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This article provides lists of famous and notable
Bengali people in the
Indian subcontinent , people with
Bengali ancestry, and people who speak
Bengali as their primary language.
Monarchs
Pala Dynasty
Chronological order
Chandra Dynasty
Deva Dynasty
Ilyas Shahi dynasty (1352–1414)
House of Ganesha
Hussain Shahi dynasty (1494–1538)
Other
A 19th century sketch of
Isa Khan , a Muslim Rajput leader of Bengal.
Paragal Khan , 16th-century governor of Chittagong
Chhuti Khan , 16th-century governor of Chittagong
Shahzada Danyal , son of
Alauddin Husain Shah
Syeda Momena Khatun , daughter of
Ghiyasuddin Mahmud Shah
Isa Khan (1529–1599), leader of the
Baro-Bhuiyan chieftains of Bengal
Musa Khan (d. 1623), leader of the
Baro-Bhuiyan chieftains of Bengal
Dilal Khan (1585–1666), final independent ruler of Sandwip
Kirtinarayan Basu (r. 1668–?), fifth Raja of
Chandradwip and founder of the Muslim Baklai family
Chowdhury Abu Torab Khan (d. 1767), zamindar of Sandwip and leader of Bengal's first anti-colonial uprising
Titumir (1782–1831), anti-colonial rebel and self-proclaimed Badshah
Rahimullah (d. 1861), Chief of Baraikhali and leader of the Sundarbans Indigo Revolt
Golam Ali Chowdhury (1824–1888), zamindar of Haturia and philanthropist
Nobel laureates
Academics
Abdul Malik was Pakistan's first cardiologist.
Momtazuddin Ahmed , philosopher and educationist
Dewan Mohammad Azraf , National Professor of Bangladesh
Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay , first women Director of Indian Statistical Institute, India
Chandramukhi Basu , computer scientist and first female graduate in
India , and the
British Empire
Sekhar Basu was an Indian nuclear scientist who served as the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary to the Government of India
Nurunnahar Fatema Begum , head of paediatric cardiology at the
Combined Medical Hospital (Dhaka)
Anudvaipayan Bhattacharya , university lecturer martyred in the
Bangladesh Liberation War
Jatindramohan Bhattacharya , academic and literary researcher
Padmanath Bhattacharya , academic and literary researcher
Mahamahopadhyay Pandit
Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya
Sugata Bose , historian
Satyendra Nath Bose was an Indian mathematician and physicist specializing in theoretical physics.
Jagadish Chandra Bose was a polymath with interests in biology, physics, botany and writing science fiction.
Raj Chandra Bose was an Indian American mathematician and statistician best known for his work in design theory
Dipesh Chakrabarty , historian
Sudhir Chakraborty , researcher of Bengal's folk culture
Swapan Kumar Chakravorty , literary scholar and writer
Partha Chatterjee , political scientist
Suniti Kumar Chatterjee , linguist, educationist, litterateur
Sukanta Chaudhuri , literary scholar, writer, translator
Supriya Chaudhuri , literary scholar, writer, translator
Jamilur Reza Choudhury , vice-chancellor of
University of Asia Pacific , adviser to
Caretaker Government of Bangladesh
Sadruddin Ahmed Chowdhury , physicist and vice-chancellor of
Shahjalal University of Science and Technology and
Sylhet International University
Khudiram Das , literary scholar, educationist, linguist
Satish Ranjan Das , founder of
The Doon School ,
Dehradun
Shomie Das , Indian educationist, former headmaster of The Doon School
Tarak Chandra Das , anthropologist, author, former teacher in anthropology, University of Calcutta
Bhupendranath Datta , revolutionary, author, anthropologist
Soumitra Dutta , Dean Elect of
Saïd Business School at
University of Oxford and former Founding Dean of
Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at
Cornell University
Barun De , chairman, West Bengal Heritage Commission
Meghnad Saha was an Indian astrophysicist who developed the Saha ionization equation.
Anil Kumar Gain , mathematician from
University of Cambridge ,
Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society
Kaberi Gain , prominent academic, author, and social activist
Swapan K. Gayen , Bengali-American physicist, professor at
City University of New York
Saroj Ghose , science populariser and museum maker, won an award for Best Effort in Science Popularisation Amongst Children
Subir Kumar Ghosh , planetary scientist and a winner of the
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology
Joseph Ghosh , first Indian to be awarded the
Doctor of Letters ,
University of Edinburgh
Jayati Ghosh is an Indian development economist. She is the Chairperson of the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning at the Jawaharlal Nehru University
Aminul Hoque
MBE , lecturer at
Goldsmiths, University of London , writer
K M Baharul Islam , Dean of the
Indian Institute of Management Kashipur
Syed Manzoorul Islam , critic, writer, former professor of
Dhaka University
Mohammad Ataul Karim , Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor of the
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Ataur Rahman Khan Khadim , physician martyred during the
Bangladesh Liberation War
Salman Khan , American educator, founder of
Khan Academy
Nazia Khanum ,
Order of the British Empire (OBE) and
Deputy Lieutenant (DL)
Shahla Khatun , obstetrician and gynecologist
Brigadier
Abdul Malik , founder of
National Heart Foundation
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis , statistician, founder of
Indian Statistical Institute
Vina Mazumdar , academic, activist and feminist
Ujjwal Maulik , computer scientist and former Head, Computer Science and Engineering, Jadavpur University
Asoke Nath Mitra He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 1969, for his fundamental contributions in obtaining the exact solution of the nucleon 3- body problem
Rajendralal Mitra , first modern
Indologist of Indian origin
Sisir Kumar Mitra ) MBE, FNI, FASB, FIAS, FRS (24 October 1890 – 13 August 1963) was an Indian physicist.
Nurul Momen , professor of law, Dhaka University Proctor, Dean
Satish Chandra Mukherjee , educationist
Abdul Muktadir , academician martyred in the
Bangladesh Liberation War
Nurul Islam Nahid , former
Education Minister of Bangladesh
Ashis Nandy , political psychologist
M. A. Rashid , first Vice-chancellor of
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Satyajit Ray , first Indian to win a Lifetime Achievement Oscar due to his significant contributions to world cinema
Abul Kashem Sandwip , educationist and a founder of
Bangladesh Betar
Sir Jadunath Sarkar , historian
Maqbular Rahman Sarkar , tenth vice-chancellor of Rajshahi University
Abdul Karim Sahitya Bisharad , littérateur and historian of Bangla literature
Mohammad Yusuf Siddiq , historian, epigraphist, researcher, professor and author
Pranab K. Sen , statistician, Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Biostatistics at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Sumit Sarkar , historian
Sukumar Sen , linguist
Muhammad Shahidullah , educationist, writer, philologist, and linguist, theorist
Nafee Talukder , Neurologist/Epileptologist, the first Bangladeshi Osteopathic Physician to train at Harvard.
Abu Nasr Waheed , Islamic scholar, author, politician and educationist
Nafees Bin Zafar , Academy Scientific and Technical Award, the first Bangladeshi to win an Oscar
Actors and entertainers
Khalil Ullah Khan earned Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Gunda in 1976.
Islah Abdur-Rahman , film director, actor and screenwriter
Siam Ahmed , Bangladeshi actor, model
Ruhul Amin , film director
Alamgir , film actor and television host
Niloy Alamgir , model and actor
Afshan Azad , actress best known for the role of
Padma Patil in
Harry Potter
Azim , actor best known for the role of Rahim Badshah in Rupban
Amala Akkineni (née.Mukherjee) , Bollywood actress
Jaya Bachchan , Bollywood actress
Bidita Bag , Bollywood and Bengali actress
Ajitesh Bandopadhyay , stage and film actor
Bhanu Bandopadhyay , Tollywood comic actor
Jenni Banerjee , Indian origin Finnish actor
Karuna Banerjee , first Indian actress earned
BAFTA Award for
Best Actress nomination at the
1959 BAFTA Awards
Sarvadaman D. Banerjee
Victor Banerjee ,
Bengali Tollywood, Bollywood and Hollywood actor; the only Indian to win
National Board of Review Award for Best Actor
Bipasha Basu , Bollywood actress
Jaya Bhattacharya , actress
Nivedita Bhattacharya , theatre actress
Nusrat Jahan , Bengali actress
Samit Bhanja , Bollywood and Bengali actor
Chhabi Biswas , Bengali actor
Seema Biswas , Bollywood actress
Rahul Bose , Bengali and Bollywood actor and
rugby player
Sabyasachi Chakrabarty , Bollywood and Bengali actor
Samrat Chakrabarti , British-American actor and musician
Indrani Chakraborty , Bollywood actress
Mithun Chakraborty , Bollywood and
Bengali film actor
Rhea Chakraborty , Bollywood actress
Ritwick Chakraborty , Bengali actor
Tulsi Chakraborty , Bengali actor
Abhishek Chatterjee , Bengali film and television actor
Anil Chatterjee , Bengali actor
Biswajit Chatterjee , Bengali and Bollywood actor
Dhritiman Chatterjee , Bollywood and Bengali actor
Moushumi Chatterjee , Bengali actress
Prasenjit Chatterjee , Tollywood and Bollywood actor
Priyanshu Chatterjee , Bollywood actor
Sabitri Chatterjee , Bengali actor
Saswata Chatterjee , Bengali actor
Soumitra Chatterjee , Bengali actor
Subhendu Chatterjee , Bengali actor
Tannishtha Chatterjee , Bollywood and Bengali actress
Jayanta Chattopadhyay , Bangladeshi actor
Khaled Choudhury , theatre personality and artist
Sarita Choudhury , Indian origin British film, Hollywood actress
Chanchal Chowdhury , Bangladeshi actor
Rafiqul Bari Chowdhury , cinematographer and director
Shefali Chowdhury , actress best known for the role of
Parvati Patil in
Harry Potter
Paoli Dam , actress
Shraddha Das , Bollywood and Tollywood actress
Dev , Tollywood actor
Sumita Devi ,
Bangladeshi film and television actress
Supriya Devi , Tollywood actress
K. C. Dey , Bengali actor
Utpal Dutt , Bengali actor
Santosh Dutta Tollywood actor, famous for his portrayal of Jatayu in Feluda films of Satyajit Ray
Tanushree Dutta , former Miss India and actress
Ishita Dutta , actress
Prasun Gain , Tollywood actor
Richa Gangopadhyay , actress and
Miss India USA 2007
Mouli Ganguly , actress
Preeti Ganguly , actress
Roopa Ganguly , Bengali and Bollywood actress
Rupali Ganguly , actress
Rabi Ghosh , Bengali actor
Reshmi Ghosh , actress,
Miss India Earth 2002
Sangita Ghosh , actress, model
Shahana Goswami , Bollywood actress
Abul Hayat , Bangladeshi actor
Rizwan Hussain , TV personality, barrister and former CEO of Global Aid Trust
Konnie Huq , British television presenter
Nadiya Hussain , columnist, chef, author and TV personality best known for winning the baking competition
The Great British Bake Off
Khalil Ullah Khan , film and TV actor
Shakib Khan ,
[1] Bangladeshi actor, producer, singer, film organiser and media personality
Anup Kumar , Tollywood actor
Ashok Kumar , Bollywood actor
Kishore Kumar , Bollywood singer, actor, music composer
Pradeep Kumar , Bollywood actor
Uttam Kumar , Bollywood and Bengali film actor
Shaun Majumder , Canadian comedian and actor; winner of
Gemini Awards
Koena Mitra , former channel V VJ and Bollywood actress
Rhona Mitra , half-Bengali actress in Britain
Rani Mukerji , Bollywood and Kollywood actress
Joy Mukherjee , Bollywood actor
Kajol Mukherjee Bollywood actress
Kamalini Mukherjee , Bollywood and Tollywood actress
Madhabi Mukherjee , actress notable works include
charulata ,
mahanagar
Sagarika Mukherjee , Bollywood and Tollywood actress and playback singer
Shantanu Mukherjee , Bollywood actor, playback singer and television presenter
Swastika Mukherjee , Tollywood actress
Colin Pal , actor and publicist
Patralekha , Bollywood actress
Raakhee , Bollywood actress
Ashiqur Rahman
Khan Ataur Rahman , Bengali actor, director, producer, screenplay writer, music composer and singer
Devika Rani , Bollywood and Bengali actress
Lisa Ray , actress and model
Razzak , Bangladeshi actor
Rola , Bengali-Japanese model,
tarento and actress
Ziaul Roshan , film actor and model
Bikash Roy Tollywood actor
Debashree Roy , Bollywood actress
Mouni Roy , Bollywood actress
Rahul Roy , Bollywood actor
Reena Roy , Bollywood actress
Rohit Roy , TV and Bollywood actor
Ronit Roy , Bollywood and TV actor
Pahari Sanyal Tollywood actor
Aparna Sen , Bengali film actress
Nandana Sen , Bollywood actress, daughter of Nobel laureate
Amartya Sen
Raima Sen , Bengali film and Bollywood actress
Reema Sen , Bollywood and Kollywood actress
Riddhi Sen , youngest recipient of the
National Film Award for Best Actor
Rimi Sen , Bollywood actress
Riya Sen , Bollywood actress
Suchitra Sen , Bollywood and Bengali film actress
Sushmita Sen , Bollywood actress
Rituparna Sengupta , Bollywood and Bengali actress
Ushoshi Sengupta , model,
I Am She–Miss Universe India in 2010
Shabnur , Bangladeshi actress
Salman Shah , Bangladeshi actor
Ali Shahalom , comedian and television presenter
ATM Shamsuzzaman , Bangladeshi former actor
Mamata Shankar , Bollywood and Bengali actress
Konkona Sen Sharma , Bollywood actress
Arifin Shuvoo , Bangladeshi actor
Tiya Sircar , American actress
Khushbu Sundar , Kollywood actress, producer and television presenter
Sharmila Tagore , Bollywood and Bengali film actress
Ruma Guha Thakurta , actress whose notable works include
Ganashatru ,
Abhijan , Palatak; wife of
Kishore Kumar
Artists and designers
Bharat Ratna
List of Indian Citizen Bengalis
Bloggers / media artists
Hasan M. Elahi , interdisciplinarysciplinary media artist
Pritish Nandy , poet, author, editor in chief, The Illustrated Weekly of India and Publishing Director and Managing Editor, The Times of India Group 1982–1991
Reihan Salam , journalist, blogger at The American Scene and associate editor of The Atlantic Monthly
Business and industry
Billionaires
Sanjit Biswas , Indian American entrepreneur and CEO/ Co-founder of
Samsara (company) , built and sold Meraki to Cisco for $1.2 billion.
