List of Bengalis

This article provides lists of famous and notable Bengali people in the Indian subcontinent, people with Bengali ancestry, and people who speak Bengali as their primary language.

Monarchs

The Greatest Influential Indian Institution Builders from Bengal

Pabna district (now in Bangladesh)
- Pala King Dharma Pala (Founder of ancient Vikramashila Buddhist Mahavihara, it was one of the three most important Buddhist Mahaviharas in ancient India, along with Nalanda and Taxila)

Pala Dynasty

Chronological order

Chandra Dynasty

Traillokyachandra (900–930)
Srichandra (930–975)
Kalyanachandra (975–1000)
Ladahachandra (1000–1020)
Govindachandra (1020–1050)

Deva Dynasty

Dasharathadeva (1281)
Pratapaditya, Maharaja of Jessore (1561–1611)
Kirtinarayan Basu, Raja of Chandradwip (from 1668), converted to Islam

Ilyas Shahi dynasty (1352–1414)

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)

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

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
Golam Ali Chowdhury (1824–1888), zamindar of Haturia and philanthropist

Nobel laureates

Rabindranath 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

Academics

Momtazuddin Ahmed, philosopher and educationist
Abu Sayeed Ayyub, Indian philosopher, teacher, literary critic.
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
Sekhar Basu was an Indian nuclear scientist who served as the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary to the Government of India
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
Abdul Karim Sahitya Bisharad, littérateur and historian of Bangla literature
Jagadish Chandra Bose was a polymath with interests in biology, physics, botany and writing science fiction.
Raj Chandra Bose was an Indian American mathematician and statistician best known for his work in design theory
Satyendra Nath Bose was an Indian mathematician and physicist specializing in theoretical physics.
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, University of Calcutta
Bhupendranath Datta, revolutionary, author, anthropologist
Barun De, chairman, West Bengal Heritage Commission
Soumitra Dutta, Dean Elect of Saïd 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
Jayati Ghosh, an Indian development economist and the Chairperson of the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning at the Jawaharlal Nehru University
Subir Kumar Ghosh, planetary scientist and a winner of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology
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
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, statistician, founder of Indian Statistical Institute
Brigadier Abdul Malik, founder of National Heart Foundation
Ujjwal Maulik, computer scientist and former Head, Computer Science and Engineering, Jadavpur University
Vina Mazumdar, academic, activist and feminist
Asoke Nath Mitra, awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 1969 for his fundamental contributions in obtaining the exact solution of the nucleon three-body problem
Rajendralal Mitra, first modern Indologist of Indian origin
Sisir Kumar Mitra, Indian physicist and president of The Asiatic Society from 1951 to 1953
Nurul Momen, professor of law, Dhaka University Proctor, Dean
Satish Chandra Mukherjee, educationist
Abdul Muktadir, academic 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
Meghnad Saha was an Indian astrophysicist who developed the Saha ionization equation.
Abul Kashem Sandwip, educationist and a founder of Bangladesh Betar
Sir Jadunath Sarkar, historian
Maqbular Rahman Sarkar, tenth vice-chancellor of Rajshahi University
Nalini Ranjan Sarkar, economist, led the Sarkar Committee which recommended establishing Indian Institutes of Technology along the lines of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sumit Sarkar, historian
Pranab K. Sen, statistician, Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Sukumar Sen, linguist
Muhammad Shahidullah, educationist, writer, philologist, linguist, and theorist
Mohammad Yusuf Siddiq, historian, epigraphist, researcher, professor and author
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

