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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. 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, or those who were based in Calcutta prior to partition and chose not to return to their ancestral districts. , West Bengal (Bengali: পশà§à¦šà¦¿à¦®à¦¬à¦™à§à¦— Poshchimbôŋgo) is a state in eastern India. ...
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East Bengal was the name used during two periods in the 20th century for a territory that roughly included the modern state of Bangladesh. ...
Arts
Abanindranath Tagore (1871-1951), was the principal artist of the Bengal school and the first major exponent of swadeshi values in Indian art. ...
The paintings of Nandalal Bose are considered among Indias best modern paintings by many critics. ...
Ramkinkar Baij (Bengali: রামকিনà§à¦•à¦° বেজ)(May 20, 1906 - August 2, 1980) is an Indian sculptor, known as the Pioneer of Modern Indian Sculpture. ...
Jamini Roy (1887-1972) was an Indian painter from Kolkata (Calcutta in West Bengal). ...
Paresh Maity (Born in 1965 in Kolkata, India) is an Indian artist. ...
Ganesh Pyne is a renowned Calcutta born Indian painter. ...
Bikash Bhattacharya or Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya is the present mayor of Kolkata (2005-2010 session), heading Kolkata municipal corporation. ...
Literature (Bengali: , IPA: ) (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), also known by the sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, Brahmo Samaj philosopher, visual artist, playwright, novelist, and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ...
Nobel Prize in Literature medal. ...
Year 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
Nazrul playing a flute, Chittagong, 1926 Kazi Nazrul Islam (Bangla: কাজী নজরà§à¦² ইসলাম) (b. ...
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, also known as Sarat Chandra Chatterjee (15 September 1876 - 16 January 1938) was a popular Bengali novelist of early 20th century India. ...
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (26 June 1838 - 8 April 1894) (Bengali: Bôngkim Chôndro Chôţţopaddhae) (Chattopadhyay in the original Bengali; Chatterjee as spelt by the British) was a Bengali Indian poet, novelist, essayist and journalist, most famous as the author of Vande Mataram or Bande Mataram...
Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay has been a well known literary figure of Bengal. ...
Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay (Bengali: Bibhutibhushon Bôndopaddhae) was a Bengali novelist and writer. ...
Tarasankar Bandopadhya (23 July 1887 -14 September 1971) at Lavpur, Birbhum in the state of West Bengal. ...
Manik Bandopadhay (Bangla: মানিক বনà§à¦¦à§‹à¦ªà¦¾à¦§à§à¦¯à¦¾à¦¯à¦¼) (1908-1956) is one of the most influential novelists in Bangla literature. ...
Rajsekhar Basu, or Parashuram (March 16, 1880 - April 27, 1960) was a Bengali writer known more for his comic and satirical stories. ...
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Gurusaday Dutt, Esq. ...
Shakti Chattopadhay (Bangla: শকà§à¦¤à¦¿ চটà§à¦¯à§‹à¦ªà¦¾à¦§à§à¦¯à¦¾à¦¯à¦¼) (25 november 1934) was a Bengali poet. ...
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Arun Mitra was born in November of 1909 in Jashore, now in Bangladesh. ...
Famous Bengali writer. ...
Shankar ,real name Mani Shankar Mukherjee is very popular writer in Bengali language. ...
Amitav Ghosh (born 1956 in Calcutta), is an Indian author, known for his work in the English language. ...
Amit Chaudhuri (b. ...
Upamanyu Chatterjee, is a Bengali Indian author. ...
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1956 - ) is an Indian-American author, poet, and professor of English at The University of Houston Creative Writing Program. ...
Kiran Desai (born 3 September 1971) [1] is a South Asian American author. ...
Romesh Chunder Dutt (1848-1909) Romesh Chunder Dutt, CIE (Calcutta August 13, 1848 — Baroda November 30, 1909), or R. C. Dutt, was a Bengali writer, civil servant, economic historian, and translator of Ramayana and Mahabharata. ...
Syed Mustafa Siraj is a Bengali writer. ...
Toru Dutt (March 4, 1856 - August 30, 1877) was an English and French poet and author, who made amark in literature in spite of her premature death. ...
Moti Nandi (Bengali: ) is a Bengali writer based in Kolkata, India. ...
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(Bengali: সতà§à¦¯à¦œà¦¿à¦¤à§ রায় Shottojit Rae) (May 2, 1921–April 23, 1992) was an Indian filmmaker who is widely regarded as one of the greatest auteurs of 20th century cinema. ...
Sandipan Chattopadhyay is one of the stalwarts of new age Bengali literature and arguably the best among the group of the writers that ruled Bengali literature for last 50 years. ...
Subodh Ghosh (1909-1980) was a noted Bengali author. ...
Bonoful (1899-1979), was a renowned Bengali author, a charismatic short story writer. ...
Sanjeev Chattopadhyay (Bengali: ) was born on February 28, 1936 in Kolkata, India. ...
