Renuka Ray (4 January 1904 – 11 April 1997) was a noted freedom-fighter, social activist and politician of India.
She left college to answer Gandhiji's call for boycotting the British Indian educational system.
Maternal grandmother Sarala Roy was a well known social worker who worked for the emancipation of women.
She was the founder of Gokhale Memorial School and College and the first Indian woman to be a member of the senate, Calcutta University.
[6][7] Among her siblings Subroto Mukherjee was the first air chief marshal of Indian Air Force who died in Tokyo and was married to Sharda Mukherjee (née' Pandit) a niece-in-law of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and Prashanta Mukherjee who was the chairperson of the Indian Railway Board and was married to Keshab Chandra Sen's granddaughter Violet.