List of Bengalis

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This article provides lists of famous and notable Bengali people in the Indian subcontinent, mainly what is today Bangladesh and India, and people with Bengali ancestry or people who speak Bengali as their primary language.

Monarchs[]

Pala Dynasty[]

Chronological order

Chandra Dynasty[]

• Traillokyachandra (900–930)
• Srichandra (930–975)
• Kalyanachandra (975–1000)
• Ladahachandra (1000–1020)
• Govindachandra (1020–1050)

Deva Dynasty[]

• Dasharathadeva (1281)
• Pratapaditya, Maharaja of Jessore (1561–1611)

Ilyas Shahi dynasty (1352–1414)[]

Name	Reign	Notes
Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah	1352–1358	Became the first sole ruler of whole Bengal comprising Sonargaon, Satgaon and Lakhnauti.
Sikandar Shah	1358–1390	Killed in battle with his son and successor, Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah
Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah	1390–1411
Saifuddin Hamza Shah	1411–1412
Shihabuddin Bayazid Shah	1412–1414

House of Ganesha[]

• Raja Ganesha
• Jalaluddin Muhammad Shah
• Shamsuddin Ahmad Shah (1419–1436)

Hussain Shahi dynasty (1494–1538)[]

Name	Reign	Notes
Alauddin Hussain Shah	1494–1518	his reign is consider the "GOLDEN AGE" OF Bengal
Nasiruddin Nasrat Shah	1518–1533
Alauddin Firuz Shah	1533
Ghiyasuddin Mahmud Shah	1533–1538

Nawabs of Bengal[]

Portrait	Titular Name	Personal Name	Birth	Reign	Death
Nasiri Dynasty
	Ala ud-Daula	Murshid Quli Jafar Khan	1665	1717– 1727	30 June 1727
	Mirza Asadullah	Sarfaraz Khan Bahadur	?	1727–1727	April 1740
	Shuja ud-Daula	Shuja-ud-Din Muhammad Khan	1670	July 1727 – 26 August 1739	26 August 1739
	Mirza Asadullah	Sarfaraz Khan Bahadur	?	13 March 1739 – April 1740	April 1740
Afshar Dynasty
	Husam ud-Daula	Muhammad Alivardi Khan Bahadur	10 May 1671	29 April 1740 – 16 April 1756	16 April 1756
	Siraj ud-Daulah	Mîrzâ Muhammad Sirâj-ud-Daulah	1733	April 1756 – 2 June 1757	June 1757

Other[]

• Isa Khan (1529–1599), leader of the Baro-Bhuiyan chieftains of Bengal
• Musa Khan, leader of the Baro-Bhuiyan chieftains of Bengal
• Masum Khan, Baro-Bhuiyan zamindar
• Dilal Khan, final independent ruler of Sandwip
• Abu Torab, zamindar of Sandwip and leader of Bengal's first anti-colonial uprising

Nobel laureates[]

• Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel Prize in Literature, First Nobel Prize winner of Asia, 1913
• Amartya Sen, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, 1998
• Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize, 2006
• Abhijit Banerjee, Nobel Prize in Economic science, 2019

Academics[]

• Momtazuddin Ahmed, philosopher and educationist
• Dewan Mohammad Azraf, National Professor of Bangladesh
• Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, first women Director of Indian Statistical Institute, India.
• Chandramukhi Basu, Computer Scientist and first female graduate in India, and the British Empire
• Nurunnahar Fatema Begum, head of paediatric cardiology at the
• Anudvaipayan Bhattacharya, university lecturer martyred in the Bangladesh Liberation War
• Mahamahopadhyay Pandit Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya
• Sugata Bose, historian
• Dipesh Chakrabarty, historian
• Swapan Kumar Chakravorty, literary scholar and writer
• Partha Chatterjee, political scientist
• Suniti Kumar Chatterjee, linguist, educationist, litterateur
• Sukanta Chaudhuri, literary scholar, writer, translator
• Supriya Chaudhuri, literary scholar, writer, translator
• Jamilur Reza Choudhury, vice-chancellor of University of Asia Pacific, adviser to Caretaker Government of Bangladesh
• Sadruddin Ahmed Chowdhury, physicist and vice-chancellor of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology and Sylhet International University
• Khudiram Das, literary scholar, educationist, linguist
• Satish Ranjan Das, founder of The Doon School, Dehradun
• Shomie Das, Indian educationist, former headmaster of The Doon School
• Tarak Chandra Das, anthropologist, author, former teacher in anthropology, the University of Calcutta
• Bhupendranath Datta, revolutionary, author, anthropologist
• Anil Kumar Gain, mathematician from University of Cambridge, Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society
• Kaberi Gain, prominent academic, author, and social activist
• Swapan K. Gayen, Bengali-American physicist, professor at City University of New York
• Saroj Ghose, science populariser and museum maker, won an award for Best Effort in Science Popularisation Amongst Children
• Subir Kumar Ghosh, Planetary scientist and a winner of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology
• Joseph Ghosh, first Indian to be awarded the Doctor of Letters, University of Edinburgh
• Aminul Hoque MBE, lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London, writer
• K M Baharul Islam, Dean of the Indian Institute of Management Kashipur
• Syed Manzoorul Islam, critic, writer, former professor of Dhaka University
• Mohammad Ataul Karim, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
• Ataur Rahman Khan Khadim, physician martyred during the Bangladesh Liberation War
• Salman Khan, American educator, founder of Khan Academy
• Nazia Khanum, Order of the British Empire (OBE) and Deputy Lieutenant (DL)
• Shahla Khatun, obstetrician and gynecologist
• Brigadier Abdul Malik, founder of National Heart Foundation
• Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, statistician, founder of Indian Statistical Institute
• Vina Mazumdar, academic, activist and feminist
• Ujjwal Maulik, Computer Scientist and former Head Comp. Sc. and Engg., Jadavpur University.
• Rajendralal Mitra, first modern Indologist of Indian origin
• Nurul Momen, professor of law, Dhaka University Proctor, Dean
• Satish Chandra Mukherjee, educationist
• Abdul Muktadir, academician martyred in the Bangladesh Liberation War
• Nurul Islam Nahid, former Education Minister of Bangladesh
• Ashis Nandy, political psychologist
• M. A. Rashid, first Vice-chancellor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
• Satyajit Ray, first Indian to win a Lifetime Achievement Oscar due to his significant contributions to world cinema
• Abul Kashem Sandwip, educationist and a founder of Bangladesh Betar
• Sir Jadunath Sarkar, historian
• Pranab K. Sen, statistician, Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Sumit Sarkar, historian
• Sukumar Sen, linguist
• Muhammad Shahidullah, educationist, writer, philologist, and linguist, theorist
• Nafees Bin Zafar, Academy Scientific and Technical Award, the first Bangladeshi to win an Oscar

Actors and entertainers[]

Artists and designers[]

Bharat Ratna[]

• Aruna Asaf Ali
• Pranab Mukherjee
• Satyajit Ray
• Bidhan Chandra Roy
• Amartya Sen
• Ravi Shankar

Bloggers / media artists[]

• Hasan M. Elahi, interdisciplinarysciplinary media artist
• Anupam Mukerji, writer of Fake IPL Player blog
• Reihan Salam, journalist, blogger at The American Scene and associate editor of The Atlantic Monthly
• Pritish Nandy, poet, author, editor in chief, The Illustrated Weekly of India and Publishing Director and Managing Editor, The Times of India Group 1982-1991

Business and industry[]

Billionaires[]

• Aveek Sarkar, Vice Chairman & Editor Emeritus, Ananda Bazaar Patrika
• Sanjit Biswas, Indian American entrepreneur and CEO/ Co-founder of Samsara, built and sold Meraki to Cisco for $1.2 billion
• Purnendu Chatterjee, Founder & Chairman, TCG Group
• Chandra Shekhar Ghosh, Founder, Managing Director & CEO of Bandhan Bank

Business executives[]

• Iqbal Ahmed OBE, Entrepreneur and CEO of Seamark Group. In 2006, he became the highest British Bangladeshi to feature on the Sunday Times Rich List (listed at number 511). He has a net worth of $250 million.^[2]
• Syed Ahmed, British entrepreneur, businessman, television personality
• Arundhati Bhattacharya, first woman director of State Bank of India
• Kumar Bhattacharyya, Baron Bhattacharyya, Director, Warwick Manufacturing Group
• Mohammad Ebadul Karim Bulbul, managing director of Beacon Pharmaceuticals
• Moorad Choudhry, former Managing Director, Head of Business Treasury and Global Banking & Markets at Royal Bank of Scotland
• Mamun Chowdhury, businessman, and founder and co-director of London Tradition. In 2014, the company was awarded a Queen's Award for Enterprise for International Trade in recognition of its increase in sales.
• Ashok Sekhar Ganguly, former chairman, Hindustan Unilever
• Anirvan Ghosh, CEO of Unity Biotechnology
• Asim Ghosh, former CEO of Husky Energy
• Rajat Gupta, first foreign-born Managing Director (chief executive) of management consultancy firm McKinsey & Company from 1994 to 2003; sentenced to two years of prison in 2012 for insider trading
• Omar Ishrak, chairman, Intel
• Mahee Ferdous Jalil, founder of Channel S, owner of Prestige Auto Group and TV presenter.
• , IISCO
• Sir Rajendra Nath Mookerjee,
• Bhaskar Pramanik, chairman, Microsoft India
• Subir Raha, former head, ONGC
• Fayzur Rahman, chairman of Novoair
• Mutty Lall Seal, businessman and entrepreneur
• Dwarkanath Tagore, known for partnership with the British East India Company

Entrepreneurs[]

