List of vice-chancellors of the University of Calcutta

The vice-chancellor of the University of Calcutta, a university in Kolkata, India, is the executive head of the university. Following the establishment in 1857, James William Colvile served as the first vice-chancellor of the university.

List of vice-chancellors +S. No.NameTermImageNotes1James William Colvile1857–18592William Ritchie1859–18623Claudius James Erskine1862–18634Henry Sumner Maine1863–18675W. S. Seton-Karr1867–18696Edward Clive Bayley1869–18757Arthur Hobhouse1875–18778William Markby1877–18789Alexander Arbuthnot1878–188010Arthur Wilson1880–188411H. J. Reynolds1883–188612C. P. Ilbert188613William Wilson Hunter1886–188714William Comer Petheram1887–188915Gooroodas Banerjee1890–1892First Indian vice chancellor of the university16Jones Quain Pigot189317Alfred Woodley Croft1893–189618E. J. Trevelyan1897–189819Francis William Maclean1898–190020Thomas Raleigh1900–190421Alexander Pedler1904–190622Asutosh Mookerjee1906–191423Deva Prasad Sarbadhikari1914–191824Lancelot Sanderson1918–191925Nilratan Sircar1919–1921 Eminent Indian physician (22)Asutosh Mookerjee (second term)1921–192326Bhupendra Nath Bose1923–192427William Ewart Greaves1924–192628Jadunath Sarkar1926–192829W. S. Urquhart1928–193030Hassan Suhrawardy1930–193431Syama Prasad Mookerjee1934–1938Union Minister (1947–1950) & Member of Parliament (1952–1953)32Sir Azizul Huque1938–1942High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom (1941–1943)33Bidhan Chandra Roy1942–1944Chief Minister of West Bengal (1948–1962)34Radhabinod Pal1944–1946 Member of United Nations' International Law Commission (1952–1966)35Pramathanath Banerjee1946–1949Member of Parliament (1957–1962)36Charu Chandra Biswas1949–1950 37Sambhunath Banerjee1950–195438Jnan Chandra Ghosh1954–195539Nirmal Kumar Sidhanta1955–1960 40Subodh Mitra1960–1961Eminent Indian obstretrician and gynecologist41Surajit Chandra Lahiri1962 Former Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court (1959–1961)42Bidhubhushan Malik1962–196843S. N. Sen1968–197644Sushil Kumar Mukherjee1976–197945Ramendra Kumar Podder1979–1983 Member of Parliament (1985–1993)46Santosh Bhattacharyya1983–1987 47Bhaskarananda Ray Chaudhuri1987–1991 48Rathindra Narayan Basu1991–199949Asis Kumar Banerjee1999–2008 50Suranjan Das2008–2015–Sugata Marjit (acting)2015–2016–Ashutosh Ghosh (acting)2016–201751Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee2017–202252Asis Kumar Chattopadhyay2022–2023–Dr. Santa Dutta (De) (acting)2023–202553Ashutosh Ghosh2025–Incumbent

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