Ankiti Bose , Founder of
Zilingo
Purnendu Chatterjee , Founder & Chairman, TCG Group, that owns
Haldia Petrochemicals
Tapan Chowdhury , CEO and MD of
Square Pharmaceuticals ,
Square Group ,
Square Hospital and
Maasranga Television
Chandra Shekhar Ghosh , Founder, Managing Director & CEO of
Bandhan Bank
Pradeep Kar , Founder of
Microland
Salman F Rahman , Founder & Vice Chairman of
BEXIMCO
Sunil Kanti Roy , Founder of
Peerless Group
Aveek Sarkar , Vice Chairman & Editor Emeritus,
Ananda Bazaar Patrika
Ahmed Akbar Sobhan , Founder and Chairman of the
Bashundhara Group
Business leaders
Iqbal Ahmed
OBE , entrepreneur and CEO of
Seamark Group .
In 2006 , he became the highest British Bangladeshi to feature on the Sunday Times Rich List (listed at number 511). He has a net worth of $250 million.
[2]
Syed Ahmed , British entrepreneur, businessman, television personality
Prith Banerjee , CTO of
ANSYS , former Director of
HP Labs
Arundhati Bhattacharya , chairperson and CEO of
Salesforce India and first woman director of
State Bank of India
Kumar Bhattacharyya, Baron Bhattacharyya , Director,
Warwick Manufacturing Group
Amar Bose founder of bose audio
Mohammad Ebadul Karim Bulbul , managing director of
Beacon Pharmaceuticals
Sankar Chakraborti , Group CEO of Acuité Ratings and Research and founder of India's first ESG rating company, ESG Risk Assessments and Insights
Moorad Choudhry , former managing director, Head of Business Treasury and Global Banking & Markets at Royal Bank of Scotland
Mamun Chowdhury , businessman, and founder and co-director of
London Tradition . In 2014, the company was awarded a
Queen's Award for Enterprise for
International Trade in recognition of its increase in sales.
Rono Dutta , CEO of
IndiGo
Ashok Sekhar Ganguly , former chairman,
Hindustan Unilever
Aditya Ghosh , Co Founder of
Akasa Air , Co Founder of Chourangi restaurant in London, former CEO (2008–2018) of
IndiGo , Board Director of
Oyo Rooms and
Fabindia
Anirvan Ghosh , CEO of
Unity Biotechnology
Asim Ghosh , former CEO of
Husky Energy
Rajat Gupta , first foreign-born Managing Director (chief executive) of management consultancy firm
McKinsey & Company from 1994 to 2003; sentenced to two years of prison in 2012 for insider trading
Omar Ishrak , chairman, Intel
Mahee Ferdous Jalil , founder of
Channel S , owner of Prestige Auto Group and TV presenter
Sir Rajendra Nath Mookerjee ,
Founder of Martin & Co.
Bhaskar Pramanik , chairman,
Microsoft India
Subir Raha , former head, ONGC
Fayzur Rahman , chairman of
Novoair
M. A. Sattar , prominent industrialist. Founder and former chairman of Sattar Jute Mills and other enterprises, banker, and politician
Mutty Lall Seal , businessman and entrepreneur
Dwarkanath Tagore , known for partnership with the
British East India Company
Entrepreneurs
Muquim Ahmed , banking, travel, a chain of restaurants with the Cafe Naz group, publishing and property development.
Badruddin Ajmal , managing director of Ajmal Perfumes and Lok Sabha MP from Dhubri, Assam
Enam Ali , founder of the
British Curry Awards ,
Spice Business Magazine and
Ion TV
Ragib Ali , industrialist, pioneer tea-planter, educationalist, philanthropist and banker who has a net worth of $250 million.
[2]
Subroto Bagchi , founder and former chairman,
Mindtree
Somen Banerjee , Indian American entrepreneur and co-founder of
Chippendales
Siddhartha Basu , founder and CMD of
BIG Synergy
Amar Bose , founder of
Bose Corporation
Ankiti Bose , founder and CEO of
Zilingo
Amjad Khan Chowdhury , founder of
PRAN-RFL Group
Foysol Choudhury
MBE , businessman, community activist and Chairman of Edinburgh and Lothians Regional Equality Council
Anjan Chatterjee , founder, Speciality Group of Restaurants
Bicky Chakraborty ,
Sweden 's biggest hotelier;
[3] President and founder of
Elite Hotels [
sv ] of
Sweden and
The Bishop's Arms [
sv ]
[4]
Alamohan Das , founder, India Machinery Company
Sadhan Dutt , founder, Development Consultants of Kuljian Group
Samit Ghosh , founder, MD and CEO of
Ujjivan Small Finance Bank
Snehasish Ganguly , Director of NK Gossain & Co., brother of former Indian cricket team captain and current
Board of Control for Cricket in India President,
Sourav Ganguly
M. A. Hashem , founder and chairman of Partex Group
Shelim Hussain , founder of
Euro Foods (UK)
Jawed Karim , co-founder of YouTube, first person to upload a video to the site
Nitun Kundu , founder of
Otobi
Abdul Latif , British restaurateur known for his dish "Curry Hell"
Ayub Ali Master , founder of the Shah Jalal Restaurant in London which became a hub for the early
British Asian community.
Tommy Miah
MBE , celebrity chef, restaurateur and founder of the Indian Chef of the Year Competition.
Rajendra Nath Mookerjee , co-founder,
Martin Burn Ltd ,
IISCO
Sabyasachi Mukherjee , founder & Managing Director of luxury Indian fashion brand, Sabyasachi
Rajat Neogy , founder and editor,
Transition Magazine in
Kampala ,
Uganda in 1961
Diptendu Pramanick , founder, Secretary of Eastern India Motion Pictures Association (EIMPA)
Kamal Quadir , founder and CEO of CellBazaar Inc, first Mover Fellow of the Aspen Institute, TEDIndia Fellow
Shah Abdul Majid Qureshi , restaurateur
Bajloor Rashid
MBE , businessman and former president of the
Bangladesh Caterers Association UK
Arjun Ray (PVSM, VSM), founder, managing director and chief executive officer of the
Indus Trust and Indus International Schools
Neeraj Roy , co-founder,
Hungama Digital Media Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.
Prannoy Roy , founder,
NDTV
Subrata Roy , founder and chairman,
Sahara India Pariwar
Sunil Kanti Roy , managing director of
Peerless Group
Chiki Sarkar , founder and Publisher of
Juggernaut Books
Barun Sengupta , founder of
Bartaman
Moosa Bin Shamsher , founder of GATCO
Wali Tasar Uddin , entrepreneur, restaurateur and Chairman of the Bangladesh-British Chamber of Commerce
Iqbal Quadir , founder of
Grameenphone and
bKash
Muhammad Yunus , founder of
Grameen Bank , "father of micro-finance", Nobel laureate
Sahitya Akademi Award
Cartoonists / comics creators
Jayanto Banerjee , Indian cartoonist and
illustrator
Neelabh Banerjee , Indian cartoonist and illustrator
Sarnath Banerjee , graphic story
writer , co-founded the comics publishing house
Phantomville
Samit Basu , comics writer at
Virgin Comics
Suddhasattwa Basu , illustrator
Chittaprosad Bhattacharya , Indian cartoonist
Rimi B. Chatterjee , graphic story writer
Shamik Dasgupta , graphic story writer
Narayan Debnath , creator of
Nonte Phonte ,
Batul the Great ,
Handa Bhonda
Chandi Lahiri ,
cartoonist and painter
Satyajit Ray ,
filmmaker , creator of comic characters like
Feluda and
Professor Shonku
Atanu Roy , illustrator
Gaganendranath Tagore , cartoonist and
painter
Cinematographers
Criminals
Dadasaheb Phalke Award winners
Diplomats
Economists
In 1994,
Saifur Rahman was elected governor of the golden jubilee conference of the
World Bank and
International Monetary Fund in
Madrid ,
Spain .
[5]
Salahuddin Ahmed , 9th Governor of
Bangladesh Bank
Mir Masoom Ali , George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Statistics, Ball State University
Abhijit Banerjee , Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology , co-founder of the
Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab , winner of Nobel Prize
Pranab Bardhan , professor of economics,
University of California, Berkeley , has been on the editorial board of a number of economics journals
Kaushik Basu , Chief Economist,
World Bank ; C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics,
Cornell University
Arundhati Bhattacharya , first woman director of SBI, largest bank in India
P.C. Bhattacharya , former governor of
Reserve Bank of India
Amitava Bose , professor of economics at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
Suma Chakrabarti , President of
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Shegufta Bakht Chaudhuri , 4th Governor of
Bangladesh Bank
Amiya Kumar Dasgupta , one of the founders, in 1949, of the internationally known journal The Economic Weekly (current name,
Economic and Political Weekly )
Partha Dasgupta ,
FRS , Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics,
University of Cambridge
Bibek Debroy , economist and linguist, author of Sanskrit titbits blog
Romesh Chunder Dutt , Indian civil servant economic historian
Mohammed Farashuddin , 7th Governor of
Bangladesh Bank , founder of
East West University
Anil Kumar Gain , statistician from the
University of Cambridge ,
Fellow of the Royal Society
Maitreesh Ghatak , current editor of
Journal of Development Economics ; contributions in
microfinance , property pights, public organizations
Amitav Ghosh , former governor of
Reserve Bank of India
N. C. Sen Gupta , former governor of
Reserve Bank of India
Nurul Islam , economist, former chairman, Bangladesh Planning Commission
Akbar Ali Khan , economist
Shah A M S Kibria , economist, diplomat and former executive secretary of the
United Nations '
ESCAP
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis , founder of
Indian Statistical Institute
Syed Abdul Majid , pioneer of the agricultural industry of Bengal & Assam, first minister of Assam
Abul Maal Abdul Muhith , former
Finance Minister of Bangladesh
Saifur Rahman , longest serving
Finance Minister of Bangladesh and a leader of
BNP
Debraj Ray , Silver Professor of Economics, New York University; co-editor of the
American Economic Review ; has served on the editorial board of several international journals
Amartya Sen , economist and philosopher, Lamont Professor at
Harvard University , winner of the Nobel Prize
Rehman Sobhan , economist, Chairman of the Center for Policy Dialogue (CPD)
Muhammad Yunus , economist, founder of
Grameen Bank , winner of the Nobel Prize
Fellows of the Royal Society
Fictional characters
Filmmakers
Grammy winners
Journalists
Bangladesh
Shah Alamgir , journalist
Syed Mohammad Ali , founder of
The Daily Star - the largest circulating daily English-language newspaper in
Bangladesh .
[6]
Mahfuz Anam
Abul Asad
Nurjahan Begum
Salah Choudhury , editor of
Weekly Blitz
Sanjeeb Choudhury
Shamim Chowdhury , TV and print journalist for
Al Jazeera English
Lenin Gani , senior member of the Bangladesh Sports Journalists Association
Abdul Hafiz , writer, essayist and journalist
Shahriar Kabir
Abed Khan
Sirajul Hossain Khan , editor of
Pakistan Times and the
Eastern News Agency .