• Muquim Ahmed, first Bangladeshi millionaire at the age of 26^[3] due to diversification in banking, travel, a chain of restaurants with the Cafe Naz group, publishing and property development.
• Badruddin Ajmal, Managing Director of Ajmal Perfumes and Lok Sabha MP from Dhubri, Assam
• Ayub Ali, founder of the Shah Jalal Restaurant in London which became a hub for the British Asian community.
• Enam Ali, founder of the British Curry Awards, Spice Business Magazine and Ion TV
• Ragib Ali, industrialist, pioneer tea-planter, educationalist, philanthropist and banker who has a net worth of $250 million.^[2]
• Subroto Bagchi, founder and former chairman, Mindtree
• Somen Banerjee, Indian American entrepreneur and co-founder of Chippendales
• Siddhartha Basu, founder and CMD of BIG Synergy
• Amar Bose, founder of Bose Corporation
• Amjad Khan Chowdhury, founder of PRAN-RFL Group
• Foysol Choudhury MBE, businessman, community activist and Chairman of Edinburgh and Lothians Regional Equality Council.
• Samson H. Chowdhury, founder of Square Pharmaceuticals and Square Group
• Anjan Chatterjee, founder, Speciality Group of Restaurants
• Bicky Chakraborty, Sweden's biggest hotelier;^[4] President and founder of Elite Hotels of Sweden and The Bishop's Arms^[5]
• Alamohan Das, founder, India Machinery Company
• Sadhan Dutt, founder, Development Consultants of Kuljian Group
• Samit Ghosh, founder, MD and CEO of Ujjivan Small Finance Bank
• Snehasish Ganguly, Director of NK Gossain & Co., brother of former Indian Cricket Team Captain and current Board of Control for Cricket in India President, Sourav Ganguly
• MA Hashem, founder and chairman of Partex Group
• Shelim Hussain, founder of Euro Foods (UK)
• Jawed Karim, co-founder of YouTube, first person to upload a video to the site
• Abdul Latif, British restaurateur known for his dish "Curry Hell".
• Mohammad Ajman "Tommy" Miah MBE, celebrity chef, restaurateur and founder of the Indian Chef of the Year Competition.
• Abdul Monem, founder of Abdul Monem Limited
• Sabyasachi Mukherjee, Founder & Managing Director of luxury Indian fashion brand, Sabyasachi
• Rajat Neogy, founder and editor, Transition Magazine in Kampala, Uganda in 1961
• Pritish Nandy, founder of
• Sir Rajendra Nath Mukherjee, co-founder, Martin Burn Ltd, IISCO
• Diptendu Pramanick, founder, Secretary of Eastern India Motion Pictures Association (EIMPA)
• Kamal Quadir, founder and CEO of CellBazaar Inc, First Mover Fellow of The Aspen Institute, TEDIndia Fellow
• Subroto Roy Sahara, founder and chairman, Sahara India Pariwar
• Barun Sengupta, founder of Bartaman
• Moosa Bin Shamsher, founder of GATCO
• Shah Abdul Majid Qureshi, restaurateur
• Bajloor Rashid MBE, businessman and former president of the Bangladesh Caterers Association UK.
• Neeraj Roy, co-founder, Hungama Digital Media Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.
• Prannoy Roy, founder, NDTV
• Syed Qudratullah Sattar, founder of Moulvibazar
• Ahmed Akbar Sobhan, founder and chairman of the Bashundhara Group
• Wali Tasar Uddin MBE, entrepreneur, restaurateur and Chairman of the Bangladesh-British Chamber of Commerce.
• Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank, "father of micro-finance", Nobel laureate

Sahitya Akademi Award[]

Cartoonists / comics creators[]

Cinematographers[]

• Ayananka Bose
• Sudeep Chatterjee
• Subrata Mitra
• Avik Mukhopadhyay
• Soumendu Roy

Criminals[]

• Dhananjoy Chatterjee

Dadasaheb Phalke Award winners[]

• Raichand Boral
• Nitin Bose
• Soumitra Chatterjee
• Kanan Devi
• Manna Dey
• Dhirendra Nath Ganguly
• Ashok Kumar
• Hrishikesh Mukherjee
• Pankaj Mullick
• Devika Rani, first awardee
• Satyajit Ray
• Mrinal Sen
• Tapan Sinha
• B. N. Sircar

Economists[]

• Salahuddin Ahmed, 9th Governor of Bangladesh Bank
• Mir Masoom Ali, George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Statistics, Ball State University
• Abhijit Banerjee, Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, co-founder of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, winner of Nobel Prize
• Pranab Bardhan, professor of economics, University of California, Berkeley, has been on the editorial board of a number of economics journals
• Kaushik Basu, Chief Economist, World Bank; C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics, Cornell University
• Arundhati Bhattacharya, first woman director of SBI, largest bank in India
• P.C. Bhattacharya, former governor of Reserve Bank of India
• Amitava Bose, professor of economics at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
• Suma Chakrabarti, President of European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
• Shegufta Bakht Chaudhuri, 4th Governor of Bangladesh Bank
• Amiya Kumar Dasgupta, one of the founders, in 1949, of the internationally known journal The Economic Weekly (current name, Economic and Political Weekly)
• Partha Dasgupta, FRS, Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Cambridge
• Bibek Debroy, economist and linguist, author of Sanskrit titbits blog
• Romesh Chunder Dutt, Indian civil servant economic historian
• Mohammed Farashuddin, 7th Governor of Bangladesh Bank, founder of East West University
• Anil Kumar Gain, statistician from the University of Cambridge, Fellow of the Royal Society
• Maitreesh Ghatak, current editor of Journal of Development Economics; contributions in microfinance, property pights, public organizations
• Amitav Ghosh, former governor of Reserve Bank of India
• N. C. Sen Gupta, former governor of Reserve Bank of India
• Nurul Islam, economist, former chairman, Bangladesh Planning Commission
• Akbar Ali Khan, economist
• Shah A M S Kibria, economist, diplomat and former executive secretary of the United Nations' ESCAP
• Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, founder of Indian Statistical Institute
• Syed Abdul Majid, pioneer of the agricultural industry of Bengal & Assam, first minister of Assam
• Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, former Finance Minister of Bangladesh
• Saifur Rahman, longest serving Finance Minister of Bangladesh and a leader of BNP
• Debraj Ray, Silver Professor of Economics, New York University; co-editor of the American Economic Review; has served on the editorial board of several international journals
• Amartya Sen, economist and philosopher, Lamont Professor at Harvard University, winner of the Nobel Prize
• Rehman Sobhan, economist, Chairman of the Center for Policy Dialogue (CPD)
• Muhammad Yunus, economist, founder of Grameen Bank, winner of the Nobel Prize

Fellows of the Royal Society[]

• Kumar Bhattacharyya
• Jagdish Chandra Bose
• Satyendra Nath Bose
• Partha Dasgupta
• Anil Kumar Gain
• Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
• Ashesh Prasad Mitra
• Sisir Kumar Mitra
• Meghnad Saha
• Ashoke Sen

Fictional characters[]

Filmmakers[]

Grammy winners[]

• Sandeep Das, award for Best World Music Album, at the 59th Grammy Awards, 2017
• Norah Jones, 9-time winner
• Ravi Shankar, 5-time winner

Journalists[]

Bangladesh[]

• Shah Alamgir, journalist
• Syed Mohammad Ali, founder of The Daily Star - the largest circulating daily English-language newspaper in Bangladesh.^[7]
• Mahfuz Anam
• Abul Asad
• Nurjahan Begum
• Salah Choudhury, editor of Weekly Blitz
• Sanjeeb Choudhury
• Shamim Chowdhury, TV and print journalist for Al Jazeera English
• Lenin Gani, senior member of the Bangladesh Sports Journalists Association
• Abdul Hafiz, writer, essayist and journalist
• Shahriar Kabir
• Abed Khan
• Sirajul Hossain Khan, editor of Pakistan Times and the Eastern News Agency.
• Fazle Lohani
• A B M Musa
• Syed Nahas Pasha, journalist and editor of Janomot and Curry Life
• Abdul Quadir, poet, essayist and journalist
• Matiur Rahman
• Manik Chandra Saha
• Ataus Samad
• Shykh Seraj
• Hassan Shahriar, journalist

India[]

• Swapan Dasgupta, journalist
• Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, journalist
• Sagarika Ghose, editor at CNN-IBN
• Chandan Mitra, editor and managing director of The Pioneer newspaper
• Ramananda Chatterjee, "father of Indian journalism"
• Harish Chandra Mukherjee, pioneer of nationalistic Hindu journalism
• Udayan Mukherjee, editor and anchor in CNBC India
• Pritish Nandy, Publishing Director and Managing Editor, The Times of India Group; Editor in Chief, The Illustrated Weekly of India; Chairman, Pritish Nandy Communications Ltd
• Prannoy Roy, founder and President of NDTV, one of India's largest television and media production houses
• Samar Sen, journalist
• Barun Sengupta, political critic, founder-editor of Bartaman newspaper
• Vishnu Som, news anchor and journalist
• , scholar, editor and publisher of the weekly Bengali newspaper Somprakash

America[]

• Sanjiv Bhattacharya
• Bobby Ghosh (Aparisim Ghosh), journalist, former TIME magazine World Editor; the first non-American to be named World Editor in TIME's more than 80 years
• Reihan Salam

Britain[]

• Fareena Alam
• Lisa Aziz, British television news presenter
• Mihir Bose, BBC's head sports editor
• Reeta Chakrabarti, political correspondent for the BBC Television's Breakfast programme shown on BBC One and the BBC News Channel
• Mo Dutta, former TV presenter for BBC Radio 2, BBC Asian Network, BBC Radio Kent
• Pallab Ghosh, BBC News science reporter
• Nina Hossain, British television news broadcaster
• Tharik Hussain, journalist and broadcaster. His documentary America's Mosques won an award for the World's Best Religious Program at the NYFF Radio Programs Awards.
• Faisal Islam
• Tasmin Lucia Khan, English journalist and television presenter
• Hasina Momtaz, former press officer for the Mayor of London
• Sarah Mukherjee, former BBC Environment Correspondent, currently a regular contributor on Radio 4's Today programme

Pakistan[]

• Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Pakistan's first female editor; first woman to be included in a press delegation; in 1955, became the first woman to speak at the ancient al Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt
• Altaf Husain, 1st editor-in-chief of Pakistan's oldest, leading and most widely read English-language newspaper, Dawn and former Industry Minister of Pakistan

Qatar[]

• Shiulie Ghosh, television journalist at Al Jazeera English

Uganda[]

• Rajat Neogy, journalist, poet, columnist, founding editor of Transition Magazine

Law[]

