List of people from West Bengal

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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, or those who were based in Calcutta prior to partition and chose not to return to their ancestral districts.

[edit] Arts

[edit] Literature

Rabindranath Tagore (Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913)
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay
Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay
Tarashankar Bandopadhyay
Manik Bandopadhyay
Rajsekhar Bose or Parasuram
Bimal Kar
Shakti Chattopadhyay
Sankha Ghosh
Ashapoorna Devi
Arun Mitra
Samaresh Majumdar
Shankar
Amitav Ghosh
Amit Chaudhuri
Upamanyu Chatterjee
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Kiran Desai
Romesh Chunder Dutt
Syed Mustafa Siraj
Kazi Abdul Wadud
S Wajid Ali
Shahadat Hossain
Lila Mazumdar
Toru Dutt
Moti Nandi
Buddhadeb Guha
Satyajit Ray
Niharranjan Gupta
Sandipan Chattopadhyay
Subodh Ghosh
Ramapada Chaudhuri
Nirendranath Chakravarty
Bonoful
Santosh Kumar Ghosh
Sanjeev Chattopadhyay
Shibram Chakravarty
Adrish Bardhan
Premendra Mitra
Sunil Gangopadhyay
Krittibas Ojha
Chandidas
Fikirchand
Kashiram Das
Bharat Chandra
Iswar Gupta
Bidyapati
Kamalakanta
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
Ramprasad
Sri Arobindo
Akkhoykumar Boral
Sukumar Ray
Annadashankar Roy
Dilipkumar Roy
Swami Vivekananda
Dwijendralal Ray
Jatindranath Sengupta
Atulprasad Sen
Kumud Ranjan Mullick
Premendra Mitra
Jibanananda Das
Bishnu Dey
Sudhindranath Datta
Sukanta Bhattacharya
Purnendu Patri
Gobindachandra Das
Jatindramohan Bagchi
Brajendra Nath Seal
Arun Mitra
Buddhadev Dasgupta
Nirendranath Chakraborty
Subhash Mukherjee
Salil Choudhury
Alokranjan Dasgupta
Sunil Ganguly
Dipak Majumdar
Shakti Chattopadhyay
Utpal Kumar Basu
Binoy Majumdar
Arunesh Ghosh
Manibhushan Bhattacharya
Bhaskar Chakraborty
Debarati Mitra
Mridul Dasgupta
Tushar Roy
Falguni Ray
Tushar Choudhury
Ranajit Das
Krishna Basu
Shyamalkanti Das
Joy Goswami
Subodh Sarkar
Masuduzzaman
Sujit Sarkar
Bitashoke Bhattacharya
Gautam Basu
Mallika Sengupta*Jahar Sen Mazumdar
Sanjukta Bandopadhyay*Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay
Rahul Purakayastha
Sanjam Pal
Chaitali Chattopadhyay
Joydeb Basu
Joy Goswami
Samyabrata joardar
Mandakranta Sen
Srijato
Aveek Bandyopadhyay
Aniket Patra
Dipankar Bagchi
Sarbajit Sarkar
Sudip Basu
Binayak Bandyopadhyaya
Sibasis Mukhopadhyaya
Rana Roychwodhury
Pinaki Thakur
Sumana Shyanal
Suman Sen Sarma
Kritisindhu Pal
Madan Mohan Tarkalankar

[edit] Journalism

Harish Chandra Mukherjee
Sevabrata Gupta
Dwarkanath Vidyabhusan
Meghdeep Bhattacharyya
Sumana Sarkar Saini

[edit] Linguistics

Suniti Kumar Chatterjee

[edit] Education

Ashutosh Mukherjee

[edit] Movies

[edit] Directors

Aparna Sen
Anil Biswas
Budhdhadeb Dasgupta
Gautam Ghose
Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Dadasaheb Phalke Award, 2000
Satyajit Ray, (OSCAR for Lifetime Achievement in 1992)
Rituparno Ghosh
Tapan Sinha
Tarun Majumdar
Anjan Choudhury
Chidananda Dasgupta

Prabhat Ray

[edit] Actors

Mithun Chakraborty
Pramathesh Barua
Biswajit
Prasenjit
Rahul Bose
Rahul Roy
Soumitra Chatterjee
Uttam Kumar
Victor Banerjee
Ranjit Mullick
Gyanesh Mukherjee
Ajitesh Banerjee
Kali Banerjee
Rabi Ghosh
Chinmoy Roy
Bhanu Banerjee
Jahar Roy
Jahar Gangully
Kishore Kumar
Dhritiman Chatterjee
Tapas Pal
Chiranjit
Shantu Mukherjee
Arun Mukherjee
Ashok Kumar
Abdur Razzak
Kesto Mukherjee
Anup Kumar Ganguly
Anil Chatterjee
Asit Sen
Harendranath Chattopadhaya