Fazle Lohani
A B M Musa
Syed Nahas Pasha , journalist and editor of
Janomot and
Curry Life
Abdul Quadir , poet, essayist and journalist
Matiur Rahman
Manik Chandra Saha
Ataus Samad
Shykh Seraj
Hassan Shahriar , journalist
India
Swapan Dasgupta , journalist
Sunanda K. Datta-Ray , journalist
Sagarika Ghose , editor at CNN-IBN
Chandan Mitra , editor and managing director of The Pioneer newspaper
Ramananda Chatterjee , "father of Indian journalism"
Udayan Mukherjee , editor and anchor in CNBC India
Pritish Nandy , Publishing Director and Managing Editor, The Times of India Group; Editor in Chief, The Illustrated Weekly of India; chairman, Pritish Nandy Communications Ltd
Prannoy Roy , founder and President of
NDTV , one of India's largest television and media production houses
Samar Sen , journalist
Barun Sengupta , political critic, founder-editor of Bartaman newspaper
Vishnu Som , news anchor and journalist
America
United Kingdom
Fareena Alam
Lisa Aziz , British television news presenter
Mihir Bose , BBC's head sports editor
Reeta Chakrabarti , political correspondent for the BBC Television's Breakfast programme shown on BBC One and the BBC News Channel
Mo Dutta , former TV presenter for BBC Radio 2, BBC Asian Network, BBC Radio Kent
Pallab Ghosh , BBC News science reporter
Nina Hossain , British television news broadcaster
Faisal Islam , current Economics Editor of
BBC News . Former Political Editor of
Sky News
Tasmin Lucia Khan , English journalist and television presenter
Hasina Momtaz , former
press officer for the
Mayor of London
Sarah Mukherjee , former BBC Environment Correspondent, currently a regular contributor on Radio 4's Today programme
Pakistan
Qatar
Uganda
Law
Syed Ameer Ali , prominent Indian (British Indian) lawyer, key jurist of Muslim personal law, founding member of
All India Muslim League
Bankim Chandra Ray , former Chief Justice of India
Kalyan Banerjee ,
Rotary International 's 101st President
Gooroodas Banerjee , former High Court judge, Calcutta
Mahmudul Amin Choudhury , 11th
Chief Justice of Bangladesh
Sudhi Ranjan Das , former Chief Justice of India
Monomohun Ghose , first practising
barrister of
Indian origin
Kamal Hossain , considered the architect of Bangladeshi Constitution and icon of secular democracy in South Asia; prominent international lawyer and arbitrator
Sara Hossain , Bangladeshi lawyer, executive director of BLAST, one of the recipients of the 2016
International Women of Courage Award
Syed A. B. Mahmud Hossain , 2nd
Chief Justice of Bangladesh
J. R. Mudassir Husain , 14th
Chief Justice of Bangladesh
M Amir-ul Islam , Bangladeshi Lawyer, member of the drafting committee of Bangladeshi constitution
Altamas Kabir , former Chief Justice of India
Irene Khan , Bangladeshi lawyer, first woman to be appointed as the
United Nations Special Rapporteur for freedom of expression and opinion; seventh Secretary General of
Amnesty International (2001–2009); former Director-General of the
International Development Law Organization
Muhammed Abdul Muid Khan , nominated as the Best Human Rights Lawyer of England and Wales in 2012
Nitish Chandra Laharry , first person of Asian origin to be elected as the president of
Rotary International
Sabyasachi Mukharji , former Chief Justice of India
Bijan Kumar Mukherjea , former Chief Justice of India
Manmatha Nath Mukherjee , Received Knighthood in 1935, former Justice of Calcutta High Court and appointed Law Secretary of the Government of India
Abdul Moshabbir , lawyer and politician
Radhabinod Pal , Indian member appointed to the
International Military Tribunal for the Far East , one of the three Asian judges of Tokyo trial
A. N. Ray , former Chief Justice of India
Khatun Sapnara , judge and first non-white to be elected to the Family Law Bar Association Committee. In 2006, she was appointed as a
Recorder of the Crown, which made her the only person of Bangladeshi origin in a senior judicial position.
Amal Kumar Sarkar , former Chief Justice of India
Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem , first Chief Justice of Bangladesh
Amarendra Nath Sen , former judge in
Supreme Court of India
Ashoke Kumar Sen , Indian barrister, former Cabinet minister of India, Indian parliamentarian
Satyendra Prasanno Sinha, 1st Baron Sinha , prominent lawyer and statesman in British India, first Indian to become member of British cabinet
Magicians
Musicians
Bangla rock
Shafin Ahmed
Shishir Ahmed
Ayub Bachchu , founding member and the leader of the Bengali rock band
Love Runs Blind (LRB)
Balam
Partha Barua
Chandril Bhattacharya , lyricist and one of the founders of the Bangla band Chandrabindoo
Nachiketa Chakraborty
Anindya Chatterjee , lead vocalist and one of the founders of the Bengali band
Chandrabindoo
Gautam Chattopadhyay , composer, founder of the group
Mohiner Ghoraguli , One of the first rock vocalists of India
Somlata Acharyya Chowdhury , lead singer of Bangla rock band Somlata and The Aces
Anjan Dutt , singer, composer and lyricist
Rupam Islam , frontman of Bengali hard rock band
Fossils
James
Ibrahim Ahmed Kamal , guitarist for
Warfaze , one of the pioneers of Bengali and
Bangladeshi heavy metal
Khan (Azam Khan), one of the pioneers of Bengali rock, pop guru and rock guru of Bangladesh, freedom fighter
Bappa Mazumder
Alamgir Haq , former member of the first Bengali Band Iolites,
[7] known as the
Elvis Presley of the west
Syed Hasanur Rahman , vocalist of
Ark
Raef al Hasan Rafa
Kabir Suman
Sharmin Sultana Sumi , vocalist for
Chirkutt
Khaled 'Bassbaba' Sumon , vocalist for
Aurthohin
Tanzir Tuhin , former vocalist of
Shironamhin , current vocalist of Avash
Ziaur Rahman Zia
Bangladeshi film industry
Abdul Alim , National Award-winning playback singer
Asif Akbar , National Award-winning playback singer
Momtaz Begum , National Award-winning playback singer
Kumar Biswajit , National Award-winning playback singer and composer
Ahmed Imtiaz Bulbul , freedom fighter and National Award-winning music director
Kanak Chapa , National Award-winning playback singer
Priyanka Gope , National Award-winning playback singer
Syed Abdul Hadi , National Award-winning playback singer
Abdul Jabbar , National Award-winning playback singer
Alam Khan , National Award-winning music director and composer
Monir Khan , National Award-winning playback singer
Andrew Kishore , National Award-winning playback singer
Runa Laila , National Award-winning playback singer and composer
Bappa Mazumder , Singer, National Award-winning composer
Mahmudun Nabi , National Award-winning playback singer
Subir Nandi , National Award-winning playback singer
Baby Nazneen , National Award-winning playback singer
Farida Parveen , National Award-winning playback singer
Khan Ataur Rahman , National Award-winning music director and composer
Shahnaz Rahmatullah , National Award-winning playback singer
Emon Saha , National Award-winning music director and composer
Satya Saha , National Award-winning music director
S I Tutul , National Award-winning playback singer and composer
Habib Wahid , National Award-winning music director
Sabina Yasmin , National Award-winning playback singer
Bollywood
Mohammed Aziz , Bollywood playback singer
Abhijeet Bhattacharya , Bollywood playback singer
Amitabh Bhattacharya , lyricist and singer
Anil Biswas
Rahul Dev Burman , Bollywood music composer
Sachin Dev Burman , Bollywood music composer
Raichand Boral , Bollywood music composer
Soham Chakraborty , singer
Salil Chowdhury , Bollywood music composer
Kamal Dasgupta , composer
Geeta Dutt , Bollywood playback singer
Gyan Dutt , composer, Bhukt Surdas
Kanan Devi , singer and actress
Manna Dey , Bollywood playback singer
Jeet Ganguly , Tollywood and Bollywood music composer
Parul Ghosh , Bollywood playback singer
Anup Ghoshal , Bollywood playback singer
Shreya Ghoshal , Bollywood playback singer
Sagarika Mukherjee Da Costa (better known simply as Sagarika), Hindi, Assamese and Bengali playback and pop singer and actress
Sandhya Mukhopadhyay , Bollywood playback singer
Rajanikanta Sen , Bengali poet and composer
Madhuri Chattopadhyay
Hemanga Biswas
Anwesha Datta Gupta , Bollywood playback singer, winner of Amul Star Voice of India , Chhote Ustaad
Jagmohan singer
Suman Kalyanpur , Bollywood playback singer
Ash King , singer
Krsna composer
Amit Kumar , playback singer, performer and son of Kishore Kumar
Kishore Kumar
Bappi Lahiri , Bollywood music composer
Madhushree , Bollywood playback singer
Antara Mitra , Bollywood playback singer
Shyamal Mitra , composer
Shantanu Moitra , Bollywood Music composer
Arko Pravo Mukherjee , singer-songwriter
Chandrani Mukherjee , Bollywood playback singer
Jolly Mukherjee , Bollywood playback singer
Manas Mukherjee , Bollywood music composer, father of Shaan
Sapna Mukherjee , Bollywood playback singer
Aarti Mukherji
Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay
Pankaj Mullick , singer, composer, music director
Sandeep Nath , lyricist
Amit Paul , Bollywood playback singer
Pritam , Bollywood music composer
Anupam Roy , singer-songwriter
Anindya Chatterjee , singer-songwriter
Kanika Banerjee
Sabita Chowdhury
Dhananjay Bhattacharya , singer and composer
Kanu Roy , composer
Amit Sana , Bollywood playback singer
Kumar Sanu , Bollywood playback singer
Sohail Sen , Bollywood composer and singer
Shaan , Hindi and Bengali playback and pop singer, Bollywood actor and television presenter
Arijit Singh , Bollywood playback singer
Chitra Singh , singer and composer
Babul Supriyo , Bollywood playback singer
Monali Thakur , Bollywood playback singer
Alka Yagnik , Bollywood playback singer
Classical and folk musicians
Purna Das Baul (born 1933), known as 'Baul-samrat', pioneering folk artist known for working with
Bob Dylan
Tanmoy Bose (born 1963), table master, composer, actor, fusion musician
Kanika Banerjee (1924–2000), Rabindrasangeet performer
Manabendra Mukhopadhyay (1931–1992), singer and composer
Nikhil Banerjee (1931–1986), sitar performer
Arnab Chakrabarty (born 1980), Indian classical musician, sarod player
Shankar Ghosh (1935–2016), tabla master and singer
Firoza Begum (1930–2014), eminent exponent of Nazrul Geeti
Momtaz Begum (born 1974), Bangladeshi folk singer, world record holder
Dhananjay Bhattacharya (1922–1992), Shyama Sangeet singer
Pannalal Bhattacharya (
c. 1930 – 1966), singer
Debabrata Biswas (1911–1980), Rabindrasangeet performer
Kumar Bose (born 1953), tabla performer and composer
Swapan Chaudhuri , tabla exponent
Ajoy Chakrabarty (born 1952)
Anjan Chattopadhyay , sitar player
Annapurna Devi (1927–2018), surbahar performer
Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta , classical and rabindrasangeet exponent performer, also folk modern and devotional music
Naina Devi (1917–1993), Indian classical singer
Pandit Jnan Prakash Ghosh (1909–1997), tabla master, composer and musician
Pannalal Ghosh (1911–1960), pioneering master of the Indian classical flute, composer, musicologist
Shah Abdul Karim (1916–2009)
Abbas Uddin Ahmed (1901–1959)
Abdul Alim
Ali Akbar Khan (1922–2009), sarod performer, composer, musicologist, founder of the Ali Akbar College of Music in California, US
Allauddin Khan (1862–1972)
Shahadat Hossain Khan (born 1958), Sarod virtuoso, composer, musicologist, international master, renowned Sarod player
Vilayat Khan (1928–2004), sitar performer
Runa Laila (born 1952), folk, ghazal, and pop fusion singer
Lalon (1784–1890), mystic devotional composer and singer
Abdul Latif
Suchitra Mitra (1924–2011), rabindrasangeet performer, also playback singer and composer
Kalyan Mukherjea (1943–2010)
Budhaditya Mukherjee
Kashinath Mukherjee (1925–2011), Hindustani classical musician and sitar player of
Etawah Gharana
Farida Parveen (born 1954), Lalon singer
Hason Raja (1854–1922)
Ritwik Sanyal (born 1953)
Indrani Sen , rabindrasangeet and nazrulgeeti performer, also modern and folk songs
Srabani Sen , rabindrasangeet performer, also modern and folk songs
Anoushka Shankar (born 1981), sitar player and composer
Ravi Shankar (1920–2012), sitar virtuoso, composer, musicologist
Chitra Singh , Hindi/Urdu ghazal singer and wife of
Jagjit Singh
Ruma Guha Thakurta (1934–2019), founder and lead singer of
Calcutta Youth Choir and playback singer
Alka Yagnik (born 1966)
Hindi rock
Western
Sameer Bhattacharya , lead guitarist of the American alternative rock band
Flyleaf
Futurecop! , electronic band, members include Manzur Iqbal from United Kingdom
Norah Jones , American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress, daughter of sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar; Indian Bengali
Sanjaya Malakar , American born Indian origin singer
Shikhee , singer; auteur of American industrial band Android Lust
Mumzy Stranger
Monica Yunus , operatic soprano
Military
Bangladesh
Shakil Ahmed , former head of
Bangladesh Rifles
Mohammad Ruhul Amin , awarded
Bir Sreshtho , the highest military award of Bangladesh; war hero of
Bangladesh Liberation War
Saiful Azam , served under
Bangladesh Air Force ,
Iraqi Air Force ,
Pakistan Air Force and
Royal Jordanian Air Force
Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury , 11th
Chief of Army Staff of the Bangladesh Army
Ismail Faruque Chowdhury , engineer-in-chief of the Bangladesh Army
Saiful Islam Duke , former Lieutenant Commander of
Bangladesh Navy
Chitta Ranjan Dutta , Bangladeshi
war hero and retired
Major-General of the
Bangladesh Army , key sector commander of the
Mukti Bahini during the
Bangladesh Liberation War
Syed Mohammad Ziaul Haque , Bangladesh Army officer and fugitive
Nurul Huq , second temporary chief of
Bangladesh Navy
AB Tajul Islam , retired Bangladesh Army captain and former
Minister of Liberation War Affairs
Mohiuddin Jahangir , awarded
Bir Sreshtho , the highest military award of Bangladesh, war hero of
Bangladesh Liberation War
Sina Ibn Jamali , former lieutenant general and Chief of General Staff in Army Headquarters
Mahbub Ali Khan , Bangladesh Navy rear admiral and the Chief of Naval Staff
Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan , army officer convicted for the
assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Abdul Karim Khandker , Bir Uttam war hero
Anwarul Momen , general officer commanding
17th Infantry Division
Khaled Mosharraf , Sector Commander, war hero of Bangladesh Independence War
Abu Saleh Mohammad Nasim , 7th
Chief of Army Staff of the Bangladesh Army
General
M. A. G. Osmani , Supreme Commander of Bangladesh Forces during the Bangladesh Liberation War
Mohammad Abdur Rab , 1st
Chief of Army Staff of the Bangladesh Army ,
Major general during the
Bangladesh Liberation War
Abul Fazal Ziaur Rahman , physician and army officer martyred in the liberation war
AKM Asadul Haq , physician and army officer martyred in the liberation war
Hamidur Rahman , awarded
Bir Sreshtho the highest military award of Bangladesh, war hero of
Bangladesh Liberation War
Rahman , awarded
Bir Sreshtho the highest military award of Bangladesh, war hero of
Bangladesh Liberation War
Ziaur Rahman , Bir Uttam war hero, Sector Commander, strategic war hero Of 1971 Bangladesh Independence War
Munshi Abdur Rouf , awarded
Bir Sreshtho , the highest military award of Bangladesh; war hero of
Bangladesh Liberation War
Muhammad Ghulam Tawab , Bangladesh's second
Chief of Air Staff
Ashab Uddin , major general and ambassador to Kuwait and Yemen
Sarwar Hossain , Army General and former Military Secretary to the President of Bangladesh.
