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Revision as of 04:44, 29 March 2010
This is a list of famous and notable people from West Bengal, India. This would include persons who are known to a large number of people and is not based on the extent of their popularity. Neither is the list viewed from the context of the present. Their fame could be brief. What matters is that they were well-known during the peak of their popularity. 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 main past figures
- Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
- Rabindranath Tagore (Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913)
- Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
- Pramatha Chaudhuri
- Rajshekhar Basu "Parasuram"
- Sukumar Ray
- Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay
- Tarashankar Bandopadhyay
- Manik Bandopadhyay
- Kazi Nazrul Islam
- Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay
- Annadashankar Roy
- Amiya Chakravarty
- Premendra Mitra
- Bishnu Dey
- Sudhindranath Datta
- Achintyakumar Sengupta
- Ashapoorna Devi
Children's story writers
Medieval Bengal Literary Scene
- Chandidas
- Vidyapati
- Krittibas Ojha
- Govindadas
- Jnanadas
- Kavikankan Mukundaram
- Kashiram Das
- Bharat Chandra
- Ramprasad
Other authors from Early Modern Period
- Madan Mohan Tarkalankar
- Iswar Gupta
- Peary Chand Mitra
- Kaliprasanna Sinha
- Hemchandra Banerjee
- Akshay Kumar Baral
- Romesh Chunder Dutt
- Jyotirindranath Tagore
- Swami Vivekananda
- Dwijendralal Ray
- Trailokyanath Sanyal
Prominent Foreign Language Authors from Bengal
- Toru Dutt
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Manomohan Ghose
- Sri Aurobindo
- Ketaki Kushari Dyson
- Jhumpa Lahiri
- Amitav Ghosh
- Amit Chaudhuri
- Upamanyu Chatterjee
- 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
- Sukanta Bhattacharya
- Subhash Mukhopadhyay
- Bimal Kar
- Shakti Chattopadhyay
- Shankha Ghosh
- Purnendu Patri
- Narendranath Mitra
- Arun Mitra
- Nirendranath Chakraborty
- Alokranjan Dasgupta
- Ramapada Chaudhuri
- Santosh Kumar Ghosh
- Mahasweta Devi
- Sanjeev Chattopadhyay
- Shibram Chakravarty
- Narayan Gangopadhyay
- Narayan Sanyal
- Buddhadeb Guha
- Samaresh Majumdar
- Shankar
- Moti Nandi
- Syed Mustafa Siraj
- Kazi Abdul Wadud
- S Wajid Ali
- Shahadat Hossain
- Sandipan Chattopadhyay
- Samir Roychoudhury
- Buddhadev Dasgupta
- Salil Choudhury
- Prabir Ghosh
- Malay Roy Choudhury
- Adrish Bardhan
- Dipak Majumdar
- Utpal Kumar Basu
- Tridib Mitra
- Subimal Basak
- Binoy Majumdar
- Joy Goswami
- Rudrasankar
- Subodh Sarkar
- Falguni Ray
- Masuduzzaman
- Sujit Sarkar
- Bitashoke Bhattacharya
- Gautam Basu
- Mallika Sengupta
- Jahar Sen Mazumdar
- Sanjukta Bandopadhyay
- Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay
- Srijato
- Pranabkumar Chattopadhyay
Journalism
- Harish Chandra Mukherjee
- Dwarkanath Vidyabhusan
- Shishir Kumar Ghosh
- Tushar Kanti Ghosh
- Upendrakishore Roychaudhuri, Founder, 'Sandesh' Children's Magazine
- Sukumar Ray, Editor, Sandesh
- Sagarmay Ghosh
- Moti Nandi
- Barun Sengupta
- Chandan Mitra
- Sunanda K. Datta-Ray
- Bibekananda Mukhopadhyay
Language/Linguistics, Anthropology, History, and other Social Sciences
- Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Creator of Standard Bengali Prose (sadhu bhasha)
- Rajendralal Mitra, First Indian to work with Indologists
