Alexander Duff

Alexander Duff

male, deceased (1878)
Scottish, church of scotland, missionary, calcutta, Bengali renaissance, From Kolkata…ScottishChurchCollege
Alexander Duff, D.D. LLD. (April 15, 1806 - February 12, 1878), was a Christian missionary of Scottish heritage who worked in India. He was the...
Mrinal Sen

Mrinal Sen

male, 86 years old
communist party, Mrinal Shen, Faridpur, ScottishChurchCollege, Communist Party of India, University of Calcutta
Mrinal Sen (also spelled "Mrinal Shen") is a famous Bengali Indian filmmaker. He was born on (May 14, 1923), in the town of Faridpur, now in...
Subhash Mukhopadhyay

Subhash Mukhopadhyay

male, deceased (1981)
Kanupriya Agarwal, calcutta, kolkata, hindi, From Kolkata, Gynecologist…Calcutta Medical College, ScottishChurchCollege
Dr Subhash Mukhopadhyay was an Indian physician from Calcutta (now called Kolkata) in India. He was educated at the Scottish Church College and...
Suchitra Mitra

Suchitra Mitra

female
musician, ScottishChurchCollege, Visva-Bharati University, University of Calcutta alumni, University of Calcutta, From Kolkata
Suchitra Mitra is a well respected exponent of Rabindra Sangeet or the songs of Bengal's poet laureate Rabindranath Tagore. She studied at the...

Lal Behari Dey

male
Indian, Bengali-language writer, ScottishChurchCollege, Free Church of Scotland, Bardhaman, Bengali Christian
The Reverend Lal Behari Dey (1824-1892) was a well respected Bengali Indian journalist and author. He was born to a poor banker caste family at...
Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala

Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala

male, deceased (1982)
political party, ScottishChurchCollege, Banaras, University of Calcutta alumni, Nepali Congress, Banaras Hindu University alumni
Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala (1914-1982) was the Prime Minister of Nepal from 1959 to 1960. He led the Nepali Congress, a social democratic political...
Pankaj Mullick

Pankaj Mullick

male, deceased (1978)
Performer of Hindu music, musician, Padma Shri recipient, film singer, University of Calcutta alumni, Bengali cinema…ScottishChurchCollege
Pankaj Kumar Mullick (10 May 1904 - 19 February 1978) was the fourth recipient of Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1973. He is also known as the "First...
Mani Lal Bhaumik

Mani Lal Bhaumik

male
physicist, Indian, University of California, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineer, ScottishChurchCollege, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Mani Bhaumik is a well-known physicist from India who helped develop the first excimer laser at the University of California's famous Northrop...
Bani Basu

Bani Basu

female, 70 years old
Indian women writer, novelist, Ananda Purashkar, Bhatkal and Sen, Maitreya Jataka, Pancham Purush…ScottishChurchCollege, educated at the Scottish Church College
Bani Basu (b.1939) is a Bengali Indian author, essayist, critic and poet. She was educated at the Scottish Church College and at the University of...
Farrukh Ahmed

Farrukh Ahmed

male, deceased (1974)
poet, pakistani, writer, islamic, Pakistan movement, bengali…ripon college, ScottishChurchCollege
Farrukh Ahmed (1918-1974) was a poet and writer of Bangladesh. He was born in Majhail village of Sreepur Upazilla of Magura District. He graduated...