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
Founding fathers and major figures
- Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar
- Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
- Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel Prize in Literature, 1913
- Pramatha Chaudhuri
- Sarat Chandra Chatterjee
- Rajsekhar Basu
- Bibhutibhushan Banerjee
- Tarashankar Banerjee
- Amiya Chakravarty
- Annadashankar Roy
- Bishnu Dey
- Sudhindranath Datta
- Satyajit Ray
- Narayan Sanyal
- Mahashweta Devi
- Sibram Chakraborty
- Kazi Nazrul Islam
Children's story writers
- Sukumar Ray
- Leela Majumdar
- Satyajit Ray
- Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay
- Sunil Gangopadhyay
- Premendra Mitra
- Moti Nandi
- Narayan Gangopadhyay
- Samaresh Majumdar
- Shibram Chakraborty
- Upendra Kishore Roychoudhuri
Medieval Bengal literary scene
- Chandidas
- Vidyapati
- Krittibas Ojha
- Govindadas
- Kashiram Das
- Bharat Chandra
- Ramprasad
- Krishnadasa Kaviraj
Other authors from early modern period
- Madan Mohan Tarkalankar
- Iswar Gupta
- Anil Kumar Gain
- Peary Chand Mitra
- Kaliprasanna Sinha
- Akshay Kumar Baral
- Romesh Chunder Dutt
- Jyotirindranath Tagore
- Swami Vivekananda
- Dwijendralal Ray
- Trailokyanath Sanyal
Prominent foreign-language authors from Bengal
- Toru Dutt
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Sri Aurobindo
- Jhumpa Lahiri
- Amitav Ghosh
- Amit Chaudhuri
- Upamanyu Chatterjee
- Kaberi Gain
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Other authors from early/mid twentieth century and some contemporary authors
- Jatindranath Sengupta
- Kumud Ranjan Mullick
- Jatindramohan Bagchi
- Dilipkumar Roy
- Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay
- Subodh Ghosh
- Anil Kumar Gain
- Sukanta Bhattacharya
- Subhash Mukhopadhyay
- Bimal Kar
- Shakti Chattopadhyay
- Shankha Ghosh
- Kaberi Gain
- Purnendu Patri
- Narendranath Mitra
- Arun Mitra
- Nirendranath Chakraborty
- Alokranjan Dasgupta
- Santosh Kumar Ghosh
- Mahasweta Devi
- Sanjeev Chattopadhyay
- Shibram Chakraborty
- Narayan Gangopadhyay
- Narayan Sanyal
- Buddhadeb Guha
- Samaresh Majumdar
- Shankar
- Moti Nandi
- Sandipan Chattopadhyay
- Samir Roychoudhury
- Buddhadev Dasgupta
- Salil Choudhury
- Prabir Ghosh
- Malay Roy Choudhury
- Subimal Basak
- Baby Halder
- Binoy Majumdar
- Joy Goswami
- Nachiketa Chakraborty
- Subodh Sarkar
- Mallika Sengupta
- Srijato
Journalism
- Harish Chandra Mukherjee
- Dwarkanath Vidyabhusan
- Tushar Kanti Ghosh
- Kaberi Gain
- Sukumar Ray
- Moti Nandi
- Chandan Mitra
- Sunanda K. Datta-Ray
- Mrinal Chatterjee
- 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
- Tapan Raychaudhuri, professor of history at Oxford University
- Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize awardee in Economics
- 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
- Dwijendranath Tagore, scholar of philosophy, religion, poetry
- Aghore Nath Gupta, scholar of Buddhism
- 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
Education
Pioneers
Post-independence
- Sudhi Ranjan Das, Chief Justice of India, Vice-chancellor of Visva Bharati
Others
Teachers
- Susobhan Sarkar, History, Presidency College
- Katyayanidas Bhattacharya, Philosophy, Presidency College
Philosophy
Pre-modern period
- Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (Achintya Bhedabheda Vedanta)
- Madhusudana Saraswati (Advaita Vedanta)
- Raghunatha Siromani (Navya Nyaya)
Modern age
- Keshub Chunder Sen
- Swami Vivekananda
- Kaberi Gain
- Brajendranath Seal
- Surendranath Dasgupta
- Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya
- Bimal Krishna Matilal
Science
- Radhanath Sikdar
- Satyendra Nath Bose
- Jagadish Chandra Bose
- Upendranath Brahmachari
- P.C. Mahalanobis
- Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri
- Ashoke Sen, physics
- Somnath Bharadwaj, cosmology
- Manilal Bhaumik
- Anil Kumar Gain, mathematics
- Subhash Mukhopadhyay, physician
- Sisir Kumar Mitra
- Ashesh Prosad Mitra
- Prafulla Chandra Ray, noted chemist and founder of Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals, India's first pharmaceutical company
- Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate, economist, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 1998
- Ram Brahma Sanyal, zoology
- Bikash Sinha, nuclear physics
- Meghnad Saha, noted for Saha ionization equation
- Partha Ghose
Religious reformation
Pre-modern period
The Brahmo Samaj
Hindu revival movement
Mid-twentieth-century religious figures
Social reformation and social work
Major figures
- Raja Rammohan Roy
- Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
- Keshab Chandra Sen
- Swami Vivekananda
- Sivanath Sastri
- Protap Chunder Mozoomdar
- Anil Kumar Gain
- Nibaran Chandra Mukherjee
- Umesh Chandra Dutta
- Sri Sri Harichand Thakur
Derozians
- Ramtanu Lahiri
- Radhanath Sikdar
- Rajnarayan Basu
- Sib Chandra Deb
- Peary Chand Mitra
- Rasik Krishna Mallick
- Krishna Mohan Banerjee
- Dakshinaranjan Mukherjee
- Ramgopal Ghosh
Women's rights
- Rani Rashmoni
- Kadambini Ganguly
- Chandramukhi Basu
- Kaberi Gain
- Sarala Devi
- Charulata Mukherjee
- Romola Sinha
Art
Early modern period
- Abanindranath Tagore
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Gaganendranath Tagore
- Nandalal Bose
- Kalipada Ghoshal
- Mukul Dey
- Jamini Roy
- Ramkinkar Baij
- Binode Bihari Mukherjee
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, director, photographer, and digital artist
Music
Composers
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Dwijendralal Ray
- Atulprasad Sen
- Rajanikanta Sen
- Kazi Nazrul Islam
- Dilipkumar Roy
- Gouri Prasanna Majumdar
- Raichand Boral
- Sachin Dev Burman
- Kamal Dasgupta
- Salil Chowdhury
- Hemanta Mukherjee
- Sudhin Dasgupta
- Nachiketa Ghosh
- Rahul Dev Burman
- Debojyoti Mishra
- Nachiketa Chakraborty
- Kabir Suman
Performers (instrumental)
- Nikhil Banerjee, sitar
- Sankha Chatterjee, tabla
- Buddhadev Dasgupta, sarod
- Annapurna Devi, surbahar
- Pandit Shankar Ghosh, tabla
- Pannalal Ghosh, flute
- Ali Akbar Khan, sarod
- Pandit Ravi Shankar, sitar
Performers (vocal)
Classical
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
Modern
- K. C. Dey
- Sachin Dev Burman
- Pankaj Kumar Mullick
- Kanan Devi
- Hemanta Mukherjee
- Sandhya Mukhopadhyay
- Amit Kumar
- Abhijeet Bhattacharya
- Bappi Lahiri
- Babul Supriyo
- Indrani Sen
- Kishore Kumar
- Kumar Sanu
- Madhushree
- Kabir Suman
- Manna Dey
- Manabendra Mukherjee
- Nachiketa Chakraborty
- Ruma Guha Thakurta
- Shaan
- Silajit Majumder
- Shyamal Mitra
- Shreya Ghoshal
- Antara Chowdhury
- Srikanta Acharya
- Anjan Dutt
- Arijit Singh
Movies
Directors
- Satyajit Ray
- Ritwik Ghatak
- Mrinal Sen
- Tapan Sinha
- Debaki Bose
- Bimal Roy
- Hrishikesh Mukherjee
- Basu Chatterjee
- Basu Bhattacharya
- Chidananda Dasgupta
- Aparna Sen
- Gautam Ghose
- Buddhadev Dasgupta
- Rituparno Ghosh
- Suman Mukhopadhyay
- Tarun Majumdar
- Anjan Dutt
- Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury
- Shoojit Sircar
- Arin Paul
- Sujoy Ghosh
- Anurag Basu
- Srijit Mukherji
Actors
- Mithun Chakraborty
- Biswajit
- Joy Mukherjee
- Pradeep Kumar
- Prasenjit
- Rahul Roy
- Soumitra Chatterjee
- Uttam Kumar
- Victor Banerjee
- Ranjit Mallick
- Chhabi Biswas
- Pahari Sanyal
- Tulsi Chakraborty
- Kali Banerjee
- Rabi Ghosh
- Chinmoy Roy
- Bhanu Banerjee
- Dhritiman Chaterji
- Tapas Paul
- Ali Fazal
- Chiranjit
- Arun Mukherjee
- Abdur Razzak
- Keshto Mukherjee
- Anil Chatterjee
- Asit Sen
- Harindranath Chattopadhyay
- Utpal Dutta
- Apurva Agnihotri
- Parambrata Chatterjee
- Jeet
- Mir Afsar Ali
Actresses
See also: List of Bengali actresses
- Anita Guha
- Aparna Sen
- Arundhati Devi
- Chhaya Devi
- Debashree Roy
- Devika Rani
- Indrani Haldar
- June Malia
- Kananbala
- Kanan Devi
- Madhabi Mukherjee
- Mamata Shankar
- Moon Moon Sen
- Moushmi Chatterji
- Pratyusha Banerjee
- Raakhee
- Rachna Banerjee
- Raima Sen
- Reemma Sen
- Rimi Sen
- Rituparna Sengupta
- Riya Sen
- Ruma Guha Thakurta
- Sabitri Chatterjee
- Sharmila Tagore
- Suchitra Sen
- Sumita Sanyal
- Supriya Devi
- Sushmita Sen
- Varsha Ashwathi
Dance
Doctors
Drama/theatre
- Girish Chandra Ghosh
- Dinabandhu Mitra
- P. C. Sorcar, Jr.