Premendra Mitra (1904), a renowned Bengali poet, novelist, later, a thriller and science fiction writer. ...
Sunil Gangopadhyay was born on September 7, 1934 at Faridpur in what is now Bangladesh. ...
Krittibas Ojha (Bangla: কৄতà§à¦¤à¦¿à¦¬à¦¾à¦¸ ওà¦à¦¾) is a medieval Bengali poet. ...
Chandidas (Bangla: চনà§à¦¡à§€à¦¦à¦¾à¦¸) (born 1408 CE) refers to (possibly more than one) medieval poet of Bengal. ...
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Ramprasad Sen (Bangla: রামপà§à¦°à¦¸à¦¾à¦¦ সেন) (1720-1781) was a Bengali song-writer and singer of Hindu devotional songs, specially Shyamasangit (Songs devoted to the goddess Kali). ...
Sri Aurobindo (Bangla: শà§à¦°à§€ অরবিনà§à¦¦ Sri Ôrobindo, Sanskrit: शà¥à¤°à¥€ अरविनà¥à¤¦ SrÄ« Aravinda) (August 15, 1872–December 5, 1950) was an Indian nationalist, scholar, poet, mystic, evolutionary philosopher, yogi and guru [1]. After a short political career in which he became one of leaders of the early movement for the freedom of India from British...
Akkhoykumar Boral (1860-1919), was a Bengali poet and writer. ...
A well-known photo of Sukumar Ray Sukumar Ray (Bangla:সà§à¦•à§à¦®à¦¾à¦° রায়) (1887-1923) was a Bengali nonsense poet, story writer and playwright. ...
Annadashankar Roy (1904), was a renowned Bengali author. ...
Dilipkumar Roy (1897-1980) was a Bengali Indian musician, musicologist, novelist, poet and essayist of a vast culture, endowed as much with intellectual gifts as with an innate devotion. ...
Swami Vivekananda (Bengali: Shami Bibekanondo) (January 12, 1863 - July 4, 1902), whose pre-monastic name was Narendranath Dutta ( Nôrendrônath Dôt-tô), was one of the most famous and influential spiritual leaders of the philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga and a major figure in the history of Hinduism...
Dwijendralal Ray Dwijendralal Ray (Bengali: দà§à¦¬à¦¿à¦œà§‡à¦¨à§à¦¦à§à¦°à¦²à¦¾à¦² রায়) (1863-1913) was a Bengali poet, playwright, and musician, known primarily for his Indian and Bengali patriotic plays and songs, as well as his Hindu devotional lyrics. ...
Jatindranath Sengupta(1887-1954), was a Bengali poet and writer. ...
Kumud Ranjan Mullick (Bengali: ) was one of the most eminent poets of the Tagore era of Bengali literature. ...
Premendra Mitra (1904), a renowned Bengali poet, novelist, later, a thriller and science fiction writer. ...
Bishnu Dey (18 July 1909—3 December 1982) was a prominent Bengali poet, prose writer, movie critique in the era of modernism, post-modernism. ...
Sukanta Bhattacharya (1926) was one of the most honored poets of Bangla literature. ...
Purnendu Patri (2 February 1933) is an Indian poet of Bengali origin. ...
Jatindramohan Bagchi was a Bengali poet b. ...
Sir Dr. Brajendra Nath Seal was born in Calcutta in 1864. ...
Arun Mitra was born in November of 1909 in Jashore, now in Bangladesh. ...
Buddhadev Dasgupta is a poet and prominent contemporary Indian filmmaker. ...
Salil Chowdhury (photo from personal collection) Salil Chowdhury (Bangla: সলিল চৌধà§à¦°à§€) (1923-1995) was a famous Bengali composer and poet. ...
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Shakti Chattopadhay (Bangla: শকà§à¦¤à¦¿ চটà§à¦¯à§‹à¦ªà¦¾à¦§à§à¦¯à¦¾à¦¯à¦¼) (25 november 1934) was a Bengali poet. ...
Binoy Majumdar (born 1933, Calcutta, India), a brilliant and controversial Bengali poet of the mid-twentieth century, is noted for his somewhat offbeat poetic ouevre. ...
Joy Goswami(1955-) is an Indian poet. ...
Subodh Sarkar, [সà§à¦¬à§‹à¦§ সরকার] a major Bengali poet, writer and editor of India, and a Reader in English literature at City College, Kolkata, was born in 1958 at Krishnanagar. ...
Joy Goswami(1955-) is an Indian poet. ...
Shrijato (born 21 December 1975 in Kolkata), is a popular poet of the Bengali younger generation. ...
Madan Mohan Tarkalankar (Bengali: ) was a Bengali poet and Sanskrit scholar. ...
See Tagore for disambiguation Jyotirindranath Tagore (May 4, 1849 – March 4, 1925) was a playwright, a musician, an editor and a painter. ...
