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This is a '''list of notable people from [[West Bengal]], [[India]]'''. This list does not include the significant number of prominent [[East Bengali refugees]] from [[East Bengal]] who settled in West Bengal after the partition of the Indian sub-continent in 1947.<br />
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==Literature==<br />
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===Major figures===<br />
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* [[Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay]]<br />
* [[Manik Bandopadhyay]]<br />
* [[Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay]]<br />
* [[Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay]]<br />
* [[Rajshekhar Basu]]<br />
* [[Suchitra Bhattacharya]]<br />
* [[Shibram Chakraborty]]<br />
* [[Amiya Chakravarty]]<br />
* [[Bankim Chandra Chatterjee]]<br />
* [[Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay]]<br />
* [[Pramatha Chaudhuri]]<br />
* [[Ashapurna Devi]]<br />
* [[Mahasweta Devi]]<br />
* [[Michael Madhusudan Dutt]]<br />
* [[Sudhindranath Dutta]]<br />
* [[Joy Goswami]]<br />
* [[Kazi Nazrul Islam]]<br />
* [[Samaresh Majumdar]]<br />
* [[Premendra Mitra]]<br />
* [[Mimi Mondal]]<br />
* [[Ashutosh Mukhopadhyay]]<br />
* [[Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay]]<br />
* [[Annada Shankar Ray]]<br />
* [[Satyajit Ray]]<br />
* [[Narayan Sanyal]]<br />
* [[Syed Mustafa Siraj]]<br />
* [[Rabindranath Tagore]]<br />
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===Children's story writers===<br />
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* [[Sasthipada Chattopadhyay]]<br />
* [[Shibram Chakraborty]]<br />
* [[Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury]]<br />
* [[Anish Deb]]<br />
* [[Narayan Debnath]]<br />
* [[Narayan Gangopadhyay]]<br />
* [[Sunil Gangopadhyay]]<br />
* [[Leela Majumdar]]<br />
* [[Samaresh Majumdar]]<br />
* [[Premendra Mitra]]<br />
* [[Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay]]<br />
* [[Sourav Mukhopadhyay]]<br />
* [[Moti Nandi]]<br />
* [[Sukumar Ray]]<br />
* [[Hemendra Kumar Roy]]<br />
* [[Syed Mustafa Siraj]]<br />
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===Medieval Bengal literary scene===<br />
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* [[Chandidas]]<br />
* [[Kashiram Das]]<br />
* [[Govindadasa]]<br />
* [[Krishnadasa Kaviraja]]<br />
* [[Krittibas Ojha]]<br />
* [[Bharatchandra Ray]]<br />
* [[Vidyapati]]<br />
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===Other authors from early modern period===<br />
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* [[Akshay Kumar Baral]]<br />
* [[Manoranjan Byapari]]<br />
* [[Nirupama Devi]]<br />
* [[Swarnakumari Devi]]<br />
* [[Romesh Chunder Dutt]]<br />
* [[Anil Kumar Gain]]<br />
* [[Ishwar Chandra Gupta]]<br />
* [[Peary Chand Mitra]]<br />
* [[Parijat (writer)|Parijat]]<br />
* [[Indra Bahadur Rai]]<br />
* [[Dwijendralal Ray]]<br />
* [[Begum Rokeya]]<br />
* [[Kaliprasanna Singha]]<br />
* [[Jyotirindranath Tagore]]<br />
* [[Swami Vivekananda]]<br />
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===Prominent foreign-language authors from Bengal===<br />
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* [[Sri Aurobindo]]<br />
* [[Anirban Bhattacharyya]]<br />
* [[Upamanyu Chatterjee]]<br />
* [[Amit Chaudhuri]]<br />
* [[Souhardya De]]<br />
* [[Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni]]<br />
* [[Toru Dutt]]<br />
* [[Kaberi Gayen]]<br />
* [[Amitav Ghosh]]<br />
* [[Jhumpa Lahiri]]<br />
* [[Mimi Mondal]]<br />
* [[Pritish Nandy]]<br />
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===Other authors from early/mid-twentieth century and some contemporary authors===<br />
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* [[Anita Agnihotri]]<br />
* [[Ekram Ali]]<br />
* [[Afsar Amed]]<br />
* [[Jatindramohan Bagchi]]<br />
* [[Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay]]<br />
* [[Tapan Bandyopadhyay]]<br />
* [[Subimal Basak]]<br />
* [[Abul Bashar]]<br />
* [[Sukanta Bhattacharya]]<br />
* [[Nachiketa Chakraborty]]<br />
* [[Nirendranath Chakravarty]]<br />
* [[Shibram Chakraborty]]<br />
* [[Smaranjit Chakraborty]]<br />
* [[Sandipan Chattopadhyay]]<br />
* [[Sanjib Chattopadhyay]]<br />
* [[Sasthipada Chattopadhyay]]<br />
* [[Shakti Chattopadhyay]]<br />
* [[Malay Roy Choudhury]]<br />
* [[Salil Chowdhury]]<br />
* [[Alokeranjan Dasgupta]]<br />
* [[Buddhadeb Dasgupta]]<br />
* [[Anish Deb]]<br />
* [[Nabaneeta Dev Sen]]<br />
* [[Mahasweta Devi]]<br />
* [[Anil Kumar Gain]]<br />
* [[Kaberi Gayen]]<br />
* [[Narayan Gangopadhyay]]<br />
* [[Joy Goswami]]<br />
* [[Prabir Ghosh]]<br />
* [[Santosh Kumar Ghosh]]<br />
* [[Shankha Ghosh]]<br />
* [[Subodh Ghosh]]<br />
* [[Buddhadeb Guha]]<br />
* [[Pracheta Gupta]]<br />
* [[Baby Halder]]<br />
* [[Moinul Hassan]]<br />
* [[Syed Kawsar Jamal]]<br />
* [[Humayun Kabir (Bengal politician)| Humayun Kabir]]<br />
* [[Bimal Kar]]<br />
* [[Binoy Majumdar]]<br />
* [[Samaresh Majumdar]]<br />
* [[Tarun Mandal]]<br />
* [[Amar Mitra (writer)|Amar Mitra]]<br />
* [[Arun Mitra]]<br />
* [[Bimal Mitra]]<br />
* [[Narendranath Mitra]]<br />
* [[Ashutosh Mukhopadhyay]]<br />
* [[Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay]]<br />
* [[Subhash Mukhopadhyay (poet)|Subhash Mukhopadhyay]]<br />
