Sportspeople
- Brojen Das, swimmer, first Asian to swim across the English Channel and the first person to cross it four times
- Niaz Morshed chess player from Bangladesh, the first Chess Grandmaster to emerge from South Asia.
- Mohammad Rafique, cricketer
- Ziaur Rahman, Bangladeshi Grandmaster
- Abdullah Al Rakib, Bangladeshi Grandmaster
- Sourav Ganguly, Former Indian cricket team captain, Padma Shri awardee.
- Aminul Islam, Bangladeshi cricketer
- Shakib Al Hasan, Bangladeshi cricketer
- Tamim Iqbal, Bangladeshi cricketer
- Subroto Banerjee, Former Test and ODI player for India, Fast bowler.
- Krishna Das, former Indian archer
- Pradip Kumar Banerjee, footballer: named Indian Footballer of the 20th Century by FIFA
- Saif Ahmad
- Dibyendu Barua, Indian chess grandmaster
- Ritwik Bhattacharya, squash player
- Gopal Bose, Former ODI Player for India
- Utpal Chatterjee, Former India Cricketer.
- Nirode Chowdhury, Former Test Cricketer for India/ Pace bowler.
- Bula Choudhury, swimmer
- Mouma Das, Table Tennis player
- Deepak Kumar Mondal, football player.
- Deep Dasgupta, Former Indian National Cricket Team Wicket-Keeper, played 8 Tests with a Century against England
- Rumeli Dhar, The cricketer of Indian woman Cricket Team
- Ashok Dinda, Indian cricket team player
- Chuni Goswami, Former Great India Footballer, Padma Shri awardee.
- Poulomi Ghatak, Table Tennis player
- Jhulan Goswami, ICC Women's Cricketer of the year 2007
- Aftab Ahmed Chowdhuryআফতা আহমেদ চৌধুরী
- Mohammad Ashraful, Bangladeshi cricketer, youngest centurion in test cricket.
- Isa Guha, English Women Cricketer
- Subrata Guha, Former Indian Test Cricketer.
- Rani Hamid, chess player: was awarded the FIDE Woman International Master (WIM) title in 1985 and won British Women's
- Saradindu Mukherjee, Former India Cricketer
- Enamul Hossain, Bangladeshi Grandmaster
- Shailen Manna, Footballer
- Gostho Pal, footballer. Member of the 1st Indian Team(MohunBagan)those who won the IFA shield against a British team in the pre independence period.
- Pankaj Roy, Former Indian Cricket Captain, he is best known for establishing the world record opening partnership of 413 runs, together with Vinoo Mankad, against New Zealand at Chennai, Padma Shri awardee.
- Pranab Roy, Former Test Cricketer for India Championship (1983, 1985, 1989)
- Priyanka Roy, The cricketer of Indian woman cricket team.
- Reefat Bin-Sattar, Bangladeshi Grandmaster
- Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Former ODI player for India.
- Wriddhiman Saha, Player for KKR and Bengal
- Mihir Sen, Swimmer
- Arati Saha, Swimmer
- Probir Sen, Former Indian Test Cricketer/Wicket-Keeper.
- Jyotirmoyee Sikdar, athletics: Double gold-medallist in track at Asian games, was awarded Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award and Padma Shri award
- Jayanta Talukdar, archer
- Dipu Ghosh, former badminton player
- Raman Ghosh, former badminton player
- Manoj Tiwary, Player for KKR and Bengal
- Poulomi Ghatak, table tennis player
- Jaideep Mukherjea, former Indian tennis player
- Surya Shekhar Ganguly, Indian grandmaster
- Subrata Paul, Footballer playing for the Indian team
- Saurav Ghosal, Indian squash player
- Dola Banerjee, Indian female archer
- Hari Shankar Roy, Indian track field athlete
- Rahul Banerjee, Indian archer
- Mohammed Ali Qamar, Indian boxer
- Subhajit Saha, Indian table tennis player
- Sachin Nag, former swimming champion
- Subhash Bhowmick, former football player
- Saraswati Saha, Indian sprint athlete
- Soma Biswas, Indian hepathlete
- Alok Kapali, Bangladeshi cricketer
- Tapash Baisya, Bangladeshi cricketer
- Somdev Devvarman, Indian tennis player
- Anirban Lahiri, Indian Golfer
- Manohar Aich, bodybuilder
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