- Haraprasad Shastri, Historian of Bengali language and culture
- Pramatha Chaudhuri, Creator of Modern Bengali Prose (chalit bhasha) along with Tagore
- Rajsekhar Bose, Major contributor for scientific terms in Bengali and lexicographer
- Ramesh Chandra Majumdar, Historian
- Girindrasekhar Bose, Correspondent of Freud
- Suniti Kumar Chatterjee, Linguist
- Biraja Sankar Guha, Anthropologist
- Sukumar Sen, Linguist
- Susobhan Sarkar, Historian
- Niharranjan Ray, Historian
- Dineshchandra Sircar, Epigraphist
- Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya, Social Philosopher
- Surajit Chandra Sinha, Anthropologist
- Tapan Raychaudhuri, Professor of History at Oxford University
- Kirti Narayan Chaudhuri, Historian
- Ranajit Guha, Subaltern Theorist
- Sumit Sarkar, Historian
- Gayatri Spivak, Feminist
Renowned Scholars and Polymaths
- Kshetramohan Goswami, Scholar on Music
- Sourindramohan Tagore, Scholar on Music
- Krishnadhan Banerjee, Scholar on Music
- Ramendra Sundar Trivedi, Scholar of Science
- Hirendranath Datta, Scholar on Indian Law, Religion and Philosophy
- Atul Chandra Gupta, Lawyer, Aesthetician
- Kshitimohan Sen, Scholar on Religion and Music
- Haricharan Bandyopadhyay, Lexicographer
- Gopinath Kaviraj, Scholar on Tantra and various Ancient/Medieval Religious works
- Haridas Siddhantavagish, Sanskrit Scholar
- Vasantaranjan Vidvadvallabh, Member of Vangiya Sahitya Parishat
- Dhurjatiprasad Mukherjee, Economist, Aestheticist, Musicologist
- Amiya Nath Sanyal, Scholar on Music
- Nirmal Kumar Bose, Anhropologist, Associate of Gandhi
- Kshitish Ray, Scholar on Literature and Art
- Rajyeshwar Mitra, Music Critic
- Atul Sur, Cultural Anthropologist
- Jyotirindra Maitra, Polymath, Musician, Activist
- Hirendranath Mukherjee, Scholar
- Ramkrishna Dasgupta, Librarian, Polymath
- Amlan Datta, Economist, Polymath
- Radhaprasad Gupta, Authority on Old Calcutta
- Kumarprasad Mukherjee, Music Connoisseur and writer
- Prithwindra Mukherjee, Polymath, Awardee of French Government Officer of the Order of Arts
Education
Pioneers
Post Independence
- Sudhi Ranjan Das, Chief Justice of India, Vice-chancellor of Visva Bharati
Others
Legendary Teachers
- P. C. Ghosh, English, Presidency College
- Kshitimohan Sen, Visva Bharati University
- Taraknath Sen, English, Presidency College
- Susobhan Sarkar, History, Presidency College
- Gaurinath Sastri, Sanskrit, Sanskrit College
- Gopinath Bhattacharya, Philosophy, Calcutta University
- Subodh Chandra Sengupta, English, 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
- Brajendranath Seal
- Surendranath Dasgupta
- Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya
- Bimal Krishna Matilal
Science
- Basantidulal Nagchaudhuri, Physics
- Amal Raychaudhuri, Physics
- Ashoke Sen, String Theory, Physics
- Debabrata Goswami
- Manilal Bhaumik
- Subhash Mukhopadhyay, Physician
- Sisir Kumar Mitra
- Ashesh Prosad Mitra
- Arun K. Ghosh, after whom is named Darunavir
- Amartya Sen Nobel Laureate , economist, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 1998
- Ram Brahma Sanyal, Zoology
Religious Reformation
Pre-modern period
The Brahmo Samaj
- Raja Ram Mohan Roy
- Ram Chandra Vidyabagish
- Maharshi Debendranath Tagore
- Keshab Chandra Sen
- Sivanath Sastri
Neo Hinduism
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
- Vijay Krishna Goswami
