List of people from West Bengal

This is a list of notable people from West Bengal, India. This list does not include the significant number of prominent East Bengali refugees from East Bengal who settled in West Bengal after the partition of the Indian sub-continent in 1947.

• Asima Chatterjee, scholar of chemistry^[2]
• Suniti Kumar Chatterji, linguist
• Amlan Datta, economist, Vice Chancellor of Visva Bharati
• Radhakanta Deb, linguist
• Anil Kumar Gain, scholar, mathematician
• Prithwindra Mukherjee, scholar of Indian history, philosophy, religion and culture
• Ashis Nandy, political psychologist
• Ramendra Sundar Tribedi, scientist

• Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya
• Girish Chandra Bose
• Anil Kumar Gain
• Muhammad Mohsin
• Ashutosh Mukherjee
• Satish Chandra Mukherjee
• Begum Rokeya
• Guruchand Thakur
• Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

• Shuddhaanandaa Brahmachari
• Sudhi Ranjan Das, Chief Justice of India, Vice-chancellor of Visva Bharati^[3]
• Azizul Haque

• Babar Ali, world's youngest headmaster, headmaster and founder of Ananda Siksha Niketan
• Katyayanidas Bhattacharya, philosophy, Presidency College
• Ramkrishna Bhattacharya, English, Ananda Mohan College
• Barun De, history, Presidency College
• Mahasweta Devi, English, Vijaygarh Jyotish Ray College
• Chinmoy Guha, English, Vijaygarh Jyotish Ray College and University of Calcutta
• K. C. Nag, mathematics, Mitra institution
• Susobhan Sarkar, history, Presidency College

• Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (Achintya Bhedabheda Vedanta) born in Nabadwip of Nadia district to parents who hailed from Sylhet in present day Bangladesh
• Madhusūdana Sarasvatī (Advaita Vedanta), born in Kotalipara, Gopalganj District in present day Bangladesh & studied at Nabadwip in Nadia district
• Raghunatha Shiromani (Navya Nyaya) from Nabadwip

• Sri Aurobindo
• Abu Sayeed Ayyub, born in Kolkata
• Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya born in Serampore in Howrah district
• Anukulchandra Chakravarty born in Pabna district in present day Bangladesh, worked & preached in Kolkata. After the Partition of India in 1947, he relocated to Deoghar
• Surendranath Dasgupta, born in Kusthia of present day Bangladesh which was then a part of Nadia before Partition of India, studied in Kolkata
• Balaram Hari, born in Nadia
• Bimal Krishna Matilal, born in Jaynagar Majilpur in South 24 Parganas district
• Amartya Sen, born in Shantiniketan in Birbhum District
• Keshub Chandra Sen, born in Kolkata
• Rabindranath Tagore, born in Kolkata
• Swami Vivekananda, born in Kolkata

• Shuddhaanandaa Brahmachari, born in Kolkata
• Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya, philosophy, University of Calcutta
• Sibnarayan Ray, born in kolkata

• Jalaluddin Tabrizi (13th-century)
• Gazi Pir (13th-century)
• Pir Gorachand (13th-century)
• Usman Serajuddin (1258–1357)
• Alaul Haq (1301–1384)
• Nur Qutb Alam (d. 1416)
• Shah Mehr Ali (1808–1868)
• Ubaidullah Al Ubaidi Suhrawardy (1832–1885)
• Azangachhi Shaheb (1828–1932)
• Mohammad Abu Bakr Siddique (1865–1943)
• Abdullah al-Baqi (1886–1952)
• Abbas Siddiqui (born 1987)

• Krishnananda Agamavagisha
• Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
• Nityananda
• Ramprasad Sen
• Six Goswamis of Vrindavan

• Anandamohan Bose
• Raja Ram Mohan Roy
• Keshub Chandra Sen
• Debendranath Tagore
• Ram Chandra Vidyabagish

• Sri Aurobindo
• Sarada Devi
• Ramakrishna
• Swami Vivekananda

• Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri
• Lahiri Mahasaya
• A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
• Paramahansa Yogananda

