बङ्गप्रदेशस्य प्रसिद्धव्यक्तयः
भारतस्य राज्येषु अन्यतमराज्यं पश्चिमबङ्गराज्यम् ।  बङ्गप्रदेशस्य प्रसिद्धव्यक्तीनां नामसमन्वितः अयं लेखः । अविभक्तबङ्गप्रदेशस्य (वर्तमान बाङ्गलादेशः) अपि प्रसिद्धव्यक्तीनाम् नामानि अत्र आवली कृताऽस्ति ।

साहित्यम्

ख्यारनामाः लेखकाः
 Amiya Chakravarty
 Annadashankar Roy
 Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
 Chittaranjan Das
 Bibhutibhushan Banerjee
 Bishnu Dey
 Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar
 Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
 Pramatha Chaudhuri
 Rabindranath Tagore
 Sarat Chandra Chatterjee
 Sudhindranath Datta
 Tarashankar Banerjee

शिशुकथालेखकाः
 Sukumar Ray
 Lila Majumdar
 Satyajit Ray
 Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay
 Sunil Gangopadhyay
 Premendra Mitra
 Moti Nandi
 Narayan Gangopadhyay
 Samaresh Majumdar
 Shibram Chakraborty
 Upendra Kishore Roychoudhuri

मध्ययुगीयलेखकाः
 Chandidas
 Vidyapati
 Krittibas Ojha
 Govindadas
 Kashiram Das
 Bharat Chandra
 Ramprasad
 Krishnadasa Kaviraj

आधुनिकलेखकाः(प्रारम्भिककालः)
 Madan Mohan Tarkalankar
 Iswar Gupta
 Peary Chand Mitra
 Kaliprasanna Sinha
 Akshay Kumar Baral
 Romesh Chunder Dutt
 Jyotirindranath Tagore
 Swami Vivekananda
 Dwijendralal Ray
 Trailokyanath Sanyal

वैदेशिकभाषालेखकाः
 Toru Dutt
 Rabindranath Tagore
 Sri Aurobindo
 Jhumpa Lahiri
 Amitav Ghosh
 Amit Chaudhuri
 Upamanyu Chatterjee
 Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

इतरलेखकाः(विंशश्ताब्दी)
 Jatindranath Sengupta
 Kumud Ranjan Mullick
 Jatindramohan Bagchi
 Dilipkumar Roy
 Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay
 Subodh Ghosh
 Sukanta Bhattacharya
 Subhash Mukhopadhyay
 Bimal Kar
 Shakti Chattopadhyay
 Shankha Ghosh
 Purnendu Patri
 Narendranath Mitra
 Arun Mitra
 Nirendranath Chakraborty
 Alokranjan Dasgupta
 Santosh Kumar Ghosh
 Mahasweta Devi
 Sanjeev Chattopadhyay
 Shibram Chakraborty
 Narayan Gangopadhyay
 Narayan Sanyal
 Buddhadeb Guha
 Samaresh Majumdar
 Shankar
 Moti Nandi
 Sandipan Chattopadhyay
 Samir Roychoudhury
 Buddhadev Dasgupta
 Salil Choudhury
 Prabir Ghosh
 Malay Roy Choudhury
 Subimal Basak
 Baby Halder
 Binoy Majumdar
 Joy Goswami
 Subodh Sarkar
 Shoojit Sircar
 Mallika Sengupta
 Srijato

पत्रिकासम्पादकाः
 Harish Chandra Mukherjee
 Dwarkanath Vidyabhusan
 Tushar Kanti Ghosh
 Sukumar Ray
 Moti Nandi
 Chandan Mitra
 Sunanda K. Datta-Ray

भाषा/भाषातत्त्व,मानवजातिशास्त्रम्, इतिहासः, तथा इतरसमाजविद्याः 
 Raja Ram Mohan Roy, First Bengali prose writer
 Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Creator of Standard Bengali Prose (sadhu bhasha)
 Rajendralal Mitra, First Indian to work with Indologists
 Haraprasad Shastri, Historian of Bengali language and culture
 Dinesh Chandra Sen, Historian of Bengali literature and folklorist
 Pramatha Chaudhuri, Creator of Modern Bengali Prose (chalit bhasha) along with Tagore
 Sir Jadunath Sarkar, Historian
 Rajsekhar Bose, Major contributor for scientific terms in Bengali and lexicographer
 Ramesh Chandra Majumdar, Historian
 Ramesh Chandra Dutta, Historian
 Girindrasekhar Bose, First non-European correspondent of Freud
 Suniti Kumar Chatterjee, Linguist
 Harinath De, Linguist
 Biraja Sankar Guha, Anthropologist
 Sukumar Sen, Linguist
 Susobhan Sarkar, Historian
 Nirmal Kumar Bose, Anthropologist, Associate of Gandhi
 Niharranjan Ray, Historian
 Dineshchandra Sircar, Epigraphist
 Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya, Social Philosopher
 Surajit Chandra Sinha, Anthropologist
 Tapan Raychaudhuri, Professor of History at Oxford University
 Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize Awardee in Economics
 Ranajit Guha, Subaltern Theorist
 Sumit Sarkar, Historian
 Kirti Narayan Chaudhuri, Historian
 Gayatri Spivak, Feminist
 Vina Mazumdar, Women studies Academic
 Hem Chandra Raychaudhuri, Indian Historian