- Protap Chunder Mozoomdar
- Nibaran Chandra Mukherjee
- Umesh Chandra Dutta
- Ashwini Kumar Datta
Derozians
- Ramtanu Lahiri
- Radhanath Sikdar
- Rajnarayan Basu
- Sib Chandra Deb
- Peary Chand Mitra
- Rasik Krishna Mallick
- Krishna Mohan Banerjee
- Dakshinaranjan Mukherjee
- Ramgopal Ghosh
The First Indian Women to break social barriers
- Rani Rashmoni, Confronted with the British, First non-upper caste founder of Hindu Temple, Promoter of Ramakrishna in his initial days
- Rassundari Dasi, First Woman Author from Modern Bengal
- Kadambini Ganguly, First Woman Physician
- Jnanadanandini Devi, First Hindu Woman from respectable family to go abroad
- Sarala Devi, First Woman Nationalist
- Other Women from the Tagore family who were pioneers in many areas
- Abala Bose, Social Worker
- Amala Das, First Woman from Respectable Indian Familes to record songs on gramophone, among the foremost singers to sing in the Indian National Congress
- Roma Chaudhuri, First Bengali Woman to become a University Vice-Chancellor
Art
Early Modern Period
- Abanindranath Tagore
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Gaganendranath Tagore
- Sunayani Devi
- Nandalal Bose
- Binode Bihari Mukherjee
- Ramkinkar Baij
- Jamini Roy
- Hemen Majumdar
- Kshitindranath Majumdar
From mid-twentieth century
- Mukul Dey
- Atul Bose
- Chintamani Kar
- Paresh Maity
- Paritosh Sen
- Jahar Dasgupta
- Sarbari Raychaudhuri
- Meera Mukherjee
- Hemen Ganguly
- Ganesh Pyne
- Bikash Bhattacharjee
- Anil Karanjai
- Anjolie ela Menon
- Subimal Kanti Dutta
- Somenath Hore
Photography, Publishing/Advertizing, Film Editing and other areas of Art
- Hemendramohan Bose, Originator of swadeshi brands of various products in early twentieth century
- Surendranath Kar, Architect, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan
- Dilip Kumar Gupta, a pioneer of Indian Advertising, who also modernized and professionalized publishing in Bengal,and helped many talented Bengali writers, poets, filmmakers and artists achieve their aspirations. First publisher of Jawarharlal Nehru's Discovery of India. A cultural icon and role model of his times.
- Shambhu Shaha, Photojournalist of Tagore's Santiniketan
- Dulal Dutta, Associate of Satyajit Ray
- Subrata Mitra, Cinematographer associated with Satyajit Ray
- Nemai Ghosh, Celebrated Photographer
Music
Composers
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Dwijendralal Ray
- Atulprasad Sen
- Rajanikanta Sen
- Kazi Nazrul Islam
- Dilipkumar Roy
- Himanshu Dutta
- Raichand Boral
- Sachin Dev Burman
- Kamal Dasgupta
- Salil Chowdhury
- Hemanta Mukherjee
- Sudhin Dasgupta
- Nachiketa Ghosh
- Rahul Dev Burman
- Kabir Suman
- Anjan Dutta
- Nachiketa
- Pritam
- V. Balsara
Performers (Vocal)
Classical
- Bishnupur Gharana
- Jadu Bhatta
- Gopeshwar Banerjee
- Radhikaprasad Goswami
- Girijashankar Chakravarti
- Jnanendraprasad Goswami
- Bhishmadev Chatterjee
- Tarapada Chakravarti
- Dipali Nag
- Ajoy Chakrabarty
Songs of Tagore and his contemporaries
- Dinendranath Tagore
- Amala Das
- Dilipkumar Roy
- Sahana Devi
- Amiya Tagore
- Renuka Dasgupta
- Malati Ghoshal
- Santosh Sengupta
- Santideb Ghosh
- Debabrata Biswas
- Rajeshwari Datta
- Uma Basu
- Subinoy Roy
- Kanika Bandyopadhyay
- Suchitra Mitra
- Nilima Sen
- Manju Gupta
- Krishna Chatterjee
- Gita Ghatak
- Arghya Sen
- Ritu Guha
- Sarmila Roy Pommot
- Sarmila Bose
