Chatterjee
Chatterjee or Chattopadhyay is a Bengali Hindu family name, used primarily by Pancha-Gauda Brahmins in India, and associated with the Bengali Brahmin caste.[1] Chatterjee is an Anglicized variant of the Sanskritized Chattopadhyay.[1] English language spellings include Chatterjee, Chatterjea, Chatarji, Chatterji, Chaterjee, Chattopadhyay, and Chattopadhyaya.[2][3][4][5][6] Together with Banerjees, Mukherjees, Gangulys, Chatterjees form the Kulin Brahmins, the highest tier of the Bengali caste system.[7] They belong to Rarhi clan and the Kashyapa gotra.
Notable Chatterjees[]
- Abhishek Chatterjee – Bengali film and television actor
- Abir Chatterjee – actor
- Adhar Kumar Chatterji – former Chief of the Naval Staff of the Indian Navy (1966–1970)
- Amarendranath Chatterjee – freedom fighter
- Amitabha Chattopadhyay - biophysicst
- Amitava Chattopadhyay – INSEAD professor of marketing and innovation
- Angana P. Chatterji – anthropologist, activist and feminist historian
- Anil Chatterjee – actor
- Anindo Chatterjee - tabla player
- Anjan Chattopadhyay – sitar maestro
- Anjan Chatterjee (neuroscientist) - cognitive neuroscientist
- Aroup Chatterjee – British Indian atheist, physician, author of Mother Teresa: The Untold Story
- Ashim Chatterjee – politician and activist
- Asima Chatterjee – Indian organic chemist and the second woman to be conferred a Doctorate of Science by an Indian university
- Atul Chandra Chatterjee - Indian diplomat and government official. Served as the Indian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 1925–1931.
- Bamacharan Chattopadhyay – ardent devotee of Maa Tara, also considered to be an avatar of Lord Shiva
- Bankim Chandra Chatterjee - Indian patriot, writer, poet and journalist and composer of Vande Mataram, the national song of India.
- Basu Chatterjee – film director
- Bhaswar Chatterjee – Indian actor
- Biswajit Chatterjee – Bollywood actor
- Debabarta Chatterjee - botanist
- Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya – author,philosopher
- Debjani Chatterji – Indian-born British poet
- Dhritiman Chatterjee – actor
- Dhruva Chatterjee – writer and screenplay writer of Hindi movies
- Dipankar Chatterji - molecular biologist
- Gadadhar Chattopadhyay - Sri Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa, devotee of Dakshina Kali and Priest of Dakshineswar Kali Temple.
- Gautam Chattopadhyay – musician
- Harindranath Chattopadhyay – poet, actor and brother of Sarojini Naidu
- Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee – Indian freedom fighter, activist and member of Rajya Sabha
- Joya Chatterji - Professor of South Asian history
- Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay – social reformer
- Kshetresa Chandra Chattopadhyaya – Sanskrit scholar
- Mirai Chatterji – Indian social worker
- Moushmi Chatterjee – Bollywood actress
- Neil Chatterjee – Current Chair of the United States Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
- Nigamananda - Yogi
- Parambrata Chatterjee – actor
- Partha Chatterjee – scholar and author
- Piya Chattopadhyay – Canadian broadcaster
- Pratap Chatterjee – journalist and author
- Priyadarshini Chatterjee – Miss India World 2016
- Priyanshu Chatterjee – Bollywood actor
- Prosenjit Chatterjee – actor
- Pulok Chatterji – former bureaucrat and Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India (2011–2014)
- Purnendu Chatterjee – businessman, founder of TCG
- Rabiranjan Chattopadhyay, Indian politician
- Ramakrishna Paramahamsa – born Gadadhar Chattopadhyay, a famous mystic of 19th-century India
- Ramananda Chatterjee — founder, editor, and owner of the Modern Review, He has been described as the father of Indian journalism.
- Rangan Chatterjee – Physican, author, television presenter and broadcaster
- Sabitri Chatterjee – Indian Bengali female actress
- Sankar Chatterjee – paleontologist
- Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian Writer
- Sarojini Naidu née Chattopadhyay – freedom fighter, poet
- Saswata Chatterjee – actor
- Shakti Chattopadhyay – poet
- Shekhar Chatterjee – entrepreneur
- Shiba P. Chatterjee – professor, former president of International Geographical Union
- Sitaramdas Omkarnath - Bhakti saint
- Somnath Chatterjee – eminent lawyer and former speaker of Lok Sabha
- Soumitra Chatterjee – actor
- Sourav Chatterjee – mathematician
- Sovan Chatterjee – former mayor of the city of Kolkata
- Srabanti Chatterjee – actress
- Subhendu Chatterjee – actor
- Subhadeep Chatterjee - entrepreneur
- - molecular biologist
- Sudeep Chatterjee – cinematographer
- Sudip Chattopadhyay - biologist
- Suman Chatterjee (now Kabir Suman) – musician
- Suniti Kumar Chatterji – Indian linguist, educationist and litterateur
- Swapan Chattopadhyay – director of the Cockcroft Institute
- Tannishtha Chatterjee – actress
- Upamanyu Chatterjee - author
- Utpal Chatterjee – cricketer
- Uttam Kumar (Arun Chatterjee) – actor
- Vikram Chatterjee - Famous Telivision personality
- Virendranath Chattopadhyaya – activist
See also[]
- Kulin Brahmins
References[]
- ^ a b Hanks, Patrick (2003-05-08). "Chatterjee". Dictionary of American Family Names: 3-Volume Set. Oxford University Press, USA. p. 320. ISBN 9780195081374.
- ^ Rodrigues, Hillary (2003). Ritual Worship of the Great Goddess: The Liturgy of the Durga Puja with Interpretations. SUNY Press. p. 320. ISBN 9780791488447.
- ^ Joshi, Priya (2002-04-24). In Another Country: Colonialism, Culture, and the English Novel in India. Columbia University Press. pp. 283. ISBN 9780231500906.
- ^ Institutions, International Federation of Library Associations and (2013-06-21). "Bengali". Names of Persons: National Usages for Entry in Catalogues. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. p. 21. ISBN 9783110974553.
- ^ Chatterji, Bankim Chandra; Caṭṭopādhyāẏa, Baṅkimacandra (2005). "Introduction". Ānandamaṭh, Or, The Sacred Brotherhood. Oxford University Press. p. 5. ISBN 9780195178579.
- ^ Chakraborty, Paulomi (2018-07-27). The Refugee Woman: Partition of Bengal, Gender, and the Political. Oxford University Press. p. 270. ISBN 9780199095391.
- ^ Krishna consciousness in the West. David G. Bromley, Larry D. Shinn, International Society for Krishna Consciousness. Lewisburg [Pa.]: Bucknell University Press. 1989. ISBN 0-8387-5144-X. OCLC 17984402.
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