List of Bengalis

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This article provides lists of famous and notable Bengali people, from West Bengal and North East India or Bangladesh, or people with Bengali ancestry or people who speak Bengali as their primary language.

Ancient Bengali kings

Pala Dynasty

Chronological order

Chandra Dynasty

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

Deva Dynasty

Damodaradeva (1231–1243)
Dasharathadeva (1281)

Nobel Laureate

Amartya Sen, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, 1998
Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel Prize in Literature, 1913
Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize, 2006

Academy award winners

Satyajit Ray, first Indian to win a Lifetime Achievement Oscar due to his significant contributions to world cinema
Nafees Bin Zafar, Academy Scientific and Technical Award, the first Bangladeshi to win an Oscar

Academics

Chandramukhi Basu, first female graduate in India, and the British Empire
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
Satish Ranjan Das, founder of The Doon School, Dehradun
Shomie Das, former headmaster of The Doon School
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 popularizer and museum maker, won an award for Best Effort in Science Popularisation Amongst Children
Joseph Ghosh, first Indian to be awarded the Doctor of Letters , University of Edinburgh
Khandkar Manwar Hossain, statistician
Salman Khan, American educator, founder of Khan Academy
Nazia Khanum, Order of the British Empire (OBE) and Deputy Lieutenant (DL)
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, statistician, founder of Indian Statistical Institute
Vina Mazumdar, academic, activist and feminist
Rajendralal Mitra, first modern Indologist of Indian origin
Nurul Momen, professor of Law, Dhaka University Proctor, Dean
Satish Chandra Mukherjee, educationist
Ashis Nandy, political psychologist
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
Asif Azam Siddiqi, professor and space historian
Narasingha Sil, professor
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, literary critic and theorist

