List of people from West Bengal

List of people from West Bengal

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.

Table of contents

1 Arts
2 Business and Industry
3 Literature
4 Movies

4.1 Directors
4.2 Actors
4.3 Actresses

5 Music
6 Dance
7 Theatre
8 Politics
9 Science
10 Religion
11 Sports
12 Others

Arts

Abanindranath Tagore
Nandalal Bose
Ramkinkar Baij
Jamini Roy

Business and Industry

Literature

Rabindranath Tagore (Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913)
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Michael Madhushudhan Dutta
Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
Tarashankar Bandopadhyay
Manik Bandopadhyay
Jibanananda Das
Sunil Gangopadhyay

Movies

Directors

Satyajit Ray, (OSCAR for Lifetime Achievementinin 1992)
Mrinal Sen
Ritwik Ghatak
Tapan Sinha

Actors

Uttam Kumar
Soumitra Chatterjee
Pramathesh Barua
Utpal Dutta

Actresses

Kanabala
Suchitra Sen
Supriya Devi

Music

Ravi Shankar

Dance

Uday Shankar

Theatre

Girish Ghosh
Shishir Bhaduri
Shambhu Mitra
Ajitesh Bandopadhyay

Politics

Jyoti Basu
Bidhan Chandra Roy

Science

Jagadish Chandra Bose

Satyendra Nath Bose
Meghnad Saha

Religion

Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
Ramkrishna Paramhansa

Sports

Saurav Ganguly, captain, Indian cricket team

Others

Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (A social and cultural reformist who can be called the father of Bengali language)

See also: List of people by India state

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