[edit] Actresses

Also see List_of_Bengali_actresses

Aparna Sen
Bipasha Basu
Devika Rani, first winner of Dadasaheb Phalke Award, 1970
Sulochana Chatterjee recipient of Dadasaheb Phalke Award 1973
Dia Mirza (After all her mother is a Bengali !!!)
Jaya Bachchan (Jaya Bhaduri)
Kajol (Devgan nee Mukherjee)
Kananbala
Kanan Devi, Dadasaheb Phalke Award, 1977
Moon Moon Sen
Moushmi Chatterji
Raakhee Gulzar
Rani Mukherjee
Riya Sen
Raima Sen
Rimi Sen
Ruma Guha Thakurta
Sharmila Tagore
Suchitra Sen Dadasaheb Phalke Award, 2006
Supriya Devi
Sushmita Sen
Madhavi Mukherjee
Mamata Shankar
Shandhya Roy
June Malia
Rina Choudhury
Nandini Malia
Debasree Roy
Mohua Roy Choudhury
Lili Chakroborty
Sabitri Chatterjee
Sumita Sanyal
Indrani Haldar
Rachna Banerjee
Arpita Paul

[edit] Music

[edit] Music (Vocal)

Abhijeet,full name Abhijeet Bhattacharya
Ajoy Chakrabarty
Amit Kumar
Arati Mukherjee
Bappi Lahiri
Babul Supriyo
Budhaditya Mukherjee
Debabrata Biswas
Hemant Kumar , full name Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhayay
JnanPrakash Ghosh
Kanan Devi
Kanika Bandyopadhyay
Kishore Kumar
Kumar Sanu
Manabendra Mukherjee
Manna Dey
Nachiketa
Pankaj Kumar Mullick
Ruma Guha Thakurta
Salil Chowdhury
Sandhya Mujherjee
Shaan,full name Shantanu Mukherjee
Santideb Ghosh
Shyamal Mitra
Shreya Ghoshal
Sangeeta Bandyopadyay
Suchitra Mitra
Sabita Chowdhury
Antara Chowdhury
Sromona Guha Thakurta
Srikanta Acharya
Anjan Dutta

[edit] Music (Instrumental & Classical)

Pandit Budhaditya Mukherjee-sitar maestro
Ravi Shankar
Sankha Chatterjee (Tabla)
Nikhil Banerjee
Biswajit Roy Chowdhury Sarod
Anindo Chatterjee
Anjan Chattopadhyay
Bikram Ghosh
Tanmay Bose
Parveen Sultana
Pandit Ajay Chakravarty

[edit] Dance

[edit] Theatre

Girish Ghosh
Shishir Bhaduri
Shambhu Mitra
Ajitesh Bandopadhyay
Rudra Prasad Sen Gupta
Dinabandhu Mitra
Michael Madhusudan Dutta
Rabindranath Tagore
Sisir Bhaduri
Girish Ghosh
Ajitesh Bandyopadyay
Badal Sarkar
Arun Mukhopadhyay
Bibhas Chakrabarty
Sohag Sen
Jochhan Dastidar
Bratya Basu
Suman Mukherjee
Goutam Halder
Swatilekha Sengupta
Chandra Dastidar
Usha Ganguly
Joyraj Bhattacharya
Azad Abul Kalam

[edit] Politics

[edit] Freedom Fighters

[edit] Post independence figures

Bidhan Chandra Roy
Atulya Ghosh
P.C.Sen
Abdul Halim
Tapan Sikdar
Tathagata Roy
Mamata Banerjee
Buddhadeb Bhattacharya
A B A Ghani Khan Chowdhury
Saugata Roy

[edit] Science

[edit] Zoology

Ram Brahma Sanyal

[edit] Religion

[edit] Social reformers

Raja Ram Mohan Roy, a great social reformist who has a great contribution towards the upliftment of women
Maharshi Debendranath Tagore
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (A social and cultural reformist who can be called the father of Bengali language)
Keshub Chunder Sen
Sivanath Sastri
Protap Chunder Mozoomdar
Nibaran Chandra Mukherjee
Umesh Chandra Dutta
Ram Chandra Vidyabagish

[edit] Derozians

[edit] Sports

Gurusaday Dutta, Bratachari
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.
Dibyendu Barua, chess grandmaster
Surya Sekhar Ganguly, chess grandmaster*
Saurav Ganguly, cricketer
Pankaj Roy,cricketer
Arun Lal,cricketer
Saba Karim,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.
Rohan Gavaskar,cricketer

[edit] Old Calcutta/ Bengal legends

Raja Nabakrishna Deb of Shovabazar
Gouri Sen of lagey taka debey Gouri Sen fame
Hari Ghosh of Hari Ghosher goal fame
Banamali Sarkar
Gobindram Mitter
Prasanna Coomar Tagore
Ramanath Tagore

[edit] Industrialists/ Businessmen/ Industry personalities

[edit] Others

Amartya Sen, economist, Nobel Laureate, 1998
Rani Rashmoni, very wealthy zamindar, champion of the people and founder of Dakkhineswar.
Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee