List of Bengalis

Pala Dynasty

Chronological order

Chandra Dynasty

Traillokyachandra (900–930)

Srichandra (930–975)

Kalyanachandra (975–1000)

Ladahachandra (1000–1020)

Govindachandra (1020–1050)

Deva Dynasty

Damodaradeva (1231–1243)

Dasharathadeva (1281)

Nobel Laureate

Amartya Sen, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, 1998

Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel Prize in Literature, 1913

Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize, 2006

Academy award winners

Satyajit Ray, first Indian to win a Lifetime Achievement Oscar due to his significant contributions to world cinema

Nafees Bin Zafar, Academy Scientific and Technical Award, the first Bangladeshi to win an Oscar

Academics

Chandramukhi Basu, first female graduate in India, and the British Empire

Sugata Bose, historian

Dipesh Chakrabarty, historian

Swapan Kumar Chakravorty, literary scholar and writer

Partha Chatterjee, political scientist

Suniti Kumar Chatterjee, linguist, educationist, litterateur

Sukanta Chaudhuri, literary scholar, writer, translator

Supriya Chaudhuri, literary scholar, writer, translator

Khudiram Das, literary scholar, educationist, linguist

Satish Ranjan Das, founder of The Doon School, Dehradun

Shomie Das, former headmaster of The Doon School

Anil Kumar Gain, mathematician from University of Cambridge, Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society

Kaberi Gain, prominent academic, author, and social activist

Swapan K. Gayen, Bengali-American physicist, professor at City University of New York

Saroj Ghose, science popularizer and museum maker, won an award for Best Effort in Science Popularisation Amongst Children

Joseph Ghosh, first Indian to be awarded the Doctor of Letters , University of Edinburgh

Khandkar Manwar Hossain, statistician

Salman Khan, American educator, founder of Khan Academy

Nazia Khanum, Order of the British Empire (OBE) and Deputy Lieutenant (DL)

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, statistician, founder of Indian Statistical Institute

Vina Mazumdar, academic, activist and feminist

Rajendralal Mitra, first modern Indologist of Indian origin

Nurul Momen, professor of Law, Dhaka University Proctor, Dean

Satish Chandra Mukherjee, educationist

Ashis Nandy, political psychologist

Sir Jadunath Sarkar, historian

Pranab K. Sen, statistician, Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Sumit Sarkar, historian

Sukumar Sen, linguist

Muhammad Shahidullah, educationist, writer, philologist and linguist

Asif Azam Siddiqi, professor and space historian

Narasingha Sil, professor

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, literary critic and theorist

Actors

Ajitesh Bandopadhyay, stage and film actor

Amala, Bollywood actress

Anil Chatterjee Tollywood actor

Anup Kumar, Tollywood actor

Aparna Sen, Bengali film actress

Ashok Kumar, Bollywood actor

Bhanu Bandopadhyay, Tollywood comic actor

Bikash Roy Tollywood actor

Bipasha Basu, Bollywood actress

Biswajit Chatterjee, Bengali and Bollywood actor

Chhabi Biswas, Bengali actor

Colin Pal, actor and publicist

Debashree Roy, Bollywood actress

Devika Rani, Bollywood and Bengali actress

Dhritiman Chatterjee, Bollywood and Bengali actor

Hiran Chatterjee, Bengali film actor

Imran Khan, Bollywood, father Hindu Bengali

Indrani Chakraborty, Bollywood actress

Jaya Bachchan, Bollywood actress

Jaya Bhattacharya, actress

Jayanta Chattopadhyay, Bangladeshi actor

Jenni Banerjee, Indian origin Finnish actor

Joy Mukherjee, Bollywood actor

June Malia, Tollywood actress

K.C. Dey, Bengali actor

Kajol Mukherjee Bollywood actress

Kamalini Mukherjee, Bollywood and Tollywood actress

Kanchan Mullick Bengali actor

Khan Ataur Rahman Bengali actor, director, producer, screenplay writer, music composer and singer

Kishore Kumar, Bollywood singer, actor, music composer

Koena Mitra, former channel V VJ and Bollywood actress

Konkona Sen Sharma, Bollywood actress

Konnie Huq, British television presenter

Koel Mallick, Bengali actress; daughter of Ranjit Mallick, renowned Bengali veteran actor

Lisa Ray, actress and model

Madhabi Mukherjee, actress notable works include charulata, mahanagar

Mamata Shankar, Bollywood and Bengali actress

Mouli Ganguly, actress

Mithun Chakraborty, Bollywood and Bengali film actor

Monikangana Dutta, model and actress

Moushumi Chatterjee, Bollywood actress

Nandana Sen, Bollywood actress, daughter of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen

Nivedita Bhattacharya,Theater actress

Pahari Sanyal Tollywood actor

Paoli Dam, actress

Pradeep Kumar, Bollywood actor

Prasenjit Chatterjee Tollywood and Bollywood actor

Preeti Ganguly, actress

Priyanshu Chatterjee, Bollywood actor

Raakhee, Bollywood actress

Rabi Ghosh, Bengali actor

Rahul Bose, Bengali and Bollywood actor and rugby player

Raima Sen, Bengali Film and Bollywood actress

Rani Mukerji, Bollywood and Kollywood actress

Razzak, Bangladeshi actor

Reema Sen, Bollywood and Kollywood actress

Reena Roy, Bollywood actress

Reeth Mazumder, Bollywood actress

Reshmi Ghosh, actress, Miss India Earth 2002

Rhea Chakraborty,Bollywood actress

Rhona Mitra, Half-Bengali actress in Britain

Richa Gangopadhyay, actress and Miss India USA 2007

Rimi Sen, Bollywood actress

Rituparna Sengupta, Bollywood and Bengali actress

Riya Sen, Bollywood actress

Rohit Roy, TV and Bollywood actor

Ronit Roy, Bollywood and TV actor

Ruma Guha Thakurta, actress notable works include Ganashatru, Abhijan, Palatak; wife of Kishore Kumar

Roopa Ganguly, Bengali and Bollywood actress

Rupali Ganguly, actress

Sabitri Chatterjee, Bengali actor

Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, Bollywood and Bengali actor

Sarita Choudhury, Indian origin British film, Hollywood actress

Samrat Chakrabarti, British — American actor and musician

Santosh Dutta Tollywood actor, famous for his portrayal of Jatayu in Feluda films of Satyajit Ray

