Chronological List of Famous Bengali Personalities

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Timeline of Famous Bengali Personalities

Year Name of The Personalities Notability
1820-1891 Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar  
1838 - 1894 Bankim Chandra Chatterjee  
1861 - 1941 Rabindranath Tagore Writer, song composer, playwright, essayist, painter
1899 -1979 Kazi Nazrul Islam  
1868 - 1946 Pramatha Chaudhuri  
1876 - 1938 Sarat Chandra Chatterjee  
1880 -1960 Rajsekhar Basu  
1894 -1950 Bibhutibhushan Banerjee  
1898 - 1971 Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay  
1901 - 1986 Amiya Chakravarty  
1904 - 2002 Annadashankar Roy  
1909 - 1982 Bishnu Dey  
1901 - 1960 Sudhindranath Datta  
1921-1992 Satyajit Ray  
1924-2005 Narayan Sanyal  
1926-2016 Mahashweta Devi  
1903-1980 Sibram Chakraborty  
1887-1923 Sukumar Ray  
1908-2007 Leela Majumdar  
1935 - Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay  
1934-2012 Sunil Gangopadhyay  
1904-1988 Premendra Mitra  
1931-2010 Moti Nandi  
1918-1970 Narayan Gangopadhyay  
1944 Samaresh Majumdar  
1863- 1915 Upendra Kishore Roychoudhuri  
     
1408- Chandidas Medieval Bengal literarture
1352-1448 Vidyapati Medieval Bengal literarture
1381-1461 Krittibas Ojha Medieval Bengal literarture
1535-1613 Govindadas Medieval Bengal literarture
16 century Kashiram Das Medieval Bengal literarture
1712-1760 Bharat Chandra Medieval Bengal literarture
1718-1775 Ramprasad Medieval Bengal literarture
1496-1588 Krishnadasa Kaviraj Medieval Bengal literarture
1817-1858 Madan Mohan Tarkalankar Medieval Bengal literarture
1812-1859 Iswar Gupta Medieval Bengal literarture
1919-1978 Anil Kumar Gain  
1814-1883 Peary Chand Mitra  
1840-1870 Kaliprasanna Sinha  
1860-1919 Akshay Kumar Baral  
1848-1909 Romesh Chunder Dutt  
1849-1925 Jyotirindranath Tagore  
  Swami Vivekananda  
  Dwijendralal Ray  
  Trailokyanath Sanyal  
  Toru Dutt  
  Sri Aurobindo  
  Jhumpa Lahiri  
  Amitav Ghosh  
  Amit Chaudhuri  
  Upamanyu Chatterjee  
  Kaberi Gain  
  Chitra Banerjee  
  Divakaruni  
  Jatindranath Sengupta  
  Kumud Ranjan Mullick  
  Jatindramohan Bagchi  
  Dilipkumar Roy  
  Subodh Ghosh  
  Anil Kumar Gain  
  Sukanta Bhattacharya  
  Subhash Mukhopadhyay  
  Bimal Kar  
  Shakti Chattopadhyay  
  Shankha Ghosh  
  Kaberi Gain  
  Purnendu Patri  
  Narendranath Mitra  
  Arun Mitra  
  Nirendranath Chakraborty  
  Alokranjan Dasgupta  
  Santosh Kumar Ghosh  
  Mahasweta Devi  
  Sanjeev Chattopadhyay  
  Shibram Chakraborty  
  Narayan Gangopadhyay  
  Narayan Sanyal  
  Bimal Mitra  
  Buddhadeb Guha  
  Samaresh Majumdar  
  Sandipan Chattopadhyay  
  Samir Roychoudhury  
  Buddhadev Dasgupta  
  Salil Choudhury  
  Prabir Ghosh  
  Malay Roy Choudhury  
  Subimal Basak  
  Baby Halder  
  Binoy Majumdar  
  Joy Goswami  
  Nachiketa Chakraborty  
  Mallika Sengupta  
  Srijato  
  Subodh Sarkar  
  Tarashankar Bandopadhyay  
     