India
Flight Lieutenant
Suhas Biswas (1924–1957), recipient of
Ashoka Chakra
Subhas Chandra Bose (1897–1945), leader,
Indian National Army
Air Marshal
Padma Bandopadhyay , PVSM, AVSM, VSM, first woman to be promoted to three-star rank in the
Indian Air Force
Air Vice Marshal
Madhavendra Banerji (1934–2019), MVC, VM of
Indian Air Force
Major General (Retd.)
Dipankar Banerjee (general) , Founding Director of the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies[
citation needed ]
Vice Admiral
Pradeep Kumar Chatterjee , Indian Navy, later Commander-in-Chief, Andaman and Nicobar Command
Admiral
Adhar Kumar Chatterji (1914–2001), Indian Navy Chief 1966–1970
General
Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri (1908–1983), Indian Army Chief during the
Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
Commodore
Ajitendu Chakraverti , Indian Navy, first Indian officer to be promoted to Commodore
Group Captain
Suranjan Das , pioneering test pilot of
Indian Air Force
Vice Admiral
Biswajit Dasgupta , AVSM, YSM, VSM, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief,
Eastern Naval Command
Lieutenant General (retd.)
Abhijit Guha (Indian Army officer) , Head of the
UN Mission to Support the Hodeidah Agreement
Wing Commander
Karun Krishna Majumdar ,
Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom) and first Indian to reach the rank of Wing Commander
Air Commodore Sudhindra Kumar Majumdar (1927–2011), India's first military helicopter pilot
Colonel
Avijit Misra , an
Indian Army Colonel
Air Marshal
Subroto Mukherjee (1911–1960), former Head of Indian Air Force
Chief of the Air Staff Designate Arup Raha , 24th chief of Indian Air Force
Dr. Wing Commander
Ashis Roy , MD FRCS, first Indian man to complete 100 marathons
Indra Lal Roy (1898–1918), first Indian (pre Independence) flying ace
General
Shankar Roychowdhury (born 1937), former Indian Army Chief
Lieutenant General
Lionel Protip Sen ,
Distinguished Service Order
Other
Padma Vibhushan
Politicians
A. K. Fazlul Huq
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Khaleda Zia
Sheikh Hasina Wazed
Bangladesh
Tajuddin Ahmad , first
Prime Minister of Bangladesh (1971–1972)
Abdus Samad Azad , former
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani , popularly known with the honorary title Mazlum Jananeta (Leader of the Oppressed)
Dr. A.Q.M. Badruddoza Chowdhury , former
President of Bangladesh (2001–2002) and the founder of
Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh
Mukhlesur Rahman Chowdhury ,
de facto
President and
Prime Minister , former Adviser to
Iajuddin Ahmed
Hussain Muhammad Ershad , Chief Martial Law Administrator (CMLA), later President (1982–1990) and founder of the
Jatiya party
Kamal Hossain , lawyer, founder of
Gano Forum and the leader of
Jatiya Oikiya front alliance
A. K. Fazlul Huq , first
Prime Minister of Bengal (Undivided), presented the
Lahore Resolution with the official proposal of partition of India,
Governor of East Pakistan
Serajul Huq , one of the founding member of the
Bangladesh Awami League
AK Abdul Momen , incumbent
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Shamsul Huda Panchbagi (1897–1988), founder of the Emarat Party and member of the
Bengal Legislative Assembly
Ghulam Mahmood Quader , chairman of the Jatiya party
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman , Bengali nationalist politician, President of Awami League, served as the first
President of Bangladesh and second
Prime Minister of Bangladesh , voted as the
Greatest Bengali of all time in 2004 BBC's opinion poll
Tarique Rahman (born 1967), acting chairman of the
Bangladesh Nationalist Party
Ziaur Rahman , founder of
Bangladesh Nationalist Party ,
President of Bangladesh (1977–1981), proposed the creation of
SAARC , sector commander and liberation war hero
Zillur Rahman (1929–2013), former
President of Bangladesh (2009–2013)
Sheikh Hasina Wazed ,
Prime Minister of Bangladesh (1996–2001; 2009–present)
Khaleda Zia ,
Prime Minister of Bangladesh (1991–1996; 2001–2006), "mother of democracy", leader of democracy movement in Bangladesh, first female PM of Bangladesh
Abdur Rashid Tarkabagish (1900–1986), second president of the
All Pakistan Awami Muslim League
British India
Nawab
Syed Shamsul Huda was a patron, and donated immensely towards education for the Muslim students of Bengal during a difficult period.
Abul Kalam Azad was India's first
Minister of Education , and his birthday is now recognised as
National Education Day across the country.
Aftab Ali , founder of All-India Seamen's Federation and vice-president of
All-India Trade Union Congress
Aruna Asaf Ali , Indian independence activist
Mahmud Ali ,
Freedom Movement leader , statesman
Abul Kalam Azad , senior leader of the
Indian National Congress during the
Indian independence movement
Rash Behari Bose , revolutionary leader against the British Raj in India and one of the key organisers of the Ghadar conspiracy and later, the
Indian National Army
Ajmal Ali Choudhury , prominent in the Sylhet referendum movement
Moinul Hoque Choudhury , five-time
MLA , two-time
UN General Assembly representative and Minister of Industrial Development
Chittaranjan Das , prominent in the Indian independence movement (also known as Deshabandhu)
Abdul Halim Ghaznavi , politician, industrialist and minister
Abdul Karim Ghaznavi , politician, traveler and minister
Muhammad Hasanuzzaman , educationist and member of the
Bengal Legislative Assembly for Tippera North
Syed Shamsul Huda , Nawab of
Gokarna , president of the
All India Muslim League
Hatem Ali Jamadar , member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly and East Bengal Legislative Assembly
Nawab Ali Haider Khan , 9th
Nawab of Longla ,
minister and leader of the Independent Muslim Party
Sucheta Kriplani , freedom fighter and politician
Nawab Abdul Latif , educator and social worker
Syed Abdul Majid
CIE , first native minister of Assam, pioneer of the agricultural industry
Abdul Matlib Mazumdar ,
freedom fighter and political leader known for retaining the
Barak Valley in
India
Abdul Kader Mia , member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly and East Bengal Legislative Assembly
Sarojini Naidu , freedom fighter and poet
Bipin Chandra Pal ,
Indian nationalist , one third of the
Lal Bal Pal triumvirate
Wajed Ali Khan Panni , Zamindar of Karatia, politician and educationist
Khwaja Salimullah , founder of
Muslim League , proposed establishing University of Dhaka
India
West Bengal
Muzaffar Ahmad , one of the founders of the
Communist Party of India
Syed Badrudduja , former
Mayor of Kolkata
Mamata Banerjee , Chief Minister of West Bengal (from 2011), ex-minister for Railways, Government of India, Chairman
All India Trinamool Congress
Mrinal Banerjee , former Minister
Surendranath Banerjee , one of the founding members of the
Indian National Congress
Jyoti Basu , former communist Chief Minister of West Bengal, former Politburo Member of the Communist Party of India(Marxist)
Buddhadeb Bhattacharya , former communist Chief Minister of West Bengal, Politburo Member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) after 19th Party Congress
Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee , first president of
Indian National Congress
Subhas Chandra Bose , former President of
Indian National Congress , Head of State of India's first free Provisional Government of Azad Hind and co-foounder
Indian National Army
Somnath Chatterjee , former Speaker of the Lok Sabha (Lower House of Parliament), expelled member of CPI(M), senior parliamentarian, prominent barrister
Subrata Mukherjee , former minister of West Bengal and former mayor of Kolkata
A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury , senior leader of
Indian National Congress
Pranab Mukherjee , former president of India, Minister for External Affairs, senior leader of
Indian National Congress
Siddhartha Shankar Ray , former Congress Chief Minister of West Bengal, former Indian ambassador to United States
Bidhan Chandra Roy , physician, former Congress Chief Minister of West Bengal, Bharat Ratna
Ashoke Kumar Sen , former Law Minister, barrister, and parliamentarian
Abhishek Banerjee , member of Lok Sabha from Diamond Harbour, National General Secretary of
All India Trinamool Congress
Assam
Abdur Rahim Ahmed , MLA of
Barpeta
Hafiz Bashir Ahmed , MLA of
Bilasipara West
Jahan Uddin Ahmed , member of Lok Sabha for
Dhubri
Jamal Uddin Ahmed , former MLA of
Badarpur
Kobad Hussain Ahmed , inaugural MLA of
Mankachar
Moinuddin Ahmed , former MLA of
Jaleswar
Sahab Uddin Ahmed , former MLA of
Jaleswar
Sherman Ali Ahmed , MLA of
Baghbar
Siddique Ahmed , MLA of
Karimganj South
Abdur Rahim Ajmal , politician in
Jamunamukh
Abdur Rahman Ajmal , politician in
Salmara
Badruddin Ajmal , founder of the
All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) and president of
Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind 's Assam branch
Sirajuddin Ajmal , MLA of
Jamunamukh and founder of Ajmal Foundation
Abul Kalam Rasheed Alam , MLA of
Goalpara East
Sheikh Shah Alam , former MLA of
Goalpara West
Amjad Ali , two-time member of Lok Sabha for
Dhubri
Abul Kalam Azad , former MLA of
Bhabanipur
Abdul Aziz , MLA of
Badarpur
Hazi Salim Uddin Barbhuiya ,
MLA of Hailakandi
Karim Uddin Barbhuiya , MLA of
Sonai
Gul Akhtara Begum , former MLA of
Bilasipara East
Abdul Munim Choudhury , former MLA of
Karimganj South
Khalilur Rahman Chowdhury , former MLA of
Jamunamukh
Nizam Uddin Choudhury , former MLA of
Algapur
Rashida Haque Choudhury , former Minister of State for Social Welfare
Wazed Ali Choudhury , MLA of
Salmara South
Santosh Mohan Dev , former Union Cabinet Minister, elected to the
Lok Sabha , senior leader of
Indian National Congress
Sushmita Dev , former member of Parliament, prominent leader of
AITC
Abdul Hamid , member of Lok Sabha for
Dhubri
Ali Hossain , former MLA of
Sarukhetri
Rasul Hoque , former MLA of
Dhubri
Najrul Hoque , MLA of
Dhubri
Samsul Huda , MLA of
Bilasipara East
Ahmed Hussain , member of Lok Sabha for
Dhubri
Anwar Hussain , member of Lok Sabha for
Dhubri
Ashraful Hussain , MLA of
Chenga
Ismail Hussain , former MLA of
Barpeta
Monowar Hussain , former MLA of
Goalpara East
Adv. Aminul Islam , general secretary and chief spokesperson for
AIUDF
Aminul Islam , former MLA of
Dhing
Aminul Islam , former MLA of
Mankachar
Hosenara Islam , first female MLA of
Mankachar
Nurul Islam , member of Lok Sabha for
Dhubri
Rafiqul Islam , MLA of
Jania
Zabed Islam , former MLA of
Mankachar
Zahirul Islam , second MLA of
Mankachar
Abdul Khaleque , former MLA of
Jania
Abdur Rahim Khan , former MLA of
Barpeta
Aziz Ahmed Khan , former MLA of
Karimganj South
Liakat Ali Khan , former MLA of
Chenga
Abdul Batin Khandakar , MLA of
Abhayapuri North
Aminul Haque Laskar ,
BJP politician of
Sonai
Anwar Hussain Laskar , former MLA of
Hailakandi
Misbahul Islam Laskar , MLA of
Barkhola
Suzam Uddin Laskar ,
AIUDF politician
Zakir Hussain Laskar , MLA of
Hailakandi
Ataur Rahman Mazarbhuiya ,
AIUDF politician and leader of Nadwatut Tameer
Abdur Rashid Mandal , MLA of
Goalpara West
Abdul Muhib Mazumder , one of the architects of the
Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act, 1983
Khalil Uddin Mazumder , MLA of
Katigorah
Aftabuddin Mollah , MLA of
Jaleswar
Motiur Rohman Mondal , former MLA of
Mankachar
Abu Saleh Najmuddin , former MLA of
Badarpur
A. F. Golam Osmani ,
Indian National Congress member
Kabindra Purkayastha , former Minister
Afzalur Rahman , inaugural MLA of
Jaleswar
Nijanur Rahman , MLA of
Gauripur
Abdur Rouf , former MLA of
Jania
Abdus Sobahan Ali Sarkar , MLA of
Golakganj
Zakir Hussain Sikdar , MLA of
Sarukhetri
Jahan Uddin , former MLA of
Dhubri
Bihar
Meghalaya
Other
Pakistan
Nurul Amin ,
Prime Minister of Pakistan
Abdullah al-Baqi (1886–1952), member of the 1st National Assembly of Pakistan
Mohammad Ali Bogra ,
Prime Minister of Pakistan 1953–1955
Abdul Matin Chaudhary , served as the first Agriculture Minister of Pakistan
Abdul Hamid , first Education Minister of
East Bengal
Abu Ahmad Abdul Hafiz , Muslim League politician and lawyer
Abdul Wahab Khan , 3rd
Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan
Abdullah al Mahmood (d. 1975), member of the 1st National Assembly of Pakistan
Jogendra Nath Mandal , served as the first Law & Labour Minister of Pakistan
Iskander Mirza , first
President of Pakistan
Khawaja Nazimuddin , 2nd
Prime Minister of Bengal (Undivided), 2nd
Prime Minister of Pakistan , 2nd
Governor-General of Pakistan , President of Muslim League
Khurram Khan Panni , former Chief Whip of
East Pakistan Provincial Assembly
Md. Hafizur Rahman , Minister of Food and Agriculture of Pakistan (1958–1960); Minister of Commerce of Pakistan (1960–1962); Provincial Minister of Finance and Planning of East Pakistan (1962–1965)
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy , second Chief Minister of Bengal,
Prime Minister of Pakistan (1956–1957)
United Kingdom
Anwar Choudhury was the first non-white British person to be appointed in a senior diplomatic post.