Sameer Bhattacharya, Bollywood actor

Samit Bhanja, Bollywood and Bengali actor

Sangeeta Ghosh, actress, model

Seema Biswas, Bollywood actress

Shahana Goswami, Bollywood actress

Shakib Khan, Bangladeshi actor

Sharmila Tagore, Bollywood and Bengali film actress

Shaun Majumder, Canadian comedian and actor; winner of Gemini Awards

Shraddha Das, Bollywood and Tollywood actress

Soumitra Chatterjee, Bengali actor

Suchitra Sen, Bollywood and Bengali film actress

Sumita Devi, Bangladeshi film and television actress

Supriya Devi, Tollywood actress

Sushmita Sen, Bollywood actress

Swastika Mukherjee, Tollywood actress

Tanisha Mukherjee, Bollywood actress

Tannishtha Chatterjee, Bollywood and Bengali actress

Tanushree Dutta, former Miss India and actress

Tulsi Chakraborty Tollywood actor

Tiya Sircar, American actress

Udita Goswami, Bollywood actress

Utpal Dutt, Bengali actor

Ushoshi Sengupta, model, former I Am She – Miss Universe India in 2010

Uttam Kumar, Bollywood and Bengali film actor

Victor Banerjee, Bengali Tollywood, Bollywood and Hollywood actor; the only Indian to win National Board of Review Award for Best Actor

Bharat Ratna

Aruna Asaf Ali

Satyajit Ray

Bidhan Chandra Roy

Amartya Sen

Ravi Shankar

Bloggers / media artists

Hasan M. Elahi, interdisciplinary media artist whose research interests include issues of surveillance

Kaberi Gain, academic, author and social activist

Anupam Mukerji, writer of Fake IPL Player blog

Derek O'Brien, Asia's best known quizmaster

Reihan Salam, journalist, blogger at The American Scene and associate editor of The Atlantic Monthly

Business leaders

Iqbal Ahmed, CMD of Seamark Group

Bicky Chakraborty, Sweden's biggest hotelier; President and founder of Elite Hotels of Sweden and The Bishop's Arms

Arup Roy Choudhury, CMD of NTPC Limited

Moorad Choudhry – Managing Director, Head of Business Treasury and Global Banking & Markets at Royal Bank of Scotland

Somen Banerjee, Indian American entrepreneur and co-founder of Chippendales

Siddhartha Basu, CMD of BIG Synergy

Arundhati Bhattacharya, first woman director of State Bank of India

Kumar Bhattacharyya, Baron Bhattacharyya, Director, Warwick Manufacturing Group

Amar Bose, founder of Bose Corporation

Anjan Chatterjee, founder, Speciality Group of Restaurants

Purnendu Chatterjee, founder, TCG Group

Alamohan Das, founder, India Machinery Company

Sadhan Dutt, founder, Development Consultants of Kuljian Group

Ashok Sekhar Ganguly, former chairman, Hindustan Unilever

Asim Ghosh, CEO of Husky Energy

Chandra Shekhar Ghosh, founder of Bandhan Bank

Aktar Islam, restaurateur, curry chef and businessman

Pradeep Kar, founder of Microland

Sir Birendra Nath Mukherjee, IISCO

Sir Rajendra Nath Mukherjee, co-founder, Martin Burn Ltd, IISCO

Pritish Nandy, founder of Pritish Nandy Communications

Diptendu Pramanick, founder, Secretary of Eastern India Motion Pictures Association (EIMPA)

Bhaskar Pramanik, chairman, Microsoft India

Kamal Quadir, founder and CEO of CellBazaar Inc, First Mover Fellow of The Aspen Institute, TEDIndia Fellow

Subir Raha, former head, ONGC

Neeraj Roy, co-founder Hungama Digital Media Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.

Prannoy Roy, founder, NDTV

Raman Roy, pioneer of BPO industry in India, founder, Quatrro

Roy Sagnik, director of TXYCO LTD

Subroto Roy Sahara, founder and chairman, Sahara India Pariwar

Aveek Sarkar, chairman, Ananda Bazaar Patrika

Mutty Lal Seal, businessman and entrepreneur

Barun Sengupta, founder of Bartaman

Dwarkanath Tagore, known for partnership with the British East India Company

Cinematographers

Ayananka Bose

Sudeep Chatterjee

Soumendu Roy

Cartoonists / comics creators

Jayanto Banerjee, Indian cartoonist and illustrator

Neelabh Banerjee, Indian cartoonist and illustrator

Sarnath Banerjee, graphic story writer, co-founded the comics publishing house Phantomville

Samit Basu, comics writer at Virgin Comics

Suddhasattwa Basu, illustrator

Chittaprosad Bhattacharya, Indian cartoonist

Rimi B. Chatterjee, graphic story writer

Shamik Dasgupta, graphic story writer

Narayan Debnath, creator of Nonte Phonte, Batul the Great, Handa Bhonda

Satyajit Ray, filmmaker, creator of comic characters like Feluda and Professor Shonku

Atanu Roy, illustrator

Gaganendranath Tagore, cartoonist and painter

Dadasaheb Phalke Award winners

Raichand Boral

Nitin Bose

Soumitra Chatterjee

Kanan Devi

Manna Dey

Dhirendra Nath Ganguly

Ashok Kumar

Hrishikesh Mukherjee

Pankaj Mullick

Devika Rani, first awardee

Satyajit Ray

Mrinal Sen

Tapan Sinha

B. N. Sircar

Economists

Mir Masoom Ali, George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Statistics, Ball State University

Abhijit Banerjee, Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, co-founder of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab

Pranab Bardhan, professor of economics, University of California, Berkeley, has been on the editorial board of a number of economics journals

Kaushik Basu, Chief Economist, World Bank; C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics, Cornell University

Arundhati Bhattacharya, first woman director of SBI, largest bank in India

P.C. Bhattacharya, former governor of Reserve Bank of India

Amitava Bose, professor of economics at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

Suma Chakrabarti, President of European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Amiya Kumar Dasgupta, widely acknowledged to have been India's leading economic theorist in the decades 1930-60; one of the founders, in 1949, of the internationally known journal The Economic Weekly (current name, Economic and Political Weekly)

Partha Dasgupta, FRS, Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Cambridge

Bibek Debroy, economist and linguist, author of Sanskrit titbits blog

Romesh Chunder Dutt, Indian civil servant economic historian

Anil Kumar Gain, statistician from the University of Cambridge, Fellow of the Royal Society

Maitreesh Ghatak, current editor of Journal of Development Economics; contributions in microfinance, property pights, public organizations

Amitav Ghosh, former governor of Reserve Bank of India

N. C. Sen Gupta, former governor of Reserve Bank of India

Nurul Islam, economist, former Chairman, Bangladesh Planning Commission

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, founder of Indian Statistical Institute

Debraj Ray, Silver Professor of Economics, New York University; co-editor of the American Economic Review; has served on the editorial board of several international journals

Amartya Sen, economist and philosopher, Lamont Professor at Harvard University, winner of the Nobel Prize

Rehman Sobhan, economist, Chairman of the Center for Policy Dialogue (CPD)

Muhammad Yunus, economist, founder Grameen Bank, winner of the Nobel Prize

Fellows of the Royal Society

Kumar Bhattacharyya

Jagdish Chandra Bose

Partha Dasgupta

Anil Kumar Gain

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis

Ashesh Prasad Mitra

Sisir Kumar Mitra

Meghnad Saha

Grammy winners

Norah Jones, 9 time winner

Ravi Shankar, 5 time winner

Sandeep Das, won the Grammy award for Best World Music Album, at the 59th Grammy Awards, 2017