Actors

Ajitesh Bandopadhyay, stage and film actor
Amala, Bollywood actress
Anil Chatterjee Tollywood actor
Anup Kumar, Tollywood actor
Aparna Sen, Bengali film actress
Ashok Kumar, Bollywood actor
Bhanu Bandopadhyay, Tollywood comic actor
Bikash Roy Tollywood actor
Bipasha Basu, Bollywood actress
Biswajit Chatterjee, Bengali and Bollywood actor
Chhabi Biswas, Bengali actor
Colin Pal, actor and publicist
Debashree Roy, Bollywood actress
Devika Rani, Bollywood and Bengali actress
Dhritiman Chatterjee, Bollywood and Bengali actor
Hiran Chatterjee, Bengali film actor
Imran Khan, Bollywood, father Hindu Bengali
Indrani Chakraborty, Bollywood actress
Jaya Bachchan, Bollywood actress
Jaya Bhattacharya, actress
Jayanta Chattopadhyay, Bangladeshi actor
Jenni Banerjee, Indian origin Finnish actor
Joy Mukherjee, Bollywood actor
June Malia, Tollywood actress
K.C. Dey, Bengali actor
Kajol Mukherjee Bollywood actress
Kamalini Mukherjee, Bollywood and Tollywood actress
Kanchan Mullick Bengali actor
Khan Ataur Rahman Bengali actor, director, producer, screenplay writer, music composer and singer
Kishore Kumar, Bollywood singer, actor, music composer
Koena Mitra, former channel V VJ and Bollywood actress
Konkona Sen Sharma, Bollywood actress
Konnie Huq, British television presenter
Koel Mallick, Bengali actress; daughter of Ranjit Mallick, renowned Bengali veteran actor
Lisa Ray, actress and model
Madhabi Mukherjee, actress notable works include charulata, mahanagar
Mamata Shankar, Bollywood and Bengali actress
Mouli Ganguly, actress
Mithun Chakraborty, Bollywood and Bengali film actor
Monikangana Dutta, model and actress
Moushumi Chatterjee, Bollywood actress
Nandana Sen, Bollywood actress, daughter of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen
Nivedita Bhattacharya,Theater actress
Pahari Sanyal Tollywood actor
Paoli Dam, actress
Pradeep Kumar, Bollywood actor
Prasenjit Chatterjee Tollywood and Bollywood actor
Preeti Ganguly, actress
Priyanshu Chatterjee, Bollywood actor
Raakhee, Bollywood actress
Rabi Ghosh, Bengali actor
Radhika Bhattacharyya Shah, Model, Actor, Mentor, Singer
Rahul Bose, Bengali and Bollywood actor and rugby player
Raima Sen, Bengali Film and Bollywood actress
Rani Mukerji, Bollywood and Kollywood actress
Razzak, Bangladeshi actor
Reema Sen, Bollywood and Kollywood actress
Reena Roy, Bollywood actress
Reeth Mazumder, Bollywood actress
Reshmi Ghosh, actress, Miss India Earth 2002
Rhea Chakraborty,Bollywood actress
Rhona Mitra, Half-Bengali actress in Britain
Richa Gangopadhyay, actress and Miss India USA 2007
Rimi Sen, Bollywood actress
Rituparna Sengupta, Bollywood and Bengali actress
Riya Sen, Bollywood actress
Rohit Roy, TV and Bollywood actor
Ronit Roy, Bollywood and TV actor
Ruma Guha Thakurta, actress notable works include Ganashatru, Abhijan, Palatak; wife of Kishore Kumar
Roopa Ganguly, Bengali and Bollywood actress
Rupali Ganguly, actress
Sabitri Chatterjee, Bengali actor
Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, Bollywood and Bengali actor
Sarita Choudhury, Indian origin British film, Hollywood actress
Samrat Chakrabarti, British — American actor and musician
Santosh Dutta Tollywood actor, famous for his portrayal of Jatayu in Feluda films of Satyajit Ray
Sameer Bhattacharya, Bollywood actor
Samit Bhanja, Bollywood and Bengali actor
Sangeeta Ghosh, actress, model
Seema Biswas, Bollywood actress
Shahana Goswami, Bollywood actress
Shakib Khan, Bangladeshi actor
Sharmila Tagore, Bollywood and Bengali film actress
Shaun Majumder, Canadian comedian and actor; winner of Gemini Awards
Shraddha Das, Bollywood and Tollywood actress
Soumitra Chatterjee, Bengali actor
Suchitra Sen, Bollywood and Bengali film actress
Sumita Devi, Bangladeshi film and television actress
Supriya Devi, Tollywood actress
Sushmita Sen, Bollywood actress
Swastika Mukherjee, Tollywood actress
Tanisha Mukherjee, Bollywood actress
Tannishtha Chatterjee, Bollywood and Bengali actress
Tanushree Dutta, former Miss India and actress
Tulsi Chakraborty Tollywood actor
Tiya Sircar, American actress
Udita Goswami, Bollywood actress
Utpal Dutt, Bengali actor
Ushoshi Sengupta, model, former I Am She – Miss Universe India in 2010
Uttam Kumar, Bollywood and Bengali film actor
Victor Banerjee, Bengali Tollywood, Bollywood and Hollywood actor; the only Indian to win National Board of Review Award for Best Actor

Artists

Bharat Ratna

Bloggers / media artists

Hasan M. Elahi, interdisciplinary media artist whose research interests include issues of surveillance
Kaberi Gain, academic, author and social activist
Anupam Mukerji, writer of Fake IPL Player blog
Derek O'Brien, Asia's best known quizmaster
Reihan Salam, journalist, blogger at The American Scene and associate editor of The Atlantic Monthly

