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List of Bengalis

January 27, 2023

This article provides lists of famous and notable Bengali people in the South Asian subcontinent, mainly what is today Bangladesh, Pakistan and India, and people with Bengali ancestry or people who speak Bengali as their primary language.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Monarchs

Pala Dynasty

Chronological order

Chandra Dynasty

Deva Dynasty

Ilyas Shahi dynasty (1352–1414)

Main article: Ilyas Shahi dynasty
Name Reign Notes
Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah 1352–1358 Became the first sole ruler of whole Bengal comprising Sonargaon, 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)

Main article: Hussain Shahi dynasty
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

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

Main article: List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Bengali

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

Pakistan

Qatar

Uganda

Law

Magicians

Musicians

Bangla rock

Bangladeshi film industry

Bollywood

Classical and folk musicians

Hindi rock

Western

Military

Bangladesh

India

Other

Padma Vibhushan

Politicians

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

 
Swami Vivekananda in Bushnell Studio in San Francisco, 1900[23]

Brahmoism

Buddhism

Hinduism

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

 
Seated (L to R): Meghnad Saha, Jagadish Chandra Bose, Jnan Chandra Ghosh. Standing (L to R): Snehamoy Dutt, Satyendranath Bose, Debendra Mohan Bose, N R Sen, Jnanendra Nath Mukherjee, N C Nag.

Physicists

Biologists

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

 
Sir Fazle Hasan Abed 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 Asian 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

Squash

Swimming

Table tennis

Tennis

Writers

Further information: List of Bengali language authors
 
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.[27]
 
