Ajoy Home (2 May 1913 – 30 October 1992) was a Bengali aviculturist, ornithologist and naturalist of India, based in the eastern state of West Bengal.
Ajoy Home was born in Kolkata (Calcutta) to Brahmo reformer and a teacher at City School, Gagan Chandra and his wife Basantabala.
His eldest brother was Amal Chandra Home,[1] the well-known founder-editor of the Calcutta Municipal Gazette[2][3] and a member of Sukumar Ray's 'Monday club'.
[5] Home was the author of several books on ornithology written in his vernacular Bengali:[6] Banglar Pakhi (Birds of Bengal, with a cover-design by the Indian film-maker Satyajit Ray, who happened to be a family friend), Chena Achena Pakhi (Birds known and unknown)[7][8] that won him a posthumous Rabindra Puroshkar, awarded by the Government of West Bengal in 1996.
A commemorative event was organized on the centennial of his birth (including the unveiling of his portrait at the Bangiya Bijnan Parishad hall on 2 May 2013).