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'''List of notable people from Kolkata'''. The city of [[Kolkata]] has been regarded as the cultural capital of [[India]].<ref>{{cite book<br />
| last = naiya<br />
| first = Arijit<br />
|author2=Anita Desai<br />
| title = Calcutta: a cultural and literary history<br />
| publisher = [[Signal Books]]<br />
| year = 2003<br />
| page = xiv<br />
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=UKfoHi5412UC&dq=yet+another+book+on+calcutta&pg=PP16<br />
| isbn = 978-1-902669-59-5}}</ref><br />
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== Writers, Including poets ==<br />
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*[[S Wajid Ali]]<br />
*[[Syed Mujtaba Ali]]<br />
*[[Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay]] <br />
*[[Kumudini Basu]]<br />
*[[Suchitra Bhattacharya]]<br />
*[[Sukanta Bhattacharya]]<br />
*[[Buddhadev Bose]]<br />
*[[Amiya Chakravarty]]<br />
*[[Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay]]<br />
*[[Shakti Chattopadhyay]]<br />
*[[Nirad C. Chaudhuri]]<br />
*[[Pramatha Chowdhury]]<br />
*[[Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury]]<br />
*[[Dinesh Das]]<br />
*[[Jibanananda Das]]<br />
*[[Henry Louis Vivian Derozio]]<br />
*[[Bishnu Dey]]<br />
*[[Michael Madhusudan Dutta]]<br />
*[[Satyendranath Dutta]]<br />
*[[Sudhindranath Dutta]]<br />
*[[Sunil Gangopadhyay]]<br />
*[[Joy Goswami]]<br />
*[[Gulzar]]<br />
*[[Asit Kumar Haldar]]<br />
*[[Amelia Horne]]<br />
*[[Kazi Nazrul Islam]] <br />
*[[Sisir Kumar Maitra]]<br />
*[[Binoy Majumdar]]<br />
*[[Mohitolal Majumdar]]<br />
*[[Samaresh Majumdar]] (b.1944)<br />
*[[Arun Mitra]]<br />
*[[Dinabandhu Mitra]]<br />
*[[Premendra Mitra]]<br />
*[[Mimi Mondal]], First Indian English writer who nominated for Hugo Award. <br />
*[[Dhan Gopal Mukerji]]<br />
*[[Shobhanasundari Mukhopadhyay]], Shovana Devi Tagore, folklorist<br />
*[[Subhash Mukhopadhyay (poet)|Subhas Mukhopadhyay]]<br />
*[[Purnendu Patri]]<br />
*[[Christopher Raja]]<br />
*[[Annada Shankar Ray]]<br />
*[[Dwijendralal Ray]]<br />
*[[Sukumar Ray]]<br />
*[[Tarapada Ray]]<br />
*[[Samar Sen (poet)|Samar Sen]]<br />
*[[Badal Sircar]], dramatist and theatre director<br />
*[[Srijato]]<br />
*[[Rabindranath Tagore]], 1st non-European to win a Nobel Prize<br />
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==Philosophers and religious teachers==<br />
The most famous religious figure of Kolkata is [[Mother Teresa]]. Others are (in order of surname):<br />
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*[[Bhakti Hridaya Bon]] (1901–1982)<br />
*[[Bhakti Prajnana Kesava Goswami]] (1898–1968)<br />
*[[Boro Maa]], (1918–2019)<br />
*[[A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada]] (1896–1977), founder of the [[International Society for Krishna Consciousness]] (ISKCON)<br />
*[[Ramakrishna]] (1836–1886)<br />
*[[Ram Mohan Roy]] (1772–1833)<br />
*[[Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati]] (1874–1837), founder of [[Gaudiya Math]]<br />
*[[Keshab Chandra Sen]] (1838–1884)<br />
*[[Debendranath Tagore]] (1817–1905)<br />
*[[Bhaktivinoda Thakur]] (1838–1914)<br />
*[[Swami Vivekananda]] (1863–1902)<br />
*[[Paramhansa Yogananda]] (1893-1952)<br />
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==Engineers and scientists==<br />
