List of people from West Bengal
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This is a list of famous and notable people from West Bengal, India. This would include persons who are known to a large number of people and is not based on the extent of their popularity. Neither is the list viewed from the context of the present. Their fame could be brief, what matters is that they were well-known during the peak of their popularity.
Contents
Arts
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Nandalal Bose
- Ramkinkar Baij
- Jamini Roy
- Paresh Maity
- Ganesh Pyne
- Bikash Bhattacharya
Literature
- Rabindranath Tagore (Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913)
- Kazi Nazrul Islam
- Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
- Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
- Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay
- Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay
- Tarashankar Bandopadhyay
- Manik Bandopadhyay
- Rajsekhar Bose or Parasuram
- Bimal Kar
- Sunil Gangopadhyay
- Shakti Chattopadhayay
- Sankha Ghosh
- Ashapurna Devi
- Arun Mitra
- Samaresh Majumdar
- Shankar
- Nirad C. Chaudhuri
- Amitav Ghosh
- Amit Chaudhuri
- Upamanyu Chatterjee
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Kiran Desai
Movies
Directors
- Aparna Sen
- Asit Sen
- Anil Biswas
- Bimal Roy
- Budhdhadeb Dasgupta
- Gautam Ghose
- Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Dadasaheb Phalke Award, 2000
- Satyajit Ray, (OSCAR for Lifetime Achievement in 1992)
- Mrinal Sen
- Rituparno Ghosh
- Ritwik Ghatak
- Tapan Sinha
- Tarun Majumdar
Actors
- Mithun Chakraborty
- Pramathesh Barua
- Biswajit
- Prasenjit
- Rahul Bose
- Rahul Roy
- Soumitra Chatterjee
- Utpal Dutta
- Uttam Kumar
- Victor Banerjee
- Ranjit Mullick
- Gyanesh Mukherjee
- Ajitesh Banerjee
- Kali Banerjee
- Rabi Ghosh
- Chinmoy Roy
- Bhanu Banerjee
- Jahar Roy
- Jahar Gangully
- Kishore Kumar
- Dhritiman Chatterjee
- Tapas Paul
- Chiranjit
- Shantu Mukherjee
Actresses
Also see List_of_Bengali_actresses- Aparna Sen
- Bipasha Basu
- Devika Rani, first winner of Dadasaheb Phalke Award, 1970
- Jaya Bachchan (Jaya Bhaduri)
- Kajol
- Kananbala
- Kanan Devi, Dadasaheb Phalke Award, 1977
- Moon Moon Sen
- Moushmi Chatterji
- Raakhee Gulzar
- Rani Mukherji
- Riya Sen
- Raima Sen
- Rimi Sen
- Ruma Guha Thakurta
- Sharmila Tagore
- Suchitra Sen
- Supriya Devi
- Sushmita Sen
- Madhavi Mukherjee
- Mamata Shankar
- Shandhya Roy
- June Malia
- Nandini Malia
- Debasree Roy
- Mohua Roy Choudhury
- Lili Chakroborty
- Sabitri Chatterjee
- Sumita Sanyal
- Indrani Haldar
- Rachna Banerjee
- Arpita Paul
MUSIC
Music (Vocal)
- Abhijeet,full name Abhijeet Bhattacharya
- Ajoy Chakrabarty
- Arati Mukherjee
- Bappi Lahiri
- Babul Supriyo
- Budhaditya Mukherjee
- Debabrata Biswas
- Hemant Kumar, full name Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhayay
- JnanPrakash Ghosh
- Kanan Devi
- Kanika Bandyopadhyay
- Kishore Kumar
- Kumar Sanu
- Manna Dey
- Nachiketa
- Pankaj Kumar Mullick
- Salil Chowdhury
- Sandhya Mujherjee
- Shaan,full name Shantanu Mukherjee
- Santideb Ghosh
- Shyamal Mitra
- Shreya Ghoshal
- Sangeeta Bandyopadyay
- Suchitra Mitra
Music (Instrumental & Classical)
- Ali Akbar Khan
- Vilayat Khan
- Ravi Shankar
- Pandit Sankha Chatterjee (Tabla)
- Nikhil Banerjee
- Anindo Chatterjee
- Anjan Chattopadhyay
- Bikram Ghosh
- Tanmay Bose
- Parveen Sultana
Dance
- Uday Shankar
- Mamata Shankar
Theatre
- Girish Ghosh
- Shishir Bhaduri
- Shambhu Mitra
- Ajitesh Bandopadhyay
- Rudra Prasad Sen Gupta
- Utpal Dutta
Politics
Freedom Fighters
- Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
- Khudiram Bose
- Ajoy Ghosh
- Keshab Chakravarty
- Aurobindo Ghosh
- Rajendra Lahiri
- Rash Behari Bose
- Batukeshwar Dutta
- Bipin Chandra Pal
- Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das
- Rani Rashmoni
- Rash Behari Bose
- Sarojini Naidu
- Syama Prasad Mookerjee
- Basanta Kumar Biswas
- Ambika Chakrobarty
- Sri Aurobindo
- Barindra Kumar Ghosh
- Bipin Behari Ganguli
- Bina Das
- Jatindra Nath Das
- Jogesh Chandra Chattopadhyay
- Narendra Mohan Sen
- B. C. Roy
Science
Religion
- Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
- Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
- Swami Vivekananda
- Sarada Devi
- Maharishi Debendranath Tagore
- Keshub Chunder Sen
- A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Sports
- Mihir Sen, swimmer. First Asian to swim across the English Channel in 1958.
- Arati Saha, swimmer. First Asian woman to swim English Channel in 1959.
- Bula Chowdhury, swimmer. First Indian woman to swim English Channel twice.
- Dibyendu Barua, chess grandmaster
- Surya Sekhar Ganguly, chess grandmaster*
- Saurav Ganguly, captain, Indian cricket team
- Pankaj Roy,cricketer
- Arun Lal,cricketer
- Saba Karim,cricketer
- Sailen Manna, footballer
- Chuni Goswami, footballer
- P.K.Banerjee, footballer
- Subrata Bhattacharya, footballer
- Krishanu Dey, footballer
- Jyotirmoyee Sikdar, athletics. Double gold-medallist at Bangkok Asiad, 1996
- Leander Paes, lawn tennis player. Former doubles world no. one with Mahesh Bhupathi and bronze-medallist at Atlanta Olympics, 1996
- Soumyadeep Roy, Table Tennis. Commonwealth games gold medalist
- Subhajit Saha, Table Tennis. Commonwealth games gold medalist
- Mohammad Ali Qamar, Boxing . Commonwealth games gold medalist Mohammad Ali Qamar
- Arjun Atwal, golfer.
- Rohan Gavaskar,cricketer
Others
- Amartya Sen, economist, Nobel Laureate, 1998
- Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (A social and cultural reformist who can be called the father of Bengali language)
- Raja Ram Mohan Roy, a great social reformist who has a great contribution towards the upliftment of women
- Rani Rashmoni, very wealthy zamindar, champion of the people and founder of Dakkhineswar.
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