Journalism Harish Chandra Mukherjee (1824 – 1861) (popular as Harish Mukherjee or Harish Mukherji, also written as Harish Chandra Mukhopadhyay) was a pioneer nationalistic journalist, who fought tooth and nail for the indigo cultivators and forced the government to bring about changes. ...
Dwarkanath Vidyabhusan was a scholar, editor and publisher of the trend-setting weekly Bengali newspaper Somprakash. ...
Linguistics Chatterji, Suniti Kumar (1890-1977) linguist, educationist, litterateur, was born on 26 October 1890 at Shivpur in Howrah, son of Haridas Chattopadhyay. ...
Education Sahasravachaspati Sir Asutosh Mookerjee Saraswati (Bengali: ) , M.A, PhD, DSc, LLD,CIE, Kt. ...
Philosophy - Pramathalal Sen
- Benoyendranath Sen
Pramathalal Sen (popular as Naluda) was a philosopher of Keshub Chunder Sen’s New Dispensation, who along with Benoyendranath Sen and Mohit Chandra Sen, devoted himself to update the organisation and doctrine of the new religious congregation and improve relations with other Brahmo groups. ...
Benoyendranath Sen (also spelt Benoyendra Nath Sen) (1868 – 1913) was a Brahmo activist in Kolkata (then Calcutta) and a New Dispensation leader in the post-Keshub Chunder Sen era of the Brahmo movement. ...
Movies
Directors Aparna Sen (née Dasgupta) (Bengali: অপরà§à¦£à¦¾ সেন Ôporna Shen) (October 25, 1945 - ) is a Bengali Indian actress and film director and mother of actress Konkona Sen Sharma. ...
Anil Biswas (July 1914 - May 2003) was a famous music composer whose songs graced Indian films from 1935 to 1965. ...
Budhdhadeb Dasgupta is a poet and prominent contemporary Indian filmmaker. ...
Gautam Ghose is one of the acclaimed film directors of modern India, Gautam is a professional photojournalist. ...
Hrishikesh Mukherjee is one of the most famous Indian film directors. ...
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(Bengali: সতà§à¦¯à¦œà¦¿à¦¤à§ রায় Shottojit Rae) (May 2, 1921–April 23, 1992) was an Indian filmmaker who is widely regarded as one of the greatest auteurs of 20th century cinema. ...
The Academy Honorary Award is given irregularly by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to celebrate motion picture achievements that are not covered by existing Academy Awards. ...
Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ...
Rituparno Ghosh Rituparno Ghosh is a young Bengali film director whose work has met with considerable critical acclaim in recent years, both in his native India and abroad. ...
Tapan Sinha is a well respected Bengali Indian Bollywood based film director. ...
Chidananda Dasgupta is an Indian filmmaker, a leading film critic, a film historian and one of the founders of Calcutta Film Society. ...
Actors Mithun Chakraborty (Bangla: মিঠà§à¦¨ চকà§à¦°à¦¬à¦°à§à¦¤à§€ Mithun Chôkroborti) (June 16, 1950) (born Gouranga Chakraborty) is an award-winning Indian film actor as well as social activist. ...
Biswajit (full name Biswajit Chatterjee) is an Indian film actor who originally hails from Calcutta , West Bengal but later went over to Bombay to do some memorable Hindi films. ...
Joy Mukherjee is the son of Sashadhar Mukherjee a producer and owner of Filmalaya studio. ...
Prasenjit Chatterjee, professionally known as Proshenjit, is a Bengali film actor. ...
Rahul Bose, a famous Indian stage actor (although he has recently acted in critically acclaimed films), was born on July 27, 1967 to Rupen and Kumud Bose. ...
Rahul Roy (born: February 9, 1968) started of as an actor in the Hindi film industry but this charming good looking actor didnt make it big in Bollywood. ...
Soumitra Chatterjee (born 1935) is a Bengali actor from India, most famous for his frequent collaborations with the great Indian director Satyajit Ray. ...
Uttam Kumar (Bangla: উতà§à¦¤à¦® কà§à¦®à¦¾à¦° ) (3 September 1926 - 24 July 1980) was a legendary Bengali actor. ...
Victor Banerjee (Bengali: , Hindi: विकà¥à¤¤à¥‹à¤° बानेरà¥à¤œà¤¿, Urdu: ÙˆÙچتور بانیرج٠), born 15 October 1946, is a British educated Calcutta based Indian film actor. ...
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Asit Banerjee developed an abiding interest in drama while still in college in 1955. ...
Rabi Ghosh as Bagha (on left) in a screenshot in Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne,one of his most memorable characters Rabi Ghosh (born:1931,death:1997) was an extremely famous actor from India. ...
Kishore Kumar (August 4, 1929 – October 13, 1987) was an Indian film playback singer and comic actor. ...
Tapas Pal is a Bengali actor from Calcutta. ...
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Abdur Razzak (born 23 January 1942) is a famous Bangla movie actor. ...
Actresses (Alphabetical) Also see List of Bengali actresses There have been many Bengali actresses who have acted predominantly in Bengali cinema or Bollywood or both. ...
