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<p>173.220.180.38: </p> <hr /> <div>{{short description|none}}<br /> {{Dynamic list}}<br /> {{Bengalis}} <br /> {{TOC limit|3}}<br /> This article provides lists of famous and notable [[Bengali people]] in the [[South Asia]], people with [[Bengalis|Bengali]] ancestry, and people who speak [[Bengali language|Bengali]] as their primary or basic language.<br /> <br /> ==Monarchs==<br /> {{see also|Greatest Bengali of all time}}<br /> <br /> ===[[Pala Empire|Pala Dynasty]]===<br /> {{columns-list|colwidth=20em|<br /> * [[Gopala I]], the founder of the Pala dynasty, which was based in the [[Bengal]] region of the [[Indian subcontinent]].<br /> * [[Dharmapala (emperor)|Dharmapala]], founder of ancient [[Vikramashila]] [[Buddhist|Buddhist Mahavihara]], it was one of the three most important [[Buddhist|Buddhist Mahaviharas]] in ancient India, along with [[Nalanda]] and [[Taxila]].<br /> * [[Devapala (Pala dynasty)|Devapala]], expanded the frontiers of the empire by conquering the present-day Assam and Orissa.<br /> * [[Mahendrapala]]<br /> * [[Shurapala I]]<br /> * [[Vigrahapala I]]<br /> * [[Narayanapala]]<br /> * [[Gopala II]]<br /> * [[Vigrahapala II]]<br /> * [[Mahipala I]]<br /> * [[Nayapala]]<br /> * [[Vigrahapala III]]<br /> * [[Mahipala II]]<br /> * [[Shurapala II]]<br /> * [[Ramapala]]<br /> * [[Kumarapala (Pala king)|Kumarapala]]<br /> * [[Gopala III]]<br /> * [[Madanapala (Pala dynasty)|Madanapala]]<br /> * [[Govindapala]]<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ===Chandra Dynasty===<br /> * [[Traillokyachandra]] (900–930)<br /> * [[Srichandra]] (930–975)<br /> * [[Kalyanachandra]] (975–1000)<br /> * [[Ladahachandra]] (1000–1020)<br /> * [[Govindachandra (Chandra dynasty)|Govindachandra]] (1020–1050)<br /> <br /> ===Deva Dynasty===<br /> * [[Dasharathadeva]] (1281)<br /> * [[Pratapaditya]], Maharaja of [[Jessore (city)|Jessore]] (1561–1611)<br /> * [[Kirtinarayan Basu]], Raja of Chandradwip (from 1668), converted to Islam<br /> <br /> === Ilyas Shahi dynasty (1352–1414) ===<br /> {{Main|Ilyas Shahi dynasty}}<br /> {| class=&quot;wikitable&quot;<br /> |-<br /> ! width=&quot;180&quot; | Name<br /> ! width=&quot;80&quot; | Reign<br /> ! width=&quot;400&quot; | Notes<br /> |-<br /> | [[Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah]]<br /> | 1352–1358<br /> | Became the first sole ruler of whole [[Bengal]] comprising [[Sonargaon]], [[Satgaon]] and [[Gauḍa (city)|Lakhnauti]].<br /> |-<br /> | [[Sikandar Shah]]<br /> | 1358–1390<br /> | Killed in battle with his son and successor, [[Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah]]<br /> |-<br /> | [[Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah]]<br /> | 1390–1411<br /> | Patron of the first recorded Bengali poet [[Shah Muhammad Saghir]]<br /> |-<br /> | [[Saifuddin Hamza Shah]]<br /> | 1411–1412<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> | [[Mahmud Shah (Sultan of Bengal)|Nasiruddin Mahmud Shah]]<br /> | 1435–1459<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> | [[Rukunuddin Barbak Shah]]<br /> | 1459–1474<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> | [[Shamsuddin Yusuf Shah]]<br /> | 1474–1481<br /> | Patron of Bengali poet [[Zainuddin (poet)|Zainuddin]]<br /> |-<br /> | [[Nuruddin Sikandar Shah]]<br /> | 1481<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> | [[Jalaluddin Fateh Shah]]<br /> | 1481–1487<br /> |<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===House of Ganesha===<br /> * [[Raja Ganesha]]<br /> * [[Jalaluddin Muhammad Shah]]<br /> * [[Shamsuddin Ahmad Shah]] (1419–1436)<br /> <br /> === Hussain Shahi dynasty (1494–1538) ===<br /> {{Main|Hussain Shahi dynasty}}<br /> {| class=&quot;wikitable&quot;<br /> |-<br /> ! width=&quot;180&quot; | Name<br /> ! width=&quot;80&quot; | Reign<br /> ! width=&quot;400&quot; | Notes<br /> |-<br /> | [[Alauddin Hussain Shah]]<br /> | 1494–1518<br /> | His witnessed a remarkable development of Bengali literature.<br /> |-<br /> | [[Nasiruddin Nasrat Shah]]<br /> | 1518–1533<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> | [[Alauddin Firuz Shah II|Alauddin Firuz Shah]]<br /> | 1533<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> | [[Ghiyasuddin Mahmud Shah]]<br /> | 1533–1538<br /> |<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ===Other===<br /> [[File:Isa Khan.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|A 19th century sketch of [[Isa Khan]], Bengali Muslim leader of the Baro-Bhuyians of Bengal.]]<br /> * [[Paragal Khan]], 16th-century governor of Chittagong<br /> * [[Chhuti Khan]], 16th-century governor of Chittagong<br /> * [[Shahzada Danyal]], son of [[Alauddin Husain Shah]]<br /> * [[Syeda Momena Khatun]], daughter of [[Ghiyasuddin Mahmud Shah]]<br /> * [[Isa Khan]] (1529–1599), leader of the [[Baro-Bhuiyan]] chieftains of Bengal<br /> * [[Musa Khan (Bengal)|Musa Khan]] (d. 1623), leader of the [[Baro-Bhuiyan]] chieftains of Bengal<br /> * [[Dilal Khan]] (1585–1666), final independent ruler of Sandwip <br /> * [[Kedar Ray]] ( 1561–1616), last independent Raja of [[Bikrampur]], one of the prominent [[Baro-Bhuyan]]<br /> * [[Raja Pratapaditya|Pratapaditya Guha]] (1561–1611), last independent Raja of [[Jessore District|Jessore]], fought against the [[Mughal Empire]]<br /> * [[Kirtinarayan Basu]] (r. 1668–?), fifth Raja of [[Chandradwip]] and founder of the Muslim Baklai family<br /> * [[Bhavashankari|Maharani Bhavashankari]] (1570–1616), Rani of [[Bhurishrestha]] and prominent member of the [[Baro-Bhuyan]]<br /> * [[Raja Sitaram Ray|Sitaram Ray]] (1658–1714), Raja of [[Bhati (region)|Bhati]] and rebelled against the [[Mughal Empire]]<br /> * [[Chowdhury Abu Torab Khan]] (d. 1767), zamindar of Sandwip and leader of Bengal's first anti-colonial uprising<br /> * [[Titumir]] (1782–1831), anti-colonial rebel and self-proclaimed ''Badshah''<br /> * [[Shahid Rahimullah|Rahimullah]] (d. 1861), Chief of Baraikhali and leader of the Sundarbans Indigo Revolt<br /> * [[Golam Ali Chowdhury]] (1824–1888), zamindar of Haturia and philanthropist<br /> <br /> ==Nobel laureates==<br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Please keep the list in date order of receiving the award ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> * [[Rabindranath Tagore]], Nobel Prize in Literature, First Nobel Prize winner of Asia, 1913<br /> * [[Amartya Sen]], Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, 1998<br /> * [[Muhammad Yunus]], Nobel Peace Prize, 2006<br /> * [[Abhijit Banerjee]], Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic science, 2019<br /> <br /> &lt;gallery mode=&quot;packed&quot;&gt;<br /> File:Rabindranath Tagore unknown location.jpg|[[Rabindranath Tagore]]<br /> File: Amartya Sen 2012.jpg|[[Amartya Sen]]<br /> File: Muhammad Yunus (cropped).jpg|[[Muhammad Yunus]]<br /> File:Abhijit Banerjee FT Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2011 (cropped).jpg|[[Abhijit Banerjee]]<br /> &lt;/gallery&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Academics==<br /> [[File:Dr. Abdul Malik.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|[[Abdul Malik (physician)|Abdul Malik]] was Pakistan's first cardiologist.]]<br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Please keep the list in alphabetical order by LAST NAME ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> * [[Momtazuddin Ahmed (philosopher)|Momtazuddin Ahmed]], philosopher and educationist<br /> * [[Abu Sayeed Ayyub]], Indian philosopher, teacher, literary critic.<br /> * [[Dewan Mohammad Azraf]], National Professor of Bangladesh<br /> * [[Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay]], first women Director of Indian Statistical Institute, India<br /> * [[Chandramukhi Basu]], computer scientist and first female graduate in India, and the [[British Empire]]<br /> * [[Sekhar Basu]] was an Indian nuclear scientist who served as the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary to the Government of India<br /> * [[Nurunnahar Fatema Begum]], head of paediatric cardiology at the [[Combined Medical Hospital (Dhaka)]]<br /> * [[Anudvaipayan Bhattacharya]], university lecturer martyred in the [[Bangladesh Liberation War]]<br /> * [[Jatindramohan Bhattacharya]], academic and literary researcher<br /> * [[Padmanath Bhattacharya]], academic and literary researcher<br /> * [[Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya]]<br /> * [[Abdul Karim Sahitya Bisharad]], littérateur and historian of Bangla literature<br /> * [[Jagadish Chandra Bose]] was a polymath with interests in biology, physics, botany and writing science fiction.<br /> * [[Raj Chandra Bose]] was an Indian American mathematician and statistician best known for his work in design theory<br /> * [[Satyendra Nath Bose]] was an Indian mathematician and physicist specializing in theoretical physics.<br /> * [[Sugata Bose]], historian<br /> * [[Dipesh Chakrabarty]], historian<br /> * [[Sudhir Chakraborty]], researcher of Bengal's folk culture<br /> * [[Swapan Kumar Chakravorty]], literary scholar and writer<br /> * [[Partha Chatterjee (scholar)|Partha Chatterjee]], political scientist<br /> * [[Suniti Kumar Chatterjee]], linguist, educationist, litterateur<br /> * [[Sukanta Chaudhuri]], literary scholar, writer, translator<br /> * [[Supriya Chaudhuri]], literary scholar, writer, translator<br /> * [[Jamilur Reza Choudhury]], vice-chancellor of [[University of Asia Pacific]], adviser to [[Caretaker Government of Bangladesh]]<br /> * [[Sadruddin Ahmed Chowdhury]], physicist and vice-chancellor of [[Shahjalal University of Science and Technology]] and [[Sylhet International University]]<br /> * [[Khudiram Das]], literary scholar, educationist, linguist<br /> * [[Satish Ranjan Das]], founder of [[The Doon School]], [[Dehradun]]<br /> * [[Shomie Das]], Indian educationist, former headmaster of The Doon School<br /> * [[Tarak Chandra Das]], anthropologist, author, former teacher in anthropology, University of Calcutta <br /> * [[Bhupendranath Datta]], revolutionary, author, anthropologist<br /> * [[Barun De]], chairman, West Bengal Heritage Commission<br /> * [[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]]<br /> * [[Anil Kumar Gain]], mathematician from [[University of Cambridge]], [[Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society]]<br /> * [[Kaberi Gain]], prominent academic, author, and social activist<br /> * [[Swapan K. Gayen]], Bengali-American physicist, professor at [[City University of New York]]<br /> * [[Saroj Ghose]], science populariser and museum maker, won an award for ''Best Effort in Science Popularisation Amongst Children''<br /> * [[Jayati Ghosh]], an Indian development economist and the Chairperson of the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning at the Jawaharlal Nehru University<br /> * [[Subir Kumar Ghosh]], planetary scientist and a winner of the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]]<br /> * [[Aminul Hoque (writer)|Aminul Hoque]] [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]], lecturer at [[Goldsmiths, University of London]], writer<br /> * [[K M Baharul Islam]], dean of the [[Indian Institute of Management Kashipur]]<br /> * [[Syed Manzoorul Islam]], critic, writer, former professor of [[Dhaka University]]<br /> * [[Mohammad Ataul Karim]], provost and executive vice chancellor of the [[University of Massachusetts Dartmouth]]<br /> * [[Ataur Rahman Khan Khadim]], physician martyred during the [[Bangladesh Liberation War]]<br /> * [[Salman Khan (educator)|Salman Khan]], American educator, founder of [[Khan Academy]]<br /> * [[Nazia Khanum]], [[Order of the British Empire]] (OBE) and [[Deputy Lieutenant]] (DL)<br /> * [[Shahla Khatun]], obstetrician and gynecologist<br /> * [[Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis]], statistician, founder of [[Indian Statistical Institute]]<br /> * Brigadier [[Abdul Malik (physician)|Abdul Malik]], founder of [[National Heart Foundation (Bangladesh)|National Heart Foundation]]<br /> * [[Ujjwal Maulik]], computer scientist and former Head, Computer Science and Engineering, Jadavpur University<br /> * [[Vina Mazumdar]], academic, activist and feminist<br /> * [[Asoke Nath Mitra]], awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 1969 for his fundamental contributions in obtaining the exact solution of the nucleon three-body problem<br /> * [[Rajendralal Mitra]], first modern [[Indologist]] of Indian origin<br /> * [[Sisir Kumar Mitra]], Indian physicist and president of [[The Asiatic Society]] from 1951 to 1953<br /> * [[Nurul Momen]], professor of law, Dhaka University Proctor, Dean<br /> * [[Satish Chandra Mukherjee]], educationist<br /> * [[Abdul Muktadir]], academic martyred in the [[Bangladesh Liberation War]]<br /> * [[Nurul Islam Nahid]], former [[Ministry of Education (Bangladesh)|Education Minister of Bangladesh]]<br /> * [[Ashis Nandy]], political psychologist<br /> * [[Sankar Kumar Pal]], pioneer in Machine Intelligence Research, and President and former Director of [[Indian Statistical Institute]], India<br /> * [[M. A. Rashid]], first Vice-chancellor of [[Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology]]<br /> * [[Satyajit Ray]], first Indian to win a Lifetime Achievement Oscar due to his significant contributions to world cinema<br /> * [[Meghnad Saha]] was an Indian astrophysicist who developed the Saha ionization equation. <br /> * [[Abul Kashem Sandwip]], educationist and a founder of [[Bangladesh Betar]]<br /> * [[Sir Jadunath Sarkar]], historian<br /> * [[Maqbular Rahman Sarkar]], tenth vice-chancellor of Rajshahi University<br /> * [[Nalini Ranjan Sarkar]], economist, led the Sarkar Committee which recommended establishing [[Indian Institutes of Technology]] along the lines of the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] <br /> * [[Sumit Sarkar]], historian<br /> * [[Pranab K. Sen]], statistician, Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Biostatistics at the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]]<br /> * [[Sukumar Sen (linguist)|Sukumar Sen]], linguist<br /> * [[Muhammad Shahidullah]], educationist, writer, philologist, linguist, and theorist<br /> * [[Mohammad Yusuf Siddiq]], historian, epigraphist, researcher, professor and author<br /> * [[Badruddin Umar]] (born 1931), Marxist–Leninist theorist and political activist<br /> * [[Abu Nasr Waheed]], Islamic scholar, author, politician and educationist<br /> * [[Nafees Bin Zafar]], Academy Scientific and Technical Award, the first Bangladeshi to win an Oscar<br /> <br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Please keep the list in alphabetical order by LAST NAME ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;gallery mode=&quot;packed&quot;&gt;<br /> File:Mohammod Sohidullah.jpg|[[Muhammad Shahidullah]], Linguist<br /> File: Sunitikumar Chatterjee.jpg|[[Suniti Kumar Chatterjee]], Linguist<br /> File : Abdul Karim Sahitya Bisharad (1871-1953).svg|[[Abdul Karim Sahitya Bisharad]], Interpreter of old Bangla manuscripts<br /> &lt;/gallery&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Actors and entertainers==<br /> [[File:Khalil Ullah Khan in 2014.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|[[Khalil Ullah Khan]] earned Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in ''Gunda'' in 1976.]]<br /> {{div col}}<br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Please keep the list in alphabetical order by LAST NAME ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> * [[Siam Ahmed]], Bangladeshi actor and model<br /> * [[Amala Akkineni]], Bollywood actress<br /> * [[Alamgir (actor)|Alamgir]], Bengali film actor and TV host<br /> * [[Niloy Alamgir]], model and actor<br /> * [[Ruhul Amin (Bangladeshi film director)]]<br /> * [[Afshan Azad]], actress best known for the role of [[Padma Patil]] in [[Harry Potter (film series)|Harry Potter]]<br /> * [[Azim (actor)|Azim]], actor best known for the role of Rahim Badshah in ''Rupban''<br /> * [[Jaya Bachchan]], Bollywood and Bengali film actress<br /> * [[Abhishek Bachchan]], Bollywood actor; son of [[Jaya Bachchan]]<br /> * [[Bidita Bag]], Bollywood and Bengali film actress<br /> * [[Ajitesh Bandopadhyay]], stage and film actor<br /> * [[Ankush Hazra]], Bengali film actor, producer, dancer and TV personality<br /> * [[Bhanu Bandopadhyay|Bhanu Banerjee]], [[Cinema of West Bengal|Bengali film]] actor, voice artist, comedian and singer<br /> * [[Abhishek Banerjee (actor)|Abhishek Banerjee]], Bollywood actor and casting director<br /> * [[Jenni Banerjee]], Indian origin Finnish actor<br /> * [[Karuna Banerjee]], first Indian actress earned [[British Academy Film Awards|BAFTA Award]] for [[BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role|Best Actress]] nomination at the [[12th British Academy Film Awards|1959 BAFTA Awards]]<br /> * [[Sarvadaman D. Banerjee]]<br /> * [[Sushmita Sen]], Web Series, Bollywood actress and former [[Miss Universe 1994]] winner; the only first Indian woman to win the title<br /> * [[John Bhattacharya|Shaurja Bhattacharya]], Bengali film and TV actor<br /> * [[Victor Banerjee]], [[Cinema of West Bengal|Bengali film]], Bollywood and Hollywood actor; the only Indian to win [[National Board of Review Award for Best Actor]]<br /> * [[Yash Dasgupta]], [[Cinema of West Bengal|Bengali film]] actor, producer and TV personality<br /> * [[Bipasha Basu]], Bollywood actress<br /> * [[Dia Mirza]], Bollywood actress, producer and former [[Miss Asia Pacific International]] 2000<br /> * [[Jaya Bhattacharya]], Bollywood and Hindi TV actress<br /> * [[Nivedita Bhattacharya]], theatre actress<br /> * [[Samit Bhanja]], Bollywood and Bengali film actor<br /> * [[Ritwik Bhowmik]], Bollywood actor<br /> * [[Chhabi Biswas]], Bengali film actor<br /> * [[Seema Biswas]], Bollywood actress<br /> * [[Rahul Bose]], Bollywood actor and [[Rugby football|Rugby]] player<br /> * [[Sabyasachi Chakrabarty]], Bollywood and Bengali film actor<br /> * [[Samrat Chakrabarti]], British-American actor and musician<br /> * [[Indrani Chakraborty]], Bollywood actress<br /> * [[Mithun Chakraborty]], Bollywood and [[Cinema of West Bengal|Bengali film]] actor<br /> * [[Rhea Chakraborty]], Bollywood actress<br /> * [[Ritwick Chakraborty]], Bengali film actor<br /> * [[Tulsi Chakraborty]], Bengali film actor<br /> * [[Abhishek Chatterjee]], Bengali film and TV actor<br /> * [[Abir Chatterjee]], Bengali film actor and TV host<br /> * [[Anangsha Biswas]], Bollywood and Web Series actress<br /> * [[Anil Chatterjee]], Bengali film actor<br /> * [[Biswajit Chatterjee]], Bollywood and Bengali film actor<br /> * [[Dhritiman Chatterjee]], Bollywood and Bengali film actor<br /> * [[Moushumi Chatterjee]], Bollywood and Bengali film actress<br /> * [[Prasenjit Chatterjee]], [[Cinema of West Bengal|Bengali film]] and Bollywood actor<br /> * [[Priyanshu Chatterjee]], Bollywood actor<br /> * [[Sabitri Chatterjee]], Bengali film actor<br /> * [[Saswata Chatterjee]], Bengali film actor<br /> * [[Soham Chakraborty]], [[Cinema of West Bengal|Bengali film]] actor, producer, TV personality and politician<br /> * [[Soumitra Chatterjee]], Bengali film actor<br /> * [[Subhendu Chatterjee]], Bengali film actor <br /> * [[Tannishtha Chatterjee]], Bollywood and Bengali film actress<br /> * [[Jayanta Chattopadhyay]], Bangladeshi actor<br /> * [[Khaled Choudhury]], theatre personality and artist<br /> * [[Sarita Choudhury]], Indian origin British film, Hollywood actress<br /> * [[Chanchal Chowdhury]], Bangladeshi actor<br /> * [[Rafiqul Bari Chowdhury]], cinematographer and director<br /> * [[Shefali Chowdhury]], actress best known for the role of [[Parvati Patil]] in [[Harry Potter (film series)|Harry Potter]]<br /> * [[Paoli Dam]], actress<br /> * [[Shraddha Das]], Bollywood and Bengali film actress<br /> * [[Dev (Bengali actor)|Dev]], [[Cinema of West Bengal|Bengali film]] actor, producer, singer and screenwriter<br /> * [[Debina Bonnerjee]], Bollywood and TV actress<br /> * [[Kanon Devi]], singer-actress, started acting at the age of 10 yrs as a child artist in &quot;Joydeb &quot;, later made her debut with &quot;Rishir Prem&quot; in 1931<br /> * [[Koel Mallick]], [[Cinema of West Bengal|Bengali film]] actress<br /> * [[Nyra Banerjee]], Bollywood and TV actress<br /> * [[Puja Banerjee]], Bengali film and Hindi TV actress<br /> * [[Pooja Banerjee]], Hindi TV actress<br /> * [[Sumita Devi]], [[Cinema of Bangladesh|Bangladeshi film]] and TV actress<br /> * [[Supriya Devi]], Bengali film actress<br /> * [[K. C. Dey]], Bengali film actor<br /> * [[Utpal Dutt]], Bengali film actor<br /> * [[Santosh Dutta]] Bengali film actor, famous for his portrayal of Jatayu in Feluda films of Satyajit Ray<br /> * [[Tanushree Dutta]], Bollywood actress and former [[Miss India Universe]] 2004<br /> * [[Ishita Dutta]], Bollywood and TV actress<br /> * [[Prasun Gain]], Bengali film actor<br /> * [[Richa Gangopadhyay]], Tollywood actress and former [[Miss India USA]] 2007<br /> * [[Mouli Ganguly]], actress<br /> * [[Preeti Ganguly]], actress<br /> * [[Roopa Ganguly]], Bengali film and Bollywood actress<br /> * [[Rupali Ganguly]], Bollywood and TV actress<br /> * [[Rabi Ghosh]], Bengali film actor<br /> * [[Reshmi Ghosh]], Bollywood and TV actress, former [[Femina Miss India|Miss India Earth]] 2002<br /> * [[Sangita Ghosh]], Hindi TV actress and model<br /> * [[Shahana Goswami]], Bollywood actress<br /> * [[Debshankar Haldar]], Indian stage, television and film actor<br /> * [[Gobinda Halder]], Bengali lyricist and patriotic poet<br /> * [[Goutam Halder]], Indian actor and singer in theatre<br /> * [[Indrani Haldar]], National Award-winning Indian film actress<br /> * [[Nabadwip Haldar]], legendary comedian of Bengali cinema<br /> * [[Priyanka Halder]], Bengali film and television actress<br /> * [[Trinetra Haldar Gummaraju]], Indian actress and digital creator<br /> * [[Abul Hayat]], Bangladeshi actor<br /> * [[Rizwan Hussain]], TV personality, barrister and former CEO of Global Aid Trust<br /> * [[Konnie Huq]], British television presenter<br /> * [[Nadiya Hussain]], columnist, chef, author and TV personality best known for winning the baking competition [[The Great British Bake Off]]<br /> * [[Nusrat Jahan]], Bengali actress<br /> * [[Imran Khan (film actor)|Imran Khan]] real name Imran Pal, Ex American actor who used to act in Bollywood films<br /> * [[Khalil Ullah Khan]], film and TV actor<br /> * [[Shakib Khan]], Bangladeshi actor, producer, singer, film organiser and media personality<br /> * [[Anup Kumar (actor)|Anup Kumar]], Tollywood actor<br /> * [[Ashok Kumar]], Bollywood actor<br /> * [[Kishore Kumar]], Bollywood singer, actor and music composer<br /> * [[Pradeep Kumar (actor)|Pradeep Kumar]], Bollywood actor<br /> * [[Sanjeev Kumar]], Bollywood actor<br /> * [[Uttam Kumar]], Bollywood and Bengali film actor<br /> * [[Shaun Majumder]], Canadian comedian and actor; winner of [[Gemini Awards]]<br /> * [[Koena Mitra]], former channel V VJ and Bollywood actress<br /> * [[Rhona Mitra]], half-Bengali actress in UK<br /> * [[Joy Mukherjee]], Bollywood actor<br /> * [[Kajol]], Bollywood and Tollywood actress<br /> * [[Rani Mukerji]], Bollywood and Kollywood actress<br /> * [[Tanishaa|Tanishaa Mukerji]], Bollywood actress and TV host<br /> * [[Kamalini Mukherjee]], Bollywood and Tollywood actress<br /> * [[Madhabi Mukherjee]], actress notable works include [[charulata]], [[mahanagar]]<br /> * [[Sagarika Mukherjee]], Bollywood and Tollywood actress and playback singer<br /> * [[Shantanu Mukherjee]], Bollywood actor, playback singer and TV host<br /> * [[Shonali Bose]], Bollywood film director, writer and producer<br /> * [[Swastika Mukherjee]], Tollywood actress<br /> * [[Colin Pal]], actor and publicist<br /> * [[Patralekha]], Bollywood actress<br /> * [[Priyanka Bose]], Bollywood actress and model <br /> * [[Raakhee]], Bollywood actress<br /> * [[Ashiqur Rahman (director)|Ashiqur Rahman]]<br /> * [[Khan Ataur Rahman]], Bengali actor, director, producer, screenplay writer, music composer and singer<br /> * [[Devika Rani]], Bollywood and Bengali actress<br /> * [[Lisa Ray]], actress and model<br /> * [[Abdur Razzak (actor)|Razzak]], Bangladeshi actor<br /> * [[Rola (model)|Rola]], Bengali-Japanese model, [[tarento]] and actress<br /> * [[Ziaul Roshan]], film actor and model<br /> * [[Bikash Roy]], Tollywood actor<br /> * [[Debashree Roy]], [[Cinema of West Bengal|Bengali film]] and Bollywood/TV actress<br /> * [[Mouni Roy]], Bollywood and TV actress<br /> * [[Rahul Roy]], Bollywood and Bhojpuri actor<br /> * [[Rehaan Roy]], Hindi TV and Bengali actor<br /> * [[Reena Roy]], Bollywood actress<br /> * [[Rohit Roy]], Bollywood and TV actor<br /> * [[Ronit Roy]], Bollywood and TV actor<br /> * [[Rukmini Maitra]], [[Cinema of West Bengal|Bengali film]] and Bollywood actress<br /> * [[Pahari Sanyal]], Tollywood actor<br /> * [[Aditya Seal]], Bollywood and Web Series actor<br /> * [[Antara Biswas]], Hindi TV and Bhojpuri actress<br /> * [[Aparna Sen]], Bengali film actress<br /> * [[Nandana Sen]], Bollywood actress, daughter of Nobel laureate [[Amartya Sen]]<br /> * [[Raima Sen]], Bengali film and Bollywood actress<br /> * [[Reema Sen]], Bollywood and Kollywood actress<br /> * [[Riddhi Sen]], youngest recipient of the [[National Film Award for Best Actor]] <br /> * [[Rimi Sen]], Bollywood actress<br /> * [[Riya Sen]], Bollywood actress<br /> * [[Sayantani Ghosh]], Hindi TV and Bengali film actress<br /> * [[Suchitra Sen]], Bollywood and Bengali film actress<br /> * [[Rituparna Sengupta]], Bollywood and Bengali film actress<br /> * [[Vikram Chatterjee]], Bengali film and TV actor<br /> * [[Ushoshi Sengupta]], model, [[I Am She–Miss Universe India]] in 2010<br /> * [[Shabnur]], Bangladeshi actress<br /> * [[Salman Shah (actor)|Salman Shah]], Bangladeshi actor<br /> * [[Ali Shahalom]], comedian and television presenter<br /> * [[ATM Shamsuzzaman]], Bangladeshi former actor<br /> * [[Mamata Shankar]], Bollywood and Bengali actress<br /> * [[Konkona Sen Sharma]], Bollywood actress<br /> * [[Arifin Shuvoo]], Bangladeshi actor<br /> * [[Tiya Sircar]], American actress<br /> * [[Khushbu Sundar]], Kollywood actress, producer and television presenter<br /> * [[Saif Ali Khan]], Bollywood actor; son of [[Sharmila Tagore]]<br /> * [[Sharmila Tagore]], Bollywood and Bengali film actress<br /> * [[Soha Ali Khan]], Bollywood actress; daughter of [[Sharmila Tagore]]<br /> * [[Ruma Guha Thakurta]], actress whose notable works include [[Ganashatru]], [[Abhijan (1962 film)|Abhijan]], Palatak; wife of [[Kishore Kumar]]<br /> <br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Please keep the list in alphabetical order by LAST NAME ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> {{div col end}}<br /> <br /> ==Artists and designers==<br /> &lt;!