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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 fou ...
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East Bengali refugees East Bengali Refugees are people who left East Bengal following the Partition of Bengal, which was part of the Independence of India and Pakistan in 1947. An overwhelming majority of these refugees and immigrants were Bengali Hindus.US State ...
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East Bengal ur, , common_name = East Bengal , status = Province of the Dominion of Pakistan , p1 = Bengal Presidency , flag_p1 = Flag of British Bengal.svg , s1 = Ea ...
who settled in West Bengal after the partition of the Indian sub-continent in 1947.


Literature


Major figures

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Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay () (12 September 1894 – 1 November 1950) was an Indian writer in the Bengali language. His best known works are the autobiographical novel, ''Pather Panchali'' (''Song of the Little Road''), ''Aparajito (Undefeate ...
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Manik Bandopadhyay Manik Bandyopadhyay lias Banerjee(; 19 May 1908 – 3 December 1956) is an Indian Litterateur regarded as one of the major figures of 20th century Bengali literature. During a lifespan of 48 years and 28 years of literary career, battling with ...
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Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay (23 July 1898 – 14 September 1971) was an Indian novelist who wrote in the Bengali language. He wrote 65 novels, 53-story-books, 12 plays, 4 essay-books, 4 autobiographies, 2 travel stories and composed several songs. ...
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Rajshekhar Basu Rajshekhar Basu ( bn, রাজশেখর বসু; better known by the pen name Parashuram; 16 March 1880 – 27 April 1960) was a Bengali chemist, author and lexicographer. He was chiefly known for his comic and satirical short storie ...
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Shibram Chakraborty Shibram Chakraborty (1903–1980) was a popular Bengali writer and humorist who is best known for his humorous stories. His best known short stories and novels are renowned for their unique use of pun, alliteration, play of words and ironic humo ...
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Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (also Chattopadhayay) CIE (26 or 27 June 1838 – 8 April 1894) was an Indian novelist, poet, Essayist and journalist. Staff writer"Bankim Chandra: The First Prominent Bengali Novelist" ''The Daily Star'', 30 June 201 ...
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Pramatha Chaudhuri Pramathanath Chaudhuri ( bn, প্রমথনাথ চৌধুরী; 7 August 1868 – 2 September 1946), known as Pramatha Chaudhuri, ''alias'' Birbal, was a Bengali writer and an influential figure in Bengali literature. He was the nephe ...
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Mahasweta Devi Mahasweta Devi (14 January 1926 – 28 July 2016)
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Michael Madhusudan Dutt Michael Madhusudan Dutt ((Bengali: মাইকেল মধুসূদন দত্ত); (25 January 1824 – 29 June 1873) was a Bengali poet and playwright. He is considered one of the pioneers of Bengali literature. Early life Dutt ...
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Sudhindranath Dutta Sudhindranath Dutta (30 October 1901 – 25 June 1960) was an Indian poet, essayist, journalist and critic. Sudhindranath is one of the most notable poets after the Tagore-era in Bengali literature. Education Sudhindranath Dutt went to the The ...
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Annada Shankar Ray Annada Shankar Ray (15 March 1904 – 28 October 2002) was an Indian poet and essayist in Bengali. He also wrote some Odia poetry. He wrote several Bengali poems criticising the Partition of India. Most notable is "''Teler shishi bhaanglo bole ...
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Satyajit Ray Satyajit Ray (; 2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian director, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, author, essayist, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher, and music composer. One of the greatest auteurs of ...
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Narayan Sanyal Narayan Sanyal (26 April 1924 – 7 February 2005) was an Indian writer of modern Bengali literature as well as a civil engineer. Biography Narayan Sanyal was born in Krishnagar to Chittasukh Sanyal and Basantalata Devi. His name was initiall ...
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Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore (; bn, রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He resh ...


Children's story writers

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Sasthipada Chattopadhyay Sasthipada Chattopadhyay (born 9 March 1941) is an Indian novelist and short story writer in Bengali. He is well known in Bengali literature for the series stories of Pandab Goenda. Career Chattopadhyay was born in 1941 in Khurut, Sasthitala, ...
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Shibram Chakraborty Shibram Chakraborty (1903–1980) was a popular Bengali writer and humorist who is best known for his humorous stories. His best known short stories and novels are renowned for their unique use of pun, alliteration, play of words and ironic humo ...
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Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury (12 May 1863 – 20 December 1915) was a Bengali writer and painter. One of his written book is ''Chotoder Shera Biggan Rochona Shongkolon''. He was the son-in-law of reformer Dwarkanath Ganguly. He was also an ent ...
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Narayan Debnath Narayan Debnath (25 November 1925 – 18 January 2022) was an Indian comics artist, writer and illustrator. He created the Bengali comic strips '' Handa Bhonda'' (1962), ''Bantul the Great'' (1965) and '' Nonte Phonte'' (1969). He holds the re ...
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Narayan Gangopadhyay Narayan Gangopadhyay (4 February 1918 – 8 November 1970), also known as Narayan Ganguly, was an Indian novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer, and one of the leading writers of modern Bengali literature. He introduced the endearing ...
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Sunil Gangopadhyay Sunil Gangopadhyay or Sunil Ganguly (7 September 1934 – 23 October 2012) was an Indian poet, historian and novelist in the Bengali language based in the city of Kolkata. He is a former Sheriff of Calcutta. Gangopadhyay obtained his m ...
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Leela Majumdar Leela Majumdar ( bn, লীলা মজুমদার ''Lila Mojumdar''), (26 February 1908 – 5 April 2007) was a Bengali writer. Early life Born to Surama Devi and Pramada Ranjan Ray (who was the younger brother of Upendra Kishor Ray Ch ...
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Premendra Mitra Premendra Mitra (4 September 1904 – 3 May 1988)Samsad Bengali Charitabhidhan Vol.II edited Anjali Bose, Published by Sagitta Samsad, Kolkata, Edition January,2019,Page-240 was an Indian poet, writer and film director in the Bengali language. ...
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Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay ( bn, শীর্ষেন্দু মুখোপাধ্যায়; born 2 November 1935) is a Bengali author from India. He has written stories for both adults and children. He is known for creating the relative ...
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Moti Nandi Moti Nandi; 10 July 1931 – 3 January 2010) was a Bengali writer and journalist. Career Moti Nandi was from Kolkata. He graduated from the University of Calcutta and became a sports journalist and worked as a sports editor in ''Anandabazar Pa ...
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Satyajit Ray Satyajit Ray (; 2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian director, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, author, essayist, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher, and music composer. One of the greatest auteurs of ...
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Sukumar Ray Sukumar Ray (; 30 October 1887 – 10 September 1923) was a Bengali writer and poet from the Indian subcontinent. He is remembered mainly for his writings for children. He was the son of children's story writer Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury and ...
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Hemendra Kumar Roy Hemendra Kumar Roy (2 September 1888 – 18 April 1963) was an Indian Bengali writer noted for his contribution to the early development of the genre of children's literature in the language. He was a noted contributor to the early development o ...
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Syed Mustafa Siraj Syed Mustafa Siraj (14 October 1930 – 4 September 2012) was an eminent Indian writer. In 1994, he received the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel '' Mythical Man'' (''Aleek Manush''), considered his most lauded work. In 2005, his short story ...