* [[Kumud Ranjan Mullick]]<br />
* [[Moti Nandi]]<br />
* [[Purnendu Pattrea]]<br />
* [[Sheikh Abdur Rahim]]<br />
* [[Dilipkumar Roy]]<br />
* [[Samir Roychoudhury]]<br />
* [[Sankar (writer)|Sankar]]<br />
* [[Narayan Sanyal]]<br />
* [[Subodh Sarkar]]<br />
* [[Jatindranath Sengupta]]<br />
* [[Mallika Sengupta]]<br />
* [[Syed Mustafa Siraj]]<br />
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===Journalists===<br />
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* [[Ekram Ali]]<br />
* [[Tamal Bandyopadhyay]]<br />
* [[Mrinal Chatterjee]]<br />
* [[Ramananda Chatterjee]]<br />
* [[Sunanda K. Datta-Ray]]<br />
* [[Kaberi Gayen]]<br />
* [[Tushar Kanti Ghosh]]<br />
* [[Chandan Mitra]]<br />
* [[Moti Nandi]]<br />
* [[Pritish Nandy]]<br />
* [[Sukumar Ray]]<br />
* [[Barun Sengupta]]<br />
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===Comics writers===<br />
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* [[Narayan Debnath]]<ref>{{cite news |date=19 January 2022 |title=Narayan Debnath, the cartoonist who never underestimated children |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/books-and-literature/narayan-debnath-obituary-7730108/ |work=The Indian Express |language=en}}</ref><br />
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== Language/linguistics, anthropology, history, and other social sciences ==<br />
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* [[Haricharan Bandopadhayaya]], lexicographer<br />
* [[Rajshekhar Basu]], major contributor for scientific terms in Bengali and lexicographer<br />
* [[Chandril Bhattacharya]], born in Kolkata<br />
* [[Girindrasekhar Bose]], first non-European correspondent of Freud<br />
* [[Nirmal Kumar Bose]], anthropologist, associate of Gandhi<br />
* [[Suniti Kumar Chatterji]], linguist<br />
* [[Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya]], social philosopher<br />
* [[Kirti N. Chaudhuri]], historian<br />
* [[Pramatha Chaudhuri]], creator of modern Bengali prose (chalit bhasha) along with Tagore<br />
* [[Harinath De]], linguist<br />
* [[Romesh Chunder Dutt]], historian<br />
* [[Anil Kumar Gain]], fellow of the Royal Society<br />
* [[Biraja Sankar Guha]], anthropologist<br />
* [[Ranajit Guha]], subaltern theorist<br />
* [[R. C. Majumdar]], historian<br />
* [[Vina Mazumdar]], women's studies academic<br />
* [[Rajendralal Mitra]], first Indian to work with Indologists<br />
* [[Bhudev Mukhopadhyay]], earliest educationist<br />
* [[Niharranjan Ray]], historian<br />
* [[Hem Chandra Raychaudhuri]], Indian historian<br />
* [[Tapan Raychaudhuri]], professor of history at Oxford University<br />
* [[Raja Ram Mohan Roy]], first Bengali prose writer<br />
* [[Jadunath Sarkar]], historian<br />
* [[Sumit Sarkar]], historian<br />
* [[Susobhan Sarkar]], historian<br />
* [[Amartya Sen]], Nobel Prize awardee in Economics<br />
* [[Dinesh Chandra Sen]], historian of Bengali literature and folklorist<br />
* [[Sukumar Sen (linguist)|Sukumar Sen]], linguist<br />
* [[Hara Prasad Shastri]], historian of Bengali language and culture<br />
* [[Maniklal Sinha]], novelist, historian and archaeologist of west Rarh<br />
* [[Surajit Chandra Sinha]], anthropologist<br />
* [[Dineshchandra Sircar]], epigraphist<br />
* [[Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak]], literature theorist.<br />
* [[Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar]], creator of Standard Bengali prose (sadhu bhasha)<br />
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===Scholars and polymaths===<br />
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* [[Asima Chatterjee]], scholar of chemistry<ref name="IAS">''The Shaping of Indian Science''. p. 1036. Indian Science Congress Association, Presidential Addresses By Indian Science Congress Association. Published by Orient Blackswan, 2003. {{ISBN|978-81-7371-433-7}}</ref><br />
* [[Suniti Kumar Chatterji]], linguist<br />
* [[Amlan Datta]], economist, Vice Chancellor of Visva Bharati<br />
* [[Radhakanta Deb]], linguist<br />
* [[Anil Kumar Gain]], scholar, mathematician<br />
* [[Prithwindra Mukherjee]], scholar of Indian history, philosophy, religion and culture<br />
* [[Ashis Nandy]], political psychologist<br />
* [[Ramendra Sundar Tribedi]], scientist<br />
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==Education==<br />
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===Pioneers===<br />
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* [[Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya]]<br />
* [[Girish Chandra Bose]]<br />
* [[Anil Kumar Gain]]<br />
* [[Muhammad Mohsin]]<br />
* [[Ashutosh Mukherjee]]<br />
* [[Satish Chandra Mukherjee]]<br />
* [[Begum Rokeya]]<br />
* [[Guruchand Thakur]]<br />
* [[Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar]]<br />
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===Post-independence===<br />
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* [[Shuddhaanandaa Brahmachari]]<br />
* [[Sudhi Ranjan Das]], Chief Justice of India, Vice-chancellor of Visva Bharati<ref>{{Cite web |title=S.R. Das |url=https://www.scobserver.in/judges/s-r-das/ |access-date=2025-06-02 |website=Supreme Court Observer |language=en-US}}</ref><br />
* [[Azizul Haque (educator) | Azizul Haque]]<br />
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===Others===<br />
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===Teachers===<br />
