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'''Banerjee''' or '''Bandyopadhyay''' is a surname of [[Bengali Brahmins|Brahmins]] originating from the [[Bengal]] region of the [[Indian subcontinent]].<br />
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==Lineage and ancestry==<br />
Banerjees are from the ancient [[Shandilya]] [[Gotra]], which means all Banerjees are descended from [[Kannauj]] from the ancient sage [[Shandilya (Rishi)|Shandilya]] as per the Puranas.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ghurye |first1=Govind Sadashiv |title=Caste and Race in India |date=1969 |publisher=Popular Prakashan |isbn=978-81-7154-205-5 |page=257 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nWkjsvf6_vsC&pg=PA254 |accessdate=16 March 2020 |language=en}}</ref> Together with [[Mukherjee]]s, [[Chatterjee]]s, [[Bhattacharjee]]s and [[Ganguly (surname)|Ganguly]]s, Banerjees form the [[Kulin Brahmins]].<ref name="Bromley">{{cite book |title=Krishna consciousness in the West |editor1-first=David G. |editor1-last=Bromley |editor2-first=Larry D. |editor2-last=Shinn |first=Thomas J. |last=Hopkins |chapter=The Social and Religious Background for Transmission of Gaudiya Vaisnavism to the West |publisher=Bucknell University Press |year=1989 |isbn=978-0-8387-5144-2 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F-EuD3M2QYoC&pg=PA35 |pages=35–36 |accessdate=28 February 2022}}</ref><br />
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== History ==<br />
{{quotation|"Indian (Bengal) and Bangladeshi: Hindu (Brahman) name, the first element of which, Ban-, is taken from Bandyopadhyay The final element -jee is derived from jha (greatly reduced form of Sanskrit upadhyaya 'teacher'); thus, Banerjee 'teacher who is head and only performs the main work aarti or,Vandana. A Sanskrit version of this name, Vandyopadhyaya, was coined from the elements vandya 'venerable' + upadhyaya 'teacher'. "|Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, {{ISBN|0-19-508137-4}}|source=<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hanks |first1=Patrick |title=Dictionary of American Family Names |date=8 May 2003 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-977169-1 |page=94 |url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Dictionary_of_American_Family_Names/FJoDDAAAQBAJ?gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover |language=en}}</ref>}}<br />
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== Notable people ==<br />
Notable people with the surname Banerjee, Bandopadhyay, or variations, include:<br />
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*[[Alapan Bandyopadhyay]], IAS Officer<br />
*[[Anjan Bandyopadhyay]], Noted journalist<br />
* [[Abhijit Banerjee]], Nobel laureate economist<br />
* [[Albion Rajkumar Banerjee]]<br />
* [[Ambica Banerjee]]<br />
* [[Audrish Banerjee]]<br />
* [[Bhanu Banerjee]], actor and freedom activist<br />
* [[Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay]]<br />
* [[Bidisha Bandyopadhyay]], writer, broadcaster<br />
* [[Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni]]<br />
* [[Dibakar Banerjee]], film director<br />
* [[Dola Banerjee]]<br />
* [[Gooroodas Banerjee]], High Court judge<br />
* [[Gurudas Bandyopadhyay]], Actor <br />
* [[Gopeshwar Banerjee]] <br />
* [[Haradhan Bandopadhyay]], actor<br />
* [[Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar|Ishwar Chandra Bandyopadhyay]]<br />
* [[Jenni Banerjee]], actress<br />
* [[Kali Banerjee]], actor<br />
* [[Kali Charan Banerjee]]<br />
* [[Kalyan Banerjee (politician)|Kalyan Banerjee]]<br />
* [[Kanika Banerjee|Kanika Bandyopadhyay]] (1924–2000), singer <br />
* [[Kanu Banerjee]] (1905–1985), actor (Pather Panchali)<br />
* [[Karuna Banerjee]] (1919–2001), actress (Pather Panchali)<br />
* [[Krishna Mohan Banerjee]]<br />
* [[Kaushik Banerjee]], actor<br />
* [[Mamata Banerjee]]<br />
* [[Manik Bandopadhyay]], writer, novelist<br />
* [[Nikhil Banerjee]], composer, musician<br />
* [[Nyra Banerjee]], Indian television actress and assistant director.<br />
* [[Pradip Kumar Banerjee]]<br />
* [[Prith Banerjee]]<br />
* [[Pooja Banerjee]], television actress<br />
* [[Puja Banerjee]], film and television actress<br />
* [[Rachana Banerjee]], actor<br />
* [[Raghab Bandyopadhyay]], prose writer<br />
* [[Rahul Banerjee (archer)|Rahul Banerjee]], archer<br />
* [[Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay|R D Banerji]], The discoverer of Mohenjo-daro, the principal site of the Indus Valley Civilisation <br />
* [[Rina Banerjee]]<br />
* [[Ruprekha Banerjee]]<br />
* [[San Banarje]], film director, producer, photographer<br />
* [[Sanjay Banerjee]], Indian engineer<br />
* [[Shakuntala Banerjee]] (born 1973), German journalist<br />
* [[Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay]]<br />
* [[Sarnath Banerjee]]<br />
* [[Somen Banerjee]]<br />
* [[Surendranath Banerjee]], first Indian to qualify Indian Civil Service Examination<br />
* [[Sushmita Banerjee]], writer <br />
* [[Victor Banerjee]], actor both in Tollywood, Bollywood and Hollywood<br />
* [[Vikram Banerjee]]<br />
* [[Gargi Banerji]], cricketer<br />
* [[Sara Banerji]], writer<br />
* [[Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee]], first president of the [[Indian National Congress]].<br />
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