List of people from West Bengal

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This is a list of notable people from West Bengal, India. This list does not include the significant number of prominent East Bengali refugees from East Bengal who settled in West Bengal after the partition of the Indian sub-continent in 1947.

Literature[]

Major figures[]

  • Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
  • Manik Bandopadhyay
  • Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay
  • Rajshekhar Basu
  • Shibram Chakraborty
  • Amiya Chakravarty
  • Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
  • Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
  • Pramatha Chaudhuri
  • Mahasweta Devi
  • Michael Madhusudan Dutt
  • Sudhindranath Dutta
  • Kazi Nazrul Islam
  • Annada Shankar Ray
  • Satyajit Ray
  • Narayan Sanyal
  • Rabindranath Tagore

Children's story writers[]

  • Syed Mustafa Siraj
  • Sasthipada Chattopadhyay
  • Hemendra Kumar Roy
  • Shibram Chakraborty
  • Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury
  • Narayan Gangopadhyay
  • Narayan Debnath
  • Sunil Gangopadhyay
  • Leela Majumdar
  • Samaresh Majumdar
  • Premendra Mitra
  • Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay
  • Moti Nandi
  • Satyajit Ray
  • Sukumar Ray

Medieval Bengal literary scene[]

  • Chandidas
  • Kashiram Das
  • Govindadasa
  • Krishnadasa Kaviraja
  • Krittibas Ojha
  • Bharatchandra Ray
  • Vidyapati

Other authors from early modern period[]

  • Akshay Kumar Baral
  • Romesh Chunder Dutt
  • Anil Kumar Gain
  • Ishwar Chandra Gupta
  • Peary Chand Mitra
  • Parijat (writer)
  • Dwijendralal Ray
  • Kaliprasanna Singha
  • Jyotirindranath Tagore
  • Swami Vivekananda
  • Indra Bahadur Rai

Prominent foreign-language authors from Bengal[]

  • Sri Aurobindo
  • Pritish Nandy
  • Anirban Bhattacharyya
  • Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Amit Chaudhuri
  • Souhardya De
  • Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
  • Toru Dutt
  • Kaberi Gayen
  • Amitav Ghosh
  • Jhumpa Lahiri

Other authors from early/mid-twentieth century and some contemporary authors[]

  • Jatindramohan Bagchi
  • Syed Kawsar Jamal
  • Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay
  • Subimal Basak
  • Sukanta Bhattacharya
  • Nachiketa Chakraborty
  • Nirendranath Chakravarty
  • Shibram Chakraborty
  • Sandipan Chattopadhyay
  • Sanjib Chattopadhyay
  • Shakti Chattopadhyay
  • Malay Roy Choudhury
  • Salil Chowdhury
  • Alokeranjan Dasgupta
  • Buddhadeb Dasgupta
  • Mahasweta Devi
  • Anil Kumar Gain
  • Kaberi Gayen
  • Narayan Gangopadhyay
  • Joy Goswami
  • Prabir Ghosh
  • Santosh Kumar Ghosh
  • Shankha Ghosh
  • Subodh Ghosh
  • Buddhadeb Guha
  • Baby Halder
  • Bimal Kar
  • Binoy Majumdar
  • Samaresh Majumdar
  • Arun Mitra
  • Bimal Mitra
  • Narendranath Mitra
  • Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay
  • Subhash Mukhopadhyay
  • Kumud Ranjan Mullick
  • Moti Nandi
  • Purnendu Pattrea
  • Dilipkumar Roy
  • Samir Roychoudhury
  • Narayan Sanyal
  • Subodh Sarkar
  • Jatindranath Sengupta
  • Mallika Sengupta
  • Ekram Ali
  • Shankar

Journalists[]

  • Ekram Ali
  • Tamal Bandyopadhyay
  • Mrinal Chatterjee
  • Ramananda Chatterjee
  • Sunanda K. Datta-Ray
  • Kaberi Gayen
  • Tushar Kanti Ghosh
  • Chandan Mitra
  • Moti Nandi
  • Pritish Nandy
  • Sukumar Ray
  • Barun Sengupta

Language/linguistics, anthropology, history, and other social sciences[]

