Chakraborty (Chôkrôbôrti চক্রবর্তী) is a surname meaning ′Ruler of the country′ or ′Emperor′ of Bengali and Assamese people in the Indian states of West Bengal, Assam and Tripura and in Bangladesh(Previously known as East Bengal of the undivided India). It is spelled in various ways, including Chakraborti, Chokroborti, Chakrabarti, Chakrabarty, Chakravarty, Chakravarthy, Chakravarti, Chakravarthi, Chakravorti, and Chakravorty. People with the surname Chakraborty are a caste of Assamese Brahmins, Bengali Brahmins, and also Kshatriyas. However, the Punjabi surname is specifically Chakravarty (formerly Chikar) and people with this surname are a caste of Kshatriyas (classified under the Arora subcaste).Chakraborty's have been widely successful in all walks of life making them the creme-de-la-creme of the Bengalis.
Origin and meaning
Sanskrit čakravartī literally means ‘wheels rolling’ (čakra ‘wheel’ + vart ‘to roll or turn’); metaphorically, it describes a ruler whose chariot wheels roll everywhere without obstruction.
Khelaram Chakrabarty (16th century), Bengali poet
Rupram Chakrabarty (17th century), Bengali poet
Visvanatha Chakravarti (1626? - 1708?), Bengali guru
Ghanaram Chakrabarty (c. 1669-?), Bengali poet
Akinchan Chakrabarty (18th century), Bengali poet
Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty (ca 1826–1874), one of the earliest Indians to practice modern medicine
Shyam Sundar Chakravarthy (1869–1932), Bengali revolutionary, independence activist and journalist
Oliphant Chuckerbutty (1884–1960), English composer and organist of Anglo-Indian descent
Trailokyanath Chakravarty (1889–1970), Indian revolutionary.
Ambika Chakrabarty (1892–1962), Bengali Indian independence movement activist and revolutionary
Tulsi Chakraborty (1899–1961), Indian comic actor
Panchanan Chakraborty (1900–1995), Indian revolutionary
Amiya Chakravarty (1901–1986), literary critic, academic, and Bengali poet
Janardan Chakravarti (1901-1987), Indian professor of Bengali
Shibram Chakraborty (1903–1980), Bengali writer, humorist and revolutionary
Birendra Narayan Chakraborty (1904–1976), Indian politician
Nripen Chakraborty (1905–2004), Indian politician
Hiralal Chakraborty (1911–1968), freedom fighter and publisher of modern Bengali works
Amiya Chakravarty (1912-1957), Indian film director, screenwriter and producer
Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan (1915–2003), Indian diplomat
Byomkes Chakrabarti (1923–1981), Indian linguist
Nirendranath Chakravarty (born 1924), Bengali poet
Keshab Chakravarthy (active 1925), Indian revolutionary
Pramod Chakravorty (1929–2004), Indian film director and producer
Animesh Chakravorty (born 1935), Indian chemist
K. Chakravarthy (1936–2002), music director in the South Indian film industry
Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty (born 1938), Indian microbiologist, party to the U.S. Supreme Court case Diamond v. Chakrabarty
Abani Chakravarty (1941-1994?), Indian Assamese poet
Sashwat Kailash Chakravarthy (1952 -), Indian American Industrialist, Philanthropist
Indravadan Kailash Chakravarthy (1954 -), Indian American Industrialist, Philanthropist
Nripendra Kailash Chakravarthy (1956 -), Indian American Industrialist, Lawyer, Unitarian Universalist, Philanthropist
Subhash Chakraborty (1942–2009), Indian Communist politician
Bicky Chakraborty (born 1943), Swedish hotel mogul
Ajay Chakraborty (born 1943), Indian politician
Swadesh Chakraborty (born 1943), Indian politician
Vinu Chakravarthy (born 1945), Tamil actor, script writer and director
Utpalendu Chakrabarty (born 1948), Indian film director
Dipesh Chakrabarty (born 1948), Indian historian
Mithun Chakraborty (born 1950), Indian actor, director and businessman