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*[[James Atkinson (Persian scholar)|James Atkinson]] (1780–1852), surgeon, artist and Persian scholar<br />
*[[Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay]] (born 1968), [[computer scientist]]<br />
*[[R. D. Banerji]], archeologist<br />
*[[Jagadish Chandra Bose|Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose]] (1858–1937), Bengali polymath, physicist, biologist, biophysicist, botanist and archaeologist<br />
*[[Upendranath Brahmachari]] <br />
*[[Bikas K Chakrabarti]] (born 1952), theoretical physicist and econophysicist<br />
*[[Asima Chatterjee]] (1917–2006), chemist<br />
*[[Debendra Mohan Bose]] (1875–1975), physicist<br />
*[[Satyendra Nath Bose]] (1894–1974), physicist and polymath from Bengal<br />
*[[Suniti Kumar Chatterji|Suniti Kumar Chattopadhyay]] (1890–1977), Bengali linguist<br />
*[[Barun De]] (1932–2013), historian<br />
*[[Brajendranath De]] (1852–1932), civil servant and orientalist<br />
*[[Anil Kumar Gain]] (1919–1978), mathematician and statistician<br />
*[[J.B.S. Haldane]] (1892–1964), British-Indian scientist, known for his work in the study of [[physiology]], [[genetics]], [[evolutionary biology]], and [[mathematics]]<br />
*[[Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis]] (1893–1972), Bengali scientist and applied statistician<br />
*[[R.C. Majumdar]] (1884–1980), historian<br />
*[[P. J. Marshall]] (born 1933), historian<br />
*[[Ujjwal Maulik]] (born 1965), computer scientist<br />
*[[Subhash Mukhopadhyay (physician)|Subhash Mukhopadhyay]] (1931–1981), physician<br />
*[[Sisir Kumar Mitra]] (1890–1963), physicist<br />
*[[Shehla Pervin]], Indian scientist and scholar<br />
*[[Rajat Kanta Ray]], historian<br />
*[[Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri]] (1922–2005), physicist, known for his research in [[general relativity]] and [[cosmology]]<br />
*[[Tapan Raychaudhuri]] (1926–2014), historian<br />
*[[Tapati Guha-Thakurta]] (born 1957), historian<br />
*[[Sukanta Chaudhuri]] (born 1950), literary scholar<br />
*[[Ananda Lal]] (born 1955), academic and theatre scholar<br />
*[[C R Rao|C. R. Rao]] (1920–2023), mathematician and statistician<br />
*[[Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy|Prafulla Chandra Roy]] (1861–1944), Bengali chemist, educationist, historian, industrialist and philanthropist<br />
*[[Meghnad Saha]] (1893–1956), [[Astrophysics|astrophysicist]]<br />
*[[Sir]] [[Jadunath Sarkar]] (1870–1958), historian<br />
*[[Sumit Sarkar]] (born 1939), historian<br />
*[[Susobhan Sarkar]] (1900–1982), historian<br />
*[[Tapan Kumar Sarkar]] (1948–2021), electrical engineer<br />
*[[Ashoke Sen]] (born 1956), [[Theoretical physics|theoretical physicist]]<br />
*[[Sukumar Sen (linguist)|Sukumar Sen]], historian of Bengali literature<br />
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== Gallantry Awards winners ==<br />
[[Ashoka Chakra (military decoration)|'''Ashoka Chakra''']]<br />
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* Flight Lieutenant [[Suhas Biswas]]<br />
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'''[[Maha Vir Chakra]]'''<br />
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* Squadron Leader [[Madhavendra Banerji]]<br />