-- INSERT A PERSON INTO A SECTION ACCORDING TO ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY LAST NAME. --&gt;<br /> {{columns-list|colwidth=20em|<br /> * [[Zainul Abedin]]<br /> * [[Shahabuddin Ahmed]]<br /> * [[Shahidul Alam]]<br /> * [[Ramkinkar Baij]]<br /> * [[Ramaprasad Banik]]<br /> * [[Subhankar Banerjee (photographer)|Subhankar Banerjee]]<br /> * [[Bikash Bhattacharjee]]<br /> * [[Atul Bose]]<br /> * [[Nandalal Bose]]<br /> * [[Sudipto Chatterjee]]<br /> * [[Jogen Chowdhury]]<br /> * [[Rashid Choudhury]]<br /> * [[Sanatan Dinda]]<br /> * [[Anil Kumar Dutta]]<br /> * [[Pablo Ganguli]]<br /> * [[Asit Kumar Haldar]]<br /> * [[Somnath Hore]]<br /> * [[Firoz Mahmud]]<br /> * [[Paresh Maity]]<br /> * [[Rabin Mondal]]<br /> * [[Samir Mondal]]<br /> * [[Benode Behari Mukherjee]]<br /> * [[Ganesh Pyne]]<br /> * [[Devajyoti Ray]]<br /> * [[Jamini Roy]]<br /> * [[Paritosh Sen]]<br /> * [[Subhaprasanna]]<br /> * [[SM Sultan]]<br /> * [[Abanindranath Tagore]]<br /> * [[Rabindranath Tagore]]<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Bharat Ratna Receivers==<br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Please keep the list in alphabetical order by LAST NAME ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> List of Bengalis who received [[Bharat Ratna]]:<br /> <br /> * By [[Jawaharlal Nehru]], [[Indian National Congress]]<br /> **1961 [[Bidhan Chandra Roy]] ([[Patna]], [[Bengal Presidency]], now [[Bihar]], India)<br /> * By [[P. V. Narasimha Rao]], [[Indian National Congress]]<br /> **1992 [[Satyajit Ray]] ([[Calcutta]], [[Bengal Presidency]], now [[West Bengal]], India)<br /> **1997 [[Aruna Asaf Ali]] ([[Kalka]], Punjab, British India,(now in [[Haryana]], India) <br /> * By [[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]], [[Bharatiya Janata Party]], [[National Democratic Alliance|NDA]]<br /> **1999 [[Amartya Sen]] ([[Shantiniketan]], [[Bengal Presidency]], now [[Bolpur]], West Bengal, India)<br /> **1999 [[Ravi Shankar]] ([[Varanasi]], [[Benares State]], now [[Varanasi]], Uttar Pradesh, India)<br /> * By [[Narendra Modi]], [[Bharatiya Janata Party]], [[National Democratic Alliance|NDA]]<br /> **2019 [[Pranab Mukherjee]] ([[Birbhum]], [[Bengal]], now [[West Bengal]])<br /> <br /> ==Bloggers / media artists==<br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Please keep the list in alphabetical order by LAST NAME ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> * [[Hasan M. Elahi]], interdisciplinary media artist <br /> * [[Pritish Nandy]], poet, author, editor in chief of ''[[The Illustrated Weekly of India]]'' as well as Publishing Director and Managing Editor of ''[[The Times of India Group]]''<br /> * [[Reihan Salam]], journalist, blogger at ''[[The American Scene]]'' and associate editor of ''[[The Atlantic Monthly]]''<br /> <br /> ==Business and industry==<br /> <br /> ===Billionaires===<br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Only add a person to this list if they already have their own article on the English Wikipedia ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Please keep the list in alphabetical order by LAST NAME ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> * [[Sanjit Biswas]], Indian American entrepreneur and CEO/ Co-founder of [[Samsara (company)]], built and sold Meraki to Cisco for $1.2 billion. <br /> * [[Ankiti Bose]], Founder of [[Zilingo]]<br /> * [[Purnendu Chatterjee]], Founder &amp; Chairman, TCG Group, that owns [[Haldia Petrochemicals]]<br /> * [[Tapan Chowdhury (businessman)|Tapan Chowdhury]], CEO and MD of [[Square Pharmaceuticals]], [[Square Group]], [[Square Hospital]] and [[Maasranga Television]]<br /> * [[Chandra Shekhar Ghosh]], Founder, Managing Director &amp; CEO of [[Bandhan Bank]]<br /> * [[Pradeep Kar]], Founder of [[Microland]]<br /> * [[Salman F Rahman]], Founder &amp; Vice Chairman of [[BEXIMCO]]<br /> * [[Sunil Kanti Roy]], Founder of [[Peerless Group]]<br /> * [[Aveek Sarkar]], Vice Chairman &amp; Editor Emeritus, [[Ananda Bazaar Patrika]]<br /> * [[Ahmed Akbar Sobhan]], Founder and Chairman of the [[Bashundhara Group]]<br /> <br /> ===Business leaders===<br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Only add a person to this list if they already have their own article on the English Wikipedia ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Please keep the list in alphabetical order by LAST NAME ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> * [[Iqbal Ahmed]] [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]], entrepreneur and CEO of [[Seamark Group]]. [[Sunday Times Rich List 2006|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.&lt;ref name=&quot;worldsrichpeople&quot;&gt;{{cite web|last=Loke|first=Steven|url=http://www.worldsrichpeople.com/richest-man-in-bangladesh.html|title=Richest Man In Bangladesh|publisher=The Richest People In The World|access-date=1 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141219234144/http://www.worldsrichpeople.com/richest-man-in-bangladesh.html|archive-date=19 December 2014|url-status=usurped}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> * [[Syed Ahmed (businessman)|Syed Ahmed]], British entrepreneur, businessman, television personality<br /> * [[Prith Banerjee]], CTO of [[ANSYS]], former director of [[HP Labs]]<br /> * [[Arundhati Bhattacharya]], chairperson and CEO of [[Salesforce]] India and first woman director of [[State Bank of India]]<br /> * [[Kumar Bhattacharyya, Baron Bhattacharyya]], Director, [[Warwick Manufacturing Group]]<br /> * [[Amar Bose]] founder of bose audio<br /> * [[Mohammad Ebadul Karim Bulbul]], managing director of [[Beacon Pharmaceuticals]]<br /> * [[Sankar Chakraborti]], Group CEO of Acuité Ratings and Research and founder of India's first ESG rating company, ESG Risk Assessments and Insights<br /> * [[Moorad Choudhry]], former managing director, Head of Business Treasury and Global Banking &amp; Markets at Royal Bank of Scotland<br /> * [[Mamun Chowdhury]], businessman, and founder and co-director of [[London Tradition]]. In 2014, the company was awarded a [[Queen's Awards for Enterprise|Queen's Award for Enterprise]] for [[The Queen's Award for Enterprise: International Trade (Export) (2014)|International Trade]] in recognition of its increase in sales.<br /> * [[Alamohan Das]], industrialist, businessman and founder of [[India Machinery co]], namesake of Dasnagar, [[Howrah]]<br /> * [[Rono Dutta]], CEO of [[IndiGo]]<br /> * [[Ashok Sekhar Ganguly]], former chairman, [[Hindustan Unilever]]<br /> * [[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]]<br /> * [[Anirvan Ghosh]], CEO of [[Unity Biotechnology]]<br /> * [[Asim Ghosh]], former CEO of [[Husky Energy]]<br /> * [[Rajat Gupta]], first foreign-born Managing Director (chief executive) of management consultancy firm [[McKinsey &amp; Company]] from 1994 to 2003; sentenced to two years of prison in 2012 for insider trading<br /> * [[Omar Ishrak]], chairman, Intel<br /> * [[Mahee Ferdous Jalil]], founder of [[Channel S]], owner of Prestige Auto Group and TV presenter<br /> * [[Rajendra Nath Mookerjee|Sir Rajendra Nath Mookerjee]], [[Founder of Martin &amp; Co.]]<br /> * [[Bhaskar Pramanik]], chairman, [[Microsoft]] India<br /> * [[Subir Raha]], former head, ONGC<br /> * [[Fayzur Rahman]], chairman of [[Novoair]]<br /> * [[M. A. Sattar]], prominent industrialist. Founder and former chairman of Sattar Jute Mills and other enterprises, banker, and politician <br /> * [[Ramdulal Sarkar]], merchant and foremost name in the Indo American maritime trade from late 18th to early 19th century <br /> * [[Mutty Lall Seal]], businessman and entrepreneur <br /> * [[Dwarkanath Tagore]], known for partnership with the [[British East India Company]]<br /> <br /> ===Entrepreneurs===<br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Only add a person to this list if they already have their own article on the English Wikipedia ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Please keep the list in alphabetical order by LAST NAME ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> * [[Muquim Ahmed]], banking, travel, a chain of restaurants with the Cafe Naz group, publishing and property development.<br /> * [[Badruddin Ajmal]], managing director of Ajmal Perfumes and Lok Sabha MP from Dhubri, Assam<br /> * [[Enam Ali]], founder of the [[British Curry Awards]], [[Spice Business Magazine]] and [[Ion TV]]<br /> * [[Ragib Ali]], industrialist, pioneer tea-planter, educationalist, philanthropist and banker who has a net worth of $250 million.&lt;ref name=&quot;worldsrichpeople&quot;/&gt;<br /> * [[Subroto Bagchi]], founder and former chairman, [[Mindtree]]<br /> * [[Siddhartha Basu]], founder and CMD of [[BIG Synergy]]<br /> * [[Amar Bose]], founder of [[Bose Corporation]]<br /> * [[Ankiti Bose]], founder and CEO of [[Zilingo]]<br /> * [[Amjad Khan Chowdhury]], founder of [[PRAN-RFL Group]]<br /> * [[Foysol Choudhury]] [[Member of the British Empire|MBE]], businessman, community activist and Chairman of Edinburgh and Lothians Regional Equality Council<br /> * [[Anjan Chatterjee]], founder, Speciality Group of Restaurants<br /> * [[Bicky Chakraborty]], Sweden's biggest hotelier;&lt;ref&gt;{{Cite news|last=Duttagupta|first=Ishani|date=2008-01-17|title=Bicky Chakraborty Sweden's biggest hotelier|work=The Economic Times|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/the-global-indian-takeover/bicky-chakraborty-swedens-biggest-hotelier/articleshow/2706366.cms|access-date=2020-06-08}}&lt;/ref&gt; President and founder of {{ill|Elite Hotels|sv|vertical-align=sup}} of Sweden and {{ill|The Bishop's Arms|sv|Bishops Arms|vertical-align=sup}}&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.svd.se/naringsliv/bicky-chakraborty-rik-pa-udda-val_6177883.svd Bicky Chakraborty – rik på udda val], [[Svenska Dagbladet]] 2011-05-19&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> * [[Alamohan Das]], founder, India Machinery Company<br /> * [[Sadhan Dutt]], founder, Development Consultants of Kuljian Group<br /> * [[Samit Ghosh]], founder, MD and CEO of [[Ujjivan Small Finance Bank]]<br /> * [[Snehasish Ganguly]], Director of NK Gossain &amp; Co., brother of former Indian cricket team captain and current [[Board of Control for Cricket in India]] President, [[Sourav Ganguly]]<br /> * [[M. A. Hashem]], founder and chairman of Partex Group<br /> * [[Shelim Hussain]], founder of [[Euro Foods (UK)]]<br /> * [[Jawed Karim]], co-founder of YouTube, first person to upload a video to the site<br /> * [[Nitun Kundu]], founder of [[Otobi]]<br /> * [[Abdul Latif (restaurateur)|Abdul Latif]], British restaurateur known for his dish &quot;Curry Hell&quot;<br /> * [[Ayub Ali Master]], founder of the Shah Jalal Restaurant in London which became a hub for the early [[British Asian]] community.<br /> * [[Tommy Miah]] [[Member of the Order of the British Empire|MBE]], celebrity chef, restaurateur and founder of the Indian Chef of the Year Competition.<br /> * [[Rajendra Nath Mookerjee]], co-founder, [[Martin Burn Limited|Martin Burn Ltd]], [[IISCO Steel Plant|IISCO]] <br /> * [[Sabyasachi Mukherjee]], founder &amp; Managing Director of luxury Indian fashion brand, Sabyasachi<br /> * [[Rajat Neogy]], founder and editor, ''[[Transition Magazine]]'' in [[Kampala]], [[Uganda]] in 1961<br /> * [[Diptendu Pramanick]], founder, Secretary of Eastern India Motion Pictures Association (EIMPA)<br /> * [[Kamal Quadir]], founder and CEO of CellBazaar Inc, first Mover Fellow of the Aspen Institute, TEDIndia Fellow<br /> * [[Shah Abdul Majid Qureshi]], restaurateur<br /> * [[Bajloor Rashid]] [[Member of the British Empire|MBE]], businessman and former president of the [[Bangladesh Caterers Association UK]]<br /> * [[Arjun Ray (general)|Arjun Ray]] (PVSM, VSM), founder, managing director and chief executive officer of the [[Indus Trust]] and Indus International Schools<br /> * [[Neeraj Roy]], co-founder, [[Hungama Digital Media Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.]]<br /> * [[Prannoy Roy]], founder, [[NDTV]]<br /> * [[Subrata Roy]], founder and chairman, [[Sahara India Pariwar]]<br /> * [[Sunil Kanti Roy]], managing director of [[Peerless Group]]<br /> * [[Chiki Sarkar]], founder and Publisher of [[Juggernaut Books]]<br /> * [[Barun Sengupta]], founder of [[Bartaman]]<br /> * [[Moosa Bin Shamsher]], founder of GATCO<br /> * [[Iqbal Quadir]], founder of [[Grameenphone]] and [[bKash]]<br /> * [[Muhammad Yunus]], founder of [[Grameen Bank]], &quot;father of micro-finance&quot;, Nobel laureate<br /> <br /> ==Sahitya Akademi Award==<br /> {{main|List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Bengali}}<br /> <br /> == Cartoonists / comics creators ==<br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Only add a person to this list if they already have their own article on the English Wikipedia ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Please keep the list in alphabetical order by LAST NAME ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> {{Div col}}<br /> * [[Jayanto Banerjee]], Indian cartoonist and illustrator<br /> * [[Neelabh Banerjee]], Indian cartoonist and illustrator<br /> * [[Sarnath Banerjee]], graphic story writer, co-founded the comics publishing house [[Phantomville]]<br /> * [[Samit Basu]], comics writer at [[Virgin Comics]]<br /> * [[Suddhasattwa Basu]], illustrator<br /> * [[Chittaprosad Bhattacharya]], Indian cartoonist<br /> * [[Rimi B. Chatterjee]], graphic story writer<br /> * [[Shamik Dasgupta (writer)|Shamik Dasgupta]], graphic story writer<br /> * [[Narayan Debnath]], creator of ''[[Nonte Phonte]]'', ''[[Batul the Great]]'', ''[[Handa Bhonda]]''<br /> * [[Chandi Lahiri]], [[cartoonist]] and painter<br /> * [[Satyajit Ray]], filmmaker, creator of comic characters like [[Feluda]] and [[Professor Shonku]]<br /> * [[Atanu Roy]], illustrator<br /> * [[Gaganendranath Tagore]], cartoonist and painter<br /> {{Div col end}}<br /> <br /> ==Cinematographers==<br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Only add a person to this list if they already have their own article on the English Wikipedia ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Please keep the list in alphabetical order by LAST NAME ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> * [[Ayananka Bose]]<br /> * [[Sudeep Chatterjee]]<br /> * [[Subrata Mitra]]<br /> * [[Avik Mukhopadhyay]]<br /> * [[Soumendu Roy]]<br /> <br /> ==Criminals==<br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Only add a person to this list if they already have their own article on the English Wikipedia ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Please keep the list in alphabetical order by LAST NAME ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> *[[Steve Banerjee]], convicted arsonist, racketeer, and murderer, and co-founder of [[Chippendales]]<br /> *[[Dhananjoy Chatterjee]], first person judicially executed in India in the 21st century for murder<br /> *[[Roshu Kha]], serial killer<br /> *[[Ershad Sikder]], criminal and serial killer<br /> <br /> ==Dadasaheb Phalke Award winners==<br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Only add a person to this list if they already have their own article on the English Wikipedia ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Please keep the list in alphabetical order by LAST NAME ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> * [[Raichand Boral]]<br /> * [[Nitin Bose]]<br /> * [[Kanan Devi]]<br /> * [[Manna Dey]]<br /> * [[Mithun Chakraborty]]<br /> * [[Soumitra Chatterjee]]<br /> * [[Dhirendra Nath Ganguly]]<br /> * [[Ashok Kumar]]<br /> * [[Hrishikesh Mukherjee]]<br /> * [[Pankaj Mullick]]<br /> * [[Devika Rani]], was the first recipient of the [[Dadasaheb Phalke Award]] and was awarded the [[Padma Shri]]. Widely acknowledged as the First Lady of [[Cinema of India|Indian cinema]].<br /> * [[Satyajit Ray]]<br /> * [[Mrinal Sen]]<br /> * [[Tapan Sinha]]<br /> * [[B. N. Sircar]]<br /> <br /> ==Diplomats==<br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Only add a person to this list if they already have their own article on the English Wikipedia ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> * [[Atul Chandra Chatterjee]], former ambassador to the UK<br /> * [[Chandrashekhar Dasgupta]], former ambassador to China<br /> * [[Munshi Mohammad Fazle Kader]], Assistant High Commissioner to Pakistan<br /> * [[Bhupendra Nath Mitra]], former ambassador to the UK<br /> * [[Siddhartha Shankar Ray]], former ambassador to the US<br /> * [[Binay Ranjan Sen]], former ambassador to the US<br /> * [[Ronen Sen]], former ambassador to the US and UK<br /> * [[Samar Sen (diplomat)]], served as the 1st permanent representative to the United Nations, Geneva<br /> <br /> ==Economists==<br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Only add a person to this list if they already have their own article on the English Wikipedia ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> [[File:M. Saifur Rahman.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|In 1994, [[Saifur Rahman (Bangladeshi politician)|Saifur Rahman]] was elected governor of the golden jubilee conference of the [[World Bank]] and [[International Monetary Fund]] in Madrid, Spain.&lt;ref name=&quot;thedailystar.net&quot;&gt;{{cite news |title=Saifur Rahman's life sketch |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/latest_news.php?nid=19100 |newspaper=The Daily Star |date=5 September 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121007153636/http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/latest_news.php?nid=19100 |archive-date=2012-10-07}}&lt;/ref&gt;]]<br /> &lt;!-- INSERT A PERSON INTO A SECTION ACCORDING TO ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY LAST NAME. --&gt;<br /> * [[Salahuddin Ahmed (governor)|Salahuddin Ahmed]], 9th governor of [[Bangladesh Bank]]<br /> * [[Mir Masoom Ali]], George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Statistics, Ball State University<br /> * [[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<br /> * [[Pranab Bardhan]], professor of economics, [[University of California, Berkeley]], has been on the editorial board of a number of economics journals<br /> * [[Kaushik Basu]], Chief Economist, [[World Bank]]; C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics, [[Cornell University]]<br /> * [[Arundhati Bhattacharya]], first woman director of SBI, largest bank in India<br /> * [[P.C. Bhattacharya]], former governor of [[Reserve Bank of India]]<br /> * [[Amitava Bose]], professor of economics at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta<br /> * [[Suma Chakrabarti]], President of [[European Bank for Reconstruction and Development]]<br /> * [[Shegufta Bakht Chaudhuri]], 4th governor of [[Bangladesh Bank]]<br /> * [[Amiya Kumar Dasgupta]], one of the founders, in 1949, of the internationally known journal ''The Economic Weekly'' (current name, ''[[Economic and Political Weekly]]'')<br /> * [[Partha Dasgupta]], [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]], Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics, [[University of Cambridge]]<br /> * [[Bibek Debroy]], economist and linguist, author of Sanskrit titbits blog<br /> * [[Romesh Chunder Dutt]], Indian civil servant economic historian<br /> * [[Mohammed Farashuddin]], 7th governor of [[Bangladesh Bank]], founder of [[East West University]]<br /> * [[Anil Kumar Gain]], statistician from the [[University of Cambridge]], [[Fellow of the Royal Society]]<br /> * [[Maitreesh Ghatak]], current editor of ''[[Journal of Development Economics]]''; contributions in [[microfinance]], property pights, public organizations<br /> * [[Amitav Ghosh (banker)|Amitav Ghosh]], former governor of [[Reserve Bank of India]]<br /> * [[N. C. Sen Gupta]], former governor of [[Reserve Bank of India]]<br /> * [[Nurul Islam (economist)|Nurul Islam]], economist, former chairman, Bangladesh Planning Commission<br /> * [[Akbar Ali Khan (economist)|Akbar Ali Khan]], economist<br /> * [[Shah A M S Kibria]], economist, diplomat and former executive secretary of the United Nations' [[ESCAP]]<br /> * [[Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis]], founder of [[Indian Statistical Institute]]<br /> * [[Syed Abdul Majid]], pioneer of the agricultural industry of Bengal &amp; Assam, first minister of Assam<br /> * [[Abul Maal Abdul Muhith]], former [[Finance Minister of Bangladesh]]<br /> * [[Saifur Rahman (Bangladeshi politician)|Saifur Rahman]], longest serving [[Finance Minister of Bangladesh]] and a leader of [[Bangladesh Nationalist Party|BNP]]<br /> * [[Debraj Ray (economist)|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<br /> * [[Amartya Sen]], economist and philosopher, Lamont Professor at [[Harvard University]], winner of the Nobel Prize<br /> * [[Rehman Sobhan]], economist, Chairman of the Center for Policy Dialogue (CPD)<br /> * [[Muhammad Yunus]], economist, founder of [[Grameen Bank]], winner of the Nobel Prize<br /> <br /> ==Fellows of the Royal Society==<br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Only add a person to this list if they already have their own article on the English Wikipedia ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Please keep the list in alphabetical order by LAST NAME ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> * [[Kumar Bhattacharyya]]<br /> * [[Jagdish Chandra Bose]]<br /> * [[Satyendranath Bose|Satyendra Nath Bose]]<br /> * [[Partha Dasgupta]]<br /> * [[Anil Kumar Gain]]<br /> * [[Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis]]<br /> * [[Ashesh Prasad Mitra]]<br /> * [[Sisir Kumar Mitra]]<br /> * [[Mahendranath Roy]]<br /> * [[Sharat Kumar Roy]]<br /> * [[Meghnad Saha]]<br /> * [[Ashoke Sen]]<br /> <br /> ==Fictional characters==<br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Only add a person to this list if they already have their own article on the English Wikipedia ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Please keep the list in alphabetical order by LAST NAME ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> {{columns-list|colwidth=20em|<br /> * [[Misir Ali]]<br /> * [[Arjun (character)]]<br /> * [[Nilkantha Bagchi]]<br /> * [[Byomkesh Bakshi]]<br /> * [[Parashor Barma]]<br /> * [[P. K. Basu]]<br /> * [[Bantul the Great]]<br /> * [[Baker Bhai]]<br /> * [[Handa Bhonda]]<br /> * [[Chandramukhi (character)|Chandramukhi]]<br /> * [[Shankar Ray Choudhuri]]<br /> * [[Devdas]]<br /> * [[Feluda]]<br /> * [[Harshabardhan and Gobardhan]]<br /> * [[Ghanada]]<br /> * [[Gogol (character)]]<br /> * [[Goopy Gyne]]<br /> * [[Bagha Byne]]<br /> * [[Lalmohan Ganguly|Lalmohan Ganguly (Jatayu)]]<br /> * [[Harke Haldar]]<br /> * [[Himu (character)|Himu]]<br /> * [[Kakababu]]<br /> * [[Mitin Masi]]<br /> * [[Masud Rana (fictional character)|Masud Rana]]<br /> * [[Kiriti Roy]]<br /> * [[Tarini Khuro]]<br /> * [[Shuvro]]<br /> * [[Nonte Phonte]]<br /> * [[Rijuda]]<br /> * [[Banalata Sen]]<br /> * [[Professor Shonku]]<br /> * [[Tenida]]<br /> * [[Enigma (Marvel Comics)|Enigma / Tara Virango]]<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Filmmakers==<br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Only add a person to this list if they already have their own article on the English Wikipedia ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Please keep the list in alphabetical order by LAST NAME ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> {{columns-list|colwidth=20em|<br /> * [[Humayun Ahmed]]<br /> * [[San Banarje]]<br /> * [[Dibakar Banerjee]]<br /> * [[Anurag Basu]]<br /> * [[Aditya Bhattacharya]]<br /> * [[Basu Bhattacharya]]<br /> * [[Sachin Bhowmick]]<br /> * [[Debaki Bose]]<br /> * [[Nitin Bose]]<br /> * [[Satyen Bose]]<br /> * [[Pritish Chakraborty]]<br /> * [[Raj Chakraborty]]<br /> * [[Amiya Chakravarty (director)|Amiya Chakravarty]]<br /> * [[Pramod Chakravorty]]<br /> * [[Basu Chatterjee]]<br /> * [[Birsa Dasgupta]]<br /> * [[Buddhadeb Dasgupta]]<br /> * [[Chidananda Dasgupta]]<br /> * [[Dipankar Dipon]]<br /> * [[Anjan Dutt]]<br /> * [[Guru Dutt]]<br /> * [[Subhash Dutta]]<br /> * [[Mostofa Sarwar Farooki]]<br /> * [[Samir Ganguly]]<br /> * [[Ritwik Ghatak]]<br /> * [[Gautam Ghose]]<br /> * [[Ken Ghosh]] <br /> * [[Ranjan Ghosh]]<br /> * [[Rituporno Ghosh]]<br /> * [[Shashanka Ghosh]]<br /> * [[Sujoy Ghosh]]<br /> * [[Dulal Guha]]<br /> * [[Amjad Hossain]]<br /> * [[Chashi Nazrul Islam]]<br /> * [[Ajoy Kar]]<br /> * [[Farha Khatun]]<br /> * [[Phani Majumdar]]<br /> * [[Tarun Majumdar]]<br /> * [[Tareque Masud]]<br /> * [[Premendra Mitra]]<br /> * [[Shibu Mitra]]<br /> * [[Sombhu Mitra]]<br /> * [[Tanvir Mokammel]]<br /> * [[Sujit Mondal]]<br /> * [[Gyan Mukherjee]]<br /> * [[Hrishikesh Mukherjee]]<br /> * [[Ram Mukherjee]]<br /> * [[Sashadhar Mukherjee]]<br /> * [[Shiboprosad Mukherjee]] <br /> * [[Shomu Mukherjee]]<br /> * [[Subodh Mukherjee]]<br /> * [[Ayan Mukerji]]<br /> * [[Hiren Nag]]<br /> * [[Biren Nag]]<br /> * [[Niranjan Pal]]<br /> * [[Raihan Rafi]]<br /> * [[Mujibar Rahaman]]<br /> * [[Himanshu Rai]]<br /> * [[Zahir Raihan]]<br /> * [[Sandip Ray]]<br /> * [[Satyajit Ray]]<br /> * [[Amitabh Reza]]<br /> * [[Bimal Roy]]<br /> * [[Sudhendu Roy]]<br /> * [[Shakti Samanta]]<br /> * [[Pradeep Sarkar]]<br /> * [[Asit Sen (director)|Asit Sen]]<br /> * [[Mrinal Sen]]<br /> * [[Raja Sen]]<br /> * [[Partho Sen-Gupta]]<br /> * [[Tapan Sinha]]<br /> * [[Shoojit Sircar]]<br /> * [[Manick Sorcar]]<br /> * [[Shashwati Talukdar]]<br /> * [[Nasiruddin Yousuff]]<br /> <br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Grammy winners==<br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Only add a person to this list if they already have their own article on the English Wikipedia ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Please keep the list in alphabetical order by LAST NAME ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> * [[Sandeep Das]], award for Best World Music Album, at the [[59th Grammy Awards]], 2017<br /> * [[Norah Jones]], 9-time winner<br /> * [[Ravi Shankar]], 5-time winner<br /> <br /> ==Journalists==<br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Only add a person to this list if they already have their own article on the English Wikipedia ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Please keep the list in alphabetical order by LAST NAME ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> <br /> ===Bangladesh===<br /> * [[Shah Alamgir]], journalist<br /> * [[Syed Mohammad Ali]], founder of [[The Daily Star (Bangladesh)|The Daily Star]] – the largest circulating daily English-language newspaper in [[Bangladesh]].&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.warc.com/LandingPages/Data/NewspaperTrends/PDF/Bangladesh.pdf Newspaper Trends: Bangladesh] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090319111833/http://www.warc.com/LandingPages/Data/NewspaperTrends/PDF/Bangladesh.pdf |date=19 March 2009 }}, World Advertising Research Center; Retrieved: 14 September 2007&lt;/ref&gt; <br /> * [[Mahfuz Anam]]<br /> * [[Abul Asad]]<br /> * [[Nurjahan Begum]]<br /> * [[Salah Choudhury]], editor of [[Weekly Blitz]]<br /> * [[Sanjeeb Choudhury]]<br /> * [[Shamim Chowdhury]], TV and print journalist for [[Al Jazeera English]]<br /> * [[Lenin Gani]], senior member of the Bangladesh Sports Journalists Association<br /> * [[Abdul Hafiz (journalist)|Abdul Hafiz]], writer, essayist and journalist<br /> * [[Shahriar Kabir]]<br /> * [[Abed Khan]]<br /> * [[Sirajul Hossain Khan]], editor of [[Pakistan Times]] and the [[Eastern News Agency (Bangladesh)|Eastern News Agency]].<br /> * [[Fazle Lohani]]<br /> * [[A B M Musa]]<br /> * [[Syed Nahas Pasha]], journalist and editor of [[Janomot]] and [[Curry Life]]<br /> * [[Abdul Quadir]], poet, essayist and journalist<br /> * [[Matiur Rahman (journalist)|Matiur Rahman]]<br /> * [[Manik Chandra Saha]]<br /> * [[Ataus Samad]]<br /> * [[Shykh Seraj]]<br /> * [[Hassan Shahriar]], journalist<br /> <br /> ===India===<br /> * [[Swapan Dasgupta]], journalist<br /> * [[Sunanda K. Datta-Ray]], journalist<br /> * [[Sagarika Ghose]], editor at CNN-IBN<br /> * [[Chandan Mitra]], editor and managing director of ''The Pioneer'' newspaper<br /> * [[Ramananda Chatterjee]], &quot;father of Indian journalism&quot;<br /> * [[Udayan Mukherjee]], editor and anchor in CNBC India<br /> * [[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<br /> * [[Prannoy Roy]], founder and President of [[NDTV]], one of India's largest television and media production houses<br /> * [[Samar Sen (poet)|Samar Sen]], journalist<br /> * [[Barun Sengupta]], political critic, founder-editor of ''Bartaman'' newspaper<br /> * [[Vishnu Som]], news anchor and journalist<br /> <br /> ===America===<br /> * [[Sanjiv Bhattacharya]]<br /> * [[Bobby Ghosh]] (Aparisim Ghosh), journalist, former ''TIME'' magazine World Editor; the first non-American to be named World Editor in ''TIME''{{'}}s more than 80 years<br /> * [[Reihan Salam]]<br /> <br /> ===United Kingdom===<br /> * [[Fareena Alam]]<br /> * [[Lisa Aziz]], British television news presenter<br /> * [[Mihir Bose]], BBC's head sports editor<br /> * [[Reeta Chakrabarti]], political correspondent for the BBC Television's Breakfast programme shown on BBC One and the BBC News Channel<br /> * [[Mo Dutta]], former TV presenter for BBC Radio 2, BBC Asian Network, BBC Radio Kent<br /> * [[Pallab Ghosh]], BBC News science reporter<br /> * [[Nina Hossain]], British television news broadcaster<br /> * [[Faisal Islam]], current Economics Editor of [[BBC News]]. Former Political Editor of [[Sky News]]<br /> * [[Tasmin Lucia Khan]], English journalist and television presenter<br /> * [[Hasina Momtaz]], former [[press officer]] for the [[Mayor of London]]<br /> * [[Sarah Mukherjee]], former BBC Environment Correspondent, currently a regular contributor on Radio 4's ''Today'' programme<br /> <br /> ===Pakistan===<br /> * [[Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah]], Pakistan's first female editor; first woman to be included in a press delegation; in 1955, became the first woman to speak at the ancient [[al Azhar University]] in [[Cairo]], Egypt<br /> * [[Altaf Husain]], 1st editor-in-chief of Pakistan's oldest, leading and most widely read English-language newspaper, ''[[Dawn (newspaper)|Dawn]]'' and former [[Minister for Industries and Production (Pakistan)|Industry Minister of Pakistan]]<br /> <br /> ===Qatar===<br /> * [[Shiulie Ghosh]], television journalist at [[Al Jazeera English]]<br /> <br /> ===Uganda===<br /> * [[Rajat Neogy]], journalist, poet, columnist, founding editor of ''[[Transition Magazine]]''<br /> <br /> ==Law==<br /> &lt;!-- INSERT A PERSON INTO A SECTION ACCORDING TO ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY LAST NAME. --&gt;<br /> * [[Syed Ameer Ali]], prominent Indian (British Indian) lawyer, key jurist of Muslim personal law, founding member of [[All India Muslim League]]<br /> * [[Bankim Chandra Ray]], former chief justice of India<br /> * [[Kalyan Banerjee (Rotary International)|Kalyan Banerjee]], [[Rotary International]]'s 101st president<br /> * [[Gooroodas Banerjee]], former High Court judge, Calcutta<br /> * [[Mahmudul Amin Choudhury]], 11th [[Chief Justice of Bangladesh|chief justice of Bangladesh]] <br /> * [[Chittaranjan Das]], barrister and Indian independence activist, represented the accused in the [[Alipore Bomb case]]<br /> * [[Sudhi Ranjan Das]], former chief justice of India<br /> * [[Monomohun Ghose]], first practising [[barrister]] of Indian origin<br /> * [[Kamal Hossain]], the author of Bangladeshi Constitution and icon of secular democracy in South Asia; prominent international lawyer and arbitrator<br /> * [[Sara Hossain]], Bangladeshi lawyer, executive director of BLAST, one of the recipients of the 2016 [[International Women of Courage Award]]<br /> * [[Syed A. B. Mahmud Hossain]], 2nd [[Chief Justice of Bangladesh]]<br /> * [[J. R. Mudassir Husain]], 14th [[Chief Justice of Bangladesh]]<br /> * [[M Amir-ul Islam]], Bangladeshi Lawyer, member of the drafting committee of Bangladeshi constitution<br /> * [[Altamas Kabir]], former Chief Justice of India<br /> * [[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]]<br /> * [[M. A. Muid Khan|Muhammed Abdul Muid Khan]], nominated as the Best Human Rights Lawyer of England and Wales in 2012<br /> * [[Nitish Chandra Laharry]], first person of Asian origin to be elected as the president of [[Rotary International]]<br /> * [[Sabyasachi Mukharji]], former Chief Justice of India<br /> * [[Bijan Kumar Mukherjea]], former Chief Justice of India<br /> * [[Manmatha Nath Mukherjee]], Received Knighthood in 1935, former Justice of Calcutta High Court and appointed Law Secretary of the Government of India<br /> * [[Abdul Moshabbir]], lawyer and politician<br /> * [[Radhabinod Pal]], Indian member appointed to the [[International Military Tribunal for the Far East]], one of the three Asian judges of Tokyo trial<br /> * [[A. N. Ray]], former Chief Justice of India<br /> * [[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 (judge)|Recorder]] of the Crown, which made her the only person of Bangladeshi origin in a senior judicial position.<br /> * [[Amal Kumar Sarkar]], former Chief Justice of India <br /> * [[Birendranath Sasmal]], barrister and Indian independence activist, defended the accused in the [[Chittagong armoury raid|Chittagong armed robbery]] case<br /> * [[Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem]], first Chief Justice of Bangladesh<br /> * [[Amarendra Nath Sen]], former judge in [[Supreme Court of India]]<br /> * [[Ashoke Kumar Sen]], Indian barrister, former Cabinet minister of India, Indian parliamentarian<br /> * [[Lord Satyendra Prasanna Sinha|Satyendra Prasanno Sinha, 1st Baron Sinha]], prominent lawyer and statesman in British India, first Indian to become member of British cabinet<br /> * [[Nripendra Nath Sircar|Sir Nripendra Nath Sircar]] KCSI was an Indian lawyer and political figure. He was [[Advocate-General of Bengal]] from 1928 to 1934 and Law Member of the [[Council of the Governor General of India|Council of the Governor-General of India]] from 1934 to 1939.<br /> <br /> ==Magicians==<br /> * [[Jewel Aich]]<br /> * [[Maneka Sorcar]]<br /> * [[P. C. Sorcar]]<br /> * [[P. C. Sorcar, Jr.]]<br /> <br /> ==Musicians==<br /> <br /> === Bangla rock ===<br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Only add a person to this list if they already have their own article on the English Wikipedia ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Please keep the list in alphabetical order by LAST NAME ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> * [[Shafin Ahmed]]<br /> * [[Ayub Bachchu]], founding member and the leader of the Bengali rock band [[Love Runs Blind (LRB)]]<br /> * [[Balam (singer)|Balam]]<br /> * [[Partha Barua]]<br /> * [[Chandril Bhattacharya]], lyricist and one of the founders of the Bangla band Chandrabindoo<br /> * [[Nachiketa Chakraborty]]<br /> * [[Anindya Chatterjee]], lead vocalist and one of the founders of the Bengali band [[Chandrabindoo]]<br /> * [[Gautam Chattopadhyay]], composer, founder of the group [[Mohiner Ghoraguli]], One of the first rock vocalists of India<br /> * [[Somlata Acharyya Chowdhury]], lead singer of Bangla rock band Somlata and The Aces<br /> * [[Anjan Dutt]], singer, composer and lyricist<br /> * [[Rupam Islam]], frontman of Bengali hard rock band [[Fossils (band)|Fossils]]<br /> * [[James (musician)|James]]<br /> * [[Ibrahim Ahmed Kamal]], guitarist for [[Warfaze]], one of the pioneers of Bengali and [[Bangladeshi heavy metal]]<br /> * [[Azam Khan (singer)|Khan]] (Azam Khan), one of the pioneers of Bengali rock, pop guru and rock guru of Bangladesh, freedom fighter<br /> * [[Bappa Mazumder]]<br /> * [[Alamgir Haq]], former member of the first Bengali Band Iolites, known as the [[Elvis Presley]] of the west<br /> * [[Syed Hasanur Rahman]], vocalist of [[Ark (Bangladeshi band)|Ark]]<br /> * [[Raef al Hasan Rafa]]<br /> * [[Kabir Suman]]<br /> * [[Sharmin Sultana Sumi]], vocalist for [[Chirkutt]]<br /> * [[Khaled 'Bassbaba' Sumon]], vocalist for [[Aurthohin]]<br /> * [[Tanzir Tuhin]], former vocalist of [[Shironamhin]], current vocalist of Avash<br /> * [[Ziaur Rahman Zia]]<br /> <br /> === Bangladeshi film industry ===<br /> * [[Abdul Alim]], National Award-winning playback singer<br /> * [[Asif Akbar]], National Award-winning playback singer<br /> * [[Momtaz Begum]], National Award-winning playback singer<br /> * [[Kumar Biswajit]], National Award-winning playback singer and composer<br /> * [[Ahmed Imtiaz Bulbul]], freedom fighter and National Award-winning music director<br /> * [[Kanak Chapa]], National Award-winning playback singer<br /> * [[Priyanka Gope]], National Award-winning playback singer<br /> * [[Syed Abdul Hadi]], National Award-winning playback singer<br /> * [[Abdul Jabbar]], National Award-winning playback singer<br /> * [[Alam Khan (composer)|Alam Khan]], National Award-winning music director and composer<br /> * [[Monir Khan]], National Award-winning playback singer<br /> * [[Andrew Kishore]], National Award-winning playback singer<br /> * [[Runa Laila]], National Award-winning playback singer and composer<br /> * [[Bappa Mazumder]], Singer, National Award-winning composer<br /> * [[Mahmudun Nabi]], National Award-winning playback singer<br /> * [[Subir Nandi]], National Award-winning playback singer<br /> * [[Baby Nazneen]], National Award-winning playback singer<br /> * [[Farida Parveen]], National Award-winning playback singer<br /> * [[Khan Ataur Rahman]], National Award-winning music director and composer<br /> * [[Shahnaz Rahmatullah]], National Award-winning playback singer<br /> * [[Emon Saha]], National Award-winning music director and composer<br /> * [[Satya Saha]], National Award-winning music director<br /> * [[S I Tutul]], National Award-winning playback singer and composer<br /> * [[Habib Wahid]], National Award-winning music director<br /> * [[Sabina Yasmin]], National Award-winning playback singer<br /> <br /> ===Bollywood===<br /> <br /> {{columns-list|colwidth=25em|<br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Please keep the list in alphabetical order by LAST NAME ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> * [[Mohammed Aziz]], Bollywood playback singer<br /> * [[Abhijeet Bhattacharya]], Bollywood playback singer<br /> * [[Amitabh Bhattacharya]], lyricist and singer<br /> * [[Anil Biswas (composer)|Anil Biswas]]<br /> * [[R. D. Burman|Rahul Dev Burman]], Bollywood music composer<br /> * [[S. D. Burman|Sachin Dev Burman]], Bollywood music composer<br /> * [[Raichand Boral]], Bollywood music composer<br /> * [[Soham Chakraborty]], singer<br /> * [[Salil Chowdhury]], Bollywood music composer<br /> * [[Kamal Dasgupta]], composer<br /> * [[Geeta Dutt]], Bollywood playback singer<br /> * [[Gyan Dutt]], composer, Bhukt Surdas<br /> * [[Kanan Devi]], singer and actress<br /> * [[Manna Dey]], Bollywood playback singer<br /> * [[Jeet Ganguly]], Tollywood and Bollywood music composer<br /> * [[Parul Ghosh]], Bollywood playback singer<br /> * [[Anup Ghoshal]], Bollywood playback singer<br /> * [[Shreya Ghoshal]], Bollywood playback singer<br /> * [[Sagarika Mukherjee Da Costa]] (better known simply as Sagarika), Hindi, Assamese and Bengali playback and pop singer and actress<br /> * [[Sandhya Mukhopadhyay]], Bollywood playback singer<br /> * [[Rajanikanta Sen]], Bengali poet and composer<br /> * [[Madhuri Chattopadhyay]]<br /> * [[Hemanga Biswas]]<br /> * [[Anwesha Datta Gupta]], Bollywood playback singer, winner of ''Amul Star Voice of India'', Chhote Ustaad<br /> * [[Jagmohan]] singer<br /> * [[Suman Kalyanpur]], Bollywood playback singer<br /> * [[Ash King]], singer<br /> * [[Krsna]] composer<br /> * [[Amit Kumar (singer)|Amit Kumar]], playback singer, performer and son of Kishore Kumar<br /> * [[Kishore Kumar]]<br /> * [[Bappi Lahiri]], Bollywood music composer<br /> * [[Madhushree]], Bollywood playback singer<br /> * [[Antara Mitra]], Bollywood playback singer<br /> * [[Shyamal Mitra]], composer<br /> * [[Shantanu Moitra]], Bollywood Music composer<br /> * [[Arko Pravo Mukherjee]], singer-songwriter<br /> * [[Chandrani Mukherjee]], Bollywood playback singer<br /> * [[Jolly Mukherjee]], Bollywood playback singer<br /> * [[Manas Mukherjee]], Bollywood music composer, father of Shaan<br /> * [[Sapna Mukherjee]], Bollywood playback singer<br /> * [[Aarti Mukherji]]<br /> * [[Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay]]<br /> * [[Pankaj Mullick]], singer, composer, music director<br /> * [[Sandeep Nath]], lyricist<br /> * [[Amit Paul]], Bollywood playback singer<br /> * [[Pritam]], Bollywood music composer<br /> * [[Anupam Roy]], singer-songwriter<br /> * [[Anindya Chatterjee]], singer-songwriter<br /> * [[Kanika Banerjee]]<br /> * [[Sabita Chowdhury]]<br /> * [[Dhananjay Bhattacharya]], singer and composer<br /> * [[Kanu Roy]], composer<br /> * [[Amit Sana]], Bollywood playback singer<br /> * [[Kumar Sanu]], Bollywood playback singer<br /> * [[Sohail Sen]], Bollywood composer and singer<br /> * [[Shaan (singer)|Shaan]], Hindi and Bengali playback and pop singer, Bollywood actor and television presenter<br /> * [[Arijit Singh]], Bollywood playback singer<br /> * [[Chitra Singh]], singer and composer<br /> * [[Babul Supriyo]], Bollywood playback singer<br /> * [[Monali Thakur]], Bollywood playback singer<br /> * [[Alka Yagnik]], Bollywood playback singer<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ===Classical and folk musicians===<br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Please keep the list in alphabetical order by LAST NAME ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> * [[Abbasuddin Ahmed]] (1901–1959)<br /> * [[Abd al-Alim]]<br /> * [[Kanika Banerjee]] (1924–2000), Rabindrasangeet performer<br /> * [[Nikhil Banerjee]] (1931–1986), sitar performer<br /> * [[Firoza Begum (singer)|Firoza Begum]] (1930–2014), eminent exponent of Nazrul Geeti<br /> * [[Momtaz Begum]] (born 1974), Bangladeshi folk singer, world record holder<br /> * [[Dhananjay Bhattacharya]] (1922–1992), Shyama Sangeet singer<br /> * [[Pannalal Bhattacharya]] ({{circa|1930}} – 1966), singer<br /> * [[Debabrata Biswas]] (1911–1980), Rabindrasangeet performer<br /> * [[Kumar Bose]] (born 1953), tabla performer and composer<br /> * [[Tanmoy Bose]] (born 1963), table master, composer, actor, fusion musician<br /> * [[Arnab Chakrabarty]] (born 1980), Indian classical musician, sarod player<br /> * [[Ajoy Chakrabarty]] (born 1952)<br /> * [[Swapan Chaudhuri]], tabla exponent<br /> * [[Pandit Iman Das]] (born 1982), Indian classical singer and composer.