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 |
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| 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 |
Islam | ||
| 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 |
Brahmoism | ||
Ram Mohan Roy |
Unitarianism | ||