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==Bankers and business people==<br />
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*[[Radhe Shyam Agarwal]]<br />
*[[A. K. Bera|Amar Kumar Bera]]<br />
*[[P. C. Bhattacharya]], 7th Governor, [[Reserve Bank of India]]<br />
*[[Aditya Vikram Birla]]<br />
*[[Radhe Shyam Goenka]]<br />
*[[R. P. Goenka]] ([[RPG Group]])<br />
*[[Sanjiv Goenka]]<br />
*[[Chandra Shekhar Ghosh]] (founder of [[Bandhan Bank]])<br />
*[[Rajat Gupta]] (b. 1948)<br />
*[[Ellis Jacob]] (founder of [[Cineplex Entertainment]])<br />
*[[Lakshmi Mittal]]<br />
*[[Tiny Rowland]] (chairman of [[Lonrho]] from 1962 to 1993)<br />
*[[Prannoy Roy]] (b.1949)<br />
*[[Nalini Ranjan Sarkar]]<br />
*[[Mutty Lall Seal]]<br />
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==Freedom fighters==<br />
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*[[Sri Aurobindo]]<br />
*[[Maulana Azad]]<br />
*[[Benoy Basu]]<br />
*[[Khudiram Bose]]<br />
*[[Rash Behari Bose]]<br />
*[[Subhas Chandra Bose]]<br />
*[[Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee]]<br />
*[[Chittaranjan Das]]<br />
*[[Jatindra Nath Das]]<br />
*[[Sisir Kumar Ghosh]]<br />
*[[Badal Gupta]]<br />
*[[Dinesh Gupta]]<br />
*[[Basanti Devi|Basanti Devi Haldar]]<br />
*[[Matangini Hazra]]<br />
*[[Bagha Jatin]]<br />
*[[Bipin Chandra Pal]]<br />
*[[Sudhamoy Pramanick]]<br />
*[[Bidhan Chandra Roy]]<br />
*[[Ashoke Kumar Sen]]<br />
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==Performing arts==<br />
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===Artists===<br />
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*[[Sukanta Basu]]<br />
*[[Jogen Chowdhury]]<br />
*[[Anil Kumar Dutta]]<br />
*[[Gerry Judah]]<br />
*[[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> <br />
*[[William Laidlay]]<br />
*[[Paresh Maity]]<br />
*[[Ganesh Pyne]]<br />
*[[Devajyoti Ray]]<br />
*[[Jamini Roy]]<br />
*[[Sudip Roy]]<br />
*[[Samir Roychoudhury]]<br />
*[[Paritosh Sen]]<br />
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===Directors===<br />
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*[[Nitin Bose]]<br />
*[[Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury]]<br />
*[[Buddhadeb Dasgupta]]<br />
*[[Anik Dutta]]<br />
*[[Kaushik Ganguly]]<br />
*[[Ritwik Ghatak]]<br />
*[[Gautam Ghose]]<br />
*[[Rituparno Ghosh]]<br />
*[[Sujoy Ghosh]]<br />
*[[Atiul Islam]]<br />
*[[Farha Khatun]]<br />
*[[Tarun Majumdar]]<br />
*[[Hrishikesh Mukherjee]]<br />
*[[Kamaleshwar Mukherjee]]<br />
*[[Shiboprosad Mukherjee]]<br />
*[[Srijit Mukherji]]<br />
*[[Satyajit Ray]], winner of [[Academy Honorary Award|Oscar for Lifetime Achievement]] in 1992 and considered among the greatest director of film history.<br />
*[[Bimal Roy]]<br />
*[[Shakti Samanta]]<br />
*[[Aparna Sen]]<br />
*[[Avijit Sen]]<br />
*[[Mrinal Sen]]<br />
*[[Tapan Sinha]]<br />
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=== Cinema actors ===<br />
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*[[Debshankar Haldar|Pt. Debshankar Haldar]], actor<br />
*[[Nabadwip Haldar]], actor and comedian<br />
*[[Goutam Halder]], actor and director<br />
*[[Uttam Kumar]], actor, singer, composer, producer, director and screenwriter<br />
*[[Kaushik Ganguly]], actor, director and screenwriter<br />
*[[Kaushik Sen|Koushik Sen]], actor and TV personality<br />
