This list contains notable alumni of Scottish Church College, an undergraduate and postgraduate college affiliated with the University of Calcutta, India.
Social reformers and religious leaders
Rev. Lal Behari Dey, theologian of the Free Church of Scotland Mohanananda Brahmachari, a monk and religious leader Swami Gambhirananda, former president of the Ramakrishna MissionReflections around Swami Gambhirananda Krishna Kumar Mitra, former president of the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj Rev. Aurobindo Nath Mukherjee, first Indian to serve as the bishop of Calcutta and as the Metropolitan bishop of India within the Church of India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, proponent of Gaudiya Vaishnavism and founder of the International Society for Krishna ConsciousnessEntertainment Homepage Sitanath Tattwabhushan, theologian and former president of the Sadharan Brahmo SamajFrom the Brahmo Samaj website Brahmabandhav Upadhyay, theologian and preacher of New Dispensation Brahmoism, Protestantism, and Roman Catholicism Swami Vivekananda, Monk, philosopher, social reformer and founder of the Ramakrishna Mission Paramahansa Yogananda, proponent of Kriya Yoga in the West and founder of the Self-Realization Fellowship
Independence activists and politicians
Gopinath Bordoloi, prominent freedom fighter, first chief minister of Assam Subhas Chandra Bose, former president of the Indian National Congress, founder president of the All India Forward Bloc, co-founder of the Indian National Army and head of state, Provisional Government of Free India Birendra Narayan Chakraborty, former governor of Haryana Amarendranath Chatterjee, revolutionary associated with Anushilan Samiti, and Jugantar Nirmal Chandra Chatterjee, former president of the All India Hindu Mahasabha Saroj Dutta, veteran communist leader, co-founder of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) and the Naxalite movement Fazle Haque, West Bengal state minister S.C. Jamir, former chief minister of Nagaland, former governor of Maharashtra, Gujarat and Goa, and governor of Odisha Banwari Lal Joshi, former governor of Uttar Pradesh, Delhi,'Big cities have big problems' MeghalayaB L Joshi sworn-in as new Meghalaya Governor and Uttarakhand Rishang Keishing, former chief minister of Manipur Shawkat Ali Khan, a framer of the Constitution of Bangladesh Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala, first democratically elected prime minister of NepalBisheshwor Prasad Koirala Brington Buhai Lyngdoh, former chief minister of Meghalaya S.C. Marak, former chief minister of Meghalaya Ambica Charan Mazumdar, former president of the Indian National Congress Ajit Kumar Panja, former minister of state for external affairsPanja, Ajit Kumar Prafulla Chandra Sen, former chief minister of West Bengal Yangmasho Shaiza, former chief minister of Manipur George Gilbert Swell, former deputy speaker of the Lok Sabha and former ambassador to Norway and Burma
Jurists
Sir Gooroodas Banerjee, former judge at the Calcutta High Court Sambhunath Banerjee, former judge of the Calcutta High Court Umesh Chandra Banerjee, former chief justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court and former judge of the Supreme Court of IndiaJustice Umesh Chandra Banerjee Anandamoy Bhattacharjee, former chief justice of the Sikkim, Calcutta and the Bombay High CourtsJustice Anandamoy Bhattacharjee Sudhi Ranjan Das, former Chief Justice of India Samarendra Chandra Deb, former chief justice of the Calcutta High Court Mukul Gopal Mukherjee, former chief justice of the Rajasthan High Court Ganendra Narayan Ray, former chief justice of the Gujarat High Court, and former judge of the Supreme Court of IndiaHon'ble Mr. Justice G.N. Ray Subimal Chandra Roy, former judge of the Supreme Court of IndiaJustice Subimal Chandra Roy Amal Kumar Sarkar, former Chief Justice of IndiaJustice Amal Kumar Sarkar Amarendra Nath Sen, former chief justice of the Calcutta High Court, and former judge of the Supreme Court of IndiaJustice Amarendra Nath Sen Anil Kumar Sen, former chief justice of the Calcutta High Court Shyamal Kumar Sen, former chief justice of the Allahabad High Court, and former governor of West Bengal
Scholars and academic administrators
Sir Gooroodas Banerjee, first Indian vice chancellor of the University of Calcutta Sambhunath Banerjee, Nirmal Kumar Sidhanta, Ramendra Kumar Podder, and Santosh Bhattacharyya, former vice chancellors of the University of Calcutta Chandramukhi Basu, one of the first female graduates of the British Empire, and the first female head of an undergraduate college in South Asia (as principal of Bethune College, Calcutta) Nirmal Kumar Bose, eminent anthropologist and freedom fighterNirmal Kumar Bose – Scholar wanderer Ramaprasad Chanda, anthropologist and archaeologist Animesh Chakravorty, recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in chemistry, formerly chair of the department of chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Asima Chatterjee, first Indian woman to earn a doctorate in science, first female recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, and first female president of the Indian Science CongressChemistry alumni, Scottish Church College Tarak Nath Das, formerly professor of political science at Columbia University Sir Jnan Chandra Ghosh, formerly director of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, founder-director of the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and former vice chancellor of the University of Calcutta Pabitra