List of people from West Bengal

This is a list of famous and notable people from West Bengal, India. This would include persons who are known to a large number of people and is not based on the extent of their popularity. Neither is the list viewed from the context of the present. Their fame could be brief, what matters is that they were well-known during the peak of their popularity.

Arts

• Abanindranath Tagore
• Nandalal Bose
• Ramkinkar Baij
• Jamini Roy

Literature

• Jhumpa Lahiri
• Rabindranath Tagore (Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913)
• Kazi Nazrul Islam
• Michael Madhusudan Dutt
• Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay
• Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
• Tarashankar Bandopadhyay
• Manik Bandopadhyay
• Jibanananda Das
• Sunil Gangopadhyay

Movies

Directors

• Aparna Sen
• Asit Sen
• Anil Biswas
• Bimal Roy
• Gautam Ghose
• Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Dadasaheb Phalke Award, 2000
• Satyajit Ray, (OSCAR for Lifetime Achievement in 1992)
• Mrinal Sen
• Rituparno Ghosh
• Ritwik Ghatak
• Tapan Sinha

Actors

• Ashok Kumar
• Anup Kumar
• Hemant Kumar
• Kishore Kumar
• Mithun Chakaborty
• Pramathesh Barua
• Rahul Bose
• Soumitra Chatterjee
• Utpal Dutta
• Uttam Kumar
• Victor Banerjee

Actresses

• Aparna Sen
• Bipasha Basu
• Devika Rani, first winner of Dadasaheb Phalke Award, 1970
• Jaya Bachchan (Jaya Bhaduri)
• Kajol
• Kananbala
• Kanan Devi, Dadasaheb Phalke Award, 1977
• Moon Moon Sen
• Moushmi Chatterji
• Nutan
• Raakhee Gulzar
• Reena Roy
• Rani Mukherji
• Riya Sen
• Sharmila Tagore
• Suchitra Sen
• Supriya Devi
• Sushmita Sen
• Tanuja

Music

• Bappi Lahiri
• Hemant Kumar
• Kumar Sanu
• Ravi Shankar

Dance

• Uday Shankar

Theatre

• Girish Ghosh
• Shishir Bhaduri
• Shambhu Mitra
• Ajitesh Bandopadhyay

Politics

• Bidhan Chandra Roy
• Jyoti Basu
• Pranab Mukherjee
• Somnath Chatterjee (born 1929)

Science

• Jagadish Chandra Bose
• Satyendra Nath Bose
• Meghnad Saha

Religion

• Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
• Ramkrishna Paramhansa
• Swami Vivekananda
• Maharishi Debendranath Tagore

Sports

• Arun Lal, cricketer
• Leander Paes, tennis player (born in Goa, but grew up in Kolkata)
• Saurav Ganguly, captain, Indian cricket team

Others

• Amartya Sen, economist, Nobel Prize in Economics, 1998
• Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (A social and cultural reformist who can be called the father of Bengali language)
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