Hason Raja, mystical poet and songwriter

Cooks

See also

References

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This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia s quality standards The specific problem is too many useless double entries Please help improve this article if you can July 2014 Learn how and when to remove this template message This article provides lists of famous and notable Bengali people in the South Asian subcontinent mainly what is today Bangladesh Pakistan and India and people with Bengali ancestry or people who speak Bengali as their primary language This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources Contents 1 Monarchs 1 1 Pala Dynasty 1 2 Chandra Dynasty 1 3 Deva Dynasty 1 4 Ilyas Shahi dynasty 1352 1414 1 5 House of Ganesha 1 6 Hussain Shahi dynasty 1494 1538 1 7 Other 2 Nobel laureates 3 Academics 4 Actors and entertainers 5 Artists and designers 6 Bharat Ratna 7 Bloggers media artists 8 Business and industry 8 1 Billionaires 8 2 Business leaders 8 3 Entrepreneurs 9 Sahitya Akademi Award 10 Cartoonists comics creators 11 Cinematographers 12 Criminals 13 Dadasaheb Phalke Award winners 14 Diplomats 15 Economists 16 Fellows of the Royal Society 17 Fictional characters 18 Filmmakers 19 Grammy winners 20 Journalists 20 1 Bangladesh 20 2 India 20 3 America 20 4 United Kingdom 20 5 Pakistan 20 6 Qatar 20 7 Uganda 21 Law 22 Magicians 23 Musicians 23 1 Bangla rock 23 2 Bangladeshi film industry 23 3 Bollywood 23 4 Classical and folk musicians 23 5 Hindi rock 23 6 Western 24 Military 24 1 Bangladesh 24 2 India 24 3 Other 25 Padma Vibhushan 26 Politicians 26 1 Bangladesh 26 2 British India 26 3 India 26 3 1 West Bengal 26 3 2 Assam 26 3 3 Bihar 26 3 4 Meghalaya 26 3 5 Other 26 4 Pakistan 26 5 United Kingdom 26 6 Canada 26 7 United States of America 26 8 Other 27 Ramon Magsaysay Award 28 Religion and spirituality 28 1 Brahmoism 28 2 Buddhism 28 3 Hinduism 28 4 Islam 28 5 Christianity 28 6 Other 29 Freedom Fighters and Revolutionaries 30 Science and technology 30 1 Physicists 30 2 Biologists 30 3 Geologists 30 4 Chemists 30 5 Doctors and physicians 30 6 Mathematicians 30 7 Technologists 30 8 Architects archaeologists and engineers 31 Social reformers and position holders 32 Sports 32 1 Administrators 32 2 Athletics 32 3 Archery 32 4 Badminton 32 5 Bodybuilding boxing rugby and wrestling 32 6 Chess 32 7 Cricket 32 8 Football 32 9 Golf and snooker 32 10 Gymnastics 32 11 Cycling and mountaineering 32 12 Squash 32 13 Swimming 32 14 Table tennis 32 15 Tennis 33 Writers 34 Cooks 35 See also 36 ReferencesMonarchs EditPala Dynasty Edit Chronological order Gopala I Dharmapala Devapala Mahendrapala Shurapala I Vigrahapala I Narayanapala Gopala II Vigrahapala II Mahipala I Nayapala Vigrahapala III Mahipala II Shurapala II Ramapala Kumarapala Gopala III Madanapala Govindapala Chandra Dynasty Edit Traillokyachandra 900 930 Srichandra 930 975 Kalyanachandra 975 1000 Ladahachandra 1000 1020 Govindachandra 1020 1050 Deva Dynasty Edit Dasharathadeva 1281 Pratapaditya Maharaja of Jessore 1561 1611 Kirtinarayan Basu Raja of Chandradwip from 1668 converted to IslamIlyas Shahi dynasty 1352 1414 Edit Main article Ilyas Shahi dynasty Name Reign NotesShamsuddin Ilyas Shah 1352 1358 Became the first sole ruler of whole Bengal comprising Sonargaon Satgaon and Lakhnauti Sikandar Shah 1358 1390 Killed in battle with his son and successor Ghiyasuddin Azam ShahGhiyasuddin Azam Shah 1390 1411 Patron of the first recorded Bengali poet Shah Muhammad SaghirSaifuddin Hamza Shah 1411 1412Nasiruddin Mahmud Shah 1435 1459Rukunuddin Barbak Shah 1459 1474Shamsuddin Yusuf Shah 1474 1481 Patron of Bengali poet ZainuddinNuruddin Sikandar Shah 1481Jalaluddin Fateh Shah 1481 1487House of Ganesha Edit Raja Ganesha Jalaluddin Muhammad Shah Shamsuddin Ahmad Shah 1419 1436 Hussain Shahi dynasty 1494 1538 Edit Main article Hussain Shahi dynasty Name Reign NotesAlauddin Hussain Shah 1494 1518 His witnessed a remarkable development of Bengali literature Nasiruddin Nasrat Shah 1518 1533Alauddin Firuz Shah 1533Ghiyasuddin Mahmud Shah 1533 1538Other Edit A 19th century sketch of Isa Khan a Muslim Rajput leader of Bengal Paragal Khan 16th century governor of Chittagong Chhuti Khan 16th century governor of Chittagong Shahzada Danyal son of Alauddin Husain Shah Syeda Momena Khatun daughter of Ghiyasuddin Mahmud Shah Isa Khan 1529 1599 leader of the Baro Bhuiyan chieftains of Bengal Musa Khan d 1623 leader of the Baro Bhuiyan chieftains of Bengal Dilal Khan 1585 1666 final independent ruler of Sandwip Kirtinarayan Basu r 1668 fifth Raja of Chandradwip and founder of the Muslim Baklai family Chowdhury Abu Torab Khan d 1767 zamindar of Sandwip and leader of Bengal s first anti colonial uprising Titumir 1782 1831 anti colonial rebel and self proclaimed Badshah Rahimullah d 1861 Chief of Baraikhali and leader of the Sundarbans Indigo Revolt Khoodi Mullah fl 1873 independence activist and claimed Chief Minister Golam Ali Chowdhury 1824 1888 zamindar of Haturia and philanthropistNobel laureates EditRabindranath Tagore Nobel Prize in Literature First Nobel Prize winner of Asia 1913 Amartya Sen Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 1998 Muhammad Yunus Nobel Peace Prize 2006 Abhijit Banerjee Nobel Prize in Economic science 2019 Rabindranath Tagore Amartya Sen Muhammad Yunus Abhijit BanerjeeAcademics Edit Abdul Malik was Pakistan s first cardiologist Momtazuddin Ahmed philosopher and educationist Dewan Mohammad Azraf National Professor of Bangladesh Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay first women Director of Indian Statistical Institute India Chandramukhi Basu computer scientist and first female graduate in India and the British Empire Nurunnahar Fatema Begum head of paediatric cardiology at the Combined Medical Hospital Dhaka Anudvaipayan Bhattacharya university lecturer martyred in the Bangladesh Liberation War Jatindramohan Bhattacharya academic and literary researcher Padmanath Bhattacharya academic and literary researcher Mahamahopadhyay Pandit Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya Sugata Bose historian Dipesh Chakrabarty historian Sudhir Chakraborty Researcher of Bengal s folk culture 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 Jamilur Reza Choudhury vice chancellor of University of Asia Pacific adviser to Caretaker Government of Bangladesh Sadruddin Ahmed Chowdhury physicist and vice chancellor of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology and Sylhet International University Khudiram Das literary scholar educationist linguist Satish Ranjan Das founder of The Doon School Dehradun Shomie Das Indian educationist former headmaster of The Doon School Tarak Chandra Das anthropologist author former teacher in anthropology the University of Calcutta Bhupendranath Datta revolutionary author anthropologist Soumitra Dutta Dean Elect of Said Business School at University of Oxford and former Founding Dean of Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University 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 populariser and museum maker won an award for Best Effort in Science Popularisation Amongst Children Subir Kumar Ghosh planetary scientist and a winner of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology Joseph Ghosh first Indian to be awarded the Doctor of Letters University of Edinburgh Aminul Hoque MBE lecturer at Goldsmiths University of London writer K M Baharul Islam Dean of the Indian Institute of Management Kashipur Syed Manzoorul Islam critic writer former professor of Dhaka University Mohammad Ataul Karim Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Ataur Rahman Khan Khadim physician martyred during the Bangladesh Liberation War Salman Khan American educator founder of Khan Academy Nazia Khanum Order of the British Empire OBE and Deputy Lieutenant DL Shahla Khatun obstetrician and gynecologist Brigadier Abdul Malik founder of National Heart Foundation Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis statistician founder of Indian Statistical Institute Vina Mazumdar academic activist and feminist Ujjwal Maulik computer scientist and former Head Computer Science and Engineering Jadavpur University Rajendralal Mitra first modern Indologist of Indian origin Nurul Momen professor of law Dhaka University Proctor Dean Satish Chandra Mukherjee educationist Abdul Muktadir academician martyred in the Bangladesh Liberation War Nurul Islam Nahid former Education Minister of Bangladesh Ashis Nandy political psychologist M A Rashid first Vice chancellor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology Satyajit Ray first Indian to win a Lifetime Achievement Oscar due to his significant contributions to world cinema Abul Kashem Sandwip educationist and a founder of Bangladesh Betar Sir Jadunath Sarkar historian Maqbular Rahman Sarkar tenth vice chancellor of Rajshahi University Abdul Karim Sahitya Bisharad Bengali litterateur historian of Bangla literatur 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 theorist Abu Nasr Waheed Islamic scholar author politician and educationist Nafees Bin Zafar Academy Scientific and Technical Award the first Bangladeshi to win an Oscar Muhammad Shahidullah Linguist Suniti Kumar Chatterjee Linguist Abdul Karim Sahitya Bisharad Interpreter of old Bangla manuscripts Sudhir Chakraborty Folk Researcher Actors and entertainers Edit Khalil Ullah Khan earned Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Gunda in 1976 Islah Abdur Rahman film director actor and screenwriter Siam Ahmed Bangladeshi actor model Ruhul Amin film director Alamgir film actor and television host Niloy Alamgir model and actor Afshan Azad actress best known for the role of Padma Patil in Harry Potter Azim actor best known for the role of Rahim Badshah in Rupban Amala Akkineni nee Mukherjee Bollywood actress Jaya Bachchan Bollywood actress Bidita Bag Bollywood and Bengali actress Ajitesh Bandopadhyay stage and film actor Bhanu Bandopadhyay Tollywood comic actor Jenni Banerjee Indian origin Finnish actor Karuna Banerjee first Indian actress earned BAFTA Award for Best Actress nomination at the 1959 BAFTA Awards Victor Banerjee Bengali Tollywood Bollywood and Hollywood actor the only Indian to win National Board of Review Award for Best Actor Bipasha Basu Bollywood actress Jaya Bhattacharya actress Nivedita Bhattacharya theatre actress Nusrat Jahan Bengali actress Samit Bhanja Bollywood and Bengali actor Chhabi Biswas Bengali actor Seema Biswas Bollywood actress Rahul Bose Bengali and Bollywood actor and rugby player Sabyasachi Chakrabarty Bollywood and Bengali actor Samrat Chakrabarti British American actor and musician Indrani Chakraborty Bollywood actress Mithun Chakraborty Bollywood and Bengali film actor Rhea Chakraborty Bollywood actress Ritwick Chakraborty Bengali actor Tulsi Chakraborty Bengali actor Abhishek Chatterjee Bengali film and television actor Anil Chatterjee Bengali actor Biswajit Chatterjee Bengali and Bollywood actor Dhritiman Chatterjee Bollywood and Bengali actor Moushumi Chatterjee Bengali actress Prasenjit Chatterjee Tollywood and Bollywood actor Priyanshu Chatterjee Bollywood actor Sabitri Chatterjee Bengali actor Saswata Chatterjee Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee Bengali actor Subhendu Chatterjee Bengali actor Tannishtha Chatterjee Bollywood and Bengali actress Jayanta Chattopadhyay Bangladeshi actor Khaled Choudhury theatre personality and artist Sarita Choudhury Indian origin British film Hollywood actress Chanchal Chowdhury Bangladeshi actor Rafiqul Bari Chowdhury cinematographer and director Shefali Chowdhury actress best known for the role of Parvati Patil in Harry Potter Paoli Dam actress Shraddha Das Bollywood and Tollywood actress Dev Tollywood actor Sumita Devi Bangladeshi film and television actress Supriya Devi Tollywood actress K C Dey Bengali actor Utpal Dutt Bengali actor Santosh Dutta Tollywood actor famous for his portrayal of Jatayu in Feluda films of Satyajit Ray Tanushree Dutta former Miss India and actress Ishita Dutta actress Prasun Gain Tollywood actor Richa Gangopadhyay actress and Miss India USA 2007 Mouli Ganguly actress Preeti Ganguly actress Roopa Ganguly Bengali and Bollywood actress Rupali Ganguly actress Rabi Ghosh Bengali actor Reshmi Ghosh actress Miss India Earth 2002 Sangita Ghosh actress model Shahana Goswami Bollywood actress Abul Hayat Bangladeshi actor Rizwan Hussain TV personality barrister and former CEO of Global Aid Trust Konnie Huq British television presenter Nadiya Hussain columnist chef author and TV personality best known for winning the baking competition The Great British Bake Off Khalil Ullah Khan film and TV actor Shakib Khan 1 Bangladeshi actor producer singer film organiser and media personality Anup Kumar Tollywood actor Ashok Kumar Bollywood actor Kishore Kumar Bollywood singer actor music composer Pradeep Kumar Bollywood actor Uttam Kumar Bollywood