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* [[Babar Ali (teacher)|Babar Ali]], world's youngest headmaster, headmaster and founder of Ananda Siksha Niketan<br />
* [[Katyayanidas Bhattacharya]], philosophy, Presidency College<br />
* [[Ramkrishna Bhattacharya]], English, Ananda Mohan College<br />
* [[Barun De]], history, Presidency College<br />
* [[Mahasweta Devi]], English, [[Vijaygarh Jyotish Ray College]]<br />
* [[Chinmoy Guha]], English, [[Vijaygarh Jyotish Ray College]] and University of Calcutta<br />
* [[K. C. Nag]], mathematics, Mitra institution<br />
* [[Susobhan Sarkar]], history, Presidency College<br />
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==Philosophy==<br />
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===Pre-modern period===<br />
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* [[Chaitanya Mahaprabhu]] (Achintya Bhedabheda Vedanta) born in [[Nabadwip]] of [[Nadia district]] to parents who hailed from [[Sylhet]] in present day [[Bangladesh]]<br />
* [[Madhusūdana Sarasvatī ]] (Advaita Vedanta), born in Kotalipara, [[Gopalganj District, Bangladesh|Gopalganj District]] in present day [[Bangladesh]] & studied at [[Nabadwip]] in [[Nadia district]]<br />
* [[Raghunatha Shiromani]] (Navya Nyaya) from [[Nabadwip]]<br />
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===Modern age===<br />
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* [[Sri Aurobindo]]<br />
* [[Abu Sayeed Ayyub]], born in Kolkata<br />
* [[Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya]] born in [[Serampore]] in [[Howrah district]]<br />
* [[Anukulchandra Chakravarty]] born in [[Pabna]] district in present day [[Bangladesh]], worked & preached in [[Kolkata]]. After the [[Partition of India]] in 1947, he relocated to [[Deoghar]]<br />
* [[Surendranath Dasgupta]], born in [[Kusthia]] of present day [[Bangladesh]] which was then a part of [[Nadia district|Nadia]] before [[Partition of India]], studied in [[Kolkata]]<br />
* [[Balaram Hari]], born in [[Nadia]]<br />
* [[Bimal Krishna Matilal]], born in [[Jaynagar Majilpur]] in [[South 24 Parganas]] district<br />
* [[Amartya Sen]], born in [[Shantiniketan]] in [[Birbhum]] District<br />
* [[Keshub Chandra Sen]], born in Kolkata<br />
* [[Rabindranath Tagore]], born in Kolkata<br />
* [[Swami Vivekananda]], born in Kolkata<br />
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=== Early / Mid twenty century ===<br />
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* [[Shuddhaanandaa Brahmachari]], born in Kolkata<br />
* [[Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya]], philosophy, University of Calcutta<br />
* [[Sibnarayan Ray]], born in kolkata<br />
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==Science==<br />
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* [[Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay]], computer scientist<br />
* [[Amar Nath Bhaduri]], Indian molecular enzymologist and chemical biologist<br />
* [[Somnath Bharadwaj]], cosmology<br />
* [[Avik Bhattacharya]], remote sensing<br />
* [[Santanu Bhattacharya]], chemistry<br />
* [[Bhabatarak Bhattacharyya]], Indian structural biologist, biochemist<br />
* [[Mani Lal Bhaumik]]<br />
* [[Birendra Bijoy Biswas]], Indian molecular biologist and geneticist<br />
* [[Satyendra Nath Bose]], Indian theoretical physicist and mathematician<br />
* [[Upendranath Brahmachari]]<br />
* [[Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri]], computer scientist<br />
* [[Asis Datta]], Indian biochemist, molecular biologist and genetic engineer<br />
* [[Moumita Dutta]], Indian physicist<br />
* [[Anil Kumar Gain]], mathematics<br />
* [[Partha Ghose]]<br />
* [[Sankar Ghosh]], Indian-American immunologist, microbiologist, and biochemist<br />
* [[Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis]]<br />
* [[Chanchal Kumar Majumdar]], Indian [[condensed matter physicist]]<br />
* [[Dwijesh Dutta Majumdar]], computer scientist<br />
* [[Ujjwal Maulik]], computer scientist<br />
* [[Ashesh Prosad Mitra]]<br />
* [[Sisir Kumar Mitra]], Indian physicist<br />
* [[Mahan Mj]], Mathematician<br />
* [[Subhash Mukhopadhyay (physician)|Subhash Mukhopadhyay]], physician<br />
* [[Indira Nath]], Indian immunologist<br />
* [[Bedabrata Pain]], NASA Scientist <br />
* [[Sankar Kumar Pal]], computer scientist<br />
* [[Shehla Pervin]], molecular biologist<br />
* [[Prafulla Chandra Ray]], Indian chemist, industrialist and philanthropist<br />
* [[Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri]]<br />
* [[Somak Raychaudhury]], Indian astrophysicist<br />
* [[Anjali Roy]], mycologist<br />
* [[Subrata Roy (scientist)|Subrata Roy]], plasma physics<br />
* [[Ram Brahma Sanyal]], zoology<br />
* [[Debi Prasad Sarkar]], Indian biochemist, immunologist and virologist<br />
* [[Amartya Sen]], Nobel Laureate, economist, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences<br />
* [[Ashoke Sen]], physics<br />
* [[Radhanath Sikdar]]<br />
* [[Snehasikta Swarnakar]], Indian chemical biologist<br />
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==Religious scholars==<br />
===Muslim===<br />
*[[Jalaluddin Tabrizi]] (13th-century)<br />
*[[Gazi Pir]] (13th-century)<br />
*[[Pir Gorachand]] (13th-century)<br />
*[[Usman Serajuddin]] (1258–1357)<br />
*[[Alaul Haq]] (1301–1384)<br />
*[[Nur Qutb Alam]] (d. 1416)<br />
*[[Syed Shah Mehr Ali Alquadri Al Baghdadi|Shah Mehr Ali]] (1808–1868)<br />