Bangladesh

Mahfuz Anam

Abul Asad

Nurjahan Begum

Shahriar Kabir

Abed Khan

Fazle Lohani

A B M Musa

Matiur Rahman

Manik Chandra Saha

Ataus Samad

Shykh Seraj

India

Swapan Dasgupta, journalist

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, journalist

Kaberi Gain, columnist for The Daily Star

Sagarika Ghose, editor in CNN-IBN

Chandan Mitra, editor and managing director of The Pioneer newspaper

Harish Chandra Mukherjee, pioneer of nationalistic Hindu journalism

Udayan Mukherjee, editor and anchor in CNBC India

Pritish Nandy, Pritish Nandy Communications Ltd

Prannoy Roy, founder and President of NDTV, one of India's largest television and media production houses

Samar Sen, journalist

Barun Sengupta, political critic, the founder-editor of Bartaman newspaper

Vishnu Som, news anchor and journalist

Dwarkanath Vidyabhusan, scholar, editor and publisher of the weekly Bengali newspaper Somprakash

America

Sanjiv Bhattacharya

Bobby Ghosh (Aparisim Ghosh), journalist, former TIME magazine World Editor; the first non-American to be named World Editor in TIME's more than 80 years

Reihan Salam

Britain

Fareena Alam

Lisa Aziz, British television news presenter

Mihir Bose, BBC's head sports editor

Reeta Chakrabarti, political correspondent for the BBC Television's Breakfast programme shown on BBC One and the BBC News Channel

Mo Dutta, former TV presenter for BBC Radio 2, BBC Asian Network, BBC Radio Kent

Pallab Ghosh, BBC News science reporter

Nina Hossain, British television news broadcaster

Faisal Islam

Tasmin Lucia Khan, English journalist and television presenter

Sarah Mukherjee, former BBC Environment Correspondent, currently is a regular contributor on Radio 4's Today programme

Ayan Panja, expert on Knowitalls, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

Pakistan

Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Pakistan's first female editor; first woman to be included in a press delegation; in 1955, became the first woman to speak at the ancient al Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt

Qatar

Shiulie Ghosh, television journalist at Al Jazeera English

Law

Aditi Banerjee, practising attorney in New York city

Gooroodas Banerjee, former High Court judge, Calcutta

Sudhi Ranjan Das, former Chief Justice of India

Monomohun Ghose, first practising barrister of Indian origin

Altamas Kabir, former Chief Justice of India

Muhammed Abdul Muid Khan, nominated as the Best Human Rights Lawyer of England and Wales in 2012

Sabyasachi Mukharji, former Chief Justice of India

Bijan Kumar Mukherjea, former Chief Justice of India

Radhabinod Pal, Indian member appointed to the International Military Tribunal for the Far East

A. N. Ray, former Chief Justice of India

Amal Kumar Sarkar, former Chief Justice of India

Amarendra Nath Sen, former judge in Supreme Court of India

Ashoke Kumar Sen, Indian barrister, former Cabinet minister of India, Indian parliamentarian

Satyendra Prasanno Sinha, 1st Baron Sinha, prominent lawyer and statesman in British India

Gnanendramohan Tagore, first Asian to be called to the bar in England, in 1862

Magicians

Jewel Aich

Maneka Sorcar

P. C. Sorcar

P. C. Sorcar, Jr.

Bangla rock

Anindya Chatterjee, lead vocalist and one of the founders of the Bengali band Chandrabindoo

Anjan Dutt

Ayub Bachchu, founding member and the leader of the Bengali rock band Love Runs Blind (LRB)

Bappa Mazumder

Chandril Bhattacharya, one of the main lyricists of the Bangla band Chandrabindoo

Gautam Chattopadhyay, composer, founder of the group Mohiner Ghoraguli

James

Khaled 'Bassbaba' Sumon, vocalist for the band Aurthohin

Oni Hasan

Partha Barua

Raef al Hasan Rafa

Rupam Islam, frontman of Bengali hard rock band Fossils

Shafin Ahmed

Shishir Ahmed

Somlata Acharyya Chowdhury, lead singer of Bangla rock band Somlata and The Aces

Suman Chattapaddhay

Ziaur Rahman Zia

Classical and folk musicians

Abdul Alim

Abdul Latif

Ajoy Chakrabarty

Ali Akbar Khan, sarod performer, composer, musicologist, founder of the Ali Akbar College of Music in California, USA

Alka Yagnik

Allauddin Khan

Anjan Chattopadhyay, sitar player

Annapurna Devi, surbahar performer

Anoushka Shankar, sitar player and composer

Arnab Chakrabarty, Indian Classical musician, sarod player

Budhaditya Mukherjee

Chitra Singh, Hindi/Urdu Ghazal singer and wife of Jagjit Singh

Debabrata Biswas, Rabindrasangeet performer

Dhananjay Bhattacharya, Shyama Sangeet singer

Farida Parveen, Lalon singer

Firoza Begum, eminent exponent of Nazrul Geeti

Hason Raja

Indrani Sen, Rabindrasangeet and Nazrulgeeti performer, also modern and folk songs

Kalyan Mukherjea

Kanika Banerjee, Rabindrasangeet performer

Kashinath Mukherjee, Hindustani classical musician and sitar player of Etawah Gharana

Kumar Bose, tabla performer and composer

Lalon, mystic devotional composer and singer

Momtaz Begum, Bangladeshi folk singer, world record holder

Naina Devi (1917-1993), Indian classical singer

Nikhil Banerjee, sitar performer

Pandit Jnan Prakash Ghosh, tabla master, composer and musician

Pannalal Bhattacharya, singer

Pannalal Ghosh, pioneering master of the Indian classical flute, composer, musicologist

Ravi Shankar, sitar virtuoso, composer, musicologist

Ritwik Sanyal

Manabendra Mukhopadhyay,Singer and composer

Ruma Guha Thakurta, founder and lead singer of Calcutta Youth Choir and playback singer

Runa Laila, folk, ghazal, and pop fusion singer

Shah Abdul Karim

Shahadat Hossain Khan, Sarod virtuoso, composer, musicologist, international master, renowned Sarod player

Shankar Ghosh, tabla master and singer

Srabani Sen, rabindrasangeet performer, also modern and folk songs

Suchitra Mitra, rabindrasangeet performer, also playback singer and composer

Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta, classical and rabindrasangeet exponent performer, also folk modern and devotional music

Swapan Chaudhuri, tabla exponent

Tanmoy Bose, table master, composer, actor, fusion musician

Vilayat Khan, sitar performer

Hindi rock

Asheem Chakravarty, co-founder of the popular Indian band Indian Ocean

Palash Sen, lead vocalist of Indian band Euphoria

Susmit Sen, co-founder of the popular Indian band Indian Ocean

Western

Jernade Miah

Monica Yunus, operatic soprano

Mumzy Stranger

Norah Jones, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress, daughter of sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar – Indian Bengali