Medieval Bengal literary scene

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Chandidas Chandidas (born 1408) was a medieval poet of Bengal, or possibly more than one. Over 1250 poems related to the love of Radha and Krishna in Bengali with the ''bhanita'' of Chandidas are found with three different sobriquets along with his name, ...
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Kashiram Das Kashiram Das or Kāśīrām Dās ( bn, কাশীরাম দাস, ; born 16th century) is an important poet in medieval Bengali literature. His Bengali re-telling of the ''Mahābhārata'', known as ''Kāśīdāsī Môhābhārôt'', is a po ...
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Govindadasa Govindadasa (1535–1613, bn, গোবিন্দদাস) was a Bengali Vaishnava poet known for his body of devotional songs addressed to Krishna. Living in an atmosphere of Krishna-bhakti preached by Sri Chaitanya (1486–1533), he composed ...
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Krishnadasa Kaviraja Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī ( bn, কৃষ্ণদাস কবিরাজ, Kṛṣṇôdas Kôviraj; born 1496; date of death unknown) was the author of the Caitanyacaritāmṛta, a biography on the life of the mystic and saint ...
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Krittibas Ojha Mahakavi Krittibas Ojha (; 1381–1461) was a medieval Bengali poet. His major contribution to Bengali literature and culture was Indian epic '' Rāmāyaṇa'' in Bengali. His work, the ''Śrīrām Pā̃cālī'', is popularly known as the ''Krit ...
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Bharatchandra Ray Bharatchandra Ray Gunakor ( bn, ভারতচন্দ্র রায় গুণাকর; 1712–1760) was an 18th-century Bengali and Sanskrit Sakta court poet and song composer. He is mostly known for his poetic work, '' Annadamangal'' or ...
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Vidyapati Vidyapati ( – 1460), also known by the sobriquet ''Maithil Kavi Kokil'' (the poet cuckoo of Maithili), was a Maithili and Sanskrit polymath-poet-saint, playwright, composer, biographer, philosopher, law-theorist, writer, courtier ...


Other authors from early modern period

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Akshay Kumar Baral Akshay Kumar Baral (1860–1919) ( bn, অক্ষয় কুমার বড়াল) was a Bengali poet and writer. He was born in Kolkata. The family originally hailed from Chandannagar, Hooghly District. Early life Baral was born in 1 ...
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Ghulam Mustafa Burdwani Ghulām Muṣṭafā al-Burdwānī ( ar, غلام مصطفى البردواني), or alternatively Golam Mostafa Bardhamani ( bn, গোলাম মোস্তফা বর্ধমানী), was an 18th-century Islamic scholar and poet from Bu ...
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Romesh Chunder Dutt Romesh Chunder Dutt ( bn, রমেশচন্দ্র দত্ত; 13 August 1848 – 30 November 1909) was an Indian civil servant, economic historian, writer and translator of ''Ramayana'' and ''Mahabharata''. Dutt is considered a natio ...
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Ishwar Chandra Gupta Ishwar Chandra Gupta ( bn, ঈশ্বরচন্দ্র গুপ্ত; 6 March 1812 – 23 January 1859) was a famous Indian Bengali poet and writer. Gupta was born in Kanchrapara, in Bengal. Early life Ishwar Chandra Gupta was born in ...
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Parijat (writer) Bishnu Kumari Waiba, popularly known as Parijat ( ne, पारिजात) was a Nepalese writer and poet. She is best known for her novel '' Shiris Ko Phool'' for which she won the Madan Puraskar, becoming the first woman to receive the a ...
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Indra Bahadur Rai Indra Bahadur Rai (3 February 1927 – 6 March 2018) was an Indian Nepali language writer and literary critic from Darjeeling, India. He wrote multiple essays, short stories, novels and criticism in his lifetime. ''Kheer'' and ''Raat Bhari Huri ...
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Dwijendralal Ray Dwijendralal Ray (19 July 1863 – 17 May 1913), also known as D. L. Ray, was an Indian poet, playwright, and musician. He was known for his Hindu mythological and nationalist historical plays and songs known as ''Dwijendrageeti'' or the ''Son ...
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Kaliprasanna Singha Kaliprasanna Sinha ( bn, কালীপ্রসন্ন সিংহ; 23 February 1841 – 24 July 1870), well known by his pen name Hootum Pyancha, was a Bengali author, playwright, and philanthropist. His most famous work was the translatio ...
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Jyotirindranath Tagore Jyotirindranath Tagore ( bn, জ্যোতিরিন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 4 May 1849 – 4 March 1925) was a playwright, a musician, an editor and a painter. He played a major role in the flowering of the talents of his you ...
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Swami Vivekananda Swami Vivekananda (; ; 12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902), born Narendranath Datta (), was an Indian Hindu monk, philosopher, author, religious teacher, and the chief disciple of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna. He was a key figure in the intr ...


Prominent foreign-language authors from Bengal

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Sri Aurobindo Sri Aurobindo (born Aurobindo Ghose; 15 August 1872 – 5 December 1950) was an Indian philosopher, yogi, maharishi, poet, and Indian nationalist. He was also a journalist, editing newspapers such as ''Vande Mataram''. He joined the ...
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Anirban Bhattacharyya Anirban Bhattacharyya is an Indian television producer, author, standup comedian, and actor. Early life He was born on 26 October in Kolkata. He studied in a boarding school in Kalimpong called Dr. Graham's Homes. He then did his Bachelor ...
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Upamanyu Chatterjee Upamanyu Chatterjee (born 1959) is an author and a retired Indian civil servant. His works include the novel '' English, August: An Indian story'', '' The Last Burden'', '' The Mammaries of the Welfare State'' and ''Weight Loss''. In 2008, he was ...
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Amit Chaudhuri Amit Chaudhuri (born 15 May 1962) is a novelist, poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, singer, and music composer from India. He was Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia from 2006 to 2021, Since 2020, he has ...
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Souhardya De Souhardya De (born 2004) is an Indian writer, columnist, and podcaster, from Midnapore, West Bengal. He is a columnist for the ''Sunday Guardian'' and a recipient of the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar, a civilian award for Indian citizens ...
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (born Chitralekha Banerjee, 1956) is an Indian-born American author, poet, and the Betty and Gene McDavid Professor of Writing at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. Her short story collection, ''Arrang ...
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Toru Dutt Toru Dutt ( bn, তরু দত্ত; 4 March 1856 – 30 August 1877) was an Indian Bengali translator and poet from British India, who wrote in English and French. She is among the founding figures of Indo-Anglian literature, alongside Henr ...
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Kaberi Gayen Kaberi Gayen is a Bangladeshi academic, author, and social activist known for her outspoken views on the oppression of minorities and gender inequality in Bangladesh. She is a professor of the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism at ...
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Amitav Ghosh Amitav Ghosh (born 11 July 1956)Ghosh, Amitav
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Jhumpa Lahiri Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" LahiriMinzesheimer, Bob ''USA Today'', August 19, 2003. Retrieved on 2008-04-13. (born July 11, 1967) is an American author known for her short stories, novels and essays in English, and, more recently, in Italia ...
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Pritish Nandy Pritish Nandy (born 15 January 1951) is an Indian poet, painter, journalist, parliamentarian, media and television personality, animal activist and maker of films, TV and streaming content. He was a parliamentarian in the Rajya Sabha from Mah ...


