This is a list of notable people connected to the University of Calcutta. Fourteen heads of state and government, and four Nobel laureates have been associated with the university. Fellows Joseph Baly, Archdeacon of Calcutta from 1872 until 1883 Lal Behari Dey, Bengali Indian journalist who became a Christian missionary Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith, British Indologist Thomas Holbein Hendley, British medical officer in the Indian Medical Service and Indian art connoisseur Nawab Abdul Latif, Bengali nineteenth-century educator James Wood-Mason, British zoologist who was director of the Indian Museum in Calcutta Faculty Alumni Arts Business Humanities and Social Sciences Law Literature Military Politics Heads of State and Government Others Civil Servants and Diplomats Royalty and Nobility Religion Science and Technology Chandramukhi Basu, one of the first two female graduates of the British Empire; first female head of an undergraduate academic institution in South Asia Sasanka Chandra Bhattacharyya, natural product chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate Katyayanidas Bhattacharya, Philosophy, Professor, Presidency College, Calcutta Santanu Bhattacharya, Chemical Biologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate, N-Bios laureate Birendra Bijoy Biswas, molecular biologist Nirmal Kumar Bose, Census Commissioner of India Barun De, Chairman, West Bengal Heritage Commission, Calcutta Amlan Dutta, former Vice Chancellor of Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan Mircea Eliade, religious scholar and philosopher Prafulla Chandra Ghosh, English literature scholar Sankar Ghosh Chairman of Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Columbia University; co-founder of Theralogics Inc. K. S. Krishnan, philosopher Dhan Gopal Mukerji, socio-cultural critic; first successful man of letters in the early 20th-century United States Kamini Roy, first female honours graduate in the British Empire; first feminist author in India Prafulla Chandra Roy, chemist Sir Jadunath Sarkar, Vice Chancellor of the University of Calcutta Debi Prasad Sarkar, immunologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate Brajendra Nath Seal, Vice Chancellor of Visva-Bharati University and the University of Mysore Ashoke Sen, string theorist Dinesh Chandra Sen, scholar of early Bengali literature Ranjan Sen, biophysicist, N-Bios laureate Sanjib Senapati, biotechnologist, N-Bios laureate Debasis Chattopadhyay, plant biologist, N-Bios laureate Sports Notes References Calcutta Kolkata-related lists