Business leaders

Iqbal Ahmed, CMD of Seamark Group
Bicky Chakraborty, Sweden's biggest hotelier;^[1] President and founder of Elite Hotels of Sweden and The Bishop's Arms^[2]
Arup Roy Choudhury, CMD of NTPC Limited
Moorad Choudhry – Managing Director, Head of Business Treasury and Global Banking & Markets at Royal Bank of Scotland
Somen Banerjee, Indian American entrepreneur and co-founder of Chippendales
Siddhartha Basu, CMD of BIG Synergy
Arundhati Bhattacharya, first woman director of State Bank of India
Kumar Bhattacharyya, Baron Bhattacharyya, Director, Warwick Manufacturing Group
Amar Bose, founder of Bose Corporation
Anjan Chatterjee, founder, Speciality Group of Restaurants
Purnendu Chatterjee, founder, TCG Group
Alamohan Das, founder, India Machinery Company
Sadhan Dutt, founder, Development Consultants of Kuljian Group
Ashok Sekhar Ganguly, former chairman, Hindustan Unilever
Asim Ghosh, CEO of Husky Energy
Chandra Shekhar Ghosh, founder of Bandhan Bank
Aktar Islam, restaurateur, curry chef and businessman
Pradeep Kar, founder of Microland
Sir Birendra Nath Mukherjee, IISCO
Sir Rajendra Nath Mukherjee, co-founder, Martin Burn Ltd, IISCO
Pritish Nandy, founder of Pritish Nandy Communications
Diptendu Pramanick, founder, Secretary of Eastern India Motion Pictures Association (EIMPA)
Bhaskar Pramanik, chairman, Microsoft India
Kamal Quadir, founder and CEO of CellBazaar Inc, First Mover Fellow of The Aspen Institute, TEDIndia Fellow
Subir Raha, former head, ONGC
Neeraj Roy, co-founder Hungama Digital Media Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.
Prannoy Roy, founder, NDTV
Raman Roy, pioneer of BPO industry in India, founder, Quatrro
Roy Sagnik, director of TXYCO LTD
Subroto Roy Sahara, founder and chairman, Sahara India Pariwar
Aveek Sarkar, chairman, Ananda Bazaar Patrika
Mutty Lal Seal, businessman and entrepreneur
Barun Sengupta, founder of Bartaman
Dwarkanath Tagore, known for partnership with the British East India Company

Sahitya Akademi Award

Main article: List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Bengali

Cinematographers

Cartoonists / comics creators

Jayanto Banerjee, Indian cartoonist and illustrator
Neelabh Banerjee, Indian cartoonist and illustrator
Sarnath Banerjee, graphic story writer, co-founded the comics publishing house Phantomville
Samit Basu, comics writer at Virgin Comics
Suddhasattwa Basu, illustrator
Chittaprosad Bhattacharya, Indian cartoonist
Rimi B. Chatterjee, graphic story writer
Shamik Dasgupta, graphic story writer
Narayan Debnath, creator of Nonte Phonte, Batul the Great, Handa Bhonda
Satyajit Ray, filmmaker, creator of comic characters like Feluda and Professor Shonku
Atanu Roy, illustrator
Gaganendranath Tagore, cartoonist and painter

Dadasaheb Phalke Award winners

Economists

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
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
Amiya Kumar Dasgupta, widely acknowledged to have been India's leading economic theorist in the decades 1930-60; 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
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
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, founder of Indian Statistical Institute
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 Grameen Bank, winner of the Nobel Prize

Fellows of the Royal Society

Fictional characters

Filmmakers

Grammy winners

Norah Jones, 9 time winner
Ravi Shankar, 5 time winner

Journalists

Bangladesh

India

Swapan Dasgupta, journalist
Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, journalist
Kaberi Gain, columnist for The Daily Star
Sagarika Ghose, editor in CNN-IBN
Chandan Mitra, editor and managing director of The Pioneer newspaper
Harish Chandra Mukherjee, pioneer of nationalistic Hindu journalism
Udayan Mukherjee, editor and anchor in CNBC India
Pritish Nandy, 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, the founder-editor of Bartaman newspaper
Vishnu Som, news anchor and journalist
Dwarkanath Vidyabhusan, 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
Faisal Islam
Tasmin Lucia Khan, English journalist and television presenter
Sarah Mukherjee, former BBC Environment Correspondent, currently is a regular contributor on Radio 4's Today programme
Ayan Panja, expert on Knowitalls, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

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

Qatar

Shiulie Ghosh, television journalist at Al Jazeera English

Law

Aditi Banerjee, practising attorney in New York city
Gooroodas Banerjee, former High Court judge, Calcutta
Sudhi Ranjan Das, former Chief Justice of India
Monomohun Ghose, first practising barrister of Indian origin
Altamas Kabir, former Chief Justice of India
Muhammed Abdul Muid Khan, nominated as the Best Human Rights Lawyer of England and Wales in 2012
Sabyasachi Mukharji, former Chief Justice of India
Bijan Kumar Mukherjea, former Chief Justice of India
Radhabinod Pal, Indian member appointed to the International Military Tribunal for the Far East
A. N. Ray, former Chief Justice of India
Amal Kumar Sarkar, former Chief Justice of India
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
Gnanendramohan Tagore, first Asian to be called to the bar in England, in 1862

