St. Gregory's High School and College

In 1882, the American priests of the Congregation of Holy Cross took over the Vicariate of East Bengal from the Benedictine Fathers. At the time, Mr. and Mrs. Wise — who were Protestants — ran a school in the present Wiseghat area near the River Buriganga. In this school, most of the students were of European or Anglo-Indian Catholic communities. Anglican and Baptist pastors were allowed to teach religion at this school. Father Francis Boers, CSC, made numerous efforts to be a teacher of Catholic Religion to the Catholic students at the school, but was not allowed. Out of frustration, he started an English-medium school on the grounds of the present adjoining St. Francis Xavier's Convent and girls' high school, that came into being later. The renamed St. Gregory's School shifted to the present site in 1896. == Headmasters ==

• Fr. Gregory De Groote (1882–1888) • Fr. F. A. Boeres CSC (1889–1910) • Fr. J. Fieffer (1911) • Fr. T. Crowly CSC (1912–1915) • Fr. P. Boulay CSC (1916–1918) • Fr. A. Blin CSC (1919–1921) • Bro. Bertin CSC (1922–1924) • Fr. Finner CSC (1925–1926) • Bro. Anthony CSC (1926–1929) • Bro. Walter CSC (1929–1933) & (1935–1937) • Bro. Neil CSC (1934) • Bro. John Heim CSC (1938) • Bro. Bernadine CSC (1939–1940) • Bro. Jude CSC (1940–1950) • Bro. James CSC (1950–1955) • Bro. Martinian CSC (1955–1957) • Bro. Fulgence CSC (1957–1962) • Bro. Thomas Moore CSC (1962–1968) • Bro. Robert CSC (1968–1977) • Bro. John Rozario CSC (1977–1981) • Bro. Gerald Kraegar (1981–1992) • Bro. Marcel Duchesne (1992–1995) • Bro. Bijoy Rodrigues CSC (1995) • Fr. J.S. Peixotto CSC (1998–2000) • Bro. Robi Purification CSC (1995–2012) • Bro. Prodip Placid Gomes CSC (2012–2016) == Principals ==

• Bro. Prodip Placid Gomes CSC (2016 - 2021) • Bro. Leo J. Pereira, CSC (2022) • Bro. Ujjal Placid Pereira, CSC (2022–2024) • Bro. Placid Peter Rebeiro, CSC (2024–present) ==Notable alumni==

Politics • Tajuddin Ahmad (First Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Bangladesh) • Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury (Foreign Affairs Advisor) • Osman Faruk (Minister of Education, 2001–2006) • Faqueer (Fakir) Shahabuddin (First Attorney General of the People's Republic of Bangladesh) Education • Amartya Sen (Nobel laureate in Economics, 1998) • Jamilur Reza Choudhury (Vice-Chancellor of BRAC University, Advisor of first Interim Government) • Serajul Islam Choudhury Culture • Mustafa Zaman Abbasi (Folk singer) • Mahfuz Anam (Editor of The Daily Star) • Robin Ghosh (Bangladeshi-Pakistani music composer and singer) Sports • Raqibul Hasan (First captain of Bangladesh Cricket Team) • Raisuddin Ahmed (Cricketer and cricket administrator) • Enamul Hossain Rajib (5th Grandmaster of Bangladesh) • Ashraful Haque (cricketer, chief-executive of Asian Cricket Council) • Abdur Rahim (international footballer and coach) • Mohammad Shahjahan (international football coach and administrator) ==References==