• Shohid Ali, advocate
• Syed Ameer Ali, prominent Indian (British Indian) lawyer, key jurist of Muslim personal law, founding member of All India Muslim League
• Bankim Chandra Ray, former Chief Justice of India
• Kalyan Banerjee, Rotary International's 101st President
• Gooroodas Banerjee, former High Court judge, Calcutta
• Mahmudul Amin Choudhury, 11th Chief Justice of Bangladesh
• Sudhi Ranjan Das, former Chief Justice of India
• Monomohun Ghose, first practising barrister of Indian origin
• Kamal Hossain, considered the architect of Bangladeshi Constitution and icon of secular democracy in South Asia; prominent international lawyer and arbitrator
• Sara Hossain, Bangladeshi lawyer, executive director of BLAST, one of the recipients of the 2016 International Women of Courage Award
• Syed A. B. Mahmud Hossain, 2nd Chief Justice of Bangladesh
• J. R. Mudassir Husain, 14th Chief Justice of Bangladesh
• M Amir-ul Islam, Bangladeshi Lawyer, member of the drafting committee of Bangladeshi constitution
• Altamas Kabir, former Chief Justice of India
• Irene Khan, Bangladeshi lawyer, first woman to be appointed as the United Nations Special Rapporteur for freedom of expression and opinion; seventh Secretary General of Amnesty International (2001–2009); former Director-General of the International Development Law Organization
• Muhammed Abdul Muid Khan, nominated as the Best Human Rights Lawyer of England and Wales in 2012
• Nitish Chandra Laharry, first person of Asian origin to be elected as the president of Rotary International
• Sabyasachi Mukharji, former Chief Justice of India
• Bijan Kumar Mukherjea, former Chief Justice of India
• Abdul Moshabbir, lawyer and politician
• Radhabinod Pal, Indian member appointed to the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, one of the three Asian judges of Tokyo trial
• A. N. Ray, former Chief Justice of India
• Khatun Sapnara, judge and first non-white to be elected to the Family Law Bar Association Committee. In 2006, she was appointed as a Recorder of the Crown, which made her the only person of Bangladeshi origin in a senior judicial position.
• Amal Kumar Sarkar, former Chief Justice of India
• Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem, First Chief Justice of Bangladesh
• Amarendra Nath Sen, former judge in Supreme Court of India
• Ashoke Kumar Sen, Indian barrister, former Cabinet minister of India, Indian parliamentarian
• Satyendra Prasanno Sinha, 1st Baron Sinha, prominent lawyer and statesman in British India, first Indian to become member of British cabinet
• Gnanendramohan Tagore, first Asian to be called to the bar in England, in 1862

Magicians[]

• Jewel Aich
• Maneka Sorcar
• P. C. Sorcar
• P. C. Sorcar, Jr.

Musicians[]

Bollywood[]

Bangladeshi film industry[]

• Abdul Alim, National Award-winning playback singer
• Asif Akbar, National Award-winning playback singer
• Momtaz Begum, National Award-winning playback singer
• Kumar Biswajit, National Award-winning playback singer and composer
• Ahmed Imtiaz Bulbul, freedom fighter and National Award-winning music director
• Kanak Chapa, National Award-winning playback singer
• Priyanka Gope, National Award-winning playback singer
• Syed Abdul Hadi, National Award-winning playback singer
• Abdul Jabbar, National Award-winning playback singer
• Alam Khan, National Award-winning music director and composer
• Monir Khan, National Award-winning playback singer
• Andrew Kishore, National Award-winning playback singer
• Runa Laila, National Award-winning playback singer and composer
• Bappa Mazumder, Singer, National Award-winning composer
• Mahmudun Nabi, National Award-winning playback singer
• Subir Nandi, National Award-winning playback singer
• Baby Nazneen, National Award-winning playback singer
• Farida Parveen, National Award-winning playback singer
• Khan Ataur Rahman, National Award-winning music director and composer
• Shahnaz Rahmatullah, National Award-winning playback singer
• Emon Saha, National Award-winning music director and composer
• Satya Saha, National Award-winning music director
• S I Tutul, National Award-winning playback singer and composer
• Habib Wahid, National Award-winning music director
• Sabina Yasmin, National Award-winning playback singer

Bangla rock[]

• Shafin Ahmed
• Shishir Ahmed
• Ayub Bachchu, founding member and the leader of the Bengali rock band Love Runs Blind (LRB)
• Balam
• Partha Barua
• Chandril Bhattacharya, lyricist and one of the founders of the Bangla band Chandrabindoo
• Nachiketa Chakraborty
• Anindya Chatterjee, lead vocalist and one of the founders of the Bengali band Chandrabindoo
• Gautam Chattopadhyay, composer, founder of the group Mohiner Ghoraguli, One of the first rock vocalists of India
• Somlata Acharyya Chowdhury, lead singer of Bangla rock band Somlata and The Aces
• Anjan Dutt, singer, composer and lyricist
• Rupam Islam, frontman of Bengali hard rock band Fossils
• James
• Ibrahim Ahmed Kamal, guitarist for Warfaze, one of the pioneers of Bengali and Bangladeshi heavy metal
• Khan (Azam Khan), one of the pioneers of Bengali rock, pop guru and rock guru of Bangladesh, freedom fighter
• Bappa Mazumder
• Alamgir Haq, former member of the first Bengali Band Iolites,^[8] known as the Elvis Presley of the west
• Syed Hasanur Rahman, vocalist of Ark
• Raef al Hasan Rafa
• Kabir Suman
• Sharmin Sultana Sumi, vocalist for Chirkutt
• Khaled 'Bassbaba' Sumon, vocalist for Aurthohin
• Tanzir Tuhin, former vocalist of Shironamhin, current vocalist of Avash
• Ziaur Rahman Zia

Classical and folk musicians[]

• Abbas Uddin Ahmed (1901–1959)
• Abdul Alim
• Kanika Banerjee (1924–2000), Rabindrasangeet performer
• Nikhil Banerjee (1931–1986), sitar performer
• Purna Das Baul (born 1933), known as 'Baul-samrat', pioneering folk artist known for working with Bob Dylan
• Firoza Begum (1930–2014), eminent exponent of Nazrul Geeti
• Momtaz Begum (born 1974), Bangladeshi folk singer, world record holder
• Dhananjay Bhattacharya (1922–1992), Shyama Sangeet singer
• Pannalal Bhattacharya (c. 1930 – 1966), singer
• Debabrata Biswas (1911–1980), Rabindrasangeet performer
• Kumar Bose (born 1953), tabla performer and composer
• Tanmoy Bose (born 1963), table master, composer, actor, fusion musician
• Swapan Chaudhuri, tabla exponent
• Ajoy Chakrabarty (born 1952)
• Arnab Chakrabarty (born 1980), Indian classical musician, sarod player
• Anjan Chattopadhyay, sitar player
• Annapurna Devi (1927–2018), surbahar performer
• Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta, classical and rabindrasangeet exponent performer, also folk modern and devotional music
• Naina Devi (1917–1993), Indian classical singer
• Pandit Jnan Prakash Ghosh (1909–1997), tabla master, composer and musician
• Pannalal Ghosh (1911–1960), pioneering master of the Indian classical flute, composer, musicologist
• Shankar Ghosh (1935–2016), tabla master and singer
• Shah Abdul Karim (1916–2009)
• Ali Akbar Khan (1922–2009), sarod performer, composer, musicologist, founder of the Ali Akbar College of Music in California, US
• Allauddin Khan (1862–1972)
• Shahadat Hossain Khan (born 1958), Sarod virtuoso, composer, musicologist, international master, renowned Sarod player
• Vilayat Khan (1928–2004), sitar performer
• Runa Laila (born 1952), folk, ghazal, and pop fusion singer
• Lalon (1784–1890), mystic devotional composer and singer
• Abdul Latif
• Suchitra Mitra (1924–2011), rabindrasangeet performer, also playback singer and composer
• Kalyan Mukherjea (1943–2010)
• Budhaditya Mukherjee
• Kashinath Mukherjee (1925–2011), Hindustani classical musician and sitar player of Etawah Gharana
• Manabendra Mukhopadhyay (1931–1992), singer and composer
• Farida Parveen (born 1954), Lalon singer
• Hason Raja (1854–1922)
• Ritwik Sanyal (born 1953)
• Indrani Sen, rabindrasangeet and nazrulgeeti performer, also modern and folk songs
• Srabani Sen, rabindrasangeet performer, also modern and folk songs
• Anoushka Shankar (born 1981), sitar player and composer
• Ravi Shankar (1920–2012), sitar virtuoso, composer, musicologist
• Chitra Singh, Hindi/Urdu ghazal singer and wife of Jagjit Singh
• Ruma Guha Thakurta (1934–2019), founder and lead singer of Calcutta Youth Choir and playback singer
• Alka Yagnik (born 1966)

Hindi rock[]

• Asheem Chakravarty, co-founder of the popular Indian band Indian Ocean
• Palash Sen, lead vocalist of Indian band Euphoria
• Susmit Sen, co-founder of the popular Indian band Indian Ocean

Western[]

• Sameer Bhattacharya, lead guitarist of the American alternative rock band Flyleaf
• Futurecop!, electronic band, members include Manzur Iqbal from United Kingdom
• Norah Jones, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress, daughter of sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar; Indian Bengali
• Sanjaya Malakar, American born Indian origin singer
• Shikhee, singer; auteur of American industrial band Android Lust
• Mumzy Stranger
• Monica Yunus, operatic soprano

Military[]

Bangladesh[]

• Shakil Ahmed, former head of Bangladesh Rifles
• Mohammad Ruhul Amin, awarded , the highest military award of Bangladesh; war hero of Bangladesh Liberation War
• Saiful Azam, Honoured as one of the 22 'Living Eagles' of the world, served under Bangladesh Air Force, Iraqi Air Force, Pakistan Air Force and Royal Jordanian Air Force; one of the most successful veterans in Arab side in the and Pakistani side in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
• Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury, 11th Chief of Army Staff of the Bangladesh Army
• Ismail Faruque Chowdhury, engineer-in-chief of the Bangladesh Army
• Chitta Ranjan Dutta, Bangladeshi war hero and retired Major-General of the Bangladesh Army, key sector commander of the Mukti Bahini during the Bangladesh Liberation War
• Syed Mohammad Ziaul Haque, Bangladesh Army officer and fugitive
• Nurul Huq, second temporary chief of Bangladesh Navy
• AB Tajul Islam, retired Bangladesh Army captain and former Minister of Liberation War Affairs
• Mohiuddin Jahangir, awarded , the highest military award of Bangladesh, war hero of Bangladesh Liberation War
• Waleed Ehsanul Karim, youngest to fly F-86 Sabre jet
• Mahbub Ali Khan, Bangladesh Navy rear admiral and the Chief of Naval Staff
• Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, army officer convicted for the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
• Abdul Karim Khandker Bir Uttam, war hero
• Anwarul Momen, general officer commanding 17th Infantry Division
• Khaled Mosharraf Sector Commander, war hero of Bangladesh Independence War
• Abu Saleh Mohammad Nasim, 7th Chief of Army Staff of the Bangladesh Army
• General M. A. G. Osmani, Supreme Commander of Bangladesh Forces during the Bangladesh Liberation War
• Mohammad Abdur Rab, 1st Chief of Army Staff of the Bangladesh Army, Major general during the Bangladesh Liberation War
• Abul Fazal Ziaur Rahman, physician and army officer martyred in the liberation war
• AKM Asadul Haq, physician and army officer martyred in the liberation war
• Hamidur Rahman, awarded the highest military award of Bangladesh, war hero of Bangladesh Liberation War
• Rahman, awarded the highest military award of Bangladesh, war hero of Bangladesh Liberation War
• Ziaur Rahman, Bir Uttam war hero, Sector Commander, strategic war hero Of 1971 Bangladesh Independence War
• Munshi Abdur Rouf, awarded , the highest military award of Bangladesh; war hero of Bangladesh Liberation War
• Muhammad Ghulam Tawab, Bangladesh's second Chief of Air Staff

