Noted Barishailese
- Jibanananda Das, famous Bengali poet.
- Kamini Roy, famous poetess and first woman graduate with honours in the subcontinent.
- A.K. Fazlul Huq, (Mayor of
kolkata (1935, first Muslim mayor of kolkata), Prime Minister of undivided
Bengal (1937–1943) and of
East Bengal (1954), Home Minister of
Pakistan (1955) and Governor of
East Pakistan (1956–1958)
- Altaf Mahmud noted bengali film song composer and one of the martyred intelligentsia in 1971.
- Sufia Kamal, poetess
- Kadambini Ganguly, first female graduate and first female physician in the entire British empire
- Mohiuddin Jahangir (Bir Shreshto) was a Captain in the Bangladesh Army during the 1971 Liberation War. The main gate of Dhaka Cantonment- "Shaheed Jahangir Gate" is named in his honour.
- Mithun Chakraborty, famous actor.
- Sushmita Sen, bollywood actress.
- Utpal Dutt (29 March 1929 – 19 August 1993), was an Indian actor, director and writer-playwright.