List of Kayasthas

The following is a list of prominent people belonging to the Kayastha caste of India.

Statesmen

• Dr. Rajendra Prasad- The first President of India.
• Jayaprakash Narayan
• Lal Bahadur Shastri

Politics

• Jyoti Basu
• Bal Thackeray
• Yashwant Sinha
• Biju Patnaik

Literature

• Premchand
• Mahadevi Varma
• Harivansh Rai Bachchan
• Bhagwati Charan Verma
• Dhirendra Verma
• Ramkumar Verma
• Dharmavir Bharati
• Bimal Mitra
• Premendra Mitra
• Jibananda Das
• Buddhadeva Bose
• Firaq Gorakhpuri
• Phanishwar Nath 'Renu'
• Nirad Chaudhuri
• Amitav Ghosh
• Kamleshwar

Monarchs

• Raja Todar Mal
• Diwan Mohanlal

Science & technology

• Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar
• Jagadis Chandra Bose
• Satyendra Nath Bose
• Vinod Dham
• Ashoka Jahnavi-Prasad
• Ashesh Prosade Mitra
• Sisir Kumar Mitra
• Mriganka Sur

Art

• Nandlal Bose
• Jamini Roy
• D.B.Seth 'Deven'

Films, television and music

• Aishwarya Rai
• Abhishek Bachchan
• Amitabh Bachchan
• Anil Biswas
• Debabrata Biswas
• Gautam Ghose
• Kerry Michael Saxena
• Manna Dey
• Motilal
• Mukesh
• Nutan
• Raghav
• Ramanand Sagar
• Raju Srivastava
• Salil Chowdhury
• Shatrughan Sinha
• Shekhar Suman
• Sombhu Mitra
• Sonu Nigam
• Tanuja
• Utpal Dutta

Spirituality

• Swami Vivekananda
• Sri Aurobindo
• Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
• Paramhansa Yogananda
• Prabhupada

Historians

• Sir Jadunath Sarkar
• Banarsi Prasad Saxena
• Ashirwadi Lal Srivastava

Sports

• Gopal Bose
• Shib Sunder Das
• Dipu Ghosh
• Raman Ghosh
• Subroto Guha
• Ramesh Saxena former Cricket Test player

Freedom fighters

• Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi
• Bipin Chandra Pal
• Subhash Chandra Bose
• Khudiram Bose
• Rash Behari Bose
• Har Dayal
• Barin Ghosh

Journalists

• Tushar Kanti Ghosh
• Chandan Mitra
• Barkha Dutt

Administration

• Shyam Saran (1970; IFS)

ADVOCATE

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Sumitra Nandan Srivastava(BASTI)u.p.

DOCTORS

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Dr.Hanuman Prasad Srivastava 'JIGAR BASTAWI" Dr.Deepak Srivastava (Basti) Dr.Hema Srivastava (Basti) Dr.Ashwani Kumar Singh (Basti) Dr.Pramila Singh (Basti)