*[[Mithun Chakraborty]], actor, dancer and TV personality<br />
*[[Rabi Ghosh]], actor and comedian<br />
*[[Ranjit Mallick]], actor<br />
*[[Dhritiman Chatterjee|Dhritiman Chaterji]], actor<br />
*[[Tapen Chatterjee]], actor <br />
*[[Barun Chanda]]<br />
*[[Pahari Sanyal]]<br />
*[[N. Viswanathan]]<br />
*[[Chhabi Biswas]]<br />
*[[Karuna Bannerjee]]<br />
*[[Koel Mallick]], actress and daughter of [[Ranjit Mallick]]<br />
*[[Anil Chatterjee]]<br />
*[[Arpita Pal|Arpita Chatterjee]], actress and TV personality; wife of [[Prosenjit Chatterjee]]<br />
*[[Subir Banerjee]]<br />
*[[Roopa Ganguly]]<br />
*[[Uma Dasgupta]]<br />
*[[Saswata Chatterjee]]<br />
*[[Tarun Kumar]]<br />
*[[Anup Kumar (actor)|Anup Kumar]]<br />
*[[Ashok Kumar]]<br />
*[[Bhanu Bandopadhyay]]<br />
*[[Biswajit Chatterjee]], actor, producer, director and politician<br />
*[[Prosenjit Chatterjee]], actor, producer and TV personality; son of [[Biswajit Chatterjee]]<br />
*[[Debashree Roy]], actress, dancer, choreographer, animal rights activist and politician; ex-wife of [[Prosenjit Chatterjee]]<br />
*[[Jahor Roy]]<br />
*[[Kanan Devi]]<br />
*[[Sagarika Mukherjee]]<br />
*[[Swastika Mukherjee]]<br />
*[[Abdur Razzak (actor)|Razzak]]<br />
*[[Dev (Bengali actor)|Dev]], actor, singer, producer, screenwriter and politician<br />
*[[Jeet (actor)|Jeet]], actor, producer and TV personality<br />
*[[Ruma Guha Thakurta]]<br />
*[[Tapas Paul]]<br />
*[[Mahua Roy Choudhury]]<br />
*[[Abbas (actor)|Mirza Abbas Ali]]<br />
*[[Suchitra Sen]]<br />
*[[Antara Biswas]], actress<br />
*[[Aparna Sen]], actress, filmmaker and scriptwriter<br />
*[[Moonmoon Sen]]<br />
*[[Riddhi Sen]], actor<br />
*[[Riya Sen]], actress <br />
*[[Raima Sen]], actress <br />
*[[Reema Sen]], actress<br />
*[[Rituparna Sengupta]], actress <br />
*[[Omar Sani]]<br />
*[[Victor Banerjee]], actor<br />
*[[Moushumi Chatterjee]]<br />
*[[Parambrata Chatterjee]]<br />
*[[Konkona Sen Sharma]], actress and filmmaker<br />
*[[Varsha Ashwathi]]<br />
*[[Abhishek Chatterjee]]<br />
*[[Tathagata Mukherjee]]<br />
*[[Monali Thakur]], singer and actress<br />
*[[Yash Dasgupta]], actor, producer and TV personality<br />
*[[Bonny Sengupta]], actor and politician<br />
*[[Nusrat Jahan]], actress, politician and former Miss Kolkata 2010; wife of [[Yash Dasgupta]]<br />
*[[Mimi Chakraborty]], actress, producer and politician<br />
*[[Anirban Bhattacharya]]<br />
*[[Sayani Gupta]], actress<br />
*[[Sayantani Ghosh]], actress and TV personality<br />
*[[Sayak Chakraborty]]<br />
*[[Sulakshana Pandit]], singer and actress<br />
*[[Vijayta Pandit]], singer and actress<br />
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===Theatre figures===<br />
*[[Rudraprasad Sengupta]], actor and director<br />
*[[Sambhu Mitra]], actor and director<br />
*[[Girishchandra Ghosh]] father of Bengali theatre<br />
*[[Chitra Sen]]<br />
*[[Koushik Sen]]<br />
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===Photographers===<br />
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*[[Benu Sen]]<br />
*[[Sunil Das]]<br />
*[[Sunil Janah]]<br />
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===Composers===<br />
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*[[Jeet Ganguly]] <br />
*[[Kabir Suman]]<br />
*[[Salil Chowdhury]]<br />
