List of Kayasthas
This is a list of noteworthy people of the Kayastha caste of India.
Statesmen
Politics
Literature
- Munshi Premchand
- Mahadevi Varma
- Dr. Vrindavan Lal Verma
- Harivansh Rai Bachchan
- Bhagwati Charan Verma
- Nirmal Verma
- Ramkumar Verma
- Dharmavir Bharati
- Bimal Mitra
- Premendra Mitra
- Jibananda Das
- Buddhadeva Bose
- Firaq Gorakhpuri
- Nirad Chaudhuri
- Amitav Ghosh
- Kamleshwar
- Neeraj
Science & technology
- Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar
- Jagadis Chandra Bose
- Satyendra Nath Bose
- Vinod Dham
- Ashoka Jahnavi-Prasad
- Ashesh Prosade Mitra
- Sisir Kumar Mitra
- Mriganka Sur
Art
Films, television and music
- Abhishek Bachchan
- Aadesh Srivastav
- Amitabh Bachchan
- Anil Biswas
- Gautam Ghose
- Manna Dey
- Madhur Jaffrey
- Motilal
- Mukesh
- Nandita Das
- Nutan
- Raju Srivastava
- Salil Chowdhury
- Shekhar Suman
- Sombhu Mitra
- Sonu Nigam
- Tanuja
- Utpal Dutt
- Bipasha Basu
Historians
Sports
Freedom fighters
- Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi
- Bipin Chandra Pal
- Subhash Chandra Bose
- Khudiram Bose
- Rash Behari Bose
- Har Dayal
- Barin Ghosh
Journalists
Administration
- Shyam Saran (1970; IFS)
- Girish Chandra Saxena (IPS(Retd) and Ex Governor of Kashmir)
- Anami Narayan Roy(IPS & Ex- Commissioner of Police Mumbai)
- S. K. Sinha (Lt.Gen (retd) Governor of Kashmir and Ex Governor of Assam)