Chakraborty

Chakraborty (Bengali and Assamese চক্রবর্তী Chôkroborti) is a common surname of Bengali and Assamese Hindus in India and Bangladesh. People with the surname Chakraborty commonly belong to the Brahmin caste. It is spelled in various ways, including Chakraborti,Chakrabarti,Chakrabarty for East Indians and Chakravarty, Chakravarthy, Chakravarti, Chakravorti and Chakravorty for South Indians. It is an honorary title and many with it can be found to be not brahmins, although the name indicates the purest of Assamese and Bengali Brahmins. However, in Assam valley; people with this surname are always Brahmins (see, Assamese Brahmins). They always use their traditional family name (surname) for the rituals like weddings and Upanayan.

In the past some practicioners of Tantra meditation would seat in a symbol called Tantra Chakra to perform their practices. As they would sit in this symbol they were given the respectable title of Chakravarty.

It is also a surname for Tamil, Telugu and Kannada Sri Vaishnavas.

In all of India, it is a given name, but largely found in use in Assam, Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh regions.

It is almost a euphemistic term for a local landlord to be called the "king of kings" as it means.

Some notable persons with this surname are:

Males

• Khelaram Chakrabarty (16th century), Bengali poet
• Rupram Chakrabarty (17th century), Bengali poet
• Visvanatha Chakravarti (1626? - 1708?), Bengalis guru
• Ghanaram Chakrabarty (c. 1669-?), Bengali poet
• Akinchan Chakrabarty (18th century), Bengali poet
• Shyam Sundar Chakravarthy (1869 –1932), Bengali revolutionary, independence activist and journalist
• Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari, known as C. Rajagopalachari (1878–1972), informally called Rajaji or C.R., Indian lawyer, independence activist, politician, writer and statesman
• Trailokyanath Chakravarty (1889-1970), Indian revolutionary.
• Ambika Chakrabarty (1892–1962), Bengali Indian independence movement activist and revolutionary
• Tulsi Chakrabarti (1899–1961), Indian comic actor
• Panchanan Chakraborty (1900–1995), Indian revolutionary
• Amiya Chakravarty (1901–1986), literary critic, academic, and Bengali poet
• Shibram Chakraborty (1903–1980), Bengali writer, humorist and revolutionary
• Nripen Chakraborty (1905–2004), Indian politician
• Hiralal Chakraborty (1911–1968), publisher of modern Bengali works
• Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan (1915-2003), Indian diplomat
• Byomkes Chakrabarti (1923–1981), Indian linguist
• Nirendranath Chakravarty (born 1924), Bengali poet
• Pramod Chakravorty (1929–2004), Indian film director and producer
• Animesh Chakravorty (born 1935), Indian chemist
• K. Chakravarthy (1936-2002), music director in the South Indian film industry
• Bibhas Chakraborty (born 1937), Bengali actor, playwright and theatre director
• Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty (born 1938), Indian microbiologist, party to the U.S. Supreme Court case Diamond v. Chakrabarty
• Abani Chakravarty (1941-1994?), Indian Assamese poet
• Subhas Chakraborty (1942-2009), Indian Communist politician
• Ajay Chakraborty (born 1943), Indian politician
• Swadesh Chakraborty (born 1943) , Indian politician
• Vinu Chakravarthy (born 1945), Tamil actor, script writer and director
• Mithun Chakraborty (born 1947), Indian actor, director and businessman
• Utpalendu Chakrabarty (born 1948), Indian film director
• Bikas K Chakrabarti (born 1952), Indian physicist
• Ajoy Chakrabarty (born 1953), Indian singer
• Aravinda Chakravarti (born 1954), Indian geneticist
• Swapan Kumar Chakravorty (born 1954) Director General of the National Library of India, Kolkata
• Sabyasachi Chakraborty, (born 1956), Bengali Indian TV and film actor
• Sandip Chakrabarti (born 1958), Indian astrophysicist
• Sujan Chakraborty (born 1959), Indian politician
• Sujit Chakravarty (born 1959), Indian football manager
• Haranath Chakraborty (born 1959), Indian Bengali film director
• Shibu Chakravarthy (born 1961), lyricist, screenplay and script writer who mainly works in Malayalam Cinema
• Kushal Chakraborty (born 1968), Bengali actor and film director
• J. D. Chakravarthy (born 1970), Indian film actor and director in Telugu cinema and Bollywood
• Pritam Chakraborty (born 1971), Indian Bengali music director and composer
• Praveen Chakravarty (born 1973), Indian businessman
• Samrat Chakrabarti (born 1975), British-American actor and musician
• Raj Chakraborty (born 1975), Indian Bengali film director
• Rajorshi Chakraborti (born 1977), Indian writer in English
• Arnab Chakrabarty (born 1980), Indian musician and sarod player
• Mahaakshay Chakraborty (born 1984), Indian actor
• Gaurav Chakrabarty (born 1987), Indian actor
• Rahi Chakraborty (born 1988), Indian singer, songwriter, programmer and guitarist
• Snehasish Chakraborty (born 1989),Indian footballer
• Souvik Chakraborty (born 1991),Indian footballer
• Sourav Chakraborty (born 1992),Indian footballer
• Keshab Chakravarthy (active 1925), Indian revolutionary
• M. C. Chakrabarti (died 1972), Indian statistician
• Ajit Chakrabarty, Indian musician
• Amal Chakraborty, Indian a paediatric surgeon
• Arindam Chakrabarti, Indian philosopher working in Hawaii
• Arjun Chakraborty, Indian actor and director
• Birendra Narayan Chakraborty, Indian politician
• Biswajit Chakraborty, Bengali actor
• Bonnie Chakraborty, Bengali singer
• Dilip Kumar Chakrabarti, Indian archaeologist
• Dipesh Chakrabarty, Indian historian
• Janardan Chakravarti, Indian professor of Bengali
• Kuntal Chakraborty, Indian sports journalist
• Manoj Chakraborty, Indian politician
• Nachiketa Chakraborty, Indian Bengali singer-songwriter
• Ranajit Chakraborty, Indian geneticist
• S. Chakravarthi, Indian cricketer
• S. S. Chakravarthy, Indian Tamil film producer
• Samiran Chandra Chakrabarti, Indian Indologist and scholar of onomastics & Vedic studies
• Sanjay Chakrabarty, Indian sound designer, singer, sitar player, composer and poet
• Sapan Chakraborty, Bengali Indian music composer
• Sugato Chakravarty, Indian marketing academic
• Suma Chakrabarti, British civil servant
• Sumon K Chakrabarti, Indian journalist
• Vijay C Chakravarthy, Indian cinematographer
• Vinayak Chakravorty, Indian film critic and film journalist

Females

• Bijoya Chakravarty (born 1939), Indian politician
• Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (born 1942), Indian literary critic
• Ipsita Roy Chakraverti (born 1950), Indian Wiccan priestess
• Sharmila Chakraborty (born 1961), Indian cricketer
• Uthpala Chakraborty, Indian cricketer
• Reeta Chakrabarti (born 1964), British television journalist
• Lolita Chakrabarti (born 1969), British actress and writer
• Shami Chakrabarti (born 1969), British barrister and civil liberties campaigner
• Rushmi Chakravarthi (born 1977), Indian tennis player
• Kaushiki Chakrabarty (born 1980), Indian classical vocalist
• Rhea Chakraborty (born 1992), Indian video jockey

Other

• Chakravarthi Thirumagal, 1957 Tamil film
• Doctor Chakravarthy, 1964 Telugu film
• Chakravarty Committee on Monetary Policy (1985), Indian Government committee