Sameer Bhattacharya, lead guitarist of the American alternative rock band Flyleaf

Sanjaya Malakar, American born Indian origin singer

Shikhee, singer; auteur of American industrial band Android Lust

Military

Subhas Chandra Bose, founder, Indian National Army

General Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri, Indian Army Chief during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965

Chitta Ranjan Dutta, Bangladeshi war hero and retired Major-General of the Bangladesh Army, key sector commander of the Mukti Bahini during the Bangladesh Liberation War

Air Commodore Sudhindra Kumar Majumdar (1927–2011), India's first military helicopter pilot

Air Marshal Subroto Mukherjee, former Head of Indian Air Force

M. A. G. Osmani, Supreme Commander of Bangladesh Forces during the Bangladesh Liberation War

Chief of the Air Staff Designate Arup Raha, currently Vice Chief of Air Staff of Indian Air Force

Indra Lal Roy, first Indian (pre Independence) flying ace

General Shankar Roychowdhury, former Indian Army Chief

Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha, present Indian Airforce Chief

Padma Vibhushan

Milon K. Banerji

Nand Lal Bose

Satyendra Nath Bose

Suniti Kumar Chatterji

D. P. Chattopadhyaya

Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri

Bhabatosh Datta

Niren De

Basanti Devi

Ashok Sekhar Ganguly

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis

Ajoy Mukherjee

Benode Behari Mukherjee

Hirendranath Mukherjee

Hrishikesh Mukherjee

Pranab Mukherjee

Basanti Dulal Nagchaudhuri

Radhabinod Pal

Satyajit Ray

Binay Ranjan Sen

Ravi Shankar

Uday Shankar

Politicians

Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad, ex-President of Bangladesh

Tajuddin Ahmed, first Prime Minister of Bangladesh (1971–1972)

Aruna Asaf Ali, Indian independence activist

Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister of West Bengal (from 2011), ex-minister for Railways, Government of India, Chairman All India Trinamool Congress

Mrinal Banerjee, former Minister

Surendranath Banerjee, one of the founding members of the Indian National Congress

Jyoti Basu, former communist Chief Minister of West Bengal, former Politburo Member of the Communist Party of India(Marxist)

Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, former communist Chief Minister of West Bengal, Politburo Member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) after 19th Party Congress

Muhammad Ali Bogra, Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1953 until 1955

Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee, first president of Indian National Congress

Rash Behari Bose, revolutionary leader against the British Raj in India and one of the key organisers of the Ghadar conspiracy and later, the Indian National Army

Subhas Chandra Bose, former President of Indian National Congress, Head of State of India's first free Provisional Government of Azad Hind and Co-Founder Indian National Army

Somnath Chatterjee, former Speaker of the Lok Sabha (Lower House of Parliament), expelled member of CPI(M), senior parliamentarian, prominent barrister

A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury, senior leader of Indian National Congress

Chittaranjan Das, prominent in the Indian independence movement (also known as Deshabandhu)

Santosh Mohan Dev, former Union Cabinet Minister, elected to the Lok Sabha, eenior leader of Indian National Congress

Hussain Mohammed Ershad, Chief Martial Law Administrator (CMLA), later President (1982–1990)

A. K. Fazlul Huq, first Chief Minister of Bengal, presented the Lahore Resolution, Governor of East Pakistan

Sucheta Kriplani, freedom fighter and politician

Jogendra Nath Mandal, served as the first Law & Labour Minister of Pakistan

Iskander Mirza, first President of Pakistan

Pranab Mukherjee, President of India 2012, Minister for External Affairs, senior leader of Indian National Congress

Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, founder of Bharatiya Jana Sangh, later Bharatiya Janata Party

Sarojini Naidu, freedom fighter and poet

Khawaja Nazimuddin, third Chief Minister of Bengal, second Governor-General of Pakistan, second Prime Minister of Pakistan

Bipin Chandra Pal, freedom fighter for Indian independence movement

Kabindra Purkayastha, former Minister

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bengali nationalist politician, founder of Bangladesh, headed the Awami League, served as the first President of Bangladesh

Ziaur Rahman, founder of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, President of Bangladesh (1977–1981), first to propose the creation of SAARC, sector commander and liberation war hero in Bangladesh

Rabi Ray, speaker of Lok Sabha

Siddhartha Shankar Ray, former Congress Chief Minister of West Bengal, former Indian ambassador to United States

Bidhan Chandra Roy, physician, former Congress Chief Minister of West Bengal, Bharat Ratna

Khwaja Salimullah, founder of Muslim League, proposed establishing University of Dhaka

Manik Sarkar, chief minister of Tripura, Politburo member

Ashoke Kumar Sen, former Law Minister, barrister, and parliamentarian

Ronen Sen, former Indian ambassador to United States

Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, second Chief Minister of Bengal, Prime Minister of Pakistan (1956–1957)

Sheikh Hasina Wazed, Prime Minister of Bangladesh (1996–2001; 2009–present)

Khaleda Zia, Prime Minister of Bangladesh (1991–1996; 2001–2006)

Ramon Magsaysay

Tahrunessa Abdullah

Fazle Hasan Abed

Amitabha Chowdhury

Zafrullah Chowdhury

Mahasweta Devi

Gour Kishore Ghosh

Angela Gomes

Syeda Rizwana Hasan

A.H.M. Noman Khan

Sombhu Mitra

Matiur Rahman

Satyajit Ray

Abdullah Abu Sayeed

Ravi Shankar

Muhammad Yunus

Buddhism

Anagarika Munindra (1915–2003), vipassana meditation teacher, who taught many notable meditation teachers including Dipa Ma, Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg, and Surya Das

Atiśa Dipamkara Shrijnana, or Srjnana Atisa Dipanakara, Buddhist scholar, missionary and teacher, inventor of bodhichitta

Tibbetibaba, philosopher saint

Tilopa, Buddhist teacher, important figure in Tibetan Buddhism, founder of the Kagyu lineage and progressor of Mahamudra method

Hinduism

Swami Abhedananda (Kaliprasad Chandra), monk, author, philosopher, occultist, reformer, founder of the Ramakrishna Vedanta Math

Advaita Acharya, Vaishnava guru

Sri Aurobindo, yogi, nationalist, philosopher, author, poet, visionary

Gaura Kisora dasa Babaji, Vaishnava ascetic, mystic and recluse

Jagannatha Dasa Babaji, Vaishnava ascetic

Mahavatar Babaji, yogi and tantrik master

Bamakhepa(Bamacharan Chattopadhyay ), tantrik guru and mystic of Tarapith

Kamalakanta Bhattacharya, Tantrik/ Shakta saint and master, composer of Shakta devotional songs

Baba Lokenath Brahmachari, yogi and philosopher

Swami Brahmananda, one of the direct disciples of Ramakrishna, first president of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission

