Sujit Mukherjee (21 August 1930 – 14 January 2003) was an Indian writer, translator, literary critic, publisher, teacher and cricketer.

He taught at Patna College, at the National Defence Academy in Khadakwasla, and at the University of Poona before joining Orient Longman in 1970, where he served as Chief Publisher until 1986.

[2] He was a prolific writer on a range of literary topics, as well as a translator from Bangla into English.

Despite having to wear thick glasses to compensate for his myopia,[3] Mukherjee had a long career as a batsman in university, club and first-class cricket.

The Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Hyderabad inaugurated the annual Sujit Mukherjee Memorial Lecture in 2014.