List of people from Howrah
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Howrah or Haora, is one of the largest cities in West Bengal, India. Many notable people is born or associated with this city. This is a list of notable people who lived in or came from Howrah. A name can repeat in the following sections.
Writers
- Mani Shankar Mukherjee, well known for his book on Swami Vivekananda[1]
- Purnendu Pattrea, writer
- Muhammad Shahidullah, famous writer[2]
- Sandipan Chattopadhyay, famous for his book Kritadas Kritadasi
- Sankari Prasad Basu, famous for his books on Swami Vivekananda, Sahashya Vivekananda and Bandhu Vivekananda
- Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Bengali novelist and short story writer
Educationists
- Kanailal Bhattacharyya, ex-minister of Ministry of Commerce and Indrustries, West Bengal
- Kedarnath Bhattacharya, created first vernacular Bengali medium school of Howrah Santragachi Minor School
- Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya, scholar of Sanskrit, and the former principal of the Sanskrit College between 1876 and 1895
- Muhammad Shahidullah, linguist, writer and philologist
- Suniti Kumar Chatterji, Indian linguist, educationist, litterateur, got Padma Bhushan award
Doctors
- Mahendralal Sarkar, founder of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
- Jagannath Bhattacharya, physicist
People associated with films and Television
- Anjana Basu, television actress
- Ayaz Ahmed, television actor
- Bidita Bag, television actress
- Hiran Chatterjee, actor, producer, singer
- Kanan Devi, the first star actress of Bengali cinema
- N. K. Salil, film actor
- Purnendu Pattrea, film director
- Dr. Rahul Mandal, research scientist at the University of Sheffield's Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) and winner of The Great British Bake Off in 2018.
- Raviranjan Maitra, film actor, producer and editor
- Rudranil Ghosh, film actor
- Sayani Datta, actress
- Sisir Bhaduri, film actor and director
- Soumitra Chatterjee, film and stage actor
- Sujan Mukhopadhyay, film actor
- Suman Mukhopadhyay, director and film-maker
- Tulsi Chakraborty, actor
Singers
- Bharatchandra Ray, known for his poetic work, Annadamangal or Annapurnamangal
- Dilip Bagchi, mass singer
- Juthika Roy, awarded with Padma Shri
- Koushik Bhattacharjee, classical vocalist
- Tarun Bhattacharya, classical musician
Politicians
- Ambica Banerjee, Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
- Arup Roy, cabinet minister of West Bengal since 2011 and also an MLA
- Kanailal Bhattacharyya, ex-minister of Ministry of Commerce and Indrustries, West Bengal
- Kedarnath Bhattacharya, first elected vice-chairman of Howrah Municipal Corporation
- Hannan Mollah, member of Lok Sabha of India from the 7th Lok Sabha to the 14th Lok Sabha
- Jagannath Bhattacharya, politician
- Jatu Lahiri, member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly[3]
- Swapan Sadhan Bose, politician
- Swadesh Chakraborty, politician
Business people
- Alamohan Das, industrialist
Sports
- Aloke Bhattacharjee, cricketer and umpire
- Bikash Chowdhury, first-class cricketer
- Charanjit Singh, first-class cricketer
- Dibyendu Chakrabarty, first-class cricketer
- Gitimoy Basu, first-class Indian cricketer
- Jolly Sarkar, first-class cricketer
- Harold Denham, English cricketer
- Laxmi Ratan Shukla, first class Indian cricketer
- Manoj Tiwary, Indian cricketer, played for the Kings XI Punjab and Kolkata Knight Riders in Indian Premier League
- Pritam Chakraborty, first-class cricketer
- Rabin Das, footballer, played for Mohun Bagan
- Saurasish Lahiri, Indian cricketer, played in the international
- Sailen Manna, footballer, played for the Mohun Bagan team and played in international compititions including the Asian Games and Olympics
- Soumik Chatterjee, first-class cricketer
- Sanjib Sanyal, first-class cricketer
- Shyama Shaw, international cricketer, left hand batsman, played test and one-day matches
- Sudip Chatterjee, international football player
Artists
- Kalipada Ghoshal, last successor of Abanindranath Tagore's Indian Society of Oriental Art and Bengal school of art
- Rabin Mondal, founding member of the Calcutta Painters
Others
- N. K. Salil, film screenplay and story writer
- Narayan Debnath, popular comic artist
- Subhas Datta, environment activist
- Subroto Mukherjee, first air marshal of Indian Air Force
References
- ^ https://m.timesofindia.com/city/kolkata/Lifetime-award-for-Shankar/amp_articleshow/18215346.cms
- ^ https://www.inuth.com/my-space/theatre/safdar-hashmi-the-new-word-the-wake-up-call-the-cult-of-defiance/
- ^ http://myneta.info/westbengal2011/candidate.php%3Fcandidate_id%3D856&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwiw87SmsufgAhUUUI8KHewaBTUQFjAKegQIBxAB&usg=AOvVaw21QFaUQVqbysgUcsz3wySR