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*[[Moti Nandi]] - Novelist.
*[[Moti Nandi]] - Novelist.
*[[Suniti Kumar Chatterji]] - linguist, educato
*[[Suniti Kumar Chatterji]] - linguist, educato
*[[Amitabh Mitra]] - [[Physician writer]], poet, artist, [[South Africa]]
*[[Kamal Kumar Majumdar]]-novelist, short story writer
*[[Kamal Kumar Majumdar]]-novelist, short story writer


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This article provides lists of famous and notable Bengali people, from West Bengal, India or Bangladesh, or people with Bengali ancestry.

Academics

Actors and actresses

Architects

Artists

Economists

  • Abhijit Banerjee - Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Debapriya Bhattchariya - Bangladesh's permanent representative in Geneva for UN
  • Amitava Bose --Professor of Economics at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.
  • Romesh C. Dutt
  • Debraj Ray - Silver Professor of Economics, New York University
  • Amartya Sen অমর্ত্য সেন Ômorto Kumar Shen - Economist & Philosopher, Lamont Professor at Harvard University, awarded Bharat Ratna, Nobel Laureate
  • Rehman Sobhan - economist, Chairman of the Center for Policy Dialogue (CPD)
  • Muhammad Yunus মুহাম্মদ ইউনুস Muhammod Iunus - economist, Nobel Laureate (Nobel Peace Prize for 2006), micro-credit pioneer
  • Pranab Bardhan --Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He will be the BP Centennial Professor at London School of Economics for 2010 and 2011.
  • Kaushik Basu --C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics,Department of Economics, Cornell University; Ithaca, NY
  • Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, FRS—Indian scientist and applied statistician; He founded the Indian Statistical Institute; a member of the planning commission,he contributed prominently to newly independent India's five-year plans...

Entrepreneurs

  • Subroto Bagchi - Co-Founder of Mindtree technologies
  • Amar Bose অমর গোপাল বসু Ômor Gopal Boshu - Founder of Bose Corporation
  • Amardip Ghosh - Founder of ResearchUSA.org, first multimedia network portal for researchers and scientists.
  • Anjan Chatterjee - Founder of Speciality Group of Restaurants
  • Purnendu Chatterjee - Founder of TCG Group
  • Sadhan Dutt - Founder of Development Consultants of Kuljian Group
  • Alamohan Das
  • Jawed Karim - Co-founder of YouTube and lead architect of PayPal
  • Diptendu Pramanick [দীপ্তেন্দু প্রামাণিক] - Founder Secretary of Eastern India Motion Pictures Association (EIMPA)
  • Subir Raha - former head ONGC
  • Prannoy Roy - Founder of NDTV
  • Raman Roy - Father BPO industry in India, Founder of Quatrro
  • Subroto Roy Sahara - Founder/Chairman of Sahara India Pariwar
  • Bibi Russell বিবি রাসেল - Founder of Bibi Productions
  • Dwarkanath Tagore দ্বারকানাথ ঠাকুর - prominent early Bengali entrepreneur, known for many commercial ventures with partnerships with the British East India Company and British traders, founder of the Jorasanko branch of the Tagore family
  • Pc Chandra (Founder late Purna chandra chandra Dentrite and jwellery business
  • Prasoon mukherjee (universal group)
  • Anjan Chaterjee (Oh Calcutta,mainland china)
  • MPS group of companies (Mr. Pramatha Nath Manna)
  • Zenitis (Founder-Santunu ghosh)(Amar Pc and automobile)
  • ABP Group-Anand bazaar patrika (Aveek sarkar)
  • Sagnik roy (director of Xiyate Yongtong Co. Ltd. (TXYCO LTD.)
  • Arindam chaudary (plannman consulting and founder of IIPM)
  • Khadims shoes (founder siddhartha roy burman)
  • Shree leathers shoes(Late Suresh Chandra Dey)
  • Pataka group of industries (Founder Giasuddin Biswas)
  • IFB group-Home appliances and washing machine(founder NAG chaudary)
  • Ess dee aluminium (Founder Mr Sudip dutta)
  • Dabur (Founder SK BURMAN)
  • Pailan Group (Apurba SAHA)

Filmmakers

Head of major organizations

  • Srikumar Banerjee - Chairman -Atomic Energy Commission of India
  • Bhaskar Pramanik - President of Sun Microsystem
  • Irene Khan, Former Secretary General of human rights organization Amnesty International; she is the first woman, the first Asian, and the first Muslim to hold the position; she won Sydney Peace Prize 2006
  • Dr Mohammed Abdul Bari, Elected head of the Muslim Council of Britain
  • Rajat Gupta ( Former Chairman Mckinsey)
  • Rono Dutta ( Former President United Airlines)
  • Kunal dasgupta (Former Chairman Sony TV)
  • Asim ghosh (Former Ceo Hitch Telecom Indian operations)
  • Arup Roy chaudary (NTPC CMD)
  • Prasanto Banerjee (Former CMD Gail)
  • Subir raha (Formar CMD O.N.G.C)
  • Partha S Bhattacharyya (Former chairman coal india Ltd.)
  • Sumatra ghoshal founding Dean of the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad
  • SM dutta (Formel Chairman of Hindustan Lever Limited)

Intellectuals and social reformers

Journalists and news reporters

Military Leaders

Musicians

Political figures

Sportsperson

Brojen Das was the first Asian to swim across the English Channel

Religious figures

Scientists & Engineers

Writers

Further information: List of Bengali language authors and Bengali Writers : An Alphabetical List
Rabindranath Tagore is the first Asian Nobel laureate

See also

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