- Jyotirindranath Tagore
- Dwijendralal Ray
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Sisir Bhaduri
- Bijon Bhattacharya
- Shambhu Mitra
- Utpal Dutt
- Rudraprasad Sengupta
- Badal Sarkar
- Usha Ganguly
- Manoj Mitra
Politicians and revolutionaries
Pre-modern
Colonial period
- Satyendranath Tagore
- Romesh Chunder Dutt
- Lord Satyendra Prasanna Sinha
- Nripendra Narayan, philanthropist and ruler of Cooch Behar
Indian freedom fighters
Early figures
Twentieth century
- Bipin Chandra Pal
- Sri Aurobindo
- Barindra Kumar Ghosh
- Khudiram Bose
- Bagha Jatin
- Chittaranjan Das
- Rash Behari Bose
- Sarat Chandra Bose
- Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
- Jatindra Nath Das
- Bina Das
- Matangini Hazra
- B. C. Roy
- Triguna Sen
- Panchanan Chakraborty
- Syama Prasad Mookerjee
- Basanta Kumar Biswas
- Ambika Chakrobarty
- Bipin Behari Ganguli
- Jogesh Chandra Chattopadhyay
- Narendra Mohan Sen
- Birendranath Sasmal
- Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy
- Jnananjan Niyogi
- Sudhamoy Pramanick
- Saroj Mukherjee
- Renuka Ray
- Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
Politician
- Ashok Mitra
- Ajit Kumar Panja
- Bidhan Chandra Roy
- Atulya Ghosh
- Prafulla Chandra Sen
- Siddhartha Shankar Ray
- Abdul Halim
- Mamata Banerjee
- Dev
- Buddhadeb Bhattacharya
- A B A Ghani Khan Chowdhury
- Saugata Roy
- Bir Singh Mahato
- Kamal Guha
- Tathagata Roy
- Abha Maiti
- Pratap Chandra Chunder
- Pranab Mukherjee
- Jyoti Basu
- Somnath Chatterjee
- Amit Mitra
- Partha Chatterjee
- Sovandeb Chattopadhyay
- Narahari Mahato
- Mriganko Mahato
Others
Donation and social welfare
Old Calcutta / Bengal legends
- Raja Nabakrishna Deb of Shovabazar
- Raja Radhakanta Deb, brought out two large Sanskrit dictionaries used by Westerners as reference
- Gouri Sen of lagey taka debey Gouri Sen fame
- Hari Ghosh of Hari Ghosher fame
- Banamali Sarkar
- Gobindram Mitter
- Prasanna Coomar Tagore
- Ramanath Tagore
- Anil Kumar Gain
- Mutty Lal Seal
- Bijoy Chand Mahtab
- Uday Chand Mahtab
- Mother Teresa
Sports
Chess
- Dibyendu Barua, grandmaster
- Surya Shekhar Ganguly, grandmaster
Cricket
- Benu Dasgupta
- Jhulan Goswami
- Pankaj Roy
- Priyanka Roy
- Rumeli Dhar
- Ambar Roy
- Saba Karim
- Sourav Ganguly, former Indian Captain, Athletico de kolkatta co-owner
- Ashok Dinda
- Manoj Tiwary
- Wriddhiman Saha
Football
Lawn tennis
- Leander Paes, noted lawn tennis player of India
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 (weightlifter), 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
- Jagat Seth, of Murshidabad
- Dwarakanath Tagore
- Diptendu Pramanick
- Rajen Mookerjee
- Biren Mookerjee
- S. K. Burman, founder of Dabur[2]
- Ghanshyam Das Birla
- Jugal Kishore Birla
- Ram Nath Goenka
- Madhav Prasad Birla
- Mugneeram Bangur, founder of Bangur group based at Kolkata[3]
- Rajat Kumar Gupta
- Purnendu Chatterjee
- Sadhan Dutt
- Subir Raha
- Sumantra Ghoshal
- Alamohan Das
- Dilip Shanghvi
Other areas
- Ashis Nandy, author, political psychologist
- Subroto Mukerjee
- Shankar Roychowdhury
- William Tolly
- P. C. Sorcar, Jr., magician from Kolkata
See also
References
- ↑ "Katha Kavya Abhinaya". Sangeet Natak Akademi. 2011. Retrieved May 28, 2013.
- ↑ Enhancing enterprise competitiveness: (marketing, people, IT and ... edited by Prashant Gupta, Rajesh Kumar Jain, Upinder Dhar. 2007. p. 663.
- ↑ Business and Politics in India By Stanley A. Kochanek. 1974. p. 340.
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