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

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Jatindramohan Bagchi Jatindramohan Bagchi (27 November 1878 — 1 February 1948) ( bn, যতীন্দ্রমোহন বাগচি) was a Bengali poet and editor.
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Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay (23 July 1898 – 14 September 1971) was an Indian novelist who wrote in the Bengali language. He wrote 65 novels, 53-story-books, 12 plays, 4 essay-books, 4 autobiographies, 2 travel stories and composed several songs. ...
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Subimal Basak Subimal Basak, ( bn, সুবিমল বসাক) is an Indian fiction writer. He is a member of the Hungry generation, with Samir Roychoudhury, Falguni Roy, Shakti Chattopadhyay and the movement's creator Malay Roy Choudhury. The Hungry G ...
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Abul Bashar Abul Bashar ( bn, আবুল বাশার) is a popular Bengali writer from the state of West Bengal in India. He was born in 1951 in Teka in Lalbagh, Murshidabad district. Bashar is pro Trinamool so called intellectual. Select bibli ...
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Sukanta Bhattacharya Sukanta Bhattacharya ( bn, সুকান্ত ভট্টাচার্য) (; 15 August 1926 – 13 May 1947) was a Bengali poet and playwright. He was called 'Young Nazrul' and 'Kishore Bidrohi Kobi', a reference to the great rebel poet ...
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Nachiketa Chakraborty Nachiketa Chakraborty, simply known as Nachiketa, is an Indian singer, songwriter, musician, composer and playback singer who is known for his modern Bengali lyrics. He achieved fame in the early 1990s, with the release of his debut album ''Ei Be ...
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Nirendranath Chakravarty Nirendranath Chakravarty (19 October 1924 – 25 December 2018) was a contemporary Bengali poet, Translator, Novelist. He lived in Bangur Avenue, Kolkata. Biography He was born in Faridpur district of undivided Bengal in 1924. After graduati ...
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Shibram Chakraborty Shibram Chakraborty (1903–1980) was a popular Bengali writer and humorist who is best known for his humorous stories. His best known short stories and novels are renowned for their unique use of pun, alliteration, play of words and ironic humo ...
* Sandipan Chattopadhyay *
Sanjib Chattopadhyay Sanjib Chattopadhyay ( bn, সঞ্জীব চট্ট্যোপাধ্যায়; born 24 october 1936 in Kolkata, India) is an Indian Bengali novelist and writer of short stories. His style is characterized by use of short satirica ...
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Shakti Chattopadhyay Shakti Chattopadhyay (25 November 1933 – 23 March 1995) was an Indian poet and writer who wrote in Bengali. He is known for his realistic depictions of rural life. He was a green poet, many of his poems raised the issue of nature in crisis. ...
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Malay Roy Choudhury Malay Roy Choudhury (born 29 October 1939) is an Indian Bengali poet, playwright, short story writer, essayist and novelist who founded the Hungryalist movement in the 1960s. Early life and education Malay Roy Choudhury was born in Patna, ...
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Salil Chowdhury Salil Chowdhury (19 November 1925 – 5 September 1995) was an Indian music director, songwriter, lyricist, writer and poet who predominantly composed for Bengali, Hindi and Malayalam films. He composed music for films in 13 languages. This ...
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Alokeranjan Dasgupta Alokeranjan Dasgupta (6 October 1933 – 17 November 2020) was a Bengali poet who was the author of over 20 books of poetry. He translated Bengali and Santal poetry and plays into English and German, and also translated literature from German an ...
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Buddhadeb Dasgupta Buddhadeb Dasgupta (11 February 1944 – 10 June 2021) was an Indian filmmaker and poet best known for his Bengali-language films like ''Bagh Bahadur'', '' Tahader Katha'', ''Charachar'' and ''Uttara''. Five of his films have won the National ...
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Mahasweta Devi Mahasweta Devi (14 January 1926 – 28 July 2016)
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Kaberi Gayen Kaberi Gayen is a Bangladeshi academic, author, and social activist known for her outspoken views on the oppression of minorities and gender inequality in Bangladesh. She is a professor of the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism at ...
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Narayan Gangopadhyay Narayan Gangopadhyay (4 February 1918 – 8 November 1970), also known as Narayan Ganguly, was an Indian novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer, and one of the leading writers of modern Bengali literature. He introduced the endearing ...
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Joy Goswami Joy Goswami ( bn, জয় গোস্বামী; born 1954) is an Indian poet. Goswami writes in Bengali language, Bengali and is widely considered one of the most important Bengali poets of his generation. Biography Joy was born on 10 Nov ...
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Prabir Ghosh Prabir Ghosh (born 1 March 1945) is the founder and president of Bharatiya Bigyan O Yuktibadi Samiti, a science and rationalists' association based in Kolkata, India. He is the author of a number of books in Bengali disputing supernatural cl ...
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Santosh Kumar Ghosh Santosh Kumar Ghosh (9 September 1920 – 26 February 1985) was an Indian Bengali litterateur and a journalist of repute. Early life Born in Faridpur district of what is now in Bangladesh, Santosh Kumar had his ancestral house in Barisal distri ...
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Shankha Ghosh Sankha Ghosh (born Chittapriya Ghosh; 5 February 1932 – 21 April 2021) was an Indian poet and literary critic. He was born in Chandpur District of the then Bengal Presidency, present day Bangladesh. His ancestral home was at Banaripara Upazil ...
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Subodh Ghosh Subodh Ghosh (14 September 1909 – 10 March 1980) was a noted Indian author of Bengali literature and a journalist with the Kolkata-based daily newspaper '' Ananda Bazar Patrika''. Born at Hazaribagh on 14 September 1909, now in Jharkhand, he s ...
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Buddhadeb Guha Buddhadeb Guha (29 June 1936 – 29 August 2021) was an Indian writer of fiction in Bengali language. Apart from writing, he was a trained singer and a painter too. Career Born in Calcutta, Guha studied at St. Xavier's College of the Universi ...
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Bimal Kar Bimal Kar (19 September 1921 — 26 August 2003) was an Indian writer and novelist who wrote in Bengali. He received the 1975 Sahitya Akademi Award presented by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, for his novel ''Asamay''. ...
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Binoy Majumdar Binoy Majumdar ( bn, বিনয় মজুমদার) (17 September 1934 – 11 December 2006) was a Bengali poet. Binoy received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2005. Biography Binoy Majumdar was born in Myanmar (erstwhile Burma) on 17 Sept ...
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Bimal Mitra Bimal Mitra (18 March 1912 – 2 December 1991) was an Indian writer in Bengali. Bimal Mitra was equally adept in writing in Bengali as well as in Hindi, and wrote more than one hundred novels and short stories. Many of Bimal Mitra's novels ha ...
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Narendranath Mitra Narendranath Mitra (30 January 1916 – 14 September 1975) was an Indian writer and poet, best known for his short stories in the Bengali-language. Several of his works have been adapted into films, such as Mahanagar directed by Satyajit Ray. ...
* Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay * Subhash Mukhopadhyay * Kumud Ranjan Mullick *
Moti Nandi Moti Nandi; 10 July 1931 – 3 January 2010) was a Bengali writer and journalist. Career Moti Nandi was from Kolkata. He graduated from the University of Calcutta and became a sports journalist and worked as a sports editor in ''Anandabazar Pa ...
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Purnendu Pattrea Purnendu Patri (sometimes Anglicised as Purnendu Pattrea) (2February 193119 March 1997) was an Indian poet, writer, editor, artist, illustrator, and film director. He was best known for his poems and stories, particularly for his poetry collec ...
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Dilipkumar Roy Dilip Kumar Roy (22 January 1897 – 6 January 1980), also spelt Dilipkumar Roy, was an Indian musician, singer, musicologist, novelist, poet, essayist and yogi. He was the son of Dwijendralal Ray (or Roy). In 1965, the Sangeet Natak Akademi, In ...
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Narayan Sanyal Narayan Sanyal (26 April 1924 – 7 February 2005) was an Indian writer of modern Bengali literature as well as a civil engineer. Biography Narayan Sanyal was born in Krishnagar to Chittasukh Sanyal and Basantalata Devi. His name was initiall ...
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Subodh Sarkar Subodh Sarkar ( bn, সুবোধ সরকার; born 1958 in Krishnanagar) is a Bengali poet, writer and editor, and a reader in English literature at City College, Kolkata. He is a recipient of the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award. Bio ...
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Jatindranath Sengupta Jatindranath Sengupta (or Yatīndranātha Senagupta) (June 26, 1887 in Patilpara, Purba Bardhaman – September 17, 1954) was an Indian Bengali-language poet and writer. Birth Jatindranath Sengupta was born on 26 June in the year of 1887 at P ...
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Mallika Sengupta Mallika Sengupta ( bn, মল্লিকা সেনগুপ্ত; 1960–2011) was a Bengali poet, feminist, and reader of Sociology from Kolkata, known for her "unapologetically political poetry". Biography Mallika Sengupta was the he ...
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Journalists

