literature, 1913; first Asian to win the Nobel Prize | ||
*[[Mother Teresa]] ( | *[[Mother Teresa]] (1910–1997) – Peace, 1979 | ||
*[[Amartya Sen]] ( | *[[Amartya Sen]] (born 1933) – Economics, 1998 | ||
* [[Abhijit Banerjee]] ( | * [[Abhijit Banerjee|Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee]] (born 1961) – Economics, 2019 | ||
* [[CV Raman]] – Physics | |||
==Ramon Magsaysay Award winners== | ==Ramon Magsaysay Award winners== | ||
The [[Ramon Magsaysay Award]], sometimes called "Asia's Nobel Prize", is given "to perpetuate his example of integrity in government, courageous service to the people, and pragmatic idealism within a democratic society." Kolkata winners include: | The [[Ramon Magsaysay Award]], sometimes called "Asia's Nobel Prize", is given "to perpetuate his example of integrity in government, courageous service to the people, and pragmatic idealism within a democratic society." Kolkata winners include: | ||
* [[Mother Teresa]] ( | * [[Mother Teresa]] (1910–1997) – Peace and International Understanding, 1962 | ||
* [[Satyajit Ray]] ( | * [[Satyajit Ray]] (1921–1992) – Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Arts, 1967 | ||
* [[Gour Kishore Ghosh]] ( | * [[Gour Kishore Ghosh]] (1923–2000) – Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Arts, 1981 | ||
*[[Mahasweta Devi]] ( | *[[Mahasweta Devi]] (1926–2016) – Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Arts, 1997 | ||
==Others== | ==Others== | ||
*[[Samik Bandyopadhyay]] (born 1940), critic of Indian art, theatre and film | |||
*[[ | *[[Tanmoy Bhattacharya]] (born 1958), politician | ||
*[[ | *[[William Carey (missionary)|William Carey]] (1761–1834), missioner and reformer | ||
*[[William Carey (missionary)|William Carey]] ( | *[[Laksmikanta Roy Choudhury]] (1570–1649), Brahmin scholar, social and political figure | ||
*[[Alexander Duff (missionary)|Alexander Duff]] (1806—1878), missioner and reformer | *[[Alexander Duff (missionary)|Alexander Duff]] (1806—1878), missioner and reformer | ||
*[[ | *[[Manny Elias]] (born 1953), drummer, record producer; original drummer of the [[Tears for Fears]] | ||
*[[Rajendra Prasad]] ( | *[[David Hare (philanthropist)|David Hare]] (1775–1842), philanthropist and founder of many important and prestigious educational institutions of Kolkata | ||
*[[ | *[[Rajendra Prasad]] (1884–1963), politician, the first president of India (from 1950 to 1962) | ||
*[[Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak | *[[Romita Ray]] (born 1970), art historian | ||
*[[ | *[[Radhika Roy]] (born 1948), journalist | ||
*[[Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak]] (born 1942), scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic | |||
*[[Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar]] (1820–1891), philosopher, academic, writer, translator, entrepreneur, social reformer and philanthropist; key figure of the [[Bengali Renaissance|Bengal Renaissance]] | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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[[Category:People from Kolkata|*]] | [[Category:People from Kolkata|*]] | ||
[[Category:Lists of people by | [[Category:Lists of Indian people by populated place|Kolkata]] | ||
[[Category:Lists of people from West Bengal|Kolkata ]] | |||
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List of notable people from Kolkata. The city of Kolkata has been regarded as the cultural capital of India.[1]
Writers, Including poets[edit | edit source]
- S Wajid Ali
- Syed Mujtaba Ali
- Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay
- Kumudini Basu
- Suchitra Bhattacharya
- Sukanta Bhattacharya
- Buddhadev Bose
- Amiya Chakravarty
- Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
- Shakti Chattopadhyay
- Nirad C. Chaudhuri
- Pramatha Chowdhury
- Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury
- Dinesh Das
- Jibanananda Das
- Henry Louis Vivian Derozio
- Bishnu Dey
- Michael Madhusudan Dutta
- Satyendranath Dutta
- Sudhindranath Dutta
- Sunil Gangopadhyay
- Joy Goswami
- Gulzar
- Asit Kumar Haldar
- Amelia Horne
- Kazi Nazrul Islam
- Sisir Kumar Maitra
- Binoy Majumdar
- Mohitolal Majumdar
- Samaresh Majumdar (b.1944)
- Arun Mitra
- Dinabandhu Mitra
- Premendra Mitra
- Mimi Mondal, First Indian English writer who nominated for Hugo Award.
