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=== Notable scholars === Notable scholars who were born, worked or studied in Kolkata include physicists [[Satyendra Nath Bose]], [[Meghnad Saha]],<ref name="calunivalumni">{{cite web |url=http://www.caluniv.ac.in/About%20the%20university/Some%20of%20the%20Alumni.htm |title=Some of the distinguished alumni of the University of Calcutta |publisher=University of Calcutta |access-date=29 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111121002631/http://caluniv.ac.in/About%20the%20university/Some%20of%20the%20Alumni.htm |archive-date=21 November 2011 }}</ref> and [[Jagadish Chandra Bose]];<ref name="calunivteachers">{{cite web |url=http://www.caluniv.ac.in/About%20the%20university/Distinguished%20Teacher.htm |title=Some of our distinguished teachers |publisher=University of Calcutta |access-date=29 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111121002802/http://caluniv.ac.in/About%20the%20university/Distinguished%20Teacher.htm |archive-date=21 November 2011 }}</ref> chemist [[Prafulla Chandra Ray]];<ref name=calunivalumni /> statisticians [[Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis]] and [[Anil Kumar Gain]];<ref name=calunivalumni /> physician [[Upendranath Brahmachari]];<ref name=calunivalumni /> educator [[Ashutosh Mukherjee]];<ref>{{cite book |last1=Petitjean |first1=Patrick |title=Science and empires: historical studies about scientific development and European expansion |year=1992 |publisher=Kluwer Academic Publishers |location=Dordrecht, The Netherlands |isbn=978-0-7923-1518-6 |last2=Jami |first2=Cathérine |author2-link=Cathérine Jami |last3=Moulin |first3=Anne Marie |page=62 }}</ref> and Nobel laureates [[Rabindranath Tagore]],<ref>{{cite book |title=Nobel Lectures, Literature 1901–1967 |year=1999 |publisher=World Scientific |location=Amsterdam |isbn=978-981-02-3413-3 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1913/tagore.html |editor=Frenz, Horst |access-date=3 February 2012 |page=134 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120202212053/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1913/tagore.html |archive-date=2 February 2012 }}</ref> [[C. V. Raman]],<ref name=calunivteachers /> and [[Amartya Sen]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~phildept/sen.html |title=Professor Amartya Sen |publisher=President and Fellows of Harvard College, Harvard University |access-date=29 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111120042/http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~phildept/sen.html |archive-date=11 January 2012 }}</ref>
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