Magicians

Musicians

Bollywood

Aarti Mukherji
Abhijeet
Alka Yagnik, playback singer
Amit Kumar, playback singer, performer and son of Kishore Kumar
Amit Paul, Bollywood playback singer
Amit Sana, Bollywood playback singer
Amitabh Bhattacharya, lyricist and singer
Anil Biswas
Antara Mitra, Bollywood playback singer
Anup Ghoshal, Bollywood playback singer
Anupam Roy, songwriter and singer
Anwesha Datta Gupta, Bollywood playback singer, Tamil movie singer, winner of Amul Star Voice of India, Chhote Ustaad
Arijit Singh
Arko Pravo Mukherjee, songwriter-singer
Ash King, singer
Babul Supriyo, Bollywood playback singer
Bappi Lahiri, Bollywood music composer
Chandrani Mukherjee, Bollywood playback singer
Chitra Singh, singer and composer
Geeta Dutt, Bollywood playback singer
Gyan Dutt, composer Bhukt Surdas
Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay
Jagmohan singer
Jeet Ganguly, Tollywood and Bollywood music composer
Jolly Mukherjee, Bollywood playback singer
Kamal Dasgupta, composer
Kanan Devi, singer and actress
Kanu Roy, composer
Kishore Kumar
Krsna composer
Kumar Sanu, Bollywood playback singer
Madhushree, Bollywood playback singer
Manas Mukherjee, Bollywood music composer, father of Shaan
Manna Dey, Bollywood playback singer
Mohammed Aziz, Bollywood playback singer
Monali Thakur, Bollywood playback singer
Pamela Jain, Bollywood playback singer
Pankaj Mullick, singer, composer, music director
Parul Ghosh, Bollywood playback singer
Pritam, Bollywood music composer
R. D. Burman, composer and singer
Raichand Boral, Bollywood music composer
S. D. Burman, composer and singer
Salil Chowdhury, Bollywood music composer
Sandeep Nath, lyricist
Sapna Mukherjee, Bollywood playback singer
Shaan, Hindi and Bengali playback and pop singer
Shantanu Moitra, Bollywood Music composer
Shreya Ghoshal, Bollywood playback singer
Shyamal Mitra, composer
Sohail Sen, Bollywood composer and singer
Soham Chakraborty, singer
Suman Kalyanpur, Bollywood playback singer

Bangla rock

Anindya Chatterjee, lead vocalist and one of the founders of the Bengali band Chandrabindoo
Anjan Dutt
Ayub Bachchu, founding member and the leader of the Bengali rock band Love Runs Blind (LRB)
Bappa Mazumder
Chandril Bhattacharya, one of the main lyricists of the Bangla band Chandrabindoo
Gautam Chattopadhyay, composer, founder of the group Mohiner Ghoraguli
James
Khaled 'Bassbaba' Sumon, vocalist for the band Aurthohin
Oni Hasan
Partha Barua
Raef al Hasan Rafa
Rupam Islam, frontman of Bengali hard rock band Fossils
Shafin Ahmed
Shishir Ahmed
Somlata Acharyya Chowdhury, lead singer of Bangla rock band Somlata and The Aces
Suman Chattapaddhay
Ziaur Rahman Zia