- Dhan Gopal Mukerji
- Shobhanasundari Mukhopadhyay, Shovana Devi Tagore, folklorist
- Subhas Mukhopadhyay
- Purnendu Patri
- Christopher Raja
- Annada Shankar Ray
- Dwijendralal Ray
- Sukumar Ray
- Tarapada Ray
- Samar Sen
- Badal Sircar, dramatist and theatre director
- Srijato
- Rabindranath Tagore, 1st non-European to win a Nobel Prize
Philosophers and religious teachers[edit | edit source]
The most famous religious figure of Kolkata is Mother Teresa. Others are (in order of surname):
- Bhakti Hridaya Bon (1901–1982)
- Bhakti Prajnana Kesava Goswami (1898–1968)
- Boro Maa, (1918–2019)
- A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896–1977), founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON)
- Ramakrishna (1836–1886)
- Ram Mohan Roy (1772–1833)
- Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati (1874–1837), founder of Gaudiya Math
- Keshab Chandra Sen (1838–1884)
- Debendranath Tagore (1817–1905)
- Bhaktivinoda Thakur (1838–1914)
- Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902)
- Paramhansa Yogananda (1893-1952)
Engineers and scientists[edit | edit source]
- James Atkinson (1780–1852), surgeon, artist and Persian scholar
- Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (born 1968), computer scientist
- R. D. Banerji, archeologist
- Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858–1937), Bengali polymath, physicist, biologist, biophysicist, botanist and archaeologist
- Upendranath Brahmachari
- Bikas K Chakrabarti (born 1952), theoretical physicist and econophysicist
- Asima Chatterjee (1917–2006), chemist
- Debendra Mohan Bose (1875–1975), physicist
- Satyendra Nath Bose (1894–1974), physicist and polymath from Bengal
- Suniti Kumar Chattopadhyay (1890–1977), Bengali linguist
- Barun De (1932–2013), historian
- Brajendranath De (1852–1932), civil servant and orientalist
- Anil Kumar Gain (1919–1978), mathematician and statistician
- J.B.S. Haldane (1892–1964), British-Indian scientist, known for his work in the study of physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and mathematics
- Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893–1972), Bengali scientist and applied statistician
- R.C. Majumdar (1884–1980), historian
- P. J. Marshall (born 1933), historian
- Ujjwal Maulik (born 1965), computer scientist
- Subhash Mukhopadhyay (1931–1981), physician
- Sisir Kumar Mitra (1890–1963), physicist
- Shehla Pervin, Indian scientist and scholar
- Rajat Kanta Ray, historian
- Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri (1922–2005), physicist, known for his research in general relativity and cosmology
- Tapan Raychaudhuri (1926–2014), historian
- Tapati Guha-Thakurta (born 1957), historian
- Sukanta Chaudhuri (born 1950), literary scholar
- Ananda Lal (born 1955), academic and theatre scholar
- C. R. Rao (1920–2023), mathematician and statistician
- Prafulla Chandra Roy (1861–1944), Bengali chemist, educationist, historian, industrialist and philanthropist
- Meghnad Saha (1893–1956), astrophysicist
- Sir Jadunath Sarkar (1870–1958), historian
- Sumit Sarkar (born 1939), historian
- Susobhan Sarkar (1900–1982), historian
- Tapan Kumar Sarkar (1948–2021), electrical engineer
