48 Notable alumni of Jadavpur University

Syed Samsuddin Ahmed is a prominent academic from Bangladesh. He is the founder vice chancellor of Bangamata Sheikh Fojilatunnesa Mujib Science & Technology University. Prior to this position, Ahmed worked as a senior professor of the Department of Geology and Mining at University of Rajshahi and also served in different academic, administrative, and co-curricular development activities at the University of...

Ujjwal Maulik is an Indian computer scientist and educator. He is a professor and former head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He has worked in many countries including India, US, Germany, France, Australia, China, Italy, Poland, Mexico, Slovenia and Hungary. He also held the position of the principal-in-charge and the...

Madhusree Dutta is an Indian filmmaker, author and curator.

Amitava Chattopadhyay is the GlaxoSmithKline Chaired Professor in Corporate Innovation — Professor of Marketing at INSEAD, Fellow of the Institute on Asian Consumer Insights, and Senior Fellow at the Ernst & Young Institute for Emerging Market Studies.

Ipsita Biswas is an Indian terminal ballistics scientist. In 2019 she was conferred India's highest civilian award for women, the Nari Shakti Puraskar, for her contributions to India's armed forces, paramilitary forces and women's empowerment in defence research and development.

Tamal Krishna Dey is an Indian mathematician and computer scientist specializing in computational geometry and computational topology. He is a professor at Purdue University.

Debabrata Goswami FInstP FRSC, is an Indian chemist and the Prof. S. Sampath Chair Professor of Chemistry, at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He is also a professor (Higher Administrative Grade) of The Department of Chemistry and The Center for Lasers & Photonics at the same Institute. Goswami is an associate editor of the open-access journal Science Advances. He...

Ananta Charan Sukla was an Indian scholar of comparative literature, literary criticism, aesthetics, philosophy, and art history. He was the Founding Editor of Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics and edited and published the journal for over 40 years. He specialized in comparative aesthetics (Sanskrit and Western), literary theory, philosophy of art, philosophy of literature, religion, mythology, and cultural studies....

Pinaki Majumdar is an Indian condensed matter physicist and the director of the Harish-Chandra Research Institute. Known for his research on correlated quantum systems, Majumdar is a recipient of the Global Indus Technovator Award of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him...

Ramkumar Mukhopadhyay is a Bengali writer from India. He has written novels and short stories for both adults and children.

Monidipa "Mimi" Mondal is an Indian speculative fiction writer based in New York. She writes in many genres, including science fiction. Mondal is the co-editor of Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler, an anthology of letters and essays, which received a Locus Award in 2018 and was a finalist for the Hugo Award and the William Atheling Jr. Award....

Subrata Roy is an Indian-born American inventor, educator, and scientist known for his work in plasma-based flow control and plasma-based self-sterilizing technology. He is a professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida and the founding director of the Applied Physics Research Group at the University of Florida. He is also the President and the founder of...

Sandeep Kumar Shukla is currently the director of International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad. He took charge as the director of IIITH on 20 August 2025, succeeding Prof. P. J. Narayanan after a tenure of 12 years. Prof. Shukla was previously the Poonam and Prabhu Goel Chair Professor and previous head of Computer Science and Engineering Department, Indian Institute of...

Mohit Ray is an Indian environmental and human rights activist based in Kolkata. He has campaigned for saving the Adi Ganga, Bikramgarh Jheel and other water bodies of Kolkata. His seminal work in this field is the extensive research on the water bodies and heritage ponds of Kolkata. His work has been published by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation and Ananda...

Sir Chinmoy Guha is an Indian essayist, translator, and a scholar of French language and literature, currently serving as Professor Emeritus at the University of Calcutta. He has served as the Vice-Chancellor of Rabindra Bharati University and Director of Publications, Embassy of France, New Delhi. Earlier he taught English at Vijaygarh Jyotish Ray College in Kolkata for more than two...