Bengali Modern
- Kanan Devi
- Hemanta Mukherjee
- Sandhya Mukhopadhyay
- Amit Kumar
- Abhijeet, full name Abhijeet Bhattacharya
- Arati Mukherjee
- Bappi Lahiri
- Babul Supriyo
- Indraneel Sen
- Indrani Sen
- Kishore Kumar
- Kumar Sanu
- Madhushree
- Manabendra Mukherjee
- Manna Dey
- Nachiketa
- Ruma Guha Thakurta
- Shaan, full name Shantanu Mukherjee
- Shilajeet Majumdar
- Shyamal Mitra
- Shreya Ghoshal
- Sangeeta Bandyopadyay
- Antara Chowdhury
- Srikanta Acharya
- Anjan Dutta
- Chandrabindoo, Bengali Pop Band
Performers (Instrumental)
- Alauddin Khan, Sarod, Surbahar, Violin
- Ravi Shankar, Sitar
- Ali Akbar Khan, Sitar
- Annapurna Devi
- Birendrakishore Roychowdhury, Surbahar
- Vilayat Khan, Sitar
- Nikhil Banerjee, Sitar
- Radhikaprasad Maitra, Sarod
- Hirendranath Ganguly, Tabla
- Bhishmadev Chatterjee, Harmonium
- Ashesh Bandyopadhyay, Esraj
- Pandit Jnan Prakash Ghosh, Harmonium, Organ
- Ranadhir Roy, Esraj
- Buddhadev Das Gupta, Sarod
- Budhaditya Mukherjee, Sitar
- Kumar Bose, Tabla
- Sankha Chatterjee, Tabla
- Biswajit Roy Chowdhury, Sarod
- Anindo Chatterjee
- Anjan Chattopadhyay
- Bikram Ghosh
- Tanmay Bose
- Anup Kumar Biswas
- Sanjoy Bandopadhyay
Movies
Directors
Actors
- Mithun Chakraborty
- Biswajit
- Joy Mukherjee
- Pradeep Kumar
- Ashok Kumar
- Kishore Kumar
- Anup Kumar Ganguly
- Prasenjit
- Rahul Bose
- Rahul Roy
- Rohan Dey
- Soumitra Chatterjee
- Uttam Kumar
- Ranjit Kumar Chatterjee
- Victor Banerjee
- Ranjit Mullick
- Gyanesh Mukherjee
- Chhabi Biswas
- Pahari Sanyal
- Radhamohan Bhattacharya
- Basanta Chaudhuri
- Tulsi Chakraborty
- Ajitesh Banerjee
- Asit Bandopadhyay
- Kali Banerjee
- Rabi Ghosh
- Chinmoy Roy
- Bhanu Banerjee
- Jahar Roy
- Jahar Gangully
- Dhritiman Chaterji
- Tapas Pal
- Chiranjit
- Shantu Mukherjee
- Arun Mukherjee
- Abdur Razzak
- Keshto Mukherjee
- Anil Chatterjee
- Asit Sen
- Harendranath Chattopadhaya
Actresses
(Alphabetical) Also see List of Bengali actresses
- Aparna Sen
- Arpita Paul
- Arundhati Devi
- Bipasha Basu
- Chhaya Devi
- Debasree Roy
- Devika Rani, first winner of Dadasaheb Phalke Award, 1970
- Indrani Haldar
- Jaya Bachchan (born in Bhaduri)
- June Malia
- Kajol
- Kananbala
- Kanan Devi Dadasaheb Phalke Award, 1977
- Kheyali Dastidar
- Lili Chakroborty
- Madhabi Mukherjee
- Mamata Shankar
- Moon Moon Sen
- Mohua Roy Choudhury
- Moushmi Chatterji
- Nandini Malia
- Raakhee Gulzar
- Rachna Banerjee
- Raima Sen
- Rani Mukherjee
- Rimi Sen
- Rina Choudhury
- Rituparna Sengupta
- Riya Sen
- Ruma Guha Thakurta
- Sabitri Chatterjee
- Sarajubala Devi
- Shandhya Roy
- Sharmila Tagore
- Subrata Chatterjee
- Suchitra Sen
- Sulochana Chatterjee
- Sumita Sanyal
- Supriya Devi
- Sushmita Sen
- Tanushree Dutta
Dance
- Uday Shankar
- Amala Shankar
- Mamata Shankar
- Donna Ganguly
Drama/Theatre
- Girish Chandra Ghosh
- Dinabandhu Mitra
- Nati Binodini
- Jyotirindranath Tagore
- Dwijendralal Ray
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Sisir Bhaduri
- Bijan Bhattacharya
- Shambhu Mitra
- Ajitesh Bandopadhyay
- Utpal Dutt
- Rudraprasad Sengupta
- Badal Sarkar
- Usha Ganguly
- Manoj Mitra
- Asit Bandopadhyay
- Bibhas Chakraborty
Sovereignty, Administration, Fight for Freedom of India, Post-Independence Rule and Politics
PreModern Bengal
- Shashanka
- Gopala
- Dharmapala
- Devapala
- Mahipala
- Ballal Sen
- Lakshman Sen
- Raja Ganesh
- Rulers of Bishnupur