Bikas K Chakrabarti (born 1952), Indian physicist
Ajoy Chakrabarty (born 1953), Indian singer
Aravinda Chakravarti (born 1954), Indian geneticist
Swapan Kumar Chakravorty (born 1954) Director General of the National Library of India, Kolkata
Manoj Chakraborty (born 1954), Indian politician
Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, (born 1956), Bengali Indian TV and film actor
Sandip Chakrabarti (born 1958), Indian astrophysicist
Sujan Chakraborty (born 1959), Indian politician
Sujit Chakravarty (born 1959), Indian football manager
Suma Chakrabarti (born 1959), British civil servant, President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Haranath Chakraborty (born 1959), Indian Bengali film director
Chiranjeet Chakraborty (born 1960), Indian Bengali film actor
Shibu Chakravarthy (born 1961), lyricist, screenplay and script writer who mainly works in Malayalam Cinema
Nachiketa Chakraborty (born 1965), Indian Bengali singer-songwriter
Kushal Chakraborty (born 1968), Bengali actor and film director
George Chakravarthi (born 1969), British Indian artist
J. D. Chakravarthy (born 1970), Indian film actor and director in Telugu cinema and Bollywood
Pritam Chakraborty (born 1971), Indian Bengali music director and composer
Praveen Chakravarty (born 1973), Indian businessman
Samrat Chakrabarti (born 1975), British-American actor and musician
Raj Chakraborty (born 1975), Indian Bengali film director
Rajorshi Chakraborti (born 1977), Indian writer in English
Arnab Chakrabarty (born 1980), Indian musician and Sarod player
Pritish Chakraborty (born 1984), Indian film actor and director in Bollywood
Mahaakshay Chakraborty (born 1984), Indian actor
Gaurav Chakrabarty (born 1987), Indian actor
Rahi Chakraborty (born 1988), Indian singer, songwriter, programmer and guitarist
Snehasish Chakraborty (born 1989), Indian footballer
Souvik Chakraborty (born 1991), Indian footballerBrachypodosaurus gravis
Sourav Chakraborty (born 1992), Indian footballer
M. C. Chakrabarti (died 1972), Indian statistician
Amal Chakraborty, Indian paediatric surgeon
Arindam Chakrabarti, Indian philosopher working in Hawaii
Arjun Chakrabarty, Indian actor
Bonnie Chakraborty, Bengali singer
Dilip Kumar Chakrabarti, Indian archaeologist
Kuntal Chakraborty, Indian sports journalist
Ranajit Chakraborty, Indian geneticist
S. Chakravarthi, Indian cricketer
S. S. Chakravarthy, Indian Tamil film producer
Samiran Chandra Chakrabarti, Indian Indologist and scholar of onomastics & Vedic studies
Sapan Chakraborty, Bengali Indian music composer
Sugato Chakravarty, Indian marketing academic
Sumon K Chakrabarti, Indian journalist
Vijay C Chakravarthy, Indian cinematographer
Vinayak Chakravorty, Indian film critic and film journalist
Sourav Chakraborty, Indian FIFA and FPL player
Dhirendra Kishore Chakravarti (1902 – after 1982), Indian geologist and palaeontologist
Dipesh Chakrabarti - Historian Dipankar Chakravarti - Marketing academic Preetom Chakraborty - Computer Scientist
Bijoya Chakravarty (born 1939), Indian politician from Assam
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (born 1942), Indian literary critic
Ipsita Roy Chakraverti (born 1950), Indian Wiccan priestess
Sharmila Chakraborty (born 1961), Indian cricketer
Reeta Chakrabarti (born 1964), British television journalist
Lolita Chakrabarti (born 1969), British actor and writer
Shami Chakrabarti (born 1969), British barrister and civil liberties campaigner
Rushmi Chakravarthi (born 1977), Indian tennis player
Kaushiki Chakrabarty (born 1980), Indian classical vocalist
Ritabhari Chakraborty (born 1992), Indian Bengali film actor
Rhea Chakraborty (born 1992), Indian video jockey
Uthpala Chakraborty, Indian cricketer