  Harish Chandra Mukherjee Journalists
  Dwarkanath Vidyabhusan Journalists
  Tushar Kanti Ghosh Journalists
  Kaberi Gain Journalists
  Sukumar Ray Journalists
  Chandan Mitra Journalists
  Sunanda K. Datta-Ray Journalists
  Mrinal Chatterjee Journalists
  Barun Sengupta Journalists
  Chandramukhi Basu first female graduate in India, and the British Empire
  Sugata Bose historian  
  Kaberi Gain prominent academic, author, and social activist
  Anil Kumar Gain mathematician from University of Cambridge, Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society
  Shomie Das    former headmaster of The Doon School
  Satish Ranjan Das founder of The Doon School, Dehradun
  Khudiram Das literary scholar, educationist, linguist
  Supriya Chaudhuri literary scholar, writer, translator
  Sukanta Chaudhuri literary scholar, writer, translator
  Suniti Kumar Chatterjee linguist, educationist, litterateur
  Partha Chatterjee political scientist
  Swapan Kumar Chakravorty literary scholar and writer
  Dipesh Chakrabarty historian
    Swapan K. Gayen Bengali-American physicist, professor at City University of New York
  Ashis Nandy political psychologist
  Satish Chandra Mukherjee educationist
  Nurul Momen professor of Law, Dhaka University Proctor, Dean
  Vina Mazumdar academic, activist and feminist
  Rajendralal Mitra first modern Indologist of Indian origin
  Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis statistician, founder of Indian Statistical Institute
  Nazia Khanum
 
Order of the British Empire (OBE) and Deputy Lieutenant (DL)
  Salman Khan American educator, founder of Khan Academy
  Khandkar Manwar Hossain statistician
  Joseph Ghosh first Indian to be awarded the Doctor of Letters , University of Edinburgh
  Saroj Ghose science popularizer and museum maker, won an award for Best Effort in Science Popularisation Amongst Children
  Sir Jadunath Sarkar historian
  Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak literary critic and theorist
  Asif Azam Siddiqi professor and space historian
  Muhammad Shahidullah educationist, writer, philologist and linguist
  Sukumar Sen linguist
  Sumit Sarkar historian
  Pranab K. Sen statistician, Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Narasingha Sil professor
  Nafees Bin Zafar Academy Scientific and Technical Award, the first Bangladeshi to win an Oscar
  Muhammad Yunus Nobel Peace Prize, 2006
 

