Kolkata has been regarded as the cultural capital of India. On listing
the notable people of Kolkata from different spheres it is obvious
that the list is impossible to be complete of the vast number of notable
Kolkatans.
Most Nobel laureates of India have been associated with Kolkata at
some point of time. The city has produced five Nobel laureates so
far: Sir Ronald Ross (1902 Medicine), Rabindranath Tagore (1913 Literature),
Sir C.V. Raman (1930Physics), Mother Teresa (1979 Peace) and Amartya
Sen (1998 Economics).
It has produced some great philosophers, social reformers, freedom
fighters, statesmen, artists, scholars and writers such as Ishwar
Chandra Vidyasagar, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay,
Swami Vivekanda, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Subhash Chandra Bose,
Sri Aurobindo, Chittaranjan Das, Jatindra Nath Das, B.C.Roy, Dr.Rajendra
Prasad, Uday Shankar, Nirad. C. Chaudhuri, Mani Shankar Mukhopadhyay
(popularly known as Shankar), Mahasweta Devi, Amitav Ghosh, Ashapoorna
Devi, and the great film makers Sathyajit Ray,Ritwik Ghatak and Mrinal
Sen.
Kolkata was the birth place of the great English novelist William
Makepeace Thackeray and noted litterateurs such as Benjamin Walker,
Vikram Seth, Bharati Mukherjee, and for some time, the home of German
Nobel laureate Gunter Grass. The renowned genetic scientist and Marxist
commentator on society, culture and biology, J.B.S.Haldane spent his
last days in his adopted homeland, in Kolkata.
Cinema superstar Amitah Bachchan started his career in Kolkata and
the renowned thespian Utpal Dutt is a native of Kolkata. Other illustrious
sons of the city include Pankaj Mullick, Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay,
Manna Dey, Kishore Kumar, Begum Akhtar, Ravi Shankar, Bade Gulam Ali
Khan, Amjad Ali Khan, P.C.Sorkar, Salil Chowdhury, Bappi Lahiri and
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