Aparna Sen (née Dasgupta) (Bengali: অপরà§à¦£à¦¾ সেন Ôporna Shen) (October 25, 1945 - ) is a Bengali Indian actress and film director and mother of actress Konkona Sen Sharma. ...
Bipasha Basu (Bengali: বিপাশা বসà§), born in January 7, 1979 is a Bollywood actress and a Supermodel. ...
Debasree Roy is an actress in the Bengali language film industry of India. ...
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Indrani Haldar is a Bengali actress. ...
Jaya Bachchan (Hindi: जया बचà¥à¤šà¤¨, Urdu: جیا بچّن), born Jaya Bhaduri April 10, 1948 in Jabalpur, is a Bollywood actress. ...
Kajol Kajol Devgan, nee Mukherji (born August 5, 1975), popularly known as Kajol, is a Bollywood actress. ...
Kanan Devi (1916? - July 17, 1992) was among the early singing stars and her singing style usually in rapid tempo was instrumental in some of the biggest hits of New Theatres, Calcutta. ...
Mamata Shankar is an actress in the Bengali language film industry of India. ...
Moonmoon Sen (also credited as Moon Moon Sen) is an Indian film actress and the daughter of Suchitra Sen. ...
Moushmi Chatterji is an Indian actress. ...
Raakhee in Sharmilee Raakhee Gulzar (born August 15, 1947 in India), also known as Raakhee, is an Indian Bollywood actress. ...
Raima Sen (born Raima Dev Varma on 11 November 1979)(Bengali: রাইমা সেন) is an Indian film actress. ...
Rani Mukherjee (Bengali: (also known as Rani Mukerji), born March 21, 1978 in Bengal, India) is a six-time Filmfare Award-winning Indian film actress. ...
Rimi Sen (Bengali: রিমি সেন) (b. ...
Rituparna Sengupta Rituparna Sengupta is a leading Bengali actress, who works mainly in the Calcutta film industry. ...
Riya Sen (Bengali: রিয়া সেন; Hindi: रिया सेन; (IPA: sen ITRANS:riYA sen) (born Riya Dev Varma in Kolkata, India on January 24, 1981) is an Indian film actress and model. ...
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Sabitri Chatterjee (born 22 February 1937) is an Indian Bengali female actor whose career as an actor spans more than 50 years. ...
Sharmila Tagore (Bengali: ) is a renowned Indian film actress from Bengal, who as of April 2005 heads the Indian Film Censor Board. ...
Suchitra Sen (April 6, 1929) or April 6, 1931[1] (Bangla: সà§à¦šà¦¿à¦¤à§à¦°à¦¾ সেন) is a Bengali actress who has attained legendary status because of her performances in Bengali cinema. ...
Sumita Sanyal is an actress in the Hindi language film industry of India. ...
Supriya Devi (born 1933) is a Indian Bengali female actor, acting in Bengali cinemas for more than 50 years. ...
Sushmita Sen (Shushmita Shen, Hindi, सà¥à¤¶à¥à¤®à¤¿à¤¤à¤¾ सेन, SuÅ›mitÄ Sen) was born on November 19, 1975 in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. ...
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Music
Composers Trailokyanath Sanyal Trailokyanath Sanyal was one of the Brahmo missionaries, who assisted in combining the ideals of traditional Vaishnavism with those of Brahmo Samaj. ...
Music (Vocal) This article does not cite its references or sources. ...
Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty (surname also spelled Chakrabarty, Chakravarty, Chakravorty, Chakaraborty, Chakravarthi, etc. ...
Bappi Lahiri or Alokesh Lahiri (b. ...
Budhaditya Mukherjee (1955–) is a Hindustani classical sitar and surbahar player of the Imdadkhani (Etawah) gharana (school). ...
Debabrata Biswas (Bangla: দেববà§à¦°à¦¤ বিশà§à¦¬à¦¾à¦¸) is one of the most well known (and controversial) exponents of Rabindra_Sangeet. ...
Hemanta Kumar Mukherjee (1920 - 1989) was an Indian film playback singer, composer and producer. ...
Kanan Devi (1916? - July 17, 1992) was among the early singing stars and her singing style usually in rapid tempo was instrumental in some of the biggest hits of New Theatres, Calcutta. ...
Kanika Bandyopadhyay (1924-2000), popularly known by the nickname Mohor di, is one of the most adored exponents of Rabindra Sangeet. ...
Kishore Kumar (August 4, 1929 – October 13, 1987) was an Indian film playback singer and comic actor. ...
Kumar Sanu (alias Kedarnath Bhattacharya (Bengali:কেদারনাথ à¦à¦Ÿà§à¦Ÿà¦¾à¦šà¦¾à¦°à§à¦¯) born on September 23, 1957 Kolkata) is a leading playback singer of Bollywood. ...