India[]

• Flight Lieutenant Suhas Biswas (1924–1957), recipient of Ashoka Chakra
• Subhas Chandra Bose (1897–1945), Leader, Indian National Army
• Vice Admiral Pradeep Kumar Chatterjee, Indian Navy, Later Commander-in-Chief, Andaman and Nicobar Command
• Admiral Adhar Kumar Chatterji (1914–2001), Indian Navy Chief 1966–1970
• General Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri (1908–1983), Indian Army Chief during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
• Commodore Ajitendu Chakraverti, Indian Navy, First Indian officer to be promoted to Commodore
• Air Commodore Sudhindra Kumar Majumdar (1927–2011), India's first military helicopter pilot
• Air Marshal Subroto Mukherjee (1911–1960), former Head of Indian Air Force
• Chief of the Air Staff Designate Arup Raha, 24th chief of Indian Air Force
• Indra Lal Roy (1898–1918), first Indian (pre Independence) flying ace
• General Shankar Roychowdhury (born 1937), former Indian Army Chief

Padma Vibhushan[]

• Milon K. Banerji
• Nand Lal Bose
• Satyendra Nath Bose
• Suniti Kumar Chatterji
• D. P. Chattopadhyaya
• Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri
• Bhabatosh Datta
• Niren De
• Basanti Devi
• Ashok Sekhar Ganguly
• Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
• Ajoy Mukherjee
• Benode Behari Mukherjee
• Hirendranath Mukherjee
• Hrishikesh Mukherjee
• Pranab Mukherjee
• Basanti Dulal Nagchaudhuri
• Radhabinod Pal
• Satyajit Ray
• Binay Ranjan Sen
• Ravi Shankar
• Uday Shankar

Politicians[]

Bangladesh[]

• Tajuddin Ahmad, first Prime Minister of Bangladesh (1971–1972)
• Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, popularly known with the honorary title Mazlum Jananeta (Leader of the Oppressed)
• Dr. A.Q.M. Badruddoza Chowdhury, Former President of Bangladesh (2001–2002) and the founder of Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh
• Mukhlesur Rahman Chowdhury, de facto President and Prime Minister, former Adviser to Iajuddin Ahmed
• Hussain Muhammad Ershad, Chief Martial Law Administrator (CMLA), later President (1982–1990) and the founder of the Jatiya party
• Kamal Hossain, lawyer, founder of Gano Forum and the leader of Jatiya Oikiya front alliance
• A. K. Fazlul Huq, first Prime Minister of Bengal (Undivided), presented the Lahore Resolution with the official proposal of partition of India, Governor of East Pakistan
• Serajul Huq, one of the founding member of the Bangladesh Awami League
• Ghulam Mahmood Quader, chairman of the Jatiya party
• Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bengali nationalist politician, President of Awami League, served as the first President of Bangladesh and second Prime Minister of Bangladesh, voted as the Greatest Bengali of all time in 2004 BBC's opinion poll
• Tarique Rahman, Nationalist Leader Of Bangladesh
• Ziaur Rahman, founder of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, President of Bangladesh (1977–1981), proposed the creation of SAARC, sector commander and liberation war hero
• Sheikh Hasina Wazed, Prime Minister of Bangladesh (1996–2001; 2009–present)
• Khaleda Zia, Prime Minister of Bangladesh (1991–1996; 2001–2006), "mother of democracy", leader of democracy movement in Bangladesh, first female PM of Bangladesh

British India[]

• Aftab Ali, founder of All-India Seamen's Federation and vice-president of All-India Trade Union Congress
• Aruna Asaf Ali, Indian independence activist
• Mahmud Ali, Freedom Movement leader, statesman
• Abul Kalam Azad, senior leader of the Indian National Congress during the Indian independence movement
• Rash Behari Bose, revolutionary leader against the British Raj in India and one of the key organisers of the Ghadar conspiracy and later, the Indian National Army
• Chittaranjan Das, prominent in the Indian independence movement (also known as Deshabandhu)
• Syed Shamsul Huda, Nawab of Gokarna, president of the All India Muslim League
• Nawab Ali Haider Khan, 9th Nawab of Longla, minister and leader of the Independent Muslim Party
• Sucheta Kriplani, freedom fighter and politician
• Syed Abdul Majid CIE, first native minister of Assam, pioneer of the agricultural industry
• Abdul Matlib Mazumdar, freedom fighter and political leader known for retaining the Barak Valley in India
• Sarojini Naidu, freedom fighter and poet
• Bipin Chandra Pal, Indian nationalist, one third of the Lal Bal Pal triumvirate
• Khwaja Salimullah, founder of Muslim League, proposed establishing University of Dhaka

India[]

• Badruddin Ajmal, founder of the All India United Democratic Front and president of Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind's Assam branch.
• Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister of West Bengal (from 2011), ex-minister for Railways, Government of India, Chairman All India Trinamool Congress
• Mrinal Banerjee, former Minister
• Surendranath Banerjee, one of the founding members of the Indian National Congress
• Hazi Salim Uddin Barbhuiya, MLA of Hailakandi
• Jyoti Basu, former communist Chief Minister of West Bengal, former Politburo Member of the Communist Party of India(Marxist)
• Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, former communist Chief Minister of West Bengal, Politburo Member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) after 19th Party Congress
• Tanmoy Bhattacharya, politician, elected MLA of North Dum Dum constituency, 2016-2021
• Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee, first president of Indian National Congress
• Subhas Chandra Bose, former President of Indian National Congress, Head of State of India's first free Provisional Government of Azad Hind and co-fof ounder Indian National Army
• Somnath Chatterjee, former Speaker of the Lok Sabha (Lower House of Parliament), expelled member of CPI(M), senior parliamentarian, prominent barrister
• A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury, senior leader of Indian National Congress
• Moinul Hoque Choudhury, five-time MLA, two-time UN General Assembly representative and Minister of Industrial Development
• Rashida Haque Choudhury, former Minister of State of Social Welfare
• Santosh Mohan Dev, former Union Cabinet Minister, elected to the Lok Sabha, senior leader of Indian National Congress
• Anwar Hussain Laskar, All India United Democratic Front politician
• Jogendra Nath Mandal, served as the first Law & Labour Minister of Pakistan
• Ataur Rahman Mazarbhuiya, All India United Democratic Front politician
• Pranab Mukherjee, President of India 2012, Minister for External Affairs, senior leader of Indian National Congress
• Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, founder of Bharatiya Jana Sangh, later Bharatiya Janata Party
• A. F. Golam Osmani, Indian National Congress member
• Kabindra Purkayastha, former Minister
• Rabi Ray, speaker of Lok Sabha
• Siddhartha Shankar Ray, former Congress Chief Minister of West Bengal, former Indian ambassador to United States
• Bidhan Chandra Roy, physician, former Congress Chief Minister of West Bengal, Bharat Ratna
• Manik Sarkar, chief minister of Tripura, Politburo member
• Ashoke Kumar Sen, former Law Minister, barrister, and parliamentarian

Pakistan[]

• Nurul Amin, Prime Minister of Pakistan
• Abdullah el Baqui (1886-1952), member of the 1st National Assembly of Pakistan
• Muhammad Ali Bogra, Prime Minister of Pakistan 1953–1955
• Abdullah al Mahmood (d. 1975), member of the 1st National Assembly of Pakistan
• Iskander Mirza, first President of Pakistan
• Khwaja Nazimuddin, 2nd Prime Minister of Bengal (Undivided), 2nd Prime Minister of Pakistan, 2nd Governor-General of Pakistan, President of Muslim League
• Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, second Chief Minister of Bengal, Prime Minister of Pakistan (1956–1957)

United Kingdom[]

Members of Parliament[]

• Apsana Begum MP, Labour Party Member of Parliament for Poplar and Limehouse, first Hijabi to be elected as an MP for the British parliament
• Rupa Huq MP, Labour Party Member of Parliament for Ealing Central and Acton constituency,^[9] writer, columnist, senior lecturer in Sociology at Kingston University and former Deputy Mayor of the London Borough of Ealing^[10][11]
• Rushanara Ali MP, Labour Party Member of Parliament for Bethnal Green and Bow constituency; first person of Bangladeshi origin to be elected to the House of Commons^[12] and one of the first three Muslim women to be elected as a Member of Parliament^[13]
• Tulip Siddiq MP, Labour Party Member of Parliament for Hampstead and Kilburn,^[14] former councillor for Regent's Park ward and Cabinet Member for Culture and Communities in Camden London Borough Council; in 2010, became the first Bengali female councillor in Camden Council^[15]

Life peers[]

• Baroness "Pola" Manzila Uddin, Labour Party life peer, community activist, and the first Muslim and second Asian woman to sit in the House of Lords^[16]

Mayors[]

• Lutfur Rahman, community activist and Independent politician; from 2010 to 2015 the first directly elected mayor of Tower Hamlets and the first Bangladeshi leader of the council^[17]
• Nadia Shah, Labour Party politician, councillor in Regent's Park ward and former Mayor of Camden; in May 2016, became the first female mayor in the United Kingdom of Bangladeshi origin^[18]
• Nasim Ali OBE, Labour Party politician, councillor in Regent's Park ward, Cabinet Member for Young People in Camden Council and former Mayor of Camden; in 2003, at age 34, became UK's youngest mayor as well as the first Bangladeshi and first Muslim mayor^[19]

Other[]

• Farida Anwar, Labour Party politician, councillor for Headington Hill and Northway in Oxford City Council; in 2014, became Oxfordshire's first city councillor from a Bangladeshi background^[20]
• Doly Begum, Canadian politician
• Anwar Choudhury, the British High Commissioner for Bangladesh between 2004 and 2008. He is currently the Director of International Institutions at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office.
• Murad Qureshi, Labour Party politician and former Greater London Assembly member^[21]
• Rabina Khan, Liberal Democrat councillor for Shadwell ward, former Cabinet Member for Housing in Tower Hamlets London Borough Council, community worker and author of Ayesha's Rainbow^[22]
• Syeda Khatun MBE, Labour Party politician, councillor for Tipton Green in the Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council and Cabinet Advisor for Education; in 1999, the first Bangladeshi woman to be elected in the Midlands^[23]