Swapan Kumar Chakravorty was an Indian academic who was a distinguished Professor of Humanities at the Presidency University, Kolkata.

Subir Raha was a former Director (HR) of Indian Oil Corporation and ex-chairman and MD of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation He received global recognition as Energy Executive of the Year 2005, from the Petroleum Economist, London, in September 2006.

Sudhir Chakravarti was a Bengali educationist and essayist. He made a vast contribution in Bengal's folk culture development and research.

Saroj Ghose was an Indian science popularizer and museum maker. He was the director of Birla Industrial & Technological Museum and director general of the National Council of Science Museums, Government of India. He was also the President of the International Council of Museums in Paris from 1992 to 1998. During his 60 years of professional experience, he received numerous...

Dipankar Chatterji is an Indian molecular biologist and the Honorary Professor at Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, a multidisciplinary research institute under the Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India. He is known for his pioneering research on bacterial transcription. He is a recipient of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize and is an elected fellow of...

Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri, is an Indian tabla player. He has accompanied several musicians of Indian classical music, including, Pandit Ravi Shankar, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, Ustad Vilayat Khan, Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Pandit Jasraj, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Ken Zuckerman and many more. He also taught his sons tabla. Chaudhuri is a disciple of Santosh Biswas in the Lucknow gharana.

Kunal Basu is an Indian author of English fiction who has written five novels – The Opium Clerk (2001), The Miniaturist (2003), Racists (2006), The Yellow Emperor's Cure (2011) Kalkatta (2015) and Sarojini’s Mother (2020). The title story of his only collection of short stories, The Japanese Wife (2008), was made into a film by the Indian filmmaker Aparna Sen....

Tapan Misra is an Indian scientist who has been the Director of Space Applications Centre and Physical Research Laboratory in ISRO. He later became Senior Advisor to the Chairman, ISRO.

Ranjon Ghoshal was an Indian theatre director and musician. He was a member of the Bengali band Moheener Ghoraguli, and ran an advertising agency, Mareech Advertising in Bangalore, apart from Forum Three, a theatre group.

Bickram Ghosh is an Indian classical tabla player.

Manabi Bandyopadhyay is the first openly transgender Indian college principal.

Onir is an Indian film and television director, editor, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for his film My Brother…Nikhil, based on the life of Dominic d'Souza, was one of the first mainstream Hindi films to deal with AIDS and same-sex relationships.

Kushal Chakraborty is an Indian actor and film director associated with Bengali cinema. At the age of six, he played the role of Mukul in Satyajit Ray's film Sonar Kella for which he won National Film Award for best child artist in 1974. He introduced Rituparna Sengupta to showbiz with his directorial venture Shwet Kapot (1989). His directorial venture Dhyatterika...

Sudhindra Sircar, also known as Badal Sarkar, was an influential Indian dramatist and theatre director, most known for his anti-establishment plays during the Naxalite movement in the 1970s and taking theatre out of the proscenium and into public arena, when he transformed his own theatre company, Shatabdi (established in 1967 for proscenium theatre ) as a third theatre group. He...

Kalika Prasad Bhattacharya was an Indian folk singer and researcher. He was born and raised in Silchar, Assam. He went on to study comparative literature at Jadavpur University. His musical inspiration was his uncle Ananta Bhattacharya. In 1999, he co-founded the band Dohar with the intent to revive the folk music tradition of Northern and Eastern Bengal. He also contributed...

Rubana Haque is a Bangladeshi businesswoman, university academic and poet. She has been the Vice-chancellor of Asian University for Women (AUW) since February 2022.

Sujan Chakraborty is an Indian politician and a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He was the MLA of Jadavpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) from 2016 to 2021. In the 2016 West Bengal Assembly elections, he defeated his nearest rival, Minister for Power in the Government of West Bengal, Manish Gupta of the Trinamool Congress. In 2021 he was...

