List of University of Calcutta honorary degree recipients

This is a list of honorary degree recipients from the University of Calcutta.

Honorary degree recipients

Color key Light green indicates "(Special)"; pink indicates "(Posthumous)" Year Name Degree 1876 H.R.H. Albert Edward, Prince of Wales Doctor in Law 1876 Monier Williams Doctor in Law 1876 Krishna Mohan Banerjee Doctor in Law 1876 Rajendralal Mitra Doctor in Law 1897 Alfred Woodley Croft Doctor in Law 1898 Mahendralal Sircar Doctor in Law 1906 H.R.H. George Frederick Ernest Albert, Prince of Wales Doctor in Law 1908 Andrew Henderson Leith Fraser Doctor of Literature 1908 Asutosh Mookerjee Doctor of Science 1908 Arthur Schuster Doctor of Science 1908 Ramkrishna Gopal Bhandarkar Doctor of Philosophy 1908 Pratul Chandra Chatterjee Doctor of Law 1908 Gooroodas Banerjee Doctor of Philosophy 1908 Eugene Lafont Doctor of Science 1908 Herbert Hope Risley Doctor of Philosophy 1908 Gerald Bomford Doctor of Medicine 1908 Thomas Henry Holland Doctor of Science 1908 Prafulla Chandra Ray Doctor of Philosophy 1908 George Frederick William Thibaut Doctor of Science 1908 Subbaiyar Subramaniya Aiyar Doctor of Law 1911 Crown Prince of the German Empires of Prussia Doctor of Law 1912 Douglas Craven Phillott Doctor of Philosophy 1912 Paul Johannes Briihl Doctor of Science 1912 Jagadish Chandra Bose Doctor of Science 1913 Hermann Oldenberg Doctor of Literature 1913 Andrew Russell Forsyth Doctor of Science 1913 Taraknath Palit Doctor of Law 1913 Paul Vinogradoff Doctor of Law 1913 Hermann Jacobi Doctor of Literature 1913 William Henry Young Doctor of Science 1913 Rash Behari Ghosh Doctor of Philosophy 1913 Rabindranath Tagore Doctor of Literature 1913 Henry Hubert Hayden Doctor of Science 1913 Sylvain Levi Doctor of Literature 1920 Alfred Charles Auguste Foucher Doctor of Literature 1921 Lawrence John Lumley Dundas, Earl of Ronaldshay Doctor of Literature 1921 Rufus Daniel Isaacs, Earl of Reading Doctor of Law 1921 William Jackson Pope Doctor of Science 1921 William Alexander Craigie Doctor of Literature 1921 Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya Doctor of Science (Eng.) 1921 Brajendra Nath Seal Doctor of Science 1921 Raghunath Purushottam Paranjpye Doctor of Science 1921 John Hubert Marshall Doctor of Philosophy 1921 Gilbert Thomas Walker Doctor of Philosophy 1921 Rudrapatna Shama Sastri Doctor of Philosophy 1921 Sakkottai Krishnaswami Aiyangar Doctor of Philosophy 1921 Henry Stephen Doctor of Philosophy 1921 Cuthbert Edmund Cullis Doctor of Science 1921 Dinesh Chandra Sen Doctor of Literature 1921 Devadatta Ramakrishna Bhandarkar Doctor of Philosophy 1921 Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman Doctor of Science 1921 Abanindranath Tagore Doctor of Literature 1921 Syed Ameer Ali Doctor of Law 1921 Arthur Anthony Macdonell Doctor of Oriental 1921 Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, Prince of Wales, Earl of Chester, Duke of Cornwall, High Steward of Windsor Doctor of Law 1922 James Wilford Garner Doctor of Law 1926 William Ewart Greaves Doctor of Law 1928 Arnold Sommerfeld Doctor of Science 1930 William Spence Urquhart (de) Doctor of Law 1931 Rajendranath Mukherjee Doctor of Science 1931 Heramba Chandra Maitra Doctor of Literature 1931 Charles Albert Bentley