Ballygunge - Famous Persons

Famous Persons

• Jibanananda Das,the most famous poet in the post Rabindranath period in Bengali literature, lived on Rash Behari Avenue. He was killed in a tragic tram accident near the Lansdowne - Rash Behari Avenue crossing.
• Dr Subhas Mukhopadhyay,the noted physician, who is credited with the second "test tube" birth in the world, lived at Southern Avenue. His life forms the basis for the film Ek Doctor Ki Maut.
• Satyendranath Tagore, first Indian I.C.S. Officer, and elder brother of Rabindra Nath, built a house on Store Road (now Gurusaday Dutt Road), which is now the Birla Industrial & Technological Museum (Gurusaday Dutt Road).
• Indira Devi Choudhurani, daughter of Satyendra Nath, wife of Pramatha Choudhuri, and once a muse of Rabindra Nath lived at 2 Bright Street (subsequently purchased by the Maharajahs of Nadia and today known as "Nadia House"). The house was purchased by Satyendra Nath for his only daughter and he died here.
• Swarnakumari Devi (Mrs J. N. Ghosal), elder sister of Rabindra Nath, mother of Sir Jyotsna Nath Ghosal, ICS, lived with the latter at his house: 3 Sunny Park.
• Gurusaday Dutt, ICS, authority on folk art and folk dances of Bengal and Founder of the Bratachari Movement and the Saroj Nalini Dutt Memorial Association for women's welfare, lived on Store Road which now bears his name
• Ghanshyam Das Birla, businessman and industrialist used to stay at Gurusaday Dutt Rd, where his descendants continue to live.
• Satyendra Chandra Mitra, noted Congress leader and first President of the Bengal Legislative Council (1937–42)lived at 20 Southend Park.
• Jyoti Basu, former Chief Minister of West Bengal has his ancestral house at 55B Hindustan Park and lived there till the mid eighties
• Buddhadev Bhattacharya, former Chief Minister of West Bengal, lives at 59A Palm Avenue
• Somnath Chatterjee, Speaker of the House of the People (Lok Sabha) occupies his ancestral house at P514 Raja Basanta Roy Road
• Pranab Mukherjee, Union Cabinet Minister (responsible at various times for Finance, Commerce, External Affairs and Defence Ministries)and the present president of India has a residence at 60/2/7 Lake Road
• Indrajit Gupta, once Union Home Minister, General Secretary of the Communist Party of India, elected MP for 9 sessions, lived at 1 Dover Road (ancestral house)
• Sir Bepin Behary Ghose, Law Member of the Viceroy's Executive Council lived at 11 Dover Lane.
• Justice P.B. Chakravartti, first Indian to be the permanent Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court, used to live on Southern Avenue.
• Dr. Nares Chandra Sen-Gupta, Noted Bengali novelist and legal scholar, lived at 22/26 Monoharpukur Road and Cooper Street prior to that which has since been renamed after him.
• Aroti Dutt well-known Social Worker, former President of the Associated Country Women of the World and of Saroj Nalini Dutt Memorial Association, lived on Gurusaday Dutt Rd.
• Justice Padma Khastagir, the first woman to sit on the Calcutta High Court Bench (and Acting Chief Justice) used to live in Southend Park.
• Sir Jadunath Sircar, Padma Vibhushan, noted historian, once Vice Chancellor of Calcutta University, used to live at 10 Lake Terrace.
• Prof. Meghnad Saha, noted physicist, founder of the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, used to live on what is now Southern Avenue.
• Sir Asutosh Chaudhuri, High Court Judge, close friend of Rabindra Nath Tagore, political leader lived in Old Ballygunge.
• Sarat Chandra Chatterjee noted Bengali novelist lived on Ashwini Dutt Road.
• Satyajit Ray, film maker of worldwide fame, Academy Award Winner, used to live on Lake Temple Road.
• Suchitra Sen, famous Bengali film actress lives on Ballygunge Circular Road.
• Hemanta Mukherjee, doyen of Bengali music, (known as Hemant Kumar to the fans of his Hindi songs) used to live on Lake Avenue.
• Sachin Dev Burman lived in a house that he built in Southend Park.
• Suchitra Mitra, noted exponent of Rabindra Sangeet, used to live on Swinhoe Street.
• Buddhadeva Bose, a major Bengali writer of the twentieth century, the most multi-talented amongst those belonging to what is for convenience termed the 'post-Tagore' period, used to live at 202 Rash Behari Avenue.
• Sunil Gangopadhyay, well known novelist and poet, lives in Mandeville Gardens
• Buddhadeb Guha, well known novelist and poet, and his wife, noted exponent of Rabindra Sangeet Ritu Guha live on Ashutosh Chowdhury Avenue
• Ruma Guha Thakurta, Singer, Actress and founder of Calcutta Youth Choir, lives at 38 Ballygunge Place.
• Dhrubojyoti Sengupta the junior-most magician of the World, his date of birth is 26-12 1995. date of his debut performance was 29-01-1999 at his age of 3 years 29 days. He completed his 10 years of magical performances on 29-01-2009 and was felicitated at Rabindra Sadan, Kolkata on very date by distinguished personalities of Bengal. He received various international and national awards.He is a student of class VIII of PATHA-BHAVAN School.
• Arghya Sen and Ashoketaru Banerjee, noted exponents of Rabindrasangeet, live in Ballygunge Place and Purnadas Road, respectively.
• Rabindrasangeet singers: Sumitra Sen and her two daughters, Indrani and Srabani, live on Ballygunge Circular Road.
• Nabanita Deb Sen, Littérateur, and only daughter of the poets Naren Dev and Radharani Devi, former wife of Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, lives in the ancestral house "Bhaalobasha", 72 Hindustan Park.
• Linguist, educationist, littérateur Professor Suniti Kumar Chattopadhyay, DLitt who did pioneering work on the origin and development of the Bengali language lived on Hindustan Park
• Subrata Mukherjee, former Mayor of Kolkata, stays on Ekdalia Road.
• P. C. Sorcar, Jr., magician, stays (like his father before him) on Ballygunge Station Road.
• Mani Shankar Mukherjee (Shankar), well known Bengali writer and one of the best sellers in Bengali literature, stays at a flat on Bondel Road, Ballygunge.
• Prof. Pranab Kumar Mitra Noted Medical Practitioner, Teacher and Poet resides in Kankulia Road.
• Anup Ghoshal, eminent singer in Bengali films lives in Mandeville Gardens.
• Debabrata Biswas, Famous Rabindra Sangeet exponent had his house behind Triangular Park on Purna Das Road.
• Satrughna Kanta Acharyya, noted agriculturalist and art collector, lives at Jatin Das Road.
• Satyabrata (Raju) Mukherji, the former captain of the Bengal Cricket Team, lives at Lake Road.
• Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University in the City of New York, was born and grew up in Old Ballygunge and still lives there on her frequent visits.
• Shalini Ganguli, noted copywriter and a prominent Page 3 Personality. Famous for having met all the famous people one can think of. Right from Tenzin Wangdi to Vaibhav Bhatnagar.
• Pranati Tagore, a renowned Bengali elocutionist and a cultural figure and a recipient of the Bharat Nirman Award in Bengal resides in Hazra Road.