Actors and entertainers

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
Amala Akkineni, Bollywood actress
Alamgir, film actor and television host
Niloy Alamgir, model and actor
Ruhul Amin, film director
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
Jaya Bachchan, Bollywood actress
Bidita Bag, Bollywood and Bengali actress
Ajitesh Bandopadhyay, stage and film actor
Bhanu Bandopadhyay, Tollywood comic actor
Abhishek Banerjee, Bollywood actor and casting director
Jenni Banerjee, Indian origin Finnish actor
Karuna Banerjee, first Indian actress earned BAFTA Award for Best Actress nomination at the 1959 BAFTA Awards
Sarvadaman D. Banerjee
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
Samit Bhanja, Bollywood and Bengali actor
Ritwik Bhowmik, Bollywood 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
Kanon Devi, singer-actress, started acting at the age of 10 yrs as a child artist in "Joydeb " , later made her debut with "Rishir Prem" in 1931
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
Nusrat Jahan, Bengali actress
Imran Khan real name Imran Pal, Ex American actor who used to act in Bollywood films
Khalil Ullah Khan, film and TV actor
Shakib Khan, 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
Rajkumar Patra, Indian model, bengali film actor and film producer
Rocky Rupkumar Patra, Indian and bengali film actor and film director
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 Kumar

Artists and designers

Bharat Ratna Receivers

List of Bengalis who received Bharat Ratna:

By Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian National Congress
- 1961 Bidhan Chandra Roy (Patna, Bengal Presidency, now Bihar, India)
By P. V. Narasimha Rao, Indian National Congress
- 1992 Satyajit Ray (Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, now West Bengal, India)
- 1997 Aruna Asaf Ali (Kalka, Punjab, British India,(now in Haryana, India)
By Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Bharatiya Janata Party, NDA
- 1999 Amartya Sen (Shantiniketan, Bengal Presidency, now Bolpur, West Bengal, India)
- 1999 Ravi Shankar (Varanasi, Benares State, now Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh,India)
By Narendra Modi, Bharatiya Janata Party, NDA
- 2019 Pranab Mukherjee (Birbhum, Bengal, now West Bengal)

Bloggers / media artists

Hasan M. Elahi, interdisciplinary media artist
Pritish Nandy, poet, author, editor in chief of The Illustrated Weekly of India as well as Publishing Director and Managing Editor of The Times of India Group
Reihan Salam, journalist, blogger at The American Scene and associate editor of The Atlantic Monthly

Business and industry

Billionaires

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 & 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 & CEO of Bandhan Bank
Pradeep Kar, Founder of Microland
Salman F Rahman, Founder & Vice Chairman of BEXIMCO
Sunil Kanti Roy, Founder of Peerless Group
Aveek Sarkar, Vice Chairman & Editor Emeritus, Ananda Bazaar Patrika
Ahmed Akbar Sobhan, Founder and Chairman of the Bashundhara Group

Business leaders

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.^[1]
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
Amar Bose founder of bose audio
Mohammad Ebadul Karim Bulbul, managing director of Beacon Pharmaceuticals
Sankar Chakraborti, Group CEO of Acuité 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 & 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 & 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 & Co.
Bhaskar Pramanik, chairman, Microsoft India
Subir Raha, former head, ONGC
Fayzur Rahman, chairman of Novoair
M. A. Sattar, prominent industrialist. Founder and former chairman of Sattar Jute Mills and other enterprises, banker, and politician
Mutty Lall Seal, businessman and entrepreneur
Dwarkanath Tagore, known for partnership with the British East India Company

Entrepreneurs

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.^[1]
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;^[2] President and founder of Elite Hotels^[sv] of Sweden and The Bishop's Arms^[sv]^[3]
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 & 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.
Rajendra Nath Mookerjee, co-founder, Martin Burn Ltd, IISCO
Sabyasachi Mukherjee, founder & 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
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 laureate

Sahitya Akademi Award

Cartoonists / comics creators

Jayanto 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 painter

Cinematographers

Criminals

Dhananjoy Chatterjee, first person judicially executed in India in the 21st century for murder
Roshu Kha, serial killer
Ershad Sikder, Bangladeshi criminal and serial killer from khulna city

Dadasaheb Phalke Award winners

Diplomats

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 US

Economists

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 & 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 Prize

Fellows of the Royal Society

Fictional characters

Filmmakers

Grammy winners

Sandeep Das, award for Best World Music Album, at the 59th Grammy Awards, 2017
Norah Jones, 9-time winner
Ravi Shankar, 5-time winner

