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{{Infobox award
| country = India
| name = Banga Bibhushan
| image =
| image_size =
| alt =
| caption =
| subheader = State Civilian award
| awarded_for = Services of personalities in various fields
| location = [[West Bengal]]
| sponsor = [[Government of West Bengal]]
| firstawarded = 2011
| lastawarded =
| reward = ₹200,000
| former name =
| award1_type = Total awarded
| award1_winner = 22
| award2_type = First winner
| award2_winner = [[Amala Shankar]]
| award3_type = Last winner
| award3_winner = [[Ali Ahmed Hussain Khan|Ustad Ali Ahmed Hussein Khan]]
| website =
| previous =
| next = [[Banga Bhushan]]
}}
'''Banga Bibhushan Samman''' ({{lang-bn|বঙ্গবিভূষণ}}) is a title instituted by the [[West Bengal government]] to honour the services of personalities in various fields.<ref>[http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-newdelhi/article2289417.ece Bangabibhushan title for luminaries]</ref> The '''Banga Ratna Samman''' and the '''Banga Bhushan Samman''' ("Bengal ornament" বঙ্গ ভূষণ) awards are also granted.

The award was conceived by [[Mamata Banerjee]], [[Chief Minister of West Bengal]], on 25 July 2011.<ref>[http://www.bengalinformation.org/2011/07/25/bangabibhushan-sanmelan-2011-at-science-city-auditorium/ Bangabibhushan Sanmelan 2011 at Science city auditorium]</ref>

==List of awardees==

===2011===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Name!! Field
|-
|[[Amala Shankar]]||Dance
|-
|[[Mahashweta Devi]]||Literature
|-
|[[Sandhya Mukhopadhyay]]||[[Bengali Music|Music (Bengali Modern Songs)]]
|-
|[[Supriya Devi]]||Film (acting)
|-
|[[Manna Dey]]||Music (Bengali Modern Songs and Hindi Film Music)
|-
|[[Amjad Ali Khan]]||Music (Indian Classical Instrumental)
|-
|[[Dwijen Mukhopadhyay]]||Music (Rabindra Sangeet and Bengali Modern Songs)
|-
|[[Shailen Manna]]||[[Sports]] (Football)
|-
|[[Haradhan Bandopadhyay]]||Film (acting)
|}

===2012===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Name!! Field
|-
|[[Suchitra Sen]]||Film (acting)
|-
|[[Leslie Claudius]]||[[Sports]] (hockey)
|-
|[[Jogen Chowdhury]]||Painting
|-
||[[Rudraprasad Sengupta]]||Theatre
|-
||[[Bibhas Chakraborty]]||Theatre
|-
||[[Shaoli Mitra]]||Theatre
|-
||[[Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay]]||Literature
|-
||[[Sanjeev Chattopadhyay]]||Literature
|-
||[[Goutam Ghose]]||Film ([[Film director|Direction]])
|-
||[[Joy Goswami]]||Literature
|-
|[[Ranjit Mallick]]||Film (acting)
|-
|[[Ajoy Chakraborty|Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty]]||Music (Hindustani Classical)
|-
|[[Ali Ahmed Hussain Khan|Ustad Ali Ahmed Hussein Khan]]||Music (Sehnai)
|}
In May 2012 [[The Sunday Indian]] reported that [[Ravi Shankar]] had refused the award.<ref>[http://www.thesundayindian.com/en/story/ravi-shankar-refuses-bangabibhusan-award/14/35299/ Ravi Shankar refuses 'Bangabibhusan' Award]</ref>

===2013===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Name!! Field
|-
||[[Amitabha Chowdhury]]||Journalist
|-
|[[B.K. Birla]]||Industrialist
|-
|[[Mithun Chakraborty]]||Film (acting)
|-
|[[Narayan Debnath]]||Artist
|-
|[[Purna Das Baul]]||Singer
|-
||[[Rituporno Ghosh]]||Film Maker
|-
||[[Sabitri Chatterjee]]||Actor
|-
||[[Sandhya Roy]]||Actor
|-
||[[Subir Sen]]||Singer
|-
||[[Subhaprasanna]]||Painter
|-
||[[Sourav Ganguly]]||[[Sports]]
|-
|[[Thankamani Kutti]]||Dancer
|-
|}<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/host-of-celebrities-to-be-get-bengal-government-awards-monday-113051701035_1.html|title=Host of celebrities to be get Bengal government awards Monday|newspaper=Business Standard India|date=17 May 2013}}</ref>

===2018===
The Banga Bibhushan of [http://wbcmo.gov.in/events.aspx?mon=88&type=EVENT 2018] was awarded on 21 May, to the following:

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Name!! Field
|-
| | [[Asha Bhosle]] || (singer)
|-
| | Binapani Debi || (Mathua Activist)
|-
| |[[Girija Shankar Roy]] ||(academician)
|-
| |[[Suhrid Kumar Bhowmick]] ||(linguist)
|-
| |[[Samaresh Majumder]] || (writer)
|-
| |[[Subrata Bhattacharya (footballer)|Subrata Bhattacharya]] || (footballer)
|-
| |[[Mohammed Habib (footballer)|Mohammed Habib]] ||(footballer)
|-
| |[[Prosenjit Chatterjee]] ||(actor)
|-
| |[[Shyamal Kumar Sen]] || (judge)
|}

==See also==
*[[Rabindra Puraskar]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
* [http://www.kolkatabengalinfo.com/2012/05/bangabibhushan-award-2012-winner-names.html Bangabibhushan Title Winners 2012]
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[[Category:Awards established in 2011]]
[[Category:Civil awards and decorations of West Bengal]]

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