Jayanta Chattopadhyay

Bangladeshi actor
  Victor Banerjee Bengali Tollywood, Bollywood and Hollywood actor; the only Indian to win National Board of Review Award for Best Actor
  Uttam Kumar Bollywood and Bengali film actor
  Ushoshi Sengupta model, former I Am She – Miss Universe India in 2010
  Utpal Dutt Bengali actor
  Tiya Sircar American actress
  Tulsi Chakraborty Tollywood actor
  Tanushree Dutta former Miss India and actress
  Tannishtha Chatterjee Bollywood and Bengali actress
  Tanisha Mukherjee Bollywood actress
  Swastika Mukherjee Tollywood actress
  Sushmita Sen Bollywood actress
  Supriya Devi Tollywood actress
  Sameer Bhattacharya Bollywood actor
  Sumita Devi Bangladeshi film and television actress
  Suchitra Sen Bollywood and Bengali film actress
  Soumitra Chatterjee Bengali actor
  Shraddha Das Bollywood and Tollywood actress
  Shaun Majumder Canadian comedian and actor; winner of Gemini Awards
  Sharmila Tagore Bollywood and Bengali film actress
  Shakib Khan Bangladeshi actor
  Shahana Goswami Bollywood actress
  Seema Biswas Bollywood actress
  Sangeeta Ghosh actress, model
  Samit Bhanja Bollywood and Bengali actor
  Konnie Huq British television presenter 
  Paoli Dam actress
  Pahari Sanyal Tollywood actor
  Nivedita Bhattacharya Theater actress
  Nandana Sen Bollywood actress
  Mouni Roy Bollywood actress
  Moushumi Chatterjee Bollywood actress
  Monikangana Dutta model and actress
  Mithun Chakraborty Bollywood and Bengali film actor
  Mouli Ganguly actress
  Mamata Shankar Bollywood and Bengali actress
  Madhabi Mukherjee actress notable works include charulata, mahanagar
  Lisa Ray actress and model
  Koel Mallick Bengali actress
  Ajitesh Bandopadhyay stage and film actor
  Jaya Bhattacharya actress
  Jaya Bachchan Bollywood actress
  Indrani Chakraborty, Bollywood actress
  Devika Rani Bollywood and Bengali actress
  Hiran Chatterjee Bengali film actor
  Dhritiman Chatterjee Bollywood and Bengali actor
  Debashree Roy Bollywood actress
  Colin Pal actor and publicist
  Amala Bollywood actress
  Biswajit Chatterjee Bengali and Bollywood actor
  Bipasha Basu Bollywood actress
  Bikash Roy Tollywood actor
  Bhanu Bandopadhyay Tollywood comic actor
  Ashok Kumar Bollywood actor
  Aparna Sen Bengali film actress
  Anup Kumar Tollywood actor
  Anil Chatterjee Tollywood actor
  Chhabi Biswas Bengali actor
  Razzak Bangladeshi actor
  Jenni Banerjee Indian origin Finnish actor  
  Rani Mukerji Bollywood and Kollywood actress
  Raima Sen Bengali Film and Bollywood actress
  Rahul Bose Bengali and Bollywood actor and rugby player
  Rabi Ghosh Bengali actor
  Raakhee Bollywood actress
  Priyanshu Chatterjee Bollywood actor
  Preeti Ganguly actress
  Prasun Gain Tollywood actor
  Prasenjit Chatterjee Tollywood and Bollywood actor
  Pradeep Kumar Bollywood actor
  Konkona Sen Sharma Bollywood actress
  Koena Mitra former channel V VJ and Bollywood actress   
  Kishore Kumar Bollywood singer, actor, music composer
  Khan Ataur Rahman Bengali actor, director, producer, screenplay writer, music composer and singer
  Kanchan Mullick Bengali actor
  Kamalini Mukherjee Bollywood and Tollywood actress
  Kajol Mukherjee Bollywood actress
  K.C. Dey Bengali actor
  June Malia Tollywood actress
  Joy Mukherjee Bollywood actor
  Reema Sen Bollywood and Kollywood actress
  Santosh Dutta Tollywood actor famous for his portrayal of Jatayu in Feluda films of Satyajit Ray
  Sarita Choudhury Indian origin British film, Hollywood actress
  Sabyasachi Chakrabarty Bollywood and Bengali actor
  Sabitri Chatterjee Bengali actor
  Rupali Ganguly actress
  Ruma Guha Thakurta actress notable works include Ganashatru, Abhijan, Palatak; wife of Kishore Kumar
  Roopa Ganguly Bengali and Bollywood actress
  Ronit Roy Bollywood and TV actor
  Rola Bengali-Japanese model, tarento and actress
  Rohit Roy TV and Bollywood actor
  Riya Sen Bollywood actress
  Rituparna Sengupta   Bollywood and Bengali actress
  Rimi Sen Bollywood actress
  Richa Gangopadhyay actress and Miss India USA 2007
  Rhona Mitra Half-Bengali actress in Britain
  Rhea Chakraborty Bollywood actress
  Reshmi Ghosh, actress Miss India Earth 2002
  Reeth Mazumder Bollywood actress
  Reena Roy Bollywood actress
     
  Abanindranath Tagore Artists
  Sudipto Chatterjee Artists
  Subhankar Banerjee Artists
  Somnath Hore Artists
  SM Sultan Artists
  Shuvaprasanna Artists
  Shahidul Alam Artists
  Shahabuddin Ahmed Artists
  Sanatan Dinda Artists
  Runa Laila Artists
  Rashid Choudhury Artists
  Ramaprasad Banik Artists
  Ram Kinker Baij Artists
  Rabindranath Tagore Artists
  Rabin Mondal Artists
  Paritosh Sen Artists
  Paresh Maity Artists
  Anil Kumar Dutta Artists
  Pablo Ganguli Artists
  Nandalal Bose Artists
  Joynul Abedin Artists
  Jogen Chowdhury Artists
  Jamini Roy Artists
  Ganesh Pyne Artists
  Firoz Mahmud Artists
  Devajyoti Ray Artists
  Char Avell Artists
  Benode Behari Mukherjee Artists
  Bidhan Chandra Roy Bharat Ratna
  Ravi Shankar Bharat Ratna
  Amartya Sen Bharat Ratna
  Aruna Asaf Ali Bharat Ratna
  Satyajit Ray Bharat Ratna
     
