List of Bengalis

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This article provides lists of famous and notable

Bengali people in the Indian subcontinent, people with Bengali ancestry, and people who speak Bengali
as their primary language.

Monarchs

Pala Dynasty

Chronological order

Chandra Dynasty

Deva Dynasty

Ilyas Shahi dynasty (1352–1414)

Name Reign Notes
Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah 1352–1358 Became the first sole ruler of whole
Satgaon and Lakhnauti
.
Sikandar Shah 1358–1390 Killed in battle with his son and successor, Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah
Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah 1390–1411 Patron of the first recorded Bengali poet Shah Muhammad Saghir
Saifuddin Hamza Shah 1411–1412
Nasiruddin Mahmud Shah
1435–1459
Rukunuddin Barbak Shah
1459–1474
Shamsuddin Yusuf Shah 1474–1481 Patron of Bengali poet Zainuddin
Nuruddin Sikandar Shah 1481
Jalaluddin Fateh Shah 1481–1487

House of Ganesha

Hussain Shahi dynasty (1494–1538)

Name Reign Notes
Alauddin Hussain Shah
1494–1518 His witnessed a remarkable development of Bengali literature.
Nasiruddin Nasrat Shah 1518–1533
Alauddin Firuz Shah 1533
Ghiyasuddin Mahmud Shah 1533–1538

Other

A 19th century sketch of Isa Khan, a Muslim Rajput leader of Bengal.

Nobel laureates

Academics

Abdul Malik was Pakistan's first cardiologist.


Actors and entertainers

Khalil Ullah Khan earned Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Gunda in 1976.

Artists and designers

Bharat Ratna

List of Indian Citizen Bengalis

Bloggers / media artists

  • Hasan M. Elahi, interdisciplinarysciplinary media artist
  • Pritish Nandy, poet, author, editor in chief, The Illustrated Weekly of India and Publishing Director and Managing Editor, The Times of India Group 1982–1991
  • Reihan Salam, journalist, blogger at The American Scene and associate editor of The Atlantic Monthly

Business and industry

Billionaires

Business leaders

Entrepreneurs

Sahitya Akademi Award

Cartoonists / comics creators

Cinematographers

Criminals

Dadasaheb Phalke Award winners

Diplomats

Economists

In 1994, Saifur Rahman was elected governor of the golden jubilee conference of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Madrid, Spain.[5]

Fellows of the Royal Society

Fictional characters

Filmmakers

Grammy winners

Journalists

Bangladesh

India

America

United Kingdom

  • 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, current Economics Editor of BBC News. Former Political Editor of Sky News
  • Tasmin Lucia Khan
    , English journalist and television presenter
  • press officer for the Mayor of London
  • Sarah Mukherjee, former BBC Environment Correspondent, currently a regular contributor on Radio 4's Today programme

Pakistan

Qatar

Uganda

Law

Magicians

Musicians

Bangla rock

Bangladeshi film industry

  • Abdul Alim
    , National Award-winning playback singer
  • Asif Akbar, National Award-winning playback singer
  • Momtaz Begum, National Award-winning playback singer
  • Kumar Biswajit
    , National Award-winning playback singer and composer
  • Ahmed Imtiaz Bulbul, freedom fighter and National Award-winning music director
  • Kanak Chapa, National Award-winning playback singer
  • Priyanka Gope, National Award-winning playback singer
  • Syed Abdul Hadi, National Award-winning playback singer
  • Abdul Jabbar
    , National Award-winning playback singer
  • Alam Khan, National Award-winning music director and composer
  • Monir Khan, National Award-winning playback singer
  • Andrew Kishore, National Award-winning playback singer
  • Runa Laila, National Award-winning playback singer and composer
  • Bappa Mazumder, Singer, National Award-winning composer
  • Mahmudun Nabi, National Award-winning playback singer
  • Subir Nandi, National Award-winning playback singer
  • Baby Nazneen
    , National Award-winning playback singer
  • Farida Parveen, National Award-winning playback singer
  • Khan Ataur Rahman, National Award-winning music director and composer
  • Shahnaz Rahmatullah, National Award-winning playback singer
  • Emon Saha, National Award-winning music director and composer
  • Satya Saha, National Award-winning music director
  • S I Tutul
    , National Award-winning playback singer and composer
  • Habib Wahid, National Award-winning music director
  • Sabina Yasmin, National Award-winning playback singer

