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This article provides lists of famous and notable Bengali people in the South Asia, people with Bengali ancestry, and people who speak Bengali as their primary or basic language.

Monarchs

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Pala Dynasty (750-1161)

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Chandra Dynasty (370-1050)

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Sena Dynasty (1070-1230)

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Deva Dynasty

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Ilyas Shahi dynasty (1352–1414)

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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

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Hussain Shahi dynasty (1494–1538)

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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

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Nobel laureates

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Academics

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Chandramukhi Basu,one of the first two female graduates in British India.
Abdul Malik was Pakistan's first cardiologist.
Kaushik Basu served as the Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India.


Actors and entertainers

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Soumitra Chatterjee, an iconic Bengali actor from India.
Khalil Ullah Khan earned Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Gunda in 1976.
Jaya Ahsan at the National Film Awards-2022' at the Bangabandhu International Conference Center in Dhaka.
Mimi Chakraborty at the opening function of the '29th Kolkata International Film Festival' or KIFF 29, in Kolkata.
Sushmita Sen at the opening of Miss Universe India in 2026.
Dev (Bengali actor)


Artists and designers

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Painters

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Bharat Ratna Receivers

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List of Bengalis who received Bharat Ratna:

Bloggers / media artists

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Business and industry

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Billionaires

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Business leaders

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Entrepreneurs

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Sahitya Akademi Award

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Cartoonists / comics creators

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Cinematographers

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Criminals

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  • Haris Ahmed, a Bangladeshi national and fugitive convicted of murder. He is known for his involvement in organised crime in Dhaka during the 1990s.
  • Sweden Aslam is a Bangladeshi gangster who is convicted of 22 cases including 9 murders from the mid-1980s until he was apprehended in 1997.
  • Steve Banerjee, convicted arsonist, racketeer, and murderer, and co-founder of Chippendales
  • Bangla Bhai or Siddique ul-Islam, a Bangladeshi Radical Extremist and terrorist and the military commander of the Al Qaeda affiliated radical Islamist terrrorist organization Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh.He orchestrated a campaign of torture and executions in northwestern Bangladesh before being captured and executed by hanging in 2007.
  • Dhananjoy Chatterjee, first person judicially executed in India in the 21st century for murder.
  • Mufti Abdul Hannan, was a Bangladeshi Islamist militant, convicted terrorist the former chief of Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami Bangladesh (HuJI-B), a banned extremist organization. He played a central role in orchestrating numerous terrorist attacks in Bangladesh between 1999 and 2005, resulting in the deaths of over 100 people, executed in 2017.
  • Roshu Kha, serial killer
  • Shaykh Abdur Rahman, founder of banned Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh. He coordinated the coordinated August 2005 countrywide bombings across Bangladesh and was executed alongside Bangla Bhai in 2007.
  • Boro Sazzad is a fugitive gangster, leading organised crimes including mass murder and extortion in Chittagong since 1999. An Interpol notice has been issued against him.
  • Ershad Sikder, criminal and serial killer

Dadasaheb Phalke Award winners

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Diplomats

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Economists

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Arundhati Bhattacharya,retired Indian banker and former Chairperson of the State Bank of India,ranked 25th most influential woman in the world by Forbes
In 1994, Saifur Rahman was elected governor of the golden jubilee conference of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Madrid, Spain.[4]

Espionage

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Fellows of the Royal Society

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Fictional characters

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Filmmakers

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Satyajit Ray,iconic Indian film director, screenwriter, author, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher, and composer

Grammy winners

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Journalists

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Bangladesh

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India

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America

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United Kingdom

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Pakistan

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Qatar

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Uganda

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Law

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Magicians

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Models and Internet Personalities

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Musicians

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Bangla rock

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Bangladeshi film industry

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Bollywood

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Classical and folk musicians

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Hindi rock

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Western

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Military

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Bangladesh

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India

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Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri,Chief of army staff of Indian Army,who led India during 1965 Indo-Pakistani War

Other

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Padma Vibhushan

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Political leaders outside of India, Bangladesh and Pakistan

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Australia

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Canada

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United Kingdom

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Lisa Nandy,serving as Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities since 2021
Anwar Choudhury was the first non-white British person to be appointed in a senior diplomatic post.

United States of America

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Politicians

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

Bangladesh

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British India

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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

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West Bengal

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Subhas Chandra Bose is called the National Hero of India,Head of State of India's first free Provisional Government of Azad Hind and co-founder Indian National Army.
Bidhan Chandra Roy,2nd CM of West Bengal.
Surendranath Banerjee,one of the founding member of Indian National Congress in 1885
Jyoti Basu
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
Mamata Banerjee

Assam

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Bihar

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Meghalaya

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Uttar Pradesh

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Uttarakhand

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Tripura

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Other

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Pakistan

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Other

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Ramon Magsaysay Award

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Religion and spirituality

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Image of Swami Vivekananda relaxing in a chair
Swami Vivekananda in Bushnell Studio in San Francisco, 1900[25]

Brahmoism

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Buddhism

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Hinduism

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Islam

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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

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Wicca

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Freedom Fighters and Revolutionaries

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Science and technology

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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

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Biologists

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Geologists

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Chemists

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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

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Mathematicians

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Technologists

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Architects, archaeologists and engineers

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Social reformers and position holders

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Raja Ram Mohun Roy,called the first modern man of India,abolished inhuman Sati system in India
Roquia Sakhawat Hussain,feminist thinker,writer who opposed purdah system in Muslim society in Bengal
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar,a pioneer of Bengal Renaissance, who introduced major reforms in the educational system and helped pass the Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act, 1856.He also opposed caste system in Hinduism.

Sports

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

Administrators

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Athletics

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Archery

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Badminton

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Bodybuilding, boxing, rugby and wrestling

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Chess

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Dibyendu Barua,Indian GM in 1991

Cricket

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Sourav Ganguly,captained India
Richa Ghosh
Jhulan Goswami,captained Indian Women's Cricket team
Shakib Al Hasan

Football

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Chuni Goswami,legendary Indian footballer,a member of gold winning 1962 Asian Games Indian football team.
P. K. Banerjee,captained Indian football team in 1950s and 1960s
Hamza Choudhury playing for Leicester City F.C. in 2021.

Golf and snooker

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Gymnastics

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  • 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

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Shooting

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Squash

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Swimming

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Table tennis

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Tennis

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Writers

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Rabindranath Tagore is the first Indian as well as Asian Nobel laureate.
Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay,best known works are the autobiographical novel Pather Panchali (Song of the Road)
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay,a Bengali novelist and short story writer who generally wrote about the lives of Bengali family and society in cities and villages.
Al Mahmud is considered one of the greatest Bengali poets to have emerged in the 20th century.[29]
Hason Raja, mystical poet and songwriter

Chefs

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See also

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References

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  27. ↑ Feuerstein, Georg (2013-09-11). The Yoga Tradition: Its History, Literature, Philosophy and Practice (Kindle Locations 12785-12786). Hohm Press. Kindle Edition. "Hindu tradition associates the creation of Hatha- Yoga with Goraksha Nâtha (Hindi: Gorakhnâth) and his teacher Matsyendra Nâtha"
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  29. ↑ "Al Mahmud turns 75". The Daily Star. 2011-07-13. Archived from the original on 2019-02-16. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
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