  Hasan M. Elahi interdisciplinary media artist
  Anupam Mukerji writer of Fake IPL Player blog
  Reihan Salam journalist, blogger at The American Scene and associate editor of The Atlantic Monthly
     
    Iqbal Ahmed CMD of Seamark Group
     
     
  Syed Ahmed British entrepreneur, businessman, television personality
  Rajat Gupta first foreign-born Managing Director (chief executive) of management consultancy firm McKinsey & Company from 1994 to 2003. Sentenced to 2 years of prison in 2012 for insider trading
  Moorad Choudhry –former Managing Director, Head of Business Treasury and Global Banking & Markets at Royal Bank of Scotland
  Arundhati Bhattacharya first woman director of State Bank of India
  Kumar Bhattacharyya Baron Bhattacharyya, Director, Warwick Manufacturing Group
  Ashok Sekhar Ganguly former chairman, Hindustan Unilever
  Asim Ghosh former CEO of Husky Energy
  Aktar Islam restaurateur, curry chef and businessma
  Sir Birendra Nath Mukherjee IISCO
  Bhaskar Pramanik chairman, Microsoft India
  Subir Raha former head, ONGC
  Roy Sagnik director of TXYCO LTD
  Aveek Sarkar chairman, Ananda Bazaar Patrika  
  Mutty Lal Seal businessman and entrepreneur
  Dwarkanath Tagore known for partnership with the British East India Company
     
  Amar Bose founder of Bose Corporation
  Somen Banerjee Indian American entrepreneur and co-founder of Chippendales
  Subroto Roy Sahara founder and chairman, Sahara India Pariwar
  Sadhan Dutt founder, Development Consultants of Kuljian Group
  Siddhartha Basu founder and CMD of BIG Synergy
  Sir Rajendra Nath Mukherjee co-founder, Martin Burn Ltd, IISCO
  Pritish Nandy founder of Pritish Nandy Communications
  Pradeep Kar founder of Microland
  Purnendu Chatterjee founder, TCG Group
  Prannoy Roy founder, NDTV
  Neeraj Roy co-founder Hungama Digital Media Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.
  Kamal Quadir founder and CEO of CellBazaar Inc, First Mover Fellow of The Aspen Institute, TEDIndia Fellow
  Diptendu Pramanick founder, Secretary of Eastern India Motion Pictures Association (EIMPA)
  Chandra Shekhar Ghosh founder of Bandhan Bank
  Bicky Chakraborty Sweden's biggest hotelier;President and founder of Elite Hotels of Sweden and The Bishop's Arms
  Barun Sengupta founder of Bartaman
  Alamohan Das founder, India Machinery Company
  Anjan Chatterjee founder, Speciality Group of Restaurants
     
 

Ayananka Bose
   

Cinematographers
  Sudeep Chatterjee  Cinematographers
  Soumendu Roy Cinematographers
 

Jayanto Banerjee

Indian cartoonist and illustrator  
  Gaganendranath Tagore cartoonist and painter
  Atanu Roy illustrator
  Satyajit Ray filmmaker, creator of comic characters like Feluda and Professor Shonku
  Narayan Debnath creator of Nonte Phonte, Batul the Great, Handa Bhonda
  Shamik Dasgupta graphic story writer
  Rimi B. Chatterjee graphic story writer
  Chittaprosad Bhattacharya Indian cartoonist
  Suddhasattwa Basu illustrator
  Samit Basu comics writer at Virgin Comics
  Sarnath Banerjee graphic story writer, co-founded the comics publishing house Phantomville
  Neelabh Banerjee Indian cartoonist and illustrator
     
  Raichand Boral
Nitin Bose
Soumitra Chatterjee
Kanan Devi
Manna Dey
Dhirendra Nath Ganguly
Ashok Kumar
Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Pankaj Mullick
Devika Rani, first awardee
Satyajit Ray
Mrinal Sen
Tapan Sinha
B. N. Sircar
Dadasaheb Phalke Award winners
     