*[[Ubaidullah Al Ubaidi Suhrawardy]] (1832–1885)<br />
*[[Azangachhi Shaheb]] (1828–1932)<br />
*[[Mohammad Abu Bakr Siddique]] (1865–1943)<br />
*[[Abdullah al-Baqi]] (1886–1952)<br />
*[[Abbas Siddiqui]] (born 1987)<br />
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===Pre-modern period===<br />
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* [[Krishnananda Agamavagisha]]<br />
* [[Chaitanya Mahaprabhu]]<br />
* [[Nityananda]]<br />
* [[Ramprasad Sen]]<br />
* [[Six Goswamis of Vrindavan]]<br />
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===The Brahmo Samaj===<br />
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* [[Anandamohan Bose]]<br />
* [[Raja Ram Mohan Roy]]<br />
* [[Keshub Chandra Sen]]<br />
* [[Debendranath Tagore]]<br />
* [[Ram Chandra Vidyabagish]]<br />
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===Hindu revival movement===<br />
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* [[Sri Aurobindo]]<br />
* [[Sarada Devi]]<br />
* [[Ramakrishna]]<br />
* [[Swami Vivekananda]]<br />
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===Mid-twentieth-century religious figures===<br />
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* [[Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri]]<br />
* [[Lahiri Mahasaya]]<br />
* [[A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada]]<br />
* [[Paramahansa Yogananda]]<br />
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==Social reformation and social work==<br />
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===Major figures===<br />
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* [[Anil Kumar Gain]]<br />
* [[Dwarkanath Ganguly]]<br />
* [[Nibaran Chandra Mukherjee]]<br />
* [[Satish Chandra Mukherjee]]<br />
* [[Protap Chunder Mozoomdar]]<br />
* [[Raja Ram Mohan Roy]]<br />
* [[Keshub Chandra Sen]]<br />
* [[Harichand Thakur]]<br />
* [[Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar]]<br />
* [[Swami Vivekananda]]<br />
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===Derozians===<br />
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* [[Krishna Mohan Banerjee]]<br />
* [[Rajnarayan Basu]]<br />
* [[Michael Madhusudan Dutt]]<br />
* [[Hara Chandra Ghosh]]<br />
* [[Ramgopal Ghosh]]<br />
* [[Ramtanu Lahiri]]<br />
* [[Rasik Krishna Mallick]]<br />
* [[Kishori Chand Mitra]]<br />
* [[Peary Chand Mitra]]<br />
* [[Radhanath Sikdar]]<br />
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===Women's rights===<br />
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* [[Chandramukhi Basu]]<br />
* [[Sarala Devi]]<br />
* [[Kadambini Ganguly]]<br />
* [[Kaberi Gayen]]<br />
* [[Joyita Mondal]], social worker<br />
* [[Charulata Mukherjee]]<br />
* [[Rani Rashmoni]]<br />
* [[Begum Rokeya]]<br />
* [[Romola Sinha]]<br />
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==Military==<br />
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* Air Vice Marshal [[Madhavendra Banerji]], recipient of [[Maha Vir Chakra]]<br />
* Flight Lieutenant [[Suhas Biswas]], recipient of [[Ashoka Chakra (military decoration)|Ashoka Chakra]]<br />
* [[Subhas Chandra Bose]], founder, [[Indian National Army]]<br />
* General [[Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri]], Indian Army Chief during the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1965]]<br />
* Admiral [[Adhar Kumar Chatterji]], Indian Navy Chief between 1966 and 1970<br />
* Air Commodore [[S. K. Majumdar (commodore)|Sudhindra Kumar Majumdar]] (1927–2011), India's first military helicopter pilot<br />
* Air Marshal [[Subroto Mukerjee]], former Head of Indian Air Force<br />
* Chief of the Air Staff [[Arup Raha]], 24th chief of Indian Air Force<br />
* Captain [[Man Bahadur Rai]], recipient of [[Ashoka Chakra (military decoration)|Ashoka Chakra]]<br />
* [[Indra Lal Roy]], first Indian (pre Independence) flying ace<br />
* General [[Shankar Roychowdhury]], former Indian Army Chief<br />
* [[William Tolly]] (1715–1784), an officer of the [[British East India Company]]<br />
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==Art==<br />
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===Early modern period===<br />
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* [[Ramkinkar Baij]]<br />
* [[Nandalal Bose]]<br />
* [[Mukul Dey]]<br />
* [[Kalipada Ghoshal]]<br />
* [[Sailoz Mookherjea]]<br />
* [[Benode Behari Mukherjee]]<br />
* [[Jamini Roy]]<br />
* [[Abanindranath Tagore]]<br />
* [[Gaganendranath Tagore]]<br />
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===From mid-twentieth century===<br />
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* [[Bikash Bhattacharjee]]<br />
* [[Jogen Chowdhury]]<br />
* [[Jahar Dasgupta]]<br />
* [[Somnath Hore]]<br />
* [[Chintamoni Kar]]<br />
* [[Anil Karanjai]]<br />
* [[Paresh Maity]]<br />
* [[Hemen Majumdar]]<br />
* [[Rabin Mondal]]<br />
* [[Samir Mondal]]<br />
* [[Ganesh Pyne]]<br />
* [[Paritosh Sen]]<br />
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===Film and photography===<br />
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* [[Dulal Dutta]]<br />
* [[Goutam Ghose]], filmmaker, cinematographer, and music composer<br />
* [[Rituparno Ghosh]], filmmaker<br />
* [[Suman Ghosh (director)|Suman Ghosh]], filmmaker, documentary filmmaker<br />
* [[Ajoy Kar]], cinematographer, filmmaker, screenwriter<br />