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Nachiketa (Hindi:नचिकेता) was son of a cowherd of the name VÄjashrava, who was offered to Yama to find a place in Heaven by his father. ...
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Name, Shantanu Mukherjee born on the 30th of September. ...
Shreya (piu) Ghosal (Bengali: শà§à¦°à§‡à¦¯à¦¼à¦¾ ঘোষাল) (lastname also spelled Ghoshal)(Tamil:à®·à¯à®°à¯†à®¯à®¾ கொஷாலà¯,Telugu:à°¶à±à°°à±†à°¯ గోశాలౠ,Hindi:शà¥à¤°à¥‡à¤¯à¤¾ गोशाल ) (born: March 12, 1984) is an Indian playback singer in the Bollywood film industry. ...
Suchitra Mitra is a well respected exponent of Rabindra Sangeet or the songs of Bengals poet laureate Rabindranath Tagore. ...
Anjan Dutta is a popular artist of the 1990s Bengali music scene defined by Jeebonmukhi (life facing) singers. ...
This article is about Chandrabindu, the character in several Brahmi derived scripts. ...
Music (Instrumental & Classical) Pandit Ravi Shankar, Sitar Maestro © www. ...
Nikhil Banerjee Nikhil Banerjee (Bangla: নিখিল বà§à¦¯à¦¾à¦¨à¦¾à¦°à§à¦œà§€) (14 October 1931–27 January 1986) was one of Indias most prominent sitar players of the second half of the 20th Century. ...
Anjan Chattopadhyay, Sitar Maestro, a leading and accomplished name in todays music arena, was born in a Bengali aristocratic family in Calcutta, India. ...
Parveen Sultana is Bengali Hindustani Classical Singer (Born 1950) of Patiala Gharana. ...
Dance Mamata Shankar is an actress in the Bengali language film industry of India. ...
Theatre - Girish Ghosh
- Shishir Bhaduri
- Shambhu Mitra
- Ajitesh Bandopadhyay
- Rudra Prasad Sen Gupta
- Dinabandhu Mitra
- Michael Madhusudan Dutta
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Sisir Bhaduri
- Girish Ghosh
- Ajitesh Bandyopadyay
- Asit Bandopadhyay
- Asit Banerjee
- Badal Sarkar
- Arun Mukhopadhyay
- Bibhas Chakrabarty
- Sohag Sen
- Jochhan Dastidar
- Bratya Basu
- Suman Mukherjee
- Goutam Halder
- Swatilekha Sengupta
- Chandra Dastidar
- Usha Ganguly
- Joyraj Bhattacharya
- Azad Abul Kalam
Dinabandhu Mitra (Bengali: ) (1830-1873) the Bengali dramatist, was born in 1830 at Chouberia in Nadia, and was the son of Kalachand Mitra. ...
Michael Madhusudan Dutt (Datta), (Bengali: ) (1824-1873), born Madhusudan Dutt, is a famous 19th century Bengali poet and dramatist. ...
(Bengali: , IPA: ) (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), also known by the sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, Brahmo Samaj philosopher, visual artist, playwright, novelist, and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ...
Asit Banerjee developed an abiding interest in drama while still in college in 1955. ...
Badal Sarkar (1925 - ) is an Indian dramatist. ...
Politics
Freedom Fighters Netaji poster in Thiruvananthapuram Subhas Chandra Bose (January 23, 1897 - August 18, 1945) also known as Netaji, was a Orissa born and Bengal based Indian leader of the movement to win independence from British rule. ...
Khudiram Bose An illustration of Khudiram Bose Khudiram Bose (Bengali: ) (1889-1908) was a Bengali Indian freedom fighter, one of the youngest revolutionaries early in the Indian independence movement. ...
Sri Aurobindo (Bangla: শà§à¦°à§€ অরবিনà§à¦¦ Sri Ôrobindo, Sanskrit: शà¥à¤°à¥€ अरविनà¥à¤¦ SrÄ« Aravinda) (August 15, 1872–December 5, 1950) was an Indian/Hindu nationalist, scholar, poet, mystic, evolutionary philosopher, yogi and guru [1]. After a short political career in which he became one of leaders of the early movement for the freedom of India from...
Rashbehari Bose (1885-1945) was a revolutionary leader against the British Raj in India and was one of the organisers of the Indian National Army. ...
Chittaranjan Das (C.R.Das) (popularly called Deshbandhu) (November 25, 1870 - June 16, 1925) was a Bengali lawyer and a major figure in the Indian independence movement. ...
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Rashbehari Bose (1885-1945) was a revolutionary leader against the British Raj in India and was one of the organisers of the Indian National Army. ...
Sarojini Naidu (February 13, 1879 - March 2, 1949) was known as Bharatiya Kokila (The Nightingale of India) and was a child prodigy, freedom fighter and poet. ...
Syama Prasad Mookerjee (also spelled as Shyama Prasad Mukherjee) (July 6, 1901 – May 23, 1953) was the founder of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh. ...
Basanta Kumar Biswas (b. ...
