Brojen Das was the first Asian to swim across the English Channel. He was born on 9 December 1927 in Kuchiamora village of Bikrampur, Munshiganj, in East Pakistan (Bangladesh). He was son of late Harendra Kumar Das and did his primary education in his native village. He completed his matriculation in 1946 from the KL Jubilee High School, Dhaka and Intermediate and Bachelor of Arts from Vidyasagar College, Kolkata.