* [[Tarun Majumdar]], filmmaker, screenwriter, author, illustrator<br />
* [[Subrata Mitra]], cinematographer<br />
* [[Hrishikesh Mukherjee]], Indian film director, editor and writer<br />
* [[Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri]]<br />
* [[Satyajit Ray]], filmmaker, screenwriter, author, illustrator and music composer<br />
* [[Mrinal Sen]], filmmaker, screenwriter, author<br />
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==Music==<br />
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===Composers===<br />
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* [[Abbasuddin Ahmed]]<br />
* [[Anil Biswas (composer)|Anil Biswas]]<br />
* [[Raichand Boral]]<br />
* [[S. D. Burman ]]<br />
* [[Salil Chowdhury]]<br />
* [[Kamal Dasgupta]]<br />
* [[Sudhin Dasgupta]]<br />
* [[Nachiketa Ghosh]]<br />
* [[Kazi Nazrul Islam]]<br />
* [[Hemant Kumar]]<br />
* [[Gauriprasanna Mazumder ]]<br />
* [[Manabendra Mukhopadhyay]]<br />
* [[Dwijendralal Ray]]<br />
* [[Dilipkumar Roy]]<br />
* [[Atul Prasad Sen ]]<br />
* [[Rajanikanta Sen]]<br />
* [[Kabir Suman]]<br />
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===Performers (instrumental)===<br />
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* [[Nikhil Banerjee]], sitar<br />
* [[Sankha Chatterjee]], tabla<br />
* [[Buddhadeb Dasgupta]], sarod<br />
* [[Annapurna Devi]], surbahar<br />
* [[Jnan Prakash Ghosh]], Harmonium and tabla<br />
* [[Pannalal Ghosh]], flute<br />
* [[Shankar Ghosh (musician)|Shankar Ghosh]], tabla<br />
* [[Ali Akbar Khan]], sarod<br />
* [[Allauddin Khan]], sarod and multi-instrumentalist<br />
* [[Radhika Mohan Maitra]], Sarod and Mohanveena<br />
* [[Manilal Nag]], sitar<br />
* [[Ravi Shankar]], sitar<br />
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===Performers (vocal)===<br />
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====Classical====<br />
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* [[Pandit Iman Das]]<br />
* [[Gopeshwar Banerjee]]<br />
* [[Naina Devi (singer)|Naina Devi]]<br />
* [[Ajoy Chakrabarty]], vocal<br />
* [[Tarapada Chakraborty]]<br />
* [[Kaushiki Chakraborty]]<br />
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====Songs of Tagore and his contemporaries====<br />
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* [[Kanika Banerjee]]<br />
* [[Debabrata Biswas]]<br />
* [[Sarmila Bose]]<br />
* [[Uma Bose]]<br />
* [[Renuka Dasgupta]]<br />
* [[Sahana Devi]]<br />
* [[Gita Ghatak]]<br />
* [[Santidev Ghosh]]<br />
* [[Malati Ghoshal]]<br />
* [[Suchitra Mitra]]<br />
* [[Dilipkumar Roy]]<br />
* [[Subinoy Roy]]<br />
* [[Indrani Sen]]<br />
* [[Nilima Sen]]<br />
* [[Amiya Tagore]]<br />
* [[Dinendranath Tagore]]<br />
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====Modern====<br />
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* [[Srikanta Acharya]]<br />
* [[Mohammed Aziz]]<br />
* [[Abhijeet Bhattacharya]]<br />
* [[Dhananjay Bhattacharya]]<br />
* [[R. D. Burman]]<br />
* [[S. D. Burman]]<br />
* [[Nachiketa Chakraborty]]<br />
* [[Antara Chowdhury]]<br />
* [[Kanan Devi]]<br />
* [[K. C. Dey]]<br />
* [[Manna Dey]]<br />
* [[Anjan Dutt]]<br />
* [[Geeta Dutt]]<br />
* [[Jeet Gannguli]]<br />
* [[Shreya Ghoshal]]<br />
* [[Rupam Islam]]<br />
* [[Amit Kumar]]<br />
* [[Hemant Kumar]]<br />
* [[Kishore Kumar]]<br />
* [[Bappi Lahiri]]<br />
* [[Madhushree]]<br />
* [[Silajit Majumder]]<br />
* [[Shyamal Mitra]]<br />
* [[Shantanu Moitra]]<br />
* [[Sandhya Mukherjee]]<br />
* [[Manabendra Mukhopadhyay ]]<br />
* [[Pankaj Mullick]]<br />
* [[Pritam]]<br />
* [[Anupam Roy]]<br />
* [[Kumar Sanu]]<br />
* [[Indrani Sen]]<br />
* [[Shaan (singer)|Shaan]]<br />
* [[Arijit Singh]]<br />
* [[Kabir Suman]]<br />
* [[Babul Supriyo]]<br />
* [[Monali Thakur]]<br />
* [[Ruma Guha Thakurta]]<br />
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====Nazrul geeti ====<br />
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*[[Abbasuddin Ahmed]]<br />
*[[Purabi Dutta]]<br />
*[[Sohrab Hossain]]<br />
*[[Manabendra Mukhopadhyay]]<br />
*[[Indrani Sen]]<br />
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====Shyama Sangeet ====<br />
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* [[Dhananjay Bhattacharya]]<br />
* [[Pannalal Bhattacharya]]<br />
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====Bengali Folk Song====<br />
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*[[Abbasuddin Ahmed]]<br />
*[[Basudeb Das Baul]]<br />
*[[Kalika Prasad Bhattacharya]]<br />
*[[Timir Biswas]]<br />
*[[Fulati Gidali]]<br />
*[[Ratan Kahar]]<br />
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==Movies==<br />
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===Directors===<br />
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* [[Premankur Atorthy]]<br />
* [[Anurag Basu]]<br />
* [[Basu Bhattacharya]]<br />
* [[Debaki Bose]]<br />
* [[Pritish Chakraborty]]<br />
* [[Raj Chakraborty]]<br />
* [[Basu Chatterjee]]<br />
* [[Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury]]<br />
* [[Buddhadeb Dasgupta]]<br />
* [[Chidananda Dasgupta]]<br />
* [[Anjan Dutt]]<br />
* [[Goutam Ghose]]<br />
* [[Rituparno Ghosh]]<br />
* [[Sujoy Ghosh]]<br />
* [[Sushmit Ghosh]]<br />
* [[Ritwik Ghatak]]<br />
* [[Farha Khatun]]<br />
* [[Tarun Majumdar]]<br />
* [[Prem Prakash Modi]]<br />
* [[Mohammad Mohsin]]<br />
* [[Sujit Mondal]]<br />
* [[Ayan Mukerji]]<br />