and Bengali film actor Shaun Majumder Canadian comedian and actor winner of Gemini Awards Koena Mitra former channel V VJ and Bollywood actress Rhona Mitra half Bengali actress in Britain Rani Mukerji Bollywood and Kollywood actress Joy Mukherjee Bollywood actor Kajol Mukherjee Bollywood actress Kamalini Mukherjee Bollywood and Tollywood actress Madhabi Mukherjee actress notable works include charulata mahanagar Sagarika Mukherjee Bollywood and Tollywood actress and playback singer Shantanu Mukherjee Bollywood actor playback singer and television presenter Swastika Mukherjee Tollywood actress Colin Pal actor and publicist Patralekha Bollywood actress Raakhee Bollywood actress Ashiqur Rahman Khan Ataur Rahman Bengali actor director producer screenplay writer music composer and singer Devika Rani Bollywood and Bengali actress Lisa Ray actress and model Razzak Bangladeshi actor Rola Bengali Japanese model tarento and actress Ziaul Roshan film actor and model Bikash Roy Tollywood actor Debashree Roy Bollywood actress Mouni Roy Bollywood actress Rahul Roy Bollywood actor Reena Roy Bollywood actress Rohit Roy TV and Bollywood actor Ronit Roy Bollywood and TV actor Pahari Sanyal Tollywood actor Aparna Sen Bengali film actress Nandana Sen Bollywood actress daughter of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen Raima Sen Bengali film and Bollywood actress Reema Sen Bollywood and Kollywood actress Riddhi Sen youngest recipient of the National Film Award for Best Actor Rimi Sen Bollywood actress Riya Sen Bollywood actress Suchitra Sen Bollywood and Bengali film actress Sushmita Sen Bollywood actress Rituparna Sengupta Bollywood and Bengali actress Ushoshi Sengupta model I Am She Miss Universe India in 2010 Shabnur Bangladeshi actress Salman Shah Bangladeshi actor Ali Shahalom comedian and television presenter ATM Shamsuzzaman Bangladeshi former actor Mamata Shankar Bollywood and Bengali actress Konkona Sen Sharma Bollywood actress Arifin Shuvoo Bangladeshi actor Tiya Sircar American actress Khushbu Sundar Kollywood actress producer and television presenter Sharmila Tagore Bollywood and Bengali film actress Ruma Guha Thakurta actress whose notable works include Ganashatru Abhijan Palatak wife of Kishore KumarArtists and designers EditZainul Abedin Shahabuddin Ahmed Shahidul Alam Ramkinkar Baij Ramaprasad Banik Subhankar Banerjee Bikash Bhattacharjee Atul Bose Nandalal Bose Sudipto Chatterjee Jogen Chowdhury Rashid Choudhury Sanatan Dinda Anil Kumar Dutta Pablo Ganguli Somnath Hore Firoz Mahmud Paresh Maity Rabin Mondal Samir Mondal Benode Behari Mukherjee Ganesh Pyne Devajyoti Ray Jamini Roy Paritosh Sen Subhaprasanna SM Sultan Abanindranath Tagore Rabindranath TagoreBharat Ratna EditAruna Asaf Ali Pranab Mukherjee Satyajit Ray Bidhan Chandra Roy Amartya Sen Ravi ShankarBloggers media artists EditHasan 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 MonthlyBusiness and industry EditBillionaires Edit Sanjit Biswas Indian American entrepreneur and CEO Co founder of Samsara company built and sold Meraki to Cisco for 1 2 billion Ankiti Bose Founder of Zilingo Purnendu Chatterjee Founder amp Chairman TCG Group that owns Haldia Petrochemicals Tapan Chowdhury CEO and MD of Square Pharmaceuticals Square Group Square Hospital and Maasranga Television Chandra Shekhar Ghosh Founder Managing Director amp CEO of Bandhan Bank Pradeep Kar Founder of Microland Salman F Rahman Founder amp Vice Chairman of BEXIMCO Sunil Kanti Roy Founder of Peerless Group Aveek Sarkar Vice Chairman amp Editor Emeritus Ananda Bazaar Patrika Ahmed Akbar Sobhan Founder and Chairman of the Bashundhara GroupBusiness leaders Edit Iqbal Ahmed OBE entrepreneur and CEO of Seamark Group In 2006 he became the highest British Bangladeshi to feature on the Sunday Times Rich List listed at number 511 He has a net worth of 250 million 2 Syed Ahmed British entrepreneur businessman television personality Prith Banerjee CTO of ANSYS former Director of HP Labs Arundhati Bhattacharya chairperson and CEO of Salesforce India and first woman director of State Bank of India Kumar Bhattacharyya Baron Bhattacharyya Director Warwick Manufacturing Group Mohammad Ebadul Karim Bulbul managing director of Beacon Pharmaceuticals Sankar Chakraborti Group CEO of Acuite Ratings and Research and founder of India s first ESG rating company ESG Risk Assessments and Insights Moorad Choudhry former managing director Head of Business Treasury and Global Banking amp Markets at Royal Bank of Scotland Mamun Chowdhury businessman and founder and co director of London Tradition In 2014 the company was awarded a Queen s Award for Enterprise for International Trade in recognition of its increase in sales Rono Dutta CEO of IndiGo Ashok Sekhar Ganguly former chairman Hindustan Unilever Aditya Ghosh Co Founder of Akasa Air Co Founder of Chourangi restaurant in London former CEO 2008 2018 of IndiGo Board Director of Oyo Rooms and Fabindia Anirvan Ghosh CEO of Unity Biotechnology Asim Ghosh former CEO of Husky Energy Rajat Gupta first foreign born Managing Director chief executive of management consultancy firm McKinsey amp Company from 1994 to 2003 sentenced to two years of prison in 2012 for insider trading Omar Ishrak chairman Intel Mahee Ferdous Jalil founder of Channel S owner of Prestige Auto Group and TV presenter Sir Rajendra Nath Mookerjee Founder of Martin amp Co Bhaskar Pramanik chairman Microsoft India Subir Raha former head ONGC Fayzur Rahman chairman of Novoair Mutty Lall Seal businessman and entrepreneur Dwarkanath Tagore known for partnership with the British East India CompanyEntrepreneurs Edit Muquim Ahmed banking travel a chain of restaurants with the Cafe Naz group publishing and property development Badruddin Ajmal managing director of Ajmal Perfumes and Lok Sabha MP from Dhubri Assam Enam Ali founder of the British Curry Awards Spice Business Magazine and Ion TV Ragib Ali industrialist pioneer tea planter educationalist philanthropist and banker who has a net worth of 250 million 2 Subroto Bagchi founder and former chairman Mindtree Somen Banerjee Indian American entrepreneur and co founder of Chippendales Siddhartha Basu founder and CMD of BIG Synergy Amar Bose founder of Bose Corporation Ankiti Bose Founder and CEO of Zilingo Amjad Khan Chowdhury founder of PRAN RFL Group Foysol Choudhury MBE businessman community activist and Chairman of Edinburgh and Lothians Regional Equality Council Anjan Chatterjee founder Speciality Group of Restaurants Bicky Chakraborty Sweden s biggest hotelier 3 President and founder of Elite Hotels sv of Sweden and The Bishop s Arms sv 4 Alamohan Das founder India Machinery Company Sadhan Dutt founder Development Consultants of Kuljian Group Samit Ghosh founder MD and CEO of Ujjivan Small Finance Bank Snehasish Ganguly Director of NK Gossain amp Co brother of former Indian Cricket Team Captain and current Board of Control for Cricket in India President Sourav Ganguly M A Hashem founder and chairman of Partex Group Shelim Hussain founder of Euro Foods UK Jawed Karim co founder of YouTube first person to upload a video to the site Nitun Kundu founder of Otobi Abdul Latif British restaurateur known for his dish Curry Hell Ayub Ali Master founder of the Shah Jalal Restaurant in London which became a hub for the early British Asian community Tommy Miah MBE celebrity chef restaurateur and founder of the Indian Chef of the Year Competition Abdul Monem founder of Abdul Monem Limited Rajendra Nath Mookerjee co founder Martin Burn Ltd IISCO Sabyasachi Mukherjee Founder amp Managing Director of luxury Indian fashion brand Sabyasachi Rajat Neogy founder and editor Transition Magazine in Kampala Uganda in 1961 Diptendu Pramanick founder Secretary of Eastern India Motion Pictures Association EIMPA Kamal Quadir founder and CEO of CellBazaar Inc First Mover Fellow of The Aspen Institute TEDIndia Fellow Moulvi Syed Qudratullah founder of Moulvibazar Shah Abdul Majid Qureshi restaurateur Bajloor Rashid MBE businessman and former president of the Bangladesh Caterers Association UK Arjun Ray PVSM VSM founder managing director and chief executive officer of the Indus Trust and Indus International Schools Neeraj Roy co founder Hungama Digital Media Entertainment Pvt Ltd Prannoy Roy founder NDTV Subrata Roy founder and chairman Sahara India Pariwar Sunil Kanti Roy managing director of Peerless Group Chiki Sarkar Founder and Publisher of Juggernaut Books Barun Sengupta founder of Bartaman Moosa Bin Shamsher founder of GATCO Wali Tasar Uddin entrepreneur restaurateur and Chairman of the Bangladesh British Chamber of Commerce Iqbal Quadir Founder of Grameenphone and bKash Muhammad Yunus founder of Grameen Bank father of micro finance Nobel laureateSahitya Akademi Award EditMain article List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for BengaliCartoonists comics creators EditJayanto 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 Chandi Lahiri cartoonist and painter Satyajit Ray filmmaker creator of comic characters like Feluda and Professor Shonku Atanu Roy illustrator Gaganendranath Tagore cartoonist and painterCinematographers EditAyananka Bose Sudeep Chatterjee Subrata Mitra Avik Mukhopadhyay Soumendu RoyCriminals EditDhananjoy Chatterjee first person judicially executed in India in the 21st century for murder Roshu Kha serial killer Ershad Sikder a Bangladeshi criminal and a serial killer from khulna cityDadasaheb Phalke Award winners EditAshok Kumar Hrishikesh Mukherjee Pankaj Mullick Devika Rani first awardee Satyajit Ray Mrinal Sen Tapan Sinha B N SircarDiplomats EditSanjay Bhattacharya Ambassador to Switzerland Atul Chandra Chatterjee Former Ambassador to the UK Chandrashekhar Dasgupta Former Ambassador to China Bhupendra Nath Mitra Former Ambassador to the UK Binay Ranjan Sen Former Ambassador to the US Ronen Sen Former Ambassador to the US and UK Samar Sen diplomat served as the 1st permanent representative to the United Nations Geneva Siddhartha Shankar Ray Former Ambassador to the USEconomists Edit In 1994 Saifur Rahman was elected governor of the golden jubilee conference of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Madrid Spain 5 Salahuddin Ahmed 9th Governor of Bangladesh Bank 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 winner of Nobel Prize 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 Shegufta Bakht Chaudhuri 4th Governor of Bangladesh Bank Amiya Kumar Dasgupta 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 Mohammed Farashuddin 7th Governor of Bangladesh Bank founder of East West University 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 Akbar Ali Khan economist Shah A M S Kibria economist diplomat and former executive secretary of the United Nations ESCAP Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis founder of Indian Statistical Institute Syed Abdul Majid pioneer of the agricultural industry of Bengal amp Assam first minister of Assam Abul Maal Abdul Muhith former Finance Minister of Bangladesh Saifur Rahman longest serving Finance Minister of Bangladesh and a leader of BNP 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 of Grameen Bank winner of the Nobel PrizeFellows of the Royal Society EditKumar Bhattacharyya Jagdish Chandra Bose Satyendra Nath Bose Partha Dasgupta Anil Kumar Gain Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Ashesh Prasad Mitra Sisir Kumar Mitra Meghnad Saha Ashoke SenFictional characters EditMisir Ali Arjun character Nilkantha Bagchi Byomkesh Bakshi Parashor Barma P K Basu Bantul the Great Baker Bhai Handa Bhonda Harshabardhan and Gobardhan Chandramukhi Shankar Ray Choudhuri Devdas Feluda Ghanada Gogol character Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne Lalmohan Ganguly Jatayu Himu Kakababu Mitin Masi Masud Rana Kiriti Roy Tarini Khuro Shuvro Nonte Phonte Rijuda Banalata Sen Professor Shonku Tenida Enigma Tara VirangoFilmmakers EditHumayun Ahmed San Banarje Dibakar Banerjee Anurag Basu Aditya Bhattacharya Basu Bhattacharya Sachin Bhowmick Nitin Bose Satyen Bose Pritish Chakraborty Amiya Chakravarty Pramod Chakravorty Basu Chatterjee Birsa Dasgupta Buddhadeb Dasgupta Chidananda Dasgupta Anjan Dutt Guru Dutt Subhash Dutta Mostofa Sarwar Farooki Samir Ganguly Ritwik Ghatak Gautam Ghose Ken Ghosh Rituporno Ghosh Shashanka Ghosh Sujoy Ghosh Dulal Guha Amjad Hossain Chashi Nazrul Islam Ajoy Kar Phani Majumdar Tarun Majumdar Tareque Masud Premendra Mitra Shibu Mitra Sombhu Mitra Tanvir Mokammel Gyan Mukherjee Hrishikesh Mukherjee Ram Mukherjee Sashadhar Mukherjee Shiboprosad Mukherjee Shomu Mukherjee Subodh Mukherjee Ayan Mukerji Hiren Nag Biren Nag Niranjan Pal Mujibar Rahaman Himanshu Rai Zahir Raihan Sandip Ray Satyajit Ray Amitabh Reza Bimal Roy Sudhendu Roy Shakti Samanta Pradeep Sarkar Asit Sen Mrinal Sen Raja Sen Partho Sen Gupta Tapan Sinha Shoojit Sircar Manick Sorcar Shashwati Talukdar Nasiruddin YousuffGrammy winners EditSandeep Das award for Best World Music Album at the 