List of Bengalis

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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.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Monarchs[edit]

See also: Greatest Bengali of all time

Pala Dynasty[edit]

Chronological order

Chandra Dynasty[edit]

Deva Dynasty[edit]

Ilyas Shahi dynasty (1352–1414)[edit]

Main article: Ilyas Shahi dynasty
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[edit]

Hussain Shahi dynasty (1494–1538)[edit]

Main article: Hussain Shahi dynasty
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[edit]

A 19th century sketch of Isa Khan, a Muslim Rajput leader of Bengal.

Nobel laureates[edit]

Academics[edit]

Abdul Malik was Pakistan's first cardiologist.


Actors and entertainers[edit]

Khalil Ullah Khan earned Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Gunda in 1976.

Artists and designers[edit]

Bharat Ratna[edit]

List of Indian Citizen Bengalis

Bloggers / media artists[edit]

  • Hasan M. Elahi, interdisciplinarysciplinary media artist
  • Pritish Nandy, poet, author, editor in chief, The Illustrated Weekly of India and Publishing Director and Managing Editor, The Times of India Group 1982–1991
  • Reihan Salam, journalist, blogger at The American Scene and associate editor of The Atlantic Monthly

Business and industry[edit]

Billionaires[edit]

Business leaders[edit]

Entrepreneurs[edit]

Sahitya Akademi Award[edit]

Main article: List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Bengali

Cartoonists / comics creators[edit]

Cinematographers[edit]

Criminals[edit]

Dadasaheb Phalke Award winners[edit]

Diplomats[edit]

Economists[edit]

In 1994, Saifur Rahman was elected governor of the golden jubilee conference of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Madrid, Spain.[5]

Fellows of the Royal Society[edit]

Fictional characters[edit]

Filmmakers[edit]

Ri Chakraborty

Grammy winners[edit]

Journalists[edit]

Bangladesh[edit]

India[edit]

America[edit]

United Kingdom[edit]

Pakistan[edit]

Qatar[edit]

Uganda[edit]

Law[edit]

Magicians[edit]

Musicians[edit]

Bangla rock[edit]

Bangladeshi film industry[edit]

Bollywood[edit]

Classical and folk musicians[edit]

Hindi rock[edit]

Western[edit]

Military[edit]

Bangladesh[edit]

India[edit]

Other[edit]

Padma Vibhushan[edit]

Politicians[edit]

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

Bangladesh[edit]

British India[edit]

Nawab Syed Shamsul Huda was a patron, and donated immensely towards education for the Muslim students of Bengal during a difficult period.
Abul Kalam Azad was India's first Minister of Education, and his birthday is now recognised as National Education Day across the country.

India[edit]

West Bengal[edit]

Assam[edit]

Bihar[edit]

Meghalaya[edit]

Other[edit]

Pakistan[edit]

United Kingdom[edit]

Anwar Choudhury was the first non-white British person to be appointed in a senior diplomatic post.

Canada[edit]

United States of America[edit]

Other[edit]

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

Ramon Magsaysay Award[edit]

Religion and spirituality[edit]

Image of Swami Vivekananda relaxing in a chair
Swami Vivekananda in Bushnell Studio in San Francisco, 1900[23]

Brahmoism[edit]

Buddhism[edit]

Hinduism[edit]

Islam[edit]

Shah Ahmad Shafi in 2019
Ajmal Masroor was nominated for the Religious Advocate of the Year award at the 2013 & 2015 British Muslim Awards.

Christianity[edit]

Other[edit]

Freedom Fighters and Revolutionaries[edit]

Science and technology[edit]

Seated (L to R): Meghnad Saha, Jagadish Chandra Bose, Jnan Chandra Ghosh. Standing (L to R): Snehamoy Dutt, Satyendranath Bose, Debendra Mohan Bose, N R Sen, Jnanendra Nath Mukherjee, N C Nag.

Physicists[edit]

Biologists[edit]

Geologists[edit]

Chemists[edit]

Abdus Suttar Khan invented more than forty different alloys for commercial application in space shuttles, jet engines, train engines and industrial gas turbines.
  • Sadhan Basu, Palit professor at Calcutta University and Bhatnagar Award, CV Raman recipient
  • Asima Chatterjee, known for her work in the fields of organic chemistry and phytomedicine; her most notable work includes those on vinca alkaloids, and the development of anti-epileptic and anti-malarial drugs
  • Jnan Chandra Ghosh, chemist, known for anomaly of strong electrolytes
  • Abul Hussam, chemist, inventor of Sono arsenic filter and the gold winner of the 2007 Grainger Challenge Prize for Sustainability
  • Abdus Suttar Khan, chemist, inventor of alloys for use in commercial jets, U.S. fighter planes, gas turbines, train engines, and space shuttles
  • Nurul Haque Miah, chemist, former professor at Dhaka College, textbook author
  • Jnanendra Nath Mukherjee, chemist, specialised in the fields of electrochemistry, colloids and soil science
  • Prafulla Chandra Roy, pioneer in the field of pharmaceutical and chemical works (discovered mercurous nitrite), The Royal Society of Chemistry honoured him with the first ever Chemical Landmark Plaque outside Europe, founder of Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals, India's first pharmaceutical company

Doctors and physicians[edit]

Mathematicians[edit]

Technologists[edit]

Architects, archaeologists and engineers[edit]

Social reformers and position holders[edit]

Sir Fazle Hasan Abed KCMG receiving the Thomas Francis Jr Medal in Global Public Health award from the University of Michigan (April 2016)

Sports[edit]

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

Administrators[edit]

Athletics[edit]

Archery[edit]

Badminton[edit]

Bodybuilding, boxing, rugby and wrestling[edit]

Chess[edit]

Cricket[edit]

Football[edit]

Hamza Choudhury playing for Leicester City F.C. in 2021.

Golf and snooker[edit]

Gymnastics[edit]

  • 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[edit]

Shooting[edit]

Squash[edit]

Swimming[edit]

Table tennis[edit]

Tennis[edit]

Writers[edit]

Further information: List of Bengali language authors
Rabindranath Tagore is the first Indian as well as Asian Nobel laureate.
Al Mahmud is considered one of the greatest Bengali poets to have emerged in the 20th century.[26]
Hason Raja, mystical poet and songwriter

Chefs[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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