* [[Hrishikesh Mukherjee]]<br />
* [[Shiboprosad Mukherjee]]<br />
* [[Suman Mukherjee]]<br />
* [[Srijit Mukherji]]<br />
* [[Bedabrata Pain]]<br />
* [[Mujibar Rahaman]]<br />
* [[Satyajit Ray]]<br />
* [[Bimal Roy]]<br />
* [[Aparna Sen]]<br />
* [[Mrinal Sen]]<br />
* [[Shaunak Sen]]<br />
* [[Supriyo Sen]]<br />
* [[Tapan Sinha]]<br />
* [[Shoojit Sircar]]<br />
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===Actors===<br />
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* [[Apurva Agnihotri]]<br />
* [[Ferdous Ahmed]]<br />
* [[Mir Afsar Ali]]<br />
* [[Bhanu Banerjee]]<br />
* [[Kali Banerjee]]<br />
* [[Victor Banerjee]]<br />
* [[Anirban Bhattacharya]]<br />
* [[Chhabi Biswas]]<br />
* [[Biswajit Chakraborty]]<br />
* [[Chiranjeet Chakraborty]]<br />
* [[Mithun Chakraborty]]<br />
* [[Pritish Chakraborty]]<br />
* [[Sayak Chakraborty]]<br />
* [[Tulsi Chakraborty]]<br />
* [[Abhishek Chatterjee]]<br />
* [[Abir Chatterjee]]<br />
* [[Anil Chatterjee]]<br />
* [[Dhritiman Chatterjee]]<br />
* [[Hiran Chatterjee]]<br />
* [[Parambrata Chatterjee]]<br />
* [[Priyanshu Chatterjee]]<br />
* [[Prosenjit Chatterjee]]<br />
* [[Saswata Chatterjee]]<br />
* [[Soumitra Chatterjee]]<br />
* [[Subhendu Chatterjee]]<br />
* [[Harindranath Chattopadhyay]]<br />
* [[Utpal Datta]]<br />
* [[Dev (Bengali actor)|Dev]]<br />
* [[Lokesh Ghosh]]<br />
* [[Rabi Ghosh]]<br />
* [[Ankush Hazra]]<br />
* [[Jeet (actor)|Jeet]]<br />
* [[Jayant Kripalani]]<br />
* [[Pradeep Kumar (actor)|Pradeep Kumar]]<br />
* [[Uttam Kumar]]<br />
* [[Ranjit Mallick]]<br />
* [[Kamal Mitra]]<br />
* [[Joy Kumar Mukherjee]]<br />
* [[Keshto Mukherjee]]<br />
* [[Tathagata Mukherjee]]<br />
* [[Tapas Paul]]<br />
* [[Chinmoy Roy]]<br />
* [[Rahul Roy]]<br />
* [[Pahari Sanyal]]<br />
* [[Asit Sen (actor)|Asit Sen]]<br />
* [[Jisshu Sengupta]]<br />
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===Actresses===<br />
{{see also|List of Indian Bengali actresses}}<br />
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* [[Jaya Ahsan]]<br />
* [[Varsha Ashwathi]]<br />
* [[Pratyusha Banerjee]]<br />
* [[Rachna Banerjee]]<br />
* [[Mimi Chakraborty]]<br />
* [[Moushumi Chatterjee]]<br />
* [[Sabitri Chatterjee]]<br />
* [[Srabanti Chatterjee]]<br />
* [[Arundhati Devi]]<br />
* [[Chhaya Devi]]<br />
* [[Kanan Devi]]<br />
* [[Kanan Devi]]<br />
* [[Supriya Devi]]<br />
* [[Subhashree Ganguly]]<br />
* [[Anita Guha]]<br />
* [[Rakhee Gulzar]]<br />
* [[Indrani Haldar]]<br />
* [[Nusrat Jahan]]<br />
* [[June Malia]]<br />
* [[Koel Mallick]]<br />
* [[Madhabi Mukherjee]]<br />
* [[Prema Narayan]]<br />
* [[Devika Rani]]<br />
* [[Debashree Roy]]<br />
* [[Sumita Sanyal]]<br />
* [[Aparna Sen]]<br />
* [[Moon Moon Sen]]<br />
* [[Raima Sen]]<br />
* [[Reema Sen]]<br />
* [[Rimi Sen]]<br />
* [[Riya Sen]]<br />
* [[Suchitra Sen]]<br />
* [[Sushmita Sen]]<br />
* [[Rituparna Sengupta]]<br />
* [[Mamata Shankar]]<br />
* [[Mala Sinha]]<br />
* [[Sharmila Tagore]]<br />
* [[Ruma Guha Thakurta]]<br />
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===Cinematographer===<br />
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*[[Supratim Bhol]]<br />
*[[Kamal Bose]]<br />
*[[Sudeep Chatterjee]]<br />
*[[Nemai Ghosh (director)|Nemai Ghosh]]<br />
*[[Baby Islam]]<br />
*[[Subrata Mitra]]<br />
*[[Avik Mukhopadhyay]]<br />
*[[Binod Pradhan]]<br />
*[[Ramananda Sengupta]]<br />
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===Editor===<br />
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* [[Mainak Bhaumik]]<br />
* [[Dulal Dutta]]<br />
* [[Rabiranjan Maitra]]<br />
* [[Arghyakamal Mitra]]<br />
* [[Srijit Mukherji]]<br />
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===Screenplay writers===<br />
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* [[Anjan Dutt]]<br />
* [[Nabendu Ghosh]]<br />
* [[Rudranil Ghosh]]<br />
* [[Shaktipada Rajguru]]<br />
* [[N. K. Salil]]<br />
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==Dance==<br />
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* [[Sharmila Biswas]]<br />
* [[Chitresh Das]]<br />
* [[Gambhir Singh Mura]]<br />
* [[Amala Shankar]]<br />
* [[Mamata Shankar]]<br />
* [[Uday Shankar]]<br />
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==Doctors==<br />
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* [[Rafiuddin Ahmed (dentist)|Rafiuddin Ahmed]]<br />
* [[Upendranath Brahmachari]]<br />
* [[Sambhu Nath De]]<br />
* [[Kadambini Ganguly]]<br />
* [[Madhusudan Gupta]]<br />
* [[Radha Gobinda Kar]]<br />
* [[Shyama Prasad Mandal]]<br />
* [[Subhash Mukhopadhyay (physician)|Subhash Mukhopadhyay]]<br />
* [[Bidhan Chandra Roy]]<br />
* [[Nilratan Sircar]]<br />
* [[Tabitha Solomon]]<br />
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==Drama/theatre==<br />
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* [[Ajitesh Bandopadhyay]]<br />
* [[Sisir Bhaduri]]<br />
* [[Bijon Bhattacharya]]<br />
* [[Bibhash Chakraborty ]]<br />
* [[Khaled Choudhury]]<br />
* [[Parthapratim Deb]]<br />
* [[Utpal Dutt]]<br />
* [[Usha Ganguly]]<br />
* [[Girish Chandra Ghosh]]<br />
* [[Debshankar Haldar]]<br />
* [[Dinabandhu Mitra]]<br />
* [[Sombhu Mitra]]<br />
* [[Manoj Mitra]]<br />
* [[Dwijendralal Ray]]<br />
* [[Rudraprasad Sengupta]]<br />
* [[Badal Sircar]]<br />
* [[Jyotirindranath Tagore]]<br />
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== Magicians==<br />