Classical and folk musicians

Abdul Alim
Abdul Latif
Ajoy Chakrabarty
Ali Akbar Khan, sarod performer, composer, musicologist, founder of the Ali Akbar College of Music in California, USA
Alka Yagnik
Allauddin Khan
Anjan Chattopadhyay, sitar player
Annapurna Devi, surbahar performer
Anoushka Shankar, sitar player and composer
Arnab Chakrabarty, Indian Classical musician, sarod player
Budhaditya Mukherjee
Chitra Singh, Hindi/Urdu Ghazal singer and wife of Jagjit Singh
Debabrata Biswas, Rabindrasangeet performer
Dhananjay Bhattacharya, Shyama Sangeet singer
Farida Parveen, Lalon singer
Firoza Begum, eminent exponent of Nazrul Geeti
Hason Raja
Indrani Sen, Rabindrasangeet and Nazrulgeeti performer, also modern and folk songs
Kalyan Mukherjea
Kanika Banerjee, Rabindrasangeet performer
Kashinath Mukherjee, Hindustani classical musician and sitar player of Etawah Gharana
Kumar Bose, tabla performer and composer
Lalon, mystic devotional composer and singer
Momtaz Begum, Bangladeshi folk singer, world record holder
Naina Devi (1917-1993), Indian classical singer
Nikhil Banerjee, sitar performer
Pandit Jnan Prakash Ghosh, tabla master, composer and musician
Pannalal Bhattacharya, singer
Pannalal Ghosh, pioneering master of the Indian classical flute, composer, musicologist
Ravi Shankar, sitar virtuoso, composer, musicologist
Ritwik Sanyal
Manabendra Mukhopadhyay,Singer and composer
Ruma Guha Thakurta, founder and lead singer of Calcutta Youth Choir and playback singer
Runa Laila, folk, ghazal, and pop fusion singer
Shah Abdul Karim
Shahadat Hossain Khan, Sarod virtuoso, composer, musicologist, international master, renowned Sarod player
Shankar Ghosh, tabla master and singer
Srabani Sen, rabindrasangeet performer, also modern and folk songs
Suchitra Mitra, rabindrasangeet performer, also playback singer and composer
Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta, classical and rabindrasangeet exponent performer, also folk modern and devotional music
Swapan Chaudhuri, tabla exponent
Tanmoy Bose, table master, composer, actor, fusion musician
Vilayat Khan, sitar performer

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

Jernade Miah
Monica Yunus, operatic soprano
Mumzy Stranger
Norah Jones, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress, daughter of sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar – Indian Bengali
Sameer Bhattacharya, lead guitarist of the American alternative rock band Flyleaf
Sanjaya Malakar, American born Indian origin singer
Shikhee, singer; auteur of American industrial band Android Lust

Military

Subhas Chandra Bose, founder, Indian National Army
General Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri, Indian Army Chief during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
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
Air Commodore Sudhindra Kumar Majumdar (1927–2011), India's first military helicopter pilot
Air Marshal Subroto Mukherjee, former Head of Indian Air Force
M. A. G. Osmani, Supreme Commander of Bangladesh Forces during the Bangladesh Liberation War
Chief of the Air Staff Designate Arup Raha, currently Vice Chief of Air Staff of Indian Air Force
Indra Lal Roy, first Indian (pre Independence) flying ace
General Shankar Roychowdhury, former Indian Army Chief

Padma Vibhushan

Politicians

Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad, ex-President of Bangladesh
Tajuddin Ahmed, first Prime Minister of Bangladesh (1971–1972)
Aruna Asaf Ali, Indian independence activist
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
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
Muhammad Ali Bogra, Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1953 until 1955
Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee, first president of Indian National Congress
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
Subhas Chandra Bose, former President of Indian National Congress, Head of State of India's first free Provisional Government of Azad Hind and Co-Founder 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
Chittaranjan Das, prominent in the Indian independence movement (also known as Deshabandhu)
Santosh Mohan Dev, former Union Cabinet Minister, elected to the Lok Sabha, eenior leader of Indian National Congress
Hussain Mohammed Ershad, Chief Martial Law Administrator (CMLA), later President (1982–1990)
A. K. Fazlul Huq, first Chief Minister of Bengal, presented the Lahore Resolution, Governor of East Pakistan
Sucheta Kriplani, freedom fighter and politician
Jogendra Nath Mandal, served as the first Law & Labour Minister of Pakistan
Iskander Mirza, first President of Pakistan
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
Sarojini Naidu, freedom fighter and poet
Khawaja Nazimuddin, third Chief Minister of Bengal, second Governor-General of Pakistan, second Prime Minister of Pakistan
Bipin Chandra Pal, freedom fighter for Indian independence movement
Kabindra Purkayastha, former Minister
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bengali nationalist politician, founder of Bangladesh, headed the Awami League, served as the first President of Bangladesh
Ziaur Rahman, founder of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, President of Bangladesh (1977–1981), first to propose the creation of SAARC, sector commander and liberation war hero in Bangladesh
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
Khwaja Salimullah, founder of Muslim League, proposed establishing University of Dhaka
Manik Sarkar, chief minister of Tripura, Politburo member
Ashoke Kumar Sen, former Law Minister, barrister, and parliamentarian
Ronen Sen, former Indian ambassador to United States
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, second Chief Minister of Bengal, Prime Minister of Pakistan (1956–1957)
Sheikh Hasina Wazed, Prime Minister of Bangladesh (1996–2001; 2009–present)
Khaleda Zia, Prime Minister of Bangladesh (1991–1996; 2001–2006)