Doctor of Medicine 1932 Francis Stanley Jackson Doctor of Science 1934 Hassan Suhrawardy Doctor of Science 1938 James Hopwood Jeans Doctor of Law 1938 Francis William Aston Doctor of Law 1938 Ernest Barker Doctor of Law 1938 Arthur Henry Reginald Buller Doctor of Law 1938 Arthur Stanley Eddington Doctor of Law 1938 Ronald Aylmer Fisher Doctor of Law 1938 William Searle Holdsworth Doctor of Law 1938 Carl Gustav Jung Doctor of Law 1938 Charles Samuel Myers Doctor of Law 1938 Walther Straub (de) Doctor of Law 1938 Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Doctor of Literature 1941 Nilratan Sircar Doctor of Science 1942 Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Doctor of Law 1942 Mohammad Azizul Haque Doctor of Literature 1944 Bidhan Chandra Roy Doctor of Science 1948 Chakravarti Rajagopalachari Doctor of Law 1949 Pramathanath Banerjee Doctor of Literature 1952 Rajendra Prasad Doctor of Law 1952 Harendra Coomar Mookerjee Doctor of Literature 1952 Sambhunath Banerjee Doctor of Law 1956 Jogeschandra Ray Doctor of Literature 1957 Nandalal Bose Doctor of Literature 1957 Rajsekhar Basu Doctor of Literature 1957 Zakir Hussain Doctor of Literature 1957 Vidhusekhar Bhattacharyya Doctor of Literature 1957 Jogendranath Bagchi Doctor of Literature 1957 Arnold Joseph Toynbee Doctor of Literature 1957 Satyendra Nath Bose Doctor of Science 1957 Lloyd Viel Berkner Doctor of Science 1957 Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh Doctor of Science 1957 Jnanendra Chandra Ghosh Doctor of Science 1957 Harold Spencer Jones Doctor of Science 1957 Yoshio Kitagawa Doctor of Science 1957 Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan Doctor of Science 1957 Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Doctor of Science 1957 Arcot Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar Doctor of Science 1957 Alexander Nesmeyanov Doctor of Science 1957 J. Robert Oppenheimer Doctor of Science 1957 Sudhi Ranjan Das Doctor of Law 1957 Atul Chandra Gupta Doctor of Law 1960 Niels Henrik David Bohr Doctor of Science 1961 Nirmal Kumar Sidhanta Doctor of Literature 1965 Gopinath Kaviraj Doctor of Literature 1967 Satischandra Ghosh Doctor of Literature 1968 Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay Doctor of Literature 1968 Nilratan Dhar Doctor of Science 1969 Ramesh Chandra Majumdar Doctor of Literature 1969 Dilip Kumar Roy Doctor of Literature 1969 Radhagobinda Nath Doctor of Literature 1969 Suniti Kumar Chatterji Doctor of Literature 1969 Debendra Mohan Bose Doctor of Science 1970 Srikumar Bandyopadhyay Doctor of Literature 1970 Priyadaranjan Ray Doctor of Science 1971 Durgadas Basu Doctor of Law 1972 Abu Sayeed Chowdhury Doctor of Law 1973 Sailendranath Sen Doctor of Medicine 1973 Prasantabihari Mukhopadhyay Doctor of Law 1974 Hargobind Khorana Doctor of Science 1975 Jnanendranath Mukhopadhyay Doctor of Science 1976 Sumitranandan Pant Doctor of Literature 1981 Gopal Chandra Bhattacharya Doctor of Science 1982 Janardan Chakrabarti Doctor of Literature 1982 Udipi Ramachandra Rao Doctor of Science 1984 Rezaul Karim Doctor of Literature 1985 Satyajit Ray Doctor of Literature 1986 Pandit Ravi Shankar Doctor of Literature 1986 Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Doctor of Literature 1988 Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay Doctor of Literature 1988 G. I. Marchuk Doctor of Science 1989 Hirendranath Mukhopadhyay Doctor of Literature 1989 Bhabatosh Datta Doctor of Literature 1989 Ashesh Prasad Mitra Doctor of Science 1989 Safdar Hashmi Doctor of Literature 1990 Subodhchandra Sengupta Doctor of Literature 1990 Srijib Bhattacharyya Doctor of Literature 1990 Gopal Haldar Doctor of Literature 1991 Võ Nguyên Giáp Doctor of Literature 1993 Amartya Kumar Sen Doctor of Literature 1993 Asghar Ali Engineer Doctor of Literature 1994 Sambhu Nath De Doctor of Science 1994 Giovanni Spadolini Doctor of Literature 1995 Laxmi Mall Singhvi Doctor of Law 1995 Durga Das Basu Doctor of Literature 1995 Triguna Sen Doctor of Science 1995 Radhanath Rath Doctor of Literature 1997 Ali Akbar Khan Doctor of Literature 1997 Leela Majumdar Doctor of Literature 1998 Sushil Kumar Dhara Doctor of Literature 1998 Binoy Krishna Chaudhuri Doctor of Literature 1998 Pratap Chandra Chunder Doctor of Literature 1998 Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan Doctor of Science 1998 Autar Singh Paintal Doctor of Science 2001 Jayant Vishnu Narlikar Doctor of Science 2001 Noam Chomsky Doctor of Literature 2002 Krishnaswami Kasturirangan Doctor of Science 2002 Romila Thapar Doctor of Literature 2003 Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao Doctor of Science 2003 Tapan Raychaudhuri Doctor of Literature 2004 C. N. R. Rao Doctor of Science 2004 Ashoke Sen Doctor of Science 2005 Man Mohan Sharma Doctor of Science 2005 Mihir Rakshit Doctor of Science 2005 Nirmal Kumar Ganguly Doctor of Literature 2006 Sankar Lal Adhya Doctor of Science 2006 Andre Beteille Doctor of Literature 2006 Purushottama Lal Doctor of Literature 2007 Romano Prodi Doctor of Science 2007 Jyoti Basu Doctor of Law 2007 Nirendranath Chakraborty Doctor of Literature 2007 Tapas Majumdar Doctor of Literature 2008 Goverdhan Mehta Doctor of Science 2008 Mushirul Hasan Doctor of Literature 2008 Ratan Lal Brahmachary Doctor of Science 2009 Mrinal Sen Doctor of Literature 2009 Santi Pada Gon Chaudhuri Doctor of Science 2009 Sunita Narain Doctor of Science 2010 Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck Doctor of Law 2010 Bimal Jalan Doctor of Literature 2010 Srikumar Banerjee Doctor of Science 2012 Shyam Benegal Doctor of Literature 2012 U. R. Ananthamurthy Doctor of Literature 2012 Pranab Kumar Sen Doctor of Science 2013 R. Chidambaram Doctor of Science 2013 Premnath Dogra Doctor of Science 2013 Jitendra Nath Mohanty Doctor of Literature 2014 Pranab Mukherjee Doctor of Literature 2014 Muchkund Dubey Doctor of Literature 2014 Bikash Sinha Doctor of Science 2014 Lakshmi Shankar Ojha Doctor of Science 2014 Antanas Paskevicius-Poska Doctor of Literature2015T. V. RamakrishnanDoctor of Science2015Lord Hameed (Khalid Hameed)Doctor of Science2015Sanjay SubrahmanyamDoctor of Literature2015Pandit Birju MaharajDoctor of Literature2015Joy GoswamiDoctor of Literature2018Mamata BanerjeeDoctor of Literature2019Gopalkrishna GandhiDoctor of Literature2019Dilip MahalanabisDoctor of Science2019Srikumar BanerjeeDoctor of Science2020Abhijit BanerjeeDoctor of Literature

See also

University of Calcutta List of Calcutta University people

References

External links Recipients of Hony. Degrees Official website