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* [[Ganapati Chakraborty]]<br />
* [[Amin Suhrawardy]]<br />
* [[Maneka Sorcar]]<br />
* [[P. C. Sorcar]]<br />
* [[P. C. Sorcar Jr.]]<br />
* [[P. C. Sorcar, Young]]<br />
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==Politicians and revolutionaries==<br />
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===Pre-modern===<br />
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* [[Devapala of Bengal|Devapala]]<br />
* [[Dharmapala]]<br />
* [[Gopala I]]<br />
* [[Mahipala]]<br />
* [[Ballāla Sena]]<br />
* [[Lakshmana Sena]]<br />
* [[Shashanka]]<br />
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===Colonial period===<br />
* [[Alimuddin Ahmad]]<br />
* [[Romesh Chunder Dutt]]<br />
* [[Nripendra Narayan]], philanthropist and ruler of [[Cooch Behar]]<br />
* [[Kalim Sharafi]]<br />
* [[Satyendra Prasanna Sinha, 1st Baron Sinha]]<br />
* [[Satyendranath Tagore]]<br />
* [[Titumir]]<br />
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===Indian freedom fighters===<br />
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====Early figures====<br />
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* [[Surendranath Banerjee]]<br />
* [[Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee]]<br />
* [[Rani Shiromani]], queen of [[Karnagarh]] and leader of [[Chuar Rebellion]]<br />
* [[Durjan Singh]], leader of [[Chuar Rebellion]]<br />
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====Twentieth century====<br />
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* [[Alimuddin Ahmad]]<br />
* [[Sri Aurobindo]]<br />
* [[Syed Badrudduja]]<br />
* [[Kanailal Bhattacharjee]]<br />
* [[Kanailal Bhattacharyya]]<br />
* [[Basanta Kumar Biswas]]<br />
* [[Khudiram Bose]]<br />
* [[Rash Behari Bose]]<br />
* [[Sarat Chandra Bose]]<br />
* [[Subhas Chandra Bose]]<br />
* [[Ambika Chakrabarty]]<br />
* [[Panchanan Chakraborty]]<br />
* [[Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee]]<br />
* [[Bina Das]]<br />
* [[Chittaranjan Das]]<br />
* [[Jatindra Nath Das]]<br />
* [[Bipin Behari Ganguli]]<br />
* [[Barindra Kumar Ghosh]]<br />
* [[Jiban Ghoshal]]<br />
* [[Matangini Hazra]]<br />
* [[Bagha Jatin]]<br />
* [[Hemchandra Kanungo]]<br />
* [[Hare Krishna Konar]]<br />
* [[Saroj Mukherjee]]<br />
* [[Shyama Prasad Mukherjee]]<br />
* [[Bipin Chandra Pal]]<br />
* [[Sudhamoy Pramanick]]<br />
* [[Renuka Ray]]<br />
* [[Bidhan Chandra Roy]]<br />
* [[Birendranath Sasmal]]<br />
* [[Narendra Mohan Sen]]<br />
* [[Triguna Sen]]<br />
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===Politicians===<br />
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* [[Muzaffar Ahmad]]<br />
* [[Sultan Ahmed (Indian politician)]]<br />
* [[Mamata Banerjee]]<br />
* [[Jyoti Basu]]<br />
* [[Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee]]<br />
* [[Kedarnath Bhattacharya]]<br />
* [[Tanmoy Bhattacharya]]<br />
* [[Kanailal Bhattacharyya]]<br />
* [[Partha Chatterjee (politician)|Partha Chatterjee]]<br />
* [[Somnath Chatterjee]]<br />
* [[Sovandeb Chattopadhyay]]<br />
* [[A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury]]<br />
* [[Pratap Chandra Chunder]]<br />
* [[Dev (Bengali actor)|Dev]]<br />
* [[Atulya Ghosh]]<br />
* [[Kamal Guha]]<br />
* [[Bimal Gurung]]<br />
* [[Hashim Abdul Halim]]<br />
* [[Firhad Hakim]]<br />
* [[Bir Singh Mahato]]<br />
* [[Mriganko Mahato]]<br />
* [[Narahari Mahato]]<br />
* [[Abha Maiti]]<br />
* [[Amit Mitra]]<br />
* [[Ashok Mitra]]<br />
* [[Pranab Mukherjee]]<br />
* [[Subrata Mukherjee]]<br />
* [[Derek O'Brien (politician)|Derek O'Brien]]<br />
* [[Ajit Kumar Panja]]<br />
* [[Siddhartha Shankar Ray]]<br />
* [[Bidhan Chandra Roy]]<br />
* [[Mukul Roy]]<br />
* [[Saugata Roy]]<br />
* [[Tathagata Roy]]<br />
* [[Mohammed Salim (politician)|Mohammed Salim]]<br />
* [[Prafulla Chandra Sen]]<br />
* [[Babul Supriyo]]<br />
* [[Sabina Yeasmin]]<br />
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===Others===<br />
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* [[Abul Barkat]]<br />
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== Philanthropy and social welfare ==<br />
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* [[Balaram Bose]] householder disciple of Ramakrishna<br />
* [[Nabakrishna Deb]]<br />
* [[Radhakanta Deb]], published two Sanskrit dictionaries used by Westerners<br />
* [[Anil Kumar Gain]]<br />
* [[Bijay Chand Mahtab]]<br />
* [[Uday Chand Mahtab]]<br />
* [[Gobindram Mitter]]<br />
* [[Manindra Chandra Nandy]], Maharaja of Cossimbazar<br />
* [[Rani Rashmoni]]<br />
* [[Mutty Lall Seal]]<br />
* [[Mother Teresa]]<br />
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==Sports==<br />
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===Chess===<br />
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* [[Dibyendu Barua]], Grandmaster<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Telegraph - Calcutta : Jharkhand |url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070815/asp/jharkhand/story_8195963.asp |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180413191443/https://www.telegraphindia.com/1070815/asp/jharkhand/story_8195963.asp |archive-date=13 April 2018 |access-date=21 August 2016}}</ref><br />
* [[Surya Shekhar Ganguly]], Grandmaster<br />
* [[Nisha Mohota]], first woman Grandmaster of West Bengal<br />
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===Cricket===<br />
