I thought of writing about
10 greatest Bengalis of all time. But as I searched, there were hundreds and thousands that I was unable to write about all of them. I will be giving some, only a few and one word about them. Net is open and details can be found out.
Actors and actresses1)
Rahul Bose - Bengali and Bollywood actor and
rugby player
2)
Shefali Chowdhury - Hollywood actor, seen in Harry Potter movies as Parvati Patil
3)
Ashok Kumar - Bollywood actor
4)
Kishore Kumar -Bollywood singer, actor, music composer
5)
Uttam Kumar - Bollywood and Bengali film actor
6)
Suchitra Sen - Bollywood and Bengali film actress
7)
Konkona Sen Sharma - Bollywood Actress
8)
Ronit Roy-TV actor
9)
Rohit Roy-TV actor
Economists1)
Amartya Sen Ômorto Kumar Shen - economist,
Nobel Laureate2)
Abhijit Banerjee - Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Entrepreneurs1)
Jawed Karim - co-founder of
YouTube2)
Amar Bose Ômor Gopal Boshu - founder of
Bose Corporation3)
Subrato Roy - founder of Sahara India Pariwar
Filmmakers1)
Satyajit Ray Shottojit Rae - filmmaker, won the
Bharat Ratna in 1992, won the
Academy Honorary Award in 1992 for lifetime achievement and received the
Légion d'honneur award of
France and also received an
Academy Award for his film
Pather Panchali.
2)
Hrishikesh Mukherjee Rhishikesh Mukharji - filmmaker
Intellectuals and social reformers1)
Shri Aurobindo, Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, scholar, poet, mystic, evolutionary philosopher, yogi and guru
2)
Ram Mohan Roy, - founder of the
Brahmo Samaj1)
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar - responsible for introducing major reforms in the educational system and was Women's right activist
Journalists and news reporters1)
Pritish Nandy - Pritish Nandy Communications Ltd
2)
Prannoy Roy - Founder and President of
NDTV - One of India's largest television and media production house
Musicians1)
Abhijeet Abhijeet Bhattacharya -
Bollywood playback singer
2)
R.D. Burman Rahul Dev Burman - music composer
3)
S.D. Burman Sachin Dev Burman - famous music composer and singer and father of R.D. Burman
4)
Manna Dey Manna De -
Bollywood playback singer
5)
Anjan Dutta - Singer and musician of popular Bengali music. Also a Bengali filmmaker and actor.
6)
Pritam Pritam Chakraborty and rupam-
Bollywood Music Composer Fossils band
7)
Shaan Shantanu Mukherjee -
Bollywood playback singer
8)
Kumar Sanu Kumar Sanu -
Bollywood playback singer
9)
Ravi Shankar Robi Shôngkor - sitar maestro, Grammy Award winner, father of
Norah Jones and
Anoushka ShankarPolitical figures1)
Subhas Chandra Bose-Former President of
Indian National Congress,Freedom Fighter and Co-Founder
Indian National army2)
Pranab Mukherjee- Minister for External Affairs ,Government of India, Senior leader of
Indian National Congress3)
Priyaranjan Dasmunsi- Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, Senior leader of
Indian National Congress and President of West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee
4)
Chittaranjan Das - Prominent person in the Indian independence movement also known as Deshabandhu.
5) Bagha Jatin Bomb expert in India's Independence struggle
6) Sarojini Naidu or Sarojini Chattopadhyaya , also known by the sobriquet Bharatiya Kokila (The Nightingale of India),
Sportsperson1)
P.K. Banerjee - Footballer: was named Indian Footballer of the 20th Century by FIFA and received the
Padma Shri Award in 1990
2)
Sourav Ganguly - Cricketer, former captain of
Indian cricket team3)
Brojen Das Swimmer: first Asian to swim across the English Channel and the first person to cross it four times
4)
Gostho Pal, Great Footballer.Member of the 1st Indian Team(MohunBagan)those who won the IFA shield against a British team in the pre independence period.Led the Mohunbagan Club successfully
5)
Mihir Sen, Swimmer: First Indian to swim across the English Channel in 1958.
6)
Arati Saha, Swimmer: First Asian woman to swim English Channel in 1959.
7)
Jyotirmoyee Sikdar, athletics: Double gold-medallist in track at Asian games, was awarded
Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award and
Padma Shri award
Religious figures1)
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu Choitonno Môhaprobhu - Syelleti Hindu monk and social reformer
2)
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Ramkrishno Pôromôhongsho - Hindu saint
3)
Swami Vivekananda Shami Bibekanondo - Hindu monk and social reformer
4)
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada - founder of
ISKCON5)
Paramahansa Yogananda Pôromôhongsho Joganondo - monk and exponent of
Kriya Yoga6)
Sri Anandamoyi Ma, - Spiritual teacher and Guru
7)
Baba Lokenath Brahmachari - Hindu saint and philosopher
Scientists & Engineers1)
Amar Bose - Inventor, founder of
Bose Corporation2)
Jagdish Chandra Bose Physicist, radio and wireless transmittion pioneer, invented the radio before
Marconi. Also did substantial work on
botany.
3)
Satyendra Nath Bose Physicist, founded
Bose–Einstein statistics, which helped to produce
Bose-Einstein condensate (2001
Nobel Prize in Physics was given for this discovery);
Boson, a study of
Elementary particle, is named to honor him
4)
Subhash Mukhopadhyay - Physicist: became the first physician in India and second in the world to perform the
In vitro fertilization5)
Prafulla Chandra Roy bn:প্রফুল্ল চন্দ্র রায়- Pioneer in the field of pharmaceutical and chemical works (discovered mercurous nitrite)
Writers1)
Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay (1894-1950) - novelist
2)
Manik Bandopadhyay (1908-1956) - novelist, short story writer
3)
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (1838-1894) - novelist, essayist
4)
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1876-1938) - novelist
5)
Michael Madhusudan Dutt (1824-1873) - poet, dramatist
6)
Sunil Gangopadhyay (b. 1934) - poet, novelist
7)
Amitav Ghosh - novelist, essayist
8)
Jhumpa Lahiri - novelist, short story writer
9)
Arundhati Roy - novelist, essayist
10)
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) - poet, novelist, essayist
Rabindranath Tagore is the first Asian Nobel laureate