Sri Chinmoy, Indian spiritual master

Swami Satyananda Giri, Manamohan Mazumder monk, preacher and yogi

Yukteswar Giri, Priyanath Karar, yogi, educationist, astronomer, and astrologer

Nolini Kanta Gupta, revolutionary, linguist, scholar, critic, poet, philosopher and mystic, the most senior of Sri Aurobindo's disciples, author of many books

Gopinath Kaviraj, yogi, philosopher, spiritual master, tantrik scholar and author

Lalon, fakir, sahajiya saint philosopher, humanist, poet and composer of baul/sahajiya mystic songs

Anandamoyi Ma, mystic, spiritual teacher and Tantrik Guru

Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Vaishnava mystic, missionary, monk and social reformer

Acharya Srimat Swami Pranavanandaji Maharaj, founder Bharat Sevashram Sangha

Lahiri Mahasaya or Shyama Charan Lahiri, yogi, philosopher, the propagator of Kriya Yogay

Nirmalananda, 19th century monk

Nityananda, great avadut mystic, social reformer, chief associate of Chaitanya, reincarnation of Balaram and a primary figure within the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition of Bengal

Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (Gadadhar Chattopadhaya), mystic, preacher of Dakshineshwar

Nigamananda Paramahansa Saraswat, tantrik guru, vedantic scholar, author, yogi, mystic, philosopher, disciple of Bamakhepa, founder of several institutions

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (Abhay Charan Dey), Vaishnava missionary and theologian, founder of ISKCON

Pranavananda, founder of Bharat Sevashram Sangha

Rani Rashmoni, founder of Dakshineswar Kali Temple, Kolkata

Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, Vaishnava missionary and theologian, founder of Gaudiya Math

Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar or Sri Anandamurti, polymathic personality, author, philosopher, socio-political thinker, educationist, revolutionary, poet, composer, linguist, self-development and human welfare theorist, the founder of Ananda Marga (a socio-spiritual movement)

Ramprasad Sen, tantrik master, mystic, famous as a composer of mystic, devotional songs to Goddess Kali

Bhaktivinoda Thakur, Vaishnava missionary and theologian

Swami Vivekananda (Narendranath Datta), monk, missionary and social reformer, founder of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission

Paramahansa Yogananda, monk, philosopher, preacher, author and exponent of Kriya Yoga

Islam

Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib, reformist Islamic Scholar of modern era

Allama Azizul Haque, translated the Sahih Al Bukhari into Bengali language.

Muhammad Abdul Malek, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar

Abul Kalam Azad (politician), Bangladeshi preacher and politician from Jamaat-e-Islam

Nurul Islam Farooqi, Bangladeshi preacher who was associated with TV shows, he was killed by Islamic militants

Saheb Qiblah Fultali, Bangladeshi preacher

Fazlul Haque Amini, Bangladeshi preacher

Muhammad Faizullah,Bangladeshi preacher

Abdur Rahim (scholar), Bangladeshi scholar

Abdur Rahman (Islamic scholar), Bangladeshi scholar

Sayed Kamaluddin Zafree, Bangladeshi preachee

Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, Jamaat-e-Islam politician

Ubaidul Haq, late Bangladeshi Imam of its central mosque

Christianity

Kali Charan Banerjee, lawyer and theologian, founder of the Calcutta Christo Samaj, member of the Indian National Congress

Krishna Mohan Banerjee, Bengali philosopher and litterateur, President of the Bengal Christian Association

Puroshottam Choudhary, preacher, evangelist, writer of Christian literature

Lal Behari Dey, Indian journalist, writer, and Christian missionary

Mahesh Chandra Ghosh, Bengali philosopher and religious scholar

Aurobindo Nath Mukherjee, first Indian Bishop of Calcutta and Metropolitan of India

Krishna Pal, Bengali evangelist and missionary, first Bengali convert to Christianity under William Carey

Brahmoism

Ram Mohan Roy

Sivanath Sastri

Keshub Chandra Sen

Debendranath Tagore, social thinker and reformer, founder of the Brahmo Religion or Brahmoism, the youngest religion of India

Unitarianism

Ram Mohan Roy

Wicca

Ipsita Roy Chakraverti

Revolutionaries

Sri Aurobindo

Surendranath Banerjee

Basanta Kumar Biswas

Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee

Khudiram Bose

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose

Rash Behari Bose

Sarat Chandra Bose

Prafulla Chaki

Ambika Chakrobarty

Panchanan Chakraborty

Amarendranath Chatterjee

Jogesh Chandra Chattopadhyay

Virendranath Chattopadhyaya

Bina Das

Chittaranjan Das

Jatindra Nath Das

Bhupendra Kumar Datta

Batukeshwar Dutt

Bipin Behari Ganguli

Barindra Kumar Ghosh

Matangini Hazra

Bagha Jatin

Syama Prasad Mookerjee

Jadugopal Mukherjee

Saroj Mukherjee

Gopal Chandra Mukhopadhyay

Sarojini Naidu

Jnananjan Niyogi

Bipin Chandra Pal

Sudhamoy Pramanick

Renuka Ray

B. C. Roy

Birendranath Sasmal

Narendra Mohan Sen

Surya Sen

Triguna Sen

Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy

Pritilata Waddedar

Others

Abul Barkat

Physicists

Kedareswar Banerjee, first crystallographer of India, known for X-ray Crystallography and was director of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata. The K. Banerjee Centre of Atmospheric and Ocean Studies was established in his honour

Srikumar Banerjee, director of BARC and AECI

Somnath Bharadwaj, physicist, known for his contributions to cosmology

Mani Lal Bhaumik, physicist, helped develop the first excimer laser at the University of California

Debendra Mohan Bose, physicist,made contributions in the field of cosmic rays, artificial radioactivity and neutron physics

Jagadish Chandra Bose, physicist, radio and wireless transmission pioneer, also did substantial work on botany

Satyendra Nath Bose, physicist, founded Bose–Einstein statistics, which helped to produce Bose–Einstein condensate (2001 Nobel Prize in Physics was given for this discovery); the Boson, an elementary particle named after him

Sandip Chakrabarti, leading Indian astrophysicist, developed a computer model to show how life on Earth could have originated in outer space

Swapan Chattopadhyay, particle accelerator physicist, contributed to the development of many accelerators around the world, e.g. the Super Proton-Antiproton Synchrotron, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and the Advanced Light Source at Berkeley

Swapan Kumar Gain, Bengali-American physicist, Professor of Physics at the City University of New York

Amitabha Ghosh, only Asian on NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission

Dipan Ghosh, theoretical physicist, known for Majumdar–Ghosh model

Hiranmay Sen Gupta, physicist, has published around 200 research papers in various international journals

A. K. M. Fazle Hussain, director of the Institute of Fluid Dynamics & Turbulence at the University of Houston

Jamal Nazrul Islam, physicist and mathematician, Fellowships include Third World Academy of Science Trieste, Cambridge Philosophical Society, Royal Astronomical Society

Mohammad Ataul Karim, known for contributions to the fields of electro-optical devices and systems, optical computing and processing, and pattern recognition