- Ashoke Sen (born 1956), theoretical physicist
- Sukumar Sen, historian of Bengali literature
Gallantry Awards winners[edit | edit source]
- Flight Lieutenant Suhas Biswas
- Squadron Leader Madhavendra Banerji
Bankers and business people[edit | edit source]
- Radhe Shyam Agarwal
- Amar Kumar Bera
- P. C. Bhattacharya, 7th Governor, Reserve Bank of India
- Aditya Vikram Birla
- Radhe Shyam Goenka
- R. P. Goenka (RPG Group)
- Sanjiv Goenka
- Chandra Shekhar Ghosh (founder of Bandhan Bank)
- Rajat Gupta (b. 1948)
- Ellis Jacob (founder of Cineplex Entertainment)
- Lakshmi Mittal
- Tiny Rowland (chairman of Lonrho from 1962 to 1993)
- Prannoy Roy (b.1949)
- Nalini Ranjan Sarkar
- Mutty Lall Seal
Freedom fighters[edit | edit source]
- Sri Aurobindo
- Maulana Azad
- Benoy Basu
- Khudiram Bose
- Rash Behari Bose
- Subhas Chandra Bose
- Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee
- Chittaranjan Das
- Jatindra Nath Das
- Sisir Kumar Ghosh
- Badal Gupta
- Dinesh Gupta
- Basanti Devi Haldar
- Matangini Hazra
- Bagha Jatin
- Bipin Chandra Pal
- Sudhamoy Pramanick
- Bidhan Chandra Roy
- Ashoke Kumar Sen
Performing arts[edit | edit source]
Artists[edit | edit source]
- Sukanta Basu
- Jogen Chowdhury
- Anil Kumar Dutta
- Gerry Judah
- Shanu Lahiri[2]
- William Laidlay
- Paresh Maity
- Ganesh Pyne
- Devajyoti Ray
- Jamini Roy
- Sudip Roy
- Samir Roychoudhury
- Paritosh Sen
Directors[edit | edit source]
- Nitin Bose
- Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury
- Buddhadeb Dasgupta
- Anik Dutta
- Kaushik Ganguly
- Ritwik Ghatak
- Gautam Ghose
- Rituparno Ghosh
- Sujoy Ghosh
- Atiul Islam
- Farha Khatun
- Tarun Majumdar
- Hrishikesh Mukherjee
- Kamaleshwar Mukherjee
- Shiboprosad Mukherjee
- Srijit Mukherji
- Satyajit Ray, winner of Oscar for Lifetime Achievement in 1992 and considered among the greatest director of film history.
- Bimal Roy
- Shakti Samanta
- Aparna Sen
- Avijit Sen
- Mrinal Sen
- Tapan Sinha
Cinema actors[edit | edit source]
- Pt. Debshankar Haldar, actor
- Nabadwip Haldar, actor and comedian
- Goutam Halder, actor and director
- Uttam Kumar, actor, singer, composer, producer, director and screenwriter
- Kaushik Ganguly, actor, director and screenwriter
- Koushik Sen, actor and TV personality
- Mithun Chakraborty, actor, dancer and TV personality
- Rabi Ghosh, actor and comedian
- Ranjit Mallick, actor
- Dhritiman Chaterji, actor
- Tapen Chatterjee, actor
- Barun Chanda
- Pahari Sanyal
- N. Viswanathan
- Chhabi Biswas
- Karuna Bannerjee
- Koel Mallick, actress and daughter of Ranjit Mallick
- Anil Chatterjee
- Arpita Chatterjee, actress and TV personality; wife of Prosenjit Chatterjee
- Subir Banerjee
- Roopa Ganguly
- Uma Dasgupta
- Saswata Chatterjee
- Tarun Kumar
- Anup Kumar
- Ashok Kumar
- Bhanu Bandopadhyay
- Biswajit Chatterjee, actor, producer, director and politician
- Prosenjit Chatterjee, actor, producer and TV personality; son of Biswajit Chatterjee
- Debashree Roy, actress, dancer, choreographer, animal rights activist and politician; ex-wife of Prosenjit Chatterjee
- Jahor Roy
- Kanan Devi
- Sagarika Mukherjee
- Swastika Mukherjee
- Razzak
- Dev, actor, singer, producer, screenwriter and politician
- Jeet, actor, producer and TV personality
