The following is a list of notable people associated with the old Presidency College, Calcutta.
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- Abhijit Banerjee, professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2019
- Abhijit Basu, professor of geology, Indiana University Bloomington
- Joyoti Basu, cell biologist, N-Bios laureate[1]
- Ratan Lal Basu, Specialist in ancient economics and Indologist
- Birendra Bijoy Biswas, Botanist and molecular biologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
- Barun De, Former Chairman, West Bengal Heritage Commission and Founder-Director, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.[2]
- Jitendra Nath Mohanty, philosopher, former president of the Indian Philosophical Congress
- Sankar Das Sarma, eminent theoretical condensed matter physicist and Richard E Prange Chaired Professor at University of Maryland, US[3]
- Amartya Sen, Master, Trinity College, Cambridge (1998–2004); winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1998[4]
- Ashoke Sen, professor at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Bangalore, winner of Dirac Medal in 2014
- Surajit Chandra Sinha, former Vice Chancellor, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan; Maharajkumar of Susanga, Bengal[5]
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic, holder of University Professor at Columbia University
- Gurusaday Dutt, ICS, Secretary, Local Self Government and Public Health Secretary, Government of Bengal[6]
- Dipak Banerjee, former Head of the Department of Economics of Presidency College, Kolkata[7]
- Subhas Chandra Bose, Freedom Fighter, Commander of INA, First Leader of Free Indian Territory, Mayor of Calcutta; 53rd President of the Indian National Congress; founder of the Forward Bloc ;[9]
- Syama Prasad Mukherjee, founder of Bharatiya Jana Sangh; Industry and Supply Member, Government of India (1946–50)
- Bidhan Chandra Roy, 2nd Chief Minister of West Bengal (1948–1962); 5th Mayor of Kolkata (1931–1933)
- Ajoy Mukherjee, 4th Chief Minister of West Bengal (1 March 1967 – 21 November 1967)[10]
- Siddhartha Shankar Ray, 5th Chief Minister of West Bengal (1972–77); Education Minister, Government of India; Governor of Punjab; Ambassador to U.S.A.
- Jyoti Basu, 6th Chief Minister of West Bengal (1977-2000)
- Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, 7th Chief Minister of West Bengal (2000–11)
- Ashim Chatterjee, Communist Revolutionary[11]
- Bishnu Ram Medhi, Chief Minister of Assam (1950–57)[12][13]
- MJ Akbar, Minister of State for External Affairs, Government of India (2016–2018)[14]
- Abdus Salam Khan, Minister of Public Works and Communication (1955–1956) in the East Pakistan provincial cabinet[15]
- Md. Hafizur Rahman, Minister of Food and Agriculture of Pakistan (1958–1960); Minister of Commerce of Pakistan (1960–1962); Provincial Minister of Finance and Planning of East Pakistan (1962–1965)
- Amit Mitra, Finance Minister of West Bengal (2011–21)
- Maharajadhiraja Sir Uday Chand Mahtab, Member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly (1937–52), Member, Indian Constituent Assembly, 1946-47 & Maharajadhiraja Bahadur of Burdwan.[16]
- Colonel H.H. Maharaja Nripendra Narayan Bhup Bahadur of Coochbehar[17]
- Raja Narasingha Malla Deb, OBE, MP, of Jhargram Raj
- Vece Paes, Indian Hockey Player, studied Pre-Medical at Presidency College, Calcutta during 1964-65
- Manik Bandyopadhyay, Fiction Author
- Rajshekhar Basu, Fiction Author
- Ratan Lal Basu, Fiction Author
- Shakti Chattopadhyay, Poet
- Henry Louis Vivan Derozio, poet[18]
- Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Poet, Dramatist
- Sankha Ghosh, Poet
- Binoy Majumdar, Poet
- Pritish Nandy, Poet
- Satyajit Ray, Fiction Author
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Black, Joseph; Conolly, Leonard; Flint, Kate; Grundy, Isobel; Lepan, Don; Liuzza, Roy; McGann, Jerome J.; Prescott, Anne Lake; Qualls, Barry V.; Waters, Claire, eds. (4 December 2014). "Henry Louis Vivian Derozio". The Broadview anthology of British literature (Third ed.). Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. ISBN 978-1-55481-202-8. OCLC 894141161.{{cite book}}
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