Lalit Mohan Banerjee

Lalit Mohan Banerjee was an Indian surgeon and medical academic, recorded as the first medical professional to receive the degree of Master of Surgery from the University of Calcutta. He was professor of surgery at R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital of Calcutta University and served as personal surgeon to the President of India. He was among the founders of the Association of Surgeons of India and its third president, from 1941 to 1942, and in that period he operated on the poet and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. The Government of India awarded him the Padma Bhushan in 1955 for his contributions to medical science, and a road in Sodepur, Dr. L. M. Banerjee Road, bears his name.