Ramesh Chandra Majumdar (1888-1980), doyen of Bengalee historians, was born on 4 December 1888 at Khandarpara in Faridpur district. He graduated with Honours in History in 1909 from Hindu College and MA from Calcutta University in 1911.
He started historical research under the supervision of MM Haraprasad Shastri. In 1919 Calcutta University published Majumdar's PhD thesis, Corporate Life in Ancient India. In 1924 he published a small book entitled Early History of Bengal. His Outline of Ancient Indian History and Civilization (subsequently retitled Ancient India) was published in 1927. By this time he had become interested in South-East Asian Studies, learnt French and Dutch, and published Champa (1927), a work dealing with the political, social and cultural history of the Vietnam region. In 1928 he went abroad, studied in the British Museum of London, Kern Institute of Leiden and Bibliotheque Nationale de Paris. Then he visited Belgium, Italy, and Germany and came to South-East Asia where he travelled extensively. These travels helped him later to write no less than five authoritative books on South East Asia. Notable among them are the two volumes on Suvarnadvipa, and the two volumes on Kambojadesha.
Majumdar clashed with the Government of India over the "History of the Freedom Movement" Project. This led him to write four massive volumes - The Sepoy Mutiny and the Revolt of 1857 (one volume, 1957) and History of the Freedom Movement in India (three volumes, 1962-63). In 1955 Majumdar became the founder-principal of the College of Indology of Nagpur University. In 1958-59 he taught Indian history in the Universities of Chicago and Pennsylvania. He was also the Sheriff of Calcutta (1967-68). He delivered many endowment lectures in different universities of India and was recipient of numerous awards from various academic institutions. Majumdar lived a full active life of 92 years and breathed his last on 11 February 1980.

Satyendra Nath Bose (1894-1974) physicist, specially known for his theory of quantum statistics, was the pioneer of practicing science in Bengali. Satyendra Nath Bose was born in Kolkata on 1st January 1894. He passed the Entrance examination securing fifth position from the Calcutta Hindu School in 1909 and passed the ISC in 1911 from the Presidency College, Calcutta securing the first position. Satyendra Nath obtained the BSc degree in Mathematics from the Presidency College in 1913 and MSc degree in Mixed Mathematics in 1915 from the same college.After completing the MSc degree, Bose paid his full attention to research on Mixed Mathematics and Physics under the fellowship with MEGHNAD SAHA at Calcutta

Science College. Bose joined the newly established Dhaka University in 1921 as a Reader of the Department of Physics and later became the Head of the department. His research on Theoretical Physics and X-ray Crystallography made him an international celebrity. In 1924, Bose published his famous article entitled 'Planks Law and the Light Quantum Hypothesis' which was highly praised by Albert Einstein, who translated the article into German. Einstein also took special care to bring this article to light among scientist community and took the initiative to publish it in science journals of repute. The hypothesis received a great attention and was highly appreciated by the scientists. It became famous to the scientists as 'Bose-Einstein Theory'. One kind of particle in atom has been named after Bose as 'Boson'. Bose etched his name in the history of science by solving some of the complex mathematical equations of the theory of relativity.
Professor SN Bose was a fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1958 and was nominated a member of the Rajyashabha (Parliament) of the West Bengal (India) in 1952. With a view to upholding the objective of promoting the study of science in Bengali language, Professor Bose established 'Bangiya Vijnan Parisad' in Kolkata and published its organ entitled 'Jnan O Bijnan'. He was awarded 'Deshikottom' by Visva-Bharati University and 'Padmabhusan' by the Indian Government in appreciation of his outstanding achievements. He died in Kolkata on 4th February 1974

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanabish (1893-1972) statistician, entrepreneur, social and cultural reformer, was born on 29 June 1893. He completed his schooling from Hindu School in Calcutta in 1908. In 1912, he graduated with honours in Physics from Presidency College, Calcutta. He went to England in 1915 and completed Tripos in Mathematics and Physics from King's College, Cambridge. Mahalanabish's contributions to large scale sample surveys are among his most significant and lasting gifts to statistics. He started his work on sample surveys with estimation of area and yield of jute crop in Bengal in 1937. However, it took him over a decade to get these estimates accepted. His tireless advocating of the usefulness of sample surveys resulted in the final recommendation of this sub-commission that sampling methods should be extended to all parts of the world. Mahalanabish received the Weldon Medal from Oxford University in 1944 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, London, in 1945, for his fundamental contributions to Statistics, particularly in the area of large-scale sample surveys.Mahalanabish believed that statistics should be an integral part of the dynamics of national planning. He took a keen interest and played a key role in formulating India's second five-year plan based on the four-sector model developed by him. During the last decade of his life, he devised a statistical method, Fractile Graphical Analysis, for comparison of socio-economic conditions of groups of people. This technique has now been used in many other branches of science. From the fledgling Statistical Laboratory formed in the early 1920s by Mahalanabish within the Physics department of Presidency College, he founded the Indian Statistical Institute on 17 December 1931. In 1959, by an act of the Indian Parliament, the Institute was declared as an 'Institution of National Importance'.
Mahalanabish became the Honorary President of the International Statistical Institute in 1957, and was elected a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1961. Throughout his career he received many other academic honours and awards. He received the highest national honour, Padma Vibhushan, from the President of India in 1968. Prasanta Chandra Mahalanabish passed away on 28 June 1972 in Calcutta

Tushar Kanti Ghosh (1898-1994) was a journalist who crusaded with Mohandas Gandhi for independence. Mr. Ghosh, who was often been called the dean of Indian journalism, was chief editor and founder of Jugantar, one of Calcutta's leading Bengali dailies. During the independence struggle in the 1930's and 1940's, he met Gandhi, the movement's spiritual leader, and Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India after independence. Mr. Ghosh was jailed by the British for his activities. He was a very prominent Bengali author and journalist who penned several novels and short stories. He was closely associated with Amrita Bazaar Patrika publications in Kolkata

Pramathanath Bishi (1901-1985), writer and educationist, was born on 11 June. Bishi was a prolific writer in several genres: poetry, satire, short stories, novel, drama, essay and criticism. He wrote under various pseudonyms, such as Pranabi, Kamalakanta, Haturi, Bishnu Sharma, Amit Ray, Madhabya, Scot Thomson. Among his published novels are Desher Shatru (1924), Padma (1935), Jodadighir Chaudhuri Paribar (1938), Keshabati (1941. He died in Calcutta on 10 May 1985.

Chhabi Biswas (1900-1962) was one of the outstanding actors of Bengali Cinema. He was born in 1900 in Kolkata. His original name was Sachindranath Dey Biswas. His first movie was 'Annapurnar Mandir' (1936). His performance in Satyajit Ray's 'Jalsaghar' (The Music Room) as a landlord with decaying glory and in Tapan Sinha's 'Kabuliwala' as an immigrant Afgan trader shot him to fame. Biswas died on 1962 in a tragic car accident

Dr Pratap Chandra Chunder is a politician, lawyer, writer and painter. He is a respectable name in the politics of pre- and post-Partition West Bengal. Dr. Chunder was a senior leader of the Congress Party, and later, as a member of the Congress-O, had joined the Union Council of Ministers under Morarji Desai as the Minister of Education in 1977-79. Dr. Chunder is a man of multifaceted talents and has held one man exhibitions of paintings and is an author of several novels and plays. He has won several awards and prizes. He is a noted educationist in modern Bengali society.