Ambika Chakrabarty was an Indian freedom fighter and revolutionary. ...
Sri Aurobindo (Bangla: শà§à¦°à§€ অরবিনà§à¦¦ Sri Ôrobindo, Sanskrit: शà¥à¤°à¥€ अरविनà¥à¤¦ SrÄ« Aravinda) (August 15, 1872–December 5, 1950) was an Indian/Hindu nationalist, scholar, poet, mystic, evolutionary philosopher, yogi and guru [1]. After a short political career in which he became one of leaders of the early movement for the freedom of India from...
Barindra kumar Pratap Ghosh , or, Barindra Ghosh, or, popularly, Barin Ghosh (5 January 1880- 18 April 1959) was an Indian freedom fighter, revolutionary and journalist. ...
Bipin Behari Ganguli was an Indian freedom fighter born in Hoogli, now in West Bengal, in 1887. ...
Bina Das (1911 - 1986) was an Indian revolutionary and freedom fighter. ...
Jatindra Nath Das (also known as Jatin Das) (27 October 1904 - 13 September 1929) was an Indian freedom fighter and revolutionary. ...
Jogesh Chandra Chattopadhyay (1895-1969) was an Indian freedom fighter, revolutionary and member of Rajya Sabha. ...
Manabendra Nath Roy (March 21, 1887 – January 25, 1954) was an Bengali Indian revolutionary, philosoper, political theorist and activist as well as the exponent of the philosophy of Radical Humanism. ...
Narendra Mohan Sen (1887-1963) was an Indian freedom fighter and revolutionary. ...
Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy (July 1, 1882 – July 1, 1962) was the second Chief Minister of West Bengal, India. ...
Matangini Hazra (Bengali: ) (1869-1942) was an Indian revolutionary who participated in the Indian independence movement until she was shot dead by the British Indian police in front of the Tamluk Police Station (of erstwhile Midnapore District) on September 29, 1942. ...
Rajnarayan Basu (Bengali: রাজনারায়ণ বসà§) (1826-1899) was a writer and intellectual of the Bengal Renaissance. ...
Birendranath Sasmal (1881-1934) was a lawyer and political leader. ...
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy (September 8, 1892 - December 5, 1963) was a politician from Bengal in undivided India, and later in East Pakistan, who served as Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1956 until 1957. ...
Jnananjan Niyogi was a freedom fighter and social reformer. ...
Subodh Chandra Mullick, Raja, (also known as S.C.Mullick or Raja S.C.Mallick or Raja Subodh Mallick or Subodh Chandra Basu Mullick) (1879–1920) was a nationalist in Calcutta (now known as Kolkata) during the British rule of India. ...
Rajendra Lahiri (1892 - December 17, 1927) (also known as Rajendra Nath Lahiri, Hindi: राजेनà¥à¤¦à¥à¤° लाहिड़ी) was an Indian revolutionary who participated in various revolutionary activities of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association aimed at ousting the British from India. ...
Post independence figures Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy was the second Chief Minister of West Bengal, India. ...
Atulya Ghosh was born on 28th August 1904. ...
Mamata Banerjee (born January 5, 1955) is an Indian Politician from the State of West Bengal. ...
Buddhadeb Bhattacharya Buddhadeb Bhattacharya (Bengali: ) (born March 1, 1944) is an Indian Communist politician, who has served as the Chief Minister of West Bengal (India) since November 6, 2000. ...
Kamal Guha (1928 – 2007) was a Forward Bloc leader and member of the Left Front cabinet in the Indian state of West Bengal for over two decades. ...
Others Epitaph on Barkats grave at Azimpur Graveyard, Dhaka. ...
Science Satyendra Nath Bose Bengali: ) (January 1, 1894 – February 4, 1974) was an Indian physicist, specializing in mathematical physics. ...
Upendranath Bramachari Upendranath Brahmachari (December 19, 1873 - 1946) synthesized Urea Stibamine (carbostibamide) in 1922 and determined that it was an effective substitute for other antimony-containing compounds in the treatment of Kala-azar (leishmaniasis). ...
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (born June 29, 1893, died June 28, 1972) was an Indian scientist and applied statistician. ...
Ashoke Sen at Harvard Ashoke Sen is an Indian theoretical physicist who works on string theory. ...
Debabrata Goswami, is an Indian spectroscopist, winner of the Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow Award (2004), Swarnajayanti Award (2004), presently Associate Professor of Chemistry at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IITK). ...
Mani Bhaumik is a well-known physicist from India who helped develop the first excimer laser at Californias famous Northrop Corporation Research and Technology Center. ...
Born and educated in Calcutta, India, the life and death of Dr. Subhash Mukhopadhyay has been the subject of countless newspaper reviews and a Bollywood film directed by Tapan Sinha entitled Ek Doctor Ki Maut (Death of a physician). ...
Sisir Kumar Mitra [or Shishirkumar Mitra] (October 24, 1890–August 13, 1963) was an Indian physicist. ...
