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. Poets and writers List of notable people Philosophers and religious teachers The most famous religious figure of Kolkata is, without a doubt, Mother Teresa. Others are (in order of surname): Bhakti Hridaya Bon (1901—1982) Bhakti Prajnana Kesava Goswami (1898—1968) Rajendra Pillai (1968-) A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896—1977), founder of ISKCON. Ramakrishna (1836—1886) Ram Mohan Roy (1772—1833) Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati (1874—1837), founder of Gaudiya Math. Keshab Chandra Sen (1838—1884) Debendranath Tagore (1817—1905) Bhaktivinoda Thakur (1838—1914) Swami Vivekananda (1863—1902) Scientists List in order of surname. James Atkinson (1780—1852), surgeon, artist and Persian scholar. Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858—1937), Bengali polymath, physicist, biologist, biophysicist, botanist and archaeologist. Asima Chatterjee (1917—2006), chemist. Debendra Mohan Bose (1875—1975), physicist. Satyendra Nath Bose (1894—1974), physicist and polymath from Bengal. Suniti Kumar Chattopadhyay (1890—1977), Bengali linguist. Barun De (1932—2013), historian. Brajendranath De (1852—1932), Indian civil servant and orientalist. Anil Kumar Gain (1919—1978), mathematician and statistician. J.B.S. Haldane (1892—1964), British-Indian scientist, known for his work in the study of physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and mathematics Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893—1972), Bengali scientist and applied statistician. R.C. Majumdar (1884—1980), historian. P. J. Marshall (b. 1933), historian. Subhash Mukhopadhyay (1931—1981), physician. Sisir Kumar Mitra (1890—1963), physicist. Rajat Kanta Ray, historian. Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri (1923—2005), physicist, known for his research in general relativity and cosmology. Tapan Raychaudhuri (1926—2014), historian. C. R. Rao (b. 1920), mathematician and statistician. Prafulla Chandra Roy (1861—1944), Bengali chemist, educationist, historian, industrialist and philanthropist. Meghnad Saha (1893—1956), astrophysicist. Sir Jadunath Sarkar (1870—1958), historian. Sumit Sarkar (b. 1939), historian. Susobhan Sarkar (1900—1982), historian. Tapan Kumar Sarkar (1948—2021), electrical engineer. Ashoke Sen (b. 1956), theoretical physicist. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (b. 1968), Computer Scientist Sukumar Sen (linguist) historian of Bengali literature. Upendranath Brahmachari Ujjwal Maulik (b. 1965), Computer Scientist R. D. Banerji archeologist Gallantry Awards winners Ashoka Chakra Flight Lieutenant Suhas Biswas Maha Vir Chakra Squadron Leader Madhavendra Banerji Bankers and business people Amar Kumar Bera P. C. Bhattacharya, 7th Governor, Reserve Bank of India Aditya Vikram Birla Rama Prasad Goenka (RPG Group) Sanjiv Goenka Chandra Shekhar Ghosh (founder of Bandhan Bank) Radhe Shyam Agarwal Radhe Shyam Goenka Rajat Gupta (b. 1948) Nalini Ranjan Sarkar Mati Lall Seal Ellis Jacob (founder of Cineplex Entertainment) Tiny Rowland (chairman of Lonrho from 1962 to 1993) Freedom fighters Sri Aurobindo Benoy