  Mir Masoom Ali, George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Statistics, Ball State University
Abhijit Banerjee, Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, co-founder of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
Pranab Bardhan, professor of economics, University of California, Berkeley, has been on the editorial board of a number of economics journals
Kaushik Basu, Chief Economist, World Bank; C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics, Cornell University
Arundhati Bhattacharya, first woman director of SBI, largest bank in India
P.C. Bhattacharya, former governor of Reserve Bank of India
Amitava Bose, professor of economics at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
Suma Chakrabarti, President of European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Amiya Kumar Dasgupta, widely acknowledged to have been India's leading economic theorist in the decades 1930-60; one of the founders, in 1949, of the internationally known journal The Economic Weekly (current name, Economic and Political Weekly)
Partha Dasgupta, FRS, Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Cambridge
Bibek Debroy, economist and linguist, author of Sanskrit titbits blog
Romesh Chunder Dutt, Indian civil servant economic historian
Anil Kumar Gain, statistician from the University of Cambridge, Fellow of the Royal Society
Maitreesh Ghatak, current editor of Journal of Development Economics; contributions in microfinance, property pights, public organizations
Amitav Ghosh, former governor of Reserve Bank of India
N. C. Sen Gupta, former governor of Reserve Bank of India
Nurul Islam, economist, former Chairman, Bangladesh Planning Commission
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, founder of Indian Statistical Institute
Debraj Ray, Silver Professor of Economics, New York University; co-editor of the American Economic Review; has served on the editorial board of several international journals
Amartya Sen, economist and philosopher, Lamont Professor at Harvard University, winner of the Nobel Prize
Rehman Sobhan, economist, Chairman of the Center for Policy Dialogue (CPD)
Muhammad Yunus, economist, founder Grameen Bank, winner of the Nobel Prize
Economists
     
  Kumar Bhattacharyya
Jagdish Chandra Bose
Satyendra Nath Bose
Partha Dasgupta
Anil Kumar Gain
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
Ashesh Prasad Mitra
Sisir Kumar Mitra
Meghnad Saha
Ashoke Sen
Fellows of the Royal Society
     
  Devdas
Feluda
Kakababu
Shankar Roy Chowdhury
Misir Ali
Byomkesh Bakshi
Nilkantha Bagchi
Kiriti Roy
Batul The Great
Handa Bhonda
Himu
Chandramukhi
Goopy Gain
Lalmohan Ganguly (Jatayu)
Ghanada
Harshabardhan
Parashor Barma
Tarini Khuro
Nonte Phonte
Rijuda
Banalata Sen
Professor Shonku
Tenida
Gogol (Detective)
Arjun (character)
P. K. Basu
Mitin Masi
Fictional characters
     
  Aditya Bhattacharya
Ajoy Kar
Amiya Chakravarty
Anjan Dutt
Anurag Basu
Asit Sen
Ayan Mukerji
Basu Bhattacharya
Basu Chatterjee
Biren Nag
Bimal Roy
Buddhadeb Dasgupta
Chidananda Dasgupta
Dibakar Banerjee
Dulal Guha
Gautam Ghose
Gyan Mukherjee
Hiren Nag
Himanshu Rai
Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Humayun Ahmed
Ken Ghosh
Manick Sorcar
Mrinal Sen
Mujibar Rahaman
Niranjan Pal
Nitin Bose
Partho Sen-Gupta
Phani Majumdar
Pradeep Sarkar
Pramod Chakravorty
Raja Sen
Ram Mukherjee
Rituporno Ghosh
Ritwik Ghatak
Sachin Bhowmick
Samir Ganguly
San Banarje
Sandip Ray
Satyajit Ray
Satyen Bose
Shakti Samanta
Shashadhar Mukherjee
Shashanka Ghosh
Shashwati Talukdar
Shibu Mitra
Shomu Mukherjee
Shoojit Sircar
Sombhu Mitra
Subodh Mukherjee
Sudhendu Roy
Sujoy Ghosh
Pritish Chakraborty
Tanvir Mokammel
Tapan Sinha
Tarun Majumdar
Zahir Raihan
Filmmakers
     
