List of people from West Bengal
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.
Literature
Medieval Bengal literary scene
Other authors from early modern period
Prominent foreign-language authors from Bengal
Journalists
Comics Writer
Haricharan Bandopadhayaya , lexicographerRajshekhar Basu , major contributor for scientific terms in Bengali and lexicographerGirindrasekhar Bose , first non-European correspondent of FreudNirmal Kumar Bose , anthropologist, associate of GandhiSuniti Kumar Chatterji , linguistDebiprasad Chattopadhyaya , social philosopherKirti N. Chaudhuri , historianPramatha Chaudhuri , creator of modern Bengali prose (chalit bhasha) along with TagoreHarinath De , linguistRomesh Chunder Dutt , historianAnil Kumar Gain , fellow of the Royal SocietyBiraja Sankar Guha , anthropologistRanajit Guha , subaltern theoristR. C. Majumdar , historianVina Mazumdar , women's studies academicRajendralal Mitra , first Indian to work with IndologistsBhudev Mukhopadhyay , earliest educationistNiharranjan Ray , historianHem Chandra Raychaudhuri , Indian historianTapan Raychaudhuri , professor of history at Oxford UniversityRaja Ram Mohan Roy , first Bengali prose writerJadunath Sarkar , historianSumit Sarkar , historianSusobhan Sarkar , historianAmartya Sen , Nobel Prize awardee in EconomicsDinesh Chandra Sen , historian of Bengali literature and folkloristSukumar Sen , linguistHara Prasad Shastri , historian of Bengali language and cultureManiklal Sinha , novelist, historian and archaeologist of west RarhSurajit Chandra Sinha , anthropologistDineshchandra Sircar , epigraphistGayatri Chakravorty Spivak , literature theorist.Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar , creator of Standard Bengali prose (sadhu bhasha)
Scholars and polymaths
Asima Chatterjee , scholar of chemistrySuniti Kumar Chatterji , linguistAmlan Datta , economist, Vice Chancellor of Visva BharatiRadhakanta Deb , linguistAnil Kumar Gain , scholar, mathematicianPrithwindra Mukherjee , scholar of Indian history, philosophy, religion and cultureRamendra Sundar Tribedi , scientist
Education
Pioneers
Post-independence
Modern times
Others
Teachers
Babar Ali , world's youngest headmaster, headmaster and founder of Ananda Siksha NiketanKatyayanidas Bhattacharya , philosophy, Presidency CollegeDebiprasad Chattopadhyaya , philosophy, University of CalcuttaBarun De , history, Presidency CollegeMahasweta Devi , English, Vijaygarh Jyotish Ray CollegeChinmoy Guha , English, Vijaygarh Jyotish Ray College and University of CalcuttaK. C. Nag , mathematics, Mitra institutionSusobhan Sarkar , history, Presidency College
Philosophy
Pre-modern period
Modern age
Science
Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay , computer scientistAmar Nath Bhaduri , Indian molecular enzymologist and chemical biologistSomnath Bharadwaj , cosmologyAvik Bhattacharya , remote sensingSantanu Bhattacharya , chemistryBhabatarak Bhattacharyya , Indian structural biologist, biochemistMani Lal Bhaumik Birendra Bijoy Biswas , Indian molecular biologist and geneticistSatyendra Nath Bose , Indian theoretical physicist and mathematicianUpendranath Brahmachari Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri , computer scientistAsis Datta , Indian biochemist, molecular biologist and genetic engineerMoumita Dutta , Indian physicistAnil Kumar Gain , mathematicsPartha Ghose Sankar Ghosh , Indian-American immunologist, microbiologist, and biochemistPrasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Chanchal Kumar Majumdar , Indian condensed matter physicist Dwijesh Dutta Majumdar , computer scientistUjjwal Maulik , computer scientistAshesh Prosad Mitra Sisir Kumar Mitra , Indian physicistSubhash Mukhopadhyay , physicianIndira Nath , Indian immunologistSankar Kumar Pal , computer scientistShehla Pervin , molecular biologistPrafulla Chandra Ray , Indian chemist, industrialist and philanthropistAmal Kumar Raychaudhuri Somak Raychaudhury , Indian astrophysicistAnjali Roy , mycologistSubrata Roy , plasma physicsRam Brahma Sanyal , zoologyDebi Prasad Sarkar , Indian biochemist, immunologist and virologistAmartya Sen , Nobel Laureate, economist, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic SciencesAshoke Sen , physicsRadhanath Sikdar Snehasikta Swarnakar , Indian chemical biologist
Religious scholars
Muslim
Pre-modern period
The Brahmo Samaj
Hindu revival movement
Derozians
Military
Air Vice Marshal Madhavendra Banerji , recipient of Maha Vir Chakra
Flight Lieutenant Suhas Biswas , recipient of Ashoka Chakra
Subhas Chandra Bose , founder, Indian National Army General Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri , Indian Army Chief during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
Admiral Adhar Kumar Chatterji , Indian Navy Chief between 1966 and 1970
Air Commodore Sudhindra Kumar Majumdar (1927–2011), India's first military helicopter pilotAir Marshal Subroto Mukerjee , former Head of Indian Air Force
Chief of the Air Staff Arup Raha , 24th chief of Indian Air Force
Captain Man Bahadur Rai , recipient of Ashoka Chakra
Indra Lal Roy , first Indian (pre Independence) flying aceGeneral Shankar Roychowdhury , former Indian Army Chief
Art
Early modern period
From mid-twentieth century
Film and photography
Dulal Dutta Goutam Ghose , filmmaker, cinematographer, and music composerRituparno Ghosh , filmmakerSuman Ghosh , filmmaker, documentary filmmakerAtiul Islam , filmmaker, screenwriterAjoy Kar , cinematographer, filmmaker, screenwriterTarun Majumdar , filmmaker, screenwriter, author, illustratorSubrata Mitra , cinematographerHrishikesh Mukherjee , Indian film director, editor and writerIndrani Pal-Chaudhuri Satyajit Ray , filmmaker, screenwriter, author, illustrator and music composerMrinal Sen , filmmaker, screenwriter, author
Music
Composers
Allauddin Khan , sarod and multi-instrumentalistAli Akbar Khan , sarodAnnapurna Devi , surbaharBuddhadeb Dasgupta , sarodManilal Nag , sitarNikhil Banerjee , sitarRavi Shankar , sitarRadhika Mohan Maitra , Sarod and MohanveenaSankha Chatterjee , tablaShankar Ghosh , tablaPannalal Ghosh , fluteJnan Prakash Ghosh , Harmonium and tabla
Classical
Songs of Tagore and his contemporaries
Modern
Nazrul geeti
Bengali Folk Song
Movies
Directors
Actors
Actresses
Cinematographer
Editor
Screenplay Writer
Dance
Doctors
Modern Days
Magicians
Politicians and revolutionaries
Pre-modern
Colonial period
Indian freedom fighters
Twentieth century
Politicians
Others
Donation and social welfare
Sports
Chess
Cricket
Lawn tennis
Squash
Bodybuilding
Swimming
Table tennis
Weightlifting
Others
Arjun Atwal , golferAnirban Lahiri , Indian golferBalaram Bose , philanthropistChhanda Gain , mountaineering, first Bengali woman to climb Mount Everest Dipa Karmakar , Indian artistic gymnast; 2014 Commonwealth Games , bronze medal; 2010 Commonwealth Games participantJyotirmoyee Sikdar , athletics, double gold medallist at Bangkok Asiad, 1996Joydeep Karmakar , Indian shooter, 2012 Summer Olympics ; qualified to represent India in men's 50m rifle prone event; 2014 Commonwealth Games participantMohammed Ali Qamar , Indian boxer, 2002 Commonwealth Games , gold medal
Other areas
See also
References