- Ruma Guha Thakurta
- Tapas Paul
- Mahua Roy Choudhury
- Mirza Abbas Ali
- Suchitra Sen
- Antara Biswas, actress
- Aparna Sen, actress, filmmaker and scriptwriter
- Moonmoon Sen
- Riddhi Sen, actor
- Riya Sen, actress
- Raima Sen, actress
- Reema Sen, actress
- Rituparna Sengupta, actress
- Omar Sani
- Victor Banerjee, actor
- Moushumi Chatterjee
- Parambrata Chatterjee
- Konkona Sen Sharma, actress and filmmaker
- Varsha Ashwathi
- Abhishek Chatterjee
- Tathagata Mukherjee
- Monali Thakur, singer and actress
- Yash Dasgupta, actor, producer and TV personality
- Bonny Sengupta, actor and politician
- Nusrat Jahan, actress, politician and former Miss Kolkata 2010; wife of Yash Dasgupta
- Mimi Chakraborty, actress, producer and politician
- Anirban Bhattacharya
- Sayani Gupta, actress
- Sayantani Ghosh, actress and TV personality
- Sayak Chakraborty
- Sulakshana Pandit, singer and actress
- Vijayta Pandit, singer and actress
Theatre figures[edit | edit source]
- Rudraprasad Sengupta, actor and director
- Sambhu Mitra, actor and director
- Girishchandra Ghosh father of Bengali theatre
- Chitra Sen
- Koushik Sen
Photographers[edit | edit source]
Composers[edit | edit source]
- Jeet Ganguly
- Kabir Suman
- Salil Chowdhury
- Rahul Dev Burman
- Shashi Preetam
- Sachin Dev Burman
- Bappi Lahiri
- Shantanu Moitra
- Pritam
- Hemanta Mukhopadhyay
- Rupam Islam
- Nachiketa Ghosh
- Sudhin Dasgupta
- Anupam Roy
- Anjan Dutt
- Jaimin Rajani
- Pankaj Mullick
- Anil Biswas
- Nachiketa Ghosh
- Shyamal Mitra
Hindustani classical singers/maestros[edit | edit source]
- Ustad Allauddin Khan
- Ustad Ali Akbar Khan
- Pandit Ravi Shankar
- Ananda Shankar
- Ustad Vilayat Khan
- Pandit Jasraj
- Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan
- Pandit Bhimsen Joshi
- Rashid Khan
- Naina Devi[3]
- Pandit Nikhil Banerjee
- Ustad Amjad Ali Khan
- Ustad Bahadur Khan
- Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty
- Kaushiki Chakraborty
Hindustani classical instrumentalists[edit | edit source]
Other singers[edit | edit source]
- Dwijendra Lal Roy
- Suprakash Chaki
- K. C. Dey
- Gauhar Jan
- Pankaj Mullick
- Kanan Devi
- Kanika Bandyopadhyay
- Suchitra Mitra
- Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay
- Manabendra Mukhopadhyay
- Manna Dey
- Kishore Kumar
- Sandhya Mukhopadhyay
- Geeta Dutt
- Debabrata Biswas
- Begum Akhtar
- Usha Uthup
- Indrani Sen
- Ruma Guha Thakurta
- Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta
- Srikanta Acharya
- Anwesshaa
- Suman Chatterjee
- Sachin Dev Burman
- Anjan Dutt
- Rupam Islam
- Prashant Tamang
- Shayan Chowdhury Arnob
Contemporary Bollywood musicians[edit | edit source]
- Abhijeet Bhattacharya, playback singer
- Anupam Roy (b.1982), singer-songwriter
- Alka Yagnik (b. 1966), playback singer
- Arijit Singh (b. 1987), singer, music producer, recordist and music programmer
- Babul Supriyo (b. 1970), playback singer, live performer, television host, actor and politician
- Kumar Sanu (b. 1957), playback singer
- Pritam (b. 1971)
- Sagarika (b. 1970), playback singer and actress
- Shreya Ghoshal (b. 1984), playback singer
- Shaan (b. 1972), playback singer and actor
Dancers[edit | edit source]
Prominent dancers of the city include:
