Template:Wikt Template:Infobox surname Chatterjee (Template:Langx), also known as Chattopadhyay is a Bengali Hindu surname, used by the Kulin group of the Bengali Brahmin caste.[1] Together with Banerjees, Mukherjees, Bhattacharjees, and Gangulys, Chatterjees form the Kulin Brahmins, the highest tier of the Bengali caste system.[2] They belong to Rarhi clan of Bengali Brahmins and the Kashyapa gotra.
Variation
Chatterjee is an Anglicized variant of the Sanskritized Chattopadhyay.[1] English language spellings include Chatterjee, Chatterjea, Chatterji, Chaterjee, Chattopadhyay, and Chattopadhyaya.[3][4][5][6][7]
Notable Chatterjees
- Abhishek Chatterjee Template:En dash Bengali film and television actor
- Abir Chatterjee – actor
- Adhar Kumar Chatterji – former Chief of the Naval Staff of the Indian Navy (1966–1970)
- Aditi Chatterjee – Bengali film and television actress
- Alok Chatterjee – theatre actor and director
- Amarendranath Chatterjee – freedom fighter
- Amitabha Chattopadhyay – biophysicist
- Amitava Chattopadhyay – INSEAD professor of marketing and innovation
- Angana P. Chatterji – anthropologist, activist and feminist historian
- Anil Chatterjee – actor
- Anindo Chatterjee – tabla player
- Anjan Chatterjee (neuroscientist) – cognitive neuroscientist
- Aroup Chatterjee – British Indian atheist, physician, author of Mother Teresa: The Untold Story
- Ashim Chatterjee – politician and activist
- Asima Chatterjee – Indian organic chemist and the second woman to be conferred a Doctorate of Science by an Indian university
- Atul Chandra Chatterjee – Indian diplomat and government official. Served as the Indian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 1925 to 1931.
- Bamacharan Chattopadhyay – ardent devotee of Maa Tara, also considered to be an avatar of Lord Shiva
- Bankim Chandra Chatterjee – Indian patriot, writer, poet and journalist and composer of Vande Mataram, the national song of India
- Basu Chatterjee – film director
- Bhaswar Chatterjee – Indian actor
- Biswajit Chatterjee – Bollywood actor
- Debabarta Chatterjee – botanist
- Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya – author, philosopher
- Debjani Chatterji – Indian-born British poet
- Deen K. Chatterjee - philosopher
- Dhritiman Chatterjee – actor
- Dhruva Chatterjee – writer and screenplay writer of Hindi movies
- Dipankar Chatterji – molecular biologist
- Gadadhar Chattopadhyay – Sri Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa, devotee of Dakshina Kali and Priest of Dakshineswar Kali Temple.
- Gautam Chattopadhyay – musician
- Harindranath Chattopadhyay – poet, actor and brother of Sarojini Naidu
- Indira Chatterji (born 1973), Swiss-Indian mathematician
- Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee – Indian freedom fighter, activist and member of Rajya Sabha
- Joya Chatterji – Professor of South Asian history
- Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay – social reformer
- Kshetresa Chandra Chattopadhyaya – Sanskrit scholar
- Mirai Chatterjee – Indian social worker
- Mohini Mohun Chatterji – theosophist, scholar
- Moushumi Chatterjee – Bollywood actress
- Neil Chatterjee – American lawyer, political advisor, and government official, chair of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission twice between 2017 and 2020
- Nigamananda – Yogi
- Parambrata Chatterjee – actor
- Partha Chatterjee – scholar and author
- Piya Chattopadhyay – Canadian broadcaster
- Pratap Chatterjee – journalist and author
- Priyadarshini Chatterjee – Miss India World 2016
- Priyanshu Chatterjee – Bollywood actor
- Prosenjit Chatterjee – actor
- Pulok Chatterji – former bureaucrat and Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India (2011–2014)
- Purnendu Chatterjee – businessman, founder of TCG
- Rabiranjan Chattopadhyay, Indian politician
- Ramakrishna Paramahamsa – born Gadadhar Chattopadhyay, a famous mystic of 19th-century India
- Ramananda Chatterjee — founder, editor, and owner of the Modern Review, he has been described as the father of Indian journalism
- Rangan Chatterjee – Physician, author, television presenter and broadcaster
- Sabitri Chatterjee – Indian Bengali female actress
- Sankar Chatterjee – paleontologist
- Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian writer
- Sarojini Naidu née Chattopadhyay – freedom fighter, poet
- Saswata Chatterjee – actor
- Shakti Chattopadhyay – poet
- Shekhar Chatterjee – entrepreneur
- Shiba P. Chatterjee – professor, former president of International Geographical Union
- Sitaramdas Omkarnath – Bhakti saint
- Somnath Chatterjee – eminent lawyer and former speaker of Lok Sabha
- Soumitra Chatterjee – actor
- Sourav Chatterjee – mathematician
- Sovan Chatterjee – former mayor of the city of Kolkata
- Srabanti Chatterjee – actress
- Subhendu Chatterjee – actor
- Subhadeep Chatterjee – Indian molecular biologist
- Sudeep Chatterjee – cinematographer
- Sudip Chattopadhyay – biologist
- Suman Chatterjee (now Kabir Suman) – musician
- Suniti Kumar Chatterji – Indian linguist, educationist and litterateur
- Swapan Chattopadhyay – director of the Cockcroft Institute
- Tannishtha Chatterjee – actress
- Upamanyu Chatterjee – author
- Utpal Chatterjee – cricketer
- Uttam Kumar (Arun Chatterjee) – actor
- Vikram Chatterjee – Indian actor of Bengali cinema
- Virendranath Chattopadhyaya – activist
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Dictionary of American Family Names: 3-Volume Set{{#if:Hanks|, Hanks}. Oxford University Press, USA(2003). ISBN 9780195081374
- ↑ Krishna Consciousness in the West{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Bucknell University Press(1989). ISBN 0-8387-5144-X
- ↑ Ritual Worship of the Great Goddess: The Liturgy of the Durga Puja with Interpretations{{#if:Rodrigues|, Rodrigues}. SUNY Press(2003). ISBN 9780791488447
- ↑ In Another Country: Colonialism, Culture, and the English Novel in India{{#if:Joshi|, Joshi}. Columbia University Press(2002). ISBN 9780231500906
- ↑ Names of Persons: National Usages for Entry in Catalogues{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG(2013). ISBN 9783110974553
- ↑ Ānandamaṭh, Or, The Sacred Brotherhood{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Oxford University Press(2005). ISBN 9780195178579
- ↑ The Refugee Woman: Partition of Bengal, Gender, and the Political{{#if:Chakraborty|, Chakraborty}. Oxford University Press(2018). ISBN 9780199095391