59th Grammy Awards 2017 Norah Jones 9 time winner Ravi Shankar 5 time winnerJournalists EditBangladesh Edit Shah Alamgir journalist Syed Mohammad Ali founder of The Daily Star the largest circulating daily English language newspaper in Bangladesh 6 Mahfuz Anam Abul Asad Nurjahan Begum Salah Choudhury editor of Weekly Blitz Sanjeeb Choudhury Shamim Chowdhury TV and print journalist for Al Jazeera English Lenin Gani senior member of the Bangladesh Sports Journalists Association Abdul Hafiz writer essayist and journalist Shahriar Kabir Abed Khan Sirajul Hossain Khan editor of Pakistan Times and the Eastern News Agency Fazle Lohani A B M Musa Syed Nahas Pasha journalist and editor of Janomot and Curry Life Abdul Quadir poet essayist and journalist Matiur Rahman Manik Chandra Saha Ataus Samad Shykh Seraj Hassan Shahriar journalistIndia Edit Swapan Dasgupta journalist Sunanda K Datta Ray journalist Sagarika Ghose editor at CNN IBN Chandan Mitra editor and managing director of The Pioneer newspaper Ramananda Chatterjee father of Indian journalism Udayan Mukherjee editor and anchor in CNBC India Pritish Nandy Publishing Director and Managing Editor The Times of India Group Editor in Chief The Illustrated Weekly of India chairman 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 founder editor of Bartaman newspaper Vishnu Som news anchor and journalistAmerica Edit 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 SalamUnited Kingdom Edit 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 Hasina Momtaz former press officer for the Mayor of London Sarah Mukherjee former BBC Environment Correspondent currently a regular contributor on Radio 4 s Today programmePakistan Edit 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 Altaf Husain 1st editor in chief of Pakistan s oldest leading and most widely read English language newspaper Dawn and former Industry Minister of PakistanQatar Edit Shiulie Ghosh television journalist at Al Jazeera EnglishUganda Edit Rajat Neogy journalist poet columnist founding editor of Transition MagazineLaw EditShohid Ali advocate Syed Ameer Ali prominent Indian British Indian lawyer key jurist of Muslim personal law founding member of All India Muslim League Bankim Chandra Ray former Chief Justice of India Kalyan Banerjee Rotary International s 101st President Gooroodas Banerjee former High Court judge Calcutta Mahmudul Amin Choudhury 11th Chief Justice of Bangladesh Sudhi Ranjan Das former Chief Justice of India Monomohun Ghose first practising barrister of Indian origin Kamal Hossain considered the architect of Bangladeshi Constitution and icon of secular democracy in South Asia prominent international lawyer and arbitrator Sara Hossain Bangladeshi lawyer executive director of BLAST one of the recipients of the 2016 International Women of Courage Award Syed A B Mahmud Hossain 2nd Chief Justice of Bangladesh J R Mudassir Husain 14th Chief Justice of Bangladesh M Amir ul Islam Bangladeshi Lawyer member of the drafting committee of Bangladeshi constitution Altamas Kabir former Chief Justice of India Irene Khan Bangladeshi lawyer first woman to be appointed as the United Nations Special Rapporteur for freedom of expression and opinion seventh Secretary General of Amnesty International 2001 2009 former Director General of the International Development Law Organization Muhammed Abdul Muid Khan nominated as the Best Human Rights Lawyer of England and Wales in 2012 Nitish Chandra Laharry first person of Asian origin to be elected as the president of Rotary International Sabyasachi Mukharji former Chief Justice of India Bijan Kumar Mukherjea former Chief Justice of India Abdul Moshabbir lawyer and politician Radhabinod Pal Indian member appointed to the International Military Tribunal for the Far East one of the three Asian judges of Tokyo trial A N Ray former Chief Justice of India Khatun Sapnara judge and first non white to be elected to the Family Law Bar Association Committee In 2006 she was appointed as a Recorder of the Crown which made her the only person of Bangladeshi origin in a senior judicial position Amal Kumar Sarkar former Chief Justice of India Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem first Chief Justice of Bangladesh 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 first Indian to become member of British cabinetMagicians EditJewel Aich Maneka Sorcar P C Sorcar P C Sorcar Jr Musicians EditBangla rock Edit Shafin Ahmed Shishir Ahmed Ayub Bachchu founding member and the leader of the Bengali rock band Love Runs Blind LRB Balam Partha Barua Chandril Bhattacharya lyricist and one of the founders of the Bangla band Chandrabindoo Nachiketa Chakraborty Anindya Chatterjee lead vocalist and one of the founders of the Bengali band Chandrabindoo Gautam Chattopadhyay composer founder of the group Mohiner Ghoraguli One of the first rock vocalists of India Somlata Acharyya Chowdhury lead singer of Bangla rock band Somlata and The Aces Anjan Dutt singer composer and lyricist Rupam Islam frontman of Bengali hard rock band Fossils James Ibrahim Ahmed Kamal guitarist for Warfaze one of the pioneers of Bengali and Bangladeshi heavy metal Khan Azam Khan one of the pioneers of Bengali rock pop guru and rock guru of Bangladesh freedom fighter Bappa Mazumder Alamgir Haq former member of the first Bengali Band Iolites 7 known as the Elvis Presley of the west Syed Hasanur Rahman vocalist of Ark Raef al Hasan Rafa Kabir Suman Sharmin Sultana Sumi vocalist for Chirkutt Khaled Bassbaba Sumon vocalist for Aurthohin Tanzir Tuhin former vocalist of Shironamhin current vocalist of Avash Ziaur Rahman ZiaBangladeshi film industry Edit 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 singerBollywood Edit Mohammed Aziz Bollywood playback singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya Bollywood playback singer Amitabh Bhattacharya lyricist and singer Anil Biswas Rahul Dev Burman Bollywood music composer Sachin Dev Burman Bollywood music composer Raichand Boral Bollywood music composer Soham Chakraborty singer Salil Chowdhury Bollywood music composer Kamal Dasgupta composer Geeta Dutt Bollywood playback singer Gyan Dutt composer Bhukt Surdas Kanan Devi singer and actress Manna Dey Bollywood playback singer Jeet Ganguly Tollywood and Bollywood music composer Parul Ghosh Bollywood playback singer Anup Ghoshal Bollywood playback singer Shreya Ghoshal Bollywood playback singer Sagarika Mukherjee Da Costa better known simply as Sagarika Hindi Assamese and Bengali playback and pop singer and actress Sandhya Mukhopadhyay Bollywood playback singer Rajanikanta Sen Bengali poet and composer Madhuri Chattopadhyay Hemanga Biswas Anwesha Datta Gupta Bollywood playback singer winner of Amul Star Voice of India Chhote Ustaad Jagmohan singer Suman Kalyanpur Bollywood playback singer Ash King singer Krsna composer Amit Kumar playback singer performer and son of Kishore Kumar Kishore Kumar Bappi Lahiri Bollywood music composer Madhushree Bollywood playback singer Antara Mitra Bollywood playback singer Shyamal Mitra composer Shantanu Moitra Bollywood Music composer Arko Pravo Mukherjee songwriter singer Chandrani Mukherjee Bollywood playback singer Jolly Mukherjee Bollywood playback singer Manas Mukherjee Bollywood music composer father of Shaan Sapna Mukherjee Bollywood playback singer Aarti Mukherji Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay Pankaj Mullick singer composer music director Sandeep Nath lyricist Amit Paul Bollywood playback singer Pritam Bollywood music composer Anupam Roy singer songwriter Anindya Chatterjee singer songwriter Kanika Banerjee Sabita Chowdhury Dhananjay Bhattacharya singer and composer Kanu Roy composer Amit Sana Bollywood playback singer Kumar Sanu Bollywood playback singer Sohail Sen Bollywood composer and singer Shaan Hindi and Bengali playback and pop singer Bollywood actor and television presenter Arijit Singh Bollywood playback singer Chitra Singh singer and composer Babul Supriyo Bollywood playback singer Monali Thakur Bollywood playback singer Alka Yagnik Bollywood playback singer Classical and folk musicians Edit Abbas Uddin Ahmed 1901 1959 Abdul Alim Kanika Banerjee 1924 2000 Rabindrasangeet performer Nikhil Banerjee 1931 1986 sitar performer Purna Das Baul born 1933 known as Baul samrat pioneering folk artist known for working with Bob Dylan Firoza Begum 1930 2014 eminent exponent of Nazrul Geeti Momtaz Begum born 1974 Bangladeshi folk singer world record holder Dhananjay Bhattacharya 1922 1992 Shyama Sangeet singer Pannalal Bhattacharya c 1930 1966 singer Debabrata Biswas 1911 1980 Rabindrasangeet performer Kumar Bose born 1953 tabla performer and composer Tanmoy Bose born 1963 table master composer actor fusion musician Swapan Chaudhuri tabla exponent Ajoy Chakrabarty born 1952 Arnab Chakrabarty born 1980 Indian classical musician sarod player Anjan Chattopadhyay sitar player Annapurna Devi 1927 2018 surbahar performer Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta classical and rabindrasangeet exponent performer also folk modern and devotional music Naina Devi 1917 1993 Indian classical singer Pandit Jnan Prakash Ghosh 1909 1997 tabla master composer and musician Pannalal Ghosh 1911 1960 pioneering master of the Indian classical flute composer musicologist Shankar Ghosh 1935 2016 tabla master and singer Shah Abdul Karim 1916 2009 Ali Akbar Khan 1922 2009 sarod performer composer musicologist founder of the Ali Akbar College of Music in California US Allauddin Khan 1862 1972 Shahadat Hossain Khan born 1958 Sarod virtuoso composer musicologist international master renowned Sarod player Vilayat Khan 1928 2004 sitar performer Runa Laila born 1952 folk ghazal and pop fusion singer Lalon 1784 1890 mystic devotional composer and singer Abdul Latif Suchitra Mitra 1924 2011 rabindrasangeet performer also playback singer and composer Kalyan Mukherjea 1943 2010 Budhaditya Mukherjee Kashinath Mukherjee 1925 2011 Hindustani classical musician and sitar player of Etawah Gharana Manabendra Mukhopadhyay 1931 1992 singer and composer Farida Parveen born 1954 Lalon singer Hason Raja 1854 1922 Ritwik Sanyal born 1953 Indrani Sen rabindrasangeet and nazrulgeeti performer also modern and folk songs Srabani Sen rabindrasangeet performer also modern and folk songs Anoushka Shankar born 1981 sitar player and composer Ravi Shankar 1920 2012 sitar virtuoso composer musicologist Chitra Singh Hindi Urdu ghazal singer and wife of Jagjit Singh Ruma Guha Thakurta 1934 2019 founder and lead singer of Calcutta Youth Choir and playback singer Alka Yagnik born 1966 Hindi rock Edit 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 OceanWestern Edit 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 sopranoMilitary EditBangladesh Edit Shakil Ahmed former head of Bangladesh Rifles Mohammad Ruhul Amin awarded Bir Sreshtho the highest military award of Bangladesh war hero of Bangladesh Liberation War Saiful Azam served under Bangladesh Air Force Iraqi Air Force Pakistan Air Force and Royal Jordanian Air Force Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury 11th Chief of Army Staff of the Bangladesh Army Ismail Faruque Chowdhury engineer in chief of the Bangladesh Army Saiful Islam Duke former Lieutenant Commander of Bangladesh Navy 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 Syed Mohammad Ziaul Haque Bangladesh Army officer and fugitive Nurul Huq second temporary chief of Bangladesh Navy AB Tajul Islam retired Bangladesh Army captain and former Minister of Liberation War Affairs Mohiuddin Jahangir awarded Bir Sreshtho the highest military award of Bangladesh war hero of Bangladesh Liberation War Sina Ibn Jamali former lieutenant general and Chief of General Staff in Army Headquarters Mahbub Ali Khan Bangladesh Navy rear admiral and the Chief of Naval Staff Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan army officer convicted for the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Abdul Karim Khandker Bir Uttam war hero Anwarul Momen general officer commanding 17th Infantry Division Khaled Mosharraf Sector Commander war hero of Bangladesh Independence War Abu Saleh Mohammad Nasim 7th Chief of Army Staff of the Bangladesh Army General M A G Osmani Supreme Commander of Bangladesh Forces during the Bangladesh Liberation War Mohammad Abdur Rab 1st Chief of Army Staff of the Bangladesh Army Major general during the Bangladesh Liberation War Abul Fazal Ziaur Rahman physician and army officer martyred in the liberation war AKM Asadul Haq physician and army officer martyred in the liberation war Hamidur Rahman awarded Bir Sreshtho the highest military award of Bangladesh war hero of Bangladesh Liberation War Rahman awarded Bir Sreshtho the highest military award of Bangladesh war hero of Bangladesh Liberation War Ziaur Rahman Bir Uttam war hero Sector Commander strategic war hero Of 1971 Bangladesh Independence War Munshi Abdur Rouf awarded Bir Sreshtho the highest military award