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Tamal Bandyopadhyay Tamal Bandyopadhyay is an Indian business journalist, known for his weekly column on banking and finance Banker's Trust published in ''Business Standard'', a leading Indian business daily. He had started this column in ''Mint'', an Indian busines ...
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Ramananda Chatterjee Ramananda Chatterjee ( bn, রামানন্দ চট্টোপাধ্যায়) (29 May 1865 – 30 September 1943) was founder, editor, and owner of the Calcutta based magazine, the '' Modern Review''. He has been described as th ...
* Sunanda K. Datta-Ray *
Kaberi Gayen Kaberi Gayen is a Bangladeshi academic, author, and social activist known for her outspoken views on the oppression of minorities and gender inequality in Bangladesh. She is a professor of the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism at ...
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Tushar Kanti Ghosh Tushar Kanti Ghosh (September 21, 1898 – August 29, 1994) was an Indian journalist and writer. For sixty years, until shortly before his death, Ghosh was the editor of the English-language newspaper '' Amrita Bazar Patrika'' in Kolkata. He als ...
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Chandan Mitra Chandan Mitra ( bn, চন্দন মিত্র; 12 December 1954 – 1 September 2021) was an Indian journalist and politician who was the editor and managing director of '' The Pioneer'' newspaper in Delhi. He was also a two-term member ...
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Moti Nandi Moti Nandi; 10 July 1931 – 3 January 2010) was a Bengali writer and journalist. Career Moti Nandi was from Kolkata. He graduated from the University of Calcutta and became a sports journalist and worked as a sports editor in ''Anandabazar Pa ...
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Pritish Nandy Pritish Nandy (born 15 January 1951) is an Indian poet, painter, journalist, parliamentarian, media and television personality, animal activist and maker of films, TV and streaming content. He was a parliamentarian in the Rajya Sabha from Mah ...
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Sukumar Ray Sukumar Ray (; 30 October 1887 – 10 September 1923) was a Bengali writer and poet from the Indian subcontinent. He is remembered mainly for his writings for children. He was the son of children's story writer Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury and ...
* Barun Sengupta


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

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Raja Ram Mohan Roy Raja Ram Mohan Roy ( bn, রামমোহন রায়; 22 May 1772 – 27 September 1833) was an Indian reformer who was one of the founders of the Brahmo Sabha in 1828, the precursor of the Brahmo Samaj, a social-religious reform m ...
, first Bengali prose writer *
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar CIE ( bn, ঈশ্বর চন্দ্র বিদ্যাসাগর; 26 September 1820 – 29 July 1891), born Ishwar Chandra Bandyopadhyay, was an Indian educator and social reformer of the nineteenth century ...
, creator of Standard Bengali prose (sadhu bhasha) * Bhudev Mukhopadhyay, earliest educationist * Anil Kumar Gain, fellow of the Royal Society *
Rajendralal Mitra Raja Rajendralal Mitra (16 February 1822 – 26 July 1891) was among the first Indian cultural researchers and historians writing in English. A polymath and the first Indian president of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, he was a pioneering figure ...
, first Indian to work with Indologists *
Haraprasad Shastri Hara Prasad Shastri ( bn, হরপ্রসাদ শাস্ত্রী) (6 December 1853 – 17 November 1931), also known as Hara Prasad Bhattacharya, was an Indian academic, Sanskrit scholar, archivist and historian of Bengali literature. ...
, historian of Bengali language and culture *
Dinesh Chandra Sen Rai Bahadur Dinesh Chandra Sen ( bn, দীনেশ চন্দ্র সেন) (3 November 1866 – 20 November 1939)Sengupta, Subodh Chandra (ed.) (1988) ''Sansad Bangali Charitabhidhan'' (in Bengali), Kolkata: Sahitya Sansad, p.208 was a ...
, historian of Bengali literature and folklorist *
Pramatha Chaudhuri Pramathanath Chaudhuri ( bn, প্রমথনাথ চৌধুরী; 7 August 1868 – 2 September 1946), known as Pramatha Chaudhuri, ''alias'' Birbal, was a Bengali writer and an influential figure in Bengali literature. He was the nephe ...
, 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 Ramesh Chandra Majumdar (known as R. C. Majumdar; 4 December 1888 – 11 February 1980) was a historian and professor of Indian history. Majumdar is a noted historian of modern India. He was a former Sheriff of Kolkata. Early life and educati ...
, historian *
Ramesh Chandra Dutta Romesh Chunder Dutt ( bn, রমেশচন্দ্র দত্ত; 13 August 1848 – 30 November 1909) was an Indian civil servant, economic historian, writer and translator of ''Ramayana'' and ''Mahabharata''. Dutt is considered a nation ...
, historian *
Girindrasekhar Bose Girindrasekhar Bose (31 January 1887 – 3 June 1953) was an early 20th-century Indian psychoanalyst, the first president (1922–1953) of the Indian Psychoanalytic Society.Sudhir Kakar, 'Girindrasekhar Bose (1886-1953), ''International Dictionar ...
, first non-European correspondent of Freud * Suniti Kumar Chatterjee, linguist *
Harinath De Harinath De (12 August 1877— 30 August 1911) was an Indian historian, scholar and a polyglot, who later became the first Indian librarian of the National Library of India (then Imperial Library) from 1907 to 1911. In a life span of thirty four ...
, linguist *
Biraja Sankar Guha Biraja Sankar Guha ( bn, বিরজাশঙ্কর গুহ) (15 August 1894 – 20 October 1961) was an Indian physical anthropologist, who classified Indian people into races around the early part of the 20th century and he was also ...
, anthropologist * Sukumar Sen, linguist *
Susobhan Sarkar Susobhan Chandra Sarkar (1900–1982) was an Indian historian. Background and education Sarkar, son of Suresh Chandra Sarkar, was born into a Brahmo family of Dhaka. He attended Dhaka Collegiate School, studied history at Presidency College, ...
, historian *
Nirmal Kumar Bose Nirmal Kumar Bose (22 January 1901 – 15 October 1972) was a leading Indian anthropologist, who played a formative role in "building an Indian Tradition in Anthropology". A humanist scholar with a broad range of interests, he was also a leadi ...
, anthropologist, associate of Gandhi *
Niharranjan Ray Niharranjan Ray (1903–1981) was an Indian Bengali historian, well known for his works on the history of art and Indian history. Early life and education He was born on 14 January 1903 at Kayetgram village of Mymensingh District in Bengal prov ...
, historian *
Dineshchandra Sircar Dineshchandra Sircar (1907–1985), also known as D. C. Sircar or D. C. Sarkar, was an epigraphist, historian, numismatist and folklorist, known particularly in India and Bangladesh for his work deciphering inscriptions. He was the Chief ...
, epigraphist *
Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya (19 November 1918 – 8 May 1993) was an Indian Marxist philosopher. He made contributions to the exploration of the materialist current in ancient Indian philosophy. He is known for '' Lokayata: A Study in Ancient ...
, social philosopher * Surajit Chandra Sinha, anthropologist * Haricharan Bandopadhayaya, lexicographer * Tapan Raychaudhuri, professor of history at Oxford University *
Amartya Sen Amartya Kumar Sen (; born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher, who since 1972 has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the United States. Sen has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, economi ...
, Nobel Prize awardee in Economics *
Ranajit Guha Ranajit Guha (born 23 May 1923, in Siddhakati, Backergunje) is a historian of the Indian Subcontinent who has been vastly influential in the Subaltern Studies group, and was the editor of several of the group's early anthologies. He migrated fro ...
, subaltern theorist * Sumit Sarkar, historian * Kirti Narayan Chaudhuri, historian *
Maniklal Sinha Maniklal Sinha, also ''Maniklal Singha''; (13 January 1916 -21 March 1994) was an Indian archaeologist, writer, poet, folk-culture scholar (Lokasangskritibid), novelist and assistant teacher at Bishnupur High School. He was the main entrepr ...
, novelist, historian and archaeologist of west Rarh * Gayatri Spivak, feminist * Vina Mazumdar, women's studies academic *
Hem Chandra Raychaudhuri Hem Chandra Raychaudhuri ( bn, হেম চন্দ্র রায়চৌধুরী) (8 April 1892 – 4 May 1957Raychaudhuri, Hemchandra (1972). ''Political History of Ancient India: From the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of ...
, Indian historian


