Sisir Kumar Ghosh (1840–1911) was a noted Indian journalist, founder of the Amrita Bazar Patrika, a noted Bengali language newspaper in 1868 and a freedom fighter from Bengal. He started the India League in 1875 with the object of stimulating the sense of nationalism amongst the people. He was also a Vaishnavite, remembered for writings on mystic-saint Lord Chaitanya, and penning a book on him titled Lord Gauranga or Salvation for All in 1897.He was one of the first batch of students who passed in the first entrance examination of the Calcutta University in 1857.