Nasim Ali
OBE , Labour Party politician, councillor in Regent's Park ward, Cabinet Member for Young People in
Camden Council and former Mayor of Camden; in 2003, at age 34, became UK's youngest mayor as well as the first Bangladeshi and first Muslim mayor
[8]
Farida Anwar , Labour Party politician, councillor for Headington Hill and Northway in
Oxford City Council ; in 2014, became Oxfordshire's first city councillor from a Bangladeshi background
[9]
Anwar Choudhury , former
Governor of the Cayman Islands and
High Commissioner of the UK to Bangladesh
Rabina Khan , Liberal Democrat councillor for Shadwell ward, former Cabinet Member for Housing in
Tower Hamlets London Borough Council , community worker and author of
Ayesha's Rainbow
[10]
Syeda Khatun
MBE , Labour Party politician, councillor for
Tipton Green in the
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council and Cabinet Advisor for Education; in 1999, the first Bangladeshi woman to be elected in the Midlands
[11]
Murad Qureshi , Labour Party politician and former Greater
London Assembly member
[12]
Lutfur Rahman , community activist and
Independent politician; from 2010 to 2015 the first
directly elected mayor of Tower Hamlets and the first Bangladeshi leader of the council
[13]
Luthfur Rahman
OBE , current deputy leader of
Manchester City Council
Nadia Shah , Labour Party politician, councillor in
Regent's Park ward and former Mayor of Camden; in May 2016, became the first female mayor in the United Kingdom of Bangladeshi origin
[14]
Baroness
"Pola" Manzila Uddin , Labour Party
life peer , community activist, and the first Muslim and second Asian woman to sit in the
House of Lords
[15]
Apsana Begum
MP ,
Labour Party
Member of Parliament for
Poplar and Limehouse , first
Hijabi to be elected as an
MP for the
British parliament
Rupa Huq
MP ,
Labour Party
Member of Parliament for
Ealing Central and Acton constituency ,
[16] writer, columnist, senior lecturer in sociology at
Kingston University and former
Deputy Mayor of the
London Borough of Ealing
[17]
[18]
Rushanara Ali
MP , Labour Party Member of Parliament for
Bethnal Green and Bow constituency ; first person of Bangladeshi origin to be elected to the
House of Commons
[19] and one of the first three Muslim women to be elected as a Member of Parliament
[20]
Tulip Siddiq
MP , Labour Party Member of Parliament for
Hampstead and Kilburn ,
[21] former councillor for
Regent's Park ward and Cabinet Member for Culture and Communities in
Camden London Borough Council ; in 2010, became the first Bengali female councillor in Camden Council
[22]
Canada
United States of America
Other
I'tisam-ud-Din was the first educated Bengali and South Asian to have travelled to Europe.
Ramon Magsaysay Award
Religion and spirituality
Swami Vivekananda in Bushnell Studio in San Francisco, 1900
[23]
Brahmoism
Buddhism
Hinduism
Swami Abhedananda (Kaliprasad Chandra), monk, author, philosopher, occultist, reformer, founder of the Ramakrishna Vedanta Math
Advaita Acharya , Vaishnava guru
Sri Aurobindo , yogi, nationalist, philosopher, author, poet, visionary
Gaura Kisora dasa Babaji , Vaishnava ascetic, mystic and recluse
Mahavatar Babaji , yogi and tantrik master
Bamakhepa (Bamacharan Chattopadhyay), tantrik guru and mystic of Tarapith
Kamalakanta Bhattacharya , Tantrik/ Shakta saint and master, composer of Shakta devotional songs
Sri Chinmoy , Indian spiritual master
Swami Satyananda Giri , Manamohan Mazumder monk, preacher and yogi
Yukteswar Giri , Priyanath Karar, yogi, educationist, astronomer, and astrologer
Nolini Kanta Gupta , revolutionary, linguist, scholar, critic, poet, philosopher and mystic, the most senior of Sri Aurobindo's disciples, author of many books
Gopinath Kaviraj , yogi, philosopher, spiritual master, tantrik scholar and author
Anandamoyi Ma , mystic, spiritual teacher and Tantrik Guru
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu , Vaishnava mystic, missionary, monk and social reformer
Acharya Srimat Swami Pranavanandaji Maharaj , founder
Bharat Sevashram Sangha
Lahiri Mahasaya or Shyama Charan Lahiri, yogi, philosopher, the propagator of Kriya Yogay
Nirmalananda , 19th century monk
Nityananda , great avadut mystic, social reformer, chief associate of Chaitanya, reincarnation of Balaram and a primary figure within the
Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition of Bengal
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (Gadadhar Chattopadhaya), mystic, preacher of Dakshineshwar
Nigamananda Paramahansa , Saraswat, tantrik guru, vedantic scholar, author, yogi, mystic, philosopher, disciple of Bamakhepa, founder of several institutions
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (Abhay Charan Dey), Vaishnava missionary and theologian, founder of
ISKCON
Pranavananda , founder of
Bharat Sevashram Sangha
Rani Rashmoni , founder of
Dakshineswar Kali Temple ,
Kolkata
Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati , Vaishnava missionary and theologian, founder of
Gaudiya Math
Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar or Sri Anandamurti, polymathic personality, author, philosopher, socio-political thinker, educationist, revolutionary, poet, composer, linguist, self-development and human welfare theorist, the founder of
Ananda Marga (a socio-spiritual movement)
Ramprasad Sen , tantrik master, mystic, famous as a composer of mystic, devotional songs to Goddess Kali
Bhaktivinoda Thakur , Vaishnava missionary and theologian
Swami Vivekananda (Narendranath Datta), monk, missionary and social reformer, founder of the
Ramakrishna Math and
Ramakrishna Mission
Paramahansa Yogananda , monk, philosopher, preacher, author and exponent of
Kriya Yoga
Islam
Shah Ahmad Shafi in 2019
Ajmal Masroor was nominated for the Religious Advocate of the Year award at the 2013 & 2015
British Muslim Awards .
Mearajuddin Ahmad (
c. 1890 ), author of Tufat al-Muslimin
Muhsinuddin Ahmad (1819–1862), second leader of the
Faraizi movement
Nesaruddin Ahmad (1873–1952), inaugural Pir of Sarsina and founder of Darussunnat Kamil Madrasa
Nur Qutb Alam (d. 1416), Islamic scholar involved in the
Bengal-Jaunpur confrontation and pioneer of the
Dobhashi tradition
Abu Saeed Muhammad Omar Ali (1945–2010), author, teacher and translator
Muhammad Ayyub Ali (1919–1995), former principal of
Madrasah-e-Alia Dhaka and
Sylhet Alia Madrasa
Ruhul Amin (born 1962),
khatib of
Baitul Mukarram National Mosque
Fazlul Haque Amini (1945–2012), former principal of
Jamia Qurania Arabia Lalbagh and politician
Harun Babunagari (1902–1986), founding principal of
Al-Jamiatul Islamiah Azizul Uloom Babunagar
Junaid Babunagari (1955–2021), former Amir of
Hefazat-e-Islam
Muhibbullah Babunagari (born 1935), current Amir of
Hefazat-e-Islam
Ahmed Ali Badarpuri (1915–2000), president of the Assam State Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind for over four decades
Muhammad Abdul Bari (1930–2003), former vice-chancellor of the
University of Rajshahi
Muhammad Abdullahil Baqi (1886–1952), Islamic scholar, writer and politician
Mushahid Ahmad Bayampuri (1907–1971), scholar and member of
3rd National Assembly of Pakistan
Ali Sher Bengali (fl. 1570s), Sufi saint of the Shattari order
Abdul Wahid Bengali (1850–1905), co-founder of
Al-Jamiatul Ahlia Darul Ulum Moinul Islam
Athar Ali Bengali (1891–1976), former president of
Nizam-e-Islam Party
Shah Nuri Bengali (died 1785), Sufi scholar and author
Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani (1880–1976), founder of the
Awami Muslim League and
The Daily Ittefaq
Qazi Mu'tasim Billah (1933–2013), former principal
Jamia Shariyyah Malibagh and former professor at the
University of Dhaka
Ashraf Ali Bishwanathi (1928–2005), former president of
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh
Abdul Halim Bukhari (born 1945), Islamic scholar and chancellor of
Al Jamia Al Islamia Patiya
Ghulam Mustafa Burdwani, 18th-century mufti and poet
Abdur Rahman Chatgami (1920–2015), founder of
Islamic Research Center Bangladesh
Abdus Salam Chatgami (1943–2021), former
Grand Mufti in both
Pakistan and
Bangladesh
Ibrahim Chatuli (1894–1984), Education Minister of Assam and former Member of Parliament in Pakistan and Bangladesh
Abdul Jalil Choudhury (1925–1989), Islamic scholar and former MLA of
Badarpur and
Algapur
Abdul Matin Chowdhury (1915–1990), Shaykh of Fulbari and political activist
Farid Uddin Chowdhury (born 1947), principal of
Shahjalal Jamia School
Najib Ali Choudhury (
c. 1870 ), founder of the
Madinatul Uloom Bagbari in South Assam
Izharul Islam Chowdhury , founder of
Jamiatul Uloom Al-Islamia Lalkhan Bazar
Shahinur Pasha Chowdhury , vice-president of
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam
Ahmed Ali Enayetpuri (1898–1959), founder of Sariat-i-Islam newspaper
Khwaja Yunus Ali Enayetpuri (1886–1951), founder of the Enayetpuri Sufi Darbar
Muhammad Faizullah (1892–1976), former teacher at
Al-Jamiatul Ahlia Darul Ulum Moinul Islam
Abdul Haque Faridi (1903–1996), founder of the
Islami Bishwakosh project
Shamsul Haque Faridpuri (1896–1969), founder of the
Jamia Qurania Arabia Lalbagh
Nurul Islam Farooqi (died 2014), TV presenter assassinated by Islamic militants
Abdul Latif Chowdhury Fultali (1913–2008), founder of the Fultali movement and
Darul Hadis Latifiah
Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib (born 1948), reformist and founder of
Ahle Hadith Andolon Bangladesh
Nur Uddin Gohorpuri (1924–2005), chairman of
Befaqul Madarisil Arabia Bangladesh
Tafazzul Haque Habiganji (1938–2020), former vice-president of
Hefazat-e-Islam and
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam
Abdul Malek Halim , founder of
Al-Jamiatul Arabia Haildhar Madrasa
Obaidullah Hamzah (born 1972), current principal of
Al Jamia Al Islamia Patiya
Alaul Haq (1301–1398), Islamic scholar entrusted with the Bengal Sultanate treasury
Ubaidul Haq (1928–2007), former
khatib of
Baitul Mukarram
Azizul Haq (1903–1961), founder of
Al Jamia Al Islamia Patiya
Azizul Haque (1919–2012), first translator of
Sahih Al-Bukhari into the
Bengali language
Mahfuzul Haque (born 1969), Islamic scholar and politician
Mamunul Haque (born 1973), Islamic scholar and influential speaker
Mahmudul Hasan (born 1950), president of
Al-Haiatul Ulya Lil-Jamiatil Qawmia Bangladesh and
Befaqul Madarisil Arabia Bangladesh , chancellor of
Jamia Islamia Darul Uloom Madania [
bn ] , Amir of Majlis-e-Dawatul Haq Bangladesh.
