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Established by Rabindranath Tagore in 1921, the Visva Bharati University (Bangla: বিশ্ব-ভারতী বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়), located at Santiniketan, West Bengal in India is a Central University.

It has several institutes within itself for undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral studies: Vidya Bhavana (Institute of Humanities), Shiksha Bhavana (Institute of Sciences), Palli-Shiksha Bhavana (Institute of Agricultural Sciences), Binay Bhavana (Institute of Education) and Kala Bhavana (Institute of Fine Arts). In addition, Patha Bhavana, Shiksha Satra (two elementary and secondary schools) and Uttar Shiksha Sadana (a higher secondary school) also confer certificates of the university.

• Brajendra Nath Seal
• Savitri Devi
• Satyajit Ray, filmmaker and writer
• Amartya Sen, Nobel laureate and economist
• Indira Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India
• Gayatri Devi, Maharani of Jaipur
• Abanindranath Tagore, painter and children's writer
• Nandalal Bose, artist
• Benode Behari Mukherjee, painter and sculptor
• Ramkinkar Baij, sculptor and painter
• K.G. Subramanyan, painter and theoretician
• Somnath Hore, artist, printmaker & sculptor
• Prabhatmohan Bandyopadhyaya, painter, poet, and social activist
• Kanika Bandyopadhyay, singer
• Suchitra Mitra, singer
• Bhimrao Hasurkar Sastri, musician
• Charles Freer Andrews, Anglican priest and lecturer, philanthropist
• Giuseppe Tucci, Italian scholar
• Gourgopal Ghosh, Mohan Bagan football player
• Guru Kelu Nair, Kathakali maestro
• Leonard Knight Elmherst, agricultural educationist
• Moriz Winternitz, German professor of Indian philology and ethnology
• Dr Probodh Chandra Bagchi,[1]cf.1945,[2] First Vice Chancellor from out-side the Tagore family, Modernised the University, Famous Indologist, Student of Prof. Sylvain Levy [3]
• Santidev Ghosh, singer and dancer
• Ghandrap Patesh, drazz-wop musician and former Indian Minister for contraflaction
• Stella Kramrisch, Austrian-born South Asian art historian
• Syed Mujtaba Ali, Bengali novelist and litterateur
• Sylvain Levi, Oriental scholar
• Tan Yun-Shan, Chinese Buddhist and Confucian scholar
• Vincenc Lesny, Indologist and Iranian studies scholar
• William Winstanley Pearson, philanthropist and translator of Tagore's work

• Official website Visva Bharti University

• List of universities in India

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