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This is a Chronological list of Bengali language authors (regardless of nationality or religion), by date of birth. Alphabetical order is used only when chronological order cannot be ascertained.

The list also marks the winners of major international and national awards:

• Nobel Prize winners are marked with
• Ramon Magsaysay Award winners are marked with:
• Bharat Ratna winners are marked with:
• Padma Vibhushan winners are marked with:
• Padma Bhushan winners are marked with:
• Independence Day Award winners are marked with: and
• Ekushey Padak winners are marked with: .
• Banga-Vibhushan winners are marked with:.

For an alphabetic listing of Bengali language authors please refer to alphabetic list of Bengali language authors.

Ancient Age

• Aryadev (9th century)
• Bhusukupa (9th century)
• Dhendhanpa (9th century)
• Dombipa (9th century)
• Kahnapa (9th century)
• Kukkuripa (9th century)
• Luipa (9th century)
• Minapa (9th century)
• Sarhapa (9th century)
• Shabarpa (9th century)

Middle Age

• Boru Chandidas (????)
• Vidyapati (1352–1448)
• Ramai Pandit (13th/14th century)
• Krittibas Ojha (1443-15??)
• Krishnadasa Kaviraja (1496 - 15??)
• Dwija Madhab (16th century)
• Rupram Chakrabarty (17th century)
• Syed Sultan (1550–1648)
• Alaol (1606–1680)
• Abdul Hakim (17th century)
• Daulat Quazi (17th century)

18th Century

• Bharatchandra Ray (1712–1760)
• Ramprasad Sen (1720–1781)
• Ramram Basu (1751–1813)
• Lalon Shah (1774–1890)

19th century

• Ishwar Chandra Gupta (1812–1859)
• Peary Chand Mitra (1814–1882)
• Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820–1891)
• Lal Behari Dey (1824–1892)
• Michael Madhusudan Dutt (1824–1873)
• Rajnarayan Basu (1826–1892)
• Dinabandhu Mitra (1830–1873)
• Girish Chandra Sen (1835/1836-1910)
• Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (1838–1894)
• Kaliprasanna Singha (1840–1870)
• Girish Chandra Ghosh (1844–1912)
• Mir Mosharraf Hossain (1847–1912)
• Nabinchandra Sen (1847–1909)
• Sivanath Sastri (1847–1919)
• Troilokyanath Mukhopadhyay (1847–1919)
• Romesh Chunder Dutt (1848 — 1909)
• Jyotirindranath Tagore (1849–1925)
• Hason Raja (1854–1922)
• Kaykobad (1857–1951)
• Jagdish Chandra Bose (1858–1937)
• Sheikh Abdur Rahim (1859–1931)
• Akkhoykumar Boral (1860–1919)
• Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941)
• Dwijendralal Ray (1863–1913)
• Upendrakishore Ray (1863–1915)
• Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902)
• Ashutosh Mukherjee (1864–1924)
• Kamini Roy (1864–1933)
• Ramendra Sundar Tribedi (1864–1919)
• Dinesh Chandra Sen (1866–1939)
• Gaganendranath Tagore (1867–1938)
• Pramatha Chowdhury (1868–1946)
• Abdul Karim Sahitya Bisharad (1869–1953)
• Abanindranath Tagore (1871–1951)
• Ekramuddin Ahmad (1872–1940)
• Provatkumar Mukhopadhyay (1873–1932)
• Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1876–1938)
• Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumder (1877–1957)
• Jatindramohan Bagchi (1878–1948)
• Ismail Hossain Shiraji (1880–1931)
• Rajshekhar Bose (1880–1960)
• Syed Emdad Ali (1880–1956)
• Qazi Imdadul Haq (1882–1926)
• Satyendranath Dutta (1882–1922)
• Sheikh Fazlul Karim (1882–1936)
• Hemendrakumar Roy (1883–1963)
• Kumud Ranjan Mullick (1883–1970)
• Gobindachandra Das (1885–1918)
• Muhammad Shahidullah (1885–1969)
• Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay (1885–1930)
• Jagadish Gupta (1886–1957)
• Sukumar Ray (1887–1923)
• Eyakub Ali Chowdhury (1888–1940)
• Mohitolal Majumdar (1888–1952)
• Kalidas Roy (1889–1975)
• Mohammad Lutfur Rahman (1889–1936)
• Suniti Kumar Chatterji (1890–1970)
• S. Wajid Ali (1890–1951)
• Sachin Sengupta (1891–1961)
• Sahadat Hussain (1893–1953)
• Bibhuti Bhushan Bandopadhyay (1894–1950)
• Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay (1894–1987)
• Golam Mostofa (1897–1964)
• Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1897–1999)
• Qazi Motahar Hossain (1897–1981)
• Abul Mansur Ahmed (1898–1979)
• Mahbubul Alam (1898–1981)
• Mohammad Barkatullah (1898–1974)
• Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya (1898–1971)
• Jibanananda Das (1899–1954)
• Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay (1899–1979)
• Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay (1899–1970)
• Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899–1976)