Journalists

Bangladesh

Shah Alamgir, journalist
Syed Mohammad Ali, founder of The Daily Star – the largest circulating daily English-language newspaper in Bangladesh.^[5]
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, journalist

India

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 journalist

America

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 Salam

United Kingdom

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 programme

Pakistan

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 Pakistan

Qatar

Shiulie Ghosh, television journalist at Al Jazeera English

Uganda

Rajat Neogy, journalist, poet, columnist, founding editor of Transition Magazine

Law

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
Manmatha Nath Mukherjee, Received Knighthood in 1935, former Justice of Calcutta High Court and appointed Law Secretary of the Government 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 cabinet
Sir Nripendra Nath Sircar KCSI was an Indian lawyer and political figure. He was Advocate-General of Bengal from 1928 to 1934 and Law Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India from 1934 to 1939.

Magicians

Musicians

Bangla rock

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, 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 Zia

Bangladeshi film industry

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 singer

Bollywood

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, singer-songwriter
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

Purna Das Baul (born 1933), known as 'Baul-samrat', pioneering folk artist known for working with Bob Dylan
Tanmoy Bose (born 1963), table master, composer, actor, fusion musician
Kanika Banerjee (1924–2000), Rabindrasangeet performer
Manabendra Mukhopadhyay (1931–1992), singer and composer
Nikhil Banerjee (1931–1986), sitar performer
Arnab Chakrabarty (born 1980), Indian classical musician, sarod player
Shankar Ghosh (1935–2016), tabla master and singer
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
Swapan Chaudhuri, tabla exponent
Ajoy Chakrabarty (born 1952)
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
Shah Abdul Karim (1916–2009)
Abbas Uddin Ahmed (1901–1959)
Abdul Alim
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), Rabindra Sangeet 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
Farida Parveen (born 1954), Lalon singer
Hason Raja (1854–1922)
Ritwik Sanyal (born 1953)
Indrani Sen, Rabindra Sangeet and Nazrul Geeti performer, also modern and folk songs
Srabani Sen, Rabindra Sangeet 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

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 Ocean

Western

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 soprano

Military

Bangladesh

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

Flight Lieutenant Suhas Biswas (1924–1993), 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^{[citation needed]}
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
Major General Ajit Rudra (1896–1957), OBE
Lieutenant General Lionel Protip Sen, Distinguished Service Order

Other

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-Umedpur

Padma Vibhushan

Politicians

Bangladesh

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)
Abdul Gaffar Biswas (born 1949), former MP for Khulna-3
Abdul Latif Biswas (born 1953), Bangladeshi minister
Abdur Rahman Biswas (1926–2017), former president of Bangladesh
Abdur Rasheed Biswas (died 1991), former MP of Jessore
Abu Raihan Biswas (1940–2019), high school teacher and socialist
AM Riasat Ali Biswas (1932–2016), Islamic scholar and politician
Ehteshamul Haq Nasim Biswas (died 1998), medical doctor and politician
Lutfar Rahman Biswas, Bangladeshi politician
Manjur Rahman Biswas (1950–2023), former MP of Pabna-4
Md. Golam Mostofa Biswas (born 1967), former MP of Nawabganj-2
Mohammad Abdul Wadud Bishwas (born 1964), politician
Mohammad Nurul Haque Biswas (1915–1998), army officer and politician
Mohammad Sahiuddin Bishwas (1923–1990), freedom fighter and politician
Nuruzzaman Biswas (born 1948), former MP of Pabna-4
Panjab Ali Biswas, former MP of Pabna-4
Shahidul Islam Biswas (1948–2006), former general secretary of Bangladesh Nationalist Party
Wajed Ali Biswas (1947–2003), politician and shrimp exporter
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
Yusuf Ali Chowdhury (1905–1971), former Minister of Agriculture
Hussain Muhammad Ershad, Chief Martial Law Administrator (CMLA), later President (1982–1990) and founder of the Jatiya party
Kamal Hossain, lawyer, founder of Gano Forum and the leader of Jatiya Oikiya front alliance
Farhad Hossain (born 1972), Minister of Public Administration
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 League
Chowdhury Kamal Ibne Yusuf (1940–2020), former Minister of Disaster Management
Chowdhury Akmal Ibne Yusuf (1945–2021), member of the parliament
Chowdhury Abd-Allah Zaheeruddin (1903–1967), former Minister of Health, Labor and Social welfare

