List of people from Kolkata

List of notable people from Kolkata, that is, people born in or associated with the city. Kolkata has been regarded as the cultural capital of India.[1]

Poets and writers

List in order ofsurname.

Philosophers and religious teachers

The most famous religious figure of Kolkata is, without a doubt, Mother Teresa. Others are (in order of surname):

Scientists

List in order of surname.

Gallantry Awards winners

Ashoka Chakra

Maha Vir Chakra

Bankers and business people

Freedom fighters

Performing arts

Artists

Directors

Satyajit Ray, who won the Oscar for Lifetime Achievement in 1992, lived in Kolkata and is considered among the greatest directors of film history.

Other notable filmmakers from Kolkata include:

Cinema actors

Theatre figures
  • Rudraprasad Sengupta, actor and director.
  • Sambhu Mitra, actor and director.
  • Girishchandra Ghosh father of Bengali theatre

Photographers

Composers

Hindustani classical singers/maestros
  • 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
  • Anjan Chattopadhyay

Other singers

Contemporary Bollywood musicians

Dancers

Prominent dancers of the city include:

Magicians

Kolkata is the magic capital of India and has produced internationally famous magicians and performers, including:

Sports

Nobel laureates

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.
  • C V Raman (1888—1970) — Physics, 1930.
  • Mother Teresa (1910—1997) — Peace, 1979.
  • Amartya Sen (b. 1933) — Economics, 1998.
  • Abhijit Banerjee (b. 1961) - Economics, 2019.

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:

  • 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

References
  1. Pattanaik, Debashish; Anita Desai (2003). Calcutta: a cultural and literary history. Signal Books. p. xiv. ISBN 978-1-902669-59-5.
  2. "Shanu Lahiri dead". The Telegraph (Calcutta). Retrieved 15 March 2013.
  3. "A Tale Of Two Women: In search of their own songs". The Telegraph. 11 March 2012. Retrieved 6 June 2013.
  4. "Katha Kavya Abhinaya". Sangeet Natak Akademi. 2011. Archived from the original on 27 September 2013. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
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