List of Bengalis

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This article provides lists of famous and notable Bengali people, from India or Bangladesh, or people with Bengali ancestry.

Contents

Academics


Actors and actresses

Artists

Economists

  • Amartya Sen অমর্ত্য সেন Ômorto Kumar Shen - economist, Nobel Laureate
  • Romesh C. Dutt
  • Muhammad Yunus মুহাম্মদ ইউনুস Muhammod Iunus - economist, Nobel Laureate, micro-credit pioneer
  • Rajeev Bhattacharya - Financial and Competition Economist
  • Abhijit Banerjee - Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Debraj Ray - Silver Professor of Economics, New York University
  • Mukul Majumdar - H.T. Warshow and Robert Irving Warshow Professor of Economics, Cornell University

Entrepreneurs

Filmmakers

Head of major organizations

Intellectuals and social reformers

Roquia Sakhawat Hussain was a pioneer in women's education
Roquia Sakhawat Hussain was a pioneer in women's education
  • Shri Aurobindo, Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, scholar, poet, mystic, evolutionary philosopher, yogi and guru
  • Ram Mohan Roy, রাজা রামমোহন রায় - founder of the Brahmo Samaj
  • Roquia Sakhawat Hussain, বেগম রোকেয়া - prolific writer, important Women's right activist and social worker
  • Debendranath Tagore দেবেন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর - was an active Brahmo, and was against sati, idol worship
  • Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar ঈশ্বর চন্দ্র বিদ্যাসাগর - responsible for introducing major reforms in the educational system and was Women's right activist
  • Keshub Chunder Sen কেশব চন্দ্র সেন - intellectual and a noted religious reformer
  • Sivanath Sastri শিবনাথ শাস্ত্রী - an important intellectual
  • Nasreen Pervin Huq, Prominent Women's Rights Activist
  • Muhammad Shahidullah, famous educationist, writer, polyglot, philologist and linguist
  • Zohra Begum Kazi, First Bengali Muslim female Doctor

Journalists and news reporters

Musicians

Political figures

Sportsperson

Brojen Das was the first Asian to swim across the English Channel
Brojen Das was the first Asian to swim across the English Channel

Religious figures

Scientists & Engineers

Writers

Further information: List of Bengali language authors and Bengali Writers : An Alphabetical List
Rabindranath Tagore is the first Asian Nobel laureate
Rabindranath Tagore is the first Asian Nobel laureate

See also

Bengal portal
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