<br /> * [[Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta]], classical and rabindrasangeet exponent performer, also folk modern and devotional music<br /> * [[Annapurna Devi]] (1927–2018), surbahar performer<br /> * [[Naina Devi (singer)|Naina Devi]] (1917–1993), Indian classical singer<br /> * [[Jnan Prakash Ghosh]] (1909–1997), tabla master, composer and musician<br /> * [[Shankar Ghosh (musician)|Shankar Ghosh]] (1935–2016), tabla master and singer<br /> * [[Pannalal Ghosh]] (1911–1960), pioneering master of the Indian classical flute, composer, musicologist<br /> * [[Shah Abdul Karim]] (1916–2009)<br /> * [[Ali Akbar Khan]] (1922–2009), sarod performer, composer, musicologist, founder of the Ali Akbar College of Music in California, US<br /> * [[Allauddin Khan]] (1862–1972)<br /> * [[Shahadat Hossain Khan]] (born 1958), Sarod virtuoso, composer, musicologist, international master, renowned Sarod player<br /> * [[Vilayat Khan]] (1928–2004), sitar performer<br /> * [[Runa Laila]] (born 1952), folk, ghazal, and pop fusion singer<br /> * [[Lalon]] (1784–1890), mystic devotional composer and singer<br /> * [[Abdul Latif]]<br /> * [[Suchitra Mitra]] (1924–2011), [[Rabindra Sangeet]] performer, also playback singer and composer<br /> * [[Kalyan Mukherjea]] (1943–2010)<br /> * [[Budhaditya Mukherjee]]<br /> * [[Kashinath Mukherjee]] (1925–2011), Hindustani classical musician and sitar player of [[Etawah Gharana]]<br /> * [[Manabendra Mukhopadhyay]] (1931–1992), singer and composer<br /> * [[Farida Parveen]] (born 1954), [[Lalon]] singer<br /> * [[Hason Raja]] (1854–1922)<br /> * [[Purna Das Baul Samrat]] (born 1933), known as 'Baul-samrat', pioneering folk artist known for working with [[Bob Dylan]]<br /> * [[Ritwik Sanyal]] (born 1953)<br /> * [[Indrani Sen]], Rabindra Sangeet and [[Nazrul Geeti]] performer, also modern and folk songs<br /> * [[Srabani Sen]], Rabindra Sangeet performer, also modern and folk songs<br /> * [[Anoushka Shankar]] (born 1981), sitar player and composer<br /> * [[Ravi Shankar]] (1920–2012), sitar virtuoso, composer, musicologist<br /> * [[Chitra Singh]], Hindi/Urdu ghazal singer and wife of [[Jagjit Singh]]<br /> * [[Ruma Guha Thakurta]] (1934–2019), founder and lead singer of [[Calcutta Youth Choir]] and playback singer<br /> * [[Alka Yagnik]] (born 1966)<br /> <br /> ===Hindi rock===<br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Please keep the list in alphabetical order by LAST NAME ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> * [[Asheem Chakravarty]], co-founder of the popular Indian band [[Indian Ocean (band)|Indian Ocean]]<br /> * [[Palash Sen]], lead vocalist of Indian band Euphoria<br /> * [[Susmit Sen]], co-founder of the popular Indian band Indian Ocean<br /> <br /> ===Western===<br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Please keep the list in alphabetical order by LAST NAME ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> * [[Sameer Bhattacharya]], lead guitarist of the American alternative rock band [[Flyleaf (band)|Flyleaf]]<br /> * [[Futurecop!]], electronic band, members include Manzur Iqbal from United Kingdom<br /> * [[Norah Jones]], American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress, daughter of sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar; Indian Bengali<br /> * [[Sanjaya Malakar]], American born Indian origin singer<br /> * [[Shikhee]], singer; auteur of American industrial band Android Lust<br /> * [[Mumzy Stranger]]<br /> * [[Monica Yunus]], operatic soprano<br /> <br /> ==Military==<br /> ===Bangladesh===<br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Please keep the list in alphabetical order by LAST NAME ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> * [[Shakil Ahmed (general, died 2009)|Shakil Ahmed]], former head of [[Bangladesh Rifles]]<br /> * [[Mohammad Ruhul Amin]], awarded [[Bir Sreshtho]], the highest military award of Bangladesh; war hero of [[Bangladesh Liberation War]] <br /> * [[Saiful Azam]], served under [[Bangladesh Air Force]], [[Iraqi Air Force]], [[Pakistan Air Force]] and [[Royal Jordanian Air Force]]<br /> * [[Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury]], 11th [[Chief of Army Staff of the Bangladesh Army]]<br /> * [[Ismail Faruque Chowdhury]], engineer-in-chief of the Bangladesh Army<br /> * [[Saiful Islam Duke]], former Lieutenant Commander of [[Bangladesh Navy]]<br /> * [[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]]<br /> * [[Syed Mohammad Ziaul Haque]], Bangladesh Army officer and fugitive<br /> * [[Nurul Huq (Captain)|Nurul Huq]], second temporary chief of [[Bangladesh Navy]]<br /> * [[AB Tajul Islam]], retired Bangladesh Army captain and former [[Ministry of Liberation War Affairs (Bangladesh)|Minister of Liberation War Affairs]]<br /> * [[Mohiuddin Jahangir]], awarded [[Bir Sreshtho]], the highest military award of Bangladesh, war hero of [[Bangladesh Liberation War]]<br /> * [[Sina Ibn Jamali]], former lieutenant general and Chief of General Staff in Army Headquarters<br /> * [[Mahbub Ali Khan]], Bangladesh Navy rear admiral and the Chief of Naval Staff<br /> * [[Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan]], army officer convicted for the [[assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman]]<br /> * [[A. K. Khandker|Abdul Karim Khandker]], Bir Uttam war hero<br /> * [[Anwarul Momen]], general officer commanding [[17th Infantry Division (Bangladesh)|17th Infantry Division]]<br /> * [[Khaled Mosharraf]], Sector Commander, war hero of Bangladesh Independence War<br /> * [[Abu Saleh Mohammad Nasim]], 7th [[Chief of Army Staff of the Bangladesh Army]]<br /> * General [[M. A. G. Osmani]], Supreme Commander of Bangladesh Forces during the Bangladesh Liberation War<br /> * [[Mohammad Abdur Rab (Bir Uttam)|Mohammad Abdur Rab]], 1st [[Chief of Army Staff of the Bangladesh Army]], [[Major general]] during the [[Bangladesh Liberation War]]<br /> * [[Abul Fazal Ziaur Rahman]], physician and army officer martyred in the liberation war<br /> * [[AKM Asadul Haq]], physician and army officer martyred in the liberation war<br /> * [[Hamidur Rahman]], awarded [[Bir Sreshtho]] the highest military award of Bangladesh, war hero of [[Bangladesh Liberation War]]<br /> * [[Matiur Rahman (military pilot)|Rahman]], awarded [[Bir Sreshtho]] the highest military award of Bangladesh, war hero of [[Bangladesh Liberation War]]<br /> * [[Ziaur Rahman]], Bir Uttam war hero, Sector Commander, strategic war hero Of 1971 Bangladesh Independence War<br /> * [[Munshi Abdur Rouf]], awarded [[Bir Sreshtho]], the highest military award of Bangladesh; war hero of [[Bangladesh Liberation War]]<br /> * [[Muhammad Ghulam Tawab]], Bangladesh's second [[Chief of Air Staff (Bangladesh)|Chief of Air Staff]]<br /> * [[Ashab Uddin (general)|Ashab Uddin]], major general and ambassador to Kuwait and Yemen<br /> * [[Sarwar Hossain]], Army General and former Military Secretary to the President of Bangladesh.<br /> <br /> ===India===<br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Please keep the list in alphabetical order by LAST NAME ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> * Flight Lieutenant [[Suhas Biswas]] (1924–1993), recipient of [[Ashoka Chakra (military decoration)|Ashoka Chakra]]<br /> * [[Subhas Chandra Bose]] (1897–1945), leader, [[Indian National Army]]<br /> * Air Marshal [[Padma Bandopadhyay]], PVSM, AVSM, VSM, first woman to be promoted to three-star rank in the [[Indian Air Force]]<br /> * Air Vice Marshal [[Madhavendra Banerji]] (1934–2019), MVC, VM of [[Indian Air Force]]<br /> * Major General (Retd.) [[Dipankar Banerjee (general)]], Founding Director of the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies{{Citation needed|date=March 2023}}<br /> * Vice Admiral [[Pradeep Kumar Chatterjee]], Indian Navy, later Commander-in-Chief, Andaman and Nicobar Command<br /> * Admiral [[Adhar Kumar Chatterji]] (1914–2001), Indian Navy Chief 1966–1970<br /> * General [[Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri]] (1908–1983), Indian Army Chief during the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1965]]<br /> * Commodore [[Ajitendu Chakraverti]], Indian Navy, first Indian officer to be promoted to Commodore<br /> * Group Captain [[Suranjan Das]], pioneering test pilot of [[Indian Air Force]]<br /> * Vice Admiral [[Biswajit Dasgupta]], AVSM, YSM, VSM, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, [[Eastern Naval Command]] <br /> * Lieutenant General (retd.) [[Abhijit Guha (Indian Army officer)]], Head of the [[UN Mission to Support the Hodeidah Agreement]]<br /> * Wing Commander [[Karun Krishna Majumdar]], [[Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom)]] and first Indian to reach the rank of Wing Commander<br /> * [[S. K. Majumdar (IAF officer)|Air Commodore Sudhindra Kumar Majumdar]] (1927–2011), India's first military helicopter pilot<br /> * Colonel [[Avijit Misra]], an [[Indian Army]] Colonel<br /> * Air Marshal [[Subroto Mukherjee]] (1911–1960), former Head of Indian Air Force<br /> * [[Arup Raha|Chief of the Air Staff Designate Arup Raha]], 24th chief of Indian Air Force<br /> * Wing Commander [[Ashis Roy]], MD FRCS, first Indian man to complete 100 marathons<br /> * [[Indra Lal Roy]] (1898–1918), first Indian (pre Independence) flying ace<br /> * General [[Shankar Roychowdhury]] (born 1937), former Indian Army Chief<br /> * Major General [[Ajit Rudra]] (1896–1957), OBE<br /> * Lieutenant General [[Lionel Protip Sen]], [[Distinguished Service Order]]<br /> <br /> ===Other===<br /> * [[Abuhena Saifulislam|Abu Hena Saiful Islam]] (born 1963), Muslim chaplain for the [[US Navy]]<br /> * [[Kalapahad]] (died 1575), military general for the [[Karrani dynasty]]<br /> * [[Masum Khan]] (born 1604), Zamindar of Sarail and soldier of the Mughal empire<br /> * [[Hayat Mahmud]], military general and Zamindar of [[Barisal District|Buzurg-Umedpur]]<br /> <br /> ==Padma Vibhushan==<br /> &lt;!-- INSERT A PERSON INTO A SECTION ACCORDING TO ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY LAST NAME. --&gt;<br /> * [[Milon K. Banerji]]<br /> * [[Nand Lal Bose]]<br /> * [[Satyendra Nath Bose]]<br /> * [[Suniti Kumar Chatterji]]<br /> * [[D. P. Chattopadhyaya]]<br /> * [[Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri]]<br /> * [[Bhabatosh Datta]]<br /> * [[Niren De]]<br /> * [[Basanti Devi]]<br /> * [[Ashok Sekhar Ganguly]]<br /> * [[Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis]]<br /> * [[Ajoy Mukherjee]]<br /> * [[Benode Behari Mukherjee]]<br /> * [[Hirendranath Mukherjee]]<br /> * [[Hrishikesh Mukherjee]]<br /> * [[Pranab Mukherjee]]<br /> * [[Basanti Dulal Nagchaudhuri]]<br /> * [[Radhabinod Pal]]<br /> * [[Satyajit Ray]]<br /> * [[Binay Ranjan Sen]]<br /> * [[Ravi Shankar]]<br /> * [[Uday Shankar]]<br /> <br /> == Political leaders outside of India, Bangladesh and Pakistan ==<br /> <br /> ===Australia===<br /> * [[Varun Ghosh]]<br /> <br /> ===Canada===<br /> * [[Doly Begum]], [[Member of Provincial Parliament (Ontario)|MPP]] from [[Scarborough Southwest (provincial electoral district)|Scarborough Southwest]]<br /> * [[Shuv Majumdar]], Member of Parliament for Calgary Heritage<br /> <br /> ===United Kingdom===<br /> [[File:Official portrait of Lisa Nandy MP crop 2.jpg|thumb||right|upright=0.6]]<br /> * [[Marina Ahmad|Marina Masuma Ahmad]], Member of the London Assembly for Lambeth and Southwark <br /> * [[Lisa Nandy]] Indian (Bengali)-British politician serving as [[Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities]] since 2021. A member of the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]], she has been [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|member of parliament]] (MP) for [[Wigan (UK Parliament constituency)|Wigan]] since 2010. <br /> [[File:Anwar choudhury.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.6|[[Anwar Choudhury]] was the first non-white British person to be appointed in a senior diplomatic post.]]<br /> * [[Nasim Ali]] [[Officer of the British Empire|OBE]], Labour Party politician, councillor in Regent's Park ward, Cabinet Member for Young People in [[Camden London Borough Council|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&lt;ref name=&quot;camdennewjournalali&quot;&gt;{{cite news|last=Latham|first=Bob|url=http://www.camdennewjournal.com/news/2010/may/local-elections-2010-nasim-nash-ali-one-o-level-council-leader-profile-labours-top-man|title=LOCAL ELECTIONS 2010: Nasim 'Nash' Ali, from one O-level to council leader – Profile of Labour's top man at the Town Hall|location=Camden|work=[[Camden New Journal]]|date=20 May 2010|access-date=1 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202100100/http://www.camdennewjournal.com/news/2010/may/local-elections-2010-nasim-nash-ali-one-o-level-council-leader-profile-labours-top-man|archive-date=2 February 2014|url-status=dead}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> * [[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&lt;ref name=&quot;oxfordtimesanwar&quot;&gt;{{cite news|url=http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/11248032.So_proud__says_city___s_first_Bangladeshi_councillor/|title=So proud, says city's first Bangladeshi councillor|location=Oxford|work=[[The Oxford Times]]|date=2 June 2014|access-date=1 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170802001616/http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/11248032.So_proud__says_city___s_first_Bangladeshi_councillor/|archive-date=2 August 2017|url-status=dead}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *[[Anwar Choudhury]], former [[governor of the Cayman Islands]] and [[List of High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to Bangladesh|High Commissioner of the UK to Bangladesh]]<br /> * [[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]]''&lt;ref name=&quot;thenationalkhan&quot;&gt;{{cite news |url=https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/the-veil-should-not-be-a-barrier-between-women-1.510142/|title=The veil should not be a barrier between women|location=Abu Dhabi|work=[[The National (Abu Dhabi)|The National]]|date=29 August 2009|access-date=1 May 2012}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> * [[Syeda Khatun]] [[Member of the British Empire|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&lt;ref name=&quot;birminghammail&quot;&gt;{{cite news|last=Brady|first=Poppy|url=http://www.birminghammail.net/news/top-stories/2008/02/26/awards-to-recognise-bangladeshi-community-97319-20524016/|title=Awards to recognise Bangladeshi community|location=Birmingham|work=[[Birmingham Mail]]|date=26 February 2008|access-date=1 August 2015|archive-date=4 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121004210536/http://www.birminghammail.net/news/top-stories/2008/02/26/awards-to-recognise-bangladeshi-community-97319-20524016/|url-status=dead}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> * [[Murad Qureshi]], Labour Party politician and former Greater [[London Assembly]] member&lt;ref name=&quot;murad&quot;&gt;{{cite web|url=http://blog.muradqureshi.com/bnp%E2%80%93jamaat-smashed-in-bangladesh-polls-as-electorate-votes-for-secularism/|title=BNP-Jamaat smashed in Bangladesh polls, as electorate votes for secularism|publisher=Qureshi Report|date=1 January 2009|access-date=10 June 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110401030516/http://blog.muradqureshi.com/bnp%E2%80%93jamaat-smashed-in-bangladesh-polls-as-electorate-votes-for-secularism/|archive-date=1 April 2011|df=dmy-all}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> * [[Lutfur Rahman (British politician)|Lutfur Rahman]], community activist and [[Independent (politician)|Independent]] politician; from 2010 to 2015 the first [[directly elected mayor of Tower Hamlets]] and the first Bangladeshi leader of the council&lt;ref name=&quot;guardianlutfurrahman&quot;&gt;{{cite news |last=Hill|first=Dave|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/davehillblog/2010/aug/22/tower-hamlets-labour-mayoral-cnadidate-selection-lutfur-rahman|title=Tower Hamlets: Labour selects its mayoral candidate|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=22 August 2010|access-date=21 September 2010}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> * [[Luthfur Rahman]] {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE}}, current deputy leader of [[Manchester City Council]]<br /> * [[Nadia Shah]], Labour Party politician, councillor in [[Regent's Park (Camden ward)|Regent's Park ward]] and former Mayor of Camden; in May 2016, became the first female mayor in the United Kingdom of Bangladeshi origin&lt;ref name=&quot;dhakatribuneshah&quot;&gt;{{cite news |url=http://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2016/may/12/nadia-shah-becomes-britains-first-bangladesh-born-woman-mayor|title=Britain's first woman mayor of Bangladeshi origin|location=Dhaka|work=[[Dhaka Tribune]]|date=12 May 2017|access-date=1 June 2017}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> * [[Baroness]] [[Pola Uddin, Baroness Uddin|&quot;Pola&quot; Manzila Uddin]], Labour Party [[life peer]], community activist, and the first Muslim and second Asian woman to sit in the [[House of Lords]]&lt;ref name=&quot;guardianpola&quot;&gt;{{cite news|last1=Vasagar|first1=Jeevan|last2=Kelso|first2=Paul|last3=James-Gregory|first3=Sally|last4=Dodd|first4=Vikram|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/jun/17/religion.immigrationpolicy|title=Profiles of 10 leading British Muslims|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=17 February 2002|access-date=31 March 2009|archive-date=15 January 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240115060130/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/jun/17/religion.immigrationpolicy|url-status=live}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> * [[Apsana Begum]] [[Member of Parliament|MP]], [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] Member of Parliament for [[Poplar and Limehouse (UK Parliament constituency)|Poplar and Limehouse]], first [[Hijabi]] to be elected as an [[Member of Parliament|MP]] for the [[British parliament]]<br /> * [[Rupa Huq]] [[Member of Parliament|MP]], [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] Member of Parliament for [[Ealing Central and Acton (UK Parliament constituency)|Ealing Central and Acton constituency]],&lt;ref name=&quot;getwestlondonhuq2&quot;&gt;{{cite news|last1=Bazaraa|first1=Danya|last2=De-Keyzer|first2=Amy|url=http://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/news/local-news/ealing-central--acton-constituency-9050446|title=Ealing Central &amp; Acton constituency results|location=London|publisher=Get West London|date=8 May 2015|access-date=1 June 2015|archive-date=15 January 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240115060217/https://www.mylondon.news/news/local-news/ealing-central--acton-constituency-9050446|url-status=live}}&lt;/ref&gt; writer, columnist, senior lecturer in sociology at [[Kingston University]] and former [[Deputy Mayor]] of the [[London Borough of Ealing]]&lt;ref name=&quot;gbnews24huq&quot;&gt;{{cite news|last=Ahmed|first=Syed Shah Salim|url=http://www.english.gbnews24.com/legendary-researcher-rupa-will-win-the-next-election-2015/|title=Legendary researcher Rupa will be win the next Election 2015|publisher=GBNEWS24.com|date=1 December 2013|access-date=1 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140304191920/http://english.gbnews24.com/legendary-researcher-rupa-will-win-the-next-election-2015/|archive-date=4 March 2014|url-status=dead}}&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref name=&quot;getwestlondonhuq1&quot;&gt;{{cite news|last=Russell|first=Michael|url=http://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/news/west-london-news/ealing-labour-pick-tv-stars-6281362|title=Ealing Labour pick TV star's sister as their General Election candidate|location=London|publisher=Get West London|date=7 May 2015|access-date=1 June 2015|archive-date=15 January 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240115063645/https://www.mylondon.news/news/west-london-news/ealing-labour-pick-tv-stars-6281362|url-status=live}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> * [[Rushanara Ali]] [[Member of Parliament|MP]], Labour Party Member of Parliament for [[Bethnal Green and Bow (UK Parliament constituency)|Bethnal Green and Bow constituency]]; first person of Bangladeshi origin to be elected to the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]]&lt;ref name=&quot;thisislondonrushanara&quot;&gt;{{cite news|url=http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/politics/article-23831748-rushanara-ali-becomes-first-bangladeshi-mp.do|title=Rushanara Ali becomes first Bangladeshi MP|location=London|work=[[London Evening Standard]]|date=7 May 2010|access-date=11 May 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100510214106/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/politics/article-23831748-rushanara-ali-becomes-first-bangladeshi-mp.do|archive-date=10 May 2010|df=dmy-all}}&lt;/ref&gt; and one of the first three Muslim women to be elected as a member of parliament&lt;ref name=&quot;guardianali&quot;&gt;{{cite news|first1=Jo|last1=Adetunji|first2=Mark|last2=Tran|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/may/07/general-election-female-muslim-mps|title=General election 2010: first female Muslim MPs elected|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=7 May 2010|access-date=5 November 2010|archive-date=11 May 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100511122618/http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/may/07/general-election-female-muslim-mps|url-status=live}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> * [[Tulip Siddiq]] [[Member of Parliament|MP]], Labour Party Member of Parliament for [[Hampstead and Kilburn (UK Parliament constituency)|Hampstead and Kilburn]],&lt;ref name=&quot;camdennewjournalsiddiq&quot;&gt;{{cite news|last=Osley|first=Richard|url=http://www.camdennewjournal.com/news/2015/may/full-story-tulip-siddiq-defends-hampstead-and-kilburn-parliamentary-seat-labour|title=Full story: Tulip Siddiq defends Hampstead and Kilburn parliamentary seat for Labour|location=Camden|work=[[Camden New Journal]]|date=8 May 2015|access-date=1 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518085653/http://www.camdennewjournal.com/news/2015/may/full-story-tulip-siddiq-defends-hampstead-and-kilburn-parliamentary-seat-labour|archive-date=18 May 2015|url-status=dead}}&lt;/ref&gt; former councillor for [[Regent's Park (Camden ward)|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&lt;ref name=&quot;bdnewssiddiq&quot;&gt;{{cite news|last=Pasha|first=Syed Nahas|url=http://www.bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2013/06/19/tulip-weds|title=Tulip Weds|location=London|work=[[Bdnews24.com]]|date=19 June 2013|access-date=1 February 2015|archive-date=4 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131204050104/http://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2013/06/19/tulip-weds|url-status=live}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ===United States of America===<br /> * [[Amit Bose (government official)|Amit Bose]], Administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration<br /> * [[Saikat Chakrabarti]], chief of staff to Ocasio-Cortez<br /> * [[Neil Chatterjee|Indranil Chatterjee]], Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission<br /> * [[Swadesh Chatterjee]], chairman and co-founder of the U.S.-India Friendship Council<br /> * [[Jay Chaudhuri]], Member of the North Carolina Senate<br /> * [[Raj Mukherji]], Majority Whip and Democratic member of the [[New Jersey General Assembly]] from New Jersey's [[33rd Legislative District (New Jersey)|33rd Legislative District]] covering portions of [[Hudson County, New Jersey|Hudson County]] (second Indian American elected to NJ state legislature); former Deputy Mayor of [[Jersey City, New Jersey|Jersey City, NJ]]; former Commissioner and Chairman of the [[Jersey City Housing Authority]] (then the youngest to serve in that position); Reservist (2001–09) in [[United States Marine Corps]]<br /> * [[Hansen Clarke]], Member of the [[U.S. House of Representatives]] from Michigan's 13th district, Democrat, Member of the [[Michigan Senate]] from the 1st district, Member of the Michigan House of Representatives from the 7th and 16th district<br /> <br /> ==Politicians==<br /> [[File:A k fazlul hoque.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|[[A. K. Fazlul Huq]]]]<br /> [[File:Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1950.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|[[Sheikh Mujibur Rahman]]]]<br /> [[File:Khaleda Zia former Prime Minister of Bangladesh cropped.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|[[Khaleda Zia]]]]<br /> [[File:Sheikh Hasina in London 2011.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|[[Sheikh Hasina|Sheikh Hasina Wazed]]]]<br /> <br /> &lt;!-- INSERT A PERSON INTO A SECTION ACCORDING TO ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY LAST NAME. --&gt;<br /> ===Bangladesh===<br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Please keep the list in alphabetical order by LAST NAME ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> * [[Tajuddin Ahmad]], first [[Prime Minister of Bangladesh|prime minister of Bangladesh]] (1971–1972)<br /> * [[Abdus Samad Azad]], former [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (Bangladesh)|Minister of Foreign Affairs]]<br /> * [[Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani]], popularly known with the honorary title Mazlum Jananeta (Leader of the Oppressed)<br /> * [[Abdul Gaffar Biswas]] (born 1949), former MP for [[Khulna-3]]<br /> * [[Abdul Latif Biswas (Bangladeshi politician)|Abdul Latif Biswas]] (born 1953), Bangladeshi minister<br /> * [[Abdur Rahman Biswas]] (1926–2017), former president of Bangladesh<br /> * [[Abdur Rasheed Biswas]] (died 1991), former MP of Jessore<br /> * [[Abu Raihan Biswas]] (1940–2019), high school teacher and socialist<br /> * [[AM Riasat Ali Biswas]] (1932–2016), Islamic scholar and politician<br /> * [[Nasim Biswas|Ehteshamul Haq Nasim Biswas]] (died 1998), medical doctor and politician<br /> * [[Lutfar Rahman Biswas]], Bangladeshi politician<br /> * [[Manjur Rahman Biswas]] (1950–2023), former MP of [[Pabna-4]]<br /> * [[Md. Golam Mostofa Biswas]] (born 1967), former MP of [[Chapai Nawabganj-2|Nawabganj-2]]<br /> * [[Mohammad Abdul Wadud|Mohammad Abdul Wadud Bishwas]] (born 1964), politician<br /> * [[Mohammad Nurul Haque|Mohammad Nurul Haque Biswas]] (1915–1998), army officer and politician<br /> * [[Mohammad Shahiduddin|Mohammad Sahiuddin Bishwas]] (1923–1990), freedom fighter and politician<br /> * [[Nuruzzaman Biswas]] (born 1948), former MP of [[Pabna-4]]<br /> * [[Panjab Ali Biswas]], former MP of [[Pabna-4]]<br /> * [[Shahidul Islam Biswas]] (1948–2006), former general secretary of Bangladesh Nationalist Party<br /> * [[Wazed Ali Biswas|Wajed Ali Biswas]] (1947–2003), politician and shrimp exporter<br /> * [[A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury]], former [[President of Bangladesh]] (2001–2002) and the founder of [[Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh]]<br /> * [[Mukhlesur Rahman Chowdhury]], ''de facto'' [[President of Bangladesh|president]] and [[Prime Minister of Bangladesh|prime minister]], former adviser to [[Iajuddin Ahmed]]<br /> * [[Yusuf Ali Chowdhury]] (1905–1971), former Minister of Agriculture<br /> * [[Hussain Muhammad Ershad]], Chief Martial Law Administrator (CMLA), later President (1982–1990) and founder of the [[Jatiya Party (Ershad)|Jatiya party]]<br /> * [[Ganesh Chandra Haldar]], died 29 November 2022) was a [[Bangladesh Nationalist Party]] politician and a [[Member of Parliament (Bangladesh)|Member of Parliament]]. He was elected to the [[Jatiya Sangsad]] from the [[Madaripur-3]] constituency during the February 1996 general elections.