Scholars and polymaths

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Radhakanta Deb Raja Sir Radhakanta Deb Bahadur ( bn, রাজা রাধাকান্ত দেব; 10 March 1784 – 19 April 1867) was a scholar and a leader of the Calcutta conservative Hindu society, son of Gopimohan Deb of Shovabazar Raj who was the a ...
, linguist *
Asima Chatterjee Asima Chatterjee (23 September 1917 – 22 November 2006) was an Indian organic chemist noted for her work in the fields of organic chemistry and phytomedicine.''The Shaping of Indian Science''. p. 1036. Indian Science Congress Association, Pr ...
, scholar of chemistry * Anil Kumar Gain, scholar, mathematician *
Ramendra Sundar Tribedi Ramendra Sundar Tribedi (22 August 1864 – 6 June 1919) was a renowned Bengali author. He is known for his works in Bengali poems, and stories. He is one of the most popular poets of India. Life Ramendra Sundar Tribedi was born at Kandi, Mur ...
, scientist * Amlan Datta, economist, Vice Chancellor of Visva Bharati *
Prithwindra Mukherjee Prithwindra Mukherjee ( bn, পৃথ্বীন্দ্রনাথ মুখোপাধ্যায়; born 1936), who retired in 2003 from his career as a researcher in the Human and Social Sciences Department (Ethnomusicology) of the Fr ...
, scholar of Indian history, philosophy, religion and culture *
Suniti Kumar Chatterji Bhashacharya Acharya Suniti Kumar Chatterjee (26 November 1890 – 29 May 1977) was an Indian linguist, educationist and litterateur. He was a recipient of the second-highest Indian civilian honour of Padma Vibhushan. Life Childhood Chatterji ...
, linguist


Education


Pioneers

* Girish Chandra Bose * Anil Kumar Gain *
Ashutosh Mukherjee Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee (anglicised, originally Asutosh Mukhopadhyay, also anglicised to Asutosh Mookerjee) (29 June 1864 – 25 May 1924) was a prolific Bengali educator, jurist, barrister and mathematician. He was the first student to be awa ...
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Satish Chandra Mukherjee Satish Chandra Mukherjee (5 June 1865 – 18 April 1948) was a pioneer in establishing a system of national education in India, along with Sri Aurobindo. The positivist background Satish Chandra was born at Banipur in Hooghly district of prese ...
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Begum Rokeya Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain") is the commonly used spelling of Rokeya's full married name, Rokeya herself is never seen to use her full married name in this English spelling. In much of her correspondence in English, she used just her initials: ...
*
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar CIE ( bn, ঈশ্বর চন্দ্র বিদ্যাসাগর; 26 September 1820 – 29 July 1891), born Ishwar Chandra Bandyopadhyay, was an Indian educator and social reformer of the nineteenth century ...


Post-independence

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Sudhi Ranjan Das Sudhi Ranjan Das (1 October 1894 – 18 September 1977) was the 5th Chief Justice of India, serving from 1 February 1956 to 30 September 1959. Das also served as chairman of '' The Statesman''. Background and education S.R. Das was born in ...
, Chief Justice of India, Vice-chancellor of Visva Bharati


Others

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Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya Mahamahopadhyay Pandit Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya (22 February 1836 – 12 April 1906) was an Indian scholar of Sanskrit, and the principal of the Sanskrit College between 1876 and 1895. A friend and colleague of Ishwar Chandra Vid ...


Teachers

* Katyayanidas Bhattacharya, philosophy, Presidency College *
Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya (19 November 1918 – 8 May 1993) was an Indian Marxist philosopher. He made contributions to the exploration of the materialist current in ancient Indian philosophy. He is known for '' Lokayata: A Study in Ancient ...
, philosophy, University of Calcutta *
Barun De Barun De (30 October 1932 – 16 July 2013) was an Indian historian. He served as the first professor of social and economic history of the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, founder-director of the Centre for Studies in Social Sci ...
, history, Presidency College * K. C. Nag, mathematics, Mitra institution *
Susobhan Sarkar Susobhan Chandra Sarkar (1900–1982) was an Indian historian. Background and education Sarkar, son of Suresh Chandra Sarkar, was born into a Brahmo family of Dhaka. He attended Dhaka Collegiate School, studied history at Presidency College, ...
, history, Presidency College *
Babar Ali Babar Ali ( ur, ; born 30 June 1972) is a Pakistani film and television actor. He started his career at age sixteen. Babar Ali is known for playing ‘Bali’ in the drama serial Landa Bazaar directed by Khalil-ur-Rehman Qamar. Career Babar ...
, the world's youngest headmaster, Headmaster & Founder of Ananda Siksha Niketan


Philosophy


Pre-modern period

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Chaitanya Mahaprabhu Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (; born Vishvambhar Mishra) was a 15th-century Indian saint who is considered to be the combined avatar of Radha and Krishna by his disciples and various scriptures. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's mode of worshipping Krishn ...
(Achintya Bhedabheda Vedanta) born in
Nabadwip Nabadwip (), also spelt Navadwip, anciently Nadia or Nudiya, is a heritage city in Nadia district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is regarded as a holy place by Hindus, and is the birthplace of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Famous for Rass fest ...
of
Nadia district Nadia () is a district in the state of West Bengal, India. It borders Bangladesh to the east, North 24 Parganas and Hooghly districts to the south, Purba Bardhaman to the west, and Murshidabad to the north. Nadia district is highly influent ...
to parents who hailed from
Sylhet Sylhet ( bn, সিলেট) is a metropolitan city in northeastern Bangladesh. It is the administrative seat of the Sylhet Division. Located on the north bank of the Surma River at the eastern tip of Bengal, Sylhet has a subtropical climate ...
in present day
Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mo ...
*
Madhusudana Saraswati Madhusudana ( sa, मधुसूदन, Madhusūdana, translit-std=IAST) is an epithet of Vishnu and is the 73rd name in the Vishnu Sahasranama. According to Adi Sankara's commentary on the Vishnu Sahasranama, Madhusudana means the "destroyer ...
(Advaita Vedanta), born in Kotalipara, Gopalganj District in present day
Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mo ...
& studied at
Nabadwip Nabadwip (), also spelt Navadwip, anciently Nadia or Nudiya, is a heritage city in Nadia district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is regarded as a holy place by Hindus, and is the birthplace of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Famous for Rass fest ...
in
Nadia district Nadia () is a district in the state of West Bengal, India. It borders Bangladesh to the east, North 24 Parganas and Hooghly districts to the south, Purba Bardhaman to the west, and Murshidabad to the north. Nadia district is highly influent ...
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Raghunatha Siromani Raghunatha Shiromani ( bn, রঘুনাথ শিরোমণি, IAST: Raghunātha Śiromaṇi) () was an Indian philosopher and logician. He was the head ( The Chancellor ) of the Ancient Mithila University also known as Mithila Vidyapeet ...
(Navya Nyaya) from
Nabadwip Nabadwip (), also spelt Navadwip, anciently Nadia or Nudiya, is a heritage city in Nadia district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is regarded as a holy place by Hindus, and is the birthplace of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Famous for Rass fest ...


