List of Bangladeshi Hindus

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This is an incomplete list of notable and prominent Hindus from Bangladesh.

Martyrs and Freedom Fighters in 1971

• Jagat Joity Das
• Laxman Das
• Purnendu Dastidar
• Dhirendranath Datta
• Govinda Chandra Dev
• Chitta Ranjan Dutta, sector commander during the War of Liberation
• Jogesh Chandra Ghosh
• Jyotirmoy Guhathakurta
• Ranada Prasad Saha, businessman and philanthropist (founded educational institutes like Bharateswari Homes, Kumudini College and Debendra College). Martyred during the War of Liberation.
• Suranjit Sengupta
• Moni Singh
• Nutan Chandra Singha, businessman martyred during the War of Liberation

Politics

• Trailokyanath Chakravarty
• Pulin De^[1]
• Chitta Ranjan Dutta
• Gopal Krishna Maharatna
• Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, vice-president of Bangladesh Nationalist Party
• Joya Sengupta
• Suranjit Sengupta, Former Member of Parliament
• Bangladesh Communist Party
• Swapan Bhattacharjee Member of Parliament
• Nitai Roy Chowdhury vice chairman of the Central Committee of Bangladesh Nationalist Party

Current ministers

• Sadhan Chandra Majumder, Minister of Food^[2]

Current members of Jatiya Sangsad

Current 11th Jatiya Sangsad has 18 Hindu MP.^[3]

• Mrinal Kanti Das^[4]
• Manoranjan Shill Gopal
• Pankaj Nath
• Ramesh Chandra Sen
• Jaya Sengupta, Sunamganj, (from Awami League
  )
• Dhirendra Debnath Shambhu
• Biren Sikder
• Dipankar Talukdar

Justices of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh

• High Court Division
• Bimalendu Bikash Roy Chowdhury, former justice and adviser of Caretaker Government
• High Court Division
• High Court Division
• High Court Division^{[citation needed}
  ]
• Surendra Kumar Sinha, Chief Justice of Bangladesh (2015–2017)^[5]
• High Court Division

Lawyers and Legal Writers

• Rana Dasgupta, Senior Advocate and General Secretary of the Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council.

Arts

• Shishir Bhattacharjee, cartoonist
• Shib Narayan Das, designer of the first national flag of Bangladesh
• Dhruba Esh, cover-artist and writer
• Uttam Guho, stage and art director
• Kalidas Karmakar, painter
• Nitun Kundu, sculptor, businessman
• Partha Pratim Majumder, pioneer mime-artist
• Sarker Protick or Protick Sarkar

Music

• Shayan Chowdhury Arnob, singer-songwriter, artist
• Kumar Bishwajit, pop singer
• Sanjeeb Chowdhury, singer-songwriter, member of Dalchhut
• Souls
• Alaka Das, classical music artist
• Haimanti Rakshit Das
• Samar Das, music composer
• Sudhin Das, Nazrul Sangeet artist and Swaralipikar
• Kamal Dasgupta, music director
• Sunil Dhar, classical musician
• Shuvro Dev, pop-artist, singer
• Robin Ghosh, music director
• Shefali Ghosh, singer of mostly Chittagonian folk music
• Priyanka Gope, singer
• Pantho Kanai, singer, member of Bangla, Arnab and Friends
• Ustad Barin Mazumder, member of Dalchhut
• Chandana Mazumdar, Lalon-geeti singer
• Ustad Barin Mazumder
  , classical singer
• Subir Nandi, singer^[6]
• Ajit Roy, Rabindra Sangeet singer
• Anima Roy, Rabindra Sangeet singer
• Kiran Chandra Roy, folk singer
• Rathindranath Roy, singer
• Emon Saha, music director
• Satya Saha, music director
• Bijoy Sarkar, baul singer, lyricist, composer and poet

