List of people from West Bengal

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This is a list of famous and notable people from West Bengal, India. This would include persons who are known to a large number of people and is not based on the extent of their popularity. Neither is the list viewed from the context of the present. Their fame could be brief, what matters is that they were well-known during the peak of their popularity. This list does not include the significant number of prominent East Bengali Refugees from East Bengal who settled in West Bengal after the partition of the Indian sub-continent in 1947, or those who were based in Calcutta prior to partition and chose not to return to their ancestral districts.

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[edit] Arts

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[edit] Literature


[edit] Journalism


[edit] Linguistics

[edit] Education

[edit] Philosophy

[edit] Movies

[edit] Directors

[edit] Actors

[edit] Actresses

(Alphabetical) Also see List of Bengali actresses

[edit] Music

[edit] Composers

[edit] Music (Vocal)

[edit] Music (Instrumental & Classical)

[edit] Dance

[edit] Theatre

[edit] Politics

[edit] Freedom Fighters

[edit] Post independence figures

[edit] Others

[edit] Science

Bhairab C. Bhattacharya

  • Amartya Sen Nobel Laureate , economist, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel]], 1998
  • Dr. Sujit Kumar Bhattacharya

[edit] Zoology

[edit] Religion

[edit] Social reformers

[edit] Derozians

[edit] Sports

  • Gostho Pal, Footballer
  • Mihir Sen, swimmer. First Indian to swim across the English Channel in 1958.
  • Arati Saha, swimmer. First Asian woman to swim English Channel in 1959.
  • Bula Chowdhury, swimmer. First Indian woman to swim English Channel twice.
  • Dibyendu Barua, chess grandmaster
  • Surya Sekhar Ganguly, chess grandmaster*
  • Saurav Ganguly, cricketer
  • Pankaj Roy,cricketer
  • Arun Lal,cricketer
  • Saba Karim,cricketer
  • Sailen Manna , footballer
  • P. K. Banerjee, footballer
  • Subrata Bhattacharya, footballer
  • Krishanu Dey, footballer
  • Jyotirmoyee Sikdar, athletics. Double gold-medallist at Bangkok Asiad, 1996
  • Leander Paes, lawn tennis player. Former doubles world no. one with Mahesh Bhupathi and bronze-medallist at Atlanta Olympics, 1996
  • Soumyadeep Roy, Table Tennis. Commonwealth games gold medalist
  • Subhajit Saha, Table Tennis. Commonwealth games gold medalist
  • Mohammad Ali Qamar, Boxing . Commonwealth games gold medalist
  • Arjun Atwal, golfer.
  • Rohan Gavaskar,cricketer

[edit] Old Calcutta/ Bengal legends

[edit] Industrialists/ Businessmen/ Industry personalities

[edit] Others

  • Mother Teresa , Nobel laureate
  • P C Sorcar, Magician
  • Bimal Kanti Dey, Globe Trotter, Cyclist
  • Ashis Nandy, Author, political psychologist
  • Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee
  • Dilip Kumar Gupta, a pioneer of Indian Advertising, who also modernized and professionalized publishing in Bengal,and helped many talented Bengali writers, poets, filmmakers and artists achieve their aspirations. First publisher of Jawarharlal Nehru's Discovery of India. A cultural icon and role model of his times.
  • Rani Rashmoni, very wealthy zamindar, champion of the people and founder of Dakkhineswar.

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