Modern age

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Chandril Bhattacharya Chandril Bhattacharya ( bn, চন্দ্রিল ভট্টাচার্য) is a popular Bengali essayist, lyricist, poet, orator and director from Kolkata. Music Bhattacharya is one of the main lyricists of the Bengali band Chandra ...
, born in Kolkata *
Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya, also known as K.C. Bhattacharya, (12 May 1875 – 11 December 1949) was a philosopher at the University of Calcutta known for his method of "constructive interpretation" through which relations and problematics of ...
born in
Serampore Serampore (also called ''Serampur'', ''Srirampur'', ''Srirampore'', ''Shreerampur'', ''Shreerampore'', ''Shrirampur'' or ''Shrirampore'') is a city of Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the headquarter of the Srirampore ...
in
Howrah district Howrah district (, ) is a district of the West Bengal state in eastern India. Howrah district is one of the highly urbanized area of West Bengal. The urbanised sectors gradually increase the slum populations. Howrah is the third smallest distric ...
* Anukulchandra Chakravarty born in
Pabna Pabna ( bn, পাবনা) is a city of Pabna District, Bangladesh and the administrative capital of the eponymous Pabna District. It is on the north bank of the Padma River and has a population of about . Etymology * According to the histo ...
district in present day
Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mo ...
, worked & preached in
Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...
. After the
Partition of India The Partition of British India in 1947 was the change of political borders and the division of other assets that accompanied the dissolution of the British Raj in South Asia and the creation of two independent dominions: India and Pakistan. T ...
in 1947, he relocated to
Deoghar Deoghar (pronounced ''Devaghar'') is a major city in Jharkhand, India. It is a holy sacred place of Hinduism. It is one of the 12 ''Jyotirlinga''s sites of Hinduism (Baidyanath Temple). The sacred temples of the city make this a place for p ...
*
Surendranath Dasgupta Surendranath Dasgupta (18 October 1887 – 18 December 1952) was an Indian scholar of Sanskrit and Indian philosophy. Family and education Surendranath Dasgupta was born to a Vaidya family in Kushtia, Bengal (now in Bangladesh), on Sunday, ...
, born in Kusthia of present day
Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mo ...
which was then a part of
Nadia Nadia is a female name. Variations include Nadja, Nadya, Nadine, Nadiya, and Nadiia. Most variations of the name are derived from Arabic, Slavic languages, or both. In Slavic, names similar to ''Nadia'' mean "hope" in many Slavic languages: ...
before
Partition of India The Partition of British India in 1947 was the change of political borders and the division of other assets that accompanied the dissolution of the British Raj in South Asia and the creation of two independent dominions: India and Pakistan. T ...
, studied in
Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...
*
Bimal Krishna Matilal Bimal Krishna Matilal (1 June 1935 – 8 June 1991) was an eminent British-Indian philosopher whose writings presented the Indian philosophical tradition as a comprehensive system of logic incorporating most issues addressed by themes in Weste ...
, born in
Jaynagar Jaynagar Majilpur () is a town and a municipality of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is situated in the southern suburbs of Kolkata. As an urban setup in the vicinity of Kolkata, the town is within the ar ...
in
South 24 Parganas South 24 Parganas (Pron: pɔrɡɔnɔs; abbr. 24 PGS (S)), or sometimes South Twenty Four Parganas and Dakshin 24 Parganas, is a district in the Indian state of West Bengal, headquartered in Alipore. It is the largest district of West Bengal by ...
district *
Amartya Sen Amartya Kumar Sen (; born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher, who since 1972 has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the United States. Sen has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, economi ...
, born in
Shantiniketan Santiniketan is a neighbourhood of Bolpur town in the Bolpur subdivision of Birbhum district in West Bengal, India, approximately 152 km north of Kolkata. It was established by Maharshi Devendranath Tagore, and later expanded by his s ...
in
Birbhum Birbhum district () is an administrative unit in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the northernmost district of Burdwan division—one of the five administrative divisions of West Bengal. The district headquarters is in Suri. Other impo ...
District * Keshab Chandra Sen born in Kolkata *
Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore (; bn, রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He resh ...
born in Kolkata *
Swami Vivekananda Swami Vivekananda (; ; 12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902), born Narendranath Datta (), was an Indian Hindu monk, philosopher, author, religious teacher, and the chief disciple of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna. He was a key figure in the intr ...
born in Kolkata *
Sri Aurobindo Sri Aurobindo (born Aurobindo Ghose; 15 August 1872 – 5 December 1950) was an Indian philosopher, yogi, maharishi, poet, and Indian nationalist. He was also a journalist, editing newspapers such as ''Vande Mataram''. He joined the ...


Science

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Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (born 1968) is an Indian computer scientist specializing in computational biology. A professor at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, she is a Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize winner in Engineering Science for 2010, ...
, computer scientist * Somnath Bharadwaj, cosmology * Santanu Bhattacharya, chemistry * Manilal Bhaumik * Satyendra Nath Bose *
Upendranath Brahmachari Rai Bahadur Sir Upendranath Brahmachari ( bn, উপেন্দ্রনাথ ব্রহ্মচারী) (19 December 1873 – 6 February 1946) was a leading Indian physician and scientist of his time. He synthesised Urea-Stibamine (car ...
* Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri, Computer scientist * Anil Kumar Gain, mathematics *
Partha Ghose Partha Ghose (born 1939) is an Indian physicist, author, philosopher, musician and former professor at the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences in Kolkata. He is the former Chairman of Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkat ...
* Sankar Ghosh * P.C. Mahalanobis * Dwijesh Dutta Majumdar, Computer scientist *
Ujjwal Maulik Ujjwal Maulik is an Indian computer scientist and a professor. He is the former chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He also held the position of the principal-in-char ...
, computer scientist * Ashesh Prosad Mitra *
Sisir Kumar Mitra Sisir Kumar Mitra (or ''Shishirkumar Mitra'') MBE, FNI, FASB, FIAS, FRS (24 October 1890 – 13 August 1963) was an Indian physicist. Early life and education Mitra was born in his father's hometown of Konnagar, a suburb of Kolkata (then C ...
* Subhash Mukhopadhyay, physician * Sankar Kumar Pal, Computer scientist *
Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri (14 September 1923 – 18 June 2005) was an Indian physicist, known for his research in general relativity and cosmology. His most significant contribution is the eponymous Raychaudhuri equation, which demonstrates that ...
* Anjali Roy, mycologist *
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 spor ...
, plasma physics * Ram Brahma Sanyal, zoology *
Amartya Sen Amartya Kumar Sen (; born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher, who since 1972 has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the United States. Sen has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, economi ...
, Nobel Laureate, economist, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences * Ashoke Sen, physics * Radhanath Sikdar


Religious scholars


Muslim

*Jalaluddin Tabrizi (13th-century) *Gazi Pir (13th-century) *Pir Gorachand (13th-century) *Usman Serajuddin (1258–1357) *Alaul Haq (1301–1384) *Nur Qutb Alam (d. 1416) *Fakhr ad-Din al-Burdwani (d. 1785) *
Ghulam Mustafa Burdwani Ghulām Muṣṭafā al-Burdwānī ( ar, غلام مصطفى البردواني), or alternatively Golam Mostafa Bardhamani ( bn, গোলাম মোস্তফা বর্ধমানী), was an 18th-century Islamic scholar and poet from Bu ...
(fl. 1780s) *Syed Shah Mehr Ali Alquadri Al Baghdadi, Shah Mehr Ali (1808–1868) *Ubaidullah Al Ubaidi Suhrawardy (1832–1885) *Azangachhi Shaheb (1828–1932) *Mohammad Abu Bakr Siddique (1865–1943) *Abdullah al-Baqi (1886–1952) *Abbas Siddiqui (born 1987)


Pre-modern period

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Chaitanya Mahaprabhu Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (; born Vishvambhar Mishra) was a 15th-century Indian saint who is considered to be the combined avatar of Radha and Krishna by his disciples and various scriptures. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's mode of worshipping Krishn ...
* Nityananda * Six Goswamis of Vrindavana * Krishnananda Agamavagisha * Ramprasad Sen


The Brahmo Samaj

* Debendranath Tagore *
Raja Ram Mohan Roy Raja Ram Mohan Roy ( bn, রামমোহন রায়; 22 May 1772 – 27 September 1833) was an Indian reformer who was one of the founders of the Brahmo Sabha in 1828, the precursor of the Brahmo Samaj, a social-religious reform m ...
* Ram Chandra Vidyabagish * Keshub Chunder Sen * Anandamohan Bose


Hindu revival movement

* Ramakrishna * Sarada Devi *
Swami Vivekananda Swami Vivekananda (; ; 12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902), born Narendranath Datta (), was an Indian Hindu monk, philosopher, author, religious teacher, and the chief disciple of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna. He was a key figure in the intr ...
*
Sri Aurobindo Sri Aurobindo (born Aurobindo Ghose; 15 August 1872 – 5 December 1950) was an Indian philosopher, yogi, maharishi, poet, and Indian nationalist. He was also a journalist, editing newspapers such as ''Vande Mataram''. He joined the ...