United States[]

• Hansen Clarke, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan's 13th district, Democrat, Member of the Michigan Senate from the 1st district, Member of the Michigan House of Representatives from the 7th and 16th district

Ramon Magsaysay Award[]

• Tahrunessa Abdullah
• Fazle Hasan Abed KCMG, founder of the world's largest non-governmental organisation, BRAC
• Amitabha Chowdhury
• Zafrullah Chowdhury
• Mahasweta Devi
• Gour Kishore Ghosh
• Angela Gomes
• Syeda Rizwana Hasan, attorney, Hero of the Environment and winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize
• A.H.M. Noman Khan
• Sombhu Mitra
• Matiur Rahman
• Satyajit Ray
• Abdullah Abu Sayeed
• Ravi Shankar
• Muhammad Yunus

Religion and spirituality[]

Buddhism[]

• Anagarika Munindra (1915–2003), vipassana meditation teacher, taught many notable meditation teachers including Dipa Ma, Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg, and Surya Das
• Atiśa Dipamkara Shrijnana (982-1054), or Srjnana Atisa Dipanakara, Buddhist scholar, missionary and teacher, inventor of bodhichitta
• Tibbetibaba (died 1930), philosopher saint
• Tilopa (988-1069), Buddhist teacher, important figure in Tibetan Buddhism, founder of the Kagyu lineage and progressor of Mahamudra method

Hinduism[]

• Swami Abhedananda (Kaliprasad Chandra), monk, author, philosopher, occultist, reformer, founder of the Ramakrishna Vedanta Math
• Advaita Acharya, Vaishnava guru
• Sri Aurobindo, yogi, nationalist, philosopher, author, poet, visionary
• Gaura Kisora dasa Babaji, Vaishnava ascetic, mystic and recluse
• Jagannatha Dasa Babaji, Vaishnava ascetic
• Mahavatar Babaji, yogi and tantrik master
• Bamakhepa (Bamacharan Chattopadhyay), tantrik guru and mystic of Tarapith
• Kamalakanta Bhattacharya, Tantrik/ Shakta saint and master, composer of Shakta devotional songs
• Sri Chinmoy, Indian spiritual master
• Swami Satyananda Giri, Manamohan Mazumder monk, preacher and yogi
• Yukteswar Giri, Priyanath Karar, yogi, educationist, astronomer, and astrologer
• Nolini Kanta Gupta, revolutionary, linguist, scholar, critic, poet, philosopher and mystic, the most senior of Sri Aurobindo's disciples, author of many books
• Gopinath Kaviraj, yogi, philosopher, spiritual master, tantrik scholar and author
• Anandamoyi Ma, mystic, spiritual teacher and Tantrik Guru
• Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Vaishnava mystic, missionary, monk and social reformer
• Acharya Srimat Swami Pranavanandaji Maharaj, founder Bharat Sevashram Sangha
• Lahiri Mahasaya or Shyama Charan Lahiri, yogi, philosopher, the propagator of Kriya Yogay
• Nirmalananda, 19th century monk
• Nityananda, great avadut mystic, social reformer, chief associate of Chaitanya, reincarnation of Balaram and a primary figure within the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition of Bengal
• Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (Gadadhar Chattopadhaya), mystic, preacher of Dakshineshwar
• Nigamananda Paramahansa, Saraswat, tantrik guru, vedantic scholar, author, yogi, mystic, philosopher, disciple of Bamakhepa, founder of several institutions
• Akhandamandaleshwar Sri Sri Swami Swarupananda Paramhansa Deva (Babamani), religious leader, writer and founder of "Ayachak Ashrama"
• A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (Abhay Charan Dey), Vaishnava missionary and theologian, founder of ISKCON
• Pranavananda, founder of Bharat Sevashram Sangha
• Rani Rashmoni, founder of Dakshineswar Kali Temple, Kolkata
• Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, Vaishnava missionary and theologian, founder of Gaudiya Math
• Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar or Sri Anandamurti, polymathic personality, author, philosopher, socio-political thinker, educationist, revolutionary, poet, composer, linguist, self-development and human welfare theorist, the founder of Ananda Marga (a socio-spiritual movement)
• Ramprasad Sen, tantrik master, mystic, famous as a composer of mystic, devotional songs to Goddess Kali
• Bhaktivinoda Thakur, Vaishnava missionary and theologian
• Swami Vivekananda (Narendranath Datta), monk, missionary and social reformer, founder of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission
• Paramahansa Yogananda, monk, philosopher, preacher, author and exponent of Kriya Yoga

Islam[]

• Mearajuddin Ahmad (c. 1890), author of Tufat al-Muslimin
• Muhsinuddin Ahmad (1819–1862), second leader of the Faraizi movement
• Fazlul Haque Amini (1945–2012), former principal of Jamia Qurania Arabia Lalbagh and politician
• Abul Kalam Azad (1888–1958), initial patron of Jamia Millia Islamia
• Abul Kalam Azad (born 1947), Bangladeshi preacher and politician from Jamaat-e-Islami
• Junaid Babunagari (born 1955), current Amir of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh
• Muhibbullah Babunagari (born 1935), chief advisor of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh
• Muhammad Abdullahil Baqi (1886-1952), Islamic scholar, writer and politician
• Abdul Halim Bukhari (born 1945), Islamic scholar and chancellor of Al Jamia Al Islamia Patiya
• Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani (1880–1976), founder of the Awami Muslim League and The Daily Ittefaq
• Abdul Matin Chowdhury (1915–1990), Shaykh of Fulbari and political activist
• Najib Ali Choudhury (c. 1870), founder of the Madinatul Uloom Bagbari in South Assam
• Ahmed Ali Enayetpuri (1898–1959), founder of Sariat-i-Islam newspaper
• Muhammad Faizullah (1892–1976), former teacher at Al-Jamiatul Ahlia Darul Ulum Moinul Islam
• Abdul Haque Faridi (1903–1996), founder of the Islami Bishwakosh project
• Shamsul Haque Faridpuri (1896–1969), founder of the Jamia Qurania Arabia Lalbagh
• Nurul Islam Farooqi (died 2014), TV presenter assassinated by Islamic militants
• Abdul Latif Chowdhury Fultali (1913–2008), founder of the Fultali movement and Darul Hadis Latifiah
• Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib (born 1948), reformist and founder of Ahle Hadith Andolon Bangladesh
• Nur Uddin Gohorpuri (1924–2005), chairman of Befaqul Madarisil Arabia Bangladesh
• Ubaidul Haq (1928–2007), former khatib of Baitul Mukarram
• Azizul Haque (1919–2012), first translator of Sahih Al-Bukhari into the Bengali language
• Mahfuzul Haque (born 1969), Islamic scholar and politician
• Mamunul Haque (born 1973), Islamic scholar and influential speaker
• Mahmudul Hasan (born 1950), president of Al-Haiatul Ulya Lil-Jamiatil Qawmia Bangladesh and Befaqul Madarisil Arabia Bangladesh, chancellor of Jamia Islamia Darul Uloom Madania, Amir of Majlis-e-Dawatul Haq Bangladesh.^[25]
• A F M Khalid Hossain (born 1959), vice-president of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh
• Abu Hena Saiful Islam (born 1963), imam of the US Navy
• Izharul Islam, founder of Jamiatul Uloom Al-Islamia Lalkhan Bazar
• Saiful Islam (born 1974), founder of Bradford's Jamiah Khatamun Nabiyeen
• Maniruzzaman Islamabadi (1875–1950), journalist and founder of the Jamiat Ulama-e-Bangalah
• Abdul Jabbar Jahanabadi (1937–2016), former secretary-general of Befaqul Madarisil Arabia Bangladesh
• Nurul Islam Jihadi (born 1948), secretary-general of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh
• Syed Fazlul Karim (1935–2006), former Pir of Chormonai and founder of Islami Andolan Bangladesh
• Syed Rezaul Karim (born 1971), current Pir of Chormonai and leader of Islami Andolan Bangladesh
• Nur Hossain Kasemi (1945–2020), former secretary-general of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh
• Mohammad Akram Khan (1868–1969), founder of The Azad
• Muhiuddin Khan (1935–2016), translator of the Qur'an and the Ma'ariful Qur'an exegesis
• Muhammad Abdul Malek (born 1969), muhaddith and author
• Ajmal Masroor (born 1971), British politician, imam and TV presenter
• Mohammad Meherullah (1861–1907), comparative religionist writer
• Abdul Khaleque Mondal, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami associate
• Mawlana Murad, lived in Mecca in the 1700s
• Sultan Zauq Nadvi (born 1939), founder of Jamia Darul Ma'arif Al-Islamia
• Nurul Islam Olipuri (born 1955), mufassir, teacher and author
• Sheikh Abdur Rahim (1859–1931), Islamic writer
• Abdur Rahim (1918–1987), first leader of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami
• Abdur Rahman (1920–2015), founder of Islamic Research Center Bangladesh
• Syed Mohammad Saifur Rahman (born 1916), Ekushey Padak recipient
• Muhammad Shahidullah (1885–1969), essayist and editor of the Islami Bishwakosh
• Haji Shariatullah (1781–1840), founder of the Faraizi movement
• Delwar Hossain Sayeedi (born 1940), Islamic scholar and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami politician
• Shah Ahmad Shafi (1916–2020), former Amir of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh
• Titumir (1782–1831), anti-colonial rebel
• Wajihullah (died c. 1920), 20th-century scholar from Sandwip
• Muhammad Wakkas (1952–2021), former secretary-general of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh
• Sayed Kamaluddin Zafree (born 1945), founder of the Bangladesh Islami University
• Zamiruddin (1870–1937), writer and revert to Islam

Christianity[]

• Kali Charan Banerjee, lawyer and theologian, founder of the Calcutta Christo Samaj, member of the Indian National Congress
• Krishna Mohan Banerjee, Bengali philosopher and litterateur, President of the Bengal Christian Association
• Puroshottam Choudhary, preacher, evangelist, writer of Christian literature
• Lal Behari Dey, Indian journalist, writer, and Christian missionary
• Patrick D'Rozario, first Bangladeshi Cardinal, Archbishop of Dhaka
• Mahesh Chandra Ghosh, Bengali philosopher and religious scholar
• Aurobindo Nath Mukherjee, first Indian Bishop of Calcutta and Metropolitan of India
• Krishna Pal, Bengali evangelist and missionary, first Bengali convert to Christianity under William Carey

