Born in Kolkata
Kolkata
Capital city of West Bengal, India
Kolkata as a birthplace has produced a number of famous personalities of various fields (e.g. Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941), 39th Chief Justice of India, Indian playback singer): Rabindranath Tagore, Altamas Kabir, Alka Yagnik and some more.
Celebrities from KolkataCelebrities from Kolkata
80 Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)
*May 7th, 1861 †August 7th, 1941, Kolkata
52 William Makepeace Thackeray
British novelist (1811–1863)
*July 18th, 1811 †December 24th, 1863, London.jpg "Nandana Sen")
100 Margaret Murray
Anglo-Indian Egyptologist (1863–1963)
*July 13th, 1863 †November 13th, 1963, Welwyn
.jpg "Mithun Chakraborty")
82 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Indian scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic
*February 24th, 1942 78
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
Indian scientist and statistician
*June 29th, 1893 †June 28th, 1972, Kolkata
79 Shashi Kapoor
Indian film actor and producer (1938–2017)
*March 18th, 1938 †December 4th, 2017, Mumbai
.jpg "Riya Sen")
80
Satyendra Nath Bose
Indian Bengali physicist and polymath (1894–1974)
*January 1st, 1894 †February 4th, 1974, Kolkata
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63 Julia Margaret Cameron
British photographer (1815–1879)
*June 11th, 1815 †January 26th, 1879, Kalutara
51 Sourav Ganguly
Former Indian cricketer and former chairman of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)
*July 8th, 1972.jpg "Raima Sen")
81
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Indian spiritual teacher and founder of the ISKCON
*September 1st, 1896 †November 14th, 1977, Vrindavan_(cropped).jpg "Rimi Sen")
.jpg "Monali Thakur")
72 Swami Abhedananda
Indian Hindu mystic (1866-1939)
*October 2nd, 1866 †September 8th, 1939, Darjeeling
.jpg "Koena Mitra")
76 Surendranath Banerjee
Indian politician and scholar , Surendranath Banerjee
*November 10th, 1848 †August 6th, 1925, Barrackpore
_portrait_2017.jpg "Jeetendra Madnani")
53 Arun Kumar Chatterjee
Indian actor, director and producer (1926–1980)
*September 3rd, 1926 †July 24th, 1980, Tollygunge
.jpg "Prosenjit Chatterjee")
_(cropped).jpg "Debina Bonnerjee")
.jpg "Rii Sen")
,_Shri_Piyush_Goyal.jpg "Ashok Jhunjhunwala")
.jpg "Priyanka Sarkar")
Birthdays of famous people
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_2015.jpg "Vibeke Skofterud")
_%C2%A9_Ludwig_Schwab_(~1900%E2%80%931939)_OeNB_8154680.jpg "Oswald Menghin")
_(cropped).jpg "Ashe")