[24]
Shah Ahmad Hasan (1882–1967), founder of
Jiri Madrasa
A F M Khalid Hossain (born 1959), vice-president of
Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh
Sayed Moazzem Hossain (1901–1991), former vice-chancellor of the
University of Dhaka
Zohurul Hoque (1926–2017), translator of the Qur'an
Hafezzi Huzur (1895–1997), founder of the
Bangladesh Khilafat Andolan
Abdul Momin Imambari (1930–2020), former president of
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh
Syed Muhammad Ishaq (1915–1977), founder of the Chormonai Darbar Sharif and
Jamia Rashidia Ahsanabad
Shahidul Islam (born 1960), founder of al-Markaz al-Islami
Maniruzzaman Islamabadi (1875–1950), journalist and founder of the
Anjuman-i-Ulama-i-Bangala
Abdul Jabbar Jahanabadi (1937–2016), former secretary-general of
Befaqul Madarisil Arabia Bangladesh
Khandaker Abdullah Jahangir (1961–2016), professor at
Islamic University, Bangladesh
Abul Hasan Jashori (1918–1993), freedom fighter and founding principal of
Jamia Ejazia Darul Uloom Jessore
Nurul Islam Jihadi (born 1948), secretary-general of
Hefazat-e-Islam
Syed Faizul Karim (born 1973), senior vice-president of
Islami Andolan
Syed Fazlul Karim (1935–2006), former Pir of Chormonai and founder of
Islami Andolan
Syed Rezaul Karim (born 1971), current Pir of Chormonai and leader of
Islami Andolan
Nur Hossain Kasemi (1945–2020), former secretary-general of
Hefazat-e-Islam
Deen Muhammad Khan (1900–1974), co-founder of
Jamia Qurania Arabia Lalbagh
Mohammad Akram Khan (1868–1969), founder of
The Azad
Muhiuddin Khan (1935–2016), translator of the
Qur'an and the
Ma'ariful Qur'an exegesis
Abdul Hamid Madarshahi (1869–1920), co-founder of
Darul Uloom Hathazari
Ghulamur Rahman Maizbhandari (1865–1937), 2nd Pir of Maizbhandari
Syed Ahmadullah Maizbhandari (1826–1906), founder of the Maizbhandari Darbar
Muhammad Abdul Malek (born 1969),
muhaddith and author
Maqsudullah (1883–1961), Deobandi scholar and Pir of Talgachhia Darbar Sharif
Ajmal Masroor (born 1971), British politician, imam and TV presenter
Abu Taher Misbah (born 1956), academic, author and founder of
Madani Nesab
Abdur Rahim Muhammadpuri (1859–1931), Islamic writer
Mohammad Meherullah (1861–1907), comparative religionist writer
Abdul Khaleque Mondal (born 1944),
Jamaat-e-Islami politician and principal of
Agardari Madrasa
Sultan Zauq Nadvi (born 1939), founder of
Jamia Darul Ma'arif Al-Islamia
Shah Sultan Ahmad Nanupuri (1914–1997), founding principal of
Al-Jamiah Al-Islamiah Obaidia Nanupur
Saifur Rahman Nizami (born 1916),
Ekushey Padak recipient
Shamsul Huda Panchbagi (1897–1988), founder of the Emarat Party and two-time member of the
Bengal Legislative Assembly
Abdul Wahhab Pirji (1890–1976), scholar, educationist and founding principal of
Jamia Hussainia Ashraful Uloom , Bara Katara
Shamsuddin Qasemi (1935–1996), former secretary-general of
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam
Abdul Qayum (born 1960), Chief Imam of the
East London Mosque
Habibullah Qurayshi (1865–1934), co-founder of
Al-Jamiatul Ahlia Darul Ulum Moinul Islam
Abdur Rahim (1918–1987), first leader of the
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami
Sajidur Rahman (born 1964), vice-president of
Befaqul Madarisil Arabia Bangladesh
Shah Waliur Rahman (1916–2006), Islamic scholar and female education activist
Abu Zafar Mohammad Saleh (1915–1990),
Independence Award recipient
Muhammad Shahidullah (1885–1969), essayist and editor of the
Islami Bishwakosh
Haji Shariatullah (1781–1840), founder of the
Faraizi movement
Mohammad Abu Bakr Siddique (1865–1943), inaugural Pir of
Furfura Sharif
Uthman Sirajuddin (1258–1357), Court Scholar of Bengal under the
Ilyas Shahis
Delwar Hossain Sayeedi (born 1940), Islamic scholar and former member of Bangladeshi parliament
Shah Ahmad Shafi (1916–2020), former Amir of
Hefazat-e-Islam
Ibrahim Ali Tashna (1872–1931), Islamic scholar, poet and activist
Zia Uddin (born 1941), president of
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh
Ibrahim Ujani (1863–1943), Qur'an reciter and founder of
Jamia Islamia Ibrahimia
Shah Abd al-Wahhab (1894–1982), second principal of
Darul Uloom Hathazari
Muhammad Wakkas (1952–2021), former secretary-general of
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam
Nurul Islam Walipuri (born 1955),
mufassir , teacher and author
Obaidul Haque Wazirpuri (1934–2008), former co-president of Befaqul Madarisil Arabia Bangladesh
Abul Kalam Muhammad Yusuf (1926–2014), former chairman of Darul-Arabia wa Darul-Ifta Bangladesh
Sayed Kamaluddin Zafree (born 1945), founder of the
Bangladesh Islami University
Abubakar Muhammad Zakaria (born 1969), professor at
Islamic University, Bangladesh
Shaikh Zamiruddin (1870–1937), writer and revert to Islam
Christianity
Kali Charan Banerjee , lawyer and theologian, founder of the Calcutta Christo Samaj, member of the
Indian National Congress
Krishna Mohan Banerjee , Bengali philosopher and litterateur, President of the Bengal Christian Association
Puroshottam Choudhary , preacher, evangelist, writer of
Christian literature
Lal Behari Dey , Indian journalist, writer, and Christian missionary
Patrick D'Rozario , first Bangladeshi
Cardinal ,
Archbishop of Dhaka
Aurobindo Nath Mukherjee , first Indian
Bishop of Calcutta and
Metropolitan of India
Krishna Pal , Bengali evangelist and missionary, first Bengali convert to Christianity under
William Carey
Other
Freedom Fighters and Revolutionaries
Science and technology
Seated (L to R):
Meghnad Saha ,
Jagadish Chandra Bose ,
Jnan Chandra Ghosh . Standing (L to R): Snehamoy Dutt,
Satyendranath Bose ,
Debendra Mohan Bose , N R Sen,
Jnanendra Nath Mukherjee , N C Nag.
Physicists
Ahsan Ali , doctor, physician and researcher
Kedareswar Banerjee , first crystallographer of India, known for X-ray Crystallography and was director of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata. The
K. Banerjee Centre of Atmospheric and Ocean Studies was established in his honour
Srikumar Banerjee , director of
BARC and
AECI
Mani Lal Bhaumik , physicist, helped develop the first excimer laser at the
University of California
Debendra Mohan Bose , physicist, made contributions in the field of
cosmic rays , artificial radioactivity and neutron physics
Jagadish Chandra Bose , physicist, radio and wireless transmission pioneer, also did substantial work on botany
Satyendra Nath Bose , physicist, founded
Bose–Einstein statistics , which helped to produce Bose–Einstein condensate (2001 Nobel Prize in Physics was given for this discovery); the
Boson , an elementary particle named after him
Swapan Chattopadhyay , particle accelerator physicist, contributed to the development of many accelerators around the world, e.g. the
Super Proton-Antiproton Synchrotron , the
Large Hadron Collider at
CERN , and the
Advanced Light Source at
Berkeley
Swapan Kumar Gain , Bengali-American physicist, Professor of Physics at the
City University of New York
Amitabha Ghosh , only Asian on NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission
Dipan Ghosh , theoretical physicist, known for
Majumdar–Ghosh model
Hiranmay Sen Gupta , physicist, has published around 200 research papers in various international journals
M. Zahid Hasan , physicist, Eugene Higgins endowed chair professor of quantum physics at
Princeton University and scientist at
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , known for discoveries in quantum matter and topology
Mohammad Ataul Karim , known for contributions to the fields of electro-optical devices and systems, optical computing and processing, and pattern recognition
Ashesh Prasad Mitra , performed major work in the field of the Earth's near-space environment, through group based and space techniques
Sisir Kumar Mitra , physicist, pioneer in the investigations of ionosphere, the
Mitra crater on the
Moon is named after him
Bedabrata Pain , co-inventor of CMOS image sensor, also an award-winning filmmaker
Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri , physicist, known for his contributions to relativity and cosmology including
Raychaudhuri's equation
Somak Raychaudhury ,
astrophysicist and observational
cosmologist , Director,
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics
Subrata Roy , known for his contributions in the modelling of
plasma physics and the invention of the
Wingless Electromagnetic Air Vehicle and
serpentine geometry plasma actuator
Meghnad Saha , physicist, produced the Thermo-Ionization Equation or
Saha Equation
Ashoke Sen , physicist, known for his contributions to
string theory , co-discovered
S-duality
Bikash Sinha , former director of
SINP and Padmabhusan awardee
Biologists
Maqsudul Alam , scientist and professor, achieved four milestones in genomics - sequencing the genomes of papaya, rubber plants, jute and fungus
Gopal Chandra Bhattacharya , known for his pioneering work on social insects and the role of bacteria in metamorphosis
Sharmila Bhattacharya , head of the Biomodel Performance and Behavior laboratory at
NASA Ames Research Center
Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty , most notable for his work in directed evolution and his role in developing a genetically engineered organism using plasmid transfer while working at GE
Maharani Chakravorty , organized the first laboratory course on recombinant DNA techniques in Asia and Far East in 1981
Biraja Sankar Guha , first director of
Anthropological Survey of India
Jahangir Alam Khan , agricultural economist and researcher
Dilip Mahalanabis , biologist, under his leadership the
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (Bangladesh medical centre), discovered oral rehydration therapy, which has saved more than 40 million lives from diarrhea
Swadhin Kumar Mandal ,
Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and
Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award winner
Panchanan Mitra , first professor of anthropology in India, among the first Indians to study at
Yale University
Mohammad Hossain Mondol , director-general of
Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute
Sarat Chandra Roy , widely regarded as the father of Indian ethnography , the first Indian ethnographer , and as the first Indian anthropologist
Ram Brahma Sanyal , pioneer in captive breeding; one of the first zookeepers trained as a biologist; a corresponding member of the Zoological Society of London
Dwijen Sharma , naturalist and science writer
Geologists
Chemists
Abdus Suttar Khan invented more than forty different alloys for commercial application in space shuttles, jet engines, train engines and industrial gas turbines.