  • Raja Ram Mohan Roy, first Bengali prose writer
  • Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, creator of Standard Bengali prose (sadhu bhasha)
  • Bhudev Mukhopadhyay, earliest educationist
  • Anil Kumar Gain, fellow of the Royal Society
  • Rajendralal Mitra, first Indian to work with Indologists
  • Haraprasad Shastri, historian of Bengali language and culture
  • Dinesh Chandra Sen, historian of Bengali literature and folklorist
  • Pramatha Chaudhuri, creator of modern Bengali prose (chalit bhasha) along with Tagore
  • Sir Jadunath Sarkar, historian
  • Rajsekhar Bose, major contributor for scientific terms in Bengali and lexicographer
  • Ramesh Chandra Majumdar, historian
  • Ramesh Chandra Dutta, historian
  • Girindrasekhar Bose, first non-European correspondent of Freud
  • Suniti Kumar Chatterjee, linguist
  • Harinath De, linguist
  • Biraja Sankar Guha, anthropologist
  • Sukumar Sen, linguist
  • Susobhan Sarkar, historian
  • Nirmal Kumar Bose, anthropologist, associate of Gandhi
  • Niharranjan Ray, historian
  • Dineshchandra Sircar, epigraphist
  • Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya, social philosopher
  • Surajit Chandra Sinha, anthropologist
  • Haricharan Bandopadhayaya, lexicographer
  • Tapan Raychaudhuri, professor of history at Oxford University
  • Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize awardee in Economics
  • Souhardya De, Orientalist and Bal Puraskar recipient 2021
  • Ranajit Guha, subaltern theorist
  • Sumit Sarkar, historian
  • Kirti Narayan Chaudhuri, historian
  • Gayatri Spivak, feminist
  • Vina Mazumdar, women's studies academic
  • Hem Chandra Raychaudhuri, Indian historian

Scholars and polymaths[]

  • Radhakanta Deb, linguist
  • Asima Chatterjee, scholar of chemistry
  • Anil Kumar Gain, scholar, mathematician
  • Ramendra Sundar Tribedi, scientist
  • Amlan Datta, economist, Vice Chancellor of Visva Bharati
  • Prithwindra Mukherjee, scholar of Indian history, philosophy, religion and culture
  • Suniti Kumar Chatterji, linguist

Education[]

Pioneers[]

  • Girish Chandra Bose
  • Begum Rokeya
  • Anil Kumar Gain
  • Ashutosh Mukherjee
  • Satish Chandra Mukherjee
  • Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

Post-independence[]

Others[]

  • Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya

Teachers[]

  • Susobhan Sarkar, History, Presidency College
  • Katyayanidas Bhattacharya, Philosophy, Presidency College
  • K. C. Nag, Mathematics, Mitra institution
  • Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya, Philosophy, University of Calcutta
  • Barun De, History, Presidency College

Philosophy[]

Pre-modern period[]

  • Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (Achintya Bhedabheda Vedanta) born in Nabadwip of Nadia district to parents who hailed from Sylhet in present day Bangladesh
  • Madhusudana Saraswati (Advaita Vedanta), born in Kotalipara, Gopalganj District in present day Bangladesh & studied at Nabadwip in Nadia district
  • Raghunatha Siromani (Navya Nyaya) from Nabadwip

Modern age[]

  • Keshab Chandra Sen born in Kolkata
  • Rabindranath Tagore born in Kolkata
  • Swami Vivekananda born in Kolkata
  • Anukulchandra Chakravarty born in Pabna district in present day Bangladesh, worked & preached in Kolkata. After the Partition of India in 1947, he relocated to Deoghar
  • Surendranath Dasgupta, born in of present day Bangladesh which was then a part of Nadia before Partition of India, studied in Kolkata
  • Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya born in Serampore in Howrah district
  • Bimal Krishna Matilal, born in Jaynagar in South 24 Parganas district
  • Amartya Sen, born in Shantiniketan in Birbhum District
  • Chandril Bhattacharya, born in kolkata
  • MD abdul kafi, born in kolkata.

Science[]

  • Radhanath Sikdar
  • Satyendra Nath Bose
  • Upendranath Brahmachari
  • P.C. Mahalanobis
  • Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri
  • Ashoke Sen, physics
  • Jagadish Chandra Bose, polymath- physicist, biologist, botanist, archaeologist
  • Somnath Bharadwaj, cosmology
  • Manilal Bhaumik
  • Anil Kumar Gain, mathematics
  • Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, computer scientist
  • Subhash Mukhopadhyay, physician
  • Sisir Kumar Mitra
  • Ashesh Prosad Mitra
  • Subrata Roy, plasma physics
  • Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate, economist, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences
  • Ram Brahma Sanyal, zoology
  • Partha Ghose
  • Dwijesh Dutta Majumdar, Computer scientist
  • Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri, Computer scientist
  • Sankar Kumar Pal, Computer scientist
  • Ujjwal Maulik, computer scientist
  • Sankar Ghosh

Religious reformation[]