<br /> * [[Sudhangshu Shekhar Haldar]], died 29 September 2004) was a prominent [[Bangladesh Awami League]] politician and a former [[Member of Parliament (Bangladesh)|Member of Parliament]]. He was elected to the [[Jatiya Sangsad]] from the [[Pirojpur-1]] constituency in 1991 and previously represented the Bakerganj-14 constituency in 1979.<br /> * [[Kamal Hossain]], lawyer, founder of [[Gano Forum]] and the leader of [[Jatiya Oikya Front|Jatiya Oikiya front]] alliance<br /> * [[Farhad Hossain (politician)|Farhad Hossain]] (born 1972), Minister of Public Administration<br /> * [[A. K. Fazlul Huq]], first [[Prime Minister of Bengal|prime minister of Bengal]] (Undivided), presented the [[Lahore Resolution]] with the official proposal of partition of India, [[Governor of East Pakistan]]<br /> * [[Serajul Huq (politician)|Serajul Huq]], one of the founding member of the [[Bangladesh Awami League]]<br /> * [[AK Abdul Momen]], incumbent [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (Bangladesh)|Minister of Foreign Affairs]]<br /> * [[Shamsul Huda Panchbagi]] (1897–1988), founder of the Emarat Party and member of the [[Bengal Legislative Assembly (1937—1947)|Bengal Legislative Assembly]] <br /> * [[GM Quader|Ghulam Mahmood Quader]], chairman of the Jatiya party<br /> * [[Sheikh Mujibur Rahman]], Bengali nationalist politician, president of Awami League, served as the first [[president of Bangladesh]] and second [[Prime Minister of Bangladesh|prime minister of Bangladesh]], voted as the [[Greatest Bengali of all time]] in 2004 BBC's opinion poll<br /> * [[Tarique Rahman]] (born 1967), acting chairman of the [[Bangladesh Nationalist Party]]<br /> * [[Ziaur Rahman]], founder of [[Bangladesh Nationalist Party]], [[President of Bangladesh]] (1977–1981), proposed the creation of [[SAARC]], sector commander and liberation war hero<br /> * [[Zillur Rahman]] (1929–2013), former [[president of Bangladesh]] (2009–2013)<br /> * [[Sheikh Hasina|Sheikh Hasina Wazed]], [[Prime Minister of Bangladesh]] (1996–2001; 2009–present)<br /> * [[Khaleda Zia]], [[Prime Minister of Bangladesh]] (1991–1996; 2001–2006), &quot;mother of democracy&quot;, leader of democracy movement in Bangladesh, first female PM of Bangladesh<br /> * [[Abdur Rashid Tarkabagish]] (1900–1986), second president of the [[All Pakistan Awami Muslim League]]<br /> * [[Chowdhury Kamal Ibne Yusuf]] (1940–2020), former Minister of Disaster Management<br /> * [[Chowdhury Akmal Ibne Yusuf]] (1945–2021), member of the parliament<br /> * [[Chowdhury Abd-Allah Zaheeruddin]] (1903–1967), former Minister of Health, Labor and Social welfare<br /> * [[Nur Alam Ziku]](1938–2010), co-founder of [[Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal]]<br /> <br /> ===British India===<br /> [[File:Syed Shamsul Huda (Nawab,1913).jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|Nawab [[Syed Shamsul Huda]] was a patron, and donated immensely towards education for the Muslim students of Bengal during a difficult period.]]<br /> [[File:Abul Kalam Azad 1.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|[[Abul Kalam Azad]] was India's first [[Minister of Education (India)|Minister of Education]], and his birthday is now recognised as [[National Education Day (India)|National Education Day]] across the country.]]<br /> * [[Jalaluddin Ahmad]], Bengali landlord, jurist and health minister<br /> * [[Aftab Ali]], founder of All-India Seamen's Federation and vice-president of [[All-India Trade Union Congress]]<br /> * [[Aruna Asaf Ali]], Indian independence activist<br /> * [[Mahmud Ali (statesman)|Mahmud Ali]], [[Indian independence movement|Freedom Movement leader]], statesman<br /> * [[Abul Kalam Azad]], senior leader of the [[Indian National Congress]] during the [[Indian independence movement]]<br /> * [[Chowdhury Moyezuddin Biwshash]], merchant and aristocrat<br /> * [[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]]<br /> * [[Ajmal Ali Choudhury]], prominent in the Sylhet referendum movement<br /> * [[Moinul Hoque Choudhury]], five-time [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]], two-time [[United Nations General Assembly|UN General Assembly]] representative and Minister of Industrial Development<br /> * [[Chittaranjan Das]], prominent in the Indian independence movement (also known as Deshabandhu)<br /> * [[Abdul Halim Ghaznavi]], politician, industrialist and minister<br /> * [[Abdul Karim Ghaznavi]], politician, traveler and minister<br /> * [[Muhammad Hasanuzzaman]], educationist and member of the [[Bengal Legislative Assembly (1937—1947)|Bengal Legislative Assembly]] for Tippera North<br /> * [[Syed Shamsul Huda]], Nawab of [[Gokarna, Bangladesh|Gokarna]], president of the [[All India Muslim League]]<br /> * [[Hatem Ali Jamadar]], member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly and East Bengal Legislative Assembly<br /> * [[Nawab Ali Haider Khan]], 9th [[Nawab of Longla]], minister and leader of the Independent Muslim Party<br /> * [[Sucheta Kriplani]], freedom fighter and politician<br /> * [[Nawab Abdul Latif]], educator and social worker<br /> * [[Syed Abdul Majid]] [[Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire|CIE]], first native minister of Assam, pioneer of the agricultural industry<br /> * [[Abdul Matlib Mazumdar]], [[Indian independence movement|freedom fighter]] and political leader known for retaining the [[Barak Valley]] in [[Dominion of India|India]]<br /> * [[Abdul Kader Mia]], member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly and East Bengal Legislative Assembly<br /> * [[Sarojini Naidu]], freedom fighter and poet<br /> * [[Bipin Chandra Pal]], [[Indian nationalist]], one third of the [[Lal Bal Pal]] triumvirate<br /> * [[Wajed Ali Khan Panni]], Zamindar of Karatia, politician and educationist<br /> * [[Khwaja Salimullah]], founder of [[All-India Muslim League|Muslim League]], proposed establishing University of Dhaka<br /> <br /> ===India===<br /> ====West Bengal====<br /> * [[Muzaffar Ahmad]], one of the founders of the [[Communist Party of India]]<br /> * [[Maziruddin Ahmed]] (born 1898), inaugural MLA of Cooch Behar<br /> * [[Tamser Ali]] (born 1953), MLA for Natabari<br /> * [[Syed Badrudduja]], former [[mayor of Kolkata]]<br /> * [[Abhishek Banerjee (politician)|Abhishek Banerjee]], member of Lok Sabha from Diamond Harbour, National General Secretary of [[All India Trinamool Congress]]<br /> * [[Mamata Banerjee]], Chief Minister of West Bengal (from 2011), ex-minister for Railways, Government of India, Chairman [[All India Trinamool Congress]]<br /> * [[Mrinal Banerjee]], former minister<br /> * [[Surendranath Banerjee]], one of the founding members of the [[Indian National Congress]]<br /> * [[Jyoti Basu]], former communist Chief Minister of West Bengal, former Politburo Member of the Communist Party of India(Marxist)<br /> * [[Nargis Begum]], MLA of Memari<br /> * [[Buddhadeb Bhattacharya]], former communist Chief Minister of West Bengal, Politburo Member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) after 19th Party Congress<br /> * [[Emani Biswas]] (born 1975), Trinamool politician<br /> * [[Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee]], first president of [[Indian National Congress]]<br /> * [[Subhas Chandra Bose]], former president of [[Indian National Congress]], Head of State of India's first free Provisional Government of Azad Hind and co-founder [[Indian National Army]]<br /> * [[Somnath Chatterjee]], former Speaker of the Lok Sabha (Lower House of Parliament), expelled member of CPI(M), senior parliamentarian, prominent barrister<br /> * [[A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury]], senior leader of [[Indian National Congress]]<br /> * [[Saifuddin Choudhury]] (1952–2014), MLA of Memari<br /> * [[Siddiqullah Chowdhury]] (born 1949), Cabinet Minister of West Bengal<br /> * [[Syed Abdul Mansur Habibullah|Syed Abul Mansur Habibullah]] (1917–1996), Law Minister of West Bengal<br /> * [[Bapi Halder|Bapi Haldar]]: Represents the [[Mathurapur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Mathurapur]] constituency as a current [[Member of Parliament]] belonging to the [[All India Trinamool Congress]].<br /> * [[Bhupendra Nath Halder|Bhupendra Nath Haldar]]: Served as a [[Member of the Legislative Assembly]] in West Bengal under the [[Indian National Congress]] banner.<br /> * [[Dipak Kumar Halder|Dipak Kumar Haldar]]: Formerly represented [[Diamond Harbour (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Diamond Harbour]] as an [[Member of the Legislative Assembly|MLA]], having been associated with both TMC and BJP during his career.<br /> * [[Jogaranjan Halder|Jogaranjan Haldar]]: Currently serves as the [[Member of the Legislative Assembly|MLA]] for [[Kulpi (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kulpi]], representing the [[All India Trinamool Congress]].<br /> * [[Joy Krishna Halder|Joy Krishna Haldar]]: Former [[Member of the Legislative Assembly|MLA]] from [[Kulpi (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kulpi]], known for his long-standing political presence in South 24 Parganas.<br /> * [[Joydeb Halder|Joydeb Haldar]]: Elected as the [[Member of the Legislative Assembly|MLA]] for [[Mandirbazar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Mandirbazar]] as a candidate of the [[All India Trinamool Congress]].<br /> * [[Kansari Halder|Kansari Haldar]]: A veteran [[Communist Party of India|CPI]] leader who represented the [[Mathurapur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Mathurapur]] seat in the Lok Sabha.<br /> * [[Krishna Chandra Halder|Krishna Chandra Haldar]]: Prominent [[CPI(M)]] leader who served as a [[Member of Parliament]] and held ministerial portfolios in the West Bengal Government.<br /> * [[Madhurjya Haldar]]: Served as a [[Member of Parliament]] for the [[Mathurapur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Mathurapur]] constituency representing the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]].<br /> * [[Manoranjan Halder|Manoranjan Haldar]]: Represented the [[Mathurapur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Mathurapur]] constituency in Parliament as a member of the [[Indian National Congress]].<br /> * [[Pannalal Halder|Pannalal Haldar]]: Elected as an [[Member of the Legislative Assembly|MLA]] from the [[Diamond Harbour (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Diamond Harbour]] seat under the [[All India Trinamool Congress]].<br /> * [[Ram Sankar Halder|Ram Sanker Haldar]]: Former [[Member of the Legislative Assembly|MLA]] representing the [[Sonarpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Sonarpur]] constituency for the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]].<br /> * [[Sucharu Ranjan Haldar]]: Served as the [[Member of Parliament]] for [[Ranaghat (Lok Sabha constituency)|Ranaghat]] after winning on an [[All India Trinamool Congress]] ticket.<br /> * [[Abdul Halim (communist)|Abdul Halim]] (1901–1966), Communist politician and author<br /> * [[Fazle Haque|Mohammad Fazle Haque]] (born 1933), state minister<br /> * [[Sheikh Saidul Haque]] (born 1954), MP (Lok Sabha)<br /> * [[Mohammad Hossain]], MLA of Khandaghosh<br /> * [[Ahmed Hassan Imran]], MP of the Rajya Sabha<br /> * [[Mollah Humayun Kabir]], MLA of Purbasthali<br /> * [[Fazlul Karim (politician)|Fazlul Karim]] (born 1937), final MLA of Kranti<br /> * [[Jahanara Khan]] (born 1967), MLA of Jamuria<br /> * [[Sayed Md Masih]] (born 1944), MLA of Bhatar<br /> * [[Fazal Karim Miah]] (born 1951), MLA for Tufanganj<br /> * [[Subrata Mukherjee]], former minister of West Bengal and former mayor of Kolkata<br /> * [[Nurul Islam Mollah]], MLA of Kalna<br /> * [[Abu Ayesh Mondal]] (born 1944), MP and Chairman of West Bengal Minority Development &amp; Finance Corporation<br /> * [[Abul Hasem Mondal]], MLA of Memari<br /> * [[Idrish Mondal]], MLA of Galsi<br /> * [[Mehbub Mondal]], MLA of Galsi<br /> * [[Pranab Mukherjee]], former president of India, Minister for External Affairs, senior leader of [[Indian National Congress]]<br /> * [[M.A. Rasul|Mohammed Abdullah Rasul]] (1903–1991), Transport Minister<br /> * [[Siddhartha Shankar Ray]], former Congress Chief Minister of West Bengal, former Indian ambassador to United States<br /> * [[Bidhan Chandra Roy]], physician, former Congress Chief Minister of West Bengal, Bharat Ratna<br /> * [[Mamtaz Sanghamita|Syeda Mamtaz Sanghamita]] (born 1946), MP (Lok Sabha)<br /> * [[Janab Abdus Sattar]] (1911–1965), member of the Constituent Assembly of India<br /> * [[Nurunnesa Sattar]], MLA of Purbasthali<br /> * [[Ashoke Kumar Sen]], former Law Minister, barrister, and parliamentarian<br /> * [[Sekh Sahonawez]] (born 1958), MLA of Ketugram<br /> * [[Syed Shahedullah]] [Burdwan] (1913–1991), founding member of the Communist party in Bengal<br /> * [[Chowdhury Abu Taleb]] (died 1971), politician<br /> * [[Mahboob Zahedi]] (1929–2006), MP and government minister<br /> <br /> ====Assam====<br /> * [[Abdur Rahim Ahmed]], MLA of [[Barpeta (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Barpeta]]<br /> * [[Hafiz Bashir Ahmed]], MLA of [[Bilasipara West (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Bilasipara West]]<br /> * [[Jahan Uddin Ahmed]], member of Lok Sabha for [[Dhubri (Lok Sabha constituency)|Dhubri]]<br /> * [[Jamal Uddin Ahmed (politician)|Jamal Uddin Ahmed]], former MLA of [[Badarpur (Assam Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Badarpur]]<br /> * [[Kobad Hussain Ahmed]], inaugural MLA of [[Mankachar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Mankachar]]<br /> * [[Moinuddin Ahmed]], former MLA of [[Jaleswar, Assam (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Jaleswar]]<br /> * [[Sahab Uddin Ahmed]], former MLA of [[Jaleswar, Assam (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Jaleswar]]<br /> * [[Sherman Ali Ahmed]], MLA of [[Baghbar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Baghbar]]<br /> * [[Siddique Ahmed (Indian politician)|Siddique Ahmed]], MLA of [[Karimganj South (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Karimganj South]]<br /> * [[Abdur Rahim Ajmal]], politician in [[Jamunamukh (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Jamunamukh]]<br /> * [[Abdur Rahman Ajmal]], politician in [[Salmara South (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Salmara]]<br /> * [[Badruddin Ajmal]], founder of the [[All India United Democratic Front]] (AIUDF) and president of [[Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind]]'s Assam branch<br /> * [[Sirajuddin Ajmal]], MLA of [[Jamunamukh (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Jamunamukh]] and founder of Ajmal Foundation<br /> * [[Abul Kalam Rasheed Alam]], MLA of [[Goalpara East (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Goalpara East]]<br /> * [[Sheikh Shah Alam]], former MLA of [[Goalpara West (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Goalpara West]]<br /> * [[Amjad Ali (Assam politician)|Amjad Ali]], two-time member of Lok Sabha for [[Dhubri (Lok Sabha constituency)|Dhubri]]<br /> * [[Abul Kalam Azad (Indian politician)|Abul Kalam Azad]], former MLA of [[Bhabanipur (Assam Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Bhabanipur]]<br /> * [[Abdul Aziz (Indian politician)|Abdul Aziz]], MLA of [[Badarpur (Assam Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Badarpur]]<br /> * [[Hazi Salim Uddin Barbhuiya]], [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]] of Hailakandi<br /> * [[Karim Uddin Barbhuiya]], MLA of [[Sonai (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Sonai]]<br /> * [[Gul Akhtara Begum]], former MLA of [[Bilasipara East (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Bilasipara East]]<br /> * [[Abdul Munim Choudhury]], former MLA of [[Karimganj South (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Karimganj South]]<br /> * [[Khalilur Rahman Chowdhury (Indian politician)|Khalilur Rahman Chowdhury]], former MLA of [[Jamunamukh (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Jamunamukh]]<br /> * [[Nizam Uddin Choudhury]], former MLA of [[Algapur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Algapur]]<br /> * [[Rashida Haque Choudhury]], former Minister of State for Social Welfare<br /> * [[Wazed Ali Choudhury]], MLA of [[Salmara South (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Salmara South]]<br /> * [[Santosh Mohan Dev]], former Union Cabinet Minister, elected to the [[Lok Sabha]], senior leader of [[Indian National Congress]]<br /> * [[Sushmita Dev]], former member of Parliament, prominent leader of [[All India Trinamool Congress|AITC]]<br /> * [[Abdul Hamid (Indian politician)|Abdul Hamid]], member of Lok Sabha for [[Dhubri (Lok Sabha constituency)|Dhubri]]<br /> * [[Ali Hossain (politician)|Ali Hossain]], former MLA of [[Sarukhetri (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Sarukhetri]]<br /> * [[Rasul Hoque]], former MLA of [[Dhubri (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Dhubri]]<br /> * [[Najrul Hoque]], MLA of [[Dhubri (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Dhubri]]<br /> * [[Samsul Huda]], MLA of [[Bilasipara East (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Bilasipara East]]<br /> * [[Ahmed Hussain (Assam politician)|Ahmed Hussain]], member of Lok Sabha for [[Dhubri (Lok Sabha constituency)|Dhubri]]<br /> * [[Anwar Hussain (politician)|Anwar Hussain]], member of Lok Sabha for [[Dhubri (Lok Sabha constituency)|Dhubri]]<br /> * [[Ashraful Hussain]], MLA of [[Chenga (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Chenga]]<br /> * [[Ismail Hussain]], former MLA of [[Barpeta (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Barpeta]]<br /> * [[Monowar Hussain]], former MLA of [[Goalpara East (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Goalpara East]]<br /> * [[Aminul Islam (Indian politician, born 1975)|Adv. Aminul Islam]], general secretary and chief spokesperson for [[All India United Democratic Front|AIUDF]]<br /> * [[Aminul Islam (Indian politician, born 1971)|Aminul Islam]], former MLA of [[Dhing (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Dhing]]<br /> * [[Aminul Islam (Assam politician)|Aminul Islam]], former MLA of [[Mankachar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Mankachar]]<br /> * [[Hosenara Islam]], first female MLA of [[Mankachar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Mankachar]]<br /> * [[Nurul Islam (Assam politician)|Nurul Islam]], member of Lok Sabha for [[Dhubri (Lok Sabha constituency)|Dhubri]]<br /> * [[Rafiqul Islam (Indian politician)|Rafiqul Islam]], MLA of [[Jania (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Jania]]<br /> * [[Zabed Islam]], former MLA of [[Mankachar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Mankachar]]<br /> * [[Zahirul Islam (politician)|Zahirul Islam]], second MLA of [[Mankachar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Mankachar]]<br /> * [[Abdul Khaleque (Assamese politician)|Abdul Khaleque]], former MLA of [[Jania (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Jania]]<br /> * [[Abdur Rahim Khan (politician)|Abdur Rahim Khan]], former MLA of [[Barpeta (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Barpeta]]<br /> * [[Aziz Ahmed Khan (politician)|Aziz Ahmed Khan]], former MLA of [[Karimganj South (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Karimganj South]]<br /> * [[Liakat Ali Khan]], former MLA of [[Chenga (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Chenga]]<br /> * [[Abdul Batin Khandakar]], MLA of [[Abhayapuri North (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Abhayapuri North]]<br /> * [[Aminul Haque Laskar]], [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]] politician of [[Sonai (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Sonai]]<br /> * [[Anwar Hussain Laskar]], former MLA of [[Hailakandi (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Hailakandi]]<br /> * [[Misbahul Islam Laskar]], MLA of [[Barkhola (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Barkhola]]<br /> * [[Suzam Uddin Laskar]], [[All India United Democratic Front|AIUDF]] politician<br /> * [[Zakir Hussain Laskar]], MLA of [[Hailakandi (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Hailakandi]]<br /> * [[Ataur Rahman Mazarbhuiya]], [[All India United Democratic Front|AIUDF]] politician and leader of ''Nadwatut Tameer''<br /> * [[Abdur Rashid Mandal]], MLA of [[Goalpara West (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Goalpara West]]<br /> * [[Abdul Muhib Mazumder]], one of the architects of the [[Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act, 1983]]<br /> * [[Khalil Uddin Mazumder]], MLA of [[Katigorah (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Katigorah]]<br /> * [[Aftabuddin|Aftabuddin Mollah]], MLA of [[Jaleswar, Assam (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Jaleswar]]<br /> * [[Motiur Rohman Mondal]], former MLA of [[Mankachar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Mankachar]]<br /> * [[Abu Saleh Najmuddin]], former MLA of [[Badarpur (Assam Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Badarpur]]<br /> * [[A. F. Golam Osmani]], [[Indian National Congress]] member<br /> * [[Kabindra Purkayastha]], former Minister<br /> * [[Afzalur Rahman]], inaugural MLA of [[Jaleswar, Assam (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Jaleswar]]<br /> * [[Nijanur Rahman]], MLA of [[Gauripur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Gauripur]]<br /> * [[Abdur Rouf (Indian politician)|Abdur Rouf]], former MLA of [[Jania (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Jania]]<br /> * [[Abdus Sobahan Ali Sarkar]], MLA of [[Golakganj (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Golakganj]]<br /> * [[Jakir Hussain Sikdar|Zakir Hussain Sikdar]], MLA of [[Sarukhetri (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Sarukhetri]]<br /> * [[Jahan Uddin (politician)|Jahan Uddin]], former MLA of [[Dhubri (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Dhubri]]<br /> <br /> ====Bihar====<br /> *[[Dulal Chandra Goswami]], MP for [[Katihar (Lok Sabha constituency)|Katihar]]<br /> *[[Ajit Sarkar]], four-time MLA of [[Purnia]]<br /> *[[Madhavi Sarkar]], MLA of [[Purnia]]<br /> <br /> ====Meghalaya====<br /> * [[Akramozzaman]], inaugural MLA of [[Phulbari Assembly constituency|Phulbari]]<br /> * [[Shamsul Hoque]], inaugural MLA of [[Mahendraganj Assembly constituency|Mahendraganj]]<br /> * [[Mizanur Rahman Kazi]], MLA of [[Rajabala (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Rajabala]]<br /> * [[Khorsedur Rahman Khan]], former MLA of [[Rajabala (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Rajabala]]<br /> * [[S. G. Esmatur Mominin]], current MLA of [[Phulbari Assembly constituency|Phulbari]]<br /> * [[Abu Taher Mondal]], former three-time MLA of [[Phulbari Assembly constituency|Phulbari]]<br /> * [[Mozibur Rahman]], inaugural MLA of [[Rajabala (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Rajabala]] <br /> * [[Abdus Saleh]], MLA of [[Rajabala (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Rajabala]] and former two-time MLA of [[Mahendraganj Assembly constituency|Mahendraganj]]<br /> * [[Manirul Islam Sarkar]], former two-time MLA of [[Phulbari Assembly constituency|Phulbari]] and Minister of Agriculture &amp; Transport<br /> * [[Azad Zaman]], former MLA of [[Rajabala (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Rajabala]]<br /> <br /> ====Uttar Pradesh====<br /> *[[Sucheta Kripalani |Sucheta Mazumdar Kripalani]] 4th [[Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh]] also 1st Female Chief Minister of India. [[Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha|Lok Sabha M.P.]] from [[Gonda Lok Sabha constituency]] (1967-1971) &amp; [[Member of Legislative Assembly|MLA]] from [[Menhdawal Assembly constituency]] of [[Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly]] (1962-1967) <br /> *[[S. M. Banerjee]], 4-time [[Member of Parliament (India)|M.P.]] of [[Kanpur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Kanpur]] as an [[Independent politician|Independent]] candidate with support of [[Communist Party of India|CPI]] from 1962 to 1977.