A A Mamun, physicist, has published over 200 research articles; the Institute of Physics (London) published his textbook on dusty plasma physics

Abhas Mitra, Indian astrophysicist best known for his distinct views on several front-line astrophysics concepts, particularly black holes

Ashesh Prasad Mitra, performed major work in the field of the Earth's near-space environment, through group based and space techniques

Sisir Kumar Mitra, physicist, pioneer in the investigations of ionosphere, the Mitra crater on the Moon is named after him

Bedabrata Pain, co-inventor of CMOS image sensor, also an award winning filmmaker

Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri, physicist, known for his contributions to relativity and cosmology including Raychaudhuri's equation

Meghnad Saha, physicist, produced the Thermo-Ionization Equation or Saha Equation

Ashoke Sen, physicist, known for his contributions to string theory, co-discovered S-duality

Bikash Sinha, former director of SINP and Padmabhusan awardee

Biologists

Maqsudul Alam, scientist and professor, achieved four milestones in genomics — sequencing the genomes of papaya, rubber plants, jute and fungus

Gopal Chandra Bhattacharya, known for his pioneering work on social insects and the role of bacteria in metamorphosis

Sharmila Bhattacharya, head of the Biomodel Performance and Behavior laboratory at NASA Ames Research Center

Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty, most notable for his work in directed evolution and his role in developing a genetically engineered organism using plasmid transfer while working at GE

Maharani Chakravorty, organized the first laboratory course on recombinant DNA techniques in Asia and Far East in 1981

SM Faruque, microbiologist and scientist, researcher on Vibrio cholerae which causes cholera

Anirvan Ghosh, his research has contributed to the understanding of the molecular mechanisms that regulate development of the mammalian brain

Biraja Sankar Guha, first director of Anthropological Survey of India

Dilip Mahalanabis, biologist, under his leadership the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (Bangladesh medical centre), discovered Oral Rehydration Therapy, which has saved more than 40 million lives from diarrhoea

Panchanan Mitra, the first professor of anthropology in India, among the first Indians to study at Yale University

Muhammad Qudrat-i-Khuda, scientist and educator, successfully extracted biochemical elements from local trees and plants for medicinal use, patented 18 scientific inventions

Sarat Chandra Roy, widely regarded as the father of Indian ethnography, the first Indian ethnographer, and as the first Indian anthropologist

Ram Brahma Sanyal, pioneer in captive breeding, and was one of the first zookeepers trained as a biologist. He was a corresponding member of the Zoological Society of London

Chemistry

Animesh Chakravorty, academic and professor

Asima Chatterjee, noted for her work in the fields of organic chemistry and phytomedicine, her most notable work includes those on vinca alkaloids, and the development of anti-epileptic and anti-malarial drugs

Abul Hussam, chemist, inventor of Sono arsenic filter and the gold winner of the 2007 Grainger Challenge Prize for Sustainability

Abdus Suttar Khan, chemist, inventor of alloys for use in commercial jets, U.S. fighter planes, gas turbines, train engines, and space shuttles

Debashis Mukherjee, pioneer of Modern Theoretical Chemistry

Jnanendra Nath Mukherjee, chemist, specialises in the fields of electrochemistry, colloids and soil science

Prafulla Chandra Roy, pioneer in the field of pharmaceutical and chemical works (discovered mercurous nitrite), The Royal Society of Chemistry honoured him with the first ever Chemical Landmark Plaque outside Europe, founder of Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals, India's first pharmaceutical company

Doctors and physicians

Rafiuddin Ahmed, dentist, founder of the first dental college of India and Bengal Dental Association, which later became Indian Dental Association

Upendranath Brahmachari, synthesized Urea Stibamine (carbostibamide) and used it in the treatment of Kala-azar (leishmaniasis), was a nominee for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Surjo Kumar Chakraborty, India's first graduate in medicine

Kadambini Ganguly, one of the first two Indian women who trained in Western medicine

Jogesh Chandra Ghosh, pioneer of modern Ayurvedic medicine

Sake Dean Mahomed, surgeon and entrepreneur

Joia Mukherjee, associate professor and Chief Medical Officer of Partners in Health

Siddhartha Mukherjee, physician, scientist and writer, author of the book The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 2011

Subhash Mukhopadhyay, physician, became the first physician in India and second in the world to perform In Vitro fertilization

Shuvo Roy, scientist and inventor of implantable artificial kidney

Mahendralal Sarkar, homeopath and founder of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science

Mathematicians

Amiya Charan Banerjee, Indian mathematician

Debabrata Basu, mathematician, found Basu's theorem

A. Bhattacharya, known for Bhattacharya coefficient, and the Bhattacharya distance

Raj Chandra Bose, mathematician, known for Association scheme, Bose–Mesner algebra, Euler's conjecture

Anil Kumar Gain, mathematician and statistician from University of Cambridge, Fellow of the Royal Society

Jayanta Kumar Ghosh, mathematician, known for Bahadur-Ghosh-Kiefer representation and Ghosh-Pratt identity

Azizul Haque, pioneered the mathematical formula for Henry Classification System of fingerprinting

Qazi Motahar Hossain, mathematician

Debasis Mitra, mathematician, known for his contribution towards the theory of communication systems, control theory and queueing theory

Samarendra Nath Roy, mathematician, known for multivariate analysis

Radhanath Sikdar, mathematician, calculated the height of Mount Everest

Technology

Samarendra Kumar Mitra, designed, developed and constructed, in 1953, India's first indigenous computer (an electronic analog computer)

Shubham Banerjee, inventor of Braigo; at 12 years old (2014) became the youngest entrepreneur to receive Venture Capital Funding

Shuman Ghosemajumder, co-founder of TeachAIDS, former click fraud czar at Google

Jawed Karim, co-founder of YouTube, lead architect of PayPal

Architecture

Vidyadhar Bhattacharya (1693-1751), the chief architect and city planner of Jaipur, Rajasthan. Along with Sir Samuel Swinton Jacob, he is credited as the architect of City Palace, Jaipur.