Sadhan Basu , Palit professor at Calcutta University and Bhatnagar Award, CV Raman recipient
Asima Chatterjee , known for her work in the fields of organic chemistry and phytomedicine; her most notable work includes those on vinca alkaloids, and the development of anti-epileptic and anti-malarial drugs
Jnan Chandra Ghosh , chemist, known for anomaly of strong electrolytes
Abul Hussam , chemist, inventor of
Sono arsenic filter and the gold winner of the 2007 Grainger Challenge Prize for Sustainability
Abdus Suttar Khan , chemist, inventor of alloys for use in commercial jets, U.S. fighter planes, gas turbines, train engines, and space shuttles
Nurul Haque Miah , chemist, former professor at
Dhaka College , textbook author
Jnanendra Nath Mukherjee , chemist, specialised in the fields of electrochemistry, colloids and soil science
Prafulla Chandra Roy , pioneer in the field of pharmaceutical and chemical works (discovered mercurous nitrite), The Royal Society of Chemistry honoured him with the first ever Chemical Landmark Plaque outside Europe, founder of Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals, India's first pharmaceutical company
Doctors and physicians
Shamsuddin Ahmed , medical doctor martyred in the
Bangladesh Liberation War
Rafiuddin Ahmed , dentist, founder of the first dental college of India and Bengal Dental Association, which later became
Indian Dental Association
Syed Modasser Ali , ophthalmic surgeon and a health advisor to
Sheikh Hasina , founder of Mojibunnessa Eye Hospital and editor-in-chief of the Bangladesh Ophthalmic Journal.
Upendranath Brahmachari , synthesized Urea Stibamine (carbostibamide) and used it in the treatment of Kala-azar (leishmaniasis), was a nominee for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Surjo Kumar Chakraborty , India's first graduate in medicine
Kadambini Ganguly , one of the first two Indian women who trained in Western medicine
Jogesh Chandra Ghosh , pioneer of modern
Ayurvedic medicine
Siddhartha Mukherjee , physician, scientist and writer, author of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer , which won the
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 2011
Subhash Mukhopadhyay , physician, first physician in India and second in the world to perform in vitro fertilization
Shuvo Roy , scientist and inventor of implantable artificial kidney
Mahendralal Sarkar , homeopath and founder of the
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
Hassan Suhrawardy , second Muslim from the sub-continent to become a Fellow of the
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Mathematicians
Debabrata Basu , mathematician, found
Basu's theorem
Anil Kumar Bhattacharya , known for
Bhattacharya coefficient , and the
Bhattacharya distance
Raj Chandra Bose , mathematician, known for
Association scheme ,
Bose–Mesner algebra ,
Euler's conjecture
Sourav Chatterjee , mathematician, specializing in mathematical statistics and probability theory. Professor at Stanford
Anil Kumar Gain , mathematician and statistician from
University of Cambridge ,
Fellow of the Royal Society
Jayanta Kumar Ghosh , mathematician, known for Bahadur-Ghosh-Kiefer representation and Ghosh-Pratt identity
Anadi Sankar Gupta , specialised in fluid dynamics and magnetohydrodynamics, notably on heat transfer in free convection flow in the presence of magnetic field
Qazi Azizul Haque , pioneered the mathematical formula for Henry Classification System of fingerprinting
Khandkar Manwar Hossain , Bangladeshi statistician
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis , founder Indian Statistical Institute, best remembered for the
Mahalanobis distance , a statistical measure
Samarendra Kumar Mitra , designed, developed and constructed India's first indigenous computer (an electronic analog computer) in ISI in 1953
Syamadas Mukhopadhyaya , introduced the four-vertex theorem and Mukhopadhyaya's theorem in plane geometry
ANM Muniruzzaman , Bangladeshi statistician killed in
Bangladesh Liberation War
Ritabrata Munshi , mathematician specialising in number theory. Graduate student of
Andrew Wiles .
Dijen K. Ray-Chaudhuri , professor emeritus at Ohio State University. Known for
BCH code
Samarendra Nath Roy , mathematician, known for multivariate analysis
Sucharit Sarkar , Indian topologist and IMO gold medallist
Radhanath Sikdar , mathematician, calculated the height of Mount Everest
Technologists
Architects, archaeologists and engineers
Jalal Ahmad (born 1959), president of the
Institute of Architects Bangladesh , vice-president of the
Commonwealth Association of Architects
Sultanuddin Ahmed , engineer martyred during the
Bangladesh Liberation War
Vidyadhar Bhattacharya (1693–1751), the chief architect and city planner of
Jaipur , Rajasthan;
[25] with
Sir Samuel Swinton Jacob , he is credited as the architect of
City Palace, Jaipur
Fazlur Rahman Khan (1929–1982), structural engineer and architect, father of tubular designs for high-rises such as Willis Tower (aka Sears Tower) and the John Hancock Center
Saiman Miah (born 1986), architectural and graphic designer, designed one of the two £5
commemorative coins for the
2012 Summer Olympics .
M Harunur Rashid , archaeologist, educationist and museum curator
Abul Kalam Mohammed Zakaria , archaeologist
Social reformers and position holders
Sir
Fazle Hasan Abed
KCMG receiving the Thomas Francis Jr Medal in Global Public Health award from the University of Michigan (April 2016)
Fazle Hasan Abed
KCMG , founder of the world's largest
non-governmental organisation ,
BRAC
Syed Ameer Ali , law reformer
Rawshan Ara Bachchu , woman rights activist and part of the
Bengali language movement
Kalyan Banerjee , former president of
Rotary International
Syeda Shahar Banu , woman rights activist and part of the
Bengali language movement
The Honourable
Doctor
Muhammad Abdul Bari
MBE
DL
FRSA
Esq. , former secretary of
Muslim Aid , former secretary-general of the
Muslim Council of Britain , former president of the
Islamic Forum of Europe and former chairman of the
East London Mosque
Khuda Buksh , pioneer of life insurance in Bangladesh
Malati Choudhury , Indian civil rights activist, freedom activist and Gandhian
Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin , director of Muslim spiritual care provision at the
National Health Service , founder of the
Islamic Forum of Europe and former chairman of
Muslim Aid
Zobeda Khanom Chowdhury , woman rights activist and part of the
Bengali language movement
Anil Kumar Gain , founder of
Vidyasagar University and President of the
Indian Science Congress
Sir Azizul Haque , lawyer, writer, educator and public servant
Roquia Sakhawat Hussain , prolific writer, important women's rights activist and social worker, early
feminist science fiction writer
Nasreen Pervin Huq , women's rights activist
Sayeed Iskander , founding chairman of
Islamic TV and former army major of Bangladesh
Irene Khan , former Secretary General of
Amnesty International , first woman, first Asian, and first Muslim to hold the position
Osman Ghani Khan , former chairman of the United Nations Board of Auditors, first Bangladeshi to hold a UN post.
Taiyaba Majumder , recipient of the
Begum Rokeya Padak for contributions to women's rights and economic development
Muhammad Mohsin , philanthropist and founder of
Hooghly Mohsin College
Mohua Mukherjee , social activist and author
Audri Mukhopadhyay , diplomat and economist
Renuka Ray , freedom fighter and social activist
Bunker Roy , social activist and educator who founded the Barefoot College, selected as one of Time's 100 most influential personalities in 2010
Manabendra Nath Roy , pioneer Indian Bengali revolutionary philosopher, founder of the
Mexican Communist Party and the
Indian Communist Party
Harichand Thakur , founder of
Matua Mahasangha
Binay Ranjan Sen , former Director General of the
Food and Agriculture Organization
Keshub Chunder Sen , intellectual, religious reformer
Muhammad Shahidullah , educationist, writer, polyglot, philologist and linguist
Romola Sinha , women's rights and social activist, founder member of
All Bengal Women's Union
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar , responsible for introducing major reforms in the educational system and women's rights activist
Sports
Brojen Das was the first Bengali to swim across the English Channel.
Administrators
Athletics
Mohamed Mahbub Alam ,
South Asian Games gold medalist sprinter
Swapna Barman , heptathlon athlete
Soma Biswas , heptathlon athlete
Shanta Ghosh , retired German sprinter who specialized in the 400 meters
Mohan Khan , Olympic sprinter
Rahamatulla Molla , track athlete
Beauty Nazmun Nahar , Olympic sprinter from Bangladesh
Hari Shankar Roy , Indian track and field athlete
Saraswati Saha , Indian former track and field sprinter
Jyotirmoyee Sikdar , athletics, double gold-medallist in track at Asian games, recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award and Padma Shri award
Archery
Badminton
Bodybuilding, boxing, rugby and wrestling
Manohar Aich , bodybuilder
Tameer Anwar , bodybuilder, Mister Bangladesh
Laxman Das , wrestler and weight lifter
Sukhen Dey , weightlifter
Ambika Charan Guha , Indian wrestler who pioneered the growth of Akhada culture in Bengal
Gobar Guha , Indian wrestler and practitioner of Pehlwani
Bulbul Hussain ,
wheelchair rugby player for Kent Crusaders and the
Great Britain Paralympic team
Abdul Ali Jacko , two-time world lightweight kick-boxing champion
Mohammed Ali Qamar , gold-medallist boxer
Reba Rakshit , Indian female bodybuilder and exponent of yoga
Monotosh Roy , Indian bodybuilder, first Bengali to be awarded the Mr. Universe title
Paresh Lal Roy , known as the "father of Indian boxing"
Asit Kumar Saha , wrestler and wrestling coach
Sudhir Saha , wrestler, coach and wrestling administrator in India, introduced Greco-Roman wrestling in India
Chess
Cricket
Aftab Ahmed , former Bangladeshi cricketer
Nasum Ahmed , bowler for
Bangladesh
Taskin Ahmed , Bangladeshi bowler
Amit Ali , cricketer for
Tripura
Mohammad Ashraful , Bangladeshi cricketer, youngest centurion in test cricket
Tapash Baishya , Bangladeshi cricketer
Vikram Banerjee , English cricketer
Gargi Banerji , former Indian Women cricketer, holds international records
Habibul Bashar , former Bangladeshi cricketer
Gopal Bose , former Indian ODI player
Ranadeb Bose , Indian cricketer
Utpal Chatterjee , former Indian cricketer
Nirode Chowdhury , former Indian Test cricketer and pace bowler
Liton Das , Bangladeshi cricketer
Deep Dasgupta , former Indian national cricket team wicket-keeper
Rumeli Dhar , cricketer, Indian women's cricket team
Ashok Dinda , Indian cricket team player
Nikhil Dutta , Canadian cricketer
Sourav Ganguly , former Indian cricket team captain, Padma Shri awardee
Dhiman Ghosh , Bangladeshi cricketer
Pinak Ghosh , Bangladeshi cricketer
Jhulan Goswami , Indian woman cricketer, awarded ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year 2007
Isa Guha , English women's team cricketer
Subrata Guha , former Indian Test cricketer
Mominul Haque , Bangladeshi cricketer, has the highest test batting average and century by a Bangladeshi batsman
Shakib Al Hasan , Bangladeshi cricketer
Shuvagata Hom , Bangladeshi cricketer
Rubel Hossain , Bangladeshi cricketer
Shahadat Hossain , Bangladeshi cricketer
Tamim Iqbal , Bangladeshi cricketer
Taijul Islam , Bangladeshi bowler
Mustafa Kamal , former president of
Bangladesh Cricket Board
Alok Kapali , former Bangladeshi cricketer
Kamal Hasan Mondal , Indian cricketer
Lata Mondal , Bangladeshi woman cricketer
Saradindu Mukherjee , former Indian cricketer
Mithu Mukherjee , former Indian women's cricket team player
Nazmul Hassan Papon , president of
Bangladesh Cricket Board
Mushfiqur Rahim , Bangladeshi cricketer
Arafat Rahman , former Chairman of the Development Committee of
Bangladesh Cricket Board
Mahmudullah Riyad , Bangladeshi cricketer
Pankaj Roy , former Indian cricket captain, known for establishing the world record opening partnership of 413 runs against New Zealand
Pranab Roy , former Test cricketer for India Championship (1983, 1985, 1989)
Priyanka Roy , former cricketer of Indian women's cricket team
Subashis Roy , Bangladeshi cricketer
Wriddhiman Saha , Indian cricket player
Soumya Sarkar , Bangladeshi cricketer
Probir Sen , former Indian Test cricketer/wicket-keeper
Parvez Sultan , cricketer for
Tripura
Rony Talukdar , Bangladeshi cricketer
Jahan Uddin , cricketer for
Sikkim
Javed Zaman , cricketer for
Railways
Hamza Choudhury playing for
Leicester City F.C. in 2021.
Alfaz Ahmed , former footballer for
Bangladesh
Tarif Akhand , defender for
Punjab FC
Faisal Ali , former winger for
Mohammedan SC (Kolkata)
Rahim Ali , forward for
India
S.K. Azim , defender for
United SC
Sheikh Azim , defender for
Mohammedan SC (Kolkata)
Pradip Kumar Banerjee , footballer, named Indian Footballer of the 20th Century by
FIFA
Prasun Banerjee , former Indian national football player,
Arjuna award winner
Samar Banerjee , Indian footballer, Captain of Indian team in 1956 Olympic
Sibdas Bhaduri , captained
Mohun Bagan in the historic 1911
IFA Shield Final , where they defeated the
East Yorkshire Regiment , 2–1
Arindam Bhattacharya , Indian national football player
Karuna Bhattacharya , Indian footballer, member of 1938 Australia touring side
Lal Kamal Bhowmik , Indian footballer
Subhash Bhowmick , former Indian international football player
Subhasish Bose , Indian national football player
Ashok Chatterjee , Indian footballer
Sudip Chatterjee , footballer, considered among the finest in Indian football, declared AIFF player of the decade in 1994
Hamza Choudhury ,
midfielder for English football club
Leicester City F.C.