  Norah Jones, 9-time winner
Ravi Shankar, 5-time winner
Sandeep Das, won the Grammy award for Best World Music Album, at the 59th Grammy Awards, 2017
Grammy winners
     
  Nitish Chandra Laharry, first person of Asian origin to be elected as the president of Rotary International
Kalyan Banerjee, Rotary International’s 101st President
Aditi Banerjee, practising attorney in New York city
Gooroodas Banerjee, former High Court judge, Calcutta
Sudhi Ranjan Das, former Chief Justice of India
Monomohun Ghose, first practising barrister of Indian origin
Altamas Kabir, former Chief Justice of India
Muhammed Abdul Muid Khan, nominated as the Best Human Rights Lawyer of England and Wales in 2012
Sabyasachi Mukharji, former Chief Justice of India
Bijan Kumar Mukherjea, former Chief Justice of India
Radhabinod Pal, Indian member appointed to the International Military Tribunal for the Far East
A. N. Ray, former Chief Justice of India
Amal Kumar Sarkar, former Chief Justice of India
Amarendra Nath Sen, former judge in Supreme Court of India
Ashoke Kumar Sen, Indian barrister, former Cabinet minister of India, Indian parliamentarian
Satyendra Prasanno Sinha, 1st Baron Sinha, prominent lawyer and statesman in British India
Gnanendramohan Tagore, first Asian to be called to the bar in England, in 1862
Law
     
  Subhas Chandra Bose, founder, Indian National Army
General Joyanto 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 Mukherjee, former Head of Indian Air Force
Chief of the Air Staff Designate Arup Raha, currently Vice Chief of Air Staff of Indian Air Force
Indra Lal Roy, first Indian (pre Independence) flying ace
General Shankar Roychowdhury, former Indian Army Chief
Military
     
  Milon K. Banerji
Nand Lal Bose
Satyendra Nath Bose
Suniti Kumar Chatterji
D. P. Chattopadhyaya
Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri
Bhabatosh Datta
Niren De
Basanti Devi
Ashok Sekhar Ganguly
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
Ajoy Mukherjee
Benode Behari Mukherjee
Hirendranath Mukherjee
Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Pranab Mukherjee
Basanti Dulal Nagchaudhuri
Radhabinod Pal
Satyajit Ray
Binay Ranjan Sen
Ravi Shankar
Uday Shankar
Padma Vibhushan
     
  Tahrunessa Abdullah
Fazle Hasan Abed
Amitabha Chowdhury
Zafrullah Chowdhury
Mahasweta Devi
Gour Kishore Ghosh
Angela Gomes
Syeda Rizwana Hasan
A.H.M. Noman Khan
Sombhu Mitra
Matiur Rahman
Satyajit Ray
Abdullah Abu Sayeed
Ravi Shankar
Muhammad Yunus
Ramon Magsaysay
     
  Jewel Aich
Maneka Sorcar
P. C. Sorcar
P. C. Sorcar, Jr.
Magicians
     
  Anagarika Munindra (1915–2003), vipassana meditation teacher, who taught many notable meditation teachers including Dipa Ma, Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg, and Surya Das
Atiśa Dipamkara Shrijnana, or Srjnana Atisa Dipanakara, Buddhist scholar, missionary and teacher, inventor of bodhichitta
Tibbetibaba, philosopher saint
Tilopa, Buddhist teacher, important figure in Tibetan Buddhism, founder of the Kagyu lineage and progressor of Mahamudra method
Religion and spirituality
Buddhism
     