British India

Jalaluddin Ahmad, Bengali landlord, jurist and health minister
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
Chowdhury Moyezuddin Biwshash, merchant and aristocrat
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 Dhaka

India

West Bengal

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
Emani Biswas (born 1975), Trinamool politician
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-founder Indian National Army
Somnath Chatterjee, former Speaker of the Lok Sabha (Lower House of Parliament), expelled member of CPI(M), senior parliamentarian, prominent barrister
Subrata Mukherjee, former minister of West Bengal and former mayor of Kolkata
A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury, senior leader of Indian National Congress
Pranab Mukherjee, former president of India, Minister for External Affairs, senior leader of Indian National Congress
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 parliamentarian
Abhishek Banerjee, member of Lok Sabha from Diamond Harbour, National General Secretary of All India Trinamool Congress

Assam

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
Sushmita Dev, former member of Parliament, prominent leader of AITC
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 Dhubri

Bihar

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 2000

Delhi

Sucheta Kripalani Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from New Delhi Lok Sabha constituency from 1951-1961

Meghalaya

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 & Transport
Azad Zaman, former MLA of Rajabala

Uttar Pradesh

Sucheta Kripalani 4th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh also 1st Female Chief Minister of India. Lok Sabha M.P. from Gonda Lok Sabha constituency (1967-1971) & MLA from Menhdawal Assembly constituency of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly (1962-1967)
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

Other

Rabi Ray, speaker of Lok Sabha
Manik Sarkar, chief minister of Tripura, Politburo member
Ashab Uddin, member of the Manipur Legislative Assembly for Jiribam

Pakistan

Nurul Amin, Prime Minister of Pakistan
Abdullah al-Baqi (1886–1952), member of the 1st National Assembly of Pakistan
Abdul Latif Biswas, member of the Pakistan National Assembly
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 & 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
Md. Hafizur Rahman, Minister of Food and Agriculture of Pakistan (1958–1960); Minister of Commerce of Pakistan (1960–1962); Provincial Minister of Finance and Planning of East Pakistan (1962–1965)
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, second Chief Minister of Bengal, Prime Minister of Pakistan (1956–1957)

United Kingdom

Marina Masuma Ahmad, Member of the London Assembly for Lambeth and Southwark
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.

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^[6]
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^[7]
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^[8]
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^[9]
Murad Qureshi, Labour Party politician and former Greater London Assembly member^[10]
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^[11]
Luthfur Rahman , 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^[12]
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^[13]
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,^[14] writer, columnist, senior lecturer in sociology at Kingston University and former Deputy Mayor of the London Borough of Ealing^[15]^[16]
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^[17] and one of the first three Muslim women to be elected as a member of parliament^[18]
Tulip Siddiq MP, Labour Party Member of Parliament for Hampstead and Kilburn,^[19] 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^[20]

Canada

Doly Begum, MPP from Scarborough Southwest
Shuv Majumdar, Member of Parliament for Calgary Heritage

United States of America

Amit Bose, Administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration
Saikat Chakrabarti, chief of staff to Ocasio-Cortez
Indranil Chatterjee, Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Swadesh Chatterjee, chairman and co-founder of the U.S.-India Friendship Council
Jay Chaudhuri, Member of the North Carolina Senate
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 district

Other

I'tisam-ud-Din was the first educated Bengali and South Asian to have travelled to Europe.

