List of people from West Bengal
This is a list of famous and notable people from West Bengal, India. This would include persons who are known to a large number of people and is not based on the extent of their popularity. Neither is the list viewed from the context of the present. Their fame could be brief, what matters is that they were well-known during the peak of their popularity.
Arts
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Nandalal Bose
- Ramkinkar Baij
- Jamini Roy
- Paresh Maity
- Ganesh Pyne
- Bikash Bhattacharya
Literature
- Rabindranath Tagore (Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913)
- Kazi Nazrul Islam
- Michael Madhusudan Dutt
- Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
- Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
- Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay
- Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay
- Tarashankar Bandopadhyay
- Manik Bandopadhyay
- Jibanananda Das
- Rajsekhar Bose or Parasuram
- Bimal Kar
- Sunil Gangopadhyay
- Shakti Chattopadhayay
- Sankha Ghosh
- Arun Mitra
- Samaresh Majumdar
- Shankar
- Nirad C. Chaudhuri
- Amitav Ghosh
- Amit Chaudhuri
- Upamanyu Chatterjee
- Jhumpa Lahiri
Movies
Directors
- Aparna Sen
- Asit Sen
- Anil Biswas
- Bimal Roy
- Budhdhadeb Dasgupta
- Gautam Ghose
- Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Dadasaheb Phalke Award, 2000
- Satyajit Ray, (OSCAR for Lifetime Achievement in 1992)
- Mrinal Sen
- Rituparno Ghosh
- Ritwik Ghatak
- Tapan Sinha
- Tarun Majumdar
Actors
- Ashok Kumar
- Anup Kumar
- Kishore Kumar
- Mithun Chakraborty
- Pramathesh Barua
- Biswajit
- Prasenjit
- Rahul Bose
- Rahul Roy
- Soumitra Chatterjee
- Utpal Dutta
- Uttam Kumar
- Victor Banerjee
- Ranjit Mullick
- M B Roy Choudhury
Actresses
Also see List_of_Bengali_actresses
- Aparna Sen
- Bipasha Basu
- Devika Rani, first winner of Dadasaheb Phalke Award, 1970
- Jaya Bachchan (Jaya Bhaduri)
- Kajol
- Kananbala
- Kanan Devi, Dadasaheb Phalke Award, 1977
- Moon Moon Sen
- Moushmi Chatterji
- Nutan?
- Raakhee Gulzar
- Reena Roy
- Rani Mukherji
- Riya Sen
- Raima Sen
- Rimi Sen
- Sharmila Tagore
- Suchitra Sen
- Supriya Devi
- Sushmita Sen
- Tanuja?
- Madhavi Mukherjee
- Mamata Shankar
MUSIC
Music (Vocal)
- Abhijeet, full name Abhijeet Chakrabarty
- Ajoy Chakrabarty
- Anjan Chattopadhyay
- Arati Mukherjee
- Bappi Lahiri
- Babul Supriyo
- Budhaditya Mukherjee
- Hemant Kumar , full name Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhayay
- JnanPrakash Ghosh
- Kanan Devi
- Kishore Kumar, real name Abhas Kumar Ganguly
- Kumar Sanu
- Manna Dey
- Nachiketa
- Pankaj Kumar Mullick
- Rahul Dev Burman
- Salil Chowdhury
- Shaan,full name Shantanu Mukherjee
- Sachin Dev Burman
- Sandhya Mujherjee
- Shyamal Mitra
- Shreya Ghoshal
Music (Instrumental)
Dance
Theatre
Politics
Freedom Fighters
- Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
- Khudiram Bose
- Rash Behari Bose
- Master-da Surya Sen
- Batukeshwar Dutta
- Bagha Jatin
- Bipin Chandra Pal
- Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das
- Rani Rashmoni
- Rasbehari Basu
- Sarojini Naidu
- Syama Prasad Mookerjee
- Basanta Kumar Biswas
- Ambika Chakrobarty
- Sri Aurobinda Ghosh
- Badal Gupta
- Barindra Kumar Ghosh
- Benoy Basu
- Bhupendra Kumar Datta
- Bipin Behari Ganguli
- Bina Das
- Jatindra Nath Das
- Dinesh Gupta
- Jogesh Chandra Chattopadhyay
- Narendra Mohan Sen
- Ullaskar Dutta
- B.C.Roy
- Prafulla Chaki
Science
- Jagadish Chandra Bose
- Satyendra Nath Bose
- Meghnad Saha
- P.C. Mahalanobis
- Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy
- Ashoke Kumar Sen
Religion
- Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
- A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
- Maharishi Debendranath Tagore
- Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
- Shrii Shrii Anandamurti
- Swami Vivekananda
- Baba Lokenath
Sports
- Arun Lal, cricketer
- Mihir Sen, swimmer. First Asian to swim across the English Channel in 1958.
- Arati Saha, swimmer. First Asian woman to swim English Channel in 1959.
- Dibyendu Barua, chess grandmaster
- Saurav Ganguly, captain, Indian cricket team
- Pankaj Roy
- Bula Chowdhury, swimmer. First Indian woman to swim English Channel twice.
- Chuni Goswami, footballer
- P.K.Banerjee, footballer
- Krishanu Dey, footballer
- Surya Shekhar Ganguly, chess International Master
- Jyotirmoyee Sikdar, athletics. Double gold-medallist at Bangkok Asiad, 1996
- Leander Paes, lawn tennis player. Former doubles world no. one with Mahesh Bhupathi and bronze-medallist at Atlanta Olympics, 1996
- Arjun Atwal, golfer.
Others
- Amartya Sen, economist, Nobel Laureate, 1998
- Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (A social and cultural reformist who can be called the father of Bengali language)
- P. C. Sorcar, magician
- Raja Ram Mohan Roy, a great social reformist who has a great contribution towards the upliftment of women
- Rani Rashmoni, wealthy zamindar, champion of the people and founder of Dakkhineswar.
See also: List of people by India state