Brahmoism[]

• Ram Mohan Roy
• Keshub Chandra Sen
• Debendranath Tagore, social thinker and reformer, founder of the Brahmo Religion or Brahmoism, the youngest religion of India

Baul[]

• Shah Abdul Karim
• Lalon, fakir, sahajiya saint philosopher, humanist, poet and composer of baul/sahajiya mystic songssongs

Unitarianism[]

• Ram Mohan Roy

Wicca[]

• Ipsita Roy Chakraverti

Revolutionaries[]

• Sri Aurobindo
• Surendranath Banerjee
• Abul Barkat
• Benoy Basu
• Basanta Kumar Biswas
• Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee
• Khudiram Bose
• Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
• Rash Behari Bose
• Sarat Chandra Bose
• Prafulla Chaki
• Ambika Chakrobarty
• Panchanan Chakraborty
• Amarendranath Chatterjee
• Jogesh Chandra Chattopadhyay
• Virendranath Chattopadhyaya
• Bina Das
• Chittaranjan Das
• Jatindra Nath Das
• Bhupendra Kumar Datta
• Batukeshwar Dutt
• Bipin Behari Ganguli
• Barindra Kumar Ghosh
• Dinesh Gupta
• Badal Gupta
• Matangini Hazra
• Kazi Nazrul Islam
• Bagha Jatin
• Hemchandra Kanungo
• Syama Prasad Mookerjee
• Jatindranath Mukherjee
• Saroj Mukherjee
• Gopal Chandra Mukhopadhyay
• Sarojini Naidu
• Jnananjan Niyogi
• Bipin Chandra Pal
• Sudhamoy Pramanick
• Renuka Ray
• B. C. Roy
• Birendranath Sasmal
• Narendra Mohan Sen
• Surya Sen
• Triguna Sen
• Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy
• Titumir
• Pritilata Waddedar

Science and technology[]

Physicists[]

• Ahsan Ali, doctor, physician and researcher
• Kedareswar Banerjee, first crystallographer of India, known for X-ray Crystallography and was director of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata. The K. Banerjee Centre of Atmospheric and Ocean Studies was established in his honour
• Srikumar Banerjee, director of BARC and AECI
• Mani Lal Bhaumik, physicist, helped develop the first excimer laser at the University of California
• Debendra Mohan Bose, physicist, made contributions in the field of cosmic rays, artificial radioactivity and neutron physics
• Jagadish Chandra Bose, physicist, radio and wireless transmission pioneer, also did substantial work on botany
• Satyendra Nath Bose, physicist, founded Bose–Einstein statistics, which helped to produce Bose–Einstein condensate (2001 Nobel Prize in Physics was given for this discovery); the Boson, an elementary particle named after him
• Swapan Chattopadhyay, particle accelerator physicist, contributed to the development of many accelerators around the world, e.g. the Super Proton-Antiproton Synchrotron, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and the Advanced Light Source at Berkeley
• Swapan Kumar Gain, Bengali-American physicist, Professor of Physics at the City University of New York
• Amitabha Ghosh, only Asian on NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission
• Dipan Ghosh, theoretical physicist, known for Majumdar–Ghosh model
• Hiranmay Sen Gupta, physicist, has published around 200 research papers in various international journals
• M. Zahid Hasan, physicist, Eugene Higgins endowed chair professor of quantum physics at Princeton University and scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, known for discoveries in quantum matter and topology
• Mohammad Ataul Karim, known for contributions to the fields of electro-optical devices and systems, optical computing and processing, and pattern recognition
• Ashesh Prasad Mitra, performed major work in the field of the Earth's near-space environment, through group based and space techniques
• Sisir Kumar Mitra, physicist, pioneer in the investigations of ionosphere, the Mitra crater on the Moon is named after him
• Bedabrata Pain, co-inventor of CMOS image sensor, also an award-winning filmmaker
• Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri, physicist, known for his contributions to relativity and cosmology including Raychaudhuri's equation
• Somak Raychaudhury, astrophysicist and observational cosmologist, Director, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics
• Subrata Roy, known for his contributions in the modelling of plasma physics and the invention of the Wingless Electromagnetic Air Vehicle and serpentine geometry plasma actuator
• Meghnad Saha, physicist, produced the Thermo-Ionization Equation or Saha Equation
• Ashoke Sen, physicist, known for his contributions to string theory, co-discovered S-duality
• Bikash Sinha, former director of SINP and Padmabhusan awardee

Biologists[]

• Maqsudul Alam, scientist and professor, achieved four milestones in genomics - sequencing the genomes of papaya, rubber plants, jute and fungus
• Gopal Chandra Bhattacharya, known for his pioneering work on social insects and the role of bacteria in metamorphosis
• Sharmila Bhattacharya, head of the Biomodel Performance and Behavior laboratory at NASA Ames Research Center
• Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty, most notable for his work in directed evolution and his role in developing a genetically engineered organism using plasmid transfer while working at GE
• Maharani Chakravorty, organized the first laboratory course on recombinant DNA techniques in Asia and Far East in 1981
• Abed Chaudhury, Bangladeshi-Australian geneticist and science writer
• Biraja Sankar Guha, first director of Anthropological Survey of India
• Jahangir Alam Khan, agricultural economist and researcher
• Dilip Mahalanabis, biologist, under his leadership the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (Bangladesh medical centre), discovered oral rehydration therapy, which has saved more than 40 million lives from diarrhea
• Panchanan Mitra, first professor of anthropology in India, among the first Indians to study at Yale University
• Sarat Chandra Roy, widely regarded as the father of Indian ethnography, the first Indian ethnographer, and as the first Indian anthropologist
• Ram Brahma Sanyal, pioneer in captive breeding; one of the first zookeepers trained as a biologist; a corresponding member of the Zoological Society of London
• Dwijen Sharma, naturalist and science writer
• M. A. Zaher, director-general of the Geological Survey of Bangladesh

Chemistry[]

• Sadhan Basu, Palit professor at Calcutta University and Bhatnagar Award, CV Raman recipient
• Asima Chatterjee, known for her work in the fields of organic chemistry and phytomedicine; her most notable work includes those on vinca alkaloids, and the development of anti-epileptic and anti-malarial drugs
• Jnan Chandra Ghosh, chemist, known for anomaly of strong electrolytes
• Abul Hussam, chemist, inventor of Sono arsenic filter and the gold winner of the 2007 Grainger Challenge Prize for Sustainability
• Abdus Suttar Khan, chemist, inventor of alloys for use in commercial jets, U.S. fighter planes, gas turbines, train engines, and space shuttles
• Jnanendra Nath Mukherjee, chemist, specialised in the fields of electrochemistry, colloids and soil science
• Prafulla Chandra Roy, pioneer in the field of pharmaceutical and chemical works (discovered mercurous nitrite), The Royal Society of Chemistry honoured him with the first ever Chemical Landmark Plaque outside Europe, founder of Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals, India's first pharmaceutical company

Doctors and physicians[]

• Shamsuddin Ahmed, medical doctor martyred in the Bangladesh Liberation War
• Rafiuddin Ahmed, dentist, founder of the first dental college of India and Bengal Dental Association, which later became Indian Dental Association
• Syed Modasser Ali, ophthalmic surgeon and a health advisor to Sheikh Hasina, founder of Mojibunnessa Eye Hospital and editor-in-chief of the Bangladesh Ophthalmic Journal.
• Upendranath Brahmachari, synthesized Urea Stibamine (carbostibamide) and used it in the treatment of Kala-azar (leishmaniasis), was a nominee for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Surjo Kumar Chakraborty, India's first graduate in medicine
• Kadambini Ganguly, one of the first two Indian women who trained in Western medicine
• Jogesh Chandra Ghosh, pioneer of modern Ayurvedic medicine
• Sake Dean Mahomed, surgeon and entrepreneur
• Siddhartha Mukherjee, physician, scientist and writer, author of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 2011
• Subhash Mukhopadhyay, physician, first physician in India and second in the world to perform in vitro fertilization
• Shuvo Roy, scientist and inventor of implantable artificial kidney
• Mahendralal Sarkar, homeopath and founder of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
• Hassan Suhrawardy, second Muslim from the sub-continent to become a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

Mathematicians[]

• Amiya Charan Banerjee, Indian mathematician
• Debabrata Basu, mathematician, found Basu's theorem
• Anil Kumar Bhattacharya, known for Bhattacharya coefficient, and the Bhattacharya distance
• Raj Chandra Bose, mathematician, known for Association scheme, Bose–Mesner algebra, Euler's conjecture
• Sourav Chatterjee, mathematician, specializing in mathematical statistics and probability theory. Professor at Stanford
• Anil Kumar Gain, mathematician and statistician from University of Cambridge, Fellow of the Royal Society
• Jayanta Kumar Ghosh, mathematician, known for Bahadur-Ghosh-Kiefer representation and Ghosh-Pratt identity
• Anadi Sankar Gupta, specialised in fluid dynamics and magnetohydrodynamics, notably on heat transfer in free convection flow in the presence of magnetic field
• Qazi Azizul Haque, pioneered the mathematical formula for Henry Classification System of fingerprinting
• Khandkar Manwar Hossain, Bangladeshi statistician
• Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, founder Indian Statistical Institute, best remembered for the Mahalanobis distance, a statistical measure
• Samarendra Kumar Mitra, designed, developed and constructed India's first indigenous computer (an electronic analog computer) in ISI in 1953
• Syamadas Mukhopadhyaya, introduced the four-vertex theorem and Mukhopadhyaya's theorem in plane geometry
• ANM Muniruzzaman, Bangladeshi statistician killed in Bangladesh Liberation War
• Ritabrata Munshi, mathematician specialising in number theory. Graduate student of Andrew Wiles.
• Dijen K. Ray-Chaudhuri, professor emeritus at Ohio State University. Known for BCH code
• Samarendra Nath Roy, mathematician, known for multivariate analysis
• Sucharit Sarkar, Indian topologist and IMO gold medallist
• Radhanath Sikdar, mathematician, calculated the height of Mount Everest

Technology[]

• Shubham Banerjee, inventor of Braigo; at 12 years old (2014) became the youngest entrepreneur to receive venture capital funding
• Shuman Ghosemajumder, co-founder of TeachAIDS, former click fraud czar at Google
• Jawed Karim, co-founder of YouTube, lead architect of PayPal
• Samarendra Kumar Mitra, designed, developed and constructed, in 1953, India's first indigenous computer (an electronic analog computer)