Ashesh Prosad Mitra is a physicist who headed the National Physics Laboratory in Delhi, India. ...
Darunavir, sold as Prezista®, is a protease inhibitor used to treat HIV. It was developed at Tibotec and is named after Arun K. Ghosh, the inventor chemist, who discovered it while working at the University of Illinois, Chicago. ...
Zoology A rare photograph of R. B. Sanyal Ram Brahma Sanyal (1858 - October 13, 1908) was the first superintendent of the Alipore Zoological Gardens in Kolkata (then Calcutta). ...
Religion A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (September 1, 1896–November 14, 1977) was born Abhay Charan De, in Kolkata, West Bengal. ...
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Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (Bangla: রামকৃষà§à¦£ পরমহংস Ramkrishno Pôromôhongsho), born Gadadhar Chattopadhyay (Bangla: গদাধর চটà§à¦Ÿà§‹à¦ªà¦¾à¦§à§à¦¯à¦¾à¦¯à¦¼ Gôdadhor Chôţţopaddhae) [1], (February 18, 1836–August 16, 1886) was a Hindu religious teacher and an influential figure in the Bengal Renaissance of the Nineteenth century. ...
The affectionate term Holy Mother refers to Sarada Devi (1853-1920), Ramakrishnas wife and spiritual counterpart. ...
Swami Vivekananda (Bengali: Shami Bibekanondo) (January 12, 1863 - July 4, 1902), whose pre-monastic name was Narendranath Dutta ( Nôrendrônath Dôt-tô), was one of the most famous and influential spiritual leaders of the philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga and a major figure in the history of Hinduism...
Social reformers Indian reformer Ram Mohan Roy died in Bristol, England, where this statue of him stands. ...
Debendranath Tagore (Bangla: দেবেনà§à¦¦à§à¦°à¦¨à¦¾à¦¥ ঠাকà§à¦° Debendronath Å¢hakur)(May 15, 1817 - January 19, 1905) was an Indian Bengali philosopher from current-day West Bengal, in India. ...
Vidyasagar may refer to: Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, the Bengali scholar (1820-1891). ...
Bengali or Bangla (IPA: ) is an Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian subcontinent, evolved from the Magadhi Prakrit, PÄli and Sanskrit languages. ...
Keshub Chunder Sen (Keshava Chandra Sena, 1838-1884) was an Indian religious reformer born of a high-caste family at Calcutta in 1838. ...
Gurusaday Dutt, Esq. ...
Sivanath Sastri (as spelt by himself, but also spelt as Shibnath Shastri, Shib Nath Shastri, Shibanath Shastri, Shivanath Shastri) (Bengali: )(1847-1919) was a scholar, religious reformer, educator, writer and historian. ...
Protap Chunder Mozoomdar Protap Chunder Mozoomdar (Bengali: ) (1840-1905) was a member of the Hindu reform movement the Brahmo Samaj, and a close associate of Keshub Chandra Sen. ...
Nibaran Chandra Mukherjee (Bengali: ) was a renowned Brahmo reformer. ...
Umesh Chandra Dutta (also spelt as Umeshchandra Datta) (1840-1907) was one of the pioneer Brahmos who firmly established the Brahmo Samaj at Harinavi in the face of severe opposition from local people. ...
Ramchandra Vidyabagish (1786-1845) taught at the Vedanta College established by Raja Rammohun Roy and later at Sanskrit College. ...
Derozians Ramtanu Lahiri (Bengali: ) (1813-1898) was a leading Derozian, a renowned teacher and a social reformer. ...
Radhanath Sikdar (1813-1870) was an Indian mathematician who calculated the height of Peak XV and discovered it to be the tallest mountain above sea level. ...
Sib Chandra Deb (also spelt Shib Chandra Deb, Shibchandra Deb) (20/07/1811-12/11/1890) was one of the leading Derozians, virtually the first generation of English-knowing Indians. ...
Peary Chand Mitra (1814-1883), a member of Derozio’s renowned Young Bengal group, author and journalist, played a leading role in the Bengal renaissance with the introduction of simple Bengali prose which everybody could understand. ...
Rasik Krishna Mallick (Bengali:রসিককৃষà§à¦£ মলà§à¦²à¦¿à¦•) (also spelt as Rasik-Krishna Mallik) (1810 - 8 January 1858) was one of the brilliant students of Hindu College, Kolkata, a leading Derozian and journalist, who shocked the court in British India in the 1820s with the statement that he did not believe in the sacredness...
Krishna Mohan Banerjee (Bengali: ) (1813-1885) (also referred to as Rev. ...
Dakshinaranjan Mukherjee (also known as Raja Dakshinaranjan Mukhopadhyay) (1814 – 15 July 1898) was one of the leaders of the Young Bengal group in 19th-century India, an orator, editor of several periodicals, and a social reformer who had donated land for the Bethune School and assisted David Hare in his...