Ramon Magsaysay

Religion and spirituality

Image of Swami Vivekananda relaxing in a chair

Swami Vivekananda– the photo was taken in Bushnell Studio in San Francisco, 1900.^[3]

Buddhism

Anagarika Munindra (1915–2003), vipassana meditation teacher, who taught many notable meditation teachers including Dipa Ma, Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg, and Surya Das
Atiśa Dipamkara Shrijnana, or Srjnana Atisa Dipanakara, Buddhist scholar, missionary and teacher, inventor of bodhichitta
Tibbetibaba, philosopher saint
Tilopa, 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
Baba Lokenath Brahmachari, yogi and philosopher
Swami Brahmananda, one of the direct disciples of Ramakrishna, first president of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission
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
Lalon, fakir, sahajiya saint philosopher, humanist, poet and composer of baul/sahajiya mystic songs
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
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

Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib, Reformist Islamic Scholar of modern era
Allama Azizul Haque, one of the greatest South-Asian Muslim scholars of the 21st century and first person to translate the Sahih Al Bukhari into Bengali language.

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
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
Sivanath Sastri
Keshub Chandra Sen
Debendranath Tagore, social thinker and reformer, founder of the Brahmo Religion or Brahmoism, the youngest religion of India

Unitarianism

Ram Mohan Roy

Wicca

Ipsita Roy Chakraverti

Revolutionaries

Others

Abul Barkat

Science and technology

Seated (L to R):Meghnad Saha, Jagadish Chandra Bose, Jnan Chandra Ghosh. Standing (L to R): Snehamoy Dutt, Satyendranath Bose, Debendra Mohan Bose, N R Sen, Jnanendra Nath Mukherjee, N C Nag

Physicists

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
Somnath Bharadwaj, physicist, know for his contributions to cosmology
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
Sandip Chakrabarti, leading Indian astrophysicist, developed a computer model to show how life on Earth could have originated in outer space
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
A. K. M. Fazle Hussain, director of the Institute of Fluid Dynamics & Turbulence at the University of Houston
Jamal Nazrul Islam, physicist and mathematician, Fellowships include Third World Academy of Science Trieste, Cambridge Philosophical Society, Royal Astronomical Society
Mohammad Ataul Karim, known for contributions to the fields of electro-optical devices and systems, optical computing and processing, and pattern recognition
A A Mamun, physicist, has published over 200 research articles; the Institute of Physics (London) published his textbook on dusty plasma physics
Abhas Mitra, Indian astrophysicist best known for his distinct views on several front-line astrophysics concepts, particularly black holes
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
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
SM Faruque, microbiologist and scientist, researcher on Vibrio cholerae which causes cholera
Anirvan Ghosh, his research has contributed to the understanding of the molecular mechanisms that regulate development of the mammalian brain
Biraja Sankar Guha, first director of Anthropological Survey of India
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 diarrhoea
Panchanan Mitra, the first professor of anthropology in India, among the first Indians to study at Yale University
Muhammad Qudrat-i-Khuda, scientist and educator, successfully extracted biochemical elements from local trees and plants for medicinal use, patented 18 scientific inventions
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, and was one of the first zookeepers trained as a biologist. He was a corresponding member of the Zoological Society of London

Chemistry

Animesh Chakravorty, academic and professor
Asima Chatterjee, noted 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
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
Debashis Mukherjee, pioneer of Modern Theoretical Chemistry
Jnanendra Nath Mukherjee, chemist, specialises 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

Rafiuddin Ahmed, dentist, founder of the first dental college of India and Bengal Dental Association, which later became Indian Dental Association
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
Joia Mukherjee, associate professor and Chief Medical Officer of Partners in Health
Siddhartha Mukherjee, physician, scientist and writer, author of the book The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 2011
Subhash Mukhopadhyay, physician, became the 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

