Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (Bengali: ঈশ্বর চন্দ্র বিদ্যাসাগর Ishshor Chôndro Biddashagor 26 September 1820 – 29 July 1890)

Rabindranath Tagore said, "One wonders how God, in the process of producing forty million Bengalis, produced a man!"