of Bangladesh war hero of Bangladesh Liberation War Muhammad Ghulam Tawab Bangladesh s second Chief of Air Staff Ashab Uddin major general and ambassador to Kuwait and Yemen Sarwar Hossain Army General and former Military Secretary to the President of Bangladesh India Edit Flight Lieutenant Suhas Biswas 1924 1957 recipient of Ashoka Chakra Subhas Chandra Bose 1897 1945 Leader Indian National Army Air Marshal Padma Bandopadhyay PVSM AVSM VSM first woman to be promoted to three star rank in the Indian Air Force Air Vice Marshal Madhavendra Banerji 1934 2019 MVC VM of Indian Air Force Major General Retd Dipankar Banerjee general Founding Director of the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies Vice Admiral Pradeep Kumar Chatterjee Indian Navy Later Commander in Chief Andaman and Nicobar Command Admiral Adhar Kumar Chatterji 1914 2001 Indian Navy Chief 1966 1970 General Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri 1908 1983 Indian Army Chief during the Indo Pakistani War of 1965 Commodore Ajitendu Chakraverti Indian Navy First Indian officer to be promoted to Commodore Group Captain Suranjan Das pioneering test pilot of Indian Air Force Vice Admiral Biswajit Dasgupta AVSM YSM VSM Flag Officer Commanding in Chief Eastern Naval Command Lieutenant General retd Abhijit Guha Indian Army officer Head of the UN Mission to Support the Hodeidah Agreement Wing Commander Karun Krishna Majumdar Distinguished Flying Cross United Kingdom and first Indian to reach the rank of Wing Commander Air Commodore Sudhindra Kumar Majumdar 1927 2011 India s first military helicopter pilot Colonel Avijit Misra an Indian Army Colonel Air Marshal Subroto Mukherjee 1911 1960 former Head of Indian Air Force Chief of the Air Staff Designate Arup Raha 24th chief of Indian Air Force Dr Wing Commander Ashis Roy MD FRCS first Indian man to complete 100 marathons Indra Lal Roy 1898 1918 first Indian pre Independence flying ace General Shankar Roychowdhury born 1937 former Indian Army Chief Lieutenant General Lionel Protip Sen Distinguished Service OrderOther Edit Abu Hena Saiful Islam born 1963 Muslim chaplain for the US Navy Kalapahad died 1575 military general for the Karrani dynasty Masum Khan born 1604 Zamindar of Sarail and soldier of the Mughal empire Hayat Mahmud military general and Zamindar of Buzurg UmedpurPadma Vibhushan EditMilon 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 ShankarPoliticians Edit A K Fazlul Huq Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Khaleda Zia Sheikh Hasina Wazed Bangladesh Edit Tajuddin Ahmad first Prime Minister of Bangladesh 1971 1972 Abdus Samad Azad former Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani popularly known with the honorary title Mazlum Jananeta Leader of the Oppressed Dr A Q M Badruddoza Chowdhury Former President of Bangladesh 2001 2002 and the founder of Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh Mukhlesur Rahman Chowdhury de facto President and Prime Minister former Adviser to Iajuddin Ahmed Hussain Muhammad Ershad Chief Martial Law Administrator CMLA later President 1982 1990 and the founder of the Jatiya party Kamal Hossain lawyer founder of Gano Forum and the leader of Jatiya Oikiya front alliance A K Fazlul Huq first Prime Minister of Bengal Undivided presented the Lahore Resolution with the official proposal of partition of India Governor of East Pakistan Serajul Huq one of the founding member of the Bangladesh Awami League AK Abdul Momen incumbent Minister of Foreign Affairs Shamsul Huda Panchbagi 1897 1988 founder of the Emarat Party and member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly Ghulam Mahmood Quader chairman of the Jatiya party Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Bengali nationalist politician President of Awami League served as the first President of Bangladesh and second Prime Minister of Bangladesh voted as the Greatest Bengali of all time in 2004 BBC s opinion poll Tarique Rahman born 1967 acting chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party Ziaur Rahman founder of Bangladesh Nationalist Party President of Bangladesh 1977 1981 proposed the creation of SAARC sector commander and liberation war hero Zillur Rahman 1929 2013 former President of Bangladesh 2009 2013 Sheikh Hasina Wazed Prime Minister of Bangladesh 1996 2001 2009 present Khaleda Zia Prime Minister of Bangladesh 1991 1996 2001 2006 mother of democracy leader of democracy movement in Bangladesh first female PM of Bangladesh Abdur Rashid Tarkabagish 1900 1986 second president of the All Pakistan Awami Muslim LeagueBritish India Edit 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 Aftab Ali founder of All India Seamen s Federation and vice president of All India Trade Union Congress Aruna Asaf Ali Indian independence activist Mahmud Ali Freedom Movement leader statesman Abul Kalam Azad senior leader of the Indian National Congress during the Indian independence movement 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 Ajmal Ali Choudhury prominent in the Sylhet referendum movement Moinul Hoque Choudhury five time MLA two time UN General Assembly representative and Minister of Industrial Development Chittaranjan Das prominent in the Indian independence movement also known as Deshabandhu Abdul Halim Ghaznavi politician industrialist and minister Abdul Karim Ghaznavi politician traveler and minister Muhammad Hasanuzzaman educationist and member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly for Tippera North Syed Shamsul Huda Nawab of Gokarna president of the All India Muslim League Hatem Ali Jamadar member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly and East Bengal Legislative Assembly Nawab Ali Haider Khan 9th Nawab of Longla minister and leader of the Independent Muslim Party Sucheta Kriplani freedom fighter and politician Nawab Abdul Latif educator and social worker Syed Abdul Majid CIE first native minister of Assam pioneer of the agricultural industry Abdul Matlib Mazumdar freedom fighter and political leader known for retaining the Barak Valley in India Abdul Kader Mia member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly and East Bengal Legislative Assembly Sarojini Naidu freedom fighter and poet Bipin Chandra Pal Indian nationalist one third of the Lal Bal Pal triumvirate Wajed Ali Khan Panni Zamindar of Karatia politician and educationist Khwaja Salimullah founder of Muslim League proposed establishing University of DhakaIndia Edit West Bengal Edit Muzaffar Ahmad one of the founders of the Communist Party of India Syed Badrudduja former Mayor of Kolkata 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 Suvendu Adhikari current Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Bharatiya Janata Party and four term MLA from Nandigram former cabinet minister and two term MP from Trinamool Congress Tanmoy Bhattacharya politician elected MLA of North Dum Dum constituency 2016 2021 Dilip Ghosh politician and MP from Bharatiya Janata Party former MLA and state president of BJP Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee first president of Indian National Congress Subhas Chandra Bose former President of Indian National Congress Head of State of India s first free Provisional Government of Azad Hind and co foounder 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 Abu Ayesh Mondal chairman of West Bengal Minority Development amp Finance Corporation former MLA of Monteswar and former MP of Katwa Mehbub Mondal former MLA of Galsi Rafikul Islam Mondal former MLA of North Basirhat Rahima Mondal former MLA of Deganga Pranab Mukherjee former president of India Minister for External Affairs senior leader of Indian National Congress Shyama Prasad Mukherjee founder of Bharatiya Jana Sangh later Bharatiya Janata Party 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 Ashoke Kumar Sen former Law Minister barrister and parliamentarianAssam Edit Abdur Rahim Ahmed MLA of Barpeta Hafiz Bashir Ahmed MLA of Bilasipara West Jahan Uddin Ahmed member of Lok Sabha for Dhubri Jamal Uddin Ahmed former MLA of Badarpur Kobad Hussain Ahmed inaugural MLA of Mankachar Moinuddin Ahmed former MLA of Jaleswar Sahab Uddin Ahmed former MLA of Jaleswar Sherman Ali Ahmed MLA of Baghbar Siddique Ahmed MLA of Karimganj South Abdur Rahim Ajmal politician in Jamunamukh Abdur Rahman Ajmal politician in Salmara Badruddin Ajmal founder of the All India United Democratic Front AIUDF and president of Jamiat Ulema e Hind s Assam branch Sirajuddin Ajmal MLA of Jamunamukh and founder of Ajmal Foundation Abul Kalam Rasheed Alam MLA of Goalpara East Sheikh Shah Alam former MLA of Goalpara West Amjad Ali two time member of Lok Sabha for Dhubri Abul Kalam Azad former MLA of Bhabanipur Abdul Aziz MLA of Badarpur Hazi Salim Uddin Barbhuiya MLA of Hailakandi Karim Uddin Barbhuiya MLA of Sonai Gul Akhtara Begum former MLA of Bilasipara East Abdul Munim Choudhury former MLA of Karimganj South Khalilur Rahman Chowdhury former MLA of Jamunamukh Nizam Uddin Choudhury former MLA of Algapur Rashida Haque Choudhury former Minister of State for Social Welfare Wazed Ali Choudhury MLA of Salmara South Santosh Mohan Dev former Union Cabinet Minister elected to the Lok Sabha senior leader of Indian National Congress Abdul Hamid member of Lok Sabha for Dhubri Ali Hossain former MLA of Sarukhetri Rasul Hoque former MLA of Dhubri Najrul Hoque MLA of Dhubri Samsul Huda MLA of Bilasipara East Ahmed Hussain member of Lok Sabha for Dhubri Anwar Hussain member of Lok Sabha for Dhubri Ashraful Hussain MLA of Chenga Ismail Hussain former MLA of Barpeta Monowar Hussain former MLA of Goalpara East Adv Aminul Islam general secretary and chief spokesperson for AIUDF Aminul Islam former MLA of Dhing Aminul Islam former MLA of Mankachar Hosenara Islam first female MLA of Mankachar Nurul Islam member of Lok Sabha for Dhubri Rafiqul Islam MLA of Jania Zabed Islam former MLA of Mankachar Zahirul Islam second MLA of Mankachar Abdul Khaleque former MLA of Jania Abdur Rahim Khan former MLA of Barpeta Aziz Ahmed Khan former MLA of Karimganj South Liakat Ali Khan former MLA of Chenga Abdul Batin Khandakar MLA of Abhayapuri North Aminul Haque Laskar BJP politician of Sonai Anwar Hussain Laskar former MLA of Hailakandi Misbahul Islam Laskar MLA of Barkhola Suzam Uddin Laskar AIUDF politician Zakir Hussain Laskar MLA of Hailakandi Ataur Rahman Mazarbhuiya AIUDF politician and leader of Nadwatut Tameer Abdur Rashid Mandal MLA of Goalpara West Abdul Muhib Mazumder one of the architects of the Illegal Migrants Determination by Tribunals Act 1983 Khalil Uddin Mazumder MLA of Katigorah Aftabuddin Mollah MLA of Jaleswar Motiur Rohman Mondal former MLA of Mankachar Abu Saleh Najmuddin former MLA of Badarpur A F Golam Osmani Indian National Congress member Kabindra Purkayastha former Minister Afzalur Rahman inaugural MLA of Jaleswar Nijanur Rahman MLA of Gauripur Abdur Rouf former MLA of Jania Abdus Sobahan Ali Sarkar MLA of Golakganj Zakir Hussain Sikdar MLA of Sarukhetri Jahan Uddin former MLA of DhubriBihar Edit Dulal Chandra Goswami is an Indian politician He was elected to the Lok Sabha lower house of the Parliament of India from Katihar in the 2019 Indian general election as member of the Janata Dal United Ajit Sarkar represented Purnia four times in the Bihar Legislative Assembly from CPIM between 1980 and 1998 for 18 years until 14 June 1998 when he was gunned down with his driver Harendra Sharma and party worker Ashfaqur Rehman in broad daylight at Subhash Nagar in Purnia Madhavi Sarkar represented Purnia Bihar Legislative Assembly from CPIM between 1998 and 2000Meghalaya Edit Akramozzaman inaugural MLA of Phulbari Shamsul Hoque inaugural MLA of Mahendraganj Khorsedur Rahman Khan former MLA of Rajabala S G Esmatur Mominin current MLA of Phulbari Abu Taher Mondal former three time MLA of Phulbari Mozibur Rahman inaugural MLA of Rajabala Abdus Saleh MLA of Rajabala and former two time MLA of Mahendraganj Manirul Islam Sarkar former two time MLA of Phulbari and Minister of Agriculture amp Transport Azad Zaman former MLA of RajabalaOther Edit S M Banerjee 4 time M P of Kanpur as an Independent candidate with support of CPI from 1962 to 1977 Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari 7 time M L A of South Varanasi from Bharatiya Janata Party Rabi Ray speaker of Lok Sabha Manik Sarkar chief minister of Tripura Politburo member Ashab Uddin member of the Manipur Legislative Assembly for JiribamPakistan Edit Nurul Amin Prime Minister of Pakistan Abdullah al Baqi 1886 1952 member of the 1st National Assembly of Pakistan Mohammad Ali Bogra Prime Minister of Pakistan 1953 1955 Abdul Matin Chaudhary served as the first Agriculture Minister of Pakistan Abdul Hamid first Education Minister of East Bengal Abu Ahmad Abdul Hafiz Muslim League politician and lawyer Abdul Wahab Khan 3rd Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan Abdullah al Mahmood d 1975 member of the 1st National