Dipankar is a given name in

Assam Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...

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West Bengal West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of . West Bengal is the fourt ...

. It means "One who has the lamp in his hands or part of deep means light". People having this name are generally considered to be male.

Notable people with this name

Deepankar De Dipankar Dey ( bn, দীপঙ্কর দে) (born 5 July 1944) is an Indian actor in the Bengali film industry. He has worked in many movies as hero, villain and character artist. He starred in Ray's ''Jana Aranya'' (''The Middleman'', 1 ...

Dipankar Banerjee Dipankar Banerjee is a retired major general of the Indian Army based in India. He is the founding director of the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (based in Indian capital New Delhi). Military career Gen Bannerjee is an alumnus of the p ...

Dipankar Bhattacharjee Dipankar Bhattacharjee (born 1 February 1972) is a Badminton player from Assam, India. He represented India at many International tournaments including Barcelona and Atlanta Olympics. He was the Indian National Badminton Champion thrice and a ...

* Dipankar Das Sarma *

Dipankar Datta Dipankar Datta (born 9 February 1965) is a Judge of Supreme Court of India. He is the former Chief Justice of Bombay High Court and Judge of Calcutta High Court. Early life and education Datta was born in 1965 in a Bengali family. He came fro ...

Dipankar Gupta Dipankar Gupta (born 11 October 1949) is an Indian sociologist and public intellectual. He was formerly Professor in the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. For a brief period from 1993 to 1994, he ...

Dipankar Home Dipankar Home (born 11 November 1955) is an Indian theoretical physicist at Bose Institute, Kolkata. He works on the fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics, including quantum entanglement and Quantum communication. He is co-author with Parth ...

* Dipankar Srijnan Atisha * Swami Dipankar (spiritual leader) Indian masculine given names {{India-culture-stub