Architects, archaeologists and engineers[]

• Jalal Ahmad (born 1959), president of the Institute of Architects Bangladesh, vice-president of the Commonwealth Association of Architects
• Sultanuddin Ahmed, engineer martyred during the Bangladesh Liberation War
• Vidyadhar Bhattacharya (1693–1751), the chief architect and city planner of Jaipur, Rajasthan;^[26] with Sir Samuel Swinton Jacob, he is credited as the architect of City Palace, Jaipur
• Fazlur Rahman Khan (1929–1982), structural engineer and architect, father of tubular designs for high-rises such as Willis Tower (aka Sears Tower) and the John Hancock Center
• Saiman Miah (born 1986), architectural and graphic designer, designed one of the two £5 commemorative coins for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
• M Harunur Rashid, archaeologist, educationist and museum curator
• Abul Kalam Mohammed Zakaria, archaeologist

Social reformers and position holders[]

• Fazle Hasan Abed KCMG, founder of the world's largest non-governmental organisation, BRAC
• Syed Ameer Ali, law reformer
• Rawshan Ara Bachchu, woman rights activist and part of the Bengali language movement
• Kalyan Banerjee, former president of Rotary International
• Khuda Buksh, pioneer of life insurance in Bangladesh
• Malati Choudhury, Indian civil rights activist, freedom activist and Gandhian
• Anil Kumar Gain, founder of Vidyasagar University and President of the Indian Science Congress
• Roquia Sakhawat Hussain, prolific writer, important women's rights activist and social worker, early feminist science fiction writer
• Nasreen Pervin Huq, women's rights activist
• Irene Khan, former Secretary General of Amnesty International, first woman, first Asian, and first Muslim to hold the position
• Muhammad Mohsin, charitable Muslim of Bengal
• Charulata Mukherjee, women's rights activist and social worker from Calcutta, associated with Brahmo Samaj and All India Women's Conference
• Mohua Mukherjee, social activist and author
• Audri Mukhopadhyay, diplomat and economist
• Renuka Ray, freedom fighter and social activist
• Bunker Roy, social activist and educator who founded the Barefoot College, selected as one of Time's 100 most influential personalities in 2010
• Manabendra Nath Roy, pioneer Bengali Indian revolutionary philosopher, founder of the Mexican Communist Party and the Indian Communist Party
• Harichand Thakur, founder of Matua Mahasangha
• Ram Mohan Roy, founder of the Brahmo Samaj
• Binay Ranjan Sen, former Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization
• Keshub Chunder Sen, intellectual, religious reformer
• Muhammad Shahidullah, educationist, writer, polyglot, philologist and linguist
• Romola Sinha, women's rights and social activist, founder member of All Bengal Women's Union
• Debendranath Tagore, active Brahmo, and was against sati, idol worship
• Satyendranath Tagore, first Indian to join the Indian Civil Service, also a women's rights activist
• Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, responsible for introducing major reforms in the educational system and women's rights activist

Sports[]

Administrators[]

• Sourav Ganguly, President of Board of Control for Cricket in India and former Indian cricket team captain, Padma Shri awardee

Athletics[]

• Mohamed Mahbub Alam, South Asian Games gold medalist sprinter
• Swapna Barman, heptathlon athlete
• Soma Biswas, heptathlon athlete
• Shanta Ghosh, retired German sprinter who specialized in the 400 meters
• Mohan Khan, Opympic Sprinter
• Beauty Nazmun Nahar, Olympic sprinter from Banngladesh
• Hari Shankar Roy, Indian track and field athlete
• Saraswati Saha, Indian former track and field sprinter
• Jyotirmoyee Sikdar, athletics, double gold-medallist in track at Asian games, recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award and Padma Shri award

Archery[]

• Dola Banerjee, Indian female archer
• Rahul Banerjee, Indian archer
• Krishna Das, former Indian archer
• Ruman Shana, Bangladeshi archer, won gold in SA games 2019
• Jayanta Talukdar, archer

Badminton[]

• Dipu Ghosh, former badminton player
• Raman Ghosh, former badminton player

Bodybuilding, boxing, rugby and wrestling[]

• Manohar Aich, bodybuilder
• Tameer Anwar, bodybuilder, Mister Bangladesh
• Laxman Das, wrestler and weight lifter
• Sukhen Dey, weightlifter
• Ambika Charan Guha, Indian wrestler who pioneered the growth of Akhada culture in Bengal
• Gobar Guha, Indian wrestler and practitioner of Pehlwani
• Bulbul Hussain, wheelchair rugby player for Kent Crusaders and the Great Britain Paralympic team
• Abdul Ali Jacko, two-time world lightweight kick-boxing champion
• Mohammed Ali Qamar, Indian boxer
• Reba Rakshit, Indian female bodybuilder and exponent of yoga
• Monotosh Roy, Indian bodybuilder, first Asian to be awarded the Mr. Universe title
• Paresh Lal Roy, known as the "father of Indian boxing"
• Asit Kumar Saha, wrestler and wrestling coach
• Sudhir Saha, wrestler, coach and wrestling administrator in India, introduced Greco-Roman wrestling in India

Chess[]

• Dibyendu Barua, Indian chess grandmaster
• Surya Shekhar Ganguly, Indian grandmaster
• Rani Hamid, awarded the FIDE Woman International Master (WIM) title in 1985
• Enamul Hossain, Bangladeshi grandmaster
• Niaz Morshed, chess player from Bangladesh, first chess grandmaster to emerge from South Asia
• Ziaur Rahman, Bangladeshi grandmaster
• Mollah Abdullah Al Rakib, Bangladeshi grandmaster

Cricket[]

• Taskin Ahmed, Bangladeshi bowler
• Mohammad Ashraful, Bangladeshi cricketer, youngest centurion in test cricket
• Shuvagata Hom, Bangladeshi cricketer
• Subashis Roy, Bangladeshi cricketer
• Dhiman Ghosh, Bangladeshi cricketer
• Rony Talukdar, Bangladeshi cricketer
• Tapash Baishya, Bangladeshi cricketer,
• Gargi Banerji, former Indian Women cricketer, holds international records
• Habibul Bashar, former Bangladeshi cricketer
• Gopal Bose, former Indian ODI player
• Utpal Chatterjee, former Indian cricketer
• Aftab Ahmed Chowdhury, former Bangladeshi cricketer
• Nirode Chowdhury, former Indian Test cricketer and pace bowler
• Liton Das, Bangladeshi cricketer
• Deep Dasgupta, former Indian national cricket team wicket-keeper
• Rumeli Dhar, cricketer, Indian women's cricket team
• Ashok Dinda, Indian cricket team player
• Nikhil Dutta, Canadian cricketer
• Sourav Ganguly, former Indian cricket team captain, Padma Shri awardee
• Jhulan Goswami, Bangladeshi woman cricketer, awarded ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year 2007
• Lata Mondal, Bangladeshi woman cricketer,
• Isa Guha, English women's team cricketer
• Pinak Ghosh
• Subrata Guha, former Indian Test cricketer
• Mominul Haque, Bangladeshi cricketer, has the highest test batting average and century by a Bangladeshi batsman
• Shakib Al Hasan, Bangladeshi cricketer
• Rubel Hossain, Bangladeshi cricketer
• Shahadat Hossain, Bangladeshi cricketer
• Tamim Iqbal, Bangladeshi cricketer
• Taijul Islam, Bangladeshi bowler
• Alok Kapali, former Bangladeshi cricketer
• Mithu Mukherjee, former Indian women's cricket team player
• Saradindu Mukherjee, former Indian cricketer
• Mushfiqur Rahim, Bangladeshi cricketer
• Mahmudullah Riyad, Bangladeshi cricketer
• Pankaj Roy, former Indian cricket captain, known for establishing the world record opening partnership of 413 runs against New Zealand
• Pranab Roy, former Test cricketer for India Championship (1983, 1985, 1989)
• Priyanka Roy, former cricketer of Indian women's cricket team
• Wriddhiman Saha, Indian cricket player
• Soumya Sarkar, Bangladeshi cricketer
• Probir Sen, former Indian Test cricketer/wicket-keeper

Football[]

• Alfaz Ahmed, former footballer for Bangladesh
• Pradip Kumar Banerjee, footballer, named Indian Footballer of the 20th Century by FIFA
• Prasun Banerjee, former Indian national football player, Arjuna award winner
• Sibdas Bhaduri, captained Mohun Bagan in the historic 1911 IFA Shield Final, where they defeated the East Yorkshire Regiment, 2-1
• Arindam Bhattacharya, Indian national football player
• Subhash Bhowmick, former Indian international football player
• Subhasish Bose, Indian national football player
• Sudip Chatterjee, footballer, considered among the finest in Indian football, declared AIFF player of the decade in 1994
• Hamza Choudhury, midfielder for English football club Leicester City F.C.
• Yeamin Chowdhury, footballer for Chittagong Abahani
• Narayan Das, Indian national football player
• Krishanu Dey, footballer, known as the "Indian Maradona"
• Robin Dutt, former manager of Bundesliga club Werder Bremen, current representative for sport of VfB Stuttgart
• Chuni Goswami, former Indian Footballer, Padma Shri awardee, awarded the best striker of Asia in 1962
• Pronay Halder, Indian national football player
• Kaiser Hamid, former footballer for Mohammedan S.C.
• Mehtab Hossain, former Indian national football player
• Pritam Kotal, Indian national football player
• Shailen Manna, footballer, the only Asian footballer ever to be named among the 10 best captains in the world by the English FA in 1953
• Arnab Mondal, Indian national football player
• Deepak Kumar Mondal, football player, Arjuna award winner
• Syed Rahim Nabi, Indian international footballer, known as 'Mr. Versatile' for his ability to play at any position (except goalkeeper), declared Indian player of the year in 2012
• Gostho Pal, footballer; member of the 1st Indian team, Mohun Bagan, that won the IFA shield against a British team in the pre-independence period
• Subrata Paul, Indian national football player, first Indian goalkeeper to play professionally for a foreign club in 1st division
• Mahbubur Rahman, footballer and captain of Arambagh KS
• Mohammed Salim, first Indian footballer to play overseas (in 1936 for the Scottish Club Celtic F.C.)
• Jewel Raja Shaikh, Indian national football player
• Shamit Shome, first Bengali origin player in Major League Soccer
• Gautam Sarkar, ex-footballer, having represented SC East Bengal
• Neil Taylor, Welsh footballer of half-Bengali origin

