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Americans of Bengali birth or descent
Ethnic group
Bengali Americans বাঙালি আমেরিকানরা
The language spread of Bengali in the United States according to U. S. Census 2000
375,143 Bangladesh , 404,758 India [ 1] New York City , Washington DC , Los Angeles ,[ 2] SF Bay Area , Detroit English , Bengali Predominantly Islam and Hinduism ; small minorities of Christianity , Buddhism Indian Americans , Bangladeshi Americans
Bengali Americans (Template:Lang-bn ) are Americans of Bengali ethnic, cultural and linguistic heritage and identity . They trace their ancestry to the historic ethnolinguistic region of Bengal region in the Indian subcontinent , now divided in South Asia between Bangladesh and West Bengal of India . Bengali Americans are also a subgroup of modern-day Bangladeshi Americans and Indian Americans .[ 3]
Bengali Americans may refer to:
Bangladeshi Americans , Americans of Bangladeshi descent of Bengali Muslims . Bengali Muslims are usually classified as Bangladeshi Americans and American Muslims .Bengali Indian Americans , Americans of Indian and Bengali Hindu descent whose ancestral origins are in West Bengal , Bangladesh or erstwhile East Bengal , Jharkhand , Purnia , Odisha , Goalpara region, Assam , the Barak Valley , Tripura , Nepal , Meghalaya , Rakhine state and other parts of India who are known as Probashi Bengalis . Bengali Hindu Americans also come from Southeast Asia , Europe , Australia , New Zealand , South America , Caribbean and other parts of the world.
Culture
Many Bengali Americans participate in an annual conference, the North American Bengali Conference , in order to celebrate their culture and discuss issues the community faces. They often form regional organizations to network and plan events.
Religions
Bengali Americans are mostly adherents of either Islam or Hinduism . This is manifested in the yearly celebration of Eid ul-Fitr , Durga Puja and other religious celebrations. Several secular holidays are also enjoyed by the whole community, such as the Bengali new year, Pohela Boishakh .
There are also at least two Bengali Buddhist temples in the United States, near Washington, DC[ 4] [ 5]
Notable people
Sears Tower (now Willis Tower), was designed by Fazlur Rahman Khan . It was the tallest building in the world for over two decades.Abhijit Banerjee - recipient of The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred NobelRaj Chandra Bose - Indian American MathematicianMoni Lal Bhoumik - Indian American physicist and a bestselling author.Arianna Afsar – former Miss California; placed in the Top 10 of the 2011 Miss America pageantSaif Ahmad – World Series of Poker winnerMaqsudul Alam – scientist and professorJalal Alamgir (d. 2011) – political scientist and professorMir Masoom Ali – George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor of Statistics, Ball State UniversityKali S. Banerjee – statistician and professor[ 6] Rais Bhuiyan – shooting survivor and activistAmar Bose - founder of Bose Corporation Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty - scientistPurnendu Chatterjee - industrialistSubir Chowdhury – author and management consultantHansen Clarke – United States Congress in 2010, from Michigan's House of RepresentativesTarak Nath Das - anti-British Bengali Indian revolutionary and internationalist scholarHasan M. Elahi – interdisciplinary media artistRajat Gupta , former CEO of McKinsey and Company M. Zahid Hasan , the Eugene Higgins endowed chair professor at Princeton University and scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , known for ground-breaking discoveries in the quantum world[ 7] Fazle Hussain – professor of mechanical engineering, physics , and earth science at the University of Houston Abul Hussam – inventor of the Sono arsenic filter Norah Jones - singer and actressMindy Kaling - actressJawed Karim – co-founder of YouTube; designed key parts of PayPal Mohammad Ataul Karim – electrical engineer[ 8] Sumaya Kazi – founder of Sumazi , was recognised by BusinessWeek as one of America's Best Young EntrepreneursAbdus Suttar Khan – chemist and jet fuels inventorFazlur Rahman Khan – pioneer of modern structural engineeringSalman Khan – founder of Khan Academy , a nonprofit educational organisationRadha Laha - probabilist, statistician, mathematician and philanthropistJhumpa Lahiri - author of The Namesake Dipa Ma – Vipassana meditation founder in the USTasmin Mahfuz - American television journalist and news anchor and Gracie award recipient for women.Sezan Mahmud – award-winning novelist[ 9] [failed verification A.K. Mozumdar - first person of South Asian descent to earn US citizenship, until it was revoked by the Supreme Court in 1924Dhan Gopal Mukerji , first South Asian winner of Newbery Medal in 1928Raj Mukherji , Majority Whip of the New Jersey General AssemblyShomi Patwary – designer and music video directorIqbal Quadir – founder of Grameenphone, Bangladesh's largest mobile phone company; heads the Legatum Center at MIT Kamal Quadir – entrepreneur; founded two of Bangladesh's key technology companies, CellBazaar and bKashAnika Rahman – CEO of Ms. Foundation for Women Badal Roy – tabla player, percussionist, and recording artistReihan Salam – conservative American political commentator; blogger at The American Scene ; associate editor of The Atlantic Monthly Amartya Sen - recipient of The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred NobelShikhee – singer; auteur of industrial band Android Lust Asif Azam Siddiqi – space historian; assistant professor of history at Fordham University M. Osman Siddique – former US ambassadorPalbasha Siddique – singerNarasingha Sil – professor of history at Western Oregon University Monica Yunus – Bangladeshi-Russian-American operatic sopranoSohla El-Waylly – American chef, restaurateur, and YouTube personality as part of Bon Appetit ’s staff.Samarendra Nath Roy - Indian American Mathematician
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India[1] (0.12% of U.S. population)