Ramgopal Ghosh was one of the leaders of the Young Bengal group, a successful businessman, a brilliant orator and a social reformer. ...
Sports - Gostho Pal, Footballer
- Mihir Sen, swimmer. First Indian 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, cricketer
- Pankaj Roy,cricketer
- Arun Lal,cricketer
- Saba Karim,cricketer
- Bikram Chatterjee,cricketer
- Sailen Manna , 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
- Arjun Atwal, golfer.
- Rohan Gavaskar,cricketer
Mihir Sen {November 16, 1930 in Purulia - 1997) was an Indian lawyer more notable for his career as a record-setting swimmer. ...
Arati Saha Arati Gupta (Saha) was born in Calcutta, West Bengal on 24th September, 1940. ...
Dibyendu Barua (born October 27, 1966) is a chess Grandmaster hailing from the city of Kolkata (Calcutta) in the Indian state of West Bengal. ...
Saurav Chandidas Ganguly (first name also spelt Sourav) (born 8 July 1972, in Calcutta, West Bengal) was the captain of Indian cricket team from 2000-2005. ...
Pankaj Roy (31 May 1928-4 February 2001) was an Indian and Bengali cricket player. ...
Jagdishlal Arun Lal (born August 1, 1955 in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh) was an Indian cricketer. ...
Saba Karim (born November 14, 1967 in Patna) is an Indian cricketer. ...
Sailen Manna - Mohun Bagan Ratna This concept of observing the Mohun Bagan Day was started in the year 2001 . ...
Jyotirmoyee Sikdar is a Member of Parliament, India representing Krishnagar constituency of West Bengal in the Lok Sabha. ...
Leander Adrian Paes (born June 17, 1973) is an Indian male tennis professional, who currently features predominantly in the doubles events in the ATP tour and the Davis Cup events. ...
Arjun Atwal (born 20 March 1973) is a professional golfer who has played on the Asian Tour and the European Tour and was the first Indian to become a member of the U.S. based PGA Tour. ...
Rohan Gavaskar (born February 20, 1976 in Uttar Pradesh) is a cricket player and the son of former Indian batsman Sunil Gavaskar. ...
Old Calcutta/ Bengal legends Nabakrishna Deb (better known as Raja Nabakrishna Deb, archaic spelling Nubkissen) (1733-1797), founder of the Shovabazar Raj family, is famous for the Durga Puja he organised in the newly constructed Shovabazar Rajbari (kings palace) in Kolkata (then Calcutta) in 1757, his patronisation of numerous performing artistes and his...
Gouri Sen, Hari Ghosh, Banamali Sarkar, Gobindram Mitter, Umichand, and Huzoorimal are some legendary personalities, who have survived in public memory in Bengal or what are now the Bengali speaking areas of India and Bangladesh through popular rhymes or sayings. ...
Gouri Sen, Hari Ghosh, Banamali Sarkar, Gobindram Mitter, Umichand, and Huzoorimal are some legendary personalities, who have survived in public memory in Bengal or what are now the Bengali speaking areas of India and Bangladesh through popular rhymes or sayings. ...
Gouri Sen, Hari Ghosh, Banamali Sarkar, Gobindram Mitter, Umichand, and Huzoorimal are some legendary personalities, who have survived in public memory in Bengal or what are now the Bengali speaking areas of India and Bangladesh through popular rhymes or sayings. ...
Gobindram Mitter (also spelt Govindram Mitra, Gobindaram Mitra, Gobinda Ram Mitra) was one of the earliest Indian officials under the British rule and earned a reputation for his tyranny, wealth and extravagance. ...
Prasanna Coomar Tagore (also spelt Prosunno Coomar Tagore, Prasanna Kumar Tagore)(1801-1868) was son of Gopi Mohan Tagore, one of the founders of Hindu College. ...
See Tagore for disambiguation Ramanath Tagore (archaic spelling Roma Nath Tagore) was one of the leading social figures in 19th century Kolkata (then Calcutta). ...
Industrialists/ Businessmen/ Industry personalities Sir Rajen Mookerjee (full name Rajendranath Mookerjee; the family surname was spelt by them differently from the standard “Mukherjee. ...
Sir Biren Mookerjee (full name Birendranath Mookerjee, more popular simply as Sir Biren; the family surname was spelt by them differently from the standard “Mukherjee. ...
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The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (in Swedish Sveriges Riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne), is a prize awarded each year for outstanding intellectual contributions in the field of economics. ...
Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ...
This article needs to be wikified. ...
Zamindar, also known as Zemindar, Zamindari, or the Zamindari System (Persian: زمیندار) were employed by the Mughals to collect taxes from peasants. ...
Situated on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River in India, the Dakshineswar Kali Temple was constructed by Rani Rasmani, a wealthy widow, between 1847 and 1855. ...
Subroto Mukerjee as a Group Captain at the end of the Second World War. ...
Ashis Nandy is a political psychologist and sociologist of science who works at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in New Delhi, India. ...
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