List of University of Calcutta people
Name College Notability
Chhanda Gayen mountaineer , first Bengali woman to climb Mount Everest
Chuni Goswami former captain of Indian football team
Gourgopal Ghosh Scottish Church football player for the Mohun Bagan Club
Leander Paes St. Xavier 's former Olympic bronze medallist ; Wimbledon and French Open doubles champion
Norman Pritchard St. Xavier 's former Olympic silver medalist
Pradip Kumar Banerjee Suri Vidyasagar footballer
Sailen Manna Surendranath captain of the Indian football team in the London Olympics in 1948 ; gold medallist in 1951 Asian Games
Saurav Ganguly St. Xavier 's former captain of the India cricket team
Sunil Chhetri Asutosh captain of the Indian football team
Surya Shekhar Ganguly Scottish Church chess grandmaster , national chess champion
Talimeran Ao R. G. Kar former captain of the Indian football team in the 1948 Olympic Games
Vece Paes former Olympic hockey player
Alumni -- Sports
This is a list of notable people connected to the University of Calcutta. Fourteen heads of state and government, and four Nobel laureates have been associated with the university.