  Swami Abhedananda (Kaliprasad Chandra), monk, author, philosopher, occultist, reformer, founder of the Ramakrishna Vedanta Math
Advaita Acharya, Vaishnava guru
Sri Aurobindo, yogi, nationalist, philosopher, author, poet, visionary
Gaura Kisora dasa Babaji, Vaishnava ascetic, mystic and recluse
Jagannatha Dasa Babaji, Vaishnava ascetic
Mahavatar Babaji, yogi and tantrik master
Bamakhepa(Bamacharan Chattopadhyay ), tantrik guru and mystic of Tarapith
Kamalakanta Bhattacharya, Tantrik/ Shakta saint and master, composer of Shakta devotional songs
Baba Lokenath Brahmachari, yogi and philosopher
Swami Brahmananda, one of the direct disciples of Ramakrishna, first president of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission
Sri Chinmoy, Indian spiritual master
Swami Satyananda Giri, Manamohan Mazumder monk, preacher and yogi
Yukteswar Giri, Priyanath Karar, yogi, educationist, astronomer, and astrologer
Nolini Kanta Gupta, revolutionary, linguist, scholar, critic, poet, philosopher and mystic, the most senior of Sri Aurobindo's disciples, author of many books
Gopinath Kaviraj, yogi, philosopher, spiritual master, tantrik scholar and author
Lalon, fakir, sahajiya saint philosopher, humanist, poet and composer of baul/sahajiya mystic songs
Anandamoyi Ma, mystic, spiritual teacher and Tantrik Guru
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Vaishnava mystic, missionary, monk and social reformer
Acharya Srimat Swami Pranavanandaji Maharaj, founder Bharat Sevashram Sangha
Lahiri Mahasaya or Shyama Charan Lahiri, yogi, philosopher, the propagator of Kriya Yogay
Nirmalananda, 19th century monk
Nityananda, great avadut mystic, social reformer, chief associate of Chaitanya, reincarnation of Balaram and a primary figure within the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition of Bengal
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (Gadadhar Chattopadhaya), mystic, preacher of Dakshineshwar
Nigamananda Paramahansa Saraswat, tantrik guru, vedantic scholar, author, yogi, mystic, philosopher, disciple of Bamakhepa, founder of several institutions
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (Abhay Charan Dey), Vaishnava missionary and theologian, founder of ISKCON
Pranavananda, founder of Bharat Sevashram Sangha
Rani Rashmoni, founder of Dakshineswar Kali Temple, Kolkata
Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, Vaishnava missionary and theologian, founder of Gaudiya Math
Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar or Sri Anandamurti, polymathic personality, author, philosopher, socio-political thinker, educationist, revolutionary, poet, composer, linguist, self-development and human welfare theorist, the founder of Ananda Marga (a socio-spiritual movement)
Ramprasad Sen, tantrik master, mystic, famous as a composer of mystic, devotional songs to Goddess Kali
Bhaktivinoda Thakur, Vaishnava missionary and theologian
Swami Vivekananda (Narendranath Datta), monk, missionary and social reformer, founder of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission
Paramahansa Yogananda, monk, philosopher, preacher, author and exponent of Kriya Yoga
Hinduism
     
  Kali Charan Banerjee, lawyer and theologian, founder of the Calcutta Christo Samaj, member of the Indian National Congress
Krishna Mohan Banerjee, Bengali philosopher and litterateur, President of the Bengal Christian Association
Puroshottam Choudhary, preacher, evangelist, writer of Christian literature
Lal Behari Dey, Indian journalist, writer, and Christian missionary
Mahesh Chandra Ghosh, Bengali philosopher and religious scholar
Aurobindo Nath Mukherjee, first Indian Bishop of Calcutta and Metropolitan of India
Krishna Pal, Bengali evangelist and missionary, first Bengali convert to Christianity under William Carey
Christianity
     
  Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib, reformist Islamic Scholar of modern era
Allama Azizul Haque, translated the Sahih Al Bukhari into Bengali language.
Muhammad Abdul Malek, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar
Abul Kalam Azad (politician), Bangladeshi preacher and politician from Jamaat-e-Islam
Nurul Islam Farooqi, Bangladeshi preacher who was associated with TV shows, assassinated by Islamic militants
Saheb Qiblah Fultali, Bangladeshi preacher
Fazlul Haque Amini, Bangladeshi preacher
Muhammad Faizullah,Bangladeshi preacher
Abdur Rahim (scholar), Bangladeshi scholar
Abdur Rahman (Islamic scholar), Bangladeshi scholar
Sayed Kamaluddin Zafree, Bangladeshi preachee
Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, Jamaat-e-Islam politician
Ubaidul Haq, late Bangladeshi Imam of its central mosque
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  Ram Mohan Roy
Sivanath Sastri
Keshub Chandra Sen
Debendranath Tagore, social thinker and reformer, founder of the Brahmo Religion or Brahmoism, the youngest religion of India
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Ram Mohan Roy
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