*[[Rahul Dev Burman]]<br />
*[[Shashi Preetam]]<br />
*[[Sachin Dev Burman]]<br />
*[[Bappi Lahiri]]<br />
*[[Shantanu Moitra]]<br />
*[[Pritam]]<br />
*[[Hemanta Mukhopadhyay]]<br />
*[[Rupam Islam]]<br />
*[[Nachiketa Ghosh]]<br />
*[[Sudhin Dasgupta]]<br />
*[[Anupam Roy]]<br />
*[[Anjan Dutt]]<br />
*[[Jaimin Rajani]]<br />
* [[Pankaj Mullick]]<br />
* [[Anil Biswas (composer)|Anil Biswas]]<br />
* [[Nachiketa Ghosh]]<br />
* [[Shyamal Mitra]]<br />
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=== Hindustani classical singers/maestros ===<br />
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*[[Ustad Allauddin Khan]]<br />
*[[Ustad Ali Akbar Khan]]<br />
*[[Pandit Ravi Shankar]]<br />
*[[Ananda Shankar]]<br />
*[[Ustad Vilayat Khan]]<br />
*[[Pandit Jasraj]]<br />
*[[Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan]]<br />
*[[Pandit Bhimsen Joshi]]<br />
*[[Rashid Khan (musician)|Rashid Khan]]<br />
* [[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><br />
*[[Pandit Nikhil Banerjee]]<br />
*[[Ustad Amjad Ali Khan]]<br />
*[[Ustad Bahadur Khan]]<br />
*[[Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty]]<br />
*[[Kaushiki Chakraborty]]<br />
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=== Hindustani classical instrumentalists ===<br />
*[[Jyoti Goho]]<br />
*[[Sourabh Goho]]<br />
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=== Other singers ===<br />
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*[[Dwijendra Lal Roy]]<br />
*[[Suprakash Chaki]]<br />
*[[K. C. Dey]]<br />
*[[Gauhar Jan]]<br />
*[[Pankaj Mullick]]<br />
*[[Kanan Devi]]<br />
*[[Kanika Bandyopadhyay]]<br />
*[[Suchitra Mitra]]<br />
*[[Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay]]<br />
*[[Manabendra Mukhopadhyay]]<br />
*[[Manna Dey]]<br />
*[[Kishore Kumar]]<br />
*[[Sandhya Mukhopadhyay]]<br />
*[[Geeta Dutt]]<br />
*[[Debabrata Biswas]]<br />
*[[Begum Akhtar]]<br />
*[[Usha Uthup]]<br />
*[[Indrani Sen]]<br />
*[[Ruma Guha Thakurta]]<br />
*[[Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta]]<br />
*[[Srikanta Acharya]]<br />
*[[Anwesshaa]]<br />
*[[Suman Chatterjee]]<br />
*[[Sachin Dev Burman]]<br />
*[[Anjan Dutt]]<br />
*[[Rupam Islam]]<br />
*[[Prashant Tamang]] <br />
*[[Shayan Chowdhury Arnob]]<br />
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=== Contemporary Bollywood musicians ===<br />
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*[[Abhijeet Bhattacharya]], playback singer<br />
*[[Anupam Roy]] (b.1982), [[Singer-Songwriter|singer-songwriter]]<br />
*[[Alka Yagnik]] (b. 1966), playback singer<br />
*[[Arijit Singh]] (b. 1987), singer, music producer, recordist and music programmer<br />
*[[Babul Supriyo]] (b. 1970), playback singer, live performer, television host, actor and politician<br />
*[[Kumar Sanu]] (b. 1957), playback singer<br />
*[[Pritam]] (b. 1971)<br />
*[[Sagarika]] (b. 1970), playback singer and actress<br />
*[[Shreya Ghoshal]] (b. 1984), playback singer<br />
*[[Shaan (singer)|Shaan]] (b. 1972), playback singer and actor<br />
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===Dancers===<br />
Prominent dancers of the city include:<br />
*[[Uday Shankar]] and his wife [[Amala Shankar]]<br />
*[[Mamata Shankar]]<br />
*[[Tanushree Shankar]]<br />
*[[Ananda Shankar]]<br />
* [[Sadhana Bose]]<br />