Kumar Giri, an urban economist Biraja Sankar Guha, pioneering anthropologist, one of the first PhD recipients in anthropology in the world (Harvard University, 1924)AnthroSource: Error and founder-director of the Anthropological Survey of India Rabindra Kumar Das Gupta, formerly Tagore professor of Bengali literature, University of Delhi, and former director of the National Library of India Kalidas Nag, historian, author and parliamentarian Hem Chandra Raychaudhuri, formerly Carmichael Professor of Ancient Indian History and Culture, University of Calcutta Tapan Raychaudhuri, ad hominem professor of Indian history and civilization and emeritus fellow, St Antony's College, Oxford Purabi Roy, noted scholar, author and Netaji researcher Sarat Chandra Roy, pioneering anthropologist, often regarded as the father of Indian ethnography, and as the first Indian anthropologist Nityananda Saha, former vice chancellor of the University of Kalyani Sir Brajendra Nath Seal, first chancellor of Visva-Bharati University, former vice chancellor of the University of Mysore Kaliprasanna Vidyaratna, Sanskrit scholar, author and academician
Performing arts, theater and cinema
Pulak Bandyopadhyay, lyricist and composer Puja Banerjee, actress Birendra Krishna Bhadra, broadcaster, playwright, and theater director Sisir Bhaduri, noted playwright Utpalendu Chakrabarty, film director and thespian Mithun Chakraborty, Bollywood and Bengali film actor and social activist Tridha Choudhury, actress Partha Pratim Chowdhury, film director and playwright Buddhadeb Dasgupta, noted parallel cinema director and poetMerchant of Dreams Manna Dey, Bollywood and Bengali film music exponentPadmabhusan Manna Shyamanand Jalan, thespian and theatre director Sailajaranjan Majumdar, distinguished exponent and teacher of Rabindrasangeet Silajit Majumder, singer and actor Tarun Majumdar, film director Manoj Mitra, dramatist Suchitra Mitra, Rabindra Sangeet exponent Pankaj Mullick, Bollywood and Bengali cinema music director and composer Biman Mukhopadhyay, Bengali singer Anamika Saha, actress Kaushik Sen, noted theatre personality, director of Swapnasandhani theatre group Mrinal Sen, internationally acclaimed art film director and cultural commentatorChasing the Truth: The Films of Mrinal SenSen, Mrinal Rudraprasad Sengupta, eminent theatre personality, director of Nandikar theatre group and cultural critic Madhav Sharma, actor, comedian, theater director Badal Sircar, dramatist
Writers, poets and journalists
Farrukh Ahmed, poet, writer, activist of the Language Movement Dipendranath Bandyopadhyay, author Parvati Prasad Baruwa, litterateurParvati Prasad Baruva Lakshminath Bezbaroa, writer, editor and social critic Bani Basu, essayist, novelist, and poetBani Basu Meenakshi Mukherjee: Bani Basu's Novels Ajit Kumar Chakravarty, translator and critic Sanjib Chattopadhyay, journalist, author and critic Nirad C. Chaudhuri, polymath, historian and commentator on culture, and Commander of the Order of the British EmpireVita of Nirad Chaudhuri Sajanikanta Das, critic, poet and editor of Shanibarer Chithi Satyendranath Dutta, poet Sudhindranath Dutta, author and poetSudhindranath Dutta (1901–1960) Pracheta Gupta, writer Samaresh Majumdar, novelist Tilottama Majumdar, Bangali novelist, short story writer, poet, lyricist, and essayist Mustafa Manwar, artist and media personalityMustafa Monwar: A legend of our times Premendra Mitra, novelist, short story and science fiction writer, and film director Dhan Gopal Mukerji, socio-cultural critic and first successful Indian man of letters in the United States of America; winner of Newbery Medal (1928) Subhas Mukhopadhyay, poet"People's poet of Bengal-Subhas Mukhopadhyay" By Dr Ashok K Choudhury Derek O'Brien, quiz-master and author Madhu Rye, playwright, novelist and short story writer Kali Nath Roy, editor in chief of The Tribune magazine Ashok Kumar Sarkar, former editor of Desh literary magazine and editor-in-chief of the Anandabazar Patrika (1958–1983) Kanhaiyalal Sethia, poet
Administrators and organization leaders
Mani Lal Bhaumik, scientist (laser technology) turned entrepreneur, inventor of the excimer laser and authorCode Name SuccessPhoto News Jagmohan Dalmiya, former president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India and the first Indian chairman of the International Cricket CouncilJagmohan Dalmiya: Cricket's face of change Nitish Chandra Laharry, first Indian (and Asian) president of Rotary International (1962–63) Diptendu Pramanick, first secretary of the Eastern India Motion Pictures Association, and secretary of the Film Federation of India (1953–54) Binay Ranjan Sen, former director general of the Food and Agriculture Organization (1956–1967) Evelyn Norah Shullai, pioneer of the Girl Guides Movement in India
Sportspersons
Sreerupa Bose, former member, India national women's cricket team Surya Shekhar Ganguly, chess grandmaster'Unexpected' finish by Surya SekharGanguly, Surya Shekhar and national championIndian National Championship won by Surya Ganguly Gourgopal Ghosh, football player for the Mohun Bagan club and mathematicianGourgopal Ghosh (1893–1940) Dharma Bhakta Mathema, bodybuilder, political activist and anti-royalist martyr in the Kingdom of NepalfitnessNEPAL.com (fitnessNEPAL/History) "Encounter with a martyr's daughter" By Sudha Shrestha
Industrialists and businessmen
Samson H Chowdhury, an industrialist Rameshwarlall Daulatram Nopany, founder of Nopany group based in Calcutta and a philanthropist
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