List of Kayasthas

This is a list of noteworthy people of 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
• Subodh Kant Sahay

Literature

• Munshi Premchand
• Mahadevi Varma
• Harivansh Rai Bachchan
• Bhagwati Charan Verma
• Nirmal Verma
• Ramkumar Verma
• Dharmavir Bharati
• Bimal Mitra
• Premendra Mitra
• Jibananda Das
• Buddhadeva Bose
• Firaq Gorakhpuri
• Nirad Chaudhuri
• Amitav Ghosh
• Kamleshwar

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

Films, television and music

• Abhishek Bachchan
• Aadesh Srivastav
• Amitabh Bachchan
• Anil Biswas
• Debabrata Biswas
• Gautam Ghose
• Manna Dey
• Motilal
• Mukesh
• Nutan
• Ramanand Sagar
• Raju Srivastava
• Salil Chowdhury
• Shatrughan Sinha
• Shekhar Suman
• Sombhu Mitra
• Sonu Nigam
• Tanuja
• Utpal Dutt

• Mini Mathur

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

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
• Sagarika Ghose

Administration

• Shyam Saran (1970; IFS)