Assembly of Pakistan Jogendra Nath Mandal served as the first Law amp Labour Minister of Pakistan Iskander Mirza first President of Pakistan Khawaja Nazimuddin 2nd Prime Minister of Bengal Undivided 2nd Prime Minister of Pakistan 2nd Governor General of Pakistan President of Muslim League Khurram Khan Panni former Chief Whip of East Pakistan Provincial Assembly Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy second Chief Minister of Bengal Prime Minister of Pakistan 1956 1957 United Kingdom Edit Lisa Nandy Indian Bengali British politician serving as Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up Housing and Communities since 2021 A member of the Labour Party she has been Member of Parliament MP for Wigan since 2010 Anwar Choudhury was the first non white British person to be appointed in a senior diplomatic post Nasim Ali OBE Labour Party politician councillor in Regent s Park ward Cabinet Member for Young People in Camden Council and former Mayor of Camden in 2003 at age 34 became UK s youngest mayor as well as the first Bangladeshi and first Muslim mayor 8 Farida Anwar Labour Party politician councillor for Headington Hill and Northway in Oxford City Council in 2014 became Oxfordshire s first city councillor from a Bangladeshi background 9 Anwar Choudhury former Governor of the Cayman Islands and High Commissioner of the UK to Bangladesh Rabina Khan Liberal Democrat councillor for Shadwell ward former Cabinet Member for Housing in Tower Hamlets London Borough Council community worker and author of Ayesha s Rainbow 10 Syeda Khatun MBE Labour Party politician councillor for Tipton Green in the Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council and Cabinet Advisor for Education in 1999 the first Bangladeshi woman to be elected in the Midlands 11 Murad Qureshi Labour Party politician and former Greater London Assembly member 12 Lutfur Rahman community activist and Independent politician from 2010 to 2015 the first directly elected mayor of Tower Hamlets and the first Bangladeshi leader of the council 13 Luthfur Rahman OBE current deputy leader of Manchester City Council Nadia Shah Labour Party politician councillor in Regent s Park ward and former Mayor of Camden in May 2016 became the first female mayor in the United Kingdom of Bangladeshi origin 14 Baroness Pola Manzila Uddin Labour Party life peer community activist and the first Muslim and second Asian woman to sit in the House of Lords 15 Apsana Begum MP Labour Party Member of Parliament for Poplar and Limehouse first Hijabi to be elected as an MP for the British parliament Rupa Huq MP Labour Party Member of Parliament for Ealing Central and Acton constituency 16 writer columnist senior lecturer in Sociology at Kingston University and former Deputy Mayor of the London Borough of Ealing 17 18 Rushanara Ali MP Labour Party Member of Parliament for Bethnal Green and Bow constituency first person of Bangladeshi origin to be elected to the House of Commons 19 and one of the first three Muslim women to be elected as a Member of Parliament 20 Tulip Siddiq MP Labour Party Member of Parliament for Hampstead and Kilburn 21 former councillor for Regent s Park ward and Cabinet Member for Culture and Communities in Camden London Borough Council in 2010 became the first Bengali female councillor in Camden Council 22 Canada Edit Doly Begum Bangladeshi Canadian politician of New Democratic party amp MPP from Scarborough SouthwestUnited States of America Edit Raj Mukherji Majority Whip and Democratic member of the New Jersey General Assembly from New Jersey s 33rd Legislative District covering portions of Hudson County second Indian American elected to NJ state legislature former Deputy Mayor of Jersey City NJ former Commissioner and Chairman of the Jersey City Housing Authority then the youngest to serve in that position Reservist 2001 09 in United States Marine Corps Hansen Clarke Member of the U S House of Representatives from Michigan s 13th district Democrat Member of the Michigan Senate from the 1st district Member of the Michigan House of Representatives from the 7th and 16th districtOther Edit I tisam ud Din was the first educated Bengali and South Asian to have travelled to Europe I tisam ud Din Mughal diplomat and munshiRamon Magsaysay Award EditTahrunessa Abdullah Fazle Hasan Abed KCMG founder of the world s largest non governmental organisation BRAC Amitabha Chowdhury Zafrullah Chowdhury Mahasweta Devi Gour Kishore Ghosh Angela Gomes Syeda Rizwana Hasan attorney Hero of the Environment and winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize A H M Noman Khan Sombhu Mitra Matiur Rahman Satyajit Ray Abdullah Abu Sayeed Ravi Shankar Muhammad YunusReligion and spirituality Edit Swami Vivekananda in Bushnell Studio in San Francisco 1900 23 Brahmoism Edit Charulata Mukherjee women s rights activist and social worker from Calcutta associated with Brahmo Samaj and All India Women s Conference Ram Mohan Roy founder of the Brahmo Samaj Keshub Chandra Sen Debendranath Tagore social thinker and reformer founder of the Brahmo Religion or Brahmoism the youngest religion of IndiaBuddhism Edit Anagarika Munindra 1915 2003 vipassana meditation teacher taught many notable meditation teachers including Dipa Ma Joseph Goldstein Sharon Salzberg and Surya Das Atisa Dipamkara Shrijnana 982 1054 or Srjnana Atisa Dipanakara Buddhist scholar missionary and teacher inventor of bodhichitta Tibbetibaba died 1930 philosopher saint Tilopa 988 1069 Buddhist teacher important figure in Tibetan Buddhism founder of the Kagyu lineage and progressor of Mahamudra methodHinduism Edit 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 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 YogaIslam Edit Shah Ahmad Shafi in 2019 Ajmal Masroor was nominated for the Religious Advocate of the Year award at the 2013 amp 2015 British Muslim Awards Mearajuddin Ahmad c 1890 author of Tufat al Muslimin Muhsinuddin Ahmad 1819 1862 second leader of the Faraizi movement Nesaruddin Ahmad 1873 1952 inaugural Pir of Sarsina and founder of Darussunnat Kamil Madrasa Nur Qutb Alam d 1416 Islamic scholar involved in the Bengal Jaunpur confrontation and pioneer of the Dobhashi tradition Muhammad Ayyub Ali 1919 1995 former principal of Madrasah e Alia Dhaka and Sylhet Alia Madrasa Ruhul Amin b 1962 khatib of Baitul Mukarram National Mosque Fazlul Haque Amini 1945 2012 former principal of Jamia Qurania Arabia Lalbagh and politician Harun Babunagari 1902 1986 founding principal of Al Jamiatul Islamiah Azizul Uloom Babunagar Junaid Babunagari 1955 2021 former Amir of Hefazat e Islam Muhibbullah Babunagari born 1935 current Amir of Hefazat e Islam Muhammad Abdul Bari 1930 2003 former vice chancellor of the University of Rajshahi Muhammad Abdullahil Baqi 1886 1952 Islamic scholar writer and politician Mushahid Ahmad Bayampuri 1907 1971 scholar and member of 3rd National Assembly of Pakistan Ali Sher Bengali fl 1570s Sufi saint of the Shattari order Abdul Wahid Bengali 1850 1905 co founder of Al Jamiatul Ahlia Darul Ulum Moinul Islam Athar Ali Bengali 1891 1976 former president of Nizam e Islam Party Muhammad Salih Bengali fl 1700s leading scholar in the fields of fiqh hikmah kalam and logic Shah Nuri Bengali died 1785 Sufi scholar and author Usman Bengali died 1570s Muslim scholar based in Sambhal Yusuf Bengali fl 1570s Sufi pir of the Shattari order Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani 1880 1976 founder of the Awami Muslim League and The Daily Ittefaq Qazi Mu tasim Billah 1933 2013 former principal Jamia Shariyyah Malibagh and former professor at the University of Dhaka Ashraf Ali Bishwanathi 1928 2005 former president of Jamiat Ulema e Islam Bangladesh Abdul Halim Bukhari born 1945 Islamic scholar and chancellor of Al Jamia Al Islamia Patiya Fakhr ad Din al Burdwani d 1785 Islamic scholar of logic and hikmah Ghulam Mustafa Burdwani 18th century mufti and poet Abdur Rahman Chatgami 1920 2015 founder of Islamic Research Center Bangladesh Abdus Salam Chatgami 1943 2021 former Grand Mufti in both Pakistan and Bangladesh Ibrahim Chatuli 1894 1984 Education Minister of Assam and former Member of Parliament in Pakistan and Bangladesh Abdul Jalil Choudhury 1925 1989 Islamic scholar and former MLA of Badarpur and Algapur Abdul Matin Chowdhury 1915 1990 Shaykh of Fulbari and political activist Farid Uddin Chowdhury born 1947 principal of Shahjalal Jamia School Najib Ali Choudhury c 1870 founder of the Madinatul Uloom Bagbari in South Assam Izharul Islam Chowdhury founder of Jamiatul Uloom Al Islamia Lalkhan Bazar Shahinur Pasha Chowdhury vice president of Jamiat Ulema e Islam Ahmed Ali Enayetpuri 1898 1959 founder of Sariat i Islam newspaper Khwaja Yunus Ali Enayetpuri 1886 1951 founder of the Enayetpuri Sufi Darbar Muhammad Faizullah 1892 1976 former teacher at Al Jamiatul Ahlia Darul Ulum Moinul Islam Abdul Haque Faridi 1903 1996 founder of the Islami Bishwakosh project Shamsul Haque Faridpuri 1896 1969 founder of the Jamia Qurania Arabia Lalbagh Nurul Islam Farooqi died 2014 TV presenter assassinated by Islamic militants Abdul Latif Chowdhury Fultali 1913 2008 founder of the Fultali movement and Darul Hadis Latifiah Muhammad Asadullah Al Ghalib born 1948 reformist and founder of Ahle Hadith Andolon Bangladesh Nur Uddin Gohorpuri 1924 2005 chairman of Befaqul Madarisil Arabia Bangladesh Tafazzul Haque Habiganji 1938 2020 former vice president of Hefazat e Islam and Jamiat Ulema e Islam Abdul Malek Halim founder of Al Jamiatul Arabia Haildhar Madrasa Obaidullah Hamzah born 1972 current principal of Al Jamia Al Islamia Patiya Alaul Haq 1301 1398 Islamic scholar entrusted with the Bengal Sultanate treasury Ubaidul Haq 1928 2007 former khatib of Baitul Mukarram Azizul Haq 1903 1961 founder of Al Jamia Al Islamia Patiya Azizul Haque 1919 2012 first translator of Sahih Al Bukhari into the Bengali language Mahfuzul Haque born 1969 Islamic scholar and politician Mamunul Haque born 1973 Islamic scholar and influential speaker Mahmudul Hasan born 1950 president of Al Haiatul Ulya Lil Jamiatil Qawmia Bangladesh and Befaqul Madarisil Arabia Bangladesh chancellor of Jamia Islamia Darul Uloom Madania bn Amir of Majlis e Dawatul Haq Bangladesh 24 Shah Ahmad Hasan 1882 1967 founder of Jiri Madrasa A F M Khalid Hossain born 1959 vice president of Hefazat e Islam Bangladesh Sayed Moazzem Hossain 1901 1991 former vice chancellor of the University of Dhaka Zohurul Hoque 1926 2017 translator of the Qur an Hafezzi Huzur 1895 1997 founder of the Bangladesh Khilafat Andolan Abdul Momin Imambari 1930 2020 former president of Jamiat Ulema e Islam Bangladesh Shahidul Islam born 1960 founder of al Markaz al Islami Maniruzzaman Islamabadi 1875 1950 journalist and founder of the Anjuman i Ulama i Bangala Abdul Jabbar Jahanabadi 1937 2016 former secretary general of Befaqul Madarisil Arabia Bangladesh Khandaker Abdullah Jahangir 1961 2016 professor at Islamic University Bangladesh Abul Hasan Jashori 1918 1993 freedom fighter and founding principal of Jamia Ejazia Darul Uloom Jessore Nurul Islam Jihadi born 1948 secretary general of Hefazat e Islam Syed Faizul Karim born 1973 senior vice president of Islami Andolan Syed Fazlul Karim 1935 2006 former Pir of Chormonai and founder of Islami Andolan Syed Rezaul Karim born 1971 current Pir of Chormonai and leader of Islami Andolan Nur Hossain Kasemi 1945 2020 former secretary general of Hefazat e Islam Deen Muhammad Khan 1900 1974 co founder of Jamia Qurania Arabia Lalbagh Mohammad Akram Khan 1868 1969 founder of The Azad Muhiuddin Khan 1935 2016 translator of the Qur an and the Ma ariful Qur an exegesis Abdul Hamid Madarshahi 1869 1920 co founder of Darul Uloom Hathazari Ghulamur Rahman Maizbhandari 1865 1937 2nd Pir of Maizbhandari Syed Ahmadullah Maizbhandari 1826 1906 founder of the Maizbhandari Darbar Muhammad Abdul Malek born 1969 muhaddith and author Maqsudullah 1883 1961 Deobandi scholar and Pir of Talgachhia Darbar Sharif Ajmal Masroor born 1971 British politician imam and TV presenter Abu Taher Misbah born 1956 academic author and founder of Madani Nesab Abdur Rahim Muhammadpuri 1859 1931 Islamic writer Mohammad Meherullah 1861 1907 comparative religionist writer Abdul Khaleque Mondal born 1944 Jamaat e Islami politician and principal of Agardari Madrasa Mawlana Murad lived in Mecca in the 1700s Sultan Zauq Nadvi born 1939 founder of Jamia Darul Ma arif Al Islamia Shah Sultan Ahmad Nanupuri 1914 1997 founding principal of Al Jamiah Al Islamiah Obaidia Nanupur Saifur Rahman Nizami born 1916 Ekushey Padak recipient Nurul Islam Walipuri born 1955 mufassir teacher and author Shamsul Huda Panchbagi 1897 1988 founder of the Emarat Party and two time member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly Shamsuddin Qasemi 1935 1996 former secretary general of Jamiat Ulema e Islam Abdul Qayum born 1960 Chief Imam of the East London Mosque Habibullah Qurayshi 1865 1934 co founder of Al Jamiatul