Artists from Kolkata

Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)

Mamata Banerjee is an Indian politician and lawyer who is currently serving as the chief minister of West Bengal since 20 May 2011; she is the first woman to hold the office. The founder and president of the All India Trinamool Congress, she previously served as a Union Cabinet Minister and is also the current leader of the house in West Bengal's Legislative Assembly.

British photographer (1815–1879)

Indian painter and writer (1871–1951)

Indian painter (1932–2023)

contemporary Indian artist (born 1946)

Indian actress, dancer, choreographer and animal rights activist

Indian dancer (1920-2014)

Indian artist (1882-1966)

Bengali artist (1863-1915)

Indian painter and cartoonist of the Bengal school (1867-1938)

British artist (1838-1904)

Indian classical dancer

American painter (born 1963)

Indian artist

Jaddanbai (1 April 1892 – 8 April 1949) was an Indian singer, music composer, dancer, actress, filmmaker, and one of the pioneers of Indian cinema. She along with Bibbo and Saraswati Devi were one of the first female music composers in Indian cinema. She was the mother of actor Anwar Hussain and the well-known Hindi film actress Nargis, and the maternal grandmother of Priya Dutt and Sanjay Dutt.

Playwright, musician, editor and painter (1849-1925)

Indian dancer

Indian painter (1928-2013)

Indian photographer

Indian magician (1913–1971)

classical Indian dancer (born 1946)

dancer

Indian cinematographer (1933–2023)

Indian activist

Indian sculptor (1915-2005)

Indian painter (1937-2013)

Indian dancer and choreographer

Indian cinematographer

Bangladeshi artist (1921-1988)

Indian painter

Indian actor, dancer and choreographer

Olive Katherine Craddock (22 January 1894 – 14 July 1926) was an Anglo-Indian dancer trained in British India who danced under the name Roshanara. She was known for showing central Indian dance techniques in Britain and America. She died in her thirties from appendicitis.

Indian painter

Indian sculptor and writer

Indian artist (1918-2008)

Indian Bengali judge (born 1974)

Indian painter of Bengal school (1890-1964)

Indian singer

Indian artist (1939–2015)

Bengali painter (1907–1974)

Indian painter (1936–2018)

Indian comics artist, writer and illustrator

Indian painter (1875-1962)

20th-century Indian artist

Indian artist (1933-2014)

first Indian woman to perform in a circus

British painter of French descent known for his battle scenes (1831–1898)

Indian painter of the Bengal School of Art (1909-1966)

Indian leftist political artist and writer

Indian-born Canadian-British director, photographer, artivist and lecturer

Indian artist (1940–2006)

Indian Painter and sculptor (born 1935)

Indian artist (1921-2006)

Indian painter (1898–1977)

British Indian sculptor (1931-2003)

Indian artist (born 1965)

Subhaprasanna Bhattacharjee is an Indian artist, born in Kolkata in 1947. He graduated from the Indian College of Arts (Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata) in 1969. He was an active member of the Calcutta Painters group. He married artist Shipra Bhattacharya. Subhaprasanna was the student of the famous painter Debdoot Sheet.

Indian artist (born 1939)

Indian cinematographer