Early 20th Century

• Aroj Ali Matubbar (1900–1985)
• Sukumar Sen (1900–1992)
• Amiya Chakravarty (1901–1986)
• Sudhindranath Dutta (1901–1960)
• Abul Fazal (1903–1983)
• Benojir Ahmed (1903–1983)
• Achintyakumar Sengupta (1903–1976)
• Jasimuddin (1903–1976)
• Motaher Hussain Chowdhury (1903–1956)
• Premendra Mitra (1904–1988)
• Syed Mujtaba Ali (1904–1974)
• Annadashankar Roy (1905–2002)
• Abdul Kadir (1906–1984)
• Humayun Kabir (1906–1969)
• Bande Ali Mia (1907–1979)
• Satyen Sen (1907–1981)
• Nurul Momen 'Natyaguru' (1908-1990)
• Buddhadeb Bosu (1908–1974)
• Dewan Mohammad Azraf (1908–1999)
• Manik Bandopadhyay (1908–1956)
• Leela Majumdar (1908–2007)
• Ashapoorna Devi (1909–1995)
• Bishnu Dey (1909–1982)
• Arun Mitra (1909–2000)
• Subodh Ghosh (1909–1980)
• Abujafar Shamsuddin (1911–1989)
• Begum Sufia Kamal (1911–1999)
• Syed Waliullah (1912–1971)
• Dinesh Das (1913–1985)
• Protiva Bose (1915–2006)
• Narendranath Mitra (1916–1975)
• Samar Sen (1916–1987)
• Ahsan Habib (1917–1985)
• Akbar Hussain (1917–1980)
• Bijan Bhatacharya (1917–1978)
• Shawkat Osman (1917–1998)
• Amiya Bhūşhan Majumdār (1918–2001)
• Farrukh Ahmed (1918–1974)
• Narayan Gangopadhyay (1918–1970)
• Sarder Jayenuddin (1918–1986)
• Abu Rushd (1919- )
• Sikandar Abu Zafar (1919–1975)
• Subhas Mukhopadhyay (1919–2003)
• Ahmed Sharif (1921–1999)
• Bimal Kar (1921- )
• Nilima Ibrahim (1921–2002)
• Satyajit Ray (1921–1992)
• Shaktipada Rajguru (1922- )
• Narayan Sanyal (1924–2005)
• Badal Sarkar (1925- )
• Munier Chowdhury (1925–1971)
• Rashid Karim (1925- )
• Ritwik Ghatak (1925–1976)
• Shahed Ali (1925- )
• Abu Ishaque (1926–2003)
• Mahasweta Devi (1926- )
• Mufazzal Haider Chaudhury (1926–1971)
• Narayan Debnath (1926- )
• Shamsuddin Abul Kalam (1926–1997)
• Sukanta Bhattacharya (1926–1947)
• Lokenath Bhattacharya (1927–2001)
• Mahbub Ul Alam Choudhury (1927- )
• Shahidullah Kaiser (1927–1971)
• Anwar Pasha (1928–1971)
• Abdur Rouf Choudhury (1929–1996)
• Jahanara Imam (1929–1994)
• M. R. Akhtar Mukul (1929–2004)
• Shamsur Rahman (1929–2006)
• Utpal Dutt (1929–1993)
• Abdullah-Al-Muti (1930–1998)
• Syed Mustafa Siraj (1930- )
• Moti Nandi (1931- )
• Alauddin Al-Azad (1932- )
• Muhammad Mohar Ali (1932–2007) (King Faisal International Prize for Islamic Studies in 2000)
• Shankha Ghosh (1932- )
• Amartya Sen (1933- )
• Anil Kumar Dutta (1933–2006)
• Sandipan Chattopadhyay (1933–2005)
• Manju Sarkar (1933- )
• Purnendu Patri (1933- )
• Abdul Gaffar Choudhury (1934- )
• Atin Bandyopadhyay (1934- )
• Binoy Majumdar (1934–2006)
• Mohit Chattopadhyay (1934- )
• Sunil Gangopadhyay (1934- )
• Shakti Chattopadhyay (1934- )
• Rabeya Khatun (1935- )
• Shahid Akhand (1935- )
• Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay (1935- )
• Syed Shamsul Haque (1935- )
• Bipul Kumar Gangopadhyay (1935-)
• Abubakar Siddique (1936- )
• Al Mahmud (1936- )
• Amiya Kumar Bagchi (1936- )
• Bashir Al Helal (1936- )
• Buddhadeb Guha (1936- )
• Dilara Hashim (1936- )
• Jatin Sarker (1936- )
• Razia Khan (1936- )
• Tarapada Roy (1936- )
• Sanjeev Chattopadhyay (1936- )
• Kabi Dilwar (1937- )
• Tahrunessa Abdullah (1937- )
• Mokbula Manzoor (1938- )
• Nabaneeta Dev Sen (1938- )
• Abdullah Abu Sayeed (1939- )
• Bani Basu (1939- )
• Dibyendu Palit (1939- )
• Hasan Azizul Huq (1939- )
• Hasnat Abdul Hye (1939- )
• Iffat Ara (1939- )
• Rizia Rahman (1939- )
• Bipradash Barua (1940- )
• Muhammad Yunus (1940- )
• Rahat Khan (1940- )
• Abdul Mannan Syed (1943- )
• Ahmed Sofa (1943–2006)
• Akhtaruzzaman Elias (1943–1997)
• Asad Chowdhury (1943- )
• Buddhadeb Bhattacharya (1944- )
• Samaresh Majumdar (1944 - )
• Vattacharja Chandan (1944- )
• Nirmalendu Goon (1945- )
• Prabir Ghosh (1945- )
• Matiur Rahman (1946- )
• Haripada Datta (1947- )
• Humayun Azad (1947–2004)
• Panna Kaiser (1947- )
• Selina Hossain (1947- )
• Sheikh Hasina (1947- )
• Abu Saleh (1948- )
• Humayun Ahmed (1948- )
• Abul Bashar (1949- )
• Mohammad Nurul Huda (1949- )

