List of University of Calcutta honorary degree recipients


This is a list of honorary degree recipients from the University of Calcutta.

Honorary degree recipients

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YearNameDegree
1876H.R.H. Albert Edward, Prince of WalesDoctor in Law
1876Monier WilliamsDoctor in Law
1876Krishna Mohan BanerjeeDoctor in Law
1876Rajendralal MitraDoctor in Law
1897Alfred Woodley CroftDoctor in Law
1898Mahendralal SircarDoctor in Law
1906H.R.H. George Frederick Ernest Albert, Prince of WalesDoctor in Law
1908Andrew Henderson Leith FraserDoctor of Literature
1908Asutosh MookerjeeDoctor of Science
1908Arthur SchusterDoctor of Science
1908Ramkrishna Gopal BhandarkarDoctor of Philosophy
1908Pratul Chandra ChatterjeeDoctor of Law
1908Gooroodas BanerjeeDoctor of Philosophy
1908Eugene LafontDoctor of Science
1908Herbert Hope RisleyDoctor of Philosophy
1908Gerald BomfordDoctor of Medicine
1908Thomas Henry HollandDoctor of Science
1908Prafulla Chandra RayDoctor of Philosophy
1908George Frederick William ThibautDoctor of Science
1908Subbaiyar Subramaniya AiyarDoctor of Law
1911Crown Prince of the German Empires of PrussiaDoctor of Law
1912Douglas Craven PhillottDoctor of Philosophy
1912Paul Johannes BriihlDoctor of Science
1912Jagadish Chandra BoseDoctor of Science
1913Hermann OldenbergDoctor of Literature
1913Andrew Russell ForsythDoctor of Science
1913Taraknath PalitDoctor of Law
1913Paul VinogradoffDoctor of Law
1913Hermann JacobiDoctor of Literature
1913William Henry YoungDoctor of Science
1913Rash Behari GhoshDoctor of Philosophy
1913Rabindranath TagoreDoctor of Literature
1913Henry Hubert HaydenDoctor of Science
1913Sylvain LeviDoctor of Literature
1920Alfred Charles Auguste FoucherDoctor of Literature
1921Lawrence John Lumley Dundas, Earl of RonaldshayDoctor of Literature
1921Rufus Daniel Isaacs, Earl of ReadingDoctor of Law
1921William Jackson PopeDoctor of Science
1921William Alexander CraigieDoctor of Literature
1921Mokshagundam VisvesvarayaDoctor of Science
1921Brajendra Nath SealDoctor of Science
1921Raghunath Purushottam ParanjpyeDoctor of Science
1921John Hubert MarshallDoctor of Philosophy
1921Gilbert Thomas WalkerDoctor of Philosophy
1921Rudrapatna Shama SastriDoctor of Philosophy
1921Sakkottai Krishnaswami AiyangarDoctor of Philosophy
1921Henry StephenDoctor of Philosophy
1921Cuthbert Edmund CullisDoctor of Science
1921Dinesh Chandra SenDoctor of Literature
1921Devadatta Ramakrishna BhandarkarDoctor of Philosophy
1921Chandrasekhara Venkata RamanDoctor of Science
1921Abanindranath TagoreDoctor of Literature
1921Syed Ameer AliDoctor of Law
1921Arthur Anthony MacdonellDoctor of Oriental
1921Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, Prince of Wales, Earl of Chester, Duke of Cornwall, High Steward of WindsorDoctor of Law
1922James Wilford GarnerDoctor of Law
1926William Ewart GreavesDoctor of Law
1928Arnold SommerfeldDoctor of Science
1930William Spence Urquhart :de:William Spence Urquhart|Doctor of Law
1931Rajendranath MukherjeeDoctor of Science
1931Heramba Chandra MaitraDoctor of Literature
1931Charles Albert BentleyDoctor of Medicine
1932Francis Stanley JacksonDoctor of Science
1934Hassan SuhrawardyDoctor of Science
1938James Hopwood JeansDoctor of Law
1938Francis William AstonDoctor of Law
1938Ernest BarkerDoctor of Law
1938Arthur Henry Reginald BullerDoctor of Law
1938Arthur Stanley EddingtonDoctor of Law
1938Ronald Aylmer FisherDoctor of Law
1938William Searle HoldsworthDoctor of Law
1938Carl Gustav JungDoctor of Law
1938Charles Samuel MyersDoctor of Law
1938Walther Straub :de:Walther Straub|Doctor of Law
1938Shyama Prasad MukherjeeDoctor of Literature
1941Nilratan SircarDoctor of Science
1942Sarvepalli RadhakrishnanDoctor of Law
1942Mohammad Azizul HaqueDoctor of Literature
1944Bidhan Chandra RoyDoctor of Science
1948Chakravarti RajagopalachariDoctor of Law
1949Pramathanath BanerjeeDoctor of Literature
1952Rajendra PrasadDoctor of Law
1952Harendra Coomar MookerjeeDoctor of Literature
1952Sambhunath BanerjeeDoctor of Law
1956Jogeschandra RayDoctor of Literature
1957Nandalal BoseDoctor of Literature
1957Rajsekhar BasuDoctor of Literature
1957Zakir HussainDoctor of Literature
1957Vidhusekhar BhattacharyyaDoctor of Literature
1957Jogendranath BagchiDoctor of Literature
1957Arnold Joseph ToynbeeDoctor of Literature
1957Satyendra Nath BoseDoctor of Science
1957Lloyd Viel BerknerDoctor of Science
1957Chintaman Dwarkanath DeshmukhDoctor of Science
1957Jnanendra Chandra GhoshDoctor of Science