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

* Ram Mohan Roy *
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar CIE ( bn, ঈশ্বর চন্দ্র বিদ্যাসাগর; 26 September 1820 – 29 July 1891), born Ishwar Chandra Bandyopadhyay, was an Indian educator and social reformer of the nineteenth century ...
* Keshab Chunder Sen, Keshab Chandra Sen *
Swami Vivekananda Swami Vivekananda (; ; 12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902), born Narendranath Datta (), was an Indian Hindu monk, philosopher, author, religious teacher, and the chief disciple of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna. He was a key figure in the intr ...
* Protap Chunder Mozoomdar * Anil Kumar Gain * Nibaran Chandra Mukherjee * Sri Sri Harichand Thakur *
Satish Chandra Mukherjee Satish Chandra Mukherjee (5 June 1865 – 18 April 1948) was a pioneer in establishing a system of national education in India, along with Sri Aurobindo. The positivist background Satish Chandra was born at Banipur in Hooghly district of prese ...
* Dwarkanath Ganguly


Derozians

* Ramtanu Lahiri * Radhanath Sikdar * Rajnarayan Basu * Peary Chand Mitra * Rasik Krishna Mallick * Krishna Mohan Banerjee * Madhusudan Dutta * Hara Chandra Ghosh * Ramgopal Ghosh * Kishori Chand Mitra


Women's rights

* Rani Rashmoni * Kadambini Ganguly * Chandramukhi Basu * Kaberi Gain * Sarala Devi *
Begum Rokeya Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain") is the commonly used spelling of Rokeya's full married name, Rokeya herself is never seen to use her full married name in this English spelling. In much of her correspondence in English, she used just her initials: ...
* Charulata Mukherjee * Romola Sinha


Military

* Subhas Chandra Bose, founder, Indian National Army * General Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri, Indian Army Chief during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 * Admiral Adhar Kumar Chatterji, Indian Navy Chief between 1966 and 1970. * S. K. Majumdar (IAF officer), Air Commodore Sudhindra Kumar Majumdar (1927–2011), India's first military helicopter pilot * Air Marshal Subroto Mukherjee, former Head of Indian Air Force * Arup Raha, Chief of the Air Staff Designate Arup Raha, 24th chief of Indian Air Force. * Indra Lal Roy, first Indian (pre Independence) flying ace * General Shankar Roychowdhury, former Indian Army Chief * Flight Lieutenant Suhas Biswas, recipient of Ashoka Chakra (military decoration), Ashoka Chakra * Captain Man Bahadur Rai, recipient of Ashoka Chakra (military decoration), Ashoka Chakra * Air Vice Marshal Madhavendra Banerji, recipient of Maha Vir Chakra


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 (composer), Anil Biswas *
Dwijendralal Ray Dwijendralal Ray (19 July 1863 – 17 May 1913), also known as D. L. Ray, was an Indian poet, playwright, and musician. He was known for his Hindu mythological and nationalist historical plays and songs known as ''Dwijendrageeti'' or the ''Son ...
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Dilipkumar Roy Dilip Kumar Roy (22 January 1897 – 6 January 1980), also spelt Dilipkumar Roy, was an Indian musician, singer, musicologist, novelist, poet, essayist and yogi. He was the son of Dwijendralal Ray (or Roy). In 1965, the Sangeet Natak Akademi, In ...
* Gouri Prasanna Majumdar * Hemanta Mukherjee *
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* Kamal Dasgupta * Kabir Suman * Manabendra Mukhopadhyay * Nachiketa Ghosh * Raichand Boral * Rajanikanta Sen *
Salil Chowdhury Salil Chowdhury (19 November 1925 – 5 September 1995) was an Indian music director, songwriter, lyricist, writer and poet who predominantly composed for Bengali, Hindi and Malayalam films. He composed music for films in 13 languages. This ...
* Sachin Dev Burman * Sudhin Dasgupta


Performers (instrumental)

* Allauddin Khan, sarod and multi-instrumentalist * Ali Akbar Khan, sarod * Annapurna Devi, surbahar *
Buddhadeb Dasgupta Buddhadeb Dasgupta (11 February 1944 – 10 June 2021) was an Indian filmmaker and poet best known for his Bengali-language films like ''Bagh Bahadur'', '' Tahader Katha'', ''Charachar'' and ''Uttara''. Five of his films have won the National ...
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Performers (vocal)


Classical

* Gopeshwar Banerjee * Naina Devi (singer), Naina Devi * Ajoy Chakrabarty, vocal * Bishnupur Gharana * Tarapada Chakraborty * Kaushiki Chakraborty


Songs of Tagore and his contemporaries

* Dinendranath Tagore *
Dilipkumar Roy Dilip Kumar Roy (22 January 1897 – 6 January 1980), also spelt Dilipkumar Roy, was an Indian musician, singer, musicologist, novelist, poet, essayist and yogi. He was the son of Dwijendralal Ray (or Roy). In 1965, the Sangeet Natak Akademi, In ...
* 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 (singer), 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 Nachiketa Chakraborty, simply known as Nachiketa, is an Indian singer, songwriter, musician, composer and playback singer who is known for his modern Bengali lyrics. He achieved fame in the early 1990s, with the release of his debut album ''Ei Be ...
* Ruma Guha Thakurta * Shaan (singer), Shaan * Silajit Majumder * Shyamal Mitra * Shreya Ghoshal * Antara Chowdhury * Srikanta Acharya * Anjan Dutt * Arijit Singh * Rupam Islam * Anupam Roy


Nazrul geeti

*Indrani Sen *Purabi Dutta *Manabendra Mukhopadhyay


Movies


Directors

* Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury * Anjan Dutt * Anurag Basu * Aparna Sen * Basu Bhattacharya * Basu Chatterjee * Bimal Roy *
Buddhadeb Dasgupta Buddhadeb Dasgupta (11 February 1944 – 10 June 2021) was an Indian filmmaker and poet best known for his Bengali-language films like ''Bagh Bahadur'', '' Tahader Katha'', ''Charachar'' and ''Uttara''. Five of his films have won the National ...
* Chidananda Dasgupta * Debaki Bose * Goutam Ghose * Hrishikesh Mukherjee * Mrinal Sen * Mujibar Rahaman * Pritish Chakraborty * Prem Prakash Modi * Raj Chakraborty * Mohammad Mohsin * Rituparno Ghosh * Ritwik Ghatak *
Satyajit Ray Satyajit Ray (; 2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian director, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, author, essayist, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher, and music composer. One of the greatest auteurs of ...
* Shiboprosad Mukherjee * Shoojit Sircar * Srijit Mukherji * Sujit Mondal * Sujoy Ghosh * Supriyo Sen * Suman Mukhopadhyay * Tapan Sinha * Tarun Majumdar


Actors

* Abhishek Chatterjee * Abir Chatterjee * Anil Chatterjee * Anirban Bhattacharya * Ankush Hazra * Apurva Agnihotri * Arun Mukherjee * Asit Sen (actor), Asit Sen * Bhanu Bandopadhyay * Biswajit Chakraborty * Chhabi Biswas * Chinmoy Roy * Chiranjeet Chakraborty * Dev (Bengali actor), Dev * Dhritiman Chatterjee * Harindranath Chattopadhyay * Hiran Chatterjee * Jeet (actor), Jeet * Jisshu Sengupta * Joy Kumar Mukherjee * Kali Banerjee * Kamal Mitra * Keshto Mukherjee * Lokesh Ghosh, Lokesh * Mir Afsar Ali * Mithun Chakraborty * Pahari Sanyal * Parambrata Chatterjee * Pradeep Kumar * Pritish Chakraborty * Priyanshu Chatterjee, Priyanshu * Prosenjit Chatterjee * Rabi Ghosh * Rahul Roy * Ranjit Mallick * Saswata Chatterjee * Soumitra Chatterjee * Subhendu Chatterjee * Tapas Paul * Tathagata Mukherjee * Tulsi Chakraborty * Utpal Datta * Uttam Kumar * Victor Banerjee


