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The personalities of West Bengal have glorified the name of their homeland in varied sectors with success. Be it science, religion, films, politics, music, dance, literature or anything, the Bengalis have excelled without any limitations. Many stalwarts of the nation are from West Bengal. Swami Vivekananda is the chief disciple of the 19th century mystic Ramakrishna and the founder of Ramakrishna Mission and is a prominent personality from Bengal. Vivekananda is the first Hindu missionary who propagated Hinduism and Yoga in Europe and America. He is the person who spread Hinduism to the position of a world religion during the end of 19th Century and was the prime force in the revival of Hinduism in India. Rabindranath Tagore, also known by the sobriquet Gurudev was a Bengali poet and Brahmo religionist. This multi faceted personality had other fields of recognition as a visual artist, playwright, novelist, and composer whose works redefined Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was Asia`s first Nobel laureate when he won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was the founder of Visva-Bharati University.
Sri Aurobindo was an Indian nationalist, mystic, scholar, evolutionary philosopher, poet, yogi and guru. After a short political career, he has been the leader of the early movement for the freedom of India from British rule. Later, he explored spiritual realms of human existence and thus developed a new path, which he termed integral yoga. Subhas Chandra Bose; more popular as Netaji was one of the most important and highly respected leaders of the Indian independence movement against the British Raj.
Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay, more popular as Hemanta Mukherjee was an Indian singer, composer and producer. He sang numerous Hindi and Bengali songs under the name Hemant Kumar. Ananda Shankar was an Indian Bengali musician best known for his talent of fusing Western and Eastern musical styles; he married another talented danseuse Tanushree Shankar. Pandit Ravi Shankar is a Bengali Indian sitar player and composer and is a disciple of Ustad Allauddin Khan, the founder of the Maihar gharana of Hindustani classical music.
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee was a Bengali poet, essayist, novelist and journalist, most famous as the author of Vande Mataram that inspired the freedom fighters of India, and was later was declared as the National Song of India. Amartya Sen is a reputed Indian economist, philosopher, and a winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998, "for his contributions to welfare economics". He particularly researched on famine, welfare economics, human development theory, the underlying mechanisms of poverty and political liberalism. Uttam Kumar was a legendary Bengali actor and is fondly called the Mahanayak or the "Great Hero" of Bengali cinema. Some of his selected films are Nayak (The Hero), Chiriyakhana, "Chhoti si Mulaqat", "Amanush", "Ananda Ashram", "Kitaab" and "Dooriyan". The Bengalis have spread all across the globe with their untamed talent and thus made their homeland a mine of jewels. Some of the well known personalities from West Bengal are as follows -
In Academics
| Andre Béteille – Sociologist |
Dipesh Chakrabarty - Historian |
Sumit Sarkar – Historian |
Syed Modasser Ali - Ophthalmologist |
| Ashis Nandy - Political Psychologist |
Partha Chatterjee - Political Scientist |
Sukumar Sen - Linguist |
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Actors and actresses from West Bengal
Artists and painters from West Bengal
Economists from West Bengal
| Amartya Sen - economist, Nobel Laureate |
Romesh C. Dutt |
Muhammad Yunus - economist, Nobel Laureate, micro-credit pioneer |
Abhijit Banerjee - Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Debraj Ray - Silver Professor of Economics, New York University |
Entrepreneurs from West Bengal
| Jawed Karim - co-founder of YouTube |
Amar Bose - founder of Bose Corporation |
Subrato Roy - founder of Sahara India Pariwar |
Dwarkanath Tagore |
Filmmakers from West Bengal
Social reformers from West Bengal
| Roquia Sakhawat Hussain was a pioneer in women`s education |
Debendranath Tagore was an active Brahmo |
Sivanath Sastri |
| Shri Aurobindo, Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, yogi and guru |
