List of vice-chancellors of the University of Calcutta

Vice-chancellor of University of Calcutta
Incumbent Ashutosh Ghosh since 30 October 2025
Formation	24 January 1857 (24 January 1857)
First holder	James William Colvile

The vice-chancellor of the University of Calcutta, a university in Kolkata, India, is the executive head of the university. Following the establishment in 1857, James William Colvile served as the first vice-chancellor of the university.

List of vice-chancellors

S. No.	Name	Term	Image	Notes
1	James William Colvile	1857–1859	Error creating thumbnail: File missing
2	William Ritchie	1859–1862	Error creating thumbnail: File missing
3	Claudius James Erskine	1862–1863	Error creating thumbnail: File missing
4	Henry Sumner Maine	1863–1867	Error creating thumbnail: File missing
5	W. S. Seton-Karr	1867–1869
6	Edward Clive Bayley	1869–1875
7	Arthur Hobhouse	1875–1877	Error creating thumbnail: File missing
8	William Markby	1877–1878	Error creating thumbnail: File missing
9	Alexander Arbuthnot	1878–1880	Error creating thumbnail: File missing
10	Arthur Wilson	1880–1884	Error creating thumbnail: File missing
11	H. J. Reynolds	1883–1886
12	C. P. Ilbert	1886	Error creating thumbnail: File missing
13	William Wilson Hunter	1886–1887	Error creating thumbnail: File missing
14	William Comer Petheram	1887–1889
15	Gooroodas Banerjee	1890–1892		First Indian vice chancellor of the university
16	Jones Quain Pigot	1893
17	Alfred Woodley Croft	1893–1896	Error creating thumbnail: File missing
18	E. J. Trevelyan	1897–1898
19	Francis William Maclean	1898–1900	Error creating thumbnail: File missing
20	Thomas Raleigh	1900–1904
21	Alexander Pedler	1904–1906	Error creating thumbnail: File missing
22	Asutosh Mookerjee	1906–1914
23	Deva Prasad Sarbadhikari	1914–1918	Error creating thumbnail: File missing
24	Lancelot Sanderson	1918–1919	Error creating thumbnail: File missing
25	Nilratan Sircar	1919–1921		Eminent Indian physician
(22)	Asutosh Mookerjee (second term)	1921–1923
26	Bhupendra Nath Bose	1923–1924	Error creating thumbnail: File missing
27	William Ewart Greaves	1924–1926
28	Jadunath Sarkar	1926–1928
29	W. S. Urquhart	1928–1930	Error creating thumbnail: File missing
30	Hassan Suhrawardy	1930–1934	Error creating thumbnail: File missing
31	Syama Prasad Mookerjee	1934–1938	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	Union Minister (1947–1950) & Member of Parliament (1952–1953)
32	Sir Azizul Huque	1938–1942	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom (1941–1943)
33	Bidhan Chandra Roy	1942–1944	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	Chief Minister of West Bengal (1948–1962)
34	Radhabinod Pal	1944–1946	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	Member of United Nations' International Law Commission (1952–1966)
35	Pramathanath Banerjee	1946–1949		Member of Parliament (1957–1962)
36	Charu Chandra Biswas	1949–1950
37	Sambhunath Banerjee	1950–1954
38	Jnan Chandra Ghosh	1954–1955	Error creating thumbnail: File missing
39	Nirmal Kumar Sidhanta	1955–1960
40	Subodh Mitra	1960–1961	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	Eminent Indian obstretrician and gynecologist
41	Surajit Chandra Lahiri	1962	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	Former Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court (1959–1961)
42	Bidhubhushan Malik	1962–1968
43	S. N. Sen	1968–1976	Error creating thumbnail: File missing
44	Sushil Kumar Mukherjee	1976–1979
45	Ramendra Kumar Podder	1979–1983		Member of Parliament (1985–1993)
46	Santosh Bhattacharyya	1983–1987
47	Bhaskarananda Ray Chaudhuri	1987–1991
48	Rathindra Narayan Basu	1991–1999
49	Asis Kumar Banerjee	1999–2008
50	Suranjan Das	2008–2015	Error creating thumbnail: File missing
–	Sugata Marjit (acting)	2015–2016	Error creating thumbnail: File missing
–	Ashutosh Ghosh (acting)	2016–2017
51	Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee	2017–2022
52	Asis Kumar Chattopadhyay	2022–2023
–	Dr. Santa Dutta (De) (acting)	2023–2025
53	Ashutosh Ghosh	2025–Incumbent