Fazlur Rahman Khan, structural engineer and architect, father of tubular designs for high-rises such as Willis Tower (AKA Sears Tower) and the John Hancock Center

Social reformers and position holders

Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, founder and chairperson of the world's largest international development NGO, BRAC

Syed Ameer Ali, law reformer

Kalyan Banerjee, former president of Rotary International

Khuda Buksh, pioneer of life insurance in Bangladesh

Malati Choudhury, Indian civil rights activist, freedom activist and Gandhian

Anil Kumar Gain, founder of Vidyasagar University and President of the Indian Science Congress

Nasreen Pervin Huq, women's rights activist

Roquia Sakhawat Hussain, prolific writer, important women's rights activist and social worker, early feminist science fiction writer

Irene Khan, former Secretary General of Amnesty International, first woman, first Asian, and first Muslim to hold the position

Charulata Mukherjee, women's rights activist and social worker from Calcutta, associated with Brahmo Samaj and All India Women's Conference

Mohua Mukherjee, social activist and author

Renuka Ray, freedom fighter and social activist

Bunker Roy, social activist and educator who founded the Barefoot College, selected as one of Time's 100 most influential personalities in 2010

Manabendra Nath Roy, pioneer Bengali Indian revolutionary philosopher, founder of the Mexican Communist Party and the Indian Communist Party

Ram Mohan Roy, founder of the Brahmo Samaj

Sivanath Sastri, intellectual, scholar, religious reformer, educator, writer and historian

Binay Ranjan Sen, former Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization

Keshub Chunder Sen, intellectual and a noted religious reformer

Muhammad Shahidullah, educationist, writer, polyglot, philologist and linguist

Romola Sinha, women's rights and social activist, founder member of All Bengal Women's Union

Debendranath Tagore, active Brahmo, and was against sati, idol worship

Satyendranath Tagore, first Indian to join the Indian Civil Service, also a women's rights activist

Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, responsible for introducing major reforms in the educational system and women's rights activist

Athletics

Soma Biswas, heptathlon athlete

Shanta Ghosh, retired German sprinter who specialized in the 400 meters

Hari Shankar Roy, Indian track field athlete

Saraswati Saha, Indian former track and field sprinter

Jyotirmoyee Sikdar, athletics, double gold-medallist in track at Asian games, was awarded Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award and Padma Shri award

Archers

Dola Banerjee, Indian female archer

Rahul Banerjee, Indian archer

Krishna Das, former Indian archer

Jayanta Talukdar, archer

Badminton

Dipu Ghosh, former badminton player

Raman Ghosh, former badminton player

Bodybuilders, boxers, and wrestlers

Manohar Aich, bodybuilder

Laxman Das, wrestler and weight lifter

Sukhen Dey, weightlifter

Ambika Charan Guha, Indian wrestler who pioneered the growth of Akhada culture in Bengal

Gobar Guha, Indian wrestler and practitioner of Pehlwani

Reba Rakshit, Indian female bodybuilder and exponent of yoga

Mohammed Ali Qamar, Indian boxer

Monotosh Roy, Indian bodybuilder, first Asian to be awarded the Mr. Universe title

Paresh Lal Roy, known as the "father of Indian boxing"

Asit Kumar Saha, wrestler and wrestling coach

Sudhir Saha, wrestler, coach and wrestling administrator in India, introduced Greco-Roman wrestling in India

Tameer Anwar, mister Bangladesh

Chess

Abdullah Al Rakib, Bangladeshi Grandmaster

Dibyendu Barua, Indian chess grandmaster

Surya Shekhar Ganguly, Indian grandmaster

Rani Hamid, awarded the FIDE Woman International Master (WIM) title in 1985

Niaz Morshed, chess player from Bangladesh, the first Chess Grandmaster to emerge from South Asia

Ziaur Rahman, Bangladeshi Grandmaster

Cricketers

Mohammad Ashraful, Bangladeshi cricketer, youngest centurion in test cricket

Subroto Banerjee, former Indian Test and ODI player

Gopal Bose, former Indian ODI player

Utpal Chatterjee, former Indian cricketer

Aftab Ahmed Chowdhury, former Bangladeshi cricketer

Nirode Chowdhury, former Indian Test cricketer and pace bowler

Deep Dasgupta, former Indian national cricket team wicket-keeper

Rumeli Dhar, cricketer, Indian women's cricket team

Ashok Dinda, Indian cricket team player

Sourav Ganguly, former Indian cricket team captain, Padma Shri awardee

Jhulan Goswami, Indian woman cricketer, awarded ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year 2007

Isa Guha, English women's team cricketer

Subrata Guha, former Indian Test cricketer

Shakib Al Hasan, Bangladeshi cricketer

Tamim Iqbal, Bangladeshi cricketer

Mithu Mukherjee, former Indian women's cricket team player

Saradindu Mukherjee, former Indian cricketer

Pankaj Roy, former Indian cricket captain, known for establishing the world record opening partnership of 413 runs against New Zealand

Pranab Roy, former Test cricketer for India Championship (1983, 1985, 1989)

Priyanka Roy, former cricketer of Indian women's cricket team

Wriddhiman Saha, Indian cricket player

Probir Sen, former Indian Test cricketer/wicket-keeper

Mahmudullah Riyad, Bangladeshi cricketer

Alok Kapali, former Bangladeshi cricketer

Soumya Sarkar, Bangladeshi cricketer

Rubel Hossain, Bangladeshi cricketer

[[Shahadat Hossain, Bangladeshi cricketer

Mushfiqur Rahim, Bangladeshi cricketer

Habibul Bashar, former Bangladeshi cricketer

Taijul Islam, Bangladeshi bowler

Taskin Ahmed, Bangladeshi bowler

Salma Akter, Bangladesh woman's captain

Shahbaz Chouhan, BPL player

Golfers

Anirban Lahiri

Siddikur Rahman

Footballers

Pradip Kumar Banerjee, footballer, named Indian Footballer of the 20th Century by FIFA

Prasun Banerjee, former Indian national football player, Arjuna award winner

Sibdas Bhaduri, captained Mohun Bagan in the historic 1911 IFA Shield Final, where they defeated the East Yorkshire Regiment, 2-1

Arindam Bhattacharya, Indian national football player

Subhash Bhowmick, former Indian international football player

Sudip Chatterjee, footballer, considered among the finest in Indian football, declared AIFF player of the decade in 1994

Narayan Das, Indian national football player

Krishanu Dey, footballer, known as the "Indian Maradona"

Robin Dutt, former manager of Bundesliga club Werder Bremen, current representative for sport of VfB Stuttgart

Chuni Goswami, former Indian Footballer, Padma Shri awardee, awarded best striker of Asia in 1962

Pronay Halder, Indian national football player

Mehtab Hossain, former Indian national football player

Pritam Kotal, Indian national football player

Shailen Manna, footballer, the only Asian footballer ever to be named among the 10 best captains in the world by the English FA in 1953

Arnab Mondal, Indian national football player

Deepak Kumar Mondal, football player, Arjuna award winner

Syed Rahim Nabi, Indian international footballer, known as 'Mr. Versatile' for his ability to play at any position (except goalkeeper), declared Indian player of the year in 2012

Gostho Pal, footballer. Member of the 1st Indian team, Mohun Bagan that won the IFA shield against a British team in the pre-independence period

Subrata Paul, Indian national football player, first Indian goalkeeper to play professionally for a foreign club in 1st division

Mohammed Salim, first Indian footballer to play overseas (in 1936 for the Scottish Club Celtic F.C.)