Golf[]

• Anirban Lahiri
• Siddikur Rahman, Olympic and Asian Tour golfer of Bangladesh

Gymnastics[]

• Mabia Akhter, Commonwealth gold medalist, South Asian Games gold medalist
• Dipa Karmakar, first Indian woman gymnast to qualify for the Olympics
• Margarita Mamun, Russian gymnast of half-Bangladeshi origin

Cycling and mountaineering[]

• Ramnath Biswas, soldier and writer best known for circumnavigating the globe by bicycle.
• Chhanda Gain
• Musa Ibrahim, first Bangladeshi to scale Mount Everest
• Nishat Majumdar, first Bangladeshi woman to scale Mount Everest
• Asim Mukhopadhyay
• Wasfia Nazreen, second Bangladeshi woman to scale Mount Everest

Squash[]

• Ritwik Bhattacharya
• Saurav Ghosal, highest ranked Indian player

Swimming[]

• Masudur Rahman Baidya, world's first physically handicapped swimmer to swim across the English Channel in 1997 and the Strait of Gibraltar in 2001
• Bula Choudhury, first woman to cross the seven seas
• Brojen Das, first Asian to swim across the English Channel and the first person to cross it four times
• Prasanta Karmakar, para-swimmer
• Sachin Nag, former swimming champion
• Arati Saha, first Indian and Asian woman to swim across English Channel; first Indian female sportsperson to be awarded the Padma Shri
• Mihir Sen, first Indian to swim across the English Channel, from Dover to Calais in 1958, and for swimming across five channels in one calendar year (1956)

Table tennis[]

• Ankita Das, Olympian
• Mouma Das, Olympian
• Poulomi Ghatak
• Soumyajit Ghosh, Olympian
• Zobera Rahman Linu, Guinness World Record holder
• Subhajit Saha

Tennis[]

• Shibu Lal, Bangladeshi ATP player
• Jaidip Mukerjea, Arjuna award winner
• Leander Paes, Olympic Medalist
• Afrana Islam Prity, Bangladeshi ITF player

Writers[]

• Humayun Ahmed (born 1948), novelist
• Alaol (1607–1680), poet of medieval era
• Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib (born 1948), Islamic scholar, writer, academic, essayist
• Asaddor Ali, writer, folklorist and winner of Bangla Academy Literary Award
• Ekram Ali (born 1950), poet
• Monica Ali (born 1967), novelist
• Sadeq Ali, poet best known for the Halat-un-Nabi puthi
• Syed Mujtaba Ali (1904–1974), novelist and essayist
• Syed Murtaza Ali, writer and historian
• Banaphool (1899–1979), writer of short stories
• Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay (1894–1950), novelist
• Manik Bandopadhyay (1908–1956), novelist and short story writer
• Tarashankar Bandopadhyay (1898–1971), novelist
• Subimal Basak, fiction writer
• Abul Bashar (born 1951), novelist and essayist
• Samit Basu (born 1979), novelist
• , poet, novelist, children's writer
• Sukanta Bhattacharya (1926–1947), poet and playwright
• Abdul Karim Sahitya Bisharad (1871–1953), author, Gorokho Bijoy
• Buddhadeb Bose (1908–1974), poet and essayist
• Sasthi Brata, (1939–2015) fiction writer, based in UK
• Nirendranath Chakravarty (1924–2018), poet
• Chandidas (1408–?), medieval Bengali poet
• Aroup Chatterjee (born 1958), British Indian atheist physician, author of Mother Teresa: The Untold Story
• Rimi B. Chatterjee, novelist and short story writer, winner of the 2007 SHARP deLong Prize
• Upamanyu Chatterjee (born 1959), author and administrator
• Pritish Nandy (born 1951) poet and author and journalist EM Forster Literary Award, Padma Shri
• Suniti Kumar Chatterji (1890–1977), linguist and educator
• Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (1838–1894), novelist, essayist, penned the Indian national song of integrity "Vande Mataram"
• Sandipan Chattopadhyay (1933–2005), novelist
• Sanjeev Chattopadhyay, (born 1936), Bengali fiction writer
• Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1876–1938), novelist
• Shakti Chattopadhyay, (1933–1995) poet
• Amit Chaudhuri (born 1962), Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia, 2002 Sahitya Akademi Award winner
• Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1897–1999), essayist and scholar
• Pramatha Chaudhuri (1868–1946), editor of Sabuj Patra, wrote in the era of Rabindranath Tagore
• Abdur Rouf Choudhury, writer
• Achyut Charan Choudhury, writer and historian
• Malay Roy Choudhury, (born 1939) Bengali poet and novelist who founded the "Hungryalist Movement" in the 1960s
• Chowdhury Gulam Akbar, writer and collector of Bengali folk literature for the Bangla Academy
• Kabir Chowdhury, academic and essayist
• Jibanananda Das (1899–1954), poet
• Ashapurna Devi (1909–1995), novelist and short story writer
• Mahasweta Devi (1926–2016), novelist and short story writer
• Nirupama Devi (1883–1951), fiction writer
• Swarnakumari Devi, (1855–1932), first among the women writers in Bengali to gain prominence
• Leema Dhar (born 1993), novelist, poet, and columnist
• Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (born 1956) (born Chitralekha Banerjee), author and poet
• Michael Madhusudan Dutt (1824–1873), poet and dramatist
• Romesh Chunder Dutt (1848–1909), writer and translator of Ramayana and Mahabharata
• Toru Dutt (1856–1877), wrote in English and French
• Himangshu Dutta (1908–1944), composer
• Sudhindranath Dutta (1901–1960), poet
• Kaberi Gain (born 1970), author of Muktijuddher Cholochchitre Naree Nirman
• Narayan Gangopadhyay (1918–1970), author, creator of the Tenida character
• Sunil Gangopadhyay (1934–2012), poet and novelist
• Amitav Ghosh (born 1956), novelist and essayist
• Prabir Ghosh (born 1945), writer, essayist, poet and rationalist
• Shankha Ghosh (1932–2021), poet and essayist
• Joy Goswami (born 1954), poet
• Buddhadeb Guha (born 1936), novelist
• Tanika Gupta (born 1963), playwright, appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in 2008
• Abdul Hakim (1620-1690), poet
• Muhammad Nurul Haque, cultural activist, social worker and writer
• Syed Shamsul Haque, poet and novelist
• Mir Mosharraf Hossain (1847–1912), novelist
• Ashraf Hussain, poet and folklorist
• Hasnat Abdul Hye, writer and novelist
• Muhammad Zafar Iqbal (born 1952), science fiction writer
• Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899–1976), poet
• Jīmūtavāhana (c. 12th century), Sanskrit writer of Dāyabhāga
• Dilwar Khan, poet known as Gonomanusher Kobi (Poet of the mass people)
• Moniruddin Khan (born 1974), writer and historian
• Muhammad Mojlum Khan, non-fiction English writer best known for The Muslim 100
• Jhumpa Lahiri (born 1967), novelist, short story writer, Pulitzer Prize winner
• Al Mahmud (1936–2019), poet and novelist
• Sake Dean Mahomed (1759–1851), first Indian to write a book in the English language
• Binoy Majumdar (1934–2006), poet, Sahitya Akademi Award in 2005
• Kamal Kumar Majumdar (1914–1979), novelist and short story writer
• Leela Majumdar (1908–2007), writer
• Samaresh Majumdar (born 1944), writer, creator of the Animesh trilogy
• Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumder (1877–1956), author
• Arun Mitra (1909–2000), poet
• Premendra Mitra (1904–1988), poet and short story writer
• Nurul Momen (1908–1990), playwright
• Bharati Mukherjee (1940–2017), author and educator
• Dhan Gopal Mukerji (1890–1936), author
• Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay (born 1935), novelist
• Subhas Mukhopadhyay (1919–2003), poet
• Subhash Mukhopadhyay (1919–2003), Bengali poet
• Kumud Ranjan Mullick (1883–1970), poet of the Tagore era
• Ghulam Murshid, writer, essayist and cultural historian
• Shahabuddin Nagari (born 1955), Bangladeshi poet and writer of juvenile fiction
• Jyotirindranath Nandi, (1912–1982), novelist and short story writer
• Moti Nandi (1931–2010), novelist
• Taslima Nasrin (born 1962), novelist
• Rajat Neogy (1938–1995), poet, writer, thinker and founder of Transition Magazine in Kampala in 1961; Ugandan Indian
• Krittibas Ojha (1381–1461), medieval Bengali poet
• Shamsur Rahman (1929–2006), poet
• M Harunur Rashid, teacher of English and Sufi writer
• Bharatchandra Ray (1712–1760), poet and song composer known for his Mangalkavya
• Dilipkumar Ray (1897–1980) musician, musicologist, novelist, poet and essayist
• Dwijendralal Ray (1863–1913), playwright and poet
• Satyajit Ray (1921–1992), writer and film director
• Annadashankar Roy (1905–2002), novelist, essayist and poet
• Arundhati Roy (born 1961), novelist and essayist
• Samir Roychoudhury (1933–2016), poet, novelist, short story writer and philosopher
• Narayan Sanyal (1924–2005), writer of modern Bengali literature
• Subodh Sarkar (born 1958), poet
• Ramprasad Sen (c. 1718 or c. 1723 - c. 1775) Shakta poet of eighteenth century Bengal
• Mallika Sengupta (1960–2011), Bengali poet, feminist, and reader of sociology from Kolkata
• Nares Chandra Sen-Gupta (1882–1964), novelist and legal scholar
• Haraprasad Shastri (1853–1931), known as the inventor of Charyapada
• Syed Mustafa Siraj (1930–2012), poet, novelist, short story writer, Sahitya Akademi awardee
• Syed Sultan, wrote the first Prophetic biography in Bengali in the 16th century
• Srijato, won Ananda Puroskar in 2004
• Dwijendranath Tagore (1840–1926), poet, composer, philosopher, mathematician, painter
• Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), poet, composer, novelist, essayist, story-writer, philosopher, painter, educationist
• Jasim Uddin (1903–1976), poet, novelist and essayist
• Vidyapati (c. 1352 ��� 1448), medieval poet and Sanskrit writer
• Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820–1891), philosopher, educator, writer, translator, publisher, and reformer of the Bengal Renaissance period

Cooks[]

• Keka Ferdousi
• Alpana Habib
• Nadiya Hussain
• Kiran Jethwa
• Siddika Kabir
• Tony Karim
• Tommy Miah

See also[]

• List of Bangladeshi people
  • List of British Bangladeshis
• List of people from West Bengal

References[]