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 poetRupram Chakrabarty (17th century), Bengali poetVisvanatha Chakravarti (1626? - 1708?), Bengali guruGhanaram Chakrabarty (c. 1669-?), Bengali poetAkinchan Chakrabarty (18th century), Bengali poetSoorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty (ca 1826–1874), one of the earliest Indians to practice modern medicineShyam Sundar Chakravarthy (1869–1932), Bengali revolutionary, independence activist and journalistOliphant Chuckerbutty (1884–1960), English composer and organist of Anglo-Indian descentTrailokyanath Chakravarty (1889–1970), Indian revolutionary.Ambika Chakrabarty (1892–1962), Bengali Indian independence movement activist and revolutionaryTulsi Chakraborty (1899–1961), Indian comic actorPanchanan Chakraborty (1900–1995), Indian revolutionaryAmiya Chakravarty (1901–1986), literary critic, academic, and Bengali poetJanardan Chakravarti (1901-1987), Indian professor of BengaliShibram Chakraborty (1903–1980), Bengali writer, humorist and revolutionaryBirendra Narayan Chakraborty (1904–1976), Indian politicianNripen Chakraborty (1905–2004), Indian politicianHiralal Chakraborty (1911–1968), freedom fighter and publisher of modern Bengali worksAmiya Chakravarty (1912-1957), Indian film director, screenwriter and producerChakravarthi V. Narasimhan (1915–2003), Indian diplomatByomkes Chakrabarti (1923–1981), Indian linguistNirendranath Chakravarty (born 1924), Bengali poetKeshab Chakravarthy (active 1925), Indian revolutionaryPramod Chakravorty (1929–2004), Indian film director and producerAnimesh Chakravorty (born 1935), Indian chemistK. Chakravarthy (1936–2002), music director in the South Indian film industryAnanda Mohan Chakrabarty (born 1938), Indian microbiologist, party to the U.S. Supreme Court case Diamond v. ChakrabartyAbani Chakravarty (1941-1994?), Indian Assamese poetSashwat Kailash Chakravarthy (1952 -), Indian American Industrialist, PhilanthropistIndravadan Kailash Chakravarthy (1954 -), Indian American Industrialist, PhilanthropistNripendra Kailash Chakravarthy (1956 -), Indian American Industrialist, Lawyer, Unitarian Universalist, PhilanthropistSubhash Chakraborty (1942–2009), Indian Communist politicianBicky Chakraborty (born 1943), Swedish hotel mogulAjay Chakraborty (born 1943), Indian politicianSwadesh Chakraborty (born 1943), Indian politicianVinu Chakravarthy (born 1945), Tamil actor, script writer and directorUtpalendu Chakrabarty (born 1948), Indian film directorDipesh Chakrabarty (born 1948), Indian historianMithun Chakraborty (born 1950), Indian actor, director and businessmanBikas K Chakrabarti (born 1952), Indian physicistAjoy Chakrabarty (born 1953), Indian singerAravinda Chakravarti (born 1954), Indian geneticistSwapan Kumar Chakravorty (born 1954) Director General of the National Library of India, KolkataManoj Chakraborty (born 1954), Indian politicianSabyasachi Chakrabarty, (born 1956), Bengali Indian TV and film actorSandip Chakrabarti (born 1958), Indian astrophysicistSujan Chakraborty (born 1959), Indian politicianSujit Chakravarty (born 1959), Indian football managerSuma Chakrabarti (born 1959), British civil servant, President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and DevelopmentHaranath Chakraborty (born 1959), Indian Bengali film directorChiranjeet Chakraborty (born 1960), Indian Bengali film actorShibu Chakravarthy (born 1961), lyricist, screenplay and script writer who mainly works in Malayalam CinemaNachiketa Chakraborty (born 1965), Indian Bengali singer-songwriterKushal Chakraborty (born 1968), Bengali actor and film directorGeorge Chakravarthi (born 1969), British Indian artistJ. D. Chakravarthy (born 1970), Indian film actor and director in Telugu cinema and BollywoodPritam Chakraborty (born 1971), Indian Bengali music director and composerPraveen Chakravarty (born 1973), Indian businessmanSamrat Chakrabarti (born 1975), British-American actor and musicianRaj Chakraborty (born 1975), Indian Bengali film directorRajorshi Chakraborti (born 1977), Indian writer in EnglishArnab Chakrabarty (born 1980), Indian musician and Sarod playerPritish Chakraborty (born 1984), Indian film actor and director in BollywoodMahaakshay Chakraborty (born 1984), Indian actorGaurav Chakrabarty (born 1987), Indian actorRahi Chakraborty (born 1988), Indian singer, songwriter, programmer and guitaristSnehasish Chakraborty (born 1989), Indian footballerSouvik Chakraborty (born 1991), Indian footballerBrachypodosaurus gravisSourav Chakraborty (born 1992), Indian footballerM. C. Chakrabarti (died 1972), Indian statisticianAmal Chakraborty, Indian paediatric surgeonArindam Chakrabarti, Indian philosopher working in HawaiiArjun Chakrabarty, Indian actorBonnie Chakraborty, Bengali singerDilip Kumar Chakrabarti, Indian archaeologistKuntal Chakraborty, Indian sports journalistRanajit Chakraborty, Indian geneticistS. Chakravarthi, Indian cricketerS. S. Chakravarthy, Indian Tamil film producerSamiran Chandra Chakrabarti, Indian Indologist and scholar of onomastics & Vedic studiesSapan Chakraborty, Bengali Indian music composerSugato Chakravarty, Indian marketing academicSumon K Chakrabarti, Indian journalistVijay C Chakravarthy, Indian cinematographerVinayak Chakravorty, Indian film critic and film journalistSourav Chakraborty, Indian FIFA and FPL playerDhirendra Kishore Chakravarti (1902 – after 1982), Indian geologist and palaeontologistDipesh Chakrabarti - Historian Dipankar Chakravarti - Marketing academic Preetom Chakraborty - Computer Scientist
Bijoya Chakravarty (born 1939), Indian politician from AssamGayatri Chakravorty Spivak (born 1942), Indian literary criticIpsita Roy Chakraverti (born 1950), Indian Wiccan priestessSharmila Chakraborty (born 1961), Indian cricketerReeta Chakrabarti (born 1964), British television journalistLolita Chakrabarti (born 1969), British actor and writerShami Chakrabarti (born 1969), British barrister and civil liberties campaignerRushmi Chakravarthi (born 1977), Indian tennis playerKaushiki Chakrabarty (born 1980), Indian classical vocalistRitabhari Chakraborty (born 1992), Indian Bengali film actorRhea Chakraborty (born 1992), Indian video jockeyUthpala Chakraborty, Indian cricketer