কলকাতা Kolkata (Calcutta)
Each person here has a pure golden heart and possesses all the positive humane characteristics.
Truly called the "City of Joy" and "City of Love" by many.
Calcutta served as the capital of India during the British Raj until 1911.
Calcutta is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. It is located in eastern India on the east bank of the River Hooghly.
A very small list of internationally notable people from Kolkata:
Nobel Prize winners
1. Sir Ronald Ross (1902 Medicine)
2. Rabindranath Tagore (1913 Literature, the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize)
3. C. V. Raman (1930 Physics, the first Asian scientist to win the Nobel Prize)
4. Mother Teresa (1979 Peace)
5. Amartya Sen (1998 Economics)
Business tycoons
1. Late Aditya Vikram Birla father of Kumar Mangalam Birla (Birla Group)
2. Lakshmi Narayan Mittal (the fourth richest person in the world)
3. Rama Prasad Goenka (RPG Group)
Freedom fighters
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
Cinema (Academy Award awarded)
late film director Satyajit Ray, who won the Special Oscar for Lifetime Achievement or the Academy Honorary Award in 1992
Scientists
1. Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose (Royal Fellow of the Royal Society)
2. Sir C. V. Ramam (Royal Fellow of the Royal Society)
International Sports persons
Sourav Ganguly
Olympic medallists
Norman Pritchard (Athletics - 1900)
This is the minimal that I could have mentioned - Click here for the full list
Hail Calcutta.