I'tisam-ud-Din, Mughal diplomat and munshi

Ramon Magsaysay Award

Tahrunessa 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 Yunus

Religion and spirituality

Brahmoism

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

Buddhism

Anagarika Munindra (1915–2003), vipassana meditation teacher, taught many notable meditation teachers including Dipa Ma, Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg, and Surya Das
Bishuddhananda Mahathera, a Buddhist scholar and monk
Jyotipal Mahathero, a Buddhist monk and the 10th Sangharaja of Bangladeshi Buddhists

Hinduism

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
Sri 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 of Bharat Sevashram Sangha
Lahiri Mahasaya or Shyama Charan Lahiri, yogi, philosopher, the propagator of Kriya Yoga
Nirmalananda, 19th century monk
Nityananda, 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 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, exponent of Kriya Yoga

Islam

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
Abu Saeed Muhammad Omar Ali (1945–2010), author, teacher and translator
Muhammad Ayyub Ali (1919–1995), former principal of Madrasah-e-Alia Dhaka and Sylhet Alia Madrasa
Ruhul Amin (born 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
Ahmed Ali Badarpuri (1915–2000), president of the Assam State Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind for over four decades
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
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
Shah Nuri Bengali (died 1785), Sufi scholar and author
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
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
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
Syed Muhammad Ishaq (1915–1977), founder of the Chormonai Darbar Sharif and Jamia Rashidia Ahsanabad
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
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
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
Shamsul Huda Panchbagi (1897–1988), founder of the Emarat Party and two-time member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly
Abdul Wahhab Pirji (1890–1976), scholar, educationist and founding principal of Jamia Hussainia Ashraful Uloom, Bara Katara
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 (born 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 former member of Bangladeshi parliament
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
Shah Abd al-Wahhab (1894–1982), second principal of Darul Uloom Hathazari
Muhammad Wakkas (1952–2021), former secretary-general of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam
Nurul Islam Walipuri (born 1955), mufassir, teacher and author
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 Islam

Christianity

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 Carey

Other

Ipsita Roy Chakraverti

Freedom Fighters and Revolutionaries

Science and technology

Physicists

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 awardee

Biologists

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
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 writer

Geologists

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 Bangladesh

Chemists

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

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
Siddhartha Mukherjee, physician, scientist and writer, author of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction 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 England

Mathematicians

Debabrata Basu, founded Basu's theorem
Anil Kumar Bhattacharya, known for Bhattacharya coefficient, and the Bhattacharya distance
Raj Chandra Bose, known for Association scheme, Bose–Mesner algebra and Euler's conjecture
Sourav Chatterjee, specialised in mathematical statistics and probability, professor at Stanford University
Anil Kumar Gain, mathematician and statistician, professor at University of Cambridge as well as a Fellow of the Royal Society
Jayanta Kumar Ghosh, 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, founder of The Department of Statistics of Rajshahi University
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, best remembered for the Mahalanobis distance (a statistical measure), founder of Indian Statistical Institute (ISI)
Samarendra Kumar Mitra, designed, developed and constructed India's first indigenous computer (an electronic analog computer) in ISI
Syamadas Mukhopadhyaya, introduced the four-vertex theorem and Mukhopadhyaya's theorem in eucliden geometry
ANM Muniruzzaman, Bangladeshi statistician died in Bangladesh Liberation War
Ritabrata Munshi, specialised in number theory, graduate student of Andrew Wiles
Dijen K. Ray-Chaudhuri, known for BCH code, professor emeritus at Ohio State University
Samarendra Nath Roy, known for multivariate analysis
Sucharit Sarkar, Indian topologist and IMO gold medallist
Radhanath Sikdar, calculated the height of Mount Everest

Technologists

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, software engineer, co-founder of YouTube, early employee of PayPal
Samarendra Kumar Mitra, designed, developed, and constructed India's first indigenous computer in 1953 (an electronic analog computer)

Architects, archaeologists and engineers

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;^[22] 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, archaeologist

Social reformers and position holders

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 and 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 activist