Pre-modern period[]

The Brahmo Samaj[]

Hindu revival movement[]

  • Ramakrishna
  • Sarada Devi
  • Swami Vivekananda
  • Sri Aurobindo

Mid-twentieth-century religious figures[]

  • A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
  • Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri
  • Lahiri Mahasaya

Social reformation and social work[]

Major figures[]

Derozians[]

Women's rights[]

Military[]

Art[]

Early modern period[]

  • Abanindranath Tagore
  • Gaganendranath Tagore
  • Nandalal Bose
  • Kalipada Ghoshal
  • Mukul Dey
  • Jamini Roy
  • Ramkinkar Baij
  • Binode Bihari Mukherjee
  • Sailoz Mookherjea

From mid-twentieth century[]

  • Anil Karanjai
  • Bikash Bhattacharjee
  • Chintamani Kar
  • Ganesh Pyne
  • Hemen Majumdar
  • Jahar Dasgupta
  • Jogen Chowdhury
  • Paresh Maity
  • Paritosh Sen
  • Samir Mondal
  • Somenath Hore

Film and photography[]

  • Dulal Dutta
  • Subrata Mitra, cinematographer
  • Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri,
  • Satyajit Roy, filmmaker, screenwriter, author, illustrator, and music composer

Music[]

Composers[]

  • Abbasuddin Ahmed
  • Atulprasad Sen
  • Anil Biswas
  • Dwijendralal Ray
  • Dilipkumar Roy
  • Gouri Prasanna Majumdar
  • Hemanta Mukherjee
  • Kazi Nazrul Islam
  • Kamal Dasgupta
  • Kabir Suman
  • Manabendra Mukhopadhyay
  • Nachiketa Ghosh
  • Raichand Boral
  • Rajanikanta Sen
  • Salil Chowdhury
  • Sachin Dev Burman
  • Sudhin Dasgupta

Performers (instrumental)[]

  • Allauddin Khan, sarod and multi-instrumentalist
  • Ali Akbar Khan, sarod
  • Annapurna Devi, surbahar
  • Buddhadeb Dasgupta, sarod
  • Manilal Nag, sitar
  • Nikhil Banerjee, sitar
  • Ravi Shankar, sitar
  • Radhika Mohan Maitra, Sarod and Mohanveena
  • Sankha Chatterjee, tabla
  • Shankar Ghosh, tabla
  • Pannalal Ghosh, flute
  • Jnan Prakash Ghosh, Harmonium and tabla

Performers (vocal)[]

Classical[]

  • Gopeshwar Banerjee
  • Naina Devi
  • Ajoy Chakrabarty, vocal
  • Bishnupur Gharana
  • Tarapada Chakraborty
  • Kaushiki Chakraborty

Songs of Tagore and his contemporaries[]

  • Dinendranath Tagore
  • Dilipkumar Roy
  • Sahana Devi
  • Amiya Tagore
  • Renuka Dasgupta
  • Malati Ghoshal
  • Santidev Ghosh
  • Debabrata Biswas
  • Uma Bose
  • Subinoy Roy
  • Kanika Bandyopadhyay
  • Suchitra Mitra
  • Nilima Sen
  • Gita Ghatak
  • Sarmila Bose
  • Indrani Sen

Modern[]

  • K. C. Dey
  • Sachin Dev Burman
  • Pankaj Kumar Mullick
  • Kanan Devi
  • Hemanta Mukherjee
  • Sandhya Mukhopadhyay
  • Amit Kumar
  • Abhijeet Bhattacharya
  • Bappi Lahiri
  • Babul Supriyo
  • Geeta Dutt
  • Indrani Sen
  • R D Burman
  • Kishore Kumar
  • Kumar Sanu
  • Madhushree
  • Kabir Suman
  • Manna Dey
  • Manabendra Mukherjee
  • Mohammed Aziz
  • Monali Thakur
  • Nachiketa Chakraborty
  • Ruma Guha Thakurta
  • Shaan
  • Silajit Majumder
  • Shyamal Mitra
  • Shreya Ghoshal
  • Antara Chowdhury
  • Srikanta Acharya
  • Anjan Dutt
  • Arijit Singh
  • Rupam Islam
  • Anupam Roy

Nazrul geeti[]

Movies[]

Directors[]

Actors[]

Actresses[]