Ahlia Darul Ulum Moinul Islam Abdur Rahim 1918 1987 first leader of the Bangladesh Jamaat e Islami Sajidur Rahman b 1964 vice president of Befaqul Madarisil Arabia Bangladesh Shah Waliur Rahman 1916 2006 Islamic scholar and female education activist Abu Zafar Mohammad Saleh 1915 1990 Independence Award recipient Muhammad Shahidullah 1885 1969 essayist and editor of the Islami Bishwakosh Haji Shariatullah 1781 1840 founder of the Faraizi movement Mohammad Abu Bakr Siddique 1865 1943 inaugural Pir of Furfura Sharif Uthman Sirajuddin 1258 1357 Court Scholar of Bengal under the Ilyas Shahis Delwar Hossain Sayeedi born 1940 Islamic scholar and Jamaat e Islami politician Shah Ahmad Shafi 1916 2020 former Amir of Hefazat e Islam Ibrahim Ali Tashna 1872 1931 Islamic scholar poet and activist Zia Uddin born 1941 president of Jamiat Ulema e Islam Bangladesh Ibrahim Ujani 1863 1943 Qur an reciter and founder of Jamia Islamia Ibrahimia Muhammad Wakkas 1952 2021 former secretary general of Jamiat Ulema e Islam Obaidul Haque Wazirpuri 1934 2008 former co president of Befaqul Madarisil Arabia Bangladesh Abul Kalam Muhammad Yusuf 1926 2014 former chairman of Darul Arabia wa Darul Ifta Bangladesh Sayed Kamaluddin Zafree born 1945 founder of the Bangladesh Islami University Abubakar Muhammad Zakaria born 1969 professor at Islamic University Bangladesh Shaikh Zamiruddin 1870 1937 writer and revert to IslamChristianity Edit 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 Patrick D Rozario first Bangladeshi Cardinal Archbishop of Dhaka 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 CareyOther Edit Ipsita Roy ChakravertiFreedom Fighters and Revolutionaries EditAli Muhammad Shibli b 1879 25 Alimuddin Ahmad 1884 1920 Rajab Ali Khan Sri Aurobindo Surendranath Banerjee Abul Barkat Benoy Basu 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 Dwarkanath Ganguly Barindra Kumar Ghosh Dinesh Gupta Badal Gupta Matangini Hazra Kazi Nazrul Islam Bagha Jatin Hemchandra Kanungo Syama Prasad Mookerjee Jatindranath Mukherjee Saroj Mukherjee Gopal Chandra Mukhopadhyay Sarojini Naidu Bipin Chandra Pal Sudhamoy Pramanick Renuka Ray B C Roy Birendranath Sasmal Narendra Mohan Sen Surya Sen Triguna Sen Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy Titumir Pritilata WaddedarScience and technology Edit Seated L to R Meghnad Saha Jagadish Chandra Bose Jnan Chandra Ghosh Standing L to R Snehamoy Dutt Satyendranath Bose Debendra Mohan Bose N R Sen Jnanendra Nath Mukherjee N C Nag Physicists Edit Ahsan Ali doctor physician and researcher 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 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 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 M Zahid Hasan physicist Eugene Higgins endowed chair professor of quantum physics at Princeton University and scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory known for discoveries in quantum matter and topology Mohammad Ataul Karim known for contributions to the fields of electro optical devices and systems optical computing and processing and pattern recognition 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 Somak Raychaudhury astrophysicist and observational cosmologist Director Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics Subrata Roy known for his contributions in the modelling of plasma physics and the invention of the Wingless Electromagnetic Air Vehicle and serpentine geometry plasma actuator 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 awardeeBiologists Edit 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 Abed Chaudhury Bangladeshi Australian geneticist and science writer Biraja Sankar Guha first director of Anthropological Survey of India Jahangir Alam Khan agricultural economist and researcher 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 diarrhea Swadhin Kumar Mandal Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and 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 writerGeologists Edit Pramatha Nath Bose one of the early Indians to join Geological Survey of India Nibir Mandal known for studies on the evolution of geological structures Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award winner Sudipta Sengupta Indian geologist and one of the first Indian Women to set foot on Antarctica M A Zaher director general of the Geological Survey of BangladeshChemists Edit 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 amp Pharmaceuticals India s first pharmaceutical companyDoctors and physicians Edit Shamsuddin Ahmed medical doctor martyred in the Bangladesh Liberation War Rafiuddin Ahmed dentist founder of the first dental college of India and Bengal Dental Association which later became Indian Dental Association Syed Modasser Ali ophthalmic surgeon and a health advisor to Sheikh Hasina founder of Mojibunnessa Eye Hospital and editor in chief of the Bangladesh Ophthalmic Journal 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 Siddhartha Mukherjee physician scientist and writer author of The Emperor of All Maladies A Biography of Cancer which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non Fiction in 2011 Subhash Mukhopadhyay physician 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 Hassan Suhrawardy second Muslim from the sub continent to become a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of EnglandMathematicians Edit Debabrata Basu mathematician found Basu s theorem Anil Kumar Bhattacharya known for Bhattacharya coefficient and the Bhattacharya distance Raj Chandra Bose mathematician known for Association scheme Bose Mesner algebra Euler s conjecture Sourav Chatterjee mathematician specializing in mathematical statistics and probability theory Professor at Stanford 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 Anadi Sankar Gupta specialised in fluid dynamics and magnetohydrodynamics notably on heat transfer in free convection flow in the presence of magnetic field Qazi Azizul Haque pioneered the mathematical formula for Henry Classification System of fingerprinting Khandkar Manwar Hossain Bangladeshi statistician Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis founder Indian Statistical Institute best remembered for the Mahalanobis distance a statistical measure Samarendra Kumar Mitra designed developed and constructed India s first indigenous computer an electronic analog computer in ISI in 1953 Syamadas Mukhopadhyaya introduced the four vertex theorem and Mukhopadhyaya s theorem in plane geometry ANM Muniruzzaman Bangladeshi statistician killed in Bangladesh Liberation War Ritabrata Munshi mathematician specialising in number theory Graduate student of Andrew Wiles Dijen K Ray Chaudhuri professor emeritus at Ohio State University Known for BCH code Samarendra Nath Roy mathematician known for multivariate analysis Sucharit Sarkar Indian topologist and IMO gold medallist Radhanath Sikdar mathematician calculated the height of Mount EverestTechnologists Edit 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 early employee of PayPal Samarendra Kumar Mitra designed developed and constructed in 1953 India s first indigenous computer an electronic analog computer Architects archaeologists and engineers Edit Jalal Ahmad born 1959 president of the Institute of Architects Bangladesh vice president of the Commonwealth Association of Architects Sultanuddin Ahmed engineer martyred during the Bangladesh Liberation War Vidyadhar Bhattacharya 1693 1751 the chief architect and city planner of Jaipur Rajasthan 26 with Sir Samuel Swinton Jacob he is credited as the architect of City Palace Jaipur Fazlur Rahman Khan 1929 1982 structural engineer and architect father of tubular designs for high rises such as Willis Tower aka Sears Tower and the John Hancock Center Saiman Miah born 1986 architectural and graphic designer designed one of the two 5 commemorative coins for the 2012 Summer Olympics M Harunur Rashid archaeologist educationist and museum curator Abul Kalam Mohammed Zakaria archaeologistSocial reformers and position holders Edit Sir Fazle Hasan Abed KCMG receiving the Thomas Francis Jr Medal in Global Public Health award from the University of Michigan April 2016 Fazle Hasan Abed KCMG founder of the world s largest non governmental organisation BRAC Syed Ameer Ali law reformer Rawshan Ara Bachchu woman rights activist and part of the Bengali language movement Kalyan Banerjee former president of Rotary International Syeda Shahar Banu woman rights activist and part of the Bengali language movement The Honourable Doctor Muhammad Abdul Bari MBE DL FRSA Esq former secretary of Muslim Aid former secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain former president of the Islamic Forum of Europe and former chairman of the East London Mosque Khuda Buksh pioneer of life insurance in Bangladesh Malati Choudhury Indian civil rights activist freedom activist and Gandhian Chowdhury Mueen Uddin director of Muslim spiritual care provision at the National Health Service founder of the Islamic Forum of Europe and former chairman of Muslim Aid Zobeda Khanom Chowdhury woman rights activist and part of the Bengali language movement Anil Kumar Gain founder of Vidyasagar University and President of the Indian Science Congress Sir Azizul Haque lawyer writer educator and public servant Roquia Sakhawat Hussain prolific writer important women s rights activist and social worker early feminist science fiction writer Nasreen Pervin Huq women s rights activist Sayeed Iskander founding chairman of Islamic TV and former army major of Bangladesh Irene Khan former Secretary General of Amnesty International first woman first Asian and first Muslim to hold the position Osman Ghani Khan former chairman of the United Nations Board of Auditors first Bangladeshi to hold a UN post Taiyaba Majumder recipient of the Begum Rokeya Padak for contributions to women s rights and economic development Muhammad Mohsin philanthropist and founder of Hooghly Mohsin College Mohua Mukherjee social activist and author Audri Mukhopadhyay diplomat and economist 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 Indian Bengali revolutionary philosopher founder of the Mexican Communist Party and the Indian Communist Party Harichand Thakur founder of Matua Mahasangha Binay Ranjan Sen former Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization Keshub Chunder Sen intellectual 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 Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar responsible for introducing major reforms in the educational system and women s rights activistSports Edit Brojen Das was the first Asian to swim across the English Channel Administrators Edit Sourav Ganguly President of Board of Control for Cricket in India and former Indian cricket team captain Padma Shri awardeeAthletics Edit Mohamed Mahbub Alam South Asian Games gold medalist sprinter Swapna Barman heptathlon athlete Soma Biswas heptathlon athlete Shanta Ghosh retired German sprinter who specialized in the 400 meters Mohan Khan Olympic sprinter Beauty Nazmun Nahar Olympic sprinter from Bangladesh Hari Shankar Roy Indian track and field athlete Saraswati Saha Indian former track and field sprinter Jyotirmoyee Sikdar athletics double gold medallist in track at Asian games recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award and Padma Shri awardArchery Edit Dola Banerjee Indian female archer Rahul Banerjee Indian archer Krishna Das former Indian archer Ruman Shana Bangladeshi archer won gold in SA games 2019 Jayanta Talukdar archerBadminton Edit Dipu Ghosh former badminton player Raman Ghosh former badminton player Manoj Sarkar para badminton player and Bronze Medalist at the 2020 Paralympic Games TokyoBodybuilding boxing rugby and wrestling Edit Manohar Aich bodybuilder Tameer Anwar bodybuilder Mister Bangladesh 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 Bulbul Hussain wheelchair rugby player for Kent Crusaders and the Great Britain Paralympic team Abdul Ali Jacko two time world lightweight kick boxing champion Mohammed Ali Qamar Indian boxer Reba Rakshit Indian female bodybuilder and exponent of yoga 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 IndiaChess Edit Dibyendu Barua Indian chess grandmaster Surya Shekhar Ganguly Indian grandmaster Rani Hamid awarded the FIDE Woman International Master WIM title in 1985 Enamul Hossain Bangladeshi grandmaster Niaz Morshed chess player from Bangladesh first chess grandmaster to emerge from South Asia Ziaur Rahman Bangladeshi grandmaster Mollah Abdullah Al Rakib Bangladeshi grandmasterCricket Edit Aftab Ahmed former Bangladeshi cricketer Nasum Ahmed bowler for Bangladesh Taskin Ahmed Bangladeshi bowler Mohammad Ashraful Bangladeshi cricketer youngest centurion in test cricket Tapash Baishya Bangladeshi cricketer Vikram Banerjee English cricketer Gargi Banerji former Indian Women cricketer holds international records Habibul Bashar former Bangladeshi cricketer Gopal