Bollywood

Classical and folk musicians

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

  • Sameer Bhattacharya, lead guitarist of the American alternative rock band Flyleaf
  • Futurecop!, electronic band, members include Manzur Iqbal from United Kingdom
  • Norah Jones, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress, daughter of sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar; Indian Bengali
  • Sanjaya Malakar, American born Indian origin singer
  • Shikhee
    , singer; auteur of American industrial band Android Lust
  • Mumzy Stranger
  • Monica Yunus, operatic soprano

Military

Bangladesh

India

Other

Padma Vibhushan

Politicians

A. K. Fazlul Huq
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Khaleda Zia
Sheikh Hasina Wazed

Bangladesh

British India

Nawab Syed Shamsul Huda was a patron, and donated immensely towards education for the Muslim students of Bengal during a difficult period.
Abul Kalam Azad was India's first Minister of Education, and his birthday is now recognised as National Education Day
across the country.

India

West Bengal

Assam

Bihar

Meghalaya

Other

Pakistan

United Kingdom

Anwar Choudhury was the first non-white British person to be appointed in a senior diplomatic post.

Canada

United States of America

Other

I'tisam-ud-Din was the first educated Bengali and South Asian to have travelled to Europe.

Ramon Magsaysay Award

Religion and spirituality

Image of Swami Vivekananda relaxing in a chair
Swami Vivekananda in Bushnell Studio in San Francisco, 1900[23]

Brahmoism

Buddhism

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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

Shah Ahmad Shafi in 2019
Ajmal Masroor was nominated for the Religious Advocate of the Year award at the 2013 & 2015 British Muslim Awards.

Christianity

Other

Freedom Fighters and Revolutionaries

Science and technology

Satyendranath Bose, Debendra Mohan Bose, N R Sen, Jnanendra Nath Mukherjee
, N C Nag.

Physicists

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
  • 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
  • Biraja Sankar Guha, first director of Anthropological Survey of India
  • Jahangir Alam Khan, agricultural economist and researcher
  • International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research
    (Bangladesh medical centre), discovered oral rehydration therapy, which has saved more than 40 million lives from diarrhea
  • Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award
    winner
  • Panchanan Mitra, first professor of anthropology in India, among the first Indians to study at Yale University
  • Mohammad Hossain Mondol, director-general of Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute
  • 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; one of the first zookeepers trained as a biologist; a corresponding member of the Zoological Society of London
  • Dwijen Sharma, naturalist and science writer

Geologists

Chemists

Abdus Suttar Khan invented more than forty different alloys for commercial application in space shuttles, jet engines, train engines and industrial gas turbines.
  • Sadhan Basu, Palit professor at Calcutta University and Bhatnagar Award, CV Raman recipient
  • Asima Chatterjee, known 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
  • Jnan Chandra Ghosh, chemist, known for anomaly of strong electrolytes
  • 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
  • Nurul Haque Miah, chemist, former professor at Dhaka College, textbook author
  • Jnanendra Nath Mukherjee, chemist, specialised 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

Mathematicians

Technologists

Architects, archaeologists and engineers

Social reformers and position holders

KCMG
receiving the Thomas Francis Jr Medal in Global Public Health award from the University of Michigan (April 2016)

Sports

Brojen Das was the first Bengali to swim across the English Channel.

Administrators

Athletics

Archery

Badminton

Bodybuilding, boxing, rugby and wrestling

Chess

Cricket

Football

Hamza Choudhury playing for Leicester City F.C. in 2021.

Golf and snooker

Gymnastics

  • Mabia Akhter, Commonwealth gold medalist, South Asian Games gold medalist
  • Dipa Karmakar, first Indian woman gymnast to qualify for the Olympics
  • Margarita Mamun, Russian gymnast of half-Bangladeshi origin
  • Pranati Nayak, second Indian women gymnast to qualify for the Olympics

Cycling and mountaineering

Shooting

Squash

Swimming

Table tennis

Tennis

Writers

Rabindranath Tagore is the first Indian as well as Asian Nobel laureate.
Al Mahmud is considered one of the greatest Bengali poets to have emerged in the 20th century.[26]
Hason Raja, mystical poet and songwriter

Chefs

See also

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