Anupam Roy is an Indian Bengali singer-songwriter, music director, composer, writer, guitarist, playback singer, engineer from Kolkata, India. He made his debut with Amake Amar Moto Thakte Dao & Benche Thakar Gaan, which appeared on the soundtrack of the 2010 Bengali film Autograph. Since then, he has gone on to compose, write lyrics and sing for many Bengali films.

Payel Sarkar is an Indian actress and politician who has appeared in Bengali films and Hindi television.

Churni Ganguly is an Indian actress and writer-director who mainly works in Bengali movies and television productions. She won the prestigious Onida Pinnacle Award for Best Actress [National Level] in 1995. Churni received the Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards in 2005 in the best actress category for the movie Waarish, in which she played a single-mother's role. As a writer-director,...

Shiboprosad Mukherjee is an Indian film director, writer and actor. With Nandita Roy as his co-director, he made his directorial debut with the film Icche, which garnered critical acclaim and commercial success. The director duo is known for making socially relevant films. They have also directed new age Bengali films like Praktan, Bela Seshe, Muktodhara, Accident, Alik Sukh and Ramdhanu,...

Abhijit Mukherjee is an Indian politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) from the Jangipur Lok Sabha constituency in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Mohammed Salim is an Indian politician who is the State Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) West Bengal State Committee. In 2015, he was inducted into the Politburo of CPI(M) at the 21st Party Congress held in Visakhapatnam. He was a member of the 16th Lok Sabha, representing Raiganj. Earlier, he was a member of the 14th Lok...

Arundhati Bhattacharya is the chairperson and chief executive officer for Salesforce, India. She is also retired Indian banker and former Chairperson of the State Bank of India. She is the first woman to be the Chairperson of State Bank of India. In 2016, she was listed as the 25th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes. She is the...

Bidita Bag is an Indian actress and model. She is mostly known for her inclination towards socio-political films.

Moon Moon Sen, also credited as Moonmoon Sen, is an Indian actress and politician, known for her works in Hindi, Bengali, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, and Gujarati films. She eventually starred in Bollywood films. She has appeared in 60 films and 40 television series. She has received Andhra Pradesh state Nandi Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1987, for her...

Parambrata Chattopadhyay is an Indian actor and director. Parambrata started his career with Bengali television and films. He has acted as the fictional character Topshe from Feluda under Sandip Ray's direction. His notable works include Bhalo Theko (2003), Baishe Srabon (2011), Sold (2014), Kadambari (2017), Anukul (2017), Pari (2018), Ramprasad Ki Tehrvi (2019), Dwitiyo Purush(2020), Bulbbul (2020) and Doctor Bakshi...

Manabendra Nath Roy was a 20th-century Indian revolutionary, philosopher, radical activist and political theorist. Roy was the founder of the Mexican Communist Party and the Communist Party of India (Tashkent group).

Rituparno Ghosh was an Indian film director, actor, writer and lyricist. After pursuing a degree in economics, he started his career as a creative artist at an advertising agency. He received recognition for his second feature film Unishe April which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film. Having won 19 National Awards, along with his contemporaries Aparna Sen...

Swastika Mukherjee is an Indian actress who mainly appears in Bengali and Hindi films and television. She is the daughter of actor Santu Mukhopadhyay. Throughout her career, she received various accolades including four Filmfare Awards East (including a record of three wins and five nominations for Best Actress), one WBFJA, one Anandalok Award and one Kalakar Award.

Nabaneeta Dev Sen was an Indian writer and academic. After studying arts and comparative literature, she moved to the United States where she studied further. She returned to India and taught at several universities and institutes as well as serving in various positions in literary institutes. She published more than 80 books in Bengali: poetry, novels, short stories, plays, literary...

Agnimitra Paul is an Indian fashion designer and politician who serves as the Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Asansol Dakshin. She had served as the President of the West Bengal unit of BJP Mahila Morcha, and as the General Secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party, West Bengal. She also serves as the vice-president of the Bharatiya Janata Party,...