Subrata (
Hindi
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Sanskrit
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: सुव्रत,
Odia
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* Odia people in Odisha, India
* Odia language, an Indian language, belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family
* Odia alphabet, a writing system used for the Odia languag ...
: ସୁବ୍ରତ
Bengali
Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to:
*something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia
* Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region
* Bengali language, the language they speak
** Bengali alphabet, the w ...
: সুব্রত), also Subroto (Read and written as by Bengalis and
Javanese) or Subrata/Subrat/Shubrat/Subroto/Suvrat (Read and Written as by Odias), is a common name in
India
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, especially among
Oriya and
Bengali people
Bengalis (singular Bengali bn, বাঙ্গালী/বাঙালি ), also rendered as Bangalee or the Bengali people, are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group originating from and culturally affiliated with the Bengal region of S ...
and in Indonesia especially among
Javanese and
Sundanese people
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. The name is also somewhat common in
Indonesia
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because many people there have
Sanskrit
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derived names there as well (in
Java
Java (; id, Jawa, ; jv, ꦗꦮ; su, ) is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea to the north. With a population of 151.6 million people, Java is the world's List ...
, ''Subroto'' is more common due to Javanese spelling structure of changing 'a' into an 'o'. It means "devoted to what is right"). Subroto (Suvrat) is the name of the 20th Jain teerthankara
Munisuvrata Nath who was born in Nalanda district. Subrata is also one among the thousands names of the god
Vishnu
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Vishnu is known as "The Preserver" within t ...
listed in the
Vishnu Sahasranama.
People bearing the name include :
*Subrata of Magadha, King c. 1210 – 1150 BC
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Subrata Roy
Subrata Roy (born 10 June 1948) is an Indian businessman who founded Sahara India Pariwar in 1978.
Sahara India Pariwar has operated a vast number of businesses such as Aamby Valley City, Sahara Movie Studios, Air Sahara, hockey sport ...
, Chairman and Managing Worker, Sahara India Group, India
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Subrata Roy
Subrata Roy (born 10 June 1948) is an Indian businessman who founded Sahara India Pariwar in 1978.
Sahara India Pariwar has operated a vast number of businesses such as Aamby Valley City, Sahara Movie Studios, Air Sahara, hockey sport ...
, Inventor, Educator, Scientist - Professor at the
University of Florida
The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida, traces its origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its ...
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Subroto Bagchi
Subroto Bagchi (born 31 May 1959) is an Indian entrepreneur and business leader. He is the co-founder of Mindtree, an Indian technology MNC. He has autobiographed his life story in his book ''Go Kiss the World''.
Early life and education
Bagch ...
, Chairman of Mindtree
*
Subrata Bose
Subrata Bose (25 February 1932 – 20 January 2016) was an Indian politician, and a member of the 14th Lok Sabha. He represented the Barasat constituency of West Bengal and was a member of the All India Forward Bloc political party.
He graduat ...
, Bengali politician
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Subrata Chowdhury
Subrata Chowdhury is an Indian cricketer who played first-class cricket for Tripura
Tripura (, Bengali: ) is a state in Northeast India. The third-smallest state in the country, it covers ; and the seventh-least populous state with a p ...
, Tripuran Cricketer
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Gatot Subroto
Gatot Soebroto ( Enhanced Spelling: Gatot Subroto, 10 October 1907 – 11 June 1962) was an Indonesian general who began his military career with the Royal Dutch East Indies Army (KNIL) and rose to be deputy Army chief-of-staff.
Early life
So ...
, Former Indonesian military general
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Subroto Ghosh
Subroto Ghosh (born 15 July 1987 in Patna, Bihar) is an Indian first-class cricketer who played for Jharkhand cricket team
The Jharkhand Cricket Team is a first-class cricket team based in the Indian state of Jharkhand. When the old state o ...
, Indian cricketer
*
Subroto Guha
Subrata Guha (31 January 1946 – 5 November 2003) was an Indian cricketer who played in four Test matches between 1967 and 1969.
Guha was a medium-fast opening bowler. While he was a 20-year-old student at Calcutta University, he was largel ...
, Indian cricketer
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H. Subrata, Indonesian media magnate
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Subrata Mitra
Subrata Mitra (12 October 1930 – 7 December 2001) was an Indian cinematographer. Acclaimed for his work in ''The Apu Trilogy'' (1955–1959), Mitra often is considered one of the greatest Indian cinematographers.
Early life and educati ...
, Indian cinematographer
*
Subrata Mukherjee
Subrata Mukherjee (14 June 1946 – 4 November 2021) was an Indian politician who was cabinet minister of the government of West Bengal and sitting member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly. He was a member of All India Trinamool Congress. H ...
, Indian politician
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Subroto Mukerjee
Air Marshal (India), Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee Order of the British Empire, OBE (Bengali Language, Bengali: সুব্রত মুখোপাধ্যায়) (5 March 1911 – 8 November 1960) was an Indian military officer who was the ...
, the first Chief of staff of Indian Air Force
*Raden
Subroto (politician)
Subroto (19 September 1923 – 20 December 2022) was an Indonesian administrator and economist. He was a doctoral graduate and faculty member of University of Indonesia between 1956 and 1963, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources between 197 ...
, Former Secretary General of OPEC and Indonesian administrator
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Subrata Pal
Subrata Paul (also Pal; born 24 December 1986) is an Indian professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper for Indian Super League club ATK Mohun Bagan FC, ATK Mohun Bagan, on loan fr ...
, Indian international footballer
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Subrata Sen
Subrata Sen ( bn, সুব্রত সেন), (born 29 May 1963) is a Bengali Indian film director, screenwriter, novelist and producer.
Biography
Early life
Subrata Sen was born in Kolkata in 1963. He went to South Point High Schoo ...
, Film director
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Subrata (actor)
Shahrukh Fardin Subrata is a Bangladeshi film actor. He is better known as Subrata in the film industry. He has appeared in over 140 films.
Career
Subrata made his debut in 1985 with the film "Rai Binodini", directed by Mohammed Hannan. Later he e ...
, Film Actor
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