- Uday Shankar and his wife Amala Shankar
- Mamata Shankar
- Tanushree Shankar
- Ananda Shankar
- Sadhana Bose
- Sharmila Biswas[4]
- Shila Mehta, classical dance artist, choreographer, teacher, and composer
- Rani Karnaa
- Rajeswari Vaidyanathan, Tedx Speaker, trainer, performer and choreographer
Magicians[edit | edit source]
Kolkata is the magic capital of India and has produced internationally famous magicians and performers, including:
Sports[edit | edit source]
Nobel laureates[edit | edit source]
Six Nobel Prize winners have been associated with Kolkata:
- Sir Ronald Ross (1857–1932) – Medicine, 1902
- Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) – Literature, 1913; first Asian to win the Nobel Prize
- Mother Teresa (1910–1997) – Peace, 1979
- Amartya Sen (born 1933) – Economics, 1998
- Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee (born 1961) – Economics, 2019
- CV Raman – Physics
Ramon Magsaysay Award winners[edit | edit source]
The Ramon Magsaysay Award, sometimes called "Asia's Nobel Prize", is given "to perpetuate his example of integrity in government, courageous service to the people, and pragmatic idealism within a democratic society." Kolkata winners include:
- Mother Teresa (1910–1997) – Peace and International Understanding, 1962
- Satyajit Ray (1921–1992) – Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Arts, 1967
- Gour Kishore Ghosh (1923–2000) – Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Arts, 1981
- Mahasweta Devi (1926–2016) – Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Arts, 1997
Others[edit | edit source]
- Samik Bandyopadhyay (born 1940), critic of Indian art, theatre and film
- Tanmoy Bhattacharya (born 1958), politician
- William Carey (1761–1834), missioner and reformer
- Laksmikanta Roy Choudhury (1570–1649), Brahmin scholar, social and political figure
- Alexander Duff (1806—1878), missioner and reformer
- Manny Elias (born 1953), drummer, record producer; original drummer of the Tears for Fears
- David Hare (1775–1842), philanthropist and founder of many important and prestigious educational institutions of Kolkata
- Rajendra Prasad (1884–1963), politician, the first president of India (from 1950 to 1962)
- Romita Ray (born 1970), art historian
- Radhika Roy (born 1948), journalist
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (born 1942), scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic
- Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820–1891), philosopher, academic, writer, translator, entrepreneur, social reformer and philanthropist; key figure of the Bengal Renaissance
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ naiya, Arijit; Anita Desai (2003). Calcutta: a cultural and literary history. Signal Books. p. xiv. ISBN 978-1-902669-59-5.
- ↑ "Shanu Lahiri dead". The Telegraph (Calcutta). Archived from the original on 7 February 2013. Retrieved 15 March 2013.
- ↑ "A Tale Of Two Women: In search of their own songs". The Telegraph. 11 March 2012. Archived from the original on 29 July 2014. Retrieved 6 June 2013.
- ↑ "Katha Kavya Abhinaya". Sangeet Natak Akademi. 2011. Archived from the original on 27 September 2013. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