Jewel Raja Shaikh, Indian national football player

Mountaineers

Chhanda Gain

Musa Ibrahim, first Bangladeshi to scale Mount Everest

Asim Mukhopadhyay

Wasfia Nazreen, second Bangladeshi woman to scale Mount Everest

Nishat Majumdar, first Bangladeshi woman to scale Mount Everest

Muhammad Khaled Hossain, fifth Bangladeshi to scale Everest

Swimmers

Masudur Rahman Baidya , world's first physically handicapped swimmer to swim across the English Channel in 1997 and the Strait of Gibraltar in 2001

Bula Choudhury, first woman to cross the seven seas

Brojen Das, first Asian to swim across the English Channel and the first person to cross it four times

Prasanta Karmakar, para swimmer

Sachin Nag, former swimming champion

Arati Saha, first Indian and Asian woman to swim across English Channel; first Indian female sportsperson to be awarded the Padma Shri

Mihir Sen, first Indian to swim across the English Channel, from Dover to Calais in 1958, and for swimming across five channels in one calendar year (1956)

Squash

Ritwik Bhattacharya

Saurav Ghosal, highest ranked Indian player

Tennis

Jaidip Mukerjea, Arjuna award winner

Afrana Islam Prity, Bangladeshi ITF player

Shibu Lal, Bangladeshi ATP player

Somdev Devvarman, former world no. 62 from Assam

Table tennis

Ankita Das, Olympian

Mouma Das, Olympian

Poulomi Ghatak

Soumyajit Ghosh, Olympian

Zobera Rahman Linu, also a Guinness World Record holder

Subhajit Saha

Writers

Humayun Ahmed (born 1948), novelist

Alaol (1607–1680), poet of medieval era

Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib, Islamic scholar, writer, academic, essayist

Ekram Ali (born 1950), poet

Monica Ali (born 1954), novelist

Syed Mujtaba Ali (1904–1974), novelist and essayist

Banaphool, writer of short stories

Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay (1894–1950), novelist

Manik Bandopadhyay (1908–1956), novelist and short story writer

Tarashankar Bandopadhyay (1898–1971), novelist

Subimal Basak, fiction writer

Abul Bashar (born 1951), novelist and essayist

Samit Basu, novelist

Sukanta Bhattacharya, poet and playwright

Abdul Karim Sahitya Bisharad, author, Gorokho Bijoy

Buddhadeb Bose (1908–1974), poet and essayist

Sasthi Brata, fiction writer, based in UK

Nirendranath Chakravarty (born 1924), poet

Chandidas, medieval Bengali poet

Aroup Chatterjee, (born 1958) – British Indian atheist physician, author of Mother Teresa: The Untold Story

Rimi B. Chatterjee, novelist and short story writer, winner of the 2007 SHARP deLong Prize

Upamanyu Chatterjee, author and administrator

Suniti Kumar Chatterji, linguist and educator

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (1838–1894), novelist, essayist, penned the Indian National Song of integrity Vande Mataram

Sandipan Chattopadhyay (1933–2005), novelist

Sanjeev Chattopadhyay, Bengali fiction writer

Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1876–1938), novelist

Shakti Chattopadhyay, poet

Amit Chaudhuri, Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia, 2002 Sahitya Akademi Award winner

Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1897–1999), essayist and scholar

Pramatha Chaudhuri, editor of Sabuj Patra, wrote in the era of Rabindranath Tagore

Malay Roy Choudhury, Bengali poet and novelist who founded the "Hungryalist Movement" in the 1960s

Jibanananda Das (1899–1954), poet

Ashapurna Devi (1909–1995), novelist and short story writer

Mahasweta Devi (born 1926), novelist and short story writer

Nirupama Devi, fiction writer

Swarnakumari Devi, first among the women writers in Bengali to gain prominence

Leema Dhar (born 1993), novelist, poet, and columnist

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (born Chitralekha Banerjee), author and poet

Michael Madhusudan Dutt (1824–1873), poet and dramatist

Romesh Chunder Dutt, writer and translator of Ramayana and Mahabharata

Toru Dutt, wrote in English and French

Sudhindranath Dutta (1901–1960), poet

Kaberi Gain, author of Muktijuddher Cholochchitre Naree Nirman

Narayan Gangopadhyay, author, creator of the Tenida character

Sunil Gangopadhyay (born 1934), poet and novelist

Amitav Ghosh, novelist and essayist

Prabir Ghosh, writer, essayist, poet and rationalist

Shankha Ghosh (born 1932), poet and essayist

Joy Goswami (born 1954), poet

Buddhadeb Guha (born 1936), novelist

Tanika Gupta, playwright, appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in 2008

Mir Mosharraf Hossain (1847–1912), novelist

Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, science fiction writer

Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899–1976), poet

Jīmūtavāhana, writer of Dāyabhāga

Moniruddin Khan, writer and historian

Jhumpa Lahiri, novelist, short story writer, Pulitzer Prize winner

Al Mahmud, poet and novelist

Sake Dean Mahomed, first Indian to write a book in the English language

Binoy Majumdar, poet, Sahitya Akademi Award in 2005

Kamal Kumar Majumdar, novelist and short story writer

Samaresh Majumdar, writer, creator of the Animesh Trilogy

Arun Mitra (1909–2000), poet

Premendra Mitra (1904–1988), poet and short story writer

Nurul Momen (1908–1990), playwright of Nemesis, recognized as the pioneer of modern Bengali drama, referred to as the "fFather of Bangladeshi theatre"

Bharati Mukherjee, author and educator

Dhan Gopal Mukerji, author

Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay (born 1935), novelist

Subhas Mukhopadhyay (1919–2003), poet

Subhash Mukhopadhyay, Bengali poet

Kumud Ranjan Mullick, poet of the Tagore era

Ghulam Murshid, writer, essayist and cultural historian

Shahabuddin Nagari, Bangladeshi poet and writer of juvenile fiction

Moti Nandi, novelist

Taslima Nasrin (born 1962), novelist

Rajat Neogy (born 1938, died 1995), poet, writer, thinker & founder of Transition Magazine in Kampala in 1961. Ugandan Indian

Krittibas Ojha, medieval Bengali poet

Shamsur Rahman (1929–2006), poet

Bharatchandra Ray, poet and song composer known for his Mangalkavya

Dwijendralal Ray (1863–1913), playwright and poet

Satyajit Ray (1921–1992), writer and film director

Annadashankar Roy (1905–2002), novelist, essayist and poet

Arundhati Roy, novelist and essayist

Samir Roychoudhury (born 1933), poet, novelist, short story writer and philosopher

Narayan Sanyal, writer of modern Bengali literature

Subodh Sarkar, poet

Ramprasad Sen, Shakta poet of eighteenth century Bengal

Mallika Sengupta, Bengali poet, feminist, and reader of Sociology from Kolkata

Nares Chandra Sen-Gupta (1882–1964), novelist and legal scholar

Haraprasad Shastri, known as the inventor of Charyapada

Syed Mustafa Siraj, poet, novelist, short story writer, Sahitya Akademi awardee

Srijato, won Ananda Puroskar in 2004

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), poet, novelist and essayist

Jasim Uddin (1903–1976), poet, novelist and essayist

Vidyapati, medieval poet and Sanskrit writer

Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, philosopher, educator, writer, translator, publisher, and reformer of the Bengal Renaissance period