Mathematicians

Amiya Charan Banerjee, Indian mathematician
Debabrata Basu, mathematician, found Basu's theorem
A. Bhattacharya, known for Bhattacharya coefficient, and the Bhattacharya distance
Raj Chandra Bose, mathematician, known for Association scheme, Bose–Mesner algebra, Euler's conjecture
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
Azizul Haque, pioneered the mathematical formula for Henry Classification System of fingerprinting
Qazi Motahar Hossain, mathematician
Debasis Mitra, mathematician, known for his contribution towards the theory of communication systems, control theory and queueing theory
Samarendra Nath Roy, mathematician, known for multivariate analysis
Radhanath Sikdar, mathematician, calculated the height of Mount Everest

Technology

Samarendra Kumar Mitra, designed, developed and constructed, in 1953, India's first indigenous computer (an electronic analog computer)
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

Architecture

Vidyadhar Bhattacharya (1693-1751), the chief architect and city planner of Jaipur, Rajasthan.^[4] Along with Sir Samuel Swinton Jacob, he is credited as the architect of City Palace, Jaipur.^[5]
Fazlur Rahman Khan, structural engineer and architect, father of tubular designs for high-rises such as Willis Tower (AKA Sears Tower) and the John Hancock Center

Social reformers and position holders

Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, founder and chairperson of the world's largest international development NGO, BRAC
Syed Ameer Ali, law reformer
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
Nasreen Pervin Huq, women's rights activist
Roquia Sakhawat Hussain, prolific writer, important women's rights activist and social worker, early feminist science fiction writer
Irene Khan, former Secretary General of Amnesty International, first woman, first Asian, and first Muslim to hold the position
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
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
Ram Mohan Roy, founder of the Brahmo Samaj
Sivanath Sastri, intellectual, scholar, religious reformer, educator, writer and historian
Binay Ranjan Sen, former Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization
Keshub Chunder Sen, intellectual and a noted 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

Brojen Das was the first Asian to swim across the English Channel.

Athletics

Soma Biswas, heptathlon athlete
Shanta Ghosh, retired German sprinter who specialized in the 400 meters
Hari Shankar Roy, Indian track field athlete
Saraswati Saha, Indian former track and field sprinter
Jyotirmoyee Sikdar, athletics, double gold-medallist in track at Asian games, was awarded Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award and Padma Shri award

Archers

Dola Banerjee, Indian female archer
Rahul Banerjee, Indian archer
Krishna Das, former Indian archer
Jayanta Talukdar, archer

Badminton

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

Bodybuilders, boxers, and wrestlers

Manohar Aich, bodybuilder
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
Reba Rakshit, Indian female bodybuilder and exponent of yoga
Mohammed Ali Qamar, Indian boxer
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

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

Cricketers

Mohammad Ashraful, Bangladeshi cricketer, youngest centurion in test cricket
Subroto Banerjee, former Indian Test and ODI player
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
Deep Dasgupta, former Indian national cricket team wicket-keeper
Rumeli Dhar, cricketer, Indian women's cricket team
Ashok Dinda, Indian cricket team player
Sourav Ganguly, former Indian cricket team captain, Padma Shri awardee
Jhulan Goswami, Indian woman cricketer, awarded ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year 2007
Isa Guha, English women's team cricketer
Subrata Guha, former Indian Test cricketer
Shakib Al Hasan, Bangladeshi cricketer
Tamim Iqbal, Bangladeshi cricketer
Mithu Mukherjee, former Indian women's cricket team player
Saradindu Mukherjee, former Indian 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
Probir Sen, former Indian Test cricketer/wicket-keeper

Golfers

Footballers

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
Sudip Chatterjee, footballer, considered among the finest in Indian football, declared AIFF player of the decade in 1994
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 best striker of Asia in 1962
Pronay Halder, Indian national football player
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
Mohammed Salim, first Indian footballer to play overseas (in 1936 for the Scottish Club Celtic F.C.)
Jewel Raja Shaikh, Indian national football player

Mountaineers

Swimmers

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)

Writers

Further information: List of Bengali language authors and Bengali Writers : An Alphabetical List