Sports

Administrators

Sourav Ganguly, President of Board of Control for Cricket in India and former Indian cricket team captain, Padma Shri awardee

Athletics

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
Rahamatulla Molla, track athlete
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 award

Archery

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, archer

Badminton

Dipu Ghosh, former badminton player
Raman Ghosh, former badminton player
Manoj Sarkar, para badminton player and bronze medalist at the 2020 Paralympic Games, Tokyo

Bodybuilding, boxing, rugby and wrestling

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, gold-medallist boxer
Reba Rakshit, Indian female bodybuilder and exponent of yoga
Monotosh Roy, Indian bodybuilder, first Bengali 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 India

Chess

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 the Indian Subcontinent
Ziaur Rahman, Bangladeshi grandmaster
Mollah Abdullah Al Rakib, Bangladeshi grandmaster

Cricket

Aftab Ahmed, former Bangladeshi cricketer
Nasum Ahmed, bowler for Bangladesh
Taskin Ahmed, Bangladeshi bowler
Amit Ali, cricketer for Tripura
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
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
Parvez Sultan, cricketer for Tripura
Rony Talukdar, Bangladeshi cricketer
Jahan Uddin, cricketer for Sikkim
Javed Zaman, cricketer for Railways

Football

Alfaz Ahmed, former footballer for Bangladesh
Tarif Akhand, defender for Punjab FC
Faisal Ali, former winger for Mohammedan SC (Kolkata)
Rahim Ali, forward for India
S.K. Azim, defender for United SC
Sheikh Azim, defender for Mohammedan SC (Kolkata)
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
S. K. Faiaz, winger for Mohammedan SC (Kolkata)
Kamran Farooque, defender for Churchill Brothers FC
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
S. M. Kaiser, olympic footballer and midfielder for East Bengal Club
Pritam Kotal, Indian national football player
Azharuddin Mallick, forward for Delhi FC
Samad Ali Mallick, defender for Mohammedan SC (Kolkata)
Sailen Manna, footballer, the only Bengali footballer ever to be named among the 10 best captains in the world by the English FA in 1953
Manoj Mohammed, defender for Hyderabad FC
Surabuddin Mollick, midfielder
Arnab Mondal, Indian national football player
Deepak Kumar Mondal, footballer and Arjuna award winner
Habibur Rehman Mondal, former defender for Mohammedan SC (Kolkata)
Jafar Mondal, goalkeeper for Churchill Brothers FC
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
Syed Nayeemuddin, former captain for India
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
Mohammed Rafique, former midfielder for East Bengal Club
Safiul Rahaman, defender for Mohammedan SC (Kolkata)
Mahbubur Rahman, footballer and captain of Arambagh KS
Mohammed Rahmatullah, forward for India
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
Rafique Ali Sardar, former goalkeeper for Mohammedan SC (Kolkata)
Safar Sardar, former defender for Mohammedan SC (Kolkata)
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

Anirban Lahiri
Hammad Miah, professional snooker player
Siddikur Rahman, Olympic and Asian Tour golfer of Bangladesh

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

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 Everest

Shooting

Joydeep Karmakar, Olympian and Arjuna Awardee
Mehuli Ghosh, Olympian

Squash

Ritwik Bhattacharya
Saurav Ghosal, highest-ranked Indian player

Swimming

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 Bengali 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 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

Ankita Das, Olympian
Mouma Das, Olympian
Poulomi Ghatak
Soumyajit Ghosh, Olympian
Zobera Rahman Linu, Guinness World Record holder
Subhajit Saha

Tennis

Zeeshan Ali, olympian
Samir Banerjee, Winner of the 2021 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' singles title
Syed Fazaluddin, player and coach
Shibu Lal, Bangladeshi ATP player
Jaidip Mukerjea, Arjuna award winner
Leander Paes, Olympic Medalist
Afrana Islam Prity, Bangladeshi ITF player

Writers

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 (born 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 (born 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
Jīmūtavāhana (c. 12th century), Sanskrit writer of Dāyabhāga
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
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 poet

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