Yeamin Chowdhury , footballer for
Chittagong Abahani
Narayan Das , Indian national football player
Krishanu Dey , footballer, known as the "Indian Maradona"
Robin Dutt , former manager of
Bundesliga club
Werder Bremen , current representative for sport of
VfB Stuttgart
S. K. Faiaz , winger for
Mohammedan SC (Kolkata)
Kamran Farooque , defender for
Churchill Brothers FC
Chuni Goswami , former Indian Footballer, Padma Shri awardee, awarded the best striker of Asia in 1962
Pronay Halder , Indian national football player
Kaiser Hamid , former footballer for
Mohammedan S.C.
Mehtab Hossain , former Indian national football player
S. M. Kaiser , olympic footballer and midfielder for
East Bengal Club
Pritam Kotal , Indian national football player
Azharuddin Mallick , forward for
Delhi FC
Samad Ali Mallick , defender for
Mohammedan SC (Kolkata)
Sailen Manna , footballer, the only Bengali footballer ever to be named among the 10 best captains in the world by the English FA in 1953
Manoj Mohammed , defender for
Hyderabad FC
Surabuddin Mollick , midfielder
Arnab Mondal , Indian national football player
Deepak Kumar Mondal , footballer and
Arjuna award winner
Habibur Rehman Mondal , former defender for
Mohammedan SC (Kolkata)
Jafar Mondal , goalkeeper for
Churchill Brothers FC
Syed Rahim Nabi , Indian international footballer, known as 'Mr. Versatile' for his ability to play at any position (except goalkeeper), declared Indian player of the year in 2012
Syed Nayeemuddin , former captain for
India
Santosh Nandy , Indian footballer, Olympian
Gostha Pal , footballer; member of the 1st Indian team,
Mohun Bagan , that won the IFA shield against a British team in the pre-independence period
Subrata Paul , Indian national football player, first Indian goalkeeper to play professionally for a foreign club in 1st division
Mohammed Rafique , former midfielder for
East Bengal Club
Safiul Rahaman , defender for
Mohammedan SC (Kolkata)
Mahbubur Rahman , footballer and captain of
Arambagh KS
Mohammed Rahmatullah , forward for
India
Mohammed Salim , first Indian footballer to play overseas (in 1936 for the Scottish Club
Celtic F.C. )
Sukumar Samajpati , Indian footballer, 1964 Asian Cup team member
Rafique Ali Sardar , former goalkeeper for
Mohammedan SC (Kolkata)
Safar Sardar , former defender for
Mohammedan SC (Kolkata)
Gautam Sarkar , ex-footballer, having represented
SC East Bengal
Jewel Raja Shaikh , Indian national football player
Shamit Shome , first
Bengali origin player in
Major League Soccer
Neil Taylor , Welsh footballer of half-
Bengali origin
Runu Guha Thakurta , Indian footballer, Olympian
Anwar Uddin , former defender for
West Ham United and founder of
Sporting Bengal United F.C.
Golf and snooker
Gymnastics
Mabia Akhter , Commonwealth gold medalist, South Asian Games gold medalist
Dipa Karmakar , first Indian woman gymnast to qualify for the Olympics
Margarita Mamun , Russian gymnast of half-Bangladeshi origin
Pranati Nayak , second Indian women gymnast to qualify for the Olympics
Cycling and mountaineering
Shooting
Squash
Swimming
Table tennis
Tennis
Writers
Rabindranath Tagore is the first Indian as well as Asian Nobel laureate.
Al Mahmud is considered one of the greatest Bengali poets to have emerged in the 20th century.
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Hason Raja , mystical poet and songwriter
Ekramuddin Ahmad (1872–1940), Bengali litterateur and government officer
Muhammad Reazuddin Ahmad (1861–1933), journalist and philosopher
Humayun Ahmed (born 1948), novelist
Ismail Alam (1868–1937), Urdu poet and activist
Alaol (1607–1680), poet of medieval era
Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib (born 1948),
Islamic scholar , writer, academic, essayist
Afzal Ali , 16th-century poet
Arjumand Ali (1870–1914), first Bengali Muslim novelist
Asaddor Ali , writer, folklorist and winner of
Bangla Academy Literary Award
Ekram Ali (born 1950), poet
Monica Ali (born 1967), novelist
Sadeq Ali , poet best known for the Halat-un-Nabi
puthi
Syed Mujtaba Ali (1904–1974), novelist and essayist
Syed Murtaza Ali , writer and historian
Muhammad Arshad , 16th-century Persian writer *
Anuj Dhar , author, journalist
Banaphool (1899–1979), writer of short stories
Samit Basu (born 1979), author, filmmaker
Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay (1894–1950), novelist
Manik Bandopadhyay (1908–1956), novelist and short story writer
Tarashankar Bandopadhyay (1898–1971), novelist
Subimal Basak , fiction writer
Abul Bashar (born 1951), novelist and essayist
Samit Basu (born 1979), novelist
Rokeya Begum (1880–1932), author and political activist
Izzatullah Bengali , 18th-century Persian author
Sukanta Bhattacharya (1926–1947), poet and playwright
Abdul Karim Sahitya Bisharad (1871–1953), author, Gorokho Bijoy
Buddhadeb Bose (1908–1974), poet and essayist
Sasthi Brata , (1939–2015), fiction writer, based in UK
Novoneel Chakraborty , author, scriptwriter
Nirendranath Chakravarty (1924–2018), poet
Chandidas (1408–?), medieval Bengali poet
Aroup Chatterjee (born 1958), British Indian atheist physician, author of Mother Teresa: The Untold Story
Rimi B. Chatterjee , novelist and short story writer, winner of the 2007 SHARP deLong Prize
Upamanyu Chatterjee (born 1959), author and administrator
Pritish Nandy (born 1951), poet and author and journalist EM Forster Literary Award, Padma Shri
Suniti Kumar Chatterji (1890–1977), linguist and educator
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (1838–1894), novelist, essayist, penned the Indian national song of integrity "
Vande Mataram "
Sandipan Chattopadhyay (1933–2005), novelist
Sanjeev Chattopadhyay , (born 1936), fiction writer
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1876–1938), novelist
Shakti Chattopadhyay , (1933–1995) poet
Karimunnesa Khanam Chaudhurani (1855–1926), poet and social worker
Amit Chaudhuri (born 1962), Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia, 2002
Sahitya Akademi Award winner
Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1897–1999), essayist and scholar
Pramatha Chaudhuri (1868–1946), editor of Sabuj Patra, wrote in the era of
Rabindranath Tagore
Abdur Rouf Choudhury , writer
Achyut Charan Choudhury , writer and historian
Malay Roy Choudhury (born 1939), Bengali poet and novelist who founded the "Hungryalist Movement" in the 1960s
Chowdhury Gulam Akbar , writer and collector of
Bengali folk literature for the
Bangla Academy
Kabir Chowdhury , academic and essayist
Jibanananda Das (1899–1954), poet
Indra Das , author in English literature
Durjoy Datta (born 1987), author in modern English Literature
Ashapurna Devi (1909–1995), novelist and short story writer
Mahasweta Devi (1926–2016), novelist and short story writer
Nirupama Devi (1883–1951), fiction writer
Leema Dhar (born 1993), novelist, poet, and columnist
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (born 1956) (born Chitralekha Banerjee), author and poet
Michael Madhusudan Dutt (1824–1873), poet and dramatist
Romesh Chunder Dutt (1848–1909), writer and translator of Ramayana and Mahabharata
Toru Dutt (1856–1877), wrote in English and French
Himangshu Dutta (1908–1944), composer
Sudhindranath Dutta (1901–1960), poet
Kaberi Gayen (born 1970), author of Muktijuddher Cholochchitre Naree Nirman
Narayan Gangopadhyay (1918–1970), author, creator of the
Tenida character
Sunil Gangopadhyay (1934–2012), poet and novelist
Dhirendra Nath Ganguly , director
Amitav Ghosh (born 1956), novelist and essayist
Prabir Ghosh (born 1945), writer, essayist, poet and rationalist
Shankha Ghosh (1932–2021), poet and essayist
Joy Goswami (born 1954), poet
Buddhadeb Guha (born 1936), novelist
Tanika Gupta (born 1963), playwright, appointed
Member of the Order of the British Empire in 2008
Abdul Hakim (1620–1690), medieval poet
Muhammad Nurul Haque , cultural activist, social worker and writer
Syed Shamsul Haque , poet and novelist
Mir Mosharraf Hossain (1847–1912), novelist
Ashraf Hussain , poet and folklorist
Hasnat Abdul Hye , writer and novelist
Muhammed Zafar Iqbal (born 1952), science fiction writer
Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899–1976), poet
Jasimuddin (1903–1976), poet, novelist and essayist
Jīmūtavāhana (
c. 12th century ), Sanskrit writer of
Dāyabhāga
Dawlat Wazir Bahram Khan , 16th-century poet
Dilwar Khan , poet known as Gonomanusher Kobi (Poet of the mass people)
Moniruddin Khan (born 1974), writer and historian
Muhammad Mojlum Khan , non-fiction English writer best known for
The Muslim 100
Jhumpa Lahiri (born 1967), novelist, short story writer, Pulitzer Prize winner
Al Mahmud (1936–2019), poet and novelist
Heyat Mahmud (1693–1760), medieval poet and judge
Binoy Majumdar (1934–2006), poet,
Sahitya Akademi Award in 2005
Kamal Kumar Majumdar (1914–1979), novelist and short story writer
Leela Majumdar (1908–2007), writer
R. C. Majumdar (1888–1980), author, historian
Samaresh Majumdar (born 1944), writer, creator of the Animesh trilogy
Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumder (1877–1956), author
Reazuddin Ahmad Mashadi (1859–1918), philosopher
Arun Mitra (1909–2000), poet
Premendra Mitra (1904–1988), poet and short story writer
Motiur Rahman Mollik (1950–2010), poet and novelist
Nurul Momen (1908–1990), playwright
Bharati Mukherjee (1940–2017), author and educator
Dhan Gopal Mukerji (1890–1936), author
Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay (born 1935), novelist
Subhash Mukhopadhyay (1919–2003), Bengali poet
Kumud Ranjan Mullick (1883–1970), poet of the
Tagore era
Muhammad Muqim , 18th-century poet
Ghulam Murshid , writer, essayist and cultural historian
Shahabuddin Nagari (born 1955), Bangladeshi poet and writer of juvenile fiction
Naimuddin (1832–1907), Bengali writer and scholar
Jyotirindranath Nandi , (1912–1982), novelist and short story writer
Moti Nandi (1931–2010), novelist
Taslima Nasrin (born 1962), novelist
Rajat Neogy (1938–1995), poet, writer, thinker and founder of
Transition Magazine in
Kampala in 1961; Ugandan Indian
Krittibas Ojha (1381–1461), medieval Bengali poet
Daulat Qazi (d. 1638), medieval poet
Rahimunnessa (1763–1800), medieval poet
Shamsur Rahman (1929–2006), poet
M Harunur Rashid , teacher of English and Sufi writer
Bharatchandra Ray (1712–1760), poet and song composer known for his
Mangalkavya
Dilipkumar Ray (1897–1980), musician, musicologist, novelist, poet and essayist
Dwijendralal Ray (1863–1913), playwright and poet
Satyajit Ray (1921–1992), writer and film director
Annada Shankar Ray (1905–2002), novelist, essayist and poet
Arundhati Roy (born 1961), novelist and essayist
Samir Roychoudhury (1933–2016), poet, novelist, short story writer and philosopher
Shah Muhammad Saghir , 15th-century poet
Narayan Sanyal (1924–2005), writer of modern Bengali literature
Subodh Sarkar (born 1958), poet
Ramprasad Sen (
c. 1718 or
c. 1723 – c. 1775 ),
Shakta poet of eighteenth century Bengal
Mallika Sengupta (1960–2011), Bengali poet, feminist, and reader of sociology from
Kolkata
Nares Chandra Sen-Gupta (1882–1964), novelist and legal scholar
Shankar , (1933), author in English literature
Hara Prasad Shastri (1853–1931), known as the inventor of
Charyapada
Syed Mustafa Siraj (1930–2012), poet, novelist, short story writer,
Sahitya Akademi awardee
Syed Sultan , wrote the first
Prophetic biography in Bengali in the 16th century
Srijato , won
Ananda Puroskar in 2004
Dwijendranath Tagore (1840–1926), poet, composer, philosopher, mathematician, painter
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), poet, composer, novelist, essayist, story-writer, philosopher, painter, educationist
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820–1891), philosopher, educator, writer, translator, publisher, and reformer of the
Bengal Renaissance period
Zainuddin , 15th-century poet
Chefs
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