Late 20th Century[ Abhijit Ghose](1948)

• Ekram Ali (1950- )
• Samir Roychoudhury (1933-)
• Malay Roy Choudhury (1939-)
• Suchitra Bhattacharya (1950- )
• Muhammed Zafar Iqbal (1952- )
• Manju Sarkar (1953- )
• Shahidul Jahir (1953–2008)
• Joy Goswami (1954- )
• Imdadul Haq Milon (1955- )
• Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah (1956–1992)
• Anjali Das (1957- )
• Ishita Bhaduri (1957- )
• Sayed Hasmat Jalal (1957- )
• Anil Ghorai (1957- )
• Robbani Chowdhury (1958-)
• Moinul Ahsan Saber (1958- )
• Subodh Sarkar (1958- )
• Akimun Rahman (1959- )
• Faizul Latif Chowdhury (1959- )
• Zillur Rahman John (1959- )
• Mallika Sengupta (1960- )
• Mahmud Nurul Momen (1961- )
• Taslima Nasrin (1962- )
• Samar Deb (1963)
• Humayun Kabir Dhali (1964- )
• Anisul Hoque (1965- )
• Sayed Hossain (1963- )
• Sanjib Neogi (1966- )
• Nasreen Jahan (1966- )
• Sezan Mahmud (1967- )
• Sankha Subhra Devbarman(1967-)
• Faruk Ahmed Roni(1968-)
• Tarashis Gangopadhyay (1972-)
• Srijato (1977- )
• Anjon Acharya (1981- )
• Moheen Reeyad (b. 1990-)