Jyotirmayee Gangopadhyay

Jyotirmayee Gangopadhyay (1889–1945) was a Bengali educationist, feminist, and a member of the Brahmo Samaj.

Her father Dwarkanath Ganguly was a social reformer, a leader of the Brahmo Samaj and an Indian Nationalist and her mother Kadambini Devi was the first female student from University of Kolkata to graduate in a medical field.

She taught at the Bethune Collegiate School and after that in the Ravenshaw College in Cuttack, Odisha.

[2] Jyotirmayee raised a female volunteer corp for the Indian National Congress.

[2] Jyotirmayee was killed by police firing on 22 November 1945 while with a procession of students that was protesting the death of Rameshwar Banerjee.