• Anil Kumar Gain
• Dwarkanath Ganguly
• Nibaran Chandra Mukherjee
• Satish Chandra Mukherjee
• Protap Chunder Mozoomdar
• Raja Ram Mohan Roy
• Keshub Chandra Sen
• Harichand Thakur
• Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
• Swami Vivekananda

• Krishna Mohan Banerjee
• Rajnarayan Basu
• Michael Madhusudan Dutt
• Hara Chandra Ghosh
• Ramgopal Ghosh
• Ramtanu Lahiri
• Rasik Krishna Mallick
• Kishori Chand Mitra
• Peary Chand Mitra
• Radhanath Sikdar

• Chandramukhi Basu
• Sarala Devi
• Kadambini Ganguly
• Kaberi Gayen
• Joyita Mondal, social worker
• Charulata Mukherjee
• Rani Rashmoni
• Begum Rokeya
• Romola Sinha

• Air Vice Marshal Madhavendra Banerji, recipient of Maha Vir Chakra
• Flight Lieutenant Suhas Biswas, recipient of Ashoka Chakra
• Subhas Chandra Bose, founder, Indian National Army
• General Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri, Indian Army Chief during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
• Admiral Adhar Kumar Chatterji, Indian Navy Chief between 1966 and 1970
• Air Commodore Sudhindra Kumar Majumdar (1927–2011), India's first military helicopter pilot
• Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee, former Head of Indian Air Force
• Chief of the Air Staff Arup Raha, 24th chief of Indian Air Force
• Captain Man Bahadur Rai, recipient of Ashoka Chakra
• Indra Lal Roy, first Indian (pre Independence) flying ace
• General Shankar Roychowdhury, former Indian Army Chief
• William Tolly (1715–1784), an officer of the British East India Company

• Ramkinkar Baij
• Nandalal Bose
• Mukul Dey
• Kalipada Ghoshal
• Sailoz Mookherjea
• Benode Behari Mukherjee
• Jamini Roy
• Abanindranath Tagore
• Gaganendranath Tagore

• Bikash Bhattacharjee
• Jogen Chowdhury
• Jahar Dasgupta
• Somnath Hore
• Chintamoni Kar
• Anil Karanjai
• Paresh Maity
• Hemen Majumdar
• Rabin Mondal
• Samir Mondal
• Ganesh Pyne
• Paritosh Sen

• Dulal Dutta
• Goutam Ghose, filmmaker, cinematographer, and music composer
• Rituparno Ghosh, filmmaker
• Suman Ghosh, filmmaker, documentary filmmaker
• Atiul Islam, filmmaker, screenwriter
• Ajoy Kar, cinematographer, filmmaker, screenwriter
• Tarun Majumdar, filmmaker, screenwriter, author, illustrator
• Subrata Mitra, cinematographer
• Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian film director, editor and writer
• Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri
• Satyajit Ray, filmmaker, screenwriter, author, illustrator and music composer
• Mrinal Sen, filmmaker, screenwriter, author

• Nikhil Banerjee, sitar
• Sankha Chatterjee, tabla
• Buddhadeb Dasgupta, sarod
• Annapurna Devi, surbahar
• Jnan Prakash Ghosh, Harmonium and tabla
• Pannalal Ghosh, flute
• Shankar Ghosh, tabla
• Ali Akbar Khan, sarod
• Allauddin Khan, sarod and multi-instrumentalist
• Radhika Mohan Maitra, Sarod and Mohanveena
• Manilal Nag, sitar
• Ravi Shankar, sitar

• Pandit Iman Das
• Gopeshwar Banerjee
• Naina Devi
• Ajoy Chakrabarty, vocal
• Tarapada Chakraborty
• Kaushiki Chakraborty

• Dhananjay Bhattacharya
• Pannalal Bhattacharya

• Abbasuddin Ahmed
• Basudeb Das Baul
• Kalika Prasad Bhattacharya
• Timir Biswas
• Fulati Gidali
• Ratan Kahar

• Sharmila Biswas
• Chitresh Das
• Gambhir Singh Mura
• Amala Shankar
• Mamata Shankar
• Uday Shankar