<br /> *[[Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari]], 7-time [[Member of Legislative Assembly|M.L.A]] of [[Varanasi South (Assembly constituency)|South Varanasi]] from [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]<br /> <br /> ====Uttarakhand====<br /> * [[Kiran Mandal |Kiran Chand Mandal]]: Former Member of the [[Legislative Assembly]] ([[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]]) from the [[Sitarganj (Uttarakhand Assembly constituency)|Sitarganj]] constituency.<br /> <br /> ====Tripura====<br /> * [[Manik Sarkar]], former chief minister of [[Tripura]], Politburo member<br /> * [[Biplab Kumar Deb]], former chief minister of [[Tripura]]<br /> <br /> ====Other====<br /> * [[Nawab Abdul Jabbar]] (1837–1918), Prime Minister of Bhopal State<br /> * [[Abul Kasem (politician, born 1872)|Abul Kasem]] (1872–1936), Secretary to the Prime Minister of Bhopal State<br /> * [[Sucheta Kripalani]] [[Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha]] from [[New Delhi Lok Sabha constituency]] from 1951-1961<br /> * [[Rabi Ray]], speaker of Lok Sabha<br /> * [[Ashab Uddin (politician)|Ashab Uddin]], member of the [[Manipur Legislative Assembly]] for [[Jiribam (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Jiribam]]<br /> <br /> ===Pakistan===<br /> * [[Nurul Amin]], [[Prime Minister of Pakistan]]<br /> * [[Jogendra Nath Mandal |Jogendranath Mandal]], [[Minister for Law and Justice (Pakistan) |Law Minister of Pakistan]]<br /> * [[Abdullah al-Baqi]] (1886–1952), member of the 1st National Assembly of Pakistan<br /> * [[Abdul Latif Biswas (Pakistani politician)|Abdul Latif Biswas]], member of the Pakistan National Assembly<br /> * [[Mohammad Ali Bogra]], [[Prime Minister of Pakistan]] 1953–1955<br /> * [[Abdul Matin Chaudhary]], served as the first Agriculture Minister of Pakistan<br /> * [[Minister Abdul Hamid|Abdul Hamid]], first Education Minister of [[East Bengal]]<br /> * [[Abu Ahmad Abdul Hafiz]], Muslim League politician and lawyer<br /> * [[Abdul Wahab Khan (politician)|Abdul Wahab Khan]], 3rd [[Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan]]<br /> * [[Abdullah al Mahmood]] (d. 1975), member of the 1st National Assembly of Pakistan<br /> * [[Jogendra Nath Mandal]], served as the first Law &amp; Labour Minister of Pakistan<br /> * [[Iskander Mirza]], first [[President of Pakistan]]<br /> * [[Khawaja Nazimuddin]], 2nd [[Prime Minister of Bengal|prime minister of Bengal]] (Undivided), 2nd [[Prime Minister of Pakistan|prime minister of Pakistan]], 2nd [[Governor-General of Pakistan]], president of Muslim League<br /> * [[Khurram Khan Panni]], former chief whip of [[East Pakistan Provincial Assembly]]<br /> *[[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)<br /> * [[Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy]], second Chief Minister of Bengal, [[Prime Minister of Pakistan]] (1956–1957)<br /> <br /> ===Other===<br /> [[File:I'tisam-ud-Din.png|thumb|[[I'tisam-ud-Din]] was the first educated Bengali and South Asian to have travelled to Europe.]]<br /> * [[I'tisam-ud-Din]], Mughal diplomat and munshi<br /> <br /> ==Ramon Magsaysay Award==<br /> &lt;!-- INSERT A PERSON INTO A SECTION ACCORDING TO ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY LAST NAME. --&gt;<br /> * [[Tahrunessa Abdullah]]<br /> * [[Fazle Hasan Abed]] [[Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George|KCMG]], founder of the world's largest non-governmental organisation, [[BRAC (NGO)|BRAC]]<br /> * [[Amitabha Chowdhury]]<br /> * [[Zafrullah Chowdhury]]<br /> * [[Mahasweta Devi]]<br /> * [[Gour Kishore Ghosh]]<br /> * [[Angela Gomes]]<br /> * [[Syeda Rizwana Hasan]], attorney, [[Heroes of the Environment (2009)|Hero of the Environment]] and winner of the [[Goldman Environmental Prize]]<br /> * [[A.H.M. Noman Khan]]<br /> * [[Sombhu Mitra]]<br /> * [[Matiur Rahman (journalist)|Matiur Rahman]]<br /> * [[Satyajit Ray]]<br /> * [[Abdullah Abu Sayeed]]<br /> * [[Ravi Shankar]]<br /> * [[Muhammad Yunus]]<br /> <br /> ==Religion and spirituality==<br /> [[File:Swami vivekanand old archive.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|Swami Vivekananda in Bushnell Studio in San Francisco, 1900&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web |title=Swami Vivekananda Known Photos America 1899&amp;nbsp;– 1900 |url=http://vivekananda.net/photos/1899-1900TN/pages/san_francisco-1900-seated-4.htm |website=Swami Vivekananda |publisher=Frank Parlato Jr. |access-date=10 March 2012 |archive-date=15 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240115064155/http://vivekananda.net/photos/1899-1900TN/pages/san_francisco-1900-seated-4.htm |url-status=live }}&lt;/ref&gt;|alt=Image of Swami Vivekananda relaxing in a chair]]<br /> <br /> ===Brahmoism===<br /> &lt;!-- INSERT A PERSON INTO A SECTION ACCORDING TO ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY LAST NAME. --&gt;<br /> * [[Charulata Mukherjee]], women's rights activist and social worker from Calcutta, associated with [[Brahmo Samaj]] and [[All India Women's Conference]]<br /> * [[Ram Mohan Roy]], founder of the [[Brahmo Samaj]]<br /> * [[Keshub Chandra Sen]]<br /> * [[Debendranath Tagore]], social thinker and reformer, founder of the Brahmo Religion or [[Brahmoism]]<br /> <br /> ===Buddhism===<br /> &lt;!-- INSERT A PERSON INTO A SECTION ACCORDING TO ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY LAST NAME. --&gt;<br /> * [[Anagarika Munindra]] (1915–2003), [[vipassana]] meditation teacher, taught many notable meditation teachers including [[Dipa Ma]], [[Joseph Goldstein (writer)|Joseph Goldstein]], [[Sharon Salzberg]], and [[Surya Das]]<br /> * [[Bishuddhananda Mahathera]], a Buddhist scholar and monk<br /> * [[Jyotipal Mahathero]], a Buddhist monk and the 10th [[Sangharaja]] of Bangladeshi Buddhists<br /> <br /> ===Hinduism===<br /> &lt;!-- INSERT A PERSON INTO A SECTION ACCORDING TO ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY LAST NAME. --&gt;<br /> * [[Swami Abhedananda]] (Kaliprasad Chandra), monk, author, philosopher, occultist, reformer, founder of the Ramakrishna Vedanta Math<br /> * [[Advaita Acharya]], Vaishnava guru<br /> * [[Sri Aurobindo]], yogi, nationalist, philosopher, author, poet, visionary<br /> * [[Gaura Kisora dasa Babaji]], Vaishnava ascetic, mystic and recluse<br /> * [[Mahavatar Babaji]], yogi and tantrik master<br /> * [[Bamakhepa]] (Bamacharan Chattopadhyay), tantrik guru and mystic of Tarapith<br /> * [[Kamalakanta Bhattacharya (West Bengal)|Kamalakanta Bhattacharya]], Tantrik/Shakta saint and master, composer of Shakta devotional songs<br /> * [[Sri Chinmoy]], Indian spiritual master<br /> * [[Swami Satyananda Giri]] (Manamohan Mazumder), monk, preacher and yogi<br /> * [[Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri|Sri Yukteswar Giri]] (Priyanath Karar), yogi, educationist, astronomer, and astrologer<br /> * [[Nolini Kanta Gupta]], revolutionary, linguist, scholar, critic, poet, philosopher and mystic, the most senior of Sri Aurobindo's disciples, author of many books<br /> * [[Gopinath Kaviraj]], yogi, philosopher, spiritual master, tantrik scholar and author<br /> * [[Anandamoyi Ma]], mystic, spiritual teacher and Tantrik Guru<br /> * [[Chaitanya Mahaprabhu]], Vaishnava mystic, missionary, monk and social reformer<br /> * [[Acharya Srimat Swami Pranavanandaji Maharaj]], founder of [[Bharat Sevashram Sangha]]<br /> * [[Lahiri Mahasaya]] or Shyama Charan Lahiri, yogi, philosopher, the propagator of [[Kriya Yoga school|Kriya Yoga]]<br /> * [[Arjuna Miśra]], Sanskrit scholar and leading commentator on the Mahābhārata in the fifteenth century<br /> * [[Nirmalananda]], 19th century monk<br /> * [[Nityananda]], avadut mystic, social reformer, chief associate of Chaitanya, reincarnation of Balaram and a primary figure within the [[Gaudiya Vaishnava]] tradition of Bengal<br /> * [[Ramakrishna Paramahamsa]] (Gadadhar Chattopadhaya), mystic, preacher of Dakshineshwar<br /> * [[Nigamananda Paramahansa]], Saraswat, tantrik guru, vedantic scholar, author, yogi, mystic, philosopher, disciple of Bamakhepa, founder of several institutions<br /> * [[A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada]] (Abhay Charan Dey), Vaishnava missionary and theologian, founder of [[ISKCON]]<br /> * [[Pranavananda]], founder of [[Bharat Sevashram Sangha]]<br /> * [[Rani Rashmoni]], founder of [[Dakshineswar Kali Temple]], [[Kolkata]]<br /> * [[Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati]], Vaishnava missionary and theologian, founder of [[Gaudiya Math]]<br /> * [[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)<br /> * [[Ramprasad Sen]], tantrik master, mystic, famous as a composer of devotional songs to Goddess [[Kali]]<br /> * [[Bhaktivinoda Thakur]], Vaishnava missionary and theologian<br /> * [[Swami Vivekananda]] (Narendranath Datta), monk, missionary and social reformer, founder of the [[Ramakrishna Math]] and [[Ramakrishna Mission]]<br /> * [[Paramahansa Yogananda]], monk, philosopher, preacher, author, exponent of Kriya Yoga<br /> <br /> ===Islam===<br /> [[File:Shah Ahmad Shafi.jpg|thumb|right|Shah Ahmad Shafi in 2019]]<br /> [[File:Ajmal Masroor.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|[[Ajmal Masroor]] was nominated for the Religious Advocate of the Year award at the 2013 &amp; 2015 [[British Muslim Awards]].]]<br /> &lt;!-- INSERT A PERSON INTO A SECTION ACCORDING TO ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY LAST NAME. --&gt;<br /> * [[Mearajuddin Ahmad]] ({{circa|1890}}), author of Tufat al-Muslimin<br /> * [[Dudu Miyan|Muhsinuddin Ahmad]] (1819–1862), second leader of the [[Faraizi movement]]<br /> * [[Nesaruddin Ahmad]] (1873–1952), inaugural Pir of Sarsina and founder of Darussunnat Kamil Madrasa<br /> * [[Nur Qutb Alam]] (d. 1416), Islamic scholar involved in the [[Bengal-Jaunpur confrontation]] and pioneer of the [[Dobhashi]] tradition<br /> * [[Abu Saeed Muhammad Omar Ali]] (1945–2010), author, teacher and translator <br /> * [[Ayub Ali|Muhammad Ayyub Ali]] (1919–1995), former principal of [[Government Madrasah-e-Alia|Madrasah-e-Alia Dhaka]] and [[Sylhet Government Alia Madrasah|Sylhet Alia Madrasa]]<br /> * [[Ruhul Amin (mufti)|Ruhul Amin]] (born 1962), ''[[khatib]]'' of [[Baitul Mukarram National Mosque]]<br /> * [[Fazlul Haque Amini]] (1945–2012), former principal of [[Jamia Qurania Arabia Lalbagh]] and politician<br /> * [[Harun Babunagari]] (1902–1986), founding principal of [[Al-Jamiatul Islamiah Azizul Uloom Babunagar]]<br /> * [[Junaid Babunagari]] (1955–2021), former Amir of [[Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh|Hefazat-e-Islam]]<br /> * [[Muhibbullah Babunagari]] (born 1935), current Amir of [[Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh|Hefazat-e-Islam]]<br /> * [[Ahmed Ali Badarpuri]] (1915–2000), president of the Assam State Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind for over four decades<br /> * [[Muhammad Abdul Bari (academic)|Muhammad Abdul Bari]] (1930–2003), former vice-chancellor of the [[University of Rajshahi]]<br /> * [[Abdullah el Baqui|Muhammad Abdullahil Baqi]] (1886–1952), Islamic scholar, writer and politician<br /> * [[Mushahid Ahmad Bayampuri]] (1907–1971), scholar and member of [[3rd National Assembly of Pakistan]]<br /> * [[Abdul Wahid Bengali]] (1850–1905), co-founder of [[Al-Jamiatul Ahlia Darul Ulum Moinul Islam]]<br /> * [[Athar Ali Bengali]] (1891–1976), former president of [[Nizam-e-Islam Party]] <br /> * [[Shah Nuri Bengali]] (died 1785), Sufi scholar and author<br /> * [[Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani]] (1880–1976), founder of the [[Awami League|Awami Muslim League]] and [[The Daily Ittefaq]]<br /> * [[Qazi Mu'tasim Billah]] (1933–2013), former principal [[Jamia Shariyyah Malibagh, Dhaka|Jamia Shariyyah Malibagh]] and former professor at the [[University of Dhaka]]<br /> * [[Belayet Hossain Birbhumi]] (1887—1984), Islamic scholar, author and academic<br /> * [[Ashraf Ali Bishwanathi]] (1928–2005), former president of [[Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh]]<br /> * [[Abdul Halim Bukhari]] (born 1945), Islamic scholar and chancellor of [[Al Jamia Al Islamia Patiya]]<br /> * [[Abdur Rahman (scholar)]] (1920–2015), founder of [[Islamic Research Center Bangladesh]]<br /> * [[Abdus Salam Chatgami]] (1943–2021), former [[Grand Mufti]] in both [[Pakistan]] and [[Bangladesh]]<br /> * [[Ibrahim Chatuli]] (1894–1984), Education Minister of Assam and former member of parliament in Pakistan and Bangladesh<br /> * [[Moulana Abdul Jalil Choudhury|Abdul Jalil Choudhury]] (1925–1989), Islamic scholar and former MLA of [[Badarpur (Assam Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Badarpur]] and [[Algapur (Assam Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Algapur]]<br /> * [[Abdul Matin Chowdhury (scholar)|Abdul Matin Chowdhury]] (1915–1990), Shaykh of Fulbari and political activist<br /> * [[Farid Uddin Chowdhury]] (born 1947), principal of [[Shahjalal Jamia School]]<br /> * [[Najib Ali Choudhury]] ({{circa|1870}}), founder of the [[Madinatul Uloom Bagbari]] in South Assam<br /> * [[Izharul Islam Chowdhury]], founder of [[Jamiatul Uloom Al-Islamia Lalkhan Bazar]]<br /> * [[Shahinur Pasha Chowdhury]], vice-president of [[Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh|Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam]]<br /> * [[Ahmed Ali Enayetpuri]] (1898–1959), founder of Sariat-i-Islam newspaper<br /> * [[Khwaja Yunus Ali|Khwaja Yunus Ali Enayetpuri]] (1886–1951), founder of the Enayetpuri Sufi Darbar<br /> * [[Muhammad Faizullah]] (1892–1976), former teacher at [[Al-Jamiatul Ahlia Darul Ulum Moinul Islam]]<br /> * [[Abdul Haque Faridi]] (1903–1996), founder of the [[Islami Bishwakosh]] project<br /> * [[Shamsul Haque Faridpuri]] (1896–1969), founder of the [[Jamia Qurania Arabia Lalbagh]]<br /> * [[Nurul Islam Farooqi]] (died 2014), TV presenter assassinated by Islamic militants<br /> * [[Abdul Latif Chowdhury Fultali]] (1913–2008), founder of the Fultali movement and [[Darul Hadis Latifiah]]<br /> * [[Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib]] (born 1948), reformist and founder of [[Ahle Hadith Andolon Bangladesh]]<br /> * [[Nur Uddin Gohorpuri]] (1924–2005), chairman of [[Befaqul Madarisil Arabia Bangladesh]]<br /> * [[Tafazzul Haque Habiganji]] (1938–2020), former vice-president of [[Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh|Hefazat-e-Islam]] and [[Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh|Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam]]<br /> * [[Abdul Malek Halim]], founder of [[Al-Jamiatul Arabia Haildhar Madrasa]]<br /> * [[Obaidullah Hamzah]] (born 1972), current principal of [[Al Jamia Al Islamia Patiya]]<br /> * [[Alaul Haq]] (1301–1398), Islamic scholar entrusted with the Bengal Sultanate treasury<br /> * [[Ubaidul Haq]] (1928–2007), former [[khatib]] of [[Baitul Mukarram]]<br /> * [[Azizul Haq (scholar, born 1903)|Azizul Haq]] (1903–1961), founder of [[Al Jamia Al Islamia Patiya]]<br /> * [[Azizul Haque (scholar, born 1919)|Azizul Haque]] (1919–2012), first translator of [[Sahih Al-Bukhari]] into the [[Bengali language]]<br /> * [[Mahfuzul Haque]] (born 1969), Islamic scholar and politician<br /> * [[Mamunul Haque]] (born 1973), Islamic scholar and influential speaker<br /> * [[Mahmudul Hasan (scholar)|Mahmudul Hasan]] (born 1950), president of [[Al-Haiatul Ulya Lil-Jamiatil Qawmia Bangladesh]] and [[Befaqul Madarisil Arabia Bangladesh]]<br /> * [[Shah Ahmad Hasan]] (1882–1967), founder of [[Jiri Madrasa]]<br /> * [[A F M Khalid Hossain]] (born 1959), vice-president of [[Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh]]<br /> * [[Sayed Moazzem Hossain]] (1901–1991), former vice-chancellor of the [[University of Dhaka]] <br /> * [[Zohurul Hoque]] (1926–2017), translator of the Qur'an <br /> * [[Hafezzi Huzur]] (1895–1997), founder of the [[Bangladesh Khilafat Andolan]]<br /> * [[Abdul Momin Imambari]] (1930–2020), former president of [[Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh]]<br /> * [[Syed Muhammad Ishaq]] (1915–1977), founder of the Chormonai Darbar Sharif and [[Jamia Rashidia Ahsanabad]]<br /> * [[Shahidul Islam (Mufti)|Shahidul Islam]] (born 1960), founder of al-Markaz al-Islami<br /> * [[Maniruzzaman Islamabadi]] (1875–1950), journalist and founder of the [[Anjuman-i-Ulama-i-Bangala]]<br /> * [[Abdul Jabbar Jahanabadi]] (1937–2016), former secretary-general of [[Befaqul Madarisil Arabia Bangladesh]]<br /> * [[Khandaker Abdullah Jahangir]] (1961–2016), professor at [[Islamic University, Bangladesh]]<br /> * [[Abul Hasan Jashori]] (1918–1993), freedom fighter and founding principal of [[Jamia Ejazia Darul Uloom Jessore]]<br /> * [[Nurul Islam Jihadi]] (born 1948), secretary-general of [[Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh|Hefazat-e-Islam]]<br /> * [[Syed Faizul Karim]] (born 1973), senior vice-president of [[Islami Andolan Bangladesh|Islami Andolan]]<br /> * [[Syed Fazlul Karim]] (1935–2006), former Pir of Chormonai and founder of [[Islami Andolan Bangladesh|Islami Andolan]]<br /> * [[Syed Rezaul Karim]] (born 1971), current Pir of Chormonai and leader of [[Islami Andolan Bangladesh|Islami Andolan]]<br /> * [[Nur Hossain Kasemi]] (1945–2020), former secretary-general of [[Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh|Hefazat-e-Islam]]<br /> * [[Deen Muhammad Khan]] (1900–1974), co-founder of [[Jamia Qurania Arabia Lalbagh]]<br /> * [[Mohammad Akram Khan]] (1868–1969), founder of [[The Azad]]<br /> * [[Muhiuddin Khan]] (1935–2016), translator of the [[Qur'an]] and the [[Ma'ariful Qur'an]] exegesis<br /> * [[Abdul Hamid Madarshahi]] (1869–1920), co-founder of [[Darul Uloom Hathazari]]<br /> * [[Gulamur Rahman|Ghulamur Rahman Maizbhandari]] (1865–1937), 2nd Pir of Maizbhandari<br /> * [[Syed Ahmad Ullah|Syed Ahmadullah Maizbhandari]] (1826–1906), founder of the Maizbhandari Darbar<br /> * [[Maqsudullah]] (1883–1961), Deobandi scholar and Pir of Talgachhia Darbar Sharif<br /> * [[Ajmal Masroor]] (born 1971), British politician, imam and TV presenter<br /> * [[Abu Taher Misbah]] (born 1956), academic, author and founder of [[Madani Nesab]]<br /> * [[Sheikh Abdur Rahim|Abdur Rahim Muhammadpuri]] (1859–1931), Islamic writer<br /> * [[Munshi Mohammad Meherullah|Mohammad Meherullah]] (1861–1907), comparative religionist writer<br /> * [[Abdul Khaleque Mondal]] (born 1944), [[Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami|Jamaat-e-Islami]] politician and principal of [[Agardari Madrasa]]<br /> * [[Sultan Ahmad Nanupuri|Shah Sultan Ahmad Nanupuri]] (1914–1997), founding principal of [[Al-Jamiah Al-Islamiah Obaidia Nanupur]]<br /> * [[Saifur Rahman Nizami]] (born 1916), [[Ekushey Padak]] recipient<br /> * [[Shamsul Huda Panchbagi]] (1897–1988), founder of the Emarat Party and two-time member of the [[Bengal Legislative Assembly (1937—1947)|Bengal Legislative Assembly]] <br /> * [[Abdul Wahhab Pirji]] (1890–1976), scholar, educationist and founding principal of [[Jamia Hussainia Ashraful Uloom]], Bara Katara<br /> * [[Shamsuddin Qasemi]] (1935–1996), former secretary-general of [[Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh|Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam]]<br /> * [[Abdul Qayum (imam)|Abdul Qayum]] (born 1960), Chief Imam of the [[East London Mosque]]<br /> * [[Habibullah Qurayshi]] (1865–1934), co-founder of [[Al-Jamiatul Ahlia Darul Ulum Moinul Islam]]<br /> * [[Abdur Rahim (scholar)|Abdur Rahim]] (1918–1987), first leader of the [[Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami]]<br /> * [[Sajidur Rahman]] (born 1964), vice-president of [[Befaqul Madarisil Arabia Bangladesh]]<br /> * [[Oliur Rahman|Shah Waliur Rahman]] (1916–2006), Islamic scholar and female education activist<br /> * [[Abu Zafar Mohammad Saleh]] (1915–1990), [[Independence Award]] recipient<br /> * [[Muhammad Shahidullah]] (1885–1969), essayist and editor of the [[Islami Bishwakosh]]<br /> * [[Haji Shariatullah]] (1781–1840), founder of the [[Faraizi movement]]<br /> * [[Mohammad Abu Bakr Siddique]] (1865–1943), inaugural Pir of [[Furfura Sharif]]<br /> * [[Usman Serajuddin|Uthman Sirajuddin]] (1258–1357), Court Scholar of Bengal under the [[Ilyas Shahi]]s<br /> * [[Delwar Hossain Sayeedi]] (born 1940), Islamic scholar and former member of Bangladeshi parliament<br /> * [[Shah Ahmad Shafi]] (1916–2020), former Amir of [[Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh|Hefazat-e-Islam]]<br /> * [[Ibrahim Ali Tashna]] (1872–1931), Islamic scholar, poet and activist<br /> * [[Zia Uddin]] (born 1941), president of [[Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh]]<br /> * [[Ibrahim Ujani]] (1863–1943), Qur'an reciter and founder of [[Jamia Islamia Ibrahimia]]<br /> * [[Shah Abdul Wahhab (scholar, born 1894)|Shah Abdul Wahhab]] (1894–1982), second principal of [[Darul Uloom Hathazari]]<br /> * [[Muhammad Wakkas]] (1952–2021), former secretary-general of [[Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh|Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam]]<br /> * [[Nurul Islam Olipuri|Nurul Islam Walipuri]] (born 1955), [[mufassir]], teacher and author<br /> * [[Obaidul Haque|Obaidul Haque Wazirpuri]] (1934–2008), former co-president of Befaqul Madarisil Arabia Bangladesh<br /> * [[AKM Yusuf|Abul Kalam Muhammad Yusuf]] (1926–2014), former chairman of Darul-Arabia wa Darul-Ifta Bangladesh<br /> * [[Sayed Kamaluddin Zafree]] (born 1945), founder of the [[Bangladesh Islami University]]<br /> * [[Abubakar Muhammad Zakaria]] (born 1969), professor at [[Islamic University, Bangladesh]]<br /> * [[Shaikh Jamiruddin|Shaikh Zamiruddin]] (1870–1937), writer and revert to Islam<br /> <br /> ===Christianity===<br /> &lt;!-- INSERT A PERSON INTO A SECTION ACCORDING TO ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY LAST NAME. --&gt;<br /> * [[Kali Charan Banerjee]], lawyer and theologian, founder of the Calcutta Christo Samaj, member of the [[Indian National Congress]]<br /> * [[Krishna Mohan Banerjee]], Bengali philosopher and litterateur, President of the Bengal Christian Association<br /> * [[Puroshottam Choudhary]], preacher, evangelist, writer of [[Christian literature]]<br /> * [[Lal Behari Dey]], Indian journalist, writer, and Christian missionary<br /> * [[Patrick D'Rozario]], first Bangladeshi [[Cardinal (Catholic Church)|Cardinal]], [[Archbishop of Dhaka]]<br /> * [[Aurobindo Nath Mukherjee]], first Indian [[Anglican Diocese of Calcutta|Bishop of Calcutta]] and [[Metropolitan bishop|Metropolitan of India]]<br /> * [[Krishna Pal]], Bengali evangelist and missionary, first Bengali convert to Christianity under [[William Carey (missionary)|William Carey]]<br /> <br /> ===Other===<br /> * [[Ipsita Roy Chakraverti]]<br /> <br /> ==Freedom Fighters and Revolutionaries==<br /> &lt;!