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar made major reforms in the educational system and was Women`s right activist |
Nasreen Pervin Huq - Women`s Rights Activist |
| Ram Mohan Roy, founder of the Brahmo Samaj |
Keshub Chandra Sen - religious reformer |
Muhammad Shahidullah - educationist, writer, polyglot, philologist and linguist |
Journalists and news reporters from West Bengal
| Swapan Dasgupta |
Matiur Rahman |
Harish Chandra Mukherjee |
| Pritish Nandy |
Prannoy Roy - Founder and President of NDTV |
Samar Sen |
Musicians from West Bengal
Political personalities from West Bengal
| Subhas Chandra Bose |
Pranab Mukherjee- Minister for External Affairs |
B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury- Senior leader of Indian National Congress |
Bidhan Chandra Roy - physician, former Congress Chief Minister of West Bengal |
| Chittaranjan Das |
Priyaranjan Dasmunsi- Minister for Information and Broadcasting |
Shyama Prasad Mukherjee - Founder of Bharatiya Jana Sangh |
Ashoke Kumar Sen, Former Law Minister, barrister, and parliamentarian |
| Bipin Chandra Pal |
Jyoti Basu - former communist Chief Minister of West Bengal |
Siddhartha Shankar Ray- former Congress Chief Minister of West Bengal |
Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, Present Chief Minister of West Bengal |
Sportsperson from West Bengal
| Brojen Das was the first Asian to swim across the English Channel |
Mouma Das - Table Tennis player |
Poulami Ghatak - Table Tennis player |
Mihir Sen, First Indian to swim across the English Channel in 1958. |
Jayanta Talukdar - archer |
| P.K. Banerjee Footballer |
Ritwik Bhattacharya - squash player |
Gostho Pal – Footballer |
Arati Saha, Swimmer: First Asian woman to swim English Channel in 1959. |
Jhulan Goswami - ICC Women`s Cricketer of the year 2007 |
| Dibyendu Barua, Indian chess grandmaster |
Sourav Ganguly - Cricketer, former captain of Indian cricket team |
Mohammad Rafique – Cricketer |
Jyotirmoyee Sikdar, athletics: Double gold-medallist in track at Asian games |
Chuni Goswami - Indian Football |
Religious figures from West Bengal
| Chaitanya Mahaprabhu - Hindu monk and social reformer |
Swami Vivekananda - Hindu monk and social reformer |
Paramahansa Yogananda - monk and exponent of Kriya Yoga |
Baba Lokenath Brahmachari - Hindu saint and philosopher |
| Ramakrishna Paramahamsa - Hindu saint |
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada - founder of ISKCON |
Sri Anandamoyi Ma - Spiritual teacher and Guru |
Thakur Anukulchandra - Hindu Saint |
Scientists and Engineers from West Bengal
| Mani Lal Bhaumik – Physicist, developed the first excimer laser at the University of California |
Satyendra Nath Bose - Physicist, founded Bose–Einstein statistics. |
Fazlur Khan |
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis - Statistician |
Prafulla Chandra Roy - Pioneer in the field of pharmaceutical and chemical works |
| Jagdish Chandra Bose - Physicist, radio and wireless transmittion pioneer. |
Upendranath Brahmachari – Biologist |
Dilip Mahalanabis – Biologist |
Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri |
Megh Nad Saha - Physicist, produced the famous "Thermo-Ionization Equation" |
Writers from West Bengal
| Banaphool - writer of short stories |
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay - novelist, essayist |
Sunil Gangopadhyay - poet, novelist |
Premendra Mitra - poet, short story writer |
| Rabindranath Tagore - poet, novelist, essayist |
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay - novelist |
Amitav Ghosh - novelist, essayist |
Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay - novelist |
| Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay - novelist |
Shakti Chattopadhyay - poet |
Shankha Ghosh - poet, essayist |
Shamsur Rahman - poet |
| Manik Bandopadhyay - novelist, short story writer |
Jibanananda Das - poet |
Joy Goswami - poet |
Dwijendralal Ray - playwright, poet |
| Tarashankar Bandopadhyay - novelist |
Ashapurna Devi - novelist, short story writer |
Buddhadeb Guha - novelist |
Arundhati Roy - novelist, essayist |
| Abul Bashar - novelist, essayist |
Mahasweta Devi - novelist, short story writer |
Kazi Nazrul Islam - poet |
Jasim Uddin - poet, novelist, essayist |
| Buddhadeb Bose - poet, essayist |
Michael Madhusudan Dutt - poet, dramatist |
Jhumpa Lahiri - novelist, short story writer |
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