• Rafiuddin Ahmed
• Upendranath Brahmachari
• Sambhu Nath De
• Kadambini Ganguly
• Madhusudan Gupta
• Radha Gobinda Kar
• Shyama Prasad Mandal
• Subhash Mukhopadhyay
• Bidhan Chandra Roy
• Nilratan Sircar
• Tabitha Solomon

• Ganapati Chakraborty
• Amin Suhrawardy
• Maneka Sorcar
• P. C. Sorcar
• P. C. Sorcar Jr.
• P. C. Sorcar, Young

• Devapala
• Dharmapala
• Gopala I
• Mahipala
• Ballāla Sena
• Lakshmana Sena
• Shashanka

• Alimuddin Ahmad
• Romesh Chunder Dutt
• Nripendra Narayan, philanthropist and ruler of Cooch Behar
• Kalim Sharafi
• Satyendra Prasanna Sinha, 1st Baron Sinha
• Satyendranath Tagore
• Titumir

• Surendranath Banerjee
• Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee
• Rani Shiromani, queen of Karnagarh and leader of Chuar Rebellion
• Durjan Singh, leader of Chuar Rebellion

• Abul Barkat

• Balaram Bose householder disciple of Ramakrishna
• Nabakrishna Deb
• Radhakanta Deb, published two Sanskrit dictionaries used by Westerners
• Anil Kumar Gain
• Bijay Chand Mahtab
• Uday Chand Mahtab
• Gobindram Mitter
• Manindra Chandra Nandy, Maharaja of Cossimbazar
• Rani Rashmoni
• Mutty Lall Seal
• Mother Teresa

• Dibyendu Barua, Grandmaster^[4]
• Surya Shekhar Ganguly, Grandmaster
• Nisha Mohota, first woman Grandmaster of West Bengal

• Jaidip Mukerjea
• Leander Paes, noted lawn tennis player of India

• Ritwik Bhattacharya, currently second highest ranked Indian player
• Saurav Ghosal, currently highest ranked Indian player

• Manohar Aich, Mr. Universe, 1952
• Bishnu Charan Ghosh, noted bodybuilder and hathayogi
• Monotosh Roy, Mr. Universe, 1951

• Masudur Rahman Baidya, world's first physically handicapped swimmer to swim across the Strait of Gibraltar
• Bula Choudhury, first Indian woman to swim the English Channel twice
• Prasanta Karmakar, para swimmer, 2010 Commonwealth Games, bronze medal
• Arati Saha, first Asian woman to swim English Channel in 1959
• Mihir Sen, first Indian to swim across the English Channel in 1958

• Ankita Das, table tennis player, 2012 Summer Olympics; participant in women's singles event, 2014 Commonwealth Games; participant in women's doubles even
• Mouma Das, table tennis player
• Poulomi Ghatak, table tennis player
• Soumyajit Ghosh, table tennis player; as of January 2013, his rank is 1st in India and 68th in Asia; 2014 Commonwealth Games, Participant in men's doubles event
• Subhajit Saha, Commonwealth games gold medallist

• Sukhen Dey, Indian weightlifter; 2014 Commonwealth Games, gold medal; 2010 Commonwealth Games, gold medal
• Anil Mondal, Indian weightlifter, competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics and the 1976 Summer Olympics, the Arjuna Award in the year (1972)
• Achinta Sheuli, 2022 Commonwealth Games, Gold medal

• Arjun Atwal, golfer
• Chhanda Gayen, mountaineering, first Bengali woman to climb Mount Everest
• Dipa Karmakar, Indian artistic gymnast; 2014 Commonwealth Games, bronze medal; 2010 Commonwealth Games participant
• Joydeep Karmakar, Indian shooter, 2012 Summer Olympics; qualified to represent India in men's 50m rifle prone event; 2014 Commonwealth Games participant
• Anirban Lahiri, Indian golfer
• Mohammed Ali Qamar, Indian boxer, 2002 Commonwealth Games, gold medal
• Jyotirmoyee Sikdar, athletics, double gold medallist at Bangkok Asiad, 1996

• List of people by India state
• List of Bengalis