-- INSERT A PERSON INTO A SECTION ACCORDING TO ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY LAST NAME. --&gt;<br /> * [[Alimuddin Ahmad]]<br /> * [[Sri Aurobindo]]<br /> * [[Surendranath Banerjee]]<br /> * [[Abul Barkat]]<br /> * [[Benoy Basu]]<br /> * [[Basanta Kumar Biswas]]<br /> * [[Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee]]<br /> * [[Khudiram Bose]]<br /> * [[Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose]]<br /> * [[Rash Behari Bose]]<br /> * [[Sarat Chandra Bose]]<br /> * [[Prafulla Chaki]]<br /> * [[Ambika Chakrobarty]]<br /> * [[Panchanan Chakraborty]]<br /> * [[Amarendranath Chatterjee]]<br /> * [[Jogesh Chandra Chattopadhyay]]<br /> * [[Virendranath Chattopadhyaya]]<br /> * [[Bina Das]]<br /> * [[Chittaranjan Das]]<br /> * [[Jatindra Nath Das]]<br /> * [[Bhupendra Kumar Datta]]<br /> * [[Sushil Kumar Dhara]]<br /> * [[Batukeshwar Dutt]]<br /> * [[Bipin Behari Ganguli]]<br /> * [[Dwarkanath Ganguly]]<br /> * [[Barindra Kumar Ghosh]]<br /> * [[Jiban Ghoshal]]<br /> * [[Dinesh Gupta]]<br /> * [[Badal Gupta]]<br /> * [[Basanti Devi|Basanti Devi Haldar]]<br /> * [[Matangini Hazra]]<br /> * [[Kazi Nazrul Islam]]<br /> * [[Bagha Jatin]]<br /> * [[Hemchandra Kanungo]]<br /> * [[Revolt of Rajab Ali|Rajab Ali Khan]]<br /> * [[Syama Prasad Mookerjee]]<br /> * [[Jatindranath Mukherjee]]<br /> * [[Saroj Mukherjee]]<br /> * [[Sarojini Naidu]]<br /> * [[Bipin Chandra Pal]]<br /> * [[Anath Bondhu Panja]]<br /> * [[Sudhamoy Pramanick]]<br /> * [[Renuka Ray]]<br /> * [[B. C. Roy]]<br /> * [[Satish Chandra Samanta]]<br /> * [[Birendranath Sasmal]]<br /> * [[Narendra Mohan Sen]]<br /> * [[Surya Sen]]<br /> * [[Triguna Sen]]<br /> * [[Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy]]<br /> * [[Titumir]]<br /> * [[Pritilata Waddedar]]<br /> <br /> ==Science and technology==<br /> [[File:M N Saha, J C Bose, J C Ghosh, Snehamoy Dutt, S N Bose, D M Bose, N R Sen, J N Mukherjee, N C Nag.jpg|thumb|Seated (L to R): [[Meghnad Saha]], [[Jagadish Chandra Bose]], [[Jnan Chandra Ghosh]].<br /> Standing (L to R): Snehamoy Dutt, [[Satyendranath Bose]], [[Debendra Mohan Bose]], N R Sen, [[Jnanendra Nath Mukherjee]], N C Nag.<br /> ]]&lt;!-- INSERT A PERSON INTO A SECTION ACCORDING TO ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY LAST NAME. --&gt;<br /> <br /> ===Physicists===<br /> &lt;!-- INSERT A PERSON INTO A SECTION ACCORDING TO ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY LAST NAME. --&gt;<br /> * [[Ahsan Ali (physician)|Ahsan Ali]], doctor, physician and researcher<br /> * [[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<br /> * [[Srikumar Banerjee]], director of [[Bhabha Atomic Research Centre|BARC]] and [[Atomic Energy Commission of India|AECI]]<br /> * [[Mani Lal Bhaumik]], physicist, helped develop the first excimer laser at the [[University of California]]<br /> * [[Debendra Mohan Bose]], physicist, made contributions in the field of [[cosmic rays]], artificial radioactivity and neutron physics<br /> * [[Jagadish Chandra Bose]], physicist, radio and wireless transmission pioneer, also did substantial work on botany<br /> * [[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<br /> * [[Swapan Chattopadhyay]], particle accelerator physicist, contributed to the development of many accelerators around the world, e.g. the [[Super Proton Synchrotron|Super Proton-Antiproton Synchrotron]], the [[Large Hadron Collider]] at [[CERN]], and the [[Advanced Light Source]] at [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]]<br /> * [[Swapan K. Gayen|Swapan Kumar Gain]], Bengali-American physicist, professor of Physics at the [[City University of New York]]<br /> * [[Amitabha Ghosh (planetary geologist)|Amitabha Ghosh]], only Asian on NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission<br /> * [[Dipan Ghosh]], theoretical physicist, known for [[Majumdar–Ghosh model]]<br /> * [[Hiranmay Sen Gupta]], physicist, has published around 200 research papers in various international journals<br /> * [[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<br /> * [[Mohammad Ataul Karim]], known for contributions to the fields of electro-optical devices and systems, optical computing and processing, and pattern recognition<br /> * [[Ashesh Prasad Mitra]], performed major work in the field of the Earth's near-space environment, through group based and space techniques<br /> * [[Sisir Kumar Mitra]], physicist, pioneer in the investigations of ionosphere, the [[Mitra (crater)|Mitra]] crater on the [[Moon]] is named after him<br /> * [[Bedabrata Pain]], co-inventor of CMOS image sensor, also an award-winning filmmaker<br /> * [[Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri]], physicist, known for his contributions to relativity and cosmology including [[Raychaudhuri's equation]]<br /> * [[Somak Raychaudhury]], [[astrophysicist]] and observational [[cosmologist]], Director, [[Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics]]<br /> * [[Subrata Roy (scientist)|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]]<br /> * [[Meghnad Saha]], physicist, produced the Thermo-Ionization Equation or [[Saha Equation]]<br /> * [[Ashoke Sen]], physicist, known for his contributions to [[string theory]], co-discovered [[S-duality]]<br /> * [[Bikash Sinha]], former director of [[Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics|SINP]] and Padmabhusan awardee<br /> <br /> ===Biologists===<br /> &lt;!-- INSERT A PERSON INTO A SECTION ACCORDING TO ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY LAST NAME. --&gt;<br /> * [[Maqsudul Alam]], scientist and professor, achieved four milestones in genomics - sequencing the genomes of papaya, rubber plants, jute and fungus<br /> * [[Gopal Chandra Bhattacharya]], known for his pioneering work on social insects and the role of bacteria in metamorphosis<br /> * [[Sharmila Bhattacharya]], head of the Biomodel Performance and Behavior laboratory at [[NASA Ames Research Center]]<br /> * [[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<br /> * [[Maharani Chakravorty]], organized the first laboratory course on recombinant DNA techniques in Asia and Far East in 1981<br /> * [[Biraja Sankar Guha]], first director of [[Anthropological Survey of India]]<br /> * [[Jahangir Alam Khan]], agricultural economist and researcher<br /> * [[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<br /> * [[Swadhin Kumar Mandal]], [[Alexander von Humboldt Fellow]] and [[Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award]] winner<br /> * [[Panchanan Mitra]], first professor of anthropology in India, among the first Indians to study at [[Yale University]]<br /> * [[Mohammad Hossain Mondol]], director-general of [[Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute]] <br /> * [[Sarat Chandra Roy]], widely regarded as the ''father of Indian ethnography'', the ''first Indian ethnographer'', and as the ''first Indian anthropologist''<br /> * [[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<br /> * [[Dwijen Sharma]], naturalist and science writer <br /> * [[Sourindra Mohan Sircar]], One of the greatest Indian botanist, was also the General President of [[Indian Science Congress Association]]<br /> <br /> ===Geologists===<br /> &lt;!-- INSERT A PERSON INTO A SECTION ACCORDING TO ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY LAST NAME. --&gt;<br /> * [[Pramatha Nath Bose]], one of the early Indians to join [[Geological Survey of India]]<br /> * [[Nibir Mandal]], known for studies on the evolution of geological structures, [[Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award]] winner <br /> * [[Sharat Kumar Roy]], Indian geologist and adventurer, first Indian to set foot in North Pole<br /> * [[Sudipta Sengupta]], Indian geologist and one of the first Indian Women to set foot on [[Antarctica]]<br /> * [[M. A. Zaher (geologist)|M. A. Zaher]], director-general of the [[Geological Survey of Bangladesh]]<br /> <br /> ===Chemists===<br /> [[File:Suttar 006.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|[[Abdus Suttar Khan]] invented more than forty different alloys for commercial application in space shuttles, jet engines, train engines and industrial gas turbines.]]<br /> &lt;!-- INSERT A PERSON INTO A SECTION ACCORDING TO ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY LAST NAME. --&gt;<br /> * [[Sadhan Basu]], Palit professor at Calcutta University and Bhatnagar Award, CV Raman recipient<br /> * [[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<br /> * [[Jnan Chandra Ghosh]], chemist, known for anomaly of strong electrolytes<br /> * [[Abul Hussam]], chemist, inventor of [[Sono arsenic filter]] and the gold winner of the 2007 Grainger Challenge Prize for Sustainability<br /> * [[Abdus Suttar Khan]], chemist, inventor of alloys for use in commercial jets, U.S. fighter planes, gas turbines, train engines, and space shuttles<br /> * [[Nurul Haque Miah]], chemist, former professor at [[Dhaka College]], textbook author<br /> * [[Jnanendra Nath Mukherjee]], chemist, specialised in the fields of electrochemistry, colloids and soil science<br /> * [[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 &amp; Pharmaceuticals, India's first pharmaceutical company<br /> <br /> ===Doctors and physicians===<br /> &lt;!-- INSERT A PERSON INTO A SECTION ACCORDING TO ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY LAST NAME. --&gt;<br /> * [[Shamsuddin Ahmed (surgeon)|Shamsuddin Ahmed]], medical doctor martyred in the [[Bangladesh Liberation War]]<br /> * [[Dr. R. Ahmed Dental College and Hospital#Dr. R. Ahmed (1890–1965)|Rafiuddin Ahmed]], dentist, founder of the first dental college of India and Bengal Dental Association, which later became [[Indian Dental Association]]<br /> *[[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.<br /> * [[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<br /> * [[Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty|Surjo Kumar Chakraborty]], India's first graduate in medicine<br /> * [[Kadambini Ganguly]], one of the first two Indian women who trained in Western medicine<br /> * [[Jogesh Chandra Ghosh]], pioneer of modern [[Ayurvedic]] medicine<br /> * [[Siddhartha Mukherjee]], physician, scientist and writer, author of ''The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer'', which won the [[Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction]] in 2011<br /> * [[Subhash Mukhopadhyay (physician)|Subhash Mukhopadhyay]], physician, first physician in India and second in the world to perform in vitro fertilization<br /> * [[Shuvo Roy]], scientist and inventor of implantable artificial kidney<br /> * [[Mamtaz Sanghamita|Syeda Mamtaz Sanghamita]] (born 1946), gynaecologist<br /> * [[Mahendralal Sarkar]], homeopath and founder of the [[Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science]]<br /> * [[Hassan Suhrawardy]], second Muslim from the sub-continent to become a Fellow of the [[Royal College of Surgeons of England]]<br /> <br /> ===Mathematicians===<br /> &lt;!-- INSERT A PERSON INTO A SECTION ACCORDING TO ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY LAST NAME. --&gt;<br /> * [[Debabrata Basu]], founded [[Basu's theorem]]<br /> * [[Anil Kumar Bhattacharya]], known for [[Bhattacharya coefficient]], and the [[Bhattacharya distance]]<br /> * [[Raj Chandra Bose]], known for [[Association scheme]], [[Bose–Mesner algebra]] and [[Leonhard Euler|Euler's conjecture]]<br /> * [[Sourav Chatterjee]], specialised in mathematical statistics and [[probability]], professor at [[Stanford University]]<br /> * [[Anil Kumar Gain]], mathematician and statistician, professor at [[University of Cambridge]] as well as a [[Fellow of the Royal Society]]<br /> * [[Jayanta Kumar Ghosh]], known for Bahadur-Ghosh-Kiefer representation and [[Ghosh-Pratt identity]]<br /> * [[Anadi Sankar Gupta]], specialised in [[fluid dynamics]] and [[magnetohydrodynamics]] notably on [[heat transfer]] in free convection flow in the presence of [[magnetic field]]<br /> * [[Qazi Azizul Haque]], pioneered the mathematical formula for [[Henry Classification System]] of fingerprinting<br /> * [[Khandkar Manwar Hossain]], Bangladeshi statistician, founder of The Department of Statistics of [[University of Rajshahi|Rajshahi University]]<br /> * [[Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis]], best remembered for the [[Mahalanobis distance]] (a statistical measure), founder of [[Indian Statistical Institute]] (ISI)<br /> * [[Samarendra Kumar Mitra]], designed, developed and constructed India's first indigenous computer (an electronic [[analog computer]]) in ISI<br /> * [[Syamadas Mukhopadhyaya]], introduced the [[four-vertex theorem]] and Mukhopadhyaya's theorem in eucliden geometry<br /> * [[A. N. M. Muniruzzaman (statistician)|ANM Muniruzzaman]], Bangladeshi statistician died in [[Bangladesh Liberation War]]<br /> * [[Ritabrata Munshi]], specialised in number theory, graduate student of [[Andrew Wiles]]<br /> * [[Dijen K. Ray-Chaudhuri]], known for [[BCH code]], professor [[:wikt:emeritus|emeritus]] at [[Ohio State University]]<br /> * [[Samarendra Nath Roy]], known for [[multivariate analysis]]<br /> * [[Sucharit Sarkar]], Indian [[topologist]] and IMO gold medallist<br /> * [[Radhanath Sikdar]], calculated the height of [[Mount Everest]]<br /> <br /> ===Technologists===<br /> &lt;!-- INSERT A PERSON INTO A SECTION ACCORDING TO ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY LAST NAME. --&gt;<br /> * [[Shubham Banerjee]], inventor of [[Braigo]]; at 12 years old (2014) became the youngest entrepreneur to receive [[venture capital]] funding<br /> * [[Shuman Ghosemajumder]], co-founder of [[TeachAids]], former click fraud czar at Google<br /> * [[Jawed Karim]], software engineer, co-founder of YouTube, early employee of [[PayPal]]<br /> * [[Samarendra Kumar Mitra]], designed, developed, and constructed India's first indigenous computer in 1953 (an electronic analog computer)<br /> <br /> ===Architects, archaeologists and engineers===<br /> &lt;!-- INSERT A PERSON INTO A SECTION ACCORDING TO ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY LAST NAME. --&gt;<br /> * [[Jalal Ahmad]] (born 1959), president of the [[Institute of Architects Bangladesh]], vice-president of the [[Commonwealth Association of Architects]]<br /> * [[Sultanuddin Ahmed]], engineer martyred during the [[Bangladesh Liberation War]] <br /> * [[Vidyadhar Bhattacharya]] (1693–1751), the chief architect and city planner of [[Jaipur]], Rajasthan;&lt;ref name=&quot;Jaipur history&quot;&gt;{{cite web|url=http://jaipur.nic.in/profile.htm |title=Jaipur&amp;nbsp;— The Pink City |access-date=5 July 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717033304/http://jaipur.nic.in/profile.htm |archive-date=17 July 2011}}&lt;/ref&gt; with [[Sir Samuel Swinton Jacob]], he is credited as the architect of [[City Palace, Jaipur]]<br /> * [[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<br /> * [[Saiman Miah]] (born 1986), architectural and graphic designer, designed one of the two £5 [[commemorative coins]] for the [[2012 Summer Olympics]].<br /> * [[M Harunur Rashid (archaeologist)|M Harunur Rashid]], archaeologist, educationist and museum curator<br /> * [[Abul Kalam Mohammed Zakaria]], archaeologist<br /> <br /> ==Social reformers and position holders==<br /> [[File:Sir Fazle Hasan Abed receives Thomas Francis, Jr. Medal.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.6|Sir [[Fazle Hasan Abed]] [[Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George|KCMG]] receiving the Thomas Francis Jr Medal in Global Public Health award from the University of Michigan (April 2016)]]<br /> &lt;!-- INSERT A PERSON INTO A SECTION ACCORDING TO ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY LAST NAME. --&gt;<br /> * [[Fazle Hasan Abed]] &lt;small&gt;[[Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George|KCMG]]&lt;/small&gt;, founder of the world's largest non-governmental organisation, [[BRAC (NGO)|BRAC]]<br /> * [[Syed Ameer Ali]], law reformer<br /> * [[Rawshan Ara Bachchu]], woman rights activist and part of the [[Bengali language movement]]<br /> * [[Kalyan Banerjee (Rotary International)|Kalyan Banerjee]], former president of [[Rotary International]]<br /> * [[Syeda Shahar Banu]], woman rights activist and part of the [[Bengali language movement]]<br /> * [[The Honourable]] [[Doctor of Philosophy|Doctor]] [[Muhammad Abdul Bari]] &lt;small&gt;[[Member of the Order of the British Empire|MBE]] [[Deputy Lieutenant|DL]] [[List of Fellows of the Royal Society of Arts|FRSA]] [[Esquire|Esq.]]&lt;/small&gt;, 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]]<br /> * [[Khuda Buksh]], pioneer of life insurance in Bangladesh<br /> * [[Malati Choudhury]], Indian civil rights activist, freedom activist and Gandhian<br /> * [[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]]<br /> * [[Zobeda Khanom Chowdhury]], woman rights activist and part of the [[Bengali language movement]]<br /> * [[Anil Kumar Gain]], founder of [[Vidyasagar University]] and President of the [[Indian Science Congress]]<br /> * [[P. C. Haldar |Pradyot Chandra Haldar]], Former [[Director of the Intelligence Bureau]] of India<br /> * [[Azizul Haque (educator)|Sir Azizul Haque]], lawyer, writer, educator and public servant<br /> * [[Roquia Sakhawat Hussain]], prolific writer, important women's rights activist and social worker, early [[feminist science fiction]] writer<br /> * [[Nasreen Pervin Huq]], women's rights activist<br /> * [[Sayeed Iskander]], founding chairman of [[Islamic TV]] and former army major of Bangladesh<br /> * [[Irene Khan]], former Secretary General of [[Amnesty International]] and first woman, first Asian, and first Muslim to hold the position<br /> * [[Osman Ghani Khan]], former chairman of the United Nations Board of Auditors, first Bangladeshi to hold a UN post.<br /> * [[Taiyaba Majumder]], recipient of the [[Begum Rokeya Padak]] for contributions to women's rights and economic development<br /> * [[Muhammad Mohsin]], philanthropist and founder of [[Hooghly Mohsin College]]<br /> * [[Mohua Mukherjee]], social activist and author<br /> * [[Audri Mukhopadhyay]], diplomat and economist<br /> * [[Renuka Ray]], freedom fighter and social activist<br /> * [[Bunker Roy]], social activist and educator who founded the Barefoot College, selected as one of Time's 100 most influential personalities in 2010<br /> * [[Manabendra Nath Roy]], pioneer Indian Bengali revolutionary philosopher, founder of the [[Mexican Communist Party]] and the [[Indian Communist Party]]<br /> * [[Harichand Thakur]], founder of [[Matua Mahasangha]]<br /> * [[Binay Ranjan Sen]], former director general of the [[Food and Agriculture Organization]]<br /> * [[Keshub Chunder Sen]], intellectual, religious reformer<br /> * [[Muhammad Shahidullah]], educationist, writer, polyglot, philologist and linguist<br /> * [[Romola Sinha]], women's rights and social activist, founder member of [[All Bengal Women's Union]]<br /> * [[Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar]], responsible for introducing major reforms in the educational system and women's rights activist<br /> <br /> ==Sports==<br /> [[File:Brojen das.jpg|upright=0.6|thumb|[[Brojen Das]] was the first Bengali to swim across the English Channel.]]<br /> &lt;!-- INSERT A PERSON INTO A SECTION ACCORDING TO ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY LAST NAME. --&gt;<br /> <br /> ===Administrators===<br /> *[[Sourav Ganguly]], President of [[Board of Control for Cricket in India]] and former Indian cricket team captain, Padma Shri awardee<br /> <br /> ===Athletics===<br /> &lt;!-- INSERT A PERSON INTO A SECTION ACCORDING TO ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY LAST NAME. --&gt;<br /> * [[Mohamed Mahbub Alam]], [[South Asian Games]] gold medalist sprinter<br /> * [[Swapna Barman]], heptathlon athlete<br /> * [[Soma Biswas]], heptathlon athlete<br /> * [[Shanta Ghosh]], retired German sprinter who specialized in the 400 meters<br /> * [[Mohan Khan]], Olympic sprinter<br /> * [[Rahamatulla Molla]], track athlete<br /> * [[Beauty Nazmun Nahar]], Olympic sprinter from Bangladesh<br /> * [[Hari Shankar Roy]], Indian track and field athlete<br /> * [[Saraswati Saha]], Indian former track and field sprinter<br /> * [[Jyotirmoyee Sikdar]], athletics, double gold-medallist in track at Asian games, recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award and Padma Shri award<br /> <br /> ===Archery===<br /> &lt;!-- INSERT A PERSON INTO A SECTION ACCORDING TO ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY LAST NAME. --&gt;<br /> * [[Dola Banerjee]], Indian female archer<br /> * [[Rahul Banerjee (archer)|Rahul Banerjee]], Indian archer<br /> * [[Krishna Das (archer)|Krishna Das]], former Indian archer<br /> * [[Ruman Shana]], Bangladeshi archer, won gold in SA games 2019<br /> * [[Jayanta Talukdar]], archer<br /> <br /> ===Badminton===<br /> &lt;!-- INSERT A PERSON INTO A SECTION ACCORDING TO ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY LAST NAME. --&gt;<br /> * [[Dipu Ghosh]], former badminton player<br /> * [[Raman Ghosh]], former badminton player<br /> * [[Manoj Sarkar]], para badminton player and bronze medalist at the [[2020 Paralympic Games]], Tokyo<br /> <br /> ===Bodybuilding, boxing, rugby and wrestling===<br /> &lt;!-- INSERT A PERSON INTO A SECTION ACCORDING TO ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY LAST NAME. --&gt;<br /> * [[Manohar Aich]], bodybuilder<br /> * [[Tameer Anwar]], bodybuilder, Mister Bangladesh<br /> * [[Laxman Das]], wrestler and weight lifter<br /> * [[Sukhen Dey (weightlifter)|Sukhen Dey]], weightlifter<br /> * [[Ambika Charan Guha]], Indian wrestler who pioneered the growth of Akhada culture in Bengal<br /> * [[Gobar Guha]], Indian wrestler and practitioner of Pehlwani<br /> * [[Bulbul Hussain]], [[wheelchair rugby]] player for Kent Crusaders and the [[Great Britain at the Paralympics|Great Britain Paralympic team]]<br /> * [[Ali Jacko|Abdul Ali Jacko]], two-time world lightweight kick-boxing champion<br /> * [[Mohammed Ali Qamar]], gold-medallist boxer<br /> * [[Reba Rakshit]], Indian female bodybuilder and exponent of yoga<br /> * [[Monotosh Roy]], Indian bodybuilder, first Bengali to be awarded the Mr. Universe title<br /> * [[Paresh Lal Roy]], known as the &quot;father of Indian boxing&quot;<br /> * [[Asit Kumar Saha]], wrestler and wrestling coach<br /> * [[Sudhir Saha]], wrestler, coach and wrestling administrator in India, introduced Greco-Roman wrestling in India<br /> <br /> ===Chess===<br /> &lt;!-- INSERT A PERSON INTO A SECTION ACCORDING TO ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY LAST NAME. --&gt;<br /> * [[Dibyendu Barua]], Indian chess grandmaster<br /> * [[Surya Shekhar Ganguly]], Indian grandmaster<br /> * [[Rani Hamid]], awarded the FIDE Woman International Master (WIM) title in 1985<br /> * [[Enamul Hossain]], Bangladeshi grandmaster<br /> * [[Niaz Morshed]], chess player from Bangladesh, first chess [[grandmaster (chess)|grandmaster]] to emerge from the [[Indian subcontinent]]<br /> * [[Ziaur Rahman]], Bangladeshi grandmaster<br /> * [[Abdullah Al Rakib|Mollah Abdullah Al Rakib]], Bangladeshi grandmaster<br /> <br /> ===Cricket===<br /> &lt;!