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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
Major figures
Children's story writers
Medieval Bengal literary scene
Other authors from early modern period
Prominent foreign-language authors from Bengal
Other authors from early/mid-twentieth century and some contemporary authors
Journalists
Comics Writer
Language/linguistics, anthropology, history, and other social sciences
Haricharan Bandopadhayaya , lexicographer
Rajshekhar Basu , major contributor for scientific terms in Bengali and lexicographer
Girindrasekhar Bose , first non-European correspondent of Freud
Nirmal Kumar Bose , anthropologist, associate of Gandhi
Suniti Kumar Chatterji , linguist
Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya , social philosopher
Kirti N. Chaudhuri , historian
Pramatha Chaudhuri , creator of modern Bengali prose (chalit bhasha) along with Tagore
Harinath De , linguist
Romesh Chunder Dutt , historian
Anil Kumar Gain , fellow of the Royal Society
Biraja Sankar Guha , anthropologist
Ranajit Guha , subaltern theorist
R. C. Majumdar , historian
Vina Mazumdar , women's studies academic
Rajendralal Mitra , first Indian to work with Indologists
Bhudev Mukhopadhyay , earliest educationist
Niharranjan Ray , historian
Hem Chandra Raychaudhuri , Indian historian
Tapan Raychaudhuri , professor of history at Oxford University
Raja Ram Mohan Roy , first Bengali prose writer
Jadunath Sarkar , historian
Sumit Sarkar , historian
Susobhan Sarkar , historian
Amartya Sen , Nobel Prize awardee in Economics
Dinesh Chandra Sen , historian of Bengali literature and folklorist
Sukumar Sen , linguist
Hara Prasad Shastri , historian of Bengali language and culture
Maniklal Sinha , novelist, historian and archaeologist of west Rarh
Surajit Chandra Sinha , anthropologist
Dineshchandra Sircar , epigraphist
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak , literature theorist.
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar , creator of Standard Bengali prose (sadhu bhasha)
Scholars and polymaths
Asima Chatterjee , scholar of chemistry
Suniti Kumar Chatterji , linguist
Amlan Datta , economist, Vice Chancellor of Visva Bharati
Radhakanta Deb , linguist
Anil Kumar Gain , scholar, mathematician
Prithwindra Mukherjee , scholar of Indian history, philosophy, religion and culture
Ramendra Sundar Tribedi , scientist
Education
Pioneers
Post-independence
Modern times
Others
Teachers
Babar Ali , the world's youngest headmaster, headmaster & founder of Ananda Siksha Niketan
Katyayanidas Bhattacharya , philosophy, Presidency College
Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya , philosophy, University of Calcutta
Barun De , history, Presidency College
Mahasweta Devi , English, Vijaygarh Jyotish Ray College
Chinmoy Guha , English, Vijaygarh Jyotish Ray College and University of Calcutta
K. C. Nag , mathematics, Mitra institution
Susobhan Sarkar , history, Presidency College
Philosophy
Pre-modern period
Modern age
Early / Mid twenty century
Science
Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay , computer scientist
Amar Nath Bhaduri , Indian molecular enzymologist and chemical biologist
Somnath Bharadwaj , cosmology
Avik Bhattacharya , remote sensing
Santanu Bhattacharya , chemistry
Bhabatarak Bhattacharyya , Indian structural biologist, biochemist
Mani Lal Bhaumik
Birendra Bijoy Biswas , Indian molecular biologist and a geneticist
Satyendra Nath Bose , Indian theoretical physicist and mathematician
Upendranath Brahmachari
Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri , Computer scientist
Asis Datta , Indian biochemist, molecular biologist and genetic engineer
Moumita Dutta , Indian Physicist
Anil Kumar Gain , mathematics
Partha Ghose
Sankar Ghosh , Indian-American immunologist, microbiologist, and biochemist.
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
Chanchal Kumar Majumdar , Indian
condensed matter physicist .
Dwijesh Dutta Majumdar , Computer scientist
Ujjwal Maulik , computer scientist
Ashesh Prosad Mitra
Sisir Kumar Mitra , Indian physicist
Subhash Mukhopadhyay , physician
Indira Nath , Indian immunologist
Sankar Kumar Pal , Computer scientist
Shehla Pervin , Molecular biologist
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Prafulla Chandra Ray , Indian chemist, industrialist and philanthropist
Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri
Somak Raychaudhury , Indian astrophysicist
Anjali Roy , mycologist
Subrata Roy , plasma physics
Ram Brahma Sanyal , zoology
Debi Prasad Sarkar , Indian biochemist, immunologist and virologist.
Amartya Sen , Nobel Laureate, economist, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences
Ashoke Sen , physics
Radhanath Sikdar
Snehasikta Swarnakar , Indian chemical biologist
Religious scholars
Muslim
Pre-modern period
The Brahmo Samaj
Hindu revival movement
Mid-twentieth-century religious figures
Social reformation and social work
Major figures
Derozians
Women's rights
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 pilot
Air 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 ace
General
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 composer
Rituparno Ghosh , filmmaker
Suman Ghosh , filmmaker, documentary filmmaker
Atiul Islam , filmmaker, screenwriter.
Ajoy Kar , cinematographer, filmmaker, screenwriter
Tarun Majumdar , filmmaker, screenwriter, author, illustrator
Subrata Mitra , cinematographer
Hrishikesh Mukherjee ,Indian film director, editor and writer.
Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri
Satyajit Ray , filmmaker, screenwriter, author, illustrator and music composer
Mrinal Sen , filmmaker, screenwriter, autho
Music
Composers
Performers (instrumental)
Allauddin Khan , sarod and multi-instrumentalist
Ali Akbar Khan , sarod
Annapurna Devi , surbahar
Buddhadeb Dasgupta , sarod
Manilal Nag , sitar
Nikhil Banerjee , sitar
Ravi Shankar , sitar
Radhika Mohan Maitra , Sarod and Mohanveena
Sankha Chatterjee , tabla
Shankar Ghosh , tabla
Pannalal Ghosh , flute
Jnan Prakash Ghosh , Harmonium and tabla
Performers (vocal)
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
Drama/theatre
Magicians
Politicians and revolutionaries
Pre-modern
Colonial period
Indian freedom fighters
Early figures
Twentieth century
Politicians
Others
Donation and social welfare
Old Calcutta / Bengal legends
Sports
Chess
Cricket
Lawn tennis
Squash
Bodybuilding
Swimming
Table tennis
Weightlifting
Others
Arjun Atwal , golfer
Anirban Lahiri , Indian golfer
Balaram Bose , philanthropist
Chhanda Gain , mountaineering, first Bengali woman to climb
Mount Everest
Dipa Karmakar , Indian artistic gymnast;
2014 Commonwealth Games , bronze medal; 2010 Commonwealth Games participant
Jyotirmoyee Sikdar , athletics, double gold medallist at Bangkok Asiad, 1996
Joydeep Karmakar , Indian shooter,
2012 Summer Olympics ; qualified to represent India in men's 50m rifle prone event;
2014 Commonwealth Games participant
Mohammad Ali Qamar , boxing, Commonwealth games gold medalist
Mohammed Ali Qamar , Indian boxer,
2002 Commonwealth Games , gold medal
Industry/business
Other areas
See also
References