- Alauddin Husain Shah
Colonial Period: Indian Civil Servants and Statesmen
Colonial Period: Freedom Fighters
Early Figures
Twentienth Century
- Bipin Chandra Pal
- Aurobindo Ghosh
- Barindra Kumar Ghosh
- Subodh Chandra Mullick
- Khudiram Bose
- Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das
- Jatindranath Mukherjee
- Rash Behari Bose
- Manabendra Nath Roy
- Sarat Chandra Bose
- Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
- Jatindra Nath Das
- Bina Das
- Matangini Hazra
- B. C. Roy
- Triguna Sen
- Panchanan Chakraborty
- Batukeshwar Dutta
- Syama Prasad Mookerjee
- Basanta Kumar Biswas
- Ambika Chakrobarty
- Bipin Behari Ganguli
- Jogesh Chandra Chattopadhyay
- Narendra Mohan Sen
- Benoy Bhushan Roy
- Birendranath Sasmal
- Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy
- Jnananjan Niyogi
- Ramkinkar Chattopadhyay
- Samar Guha
- [Serajul Haque]
Post independence figures
- Ashok Mitra
- Ajit Kumar Panja
- Bidhan Chandra Roy
- Atulya Ghosh
- Prafulla Chandra Sen
- Kiran Shankar Ray
- Abdul Halim
- Mamata Banerjee
- Buddhadeb Bhattacharya
- A B A Ghani Khan Chowdhury
- Saugata Roy
- Kamal Guha
- Tathagata Roy
- Abha Maiti
- Pratap Chandra Chunder
- Pranab Mukherjee
- Jyoti Basu
- Somnath Chatterjee
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
- Manindra Chandra Nandi
Sports
- Gostho Pal, Footballer
- Mihir Sen, swimmer. First Indian to swim across the English Channel in 1958.
- Arati Saha, swimmer. First Asian woman to swim English Channel in 1959.
- Bula Chowdhury, swimmer. First Indian woman to swim English Channel twice.
- Rashmi Sharma , Swimmer (IT Engineer passed from Techno India College,West-Bengal),First Indian Woman to crossed English Channel thrice.
- Richa Sharma,Swimmer,Indian woman crossed English Channel
- Dibyendu Barua, chess grandmaster
- Suryasekhar Ganguly, chess grandmaster*
- Saurav Ganguly, cricketer
- Pankaj Roy,cricketer
- Saba Karim,cricketer
- Jhulan Goswami, cricketer
- Rumeli Dhar , Cricketer
- Priyanka Roy , Cricketer
- Sailen Manna, footballer
- P. K. Banerjee, footballer
- Subrata Bhattacharya, footballer
- Krishanu Dey, footballer
- Jyotirmoyee Sikdar, athletics. Double gold-medallist at Bangkok Asiad, 1996
- Leander Paes, lawn tennis player. Former doubles world no. one with Mahesh Bhupathi and bronze-medallist at Atlanta Olympics, 1996
- Soumyadeep Roy, Table Tennis. Commonwealth games gold medalist
- Subhajit Saha, Table Tennis. Commonwealth games gold medalist
- Mohammad Ali Qamar, Boxing . Commonwealth games gold medalist
- Arjun Atwal, golfer.
Industry/Business
- Dwarakanath Tagore
- Sir Rajen Mookerjee
- Sir Biren Mookerjee
- Rajat Kumar Gupta
- Purnendu Chatterjee
- Prashant Mukherjee
- Sadhan Dutt
- Subir Raha a legendary business leader who left his mark in the corporate world.He was Dhirubhai Ambani of the Public Sector.
- Sumantra Ghoshal a contemporary of Subir Raha in Indian Oil Corporation who went on to become one of the leading Management Gurus of the world.
Other Areas
- Bimal Kanti Dey, Globe Trotter, Cyclist
- Ashis Nandy, Author, political psychologist
- Debashis Chatterjee , Rationalist and human rights activist
- Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee
See also
- List of people by India state
- List of Bengalis
- A biography of Ashwini kumar Datta Learn about Indian Civilization, Culture, Yoga, Ayurveda,History