Bose former Indian ODI player Ranadeb Bose Indian cricketer Utpal Chatterjee former Indian cricketer Nirode Chowdhury former Indian Test cricketer and pace bowler Liton Das Bangladeshi cricketer Deep Dasgupta former Indian national cricket team wicket keeper Rumeli Dhar cricketer Indian women s cricket team Ashok Dinda Indian cricket team player Nikhil Dutta Canadian cricketer Sourav Ganguly former Indian cricket team captain Padma Shri awardee Dhiman Ghosh Bangladeshi cricketer Pinak Ghosh Bangladeshi cricketer 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 Mominul Haque Bangladeshi cricketer has the highest test batting average and century by a Bangladeshi batsman Shakib Al Hasan Bangladeshi cricketer Shuvagata Hom Bangladeshi cricketer Rubel Hossain Bangladeshi cricketer Shahadat Hossain Bangladeshi cricketer Tamim Iqbal Bangladeshi cricketer Taijul Islam Bangladeshi bowler Mustafa Kamal former president of Bangladesh Cricket Board Alok Kapali former Bangladeshi cricketer Kamal Hasan Mondal Indian cricketer Lata Mondal Bangladeshi woman cricketer Ripon Mondol Bangladeshi cricketer Saradindu Mukherjee former Indian cricketer Mithu Mukherjee former Indian women s cricket team player Nazmul Hassan Papon president of Bangladesh Cricket Board Mushfiqur Rahim Bangladeshi cricketer Arafat Rahman former Chairman of the Development Committee of Bangladesh Cricket Board Mahmudullah Riyad Bangladeshi 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 Subashis Roy Bangladeshi cricketer Wriddhiman Saha Indian cricket player Soumya Sarkar Bangladeshi cricketer Probir Sen former Indian Test cricketer wicket keeper Rony Talukdar Bangladeshi cricketerFootball Edit Hamza Choudhury playing for Leicester City F C in 2021 Alfaz Ahmed former footballer for Bangladesh Pradip Kumar Banerjee footballer named Indian Footballer of the 20th Century by FIFA Prasun Banerjee former Indian national football player Arjuna award winner Samar Banerjee Indian footballer Captain of Indian team in 1956 Olympic 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 Karuna Bhattacharya Indian footballer member of 1938 Australia touring side Lal Kamal Bhowmik Indian footballer Subhash Bhowmick former Indian international football player Subhasish Bose Indian national football player Ashok Chatterjee Indian footballer Sudip Chatterjee footballer considered among the finest in Indian football declared AIFF player of the decade in 1994 Hamza Choudhury midfielder for English football club Leicester City F C Yeamin Chowdhury footballer for Chittagong Abahani 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 the best striker of Asia in 1962 Pronay Halder Indian national football player Kaiser Hamid former footballer for Mohammedan S C Mehtab Hossain former Indian national football player Pritam Kotal Indian national football player Sailen 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 footballer and Arjuna award winner Habibur Rehman Mondal Indian professional footballer Jafar Mondal goalkeeper for Churchill Brothers FC Monirul Mondal striker for Mohammedan SC 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 Santosh Nandy Indian footballer Olympian Gostha 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 Mahbubur Rahman footballer and captain of Arambagh KS Mohammed Salim first Indian footballer to play overseas in 1936 for the Scottish Club Celtic F C Sukumar Samajpati Indian footballer 1964 Asian Cup team member Gautam Sarkar ex footballer having represented SC East Bengal Jewel Raja Shaikh Indian national football player Shamit Shome first Bengali origin player in Major League Soccer Neil Taylor Welsh footballer of half Bengali origin Runu Guha Thakurta Indian footballer Olympian Anwar Uddin former defender for West Ham United and founder of Sporting Bengal United F C Golf and snooker Edit Anirban Lahiri Hammad Miah professional snooker player Siddikur Rahman Olympic and Asian Tour golfer of BangladeshGymnastics Edit 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 OlympicsCycling and mountaineering Edit Ramnath Biswas soldier and writer best known for circumnavigating the globe by bicycle Chhanda Gain Musa Ibrahim first Bangladeshi to scale Mount Everest Nishat Majumdar first Bangladeshi woman to scale Mount Everest Asim Mukhopadhyay Wasfia Nazreen second Bangladeshi woman to scale Mount Everest Akke Rahman first British Muslim Bengali to scale Mount EverestSquash Edit Ritwik Bhattacharya Saurav Ghosal highest ranked Indian playerSwimming Edit 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 Table tennis Edit Ankita Das Olympian Mouma Das Olympian Poulomi Ghatak Soumyajit Ghosh Olympian Zobera Rahman Linu Guinness World Record holder Subhajit SahaTennis Edit Samir Banerjee Winner of the 2021 Wimbledon Championships Boys singles title Shibu Lal Bangladeshi ATP player Jaidip Mukerjea Arjuna award winner Leander Paes Olympic Medalist Afrana Islam Prity Bangladeshi ITF playerWriters EditFurther information List of Bengali language authors 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 27 Hason Raja mystical poet and songwriter Ekramuddin Ahmad 1872 1940 Bengali litterateur and government officer Muhammad Reazuddin Ahmad 1861 1933 journalist and philosopher Humayun Ahmed born 1948 novelist Ismail Alam 1868 1937 Urdu poet and activist Alaol 1607 1680 poet of medieval era Muhammad Asadullah Al Ghalib born 1948 Islamic scholar writer academic essayist Afzal Ali 16th century poet Arjumand Ali 1870 1914 first Bengali Muslim novelist Asaddor Ali writer folklorist and winner of Bangla Academy Literary Award Ekram Ali born 1950 poet Monica Ali born 1967 novelist Sadeq Ali poet best known for the Halat un Nabi puthi Syed Mujtaba Ali 1904 1974 novelist and essayist Syed Murtaza Ali writer and historian Muhammad Arshad 16th century Persian writer Anuj Dhar author journalist Banaphool 1899 1979 writer of short stories Samit Basu 1979 author filmmaker 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 born 1979 novelist Rokeya Begum 1880 1932 author and political activist Izzatullah Bengali 18th century Persian author Sukanta Bhattacharya 1926 1947 poet and playwright Abdul Karim Sahitya Bisharad 1871 1953 author Gorokho Bijoy Buddhadeb Bose 1908 1974 poet and essayist Sasthi Brata 1939 2015 fiction writer based in UK Novoneel Chakraborty author scriptwriter Nirendranath Chakravarty 1924 2018 poet Chandidas 1408 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 born 1959 author and administrator Pritish Nandy born 1951 poet and author and journalist EM Forster Literary Award Padma Shri Suniti Kumar Chatterji 1890 1977 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 born 1936 fiction writer Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay 1876 1938 novelist Shakti Chattopadhyay 1933 1995 poet Karimunnesa Khanam Chaudhurani 1855 1926 poet and social worker Amit Chaudhuri born 1962 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 1868 1946 editor of Sabuj Patra wrote in the era of Rabindranath Tagore Abdur Rouf Choudhury writer Achyut Charan Choudhury writer and historian Malay Roy Choudhury born 1939 Bengali poet and novelist who founded the Hungryalist Movement in the 1960s Chowdhury Gulam Akbar writer and collector of Bengali folk literature for the Bangla Academy Kabir Chowdhury academic and essayist Jibanananda Das 1899 1954 poet Indra Das author in English literature Durjoy Datta 1987 author in modern English Literature Ashapurna Devi 1909 1995 novelist and short story writer Mahasweta Devi 1926 2016 novelist and short story writer Nirupama Devi 1883 1951 fiction writer Leema Dhar born 1993 novelist poet and columnist Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni born 1956 born Chitralekha Banerjee author and poet Michael Madhusudan Dutt 1824 1873 poet and dramatist Romesh Chunder Dutt 1848 1909 writer and translator of Ramayana and Mahabharata Toru Dutt 1856 1877 wrote in English and French Himangshu Dutta 1908 1944 composer Sudhindranath Dutta 1901 1960 poet Kaberi Gayen born 1970 author of Muktijuddher Cholochchitre Naree Nirman Narayan Gangopadhyay 1918 1970 author creator of the Tenida character Sunil Gangopadhyay 1934 2012 poet and novelist Dhirendra Nath Ganguly director Amitav Ghosh born 1956 novelist and essayist Prabir Ghosh born 1945 writer essayist poet and rationalist Shankha Ghosh 1932 2021 poet and essayist Joy Goswami born 1954 poet Buddhadeb Guha born 1936 novelist Tanika Gupta born 1963 playwright appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in 2008 Abdul Hakim 1620 1690 medieval poet Muhammad Nurul Haque cultural activist social worker and writer Syed Shamsul Haque poet and novelist Mir Mosharraf Hossain 1847 1912 novelist Ashraf Hussain poet and folklorist Hasnat Abdul Hye writer and novelist Muhammed Zafar Iqbal born 1952 science fiction writer Kazi Nazrul Islam 1899 1976 poet Jasimuddin 1903 1976 poet novelist and essayist Jimutavahana c 12th century Sanskrit writer of Dayabhaga Dawlat Wazir Bahram Khan 16th century poet Dilwar Khan poet known as Gonomanusher Kobi Poet of the mass people Moniruddin Khan born 1974 writer and historian Muhammad Mojlum Khan non fiction English writer best known for The Muslim 100 Jhumpa Lahiri born 1967 novelist short story writer Pulitzer Prize winner Al Mahmud 1936 2019 poet and novelist Heyat Mahmud 1693 1760 medieval poet and judge Dean Mahomed 1759 1851 first Indian to write a book in the English language Binoy Majumdar 1934 2006 poet Sahitya Akademi Award in 2005 Kamal Kumar Majumdar 1914 1979 novelist and short story writer Leela Majumdar 1908 2007 writer R C Majumdar 1888 1980 author historian Samaresh Majumdar born 1944 writer creator of the Animesh trilogy Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumder 1877 1956 author Reazuddin Ahmad Mashadi 1859 1918 philosopher Arun Mitra 1909 2000 poet Premendra Mitra 1904 1988 poet and short story writer Motiur Rahman Mollik 1950 2010 poet and novelist Nurul Momen 1908 1990 playwright Bharati Mukherjee 1940 2017 author and educator Dhan Gopal Mukerji 1890 1936 author Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay born 1935 novelist Subhash Mukhopadhyay 1919 2003 Bengali poet Kumud Ranjan Mullick 1883 1970 poet of the Tagore era Muhammad Muqim 18th century poet Ghulam Murshid writer essayist and cultural historian Shahabuddin Nagari born 1955 Bangladeshi poet and writer of juvenile fiction Naimuddin 1832 1907 Bengali writer and scholar Jyotirindranath Nandi 1912 1982 novelist and short story writer Moti Nandi 1931 2010 novelist Taslima Nasrin born 1962 novelist Rajat Neogy 1938 1995 poet writer thinker and founder of Transition Magazine in Kampala in 1961 Ugandan Indian Krittibas Ojha 1381 1461 medieval Bengali poet Daulat Qazi d 1638 medieval poet Rahimunnessa 1763 1800 medieval poet Shamsur Rahman 1929 2006 poet M Harunur Rashid teacher of English and Sufi writer Bharatchandra Ray 1712 1760 poet and song composer known for his Mangalkavya Dilipkumar Ray 1897 1980 musician musicologist novelist poet and essayist Dwijendralal Ray 1863 1913 playwright and poet Satyajit Ray 1921 1992 writer and film director Annada Shankar Ray 1905 2002 novelist essayist and poet Arundhati Roy born 1961 novelist and essayist Samir Roychoudhury 1933 2016 poet novelist short story writer and philosopher Shah Muhammad Saghir 15th century poet Narayan Sanyal 1924 2005 writer of modern Bengali literature Subodh Sarkar born 1958 poet Ramprasad Sen c 1718 or c 1723 c 1775 Shakta poet of eighteenth century Bengal Mallika Sengupta 1960 2011 Bengali poet feminist and reader of sociology from Kolkata Nares Chandra Sen Gupta 1882 1964 novelist and legal scholar Shankar 1933 author in English literature Hara Prasad Shastri 1853 1931 known as the inventor of Charyapada Syed Mustafa Siraj 1930 2012 poet novelist short story writer Sahitya Akademi awardee Syed Sultan wrote the first Prophetic biography in Bengali in the 16th century Srijato won Ananda Puroskar in 2004 Dwijendranath Tagore 1840 1926 poet composer philosopher mathematician painter Rabindranath Tagore 1861 1941 poet composer novelist essayist story writer philosopher painter educationist Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar 1820 1891 philosopher educator writer translator publisher and reformer of the Bengal Renaissance period Zainuddin 15th century poetCooks EditKeka Ferdousi Alpana Habib Nadiya Hussain Kiran Jethwa Siddika Kabir Tony Karim Tommy MiahSee also EditList of Bangladeshi people List of British Bangladeshis List of people from West BengalReferences Edit ব ড ত কম য ওয হয শ ক ব খ ন র Prothom Alo in Bengali Retrieved 2 June 2019 a b Loke Steven Richest Man In Bangladesh The Richest People In The World Archived from the original on 19 December 2014 Retrieved 1 December 2014 Duttagupta Ishani 2008 01 17 Bicky Chakraborty Sweden s biggest hotelier The Economic Times Retrieved 2020 06 08 Bicky 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