Rabindranath Tagore is the first Asian Nobel laureate

Humayun Ahmed (born 1948), novelist
Alaol (1607–1680), poet of medieval era
Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib, Islamic scholar, writer, academic, essayist
Ekram Ali (born 1950), poet
Monica Ali (born 1954), novelist
Syed Mujtaba Ali (1904–1974), novelist and essayist
Banaphool, 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, novelist
Sukanta Bhattacharya, poet and playwright
Abdul Karim Sahitya Bisharad, author, Gorokho Bijoy
Buddhadeb Bose (1908–1974), poet and essayist
Sasthi Brata, fiction writer, based in UK
Nirendranath Chakravarty (born 1924), poet
Chandidas, 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, author and administrator
Suniti Kumar Chatterji, 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, Bengali fiction writer
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1876–1938), novelist
Shakti Chattopadhyay, poet
Amit Chaudhuri, 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, editor of Sabuj Patra, wrote in the era of Rabindranath Tagore
Malay Roy Choudhury, Bengali poet and novelist who founded the "Hungryalist Movement" in the 1960s
Jibanananda Das (1899–1954), poet
Ashapurna Devi (1909–1995), novelist and short story writer
Mahasweta Devi (born 1926), novelist and short story writer
Nirupama Devi, fiction writer
Swarnakumari Devi, first among the women writers in Bengali to gain prominence
Leema Dhar (born 1993), novelist, poet, and columnist
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (born Chitralekha Banerjee), author and poet
Michael Madhusudan Dutt (1824–1873), poet and dramatist
Romesh Chunder Dutt, writer and translator of Ramayana and Mahabharata
Toru Dutt, wrote in English and French
Sudhindranath Dutta (1901–1960), poet
Kaberi Gain, author of Muktijuddher Cholochchitre Naree Nirman
Narayan Gangopadhyay, author, creator of the Tenida character
Sunil Gangopadhyay (born 1934), poet and novelist
Amitav Ghosh, novelist and essayist
Prabir Ghosh, writer, essayist, poet and rationalist
Shankha Ghosh (born 1932), poet and essayist
Joy Goswami (born 1954), poet
Buddhadeb Guha (born 1936), novelist
Tanika Gupta, playwright, appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in 2008
Mir Mosharraf Hossain (1847–1912), novelist
Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, science fiction writer
Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899–1976), poet
Jīmūtavāhana, writer of Dāyabhāga
Moniruddin Khan, writer and historian
Jhumpa Lahiri, novelist, short story writer, Pulitzer Prize winner
Al Mahmud, poet and novelist
Sake Dean Mahomed, first Indian to write a book in the English language
Binoy Majumdar, poet, Sahitya Akademi Award in 2005
Kamal Kumar Majumdar, novelist and short story writer
Samaresh Majumdar, writer, creator of the Animesh Trilogy
Arun Mitra (1909–2000), poet
Premendra Mitra (1904–1988), poet and short story writer
Nurul Momen (1908–1990), playwright of Nemesis, recognized as the pioneer of modern Bengali drama, referred to as the "fFather of Bangladeshi theatre"
Bharati Mukherjee, author and educator
Dhan Gopal Mukerji, author
Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay (born 1935), novelist
Subhas Mukhopadhyay (1919–2003), poet
Subhash Mukhopadhyay, Bengali poet
Kumud Ranjan Mullick, poet of the Tagore era
Ghulam Murshid, writer, essayist and cultural historian
Shahabuddin Nagari, Bangladeshi poet and writer of juvenile fiction
Moti Nandi, novelist
Taslima Nasrin (born 1962), novelist
Rajat Neogy (born 1938, died 1995), poet, writer, thinker & founder of Transition Magazine in Kampala in 1961. Ugandan Indian
Krittibas Ojha, medieval Bengali poet
Shamsur Rahman (1929–2006), poet
Bharatchandra Ray, poet and song composer known for his Mangalkavya
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, novelist and essayist
Samir Roychoudhury (born 1933), poet, novelist, short story writer and philosopher
Narayan Sanyal, writer of modern Bengali literature
Subodh Sarkar, poet
Ramprasad Sen, Shakta poet of eighteenth century Bengal
Mallika Sengupta, Bengali poet, feminist, and reader of Sociology from Kolkata
Nares Chandra Sen-Gupta (1882–1964), novelist and legal scholar
Haraprasad Shastri, known as the inventor of Charyapada
Syed Mustafa Siraj, poet, novelist, short story writer, Sahitya Akademi awardee
Srijato, won Ananda Puroskar in 2004
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), poet, novelist and essayist
Jasim Uddin (1903–1976), poet, novelist and essayist
Vidyapati, medieval poet and Sanskrit writer
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, philosopher, educator, writer, translator, publisher, and reformer of the Bengal Renaissance period

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