Cinema and television

• Animesh Aich, director
• Amalendu Biswas, stage actor of the jatra-pala genre
• Anam Biswas, director, screenwriter, composer and writer
• Apu Biswas, contemporary actress
• Aruna Biswas, television, stage and film actress
• Jyotsna Biswas, stage-actress of jatra-pala genre, recipient of Ekushey Padak
• Jayanta Chattopadhyay, actor
• Bappy Chowdhury, actor
• Chanchal Chowdhury, actor,Singer, lecturer
• Sumita Devi, actress
• Sujata, actress
• Dipankar Dipon, director
• Subhash Dutta, filmmaker, actor
• Anju Ghosh, actress, starred in record-breaking Beder Meye Josna
• Aparna Ghosh, contemporary actress
• Chitralekha Guho, television actress
• Urmila Srabonti Kar, contemporary television actress
• Ashish Kumar Louho, film actor, playwright, dialogue writer and story writer
• Bidya Sinha Saha Mim, contemporary actress
• Ramendu Majumdar, actor and theatre-activist
• Narayan Ghosh Mita, film director and writer
• Prabir Mitra, film actor
• Manoj Pramanik, actor
• Puja Cherry Roy
  , contemporary actress
• Shabnam, actress
• Brindaban Das, Bangladeshi playwright, actor, writer and director.
• Yash Rohan , actor
• Shashwata Dutta ,actor

Literature

• Kajal Bandyopadhyay, poet, translator and academic
• Purabi Basu, short-story writer, pharmacologist and activist
• Ananta Bijoy Das
  , atheist blogger and writer of Hindu origin, martyred by extremists
• Nirmalendu Goon, poet
• Bimal Guha, poet and academic
• Ranesh Das Gupta, writer, journalist, and politician
• Harishankar Jaladas, novelist
• Avijit Roy, atheist blogger and writer of Hindu origin, martyred by extremists
• Mahadev Saha, poet
• Ashim Saha, poet and novelist.
• Arunabh Sarkar, poet, columnist, literary-editor and freedom fighter
• Satyen Sen, author, founder of Udichi

Academia

• Debapriya Bhattacharya, economist
• Shishir Bhattacharja, writer, researcher, linguist, professor of French
• Swadesh Bose, economist and Language-movement activist
• Govinda Chandra Dev, martyred academic, philosopher, Dhaka University professor
• Kaberi Gayen, columnist, academic
• Biswajit Ghosh, Bangladeshi essayist, researcher and academic
• Ajoy Roy, academic and leader of secular-humanist movement in Bangladesh
• Sanat Kumar Saha, essayist, economist, professor and Tagore-exponent
• Jatin Sarker, author and Marxist philosopher
• Swadesh Bose, economist and freedom fighter.

Science and Technology

• Arun Kumar Basak
• Pran Gopal Datta, physician, ex-vice chancellor of BSMRMU and member of parliament
• Hiranmay Sen Gupta
• Shuvo Roy
• Senjuti Saha
• Samir Kumar Saha
• Dwijen Sharma

Journalism

• Kaberi Gayen, journalist and academic
• Manik Chandra Saha, journalist, recipient of Ekushey Padak
• Munni Saha, journalist, television presenter

Business and philanthropy

• Subir Chowdhury Bangladeshi-American author, world renowned expert in quality and management and philanthropist (founded the Subir-Maliny Center for Bangladesh Studies at the University of California-Berkeley)
• Nitun Kundu, sculptor and founder of Otobi
• Ranada Prasad Saha, philanthropist, founder of Kumudini College and Kumudini Hospital at Mirzapur Upazila, Tangail)
• Biplab Saha, founder of Rang clothing

Sports

• Tapash Baishya
  , cricket
• Rajani Kanta Barman, football
• Topu Barman, football
• Debabrata Barua
  , cricket
• Biplob Bhattacharjee, football
• Disha Biswas, women's cricket
• Kesto Kumar Bose, football
• Narayan Chandra, cricket
• Mithun Chowdhury, football
• Brojen Das, swimmer
• Litton Das
  , cricket
• Bishwanath Ghosh, football
• Dhiman Ghosh, cricket
• Pinak Ghosh, cricket
• Taposh Ghosh, cricket
• Asim Gope, hockey
• Shuvagata Hom, cricket
• Alok Kapali, cricket
• Pritom Kumar, cricket
• Subashis Roy, cricket
• Kochi Rani Mondal, kabaddi
• Sanjit Saha, cricket
• Sumon Saha, cricket
• Krishna Rani Sarkar, football
• Soumya Sarkar, cricket
• Jony Talukdar, cricket
• Rony Talukdar, cricket
• Sushanto Tripura, football
• Avishek Mitra, cricket

See also

• Hinduism in Bangladesh
• Bengali Hindus
• Lists of Hindus

References