-- INSERT A PERSON INTO A SECTION ACCORDING TO ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY LAST NAME. --&gt;<br /> * [[Aftab Ahmed (cricketer, born 1985)|Aftab Ahmed]], former Bangladeshi cricketer<br /> * [[Nasum Ahmed]], bowler for [[Bangladesh national cricket team|Bangladesh]]<br /> * [[Taskin Ahmed]], Bangladeshi bowler<br /> * [[Amit Ali]], cricketer for [[Tripura cricket team|Tripura]]<br /> * [[Mohammad Ashraful]], Bangladeshi cricketer, youngest centurion in test cricket<br /> * [[Tapash Baishya]], Bangladeshi cricketer<br /> * [[Vikram Banerjee]], English cricketer<br /> * [[Gargi Banerji]], former Indian Women cricketer, holds international records<br /> * [[Habibul Bashar]], former Bangladeshi cricketer<br /> * [[Gopal Bose]], former Indian ODI player<br /> * [[Ranadeb Bose]], Indian cricketer<br /> * [[Utpal Chatterjee]], former Indian cricketer<br /> * [[Nirode Chowdhury]], former Indian Test cricketer and pace bowler<br /> * [[Liton Das]], Bangladeshi cricketer<br /> * [[Deep Dasgupta]], former Indian national cricket team wicket-keeper<br /> * [[Rumeli Dhar]], cricketer, Indian women's cricket team<br /> * [[Ashok Dinda]], Indian cricket team player<br /> * [[Nikhil Dutta]], Canadian cricketer<br /> * [[Sourav Ganguly]], former Indian cricket team captain, Padma Shri awardee<br /> * [[Dhiman Ghosh]], Bangladeshi cricketer<br /> * [[Pinak Ghosh]], Bangladeshi cricketer<br /> * [[Jhulan Goswami]], Indian woman cricketer, awarded ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year 2007<br /> * [[Isa Guha]], English women's team cricketer<br /> * [[Subrata Guha]], former Indian Test cricketer<br /> * [[Mominul Haque]], Bangladeshi cricketer, has the highest test batting average and century by a Bangladeshi batsman<br /> * [[Shakib Al Hasan]], Bangladeshi cricketer<br /> * [[Shuvagata Hom]], Bangladeshi cricketer<br /> * [[Rubel Hossain]], Bangladeshi cricketer<br /> * [[Shahadat Hossain]], Bangladeshi cricketer<br /> * [[Tamim Iqbal]], Bangladeshi cricketer<br /> * [[Taijul Islam]], Bangladeshi bowler<br /> * [[Mustafa Kamal (politician)|Mustafa Kamal]], former president of [[Bangladesh Cricket Board]]<br /> * [[Alok Kapali]], former Bangladeshi cricketer<br /> * [[Kamal Mondal|Kamal Hasan Mondal]], Indian cricketer<br /> * [[Lata Mondal]], Bangladeshi woman cricketer<br /> * [[Saradindu Mukherjee]], former Indian cricketer<br /> * [[Mithu Mukherjee (cricketer)|Mithu Mukherjee]], former Indian women's cricket team player<br /> * [[Nazmul Hassan Papon]], president of [[Bangladesh Cricket Board]]<br /> * [[Mushfiqur Rahim]], Bangladeshi cricketer<br /> * [[Arafat Rahman]], former chairman of the Development Committee of [[Bangladesh Cricket Board]]<br /> * [[Mahmudullah Riyad]], Bangladeshi cricketer<br /> * [[Pankaj Roy]], former Indian cricket captain, known for establishing the world record opening partnership of 413 runs against New Zealand<br /> * [[Pranab Roy]], former Test cricketer for India Championship (1983, 1985, 1989)<br /> * [[Priyanka Roy]], former cricketer of Indian women's cricket team<br /> * [[Subashis Roy]], Bangladeshi cricketer<br /> * [[Wriddhiman Saha]], Indian cricket player<br /> * [[Soumya Sarkar]], Bangladeshi cricketer<br /> * [[Probir Sen]], former Indian Test cricketer/wicket-keeper<br /> * [[Parvez Sultan]], cricketer for [[Tripura cricket team|Tripura]]<br /> * [[Rony Talukdar]], Bangladeshi cricketer<br /> * [[Jahan Uddin (cricketer)|Jahan Uddin]], cricketer for [[Sikkim cricket team|Sikkim]]<br /> * [[Javed Zaman]], cricketer for [[Railways cricket team|Railways]]<br /> <br /> ===Football===<br /> [[File:Hamza Choudhury 2021.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Hamza Choudhury]] playing for [[Leicester City F.C.]] in 2021.]]<br /> &lt;!-- INSERT A PERSON INTO A SECTION ACCORDING TO ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY LAST NAME. --&gt;<br /> <br /> * [[Alfaz Ahmed]], former footballer for [[Bangladesh national football team|Bangladesh]]<br /> * [[Tarif Akhand]], defender for [[Punjab FC]]<br /> * [[Faisal Ali (footballer)|Faisal Ali]], former winger for [[Mohammedan SC (Kolkata)]]<br /> * [[Rahim Ali]], forward for [[India national football team|India]]<br /> * [[P. K. Banerjee|Pradip Kumar Banerjee]], footballer, named Indian Footballer of the 20th Century by [[FIFA]]<br /> * [[Prasun Banerjee]], former Indian national football player, [[Arjuna award]] winner<br /> * [[Samar Banerjee]], Indian footballer, Captain of Indian team in 1956 Olympic<br /> * [[Sibdas Bhaduri]], captained [[Mohun Bagan]] in the historic 1911 [[IFA Shield|IFA Shield Final]], where they defeated the [[East Yorkshire Regiment]], 2–1<br /> * [[Arindam Bhattacharya (footballer)|Arindam Bhattacharya]], Indian national football player<br /> * [[Karuna Bhattacharya]], Indian footballer, member of 1938 Australia touring side<br /> * [[Lal Kamal Bhowmik]], Indian footballer<br /> * [[Subhash Bhowmick]], former Indian international football player<br /> * [[Subhasish Bose]], Indian national football player<br /> * [[Ashok Chatterjee]], Indian footballer<br /> * [[Sudip Chatterjee (footballer)|Sudip Chatterjee]], footballer, considered among the finest in Indian football, declared AIFF player of the decade in 1994<br /> * [[Hamza Choudhury]], [[midfielder]] for English football club [[Leicester City F.C.]]<br /> * [[Yeamin Ahmed Chowdhury Munna|Yeamin Chowdhury]], footballer for [[Chittagong Abahani]]<br /> * [[Narayan Das (footballer)|Narayan Das]], Indian national football player<br /> * [[Krishanu Dey]], footballer, known as the &quot;Indian Maradona&quot;<br /> * [[Robin Dutt]], former manager of [[Bundesliga]] club [[Werder Bremen]], current representative for sport of [[VfB Stuttgart]]<br /> * [[S. K. Faiaz]], winger for [[Mohammedan SC (Kolkata)]]<br /> * [[Chuni Goswami]], former Indian Footballer, Padma Shri awardee, awarded the best striker of Asia in 1962<br /> * [[Pronay Halder]], Indian national football player<br /> * [[Kaiser Hamid]], former footballer for [[Mohammedan Sporting Club (Bangladesh)|Mohammedan S.C.]]<br /> * [[Mehtab Hossain]], former Indian national football player<br /> * [[S. M. Kaiser]], olympic footballer and midfielder for [[East Bengal Club]]<br /> * [[Pritam Kotal]], Indian national football player<br /> * [[Azharuddin Mallick]], forward for [[Delhi FC]]<br /> * [[Samad Ali Mallick]], defender for [[Mohammedan SC (Kolkata)]]<br /> * [[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<br /> * [[Manoj Mohammed]], defender for [[Hyderabad FC]]<br /> * [[Surabuddin Mollick]], midfielder<br /> * [[Arnab Mondal]], Indian national football player<br /> * [[Deepak Mondal|Deepak Kumar Mondal]], footballer and [[Arjuna award]] winner<br /> * [[Habibur Rehman Mondal]], former defender for [[Mohammedan SC (Kolkata)]]<br /> * [[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<br /> * [[Syed Nayeemuddin]], former captain for [[India national football team|India]]<br /> * [[Santosh Nandy]], Indian footballer, Olympian<br /> * [[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<br /> * [[Subrata Paul]], Indian national football player, first Indian goalkeeper to play professionally for a foreign club in 1st division<br /> * [[Mohammed Rafique (footballer)|Mohammed Rafique]], former midfielder for [[East Bengal Club]]<br /> * [[Safiul Rahaman]], defender for [[Mohammedan SC (Kolkata)]]<br /> * [[Mahbubur Rahman Sufil|Mahbubur Rahman]], footballer and captain of [[Arambagh KS]]<br /> * [[Mohammed Rahmatullah]], forward for [[India national football team|India]]<br /> * [[Mohammed Salim (footballer)|Mohammed Salim]], first Indian footballer to play overseas (in 1936 for the Scottish Club [[Celtic F.C.]])<br /> * [[Sukumar Samajpati]], Indian footballer, 1964 Asian Cup team member<br /> * [[Rafique Ali Sardar]], former goalkeeper for [[Mohammedan SC (Kolkata)]]<br /> * [[Gautam Sarkar]], ex-footballer, having represented [[SC East Bengal]]<br /> * [[Jewel Raja Shaikh]], Indian national football player<br /> * [[Shamit Shome]], first [[Bengalis|Bengali]] origin player in [[Major League Soccer]]<br /> * [[Neil Taylor (footballer)|Neil Taylor]], Welsh footballer of half-[[Bengalis|Bengali]] origin<br /> * [[Runu Guha Thakurta]], Indian footballer, Olympian<br /> * [[Anwar Uddin]], former defender for [[West Ham United]] and founder of [[Sporting Bengal United F.C.]]<br /> &lt;!-- INSERT A PERSON INTO A SECTION ACCORDING TO ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY LAST NAME. --&gt;<br /> <br /> ===Golf and snooker===<br /> &lt;!-- INSERT A PERSON INTO A SECTION ACCORDING TO ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY LAST NAME. --&gt;<br /> * [[Anirban Lahiri]]<br /> * [[Hammad Miah]], professional snooker player<br /> * [[Siddikur Rahman]], Olympic and Asian Tour golfer of Bangladesh<br /> <br /> ===Gymnastics===<br /> * [[Mabia Akhter]], Commonwealth gold medalist, South Asian Games gold medalist<br /> * [[Dipa Karmakar]], first Indian woman gymnast to qualify for the Olympics<br /> * [[Margarita Mamun]], Russian gymnast of half-Bangladeshi origin<br /> * [[Pranati Nayak]], second Indian women gymnast to qualify for the Olympics<br /> <br /> ===Cycling and mountaineering===<br /> &lt;!-- INSERT A PERSON INTO A SECTION ACCORDING TO ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY LAST NAME. --&gt;<br /> * [[Ramnath Biswas]], soldier and writer best known for circumnavigating the globe by bicycle.<br /> * [[Chhanda Gayen|Chhanda Gain]]<br /> * [[Musa Ibrahim]], first Bangladeshi to scale [[Mount Everest]]<br /> * [[Nishat Majumdar]], first Bangladeshi woman to scale Mount Everest<br /> * [[Asim Mukhopadhyay]]<br /> * [[Wasfia Nazreen]], second Bangladeshi woman to scale Mount Everest<br /> * [[Akke Rahman]], first British Muslim/Bengali to scale Mount Everest<br /> <br /> === Shooting ===<br /> <br /> * [[Joydeep Karmakar]], Olympian and [[Arjuna Award]]&lt;nowiki/&gt;ee<br /> * [[Mehuli Ghosh]], Olympian<br /> <br /> ===Squash===<br /> &lt;!-- INSERT A PERSON INTO A SECTION ACCORDING TO ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY LAST NAME. --&gt;<br /> * [[Ritwik Bhattacharya]]<br /> * [[Saurav Ghosal]], highest-ranked Indian player<br /> <br /> ===Swimming===<br /> &lt;!-- INSERT A PERSON INTO A SECTION ACCORDING TO ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY LAST NAME. --&gt;<br /> * [[Masudur Rahman Baidya]], world's first physically handicapped swimmer to swim across the [[English Channel]] in 1997 and the [[Strait of Gibraltar]] in 2001<br /> * [[Bula Choudhury]], first woman to cross the [[seven seas]]<br /> * [[Brojen Das]], first Bengali to swim across the English Channel and the first person to cross it four times<br /> * [[Prasanta Karmakar]], para-swimmer<br /> * [[Sachin Nag]], former swimming champion<br /> * [[Arati Saha]], first Indian woman to swim across [[English Channel]]; first Indian female sportsperson to be awarded the [[Padma Shri]]<br /> * [[Mihir Sen]], first Indian to swim across the English Channel, from Dover to Calais in 1958, and for swimming across five channels in one calendar year (1956)<br /> &lt;!-- INSERT A PERSON INTO A SECTION ACCORDING TO ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY LAST NAME. --&gt;<br /> <br /> ===Table tennis===<br /> &lt;!-- INSERT A PERSON INTO A SECTION ACCORDING TO ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY LAST NAME. --&gt;<br /> * [[Ankita Das]], Olympian<br /> * [[Mouma Das]], Olympian<br /> * [[Poulomi Ghatak]]<br /> * [[Soumyajit Ghosh]], Olympian<br /> * [[Zobera Rahman Linu]], Guinness World Record holder<br /> * [[Subhajit Saha]]<br /> <br /> ===Tennis===<br /> &lt;!-- INSERT A PERSON INTO A SECTION ACCORDING TO ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY LAST NAME. --&gt;<br /> * [[Zeeshan Ali]], olympian<br /> * [[Samir Banerjee]], Winner of the [[2021 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' singles]] title<br /> * [[Syed Fazaluddin]], player and coach<br /> * [[Shibu Lal]], Bangladeshi ATP player<br /> * [[Jaidip Mukerjea]], [[Arjuna award]] winner<br /> * [[Leander Paes]], Olympic Medalist<br /> * [[Afrana Islam Prity]], Bangladeshi ITF player<br /> <br /> ==Writers==<br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Only add a person to this list if they already have their own article on the English Wikipedia ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Please keep the list in alphabetical order by LAST NAME ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> {{Further|List of Bengali language authors}}<br /> [[File:Rabindranath Tagore in 1909.jpg|right|thumb|upright=0.6|[[Rabindranath Tagore]] is the first Indian as well as Asian Nobel laureate.]]<br /> [[File:Al Mahmud.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|[[Al Mahmud]] is considered one of the greatest Bengali poets to have emerged in the 20th century.&lt;ref name=&quot;thedailystar1&quot;&gt;{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-193948|title=Al Mahmud turns 75|date=2011-07-13|work=The Daily Star|language=en|access-date=2019-02-15|archive-date=2019-02-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190216035441/https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-193948|url-status=live}}&lt;/ref&gt;]]<br /> [[File:হাসন রাজা (ঊর্ধাংশ).jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|[[Hason Raja]], mystical poet and songwriter]]<br /> * [[Ekramuddin Ahmad]] (1872–1940), Bengali litterateur and government officer<br /> * [[Muhammad Reazuddin Ahmad]] (1861–1933), journalist and philosopher<br /> * [[Humayun Ahmed]] (born 1948), novelist<br /> * [[Chowdhury Gulam Akbar]], writer and collector of [[Bengali folk literature]] for the [[Bangla Academy (Bangladesh)|Bangla Academy]]<br /> * [[Ismail Alam]] (1868–1937), Urdu poet and activist<br /> * [[Alaol]] (1607–1680), poet of medieval era<br /> * [[Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib]] (born 1948), [[Islamic scholar]], writer, academic, essayist<br /> * [[Afzal Ali (poet)|Afzal Ali]], 16th-century poet<br /> * [[Arjumand Ali]] (1870–1914), first Bengali Muslim novelist<br /> * [[Asaddor Ali]], writer, folklorist and winner of [[Bangla Academy Literary Award]]<br /> * [[Ekram Ali]] (born 1950), poet<br /> * [[Monica Ali]] (born 1967), novelist<br /> * [[Sadeq Ali]], poet best known for the ''Halat-un-Nabi'' [[puthi]]<br /> * [[Syed Mujtaba Ali]] (1904–1974), novelist and essayist<br /> * [[Syed Murtaza Ali]], writer and historian<br /> * [[Anuj Dhar]], author, journalist<br /> * [[Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay|Banaphul]] (1899–1979), writer of short stories<br /> * [[Manik Bandopadhyay]] (1908–1956), novelist and short story writer<br /> * [[Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay]] (1894–1950), novelist<br /> * [[Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay]] (1898–1971), novelist<br /> * [[Subimal Basak]], fiction writer<br /> * [[Abul Bashar]] (born 1951), novelist and essayist<br /> * [[Samit Basu]] (born 1979), novelist<br /> * [[Begum Rokeya|Rokeya Begum]] (1880–1932), author and political activist<br /> * [[Izzatullah Bengali]], 18th-century Persian author<br /> * [[Sukanta Bhattacharya]] (1926–1947), poet and playwright<br /> * [[Abdul Karim Sahitya Bisharad]] (1871–1953), author, ''Gorokho Bijoy''<br /> * [[Buddhadeva Bose]] (1908–1974), poet and essayist<br /> * [[Sasthi Brata]], (1939–2015), fiction writer, based in UK<br /> * [[Novoneel Chakraborty]], author, scriptwriter<br /> * [[Nirendranath Chakravarty]] (1924–2018), poet<br /> * [[Chandidas]] (1408–?), medieval Bengali poet<br /> * [[Aroup Chatterjee]] (born 1958), British Indian atheist physician, author of ''Mother Teresa: The Untold Story''<br /> * [[Rimi B. Chatterjee]], novelist and short story writer, winner of the 2007 SHARP deLong Prize<br /> * [[Upamanyu Chatterjee]] (born 1959), author and administrator<br /> * [[Suniti Kumar Chatterji]] (1890–1977), linguist and educator<br /> * [[Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay]] (1838–1894), novelist, essayist, penned the Indian national song of integrity &quot;[[Vande Mataram]]&quot;<br /> * [[Sandipan Chattopadhyay]] (1933–2005), novelist<br /> * [[Sanjeev Chattopadhyay]], (born 1936), fiction writer<br /> * [[Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay]] (1876–1938), novelist<br /> * [[Shakti Chattopadhyay]], (1933–1995) poet<br /> * [[Karimunnesa Khanam Chaudhurani]] (1855–1926), poet and social worker<br /> * [[Amit Chaudhuri]] (born 1962), professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia, 2002 [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] winner<br /> * [[Nirad C. Chaudhuri]] (1897–1999), essayist and scholar<br /> * [[Pramatha Chaudhuri]] (1868–1946), editor of Sabuj Patra, wrote in the era of [[Rabindranath Tagore]]<br /> * [[Abdur Rouf Choudhury]], writer<br /> * [[Achyut Charan Choudhury]], writer and historian<br /> * [[Malay Roy Choudhury]] (born 1939), Bengali poet and novelist who founded the &quot;Hungryalist Movement&quot; in the 1960s<br /> * [[Kabir Chowdhury]], academic and essayist<br /> * [[Jibanananda Das]] (1899–1954), poet<br /> * [[Indrapramit Das|Indra Das]], author in English literature<br /> * [[Durjoy Datta]] (born 1987), author in modern English Literature<br /> * [[Ashapoorna Devi|Ashapurna Devi]] (1909–1995), novelist and short story writer<br /> * [[Mahasweta Devi]] (1926–2016), novelist and short story writer<br /> * [[Nirupama Devi]] (1883–1951), fiction writer<br /> * [[Leema Dhar]] (born 1993), novelist, poet, and columnist<br /> * [[Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni]] (born 1956) (born Chitralekha Banerjee), author and poet<br /> * [[Michael Madhusudan Dutt]] (1824–1873), poet and dramatist<br /> * [[Romesh Chunder Dutt]] (1848–1909), writer and translator of ''Ramayana and Mahabharata''<br /> * [[Toru Dutt]] (1856–1877), wrote in English and French<br /> * [[Himangshu Dutta]] (1908–1944), composer <br /> * [[Sudhindranath Dutta]] (1901–1960), poet<br /> * [[Kaberi Gayen]] (born 1970), author of ''Muktijuddher Cholochchitre Naree Nirman''<br /> * [[Narayan Gangopadhyay]] (1918–1970), author, creator of the [[Tenida]] character<br /> * [[Sunil Gangopadhyay]] (1934–2012), poet and novelist<br /> * [[Dhirendra Nath Ganguly]], director<br /> * [[Anil Ghorai]] (1957 to 2014), novelist, poet and writer<br /> * [[Amitav Ghosh]] (born 1956), novelist and essayist<br /> * [[Prabir Ghosh]] (born 1945), writer, essayist, poet and rationalist<br /> * [[Shankha Ghosh]] (1932–2021), poet and essayist<br /> * [[Joy Goswami]] (born 1954), poet<br /> * [[Buddhadeb Guha]] (born 1936), novelist<br /> * [[Tanika Gupta]] (born 1963), playwright, appointed [[Member of the Order of the British Empire]] in 2008<br /> * [[Abdul Hakim (poet)|Abdul Hakim]] (1620–1690), medieval poet<br /> * [[Muhammad Nurul Haque]], cultural activist, social worker and writer<br /> * [[Syed Shamsul Haque]], poet and novelist<br /> * [[Mir Mosharraf Hossain]] (1847–1912), novelist<br /> * [[Ashraf Hussain]], poet and folklorist<br /> * [[Hasnat Abdul Hye]], writer and novelist<br /> * [[Muhammed Zafar Iqbal]] (born 1952), science fiction writer<br /> * [[Kazi Nazrul Islam]] (1899–1976), poet<br /> * [[Jasimuddin]] (1903–1976), poet, novelist and essayist<br /> * [[Jīmūtavāhana]] ({{circa|12th century}}), Sanskrit writer of [[Dāyabhāga]]<br /> * [[Dawlat Wazir Bahram Khan]], 16th-century poet<br /> * [[Dilwar Khan]], poet known as ''Gonomanusher Kobi'' (Poet of the mass people)<br /> * [[Moniruddin Khan]] (born 1974), writer and historian<br /> * [[Muhammad Mojlum Khan]], non-fiction English writer best known for [[The Muslim 100]]<br /> * [[Jhumpa Lahiri]] (born 1967), novelist, short story writer, Pulitzer Prize winner<br /> * [[Al Mahmud]] (1936–2019), poet and novelist<br /> * [[Heyat Mahmud]] (1693–1760), medieval poet and judge<br /> * [[Binoy Majumdar]] (1934–2006), poet, [[Sahitya Akademi]] Award in 2005<br /> * [[Kamal Kumar Majumdar]] (1914–1979), novelist and short story writer<br /> * [[Leela Majumdar]] (1908–2007), writer<br /> * [[R. C. Majumdar]] (1888–1980), author, historian<br /> * [[Samaresh Majumdar]] (born 1944), writer, creator of the Animesh trilogy<br /> * [[Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumder]] (1877–1956), author<br /> * [[Tarun Mandal]]<br /> * [[Reazuddin Ahmad Mashadi]] (1859–1918), philosopher<br /> * [[Arun Mitra]] (1909–2000), poet<br /> * [[Premendra Mitra]] (1904–1988), poet and short story writer<br /> * [[Motiur Rahman Mollik]] (1950–2010), poet and novelist<br /> * [[Nurul Momen]] (1908–1990), playwright<br /> * [[Dhan Gopal Mukerji]] (1890–1936), author<br /> * [[Bharati Mukherjee]] (1940–2017), author and educator<br /> * [[Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay]] (born 1935), novelist<br /> * [[Subhash Mukhopadhyay (poet)|Subhash Mukhopadhyay]] (1919–2003), Bengali poet<br /> * [[Kumud Ranjan Mullick]] (1883–1970), poet of the [[Rabindranath Tagore|Tagore]] era<br /> * [[Muhammad Muqim]], 18th-century poet<br /> * [[Ghulam Murshid]], writer, essayist and cultural historian<br /> * [[Shahabuddin Nagari]] (born 1955), Bangladeshi poet and writer of juvenile fiction<br /> * [[Naimuddin]] (1832–1907), Bengali writer and scholar<br /> * [[Jyotirindranath Nandi]], (1912–1982), novelist and short story writer<br /> * [[Moti Nandi]] (1931–2010), novelist<br /> * [[Pritish Nandy]] (born 1951), poet and author and journalist EM Forster Literary Award, Padma Shri<br /> * [[Taslima Nasrin]] (born 1962), novelist<br /> * [[Rajat Neogy]] (1938–1995), poet, writer, thinker and founder of ''[[Transition Magazine]]'' in [[Kampala]] in 1961; Ugandan Indian<br /> * [[Krittibas Ojha]] (1381–1461), medieval Bengali poet<br /> * [[Daulat Qazi]] (d. 1638), medieval poet<br /> * [[Rahimunnessa]] (1763–1800), medieval poet <br /> * [[Shamsur Rahman (poet)|Shamsur Rahman]] (1929–2006), poet<br /> * [[M Harunur Rashid]], teacher of English and Sufi writer<br /> * [[Bharatchandra Ray]] (1712–1760), poet and song composer known for his [[Mangalkavya]]<br /> * [[Dilipkumar Roy|Dilipkumar Ray]] (1897–1980), musician, musicologist, novelist, poet and essayist<br /> * [[Dwijendralal Ray]] (1863–1913), playwright and poet<br /> * [[Satyajit Ray]] (1921–1992), writer and film director<br /> * [[Annada Shankar Ray]] (1905–2002), novelist, essayist and poet<br /> * [[Arundhati Roy]] (born 1961), novelist and essayist<br /> * [[Samir Roychoudhury]] (1933–2016), poet, novelist, short story writer and philosopher<br /> * [[Shah Muhammad Saghir]], 15th-century poet<br /> * [[Sankar (writer)|Sankar]], (1933), author in English literature<br /> * [[Narayan Sanyal]] (1924–2005), writer of modern Bengali literature<br /> * [[Subodh Sarkar]] (born 1958), poet<br /> * [[Ramprasad Sen]] ({{circa|1718}} or {{circa|1723|1775}}), [[Shakta]] poet of eighteenth century Bengal<br /> * [[Mallika Sengupta]] (1960–2011), Bengali poet, feminist, and reader of sociology from [[Kolkata]]<br /> * [[Nares Chandra Sen-Gupta]] (1882–1964), novelist and legal scholar<br /> * [[Muhammad Shahidullah]] (1885 –1969) Bengali linguist, philologist, educationist, and writer<br /> * [[Hara Prasad Shastri]] (1853–1931), known as the inventor of [[Charyapada]]<br /> * [[Syed Mustafa Siraj]] (1930–2012), poet, novelist, short story writer, [[Sahitya Akademi]] awardee<br /> * [[Srijato]], won [[Ananda Puroskar]] in 2004<br /> * [[Syed Sultan]], wrote the first [[Prophetic biography]] in Bengali in the 16th century<br /> * [[Dwijendranath Tagore]] (1840–1926), poet, composer, philosopher, mathematician, painter<br /> * [[Rabindranath Tagore]] (1861–1941), poet, composer, novelist, essayist, story-writer, philosopher, painter, educationist<br /> * [[Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar]] (1820–1891), philosopher, educator, writer, translator, publisher, and reformer of the [[Bengal Renaissance]] period<br /> * [[Zainuddin (poet)|Zainuddin]], 15th-century poet<br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Only add a person to this list if they already have their own article on the English Wikipedia ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Please keep the list in alphabetical order by LAST NAME ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> <br /> == Chefs ==<br /> * [[Keka Ferdousi]]<br /> * [[Alpana Habib]]<br /> * [[Nadiya Hussain]]<br /> * [[Siddika Kabir]]<br /> * [[Tony Karim]]<br /> * [[Tommy Miah]]<br /> <br /> ==See also==<br /> * [[List of Bangladeshi people]]<br /> ** [[List of British Bangladeshis]]<br /> * [[List of people from West Bengal]]<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{Reflist}}<br /> <br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Bengalis}}<br /> [[Category:Lists of Bengali people| ]]<br /> [[Category:Lists of people by ethnicity]]</div>

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