* [[Sharmila Biswas]]<ref name=sna>{{cite web |title=Katha Kavya Abhinaya |url=http://sangeetnatak.gov.in/RabindraPranati2011/sharmila-biswas.html |date=2011 |publisher=Sangeet Natak Akademi |access-date=28 May 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927144520/http://sangeetnatak.gov.in/RabindraPranati2011/sharmila-biswas.html |archive-date=27 September 2013 }}</ref> <br />
* [[Shila Mehta]], classical dance artist, choreographer, teacher, and composer<br />
* [[Rani Karnaa]]<br />
* [[Rajeswari Vaidyanathan]], Tedx Speaker, trainer, performer and choreographer<br />
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===Magicians===<br />
Kolkata is the magic capital of India and has produced internationally famous magicians and performers, including:<br />
*[[P. C. Sorcar|P.C. Sorcar]]<br />
*[[P. C. Sorcar, Jr.|P.C. Sorcar, Jr.]]<br />
*[[P.C. Sorcar, Young]]<br />
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==Sports==<br />
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*[[A. T. M. Mustafa]], Pakistani cricketer.<br />
*[[Mohammed Ali Qamar]], Indian Boxer, Gold medal in the [[Commonwealth Games]].<br />
*[[Norman Pritchard]], track and field, [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] medallist (1900)<br />
*[[Richard Allen (field hockey)|Richard James Allen]], hockey, [[Olympic Games|Olympic]](1928, 1932, 1936)<br />
*[[Leslie Claudius]], hockey, [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] medallist (1924, 1928, 1936)<br />
*[[Gurbux Singh (field hockey)|Gurbux Singh]], hockey, [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] medallist (1964, 1968)<br />
*[[Vece Paes]], hockey, [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] medallist (1980)<br />
*[[Leander Paes]], tennis, [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] medallist (1996)<br />
*[[Sourav Ganguly]], cricketer, former [[India national cricket team]]'s captain, sports administrator, former BCCI president<br />
*[[Chhanda Gayen]], mountaineer, first Bengali woman to summit Mount Everest<br />
*[[Pankaj Roy]], cricketer<br />
*[[Laxmi Ratan Shukla]], cricketer<br />
*[[Deep Dasgupta]], cricketer<br />
*[[Rohan Gavaskar]], cricketer (son of [[Sunil Gavaskar]])<br />
*[[Manoj Tiwary (cricketer)|Manoj Tiwary]], cricketer<br />
*[[Ashok Dinda]], cricketer<br />
*[[Wriddhiman Saha]], cricketer<br />
*[[Mohammed Shami]], cricketer<br />
*[[Len Stubbs]], former cricketer<br />
*[[Chuni Goswami]], footballer<br />
*[[Gautam Sarkar]], footballer<br />
*[[Shailen Manna]], footballer, former [[India men's national football team|India national football team]]'s captain (guided India to Gold medal in 1951 Asiad)<br />
*[[P. K. Banerjee|Pradip Kumar Banerjee]], footballer<br />
*[[Krishanu Dey]], footballer<br />
*[[Sudip Chatterjee (footballer)|Sudip Chatterjee]], footballer<br />
*[[Subrata Pal]], footballer<br />
*[[Subhasish Roy Chowdhury]], footballer <br />
*[[Syed Rahim Nabi]], footballer<br />
*[[Mehtab Hossain]], footballer<br />
*[[Arnab Mondal]], footballer <br />
*[[Pronay Halder]], footballer<br />
*[[Pritam Kotal]], footballer<br />
*[[Narayan Das (footballer)|Narayan Das]], footballer<br />
*[[Subhasish Bose]], footballer<br />
*[[Mihir Sen]], record swimmer<br />
*[[Jyotirmoyee Sikdar]], track and field<br />
