List of people from West Bengal
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This is a list of famous and notable people from West Bengal, India. This would include persons who are known to a large number of people and is not based on the extent of their popularity. Neither is the list viewed from the context of the present. Their fame could be brief, what matters is that they were well-known during the peak of their popularity.
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Arts
Literature
- Jhumpa Lahiri
- Rabindranath Tagore (Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913)
- Kazi Nazrul Islam
- Michael Madhusudan Dutt
- Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay
- Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
- Bibhutibhushan Bandapadhay
- Tarashankar Bandopadhyay
- Manik Bandopadhyay
- Jibanananda Das
- Sunil Gangopadhyay
- Upamanyu Chatterjee
Movies
Directors
- Aparna Sen
- Asit Sen
- Anil Biswas
- Bimal Roy
- Gautam Ghose
- Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Dadasaheb Phalke Award, 2000
- Satyajit Ray, (OSCAR for Lifetime Achievement in 1992)
- Mrinal Sen
- Rituparno Ghosh
- Ritwik Ghatak
- Tapan Sinha
Actors
- Ashok Kumar
- Anup Kumar
- Hemant Kumar
- Kishore Kumar
- Mithun Chakraborty
- Pramathesh Barua
- Rahul Bose
- Rahul Roy
- Soumitra Chatterjee
- Utpal Dutt
- Uttam Kumar
- Victor Banerjee
Actresses
- Aparna Sen
- Bipasha Basu
- Devika Rani, first winner of Dadasaheb Phalke Award, 1970
- Jaya Bachchan (Jaya Bhaduri)
- Kajol
- Kananbala
- Kanan Devi, Dadasaheb Phalke Award, 1977
- Moon Moon Sen
- Moushmi Chatterji
- Nutan
- Raakhee Gulzar
- Reena Roy
- Rani Mukherji
- Riya Sen
- Sharmila Tagore
- Suchitra Sen
- Supriya Devi
- Sushmita Sen
- Tanuja
Music
- Abhijit
- Bappi Lahiri
- Hemant Kumar
- Kishore Kumar
- Kumar Sanu
- Manna Dey
- Ravi Shankar
- Salil Choudhury
- Shaan
- Rahul Dev Burman
- Sachin Dev Burman
Dance
Theatre
Politics
Science
Religion
- Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
- Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
- Swami Vivekananda
- A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
- Maharishi Debendranath Tagore
Sports
- Arun Lal, cricketer
- Dibyendu Barua, chess grandmaster
- Saurav Ganguly, captain, Indian cricket team
Others
- Amartya Sen, economist, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 1998
- Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (A social and cultural reformist who can be called the father of Bengali language)
- P.C. Sorcar, magician
- Raja Ram Mohan Roy, (A great social reformist who has a great contribution towards the upliftment of women. He worked towards Widow Remarriage and girl education.)
See also: List of people by India state