1957Harold Spencer JonesDoctor of Science
1957Yoshio KitagawaDoctor of Science
1957Kariamanickam Srinivasa KrishnanDoctor of Science
1957Prasanta Chandra MahalanobisDoctor of Science
1957Arcot Lakshmanaswami MudaliarDoctor of Science
1957Alexander NesmeyanovDoctor of Science
1957J. Robert OppenheimerDoctor of Science
1957Sudhi Ranjan DasDoctor of Law
1957Atul Chandra GuptaDoctor of Law
1960Niels Henrik David BohrDoctor of Science
1961Nirmal Kumar SidhantaDoctor of Literature
1965Gopinath KavirajDoctor of Literature
1967Satischandra GhoshDoctor of Literature
1968Tarasankar BandyopadhyayDoctor of Literature
1968Nilratan DharDoctor of Science
1969Ramesh Chandra MajumdarDoctor of Literature
1969Dilip Kumar RoyDoctor of Literature
1969Radhagobinda NathDoctor of Literature
1969Suniti Kumar ChatterjiDoctor of Literature
1969Debendra Mohan BoseDoctor of Science
1970Srikumar BandyopadhyayDoctor of Literature
1970Priyadaranjan RayDoctor of Science
1971Durgadas BasuDoctor of Law
1972Abu Sayeed ChowdhuryDoctor of Law
1973Sailendranath SenDoctor of Medicine
1973Prasantabihari MukhopadhyayDoctor of Law
1974Hargobind KhoranaDoctor of Science
1975Jnanendranath MukhopadhyayDoctor of Science
1976Sumitranandan PantDoctor of Literature
1981Gopal Chandra BhattacharyaDoctor of Science
1982Janardan ChakrabartiDoctor of Literature
1982Udipi Ramachandra RaoDoctor of Science
1984Rezaul KarimDoctor of Literature
1985Satyajit RayDoctor of Literature
1986Pandit Ravi ShankarDoctor of Literature
1986Nelson Rolihlahla MandelaDoctor of Literature
1988Hemanta Kumar MukhopadhyayDoctor of Literature
1988G. I. MarchukDoctor of Science
1989Hirendranath MukhopadhyayDoctor of Literature
1989Bhabatosh DattaDoctor of Literature
1989Ashesh Prasad MitraDoctor of Science
1989Safdar HashmiDoctor of Literature
1990Subodhchandra SenguptaDoctor of Literature
1990Srijib BhattacharyyaDoctor of Literature
1990Gopal HaldarDoctor of Literature
1991Võ Nguyên GiápDoctor of Literature
1993Amartya Kumar SenDoctor of Literature
1993Asghar Ali EngineerDoctor of Literature
1994Sambhu Nath DeDoctor of Science
1994Giovanni SpadoliniDoctor of Literature
1995Laxmi Mall SinghviDoctor of Law
1995Durga Das BasuDoctor of Literature
1995Triguna SenDoctor of Science
1995Radhanath RathDoctor of Literature
1997Ali Akbar KhanDoctor of Literature
1997Leela MajumdarDoctor of Literature
1998Sushil Kumar DharaDoctor of Literature
1998Binoy Krishna ChaudhuriDoctor of Literature
1998Pratap Chandra ChunderDoctor of Literature
1998Monkombu Sambasivan SwaminathanDoctor of Science
1998Autar Singh PaintalDoctor of Science
2001Jayant Vishnu NarlikarDoctor of Science
2001Noam ChomskyDoctor of Literature
2002Krishnaswami KasturiranganDoctor of Science
2002Romila ThaparDoctor of Literature
2003Calyampudi Radhakrishna RaoDoctor of Science
2003Tapan RaychaudhuriDoctor of Literature
2004C. N. R. RaoDoctor of Science
2004Ashoke SenDoctor of Science
2005Man Mohan SharmaDoctor of Science
2005Mihir RakshitDoctor of Science
2005Nirmal Kumar GangulyDoctor of Literature
2006Sankar Lal AdhyaDoctor of Science
2006Andre BeteilleDoctor of Literature
2006Purushottama LalDoctor of Literature
2007Romano ProdiDoctor of Science
2007Jyoti BasuDoctor of Law
2007Nirendranath ChakrabortyDoctor of Literature
2007Tapas MajumdarDoctor of Literature
2008Goverdhan MehtaDoctor of Science
2008Mushirul HasanDoctor of Literature
2008Ratan Lal BrahmacharyDoctor of Science
2009Mrinal SenDoctor of Literature
2009Santi Pada Gon ChaudhuriDoctor of Science
2009Sunita NarainDoctor of Science
2010Jigme Khesar Namgyel WangchuckDoctor of Law
2010Bimal JalanDoctor of Literature
2010Srikumar BanerjeeDoctor of Science
2012Shyam BenegalDoctor of Literature
2012U. R. AnanthamurthyDoctor of Literature
2012Pranab Kumar SenDoctor of Science
2013R. ChidambaramDoctor of Science
2013Premnath DograDoctor of Science
2013Jitendra Nath MohantyDoctor of Literature
2014Pranab MukherjeeDoctor of Literature
2014Muchkund DubeyDoctor of Literature
2014Bikash SinhaDoctor of Science
2014Lakshmi Shankar OjhaDoctor of Science
2014Antanas Paskevicius-PoskaDoctor of Literature
2015T.V. RamakrishnanDoctor of Science
2015Lord Hameed Doctor of Science
2015Sanjay SubrahmanyamDoctor of Literature
2015Pandit Birju MaharajDoctor of Literature
2015Joy GoswamiDoctor of Literature
2018Mamata BanerjeeDoctor of Literature
2019Gopalkrishna GandhiDoctor of Literature
2019Dilip MahalanabisDoctor of Science
2019Sukumar MukherjeeDoctor of Science
2020Abhijit Vinayak BanerjeeDoctor of Literature