*[[Arjun Atwal]], golfer<br />
*[[Surya Shekhar Ganguly]], chess grandmaster<br />
*[[Dibyendu Barua]], chess grandmaster<br />
*[[Sandipan Chanda]], chess grandmaster<br />
*[[Deep Sengupta]], chess grandmaster<br />
*[[Gobar Guha]], wrestler<br />
*[[Manohar Aich]], body builder, Mr. Universe 1952<br />
*[[Dipu Ghosh]], badminton, Arjuna Award<br />
*[[Saurav Ghosal]], squash player <br />
*[[Jaidip Mukerjea]], tennis player<br />
*[[Jagmohan Dalmiya]], sports administrator<br />
*[[Pankaj Gupta (sports administrator)|Pankaj Gupta]], sports administrator<br />
*[[John Holman (British Army officer)|John Holman]], cricketer<br />
*[[William Laidlay]], cricketer<br />
*[[Hira Mondal]], Footballer<br />
*[[Usha Rani Das]], Footballer<br />
*[[Rimpa Haldar]], Footballer<br />
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==Nobel laureates==<br />
Six [[Nobel Prize]] winners have been associated with Kolkata:<br />
*[[Sir Ronald Ross]] (1857–1932) – Medicine, 1902<br />
*[[Rabindranath Tagore]] (1861–1941) – Literature, 1913; first Asian to win the Nobel Prize<br />
*[[Mother Teresa]] (1910–1997) – Peace, 1979<br />
*[[Amartya Sen]] (born 1933) – Economics, 1998<br />
* [[Abhijit Banerjee|Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee]] (born 1961) – Economics, 2019<br />
* [[CV Raman]] – Physics<br />
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==Ramon Magsaysay Award winners==<br />
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:<br />
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* [[Mother Teresa]] (1910–1997) – Peace and International Understanding, 1962<br />
* [[Satyajit Ray]] (1921–1992) – Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Arts, 1967<br />
* [[Gour Kishore Ghosh]] (1923–2000) – Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Arts, 1981<br />
*[[Mahasweta Devi]] (1926–2016) – Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Arts, 1997<br />
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==Others==<br />
*[[Samik Bandyopadhyay]] (born 1940), critic of Indian art, theatre and film<br />
*[[Tanmoy Bhattacharya]] (born 1958), politician<br />
*[[William Carey (missionary)|William Carey]] (1761–1834), missioner and reformer<br />
*[[Laksmikanta Roy Choudhury]] (1570–1649), Brahmin scholar, social and political figure<br />
*[[Alexander Duff (missionary)|Alexander Duff]] (1806—1878), missioner and reformer<br />
*[[Manny Elias]] (born 1953), drummer, record producer; original drummer of the [[Tears for Fears]]<br />
*[[David Hare (philanthropist)|David Hare]] (1775–1842), philanthropist and founder of many important and prestigious educational institutions of Kolkata<br />
*[[Rajendra Prasad]] (1884–1963), politician, the first president of India (from 1950 to 1962)<br />
*[[Romita Ray]] (born 1970), art historian<br />
*[[Radhika Roy]] (born 1948), journalist<br />
*[[Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak]] (born 1942), scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic<br />
*[[Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar]] (1820–1891), philosopher, academic, writer, translator, entrepreneur, social reformer and philanthropist; key figure of the [[Bengali Renaissance|Bengal Renaissance]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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