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

*Avik Mukhopadhyay *Baby Islam *Binod Pradhan *Kamal Bose *Nemai Ghosh (director) *Ramananda Sengupta *Subrata Mitra *Sudeep Chatterjee *Supratim Bhol


Editor

* Dulal Dutta * Arghyakamal Mitra * Rabiranjan Maitra * Mainak Bhaumik * Srijit Mukherji


Dance

* Uday Shankar * Amala Shankar * Mamata Shankar * Sharmila Biswas


Doctors

* B.C. Roy * S. K. Burman * Subhash Mukhopadhyay * Nilratan Sircar * Radha Gobinda Kar * Rafiuddin Ahmed (dentist) *
Upendranath Brahmachari Rai Bahadur Sir Upendranath Brahmachari ( bn, উপেন্দ্রনাথ ব্রহ্মচারী) (19 December 1873 – 6 February 1946) was a leading Indian physician and scientist of his time. He synthesised Urea-Stibamine (car ...
*Sambhu Nath De *Kadambini Ganguly *Tabitha Solomon *Madhusudan Gupta


Drama/theatre

* Girish Chandra Ghosh * Dinabandhu Mitra *
Jyotirindranath Tagore Jyotirindranath Tagore ( bn, জ্যোতিরিন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 4 May 1849 – 4 March 1925) was a playwright, a musician, an editor and a painter. He played a major role in the flowering of the talents of his you ...
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Dwijendralal Ray Dwijendralal Ray (19 July 1863 – 17 May 1913), also known as D. L. Ray, was an Indian poet, playwright, and musician. He was known for his Hindu mythological and nationalist historical plays and songs known as ''Dwijendrageeti'' or the ''Son ...
* Sisir Bhaduri * Bijon Bhattacharya * Sombhu Mitra, Shambhu Mitra * Utpal Dutt * Bibhas Chakraborty * Rudraprasad Sengupta * Badal Sarkar * Usha Ganguly * Manoj Mitra * Ajitesh Bandopadhyay * Debshankar Halder


Magicians

* Ganapati Chakraborty * P. C. Sorcar * P. C. Sorcar Jr. * P. C. Sorcar, Young * Maneka Sorcar


Politicians and revolutionaries


Pre-modern

* Shashanka * Gopala * Dharmapala * Devapala (Pala dynasty), Devapala * Mahipala * Ballal Sen * Lakshman Sen


Colonial period

* Titumir * Satyendranath Tagore *
Romesh Chunder Dutt Romesh Chunder Dutt ( bn, রমেশচন্দ্র দত্ত; 13 August 1848 – 30 November 1909) was an Indian civil servant, economic historian, writer and translator of ''Ramayana'' and ''Mahabharata''. Dutt is considered a natio ...
* Lord Satyendra Prasanna Sinha * Nripendra Narayan, philanthropist and ruler of Cooch Behar * Durjan Singh, leader of Chuar rebellion * Rani Shiromani, queen of Karnagarh and leader of Chuar rebellion * Gobardhan Dikpati, leader of Chuar rebellion


Indian freedom fighters


Early figures

* Surendranath Banerjee * Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee


Twentieth century

* Bipin Chandra Pal *
Sri Aurobindo Sri Aurobindo (born Aurobindo Ghose; 15 August 1872 – 5 December 1950) was an Indian philosopher, yogi, maharishi, poet, and Indian nationalist. He was also a journalist, editing newspapers such as ''Vande Mataram''. He joined the ...
* Syed Badrudduja * 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 * Sudhamoy Pramanick * Saroj Mukherjee * Renuka Ray * Shyama Prasad Mukherjee * Hemchandra Kanungo * Kanailal Bhattacharyya * Kanailal Bhattacharjee


Politicians

* Ashok Mitra * Ajit Kumar Panja * A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury * Atulya Ghosh * Amit Mitra * Abha Maiti * Bidhan Chandra Roy * Bimal Gurung * Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee * Bir Singh Mahato * Babul Supriyo * Derek O'Brien (politician), Derek O'Brien * Dev (Bengali actor), Dev * Firhad Hakim * Hashim Abdul Halim * Jyoti Basu * Kamal Guha * Kanailal Bhattacharyya * Kedarnath Bhattacharya * Mamata Banerjee * Mukul Roy * Mriganko Mahato * Mohammed Salim (politician), Mohammed Salim * Narahari Mahato * Partha Chatterjee (politician), Partha Chatterjee * Pratap Chandra Chunder * Prafulla Chandra Sen * Pranab Mukherjee * Siddhartha Shankar Ray * Subrata Mukherjee * Sultan Ahmed (Indian politician) * Saugata Roy * Somnath Chatterjee * Sabina Yeasmin * Sovandeb Chattopadhyay * Tathagata Roy * Tanmoy Bhattacharya


Others

* Abul Barkat


Donation and social welfare


Old Calcutta / Bengal legends

* Nabakrishna Deb, Raja Nabakrishna Deb * Radhakanta Deb, Raja Radhakanta Deb, published two Sanskrit dictionaries used by Westerners * Gobindram Mitter * Anil Kumar Gain * Mutty Lal Seal * Bijoy Chand Mahtab * Uday Chand Mahtab * Mother Teresa * Manindra Chandra Nandy, Maharaja of Cossimbazar


Sports


Chess

* Dibyendu Barua, Grandmaster * Surya Shekhar Ganguly, Grandmaster * Nisha Mohota, first woman Grandmaster of West Bengal


Cricket

* Arun Lal * Benu Dasgupta * Jhulan Goswami * Pankaj Roy * Priyanka Roy * Rumeli Dhar * Ambar Roy * Saba Karim * Sourav Ganguly * Ashok Dinda * Manoj Tiwary (cricketer), Manoj Tiwary * Wriddhiman Saha * Shreevats Goswami


Football

*P. K. Banerjee *Samar Banerjee *Shibdas Bhaduri *Subrata Bhattacharya (footballer), Subrata Bhattacharya *Gostho Pal *Krishanu Dey *Sailen Manna *Chuni Goswami *Gautam Sarkar


Lawn tennis

* Leander Paes, noted lawn tennis player of India * Jaidip Mukerjea


Squash

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


Bodybuilding

* Manohar Aich, Mr. Universe, 1952 * Monotosh Roy, Mr. Universe, 1951 * Bishnu Charan Ghosh, Noted bodybuilder and hathayogi


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 Physical disability, 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 Gayen, 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), 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

* Jagat Seth * Dwarakanath Tagore * Diptendu Pramanick * Rajen Mookerjee * S. K. Burman * Ghanshyam Das Birla * Jugal Kishore Birla * Ram Nath Goenka * Madhav Prasad Birla * Rajat Kumar Gupta * Purnendu Chatterjee * Sadhan Dutt * Subir Raha * Sumantra Ghoshal * Pritish Chakraborty * Alamohan Das * Dilip Shanghvi


Other areas

* Ashis Nandy, author, political psychologist * Subroto Mukerjee * Shankar Roychowdhury * William Tolly * P. C. Sorcar, Jr., magician from Kolkata * Arup Raha *
Narayan Debnath Narayan Debnath (25 November 1925 – 18 January 2022) was an Indian comics artist, writer and illustrator. He created the Bengali comic strips '' Handa Bhonda'' (1962), ''Bantul the Great'' (1965) and '' Nonte Phonte'' (1969). He holds the re ...


See also

* List of people by India state * List of Bengalis


References

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