See also: List of Bengali actresses
  • Anita Guha
  • Aparna Sen
  • Arundhati Devi
  • Chhaya Devi
  • Debashree Roy
  • Devika Rani
  • Indrani Haldar
  • Joya Ahsan
  • June Malia
  • Kananbala
  • Kanan Devi
  • Koel Mullick
  • Madhabi Mukherjee
  • Mala Sinha
  • Mamata Shankar
  • Mimi Chakraborty
  • Nusrat Jahan
  • Moon Moon Sen
  • Moushmi Chatterji
  • Pratyusha Banerjee
  • Raakhee
  • Rachna Banerjee
  • Raima Sen
  • Reema Sen
  • Rimi Sen
  • Rituparna Sengupta
  • Riya Sen
  • Ruma Guha Thakurta
  • Sabitri Chatterjee
  • Sharmila Tagore
  • Srabanti Chatterjee
  • Subhashree Ganguly
  • Suchitra Sen
  • Sumita Sanyal
  • Supriya Devi
  • Sushmita Sen
  • Varsha Ashwathi

Cinematographer[]

See also:

Dance[]

Doctors[]

Drama/theatre[]

  • Girish Chandra Ghosh
  • Dinabandhu Mitra
  • Jyotirindranath Tagore
  • Dwijendralal Ray
  • Sisir Bhaduri
  • Bijon Bhattacharya
  • Shambhu Mitra
  • Utpal Dutt
  • Bibhas Chakraborty
  • Rudraprasad Sengupta
  • Badal Sarkar
  • Usha Ganguly
  • Manoj Mitra
  • Ajitesh Bandopadhyay
  • Debshankar Halder

Magicians[]

Politicians and revolutionaries[]

Pre-modern[]

  • Shashanka
  • Gopala
  • Dharmapala
  • Devapala
  • Mahipala
  • Ballal Sen
  • Lakshman Sen

Colonial period[]

  • Titumir
  • Satyendranath Tagore
  • Romesh Chunder Dutt
  • Lord Satyendra Prasanna Sinha
  • Nripendra Narayan, philanthropist and ruler of Cooch Behar

Indian freedom fighters[]

Early figures[]

  • Surendranath Banerjee
  • Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee

Twentieth century[]

Politicians[]

Others[]

  • Abul Barkat

Donation and social welfare[]

Old Calcutta / Bengal legends[]

Sports[]

Chess[]

Cricket[]

Football[]

Lawn tennis[]

Squash[]

  • Saurav Ghosal, currently highest ranked Indian player
  • Ritwik Bhattacharya, currently second highest ranked Indian player

Swimming[]

  • Arati Saha, first Asian woman to swim English Channel in 1959
  • Bula Choudhury, first Indian woman to swim the English Channel twice
  • Mihir Sen, first Indian to swim across the English Channel in 1958
  • Prasanta Karmakar, para swimmer, 2010 Commonwealth Games, bronze medal
  • Masudur Rahman Baidya, world's first physically handicapped swimmer to swim across the Strait of Gibraltar

Table tennis[]

  • Subhajit Saha, Commonwealth games gold medalist
  • Mouma Das, table tennis player
  • Poulomi Ghatak, table tennis player
  • Ankita Das, table tennis player, 2012 Summer Olympics; participant in women's singles event, 2014 Commonwealth Games; participant in women's doubles even
  • Soumyajit Ghosh, table tennis player; as of January 2013, his rank is 1st in India and 68th in Asia; 2014 Commonwealth Games, Participant in men's doubles event

Others[]

  • Chhanda Gain, mountaineering, first Bengali woman to climb Mount Everest
  • Jyotirmoyee Sikdar, athletics, double gold medallist at Bangkok Asiad, 1996
  • Mohammad Ali Qamar, boxing, Commonwealth games gold medalist
  • Arjun Atwal, golfer
  • Anirban Lahiri, Indian golfer
  • Balaram Bose, philanthropist
  • Mohammed Ali Qamar, Indian boxer, 2002 Commonwealth Games, gold medal
  • Sukhen Dey, Indian weightlifter; 2014 Commonwealth Games, gold medal; 2010 Commonwealth Games, gold medal
  • Dipa Karmakar, Indian artistic gymnast; 2014 Commonwealth Games, bronze medal; 2010 Commonwealth Games participant
  • Joydeep Karmakar, Indian shooter, 2012 Summer Olympics; qualified to represent India in men's 50m rifle prone event; 2014 Commonwealth Games participant

Industry/business[]

Other areas[]

  • Ashis Nandy, author, political psychologist
  • Subroto Mukerjee
  • Shankar Roychowdhury
  • William Tolly
  • P. C. Sorcar, Jr., magician from Kolkata
  • Arup Raha
  • Narayan Debnath

See also[]

  • List of people by India state
  • List of Bengalis

References[]

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