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* [[Montu Banerjee]]<br />
* [[Shute Banerjee]]<br />
* [[Subroto Banerjee]]<br />
* [[Gopal Bose]]<br />
* [[Utpal Chatterjee]]<br />
* [[Nirode Chowdhury]]<br />
* [[Benu Dasgupta]]<br />
* [[Deep Dasgupta]]<br />
* [[Rumeli Dhar]]<br />
* [[Ashok Dinda]]<br />
* [[Sourav Ganguly]]<br />
* [[Jhulan Goswami]]<br />
* [[Shreevats Goswami]]<br />
* [[Subrata Guha]]<br />
* [[Saba Karim]]<br />
* [[Arun Lal]]<br />
* [[Saradindu Mukherjee]]<br />
* [[Ambar Roy]]<br />
* [[Pankaj Roy]]<br />
* [[Priyanka Roy]]<br />
* [[Wriddhiman Saha]]<br />
* [[Probir Sen]]<br />
* [[Manoj Tiwary (cricketer)|Manoj Tiwary]]<br />
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===Football===<br />
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*[[Rahim Ali]]<br />
*[[P. K. Banerjee]]<br />
*[[Samar Banerjee]]<br />
*[[Shibdas Bhaduri]]<br />
*[[Subrata Bhattacharya]]<br />
*[[Krishanu Dey]]<br />
*[[Chuni Goswami]]<br />
*[[Mehtab Hossain]]<br />
*[[Sailen Manna]]<br />
*[[Abhijit Mondal]]<br />
*[[Arnab Mondal]]<br />
*[[Syed Rahim Nabi]]<br />
*[[Gostha Pal]]<br />
*[[Subrata Paul]]<br />
*[[Mohammed Rafique (footballer)|Mohammed Rafique]]<br />
*[[Gautam Sarkar]]<br />
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===Lawn tennis===<br />
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* [[Jaidip Mukerjea]]<br />
* [[Leander Paes]], noted lawn tennis player of India<br />
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===Squash===<br />
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* [[Ritwik Bhattacharya]], currently second highest ranked Indian player<br />
* [[Saurav Ghosal]], currently highest ranked Indian player<br />
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===Bodybuilding===<br />
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* [[Manohar Aich]], Mr. Universe, 1952<br />
* [[Bishnu Charan Ghosh]], noted bodybuilder and hathayogi<br />
* [[Monotosh Roy]], Mr. Universe, 1951<br />
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===Swimming===<br />
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* [[Masudur Rahman Baidya]], world's first [[Physical disability|physically handicapped]] swimmer to swim across the [[Strait of Gibraltar]]<br />
* [[Bula Choudhury]], first Indian woman to swim the English Channel twice<br />
* [[Prasanta Karmakar]], para swimmer, [[2010 Commonwealth Games]], bronze medal<br />
* [[Arati Saha]], first Asian woman to swim English Channel in 1959<br />
* [[Mihir Sen]], first Indian to swim across the English Channel in 1958<br />
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===Table tennis===<br />
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* [[Ankita Das]], table tennis player, [[2012 Summer Olympics]]; participant in women's singles event, [[2014 Commonwealth Games]]; participant in women's doubles even<br />
* [[Mouma Das]], table tennis player<br />
* [[Poulomi Ghatak]], table tennis player<br />
* [[Soumyajit Ghosh]], table tennis player; as of January 2013, his rank is 1st in India and 68th in Asia; 2014 Commonwealth Games, Participant in men's doubles event<br />
* [[Subhajit Saha]], Commonwealth games gold medallist<br />
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===Weightlifting===<br />
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* [[Sukhen Dey (weightlifter)|Sukhen Dey]], Indian weightlifter; [[2014 Commonwealth Games]], gold medal; [[2010 Commonwealth Games]], gold medal<br />
* [[Anil Mondal]], Indian [[weightlifter]], competed at the [[1972 Summer Olympics]] and the [[1976 Summer Olympics]], the Arjuna Award in the year (1972)<br />
* [[Achinta Sheuli]], [[2022 Commonwealth Games]], Gold medal<br />
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===Others===<br />
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* [[Arjun Atwal]], golfer<br />
* [[Chhanda Gayen]], mountaineering, first Bengali woman to climb [[Mount Everest]]<br />
* [[Dipa Karmakar]], Indian artistic gymnast; [[2014 Commonwealth Games]], bronze medal; 2010 Commonwealth Games participant<br />
* [[Joydeep Karmakar]], Indian shooter, [[2012 Summer Olympics]]; qualified to represent India in men's 50m rifle prone event; [[2014 Commonwealth Games]] participant<br />
* [[Anirban Lahiri]], Indian golfer<br />
* [[Mohammed Ali Qamar]], Indian boxer, [[2002 Commonwealth Games]], gold medal<br />
* [[Jyotirmoyee Sikdar]], athletics, double gold medallist at Bangkok Asiad, 1996<br />
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==Industry/business==<br />
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* [[Radhe Shyam Agarwal]]<br />
* [[Benu Gopal Bangur]]<br />
* [[G. D. Birla]]<br />
* [[Jugal Kishore Birla]]<br />
* [[Madhav Prasad Birla]]<br />
* [[Pritish Chakraborty]]<br />
* [[Purnendu Chatterjee]]<br />
* [[Alamohan Das]]<br />
* [[Sadhan Dutt]]<br />
* [[Sumantra Ghoshal]]<br />
* [[R. P. Goenka]]<br />
* [[Radhe Shyam Goenka]]<br />
* [[Ramnath Goenka]]<br />
* [[Sanjiv Goenka]]<br />
* [[Rajat Gupta]]<br />
* [[Lakshmi Mittal]]<br />
* [[Rajendra Nath Mookerjee]]<br />
* [[Diptendu Pramanick]]<br />
* [[Subir Raha]]<br />
* [[Jagat Seth family|Jagat Seth]]<br />
* [[Dilip Shanghvi]]<br />
* [[Dwarkanath Tagore]]<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[List of people by India state]]<br />
* [[List of Bengalis]]<br />
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