अनुसन्धातारः
Radhakanta Deb, Linguist
Dwijendranath Tagore, Scholar of philosophy, religion, poetry
Aghore Nath Gupta, Scholar of Buddhism
Ramendra Sundar Tribedi, Scientist
Amlan Datta, Economist, Vice Chancellor of Visva Bharati
Prithwindra Mukherjee, Scholar on Indian history, philosophy, religion and culture

शिक्षा

मुख्यपथप्रदर्शकाः
 Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
 Ashutosh Mukherjee

स्वातन्त्र्यतापरवर्ती
 Sudhi Ranjan Das, Chief Justice of India, Vice-chancellor of Visva Bharati

अन्ये
 Mahamahopadhyay Pandit Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya, C.I.E.
 Debashis Chatterjee
 Susobhan Sarkar, History, Presidency College

दर्शनम्

मध्ययुगीय
 Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (Achintya Bhedabheda Vedanta)
 Madhusudana Saraswati (Advaita Vedanta)
 Raghunatha Siromani (Navya Nyaya)

आधुनिकयुगीय
 Keshub Chunder Sen
 Swami Vivekananda
 Brajendranath Seal
 Surendranath Dasgupta
 Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya
 Bimal Krishna Matilal

विज्ञानम्

 Satyendra Nath Bose
 Jagadish Chandra Bose
 Upendranath Brahmachari
 P.C. Mahalanobis
 Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri
 Ashoke Sen, physics
 Somnath Bharadwaj, cosmology
 Manilal Bhaumik
 Subhash Mukhopadhyay, Physician
 Sisir Kumar Mitra
 Ashesh Prosad Mitra
 Amartya Sen  Nobel Laureate, economist, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 1998
 Ram Brahma Sanyal, Zoology
 Bikash Sinha, nuclear physics
 Prafulla Chandra Ray, noted chemists and founder of Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals, India's first pharmaceutical company.
 Meghnad Saha noted for Saha ionization equation
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धर्मसंस्कारकाः

मध्ययुगीयसंस्कारकाः
 Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
 Nityananda
 Six Goswamis of Vrindavana
 Ramprasad Sen

ब्राह्मसमाजः
 Raja Ram Mohan Roy
 Ram Chandra Vidyabagish
 Debendranath Tagore
 Keshub Chunder Sen
 Sivanath Sastri

हिन्दुधर्म-पुनर्ज्जीवकाः
 Ramakrishna
 Sarada Devi
 Swami Vivekananda
 Sri Aurobindo

आधुनिकयुगीय धर्मसंस्कारकाः
 A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
 Baba Lokenath Brahmachari

समाजसंस्कारकाः संस्कारश्च

प्रसिद्धयः
 Raja Rammohan Roy
 Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
 Keshab Chandra Sen
 Swami Vivekananda
 Sivanath Sastri
 Protap Chunder Mozoomdar
 Nibaran Chandra Mukherjee
 Umesh Chandra Dutta
 Sri Sri Harichand Thakur
 हेनरि डिरोजियो

स्त्रीणाम् अधिकारः
 Rani Rashmoni
 Kadambini Ganguly
 Chandramukhi Basu
 Sarala Devi
 Charulata Mukherjee
 Romola Sinha

कलाशास्त्रम्

आधुनिकयुगः(प्रारम्भिककालः)
 Abanindranath Tagore
 Rabindranath Tagore
 Gaganendranath Tagore
 Nandalal Bose
 Kalipada Ghoshal
 Mukul Dey
 Jamini Roy
 Ramkinkar Baij
 Binode Bihari Mukherjee

विंशशताब्दी (मध्यतः- अन्तिमपर्यन्तम्)
 Anil Karanjai
 Bikash Bhattacharjee
 Chintamani Kar
 Ganesh Pyne
 Hemen Majumdar
 Jahar Dasgupta
 Jogen Chowdhury
 Paresh Maity
 Paritosh Sen
 Samir Mondal 
 Somenath Hore

छायाचित्रकाः

 Dulal Dutta
 Subrata Mitra, cinematographer 
 Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri, director, photographer, and digital artist

सङ्गीतम्

सङ्गीतरचनाकाराः
Rabindranath Tagore
Dwijendralal Ray
Atulprasad Sen
Rajanikanta Sen
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Dilipkumar Roy
Gouri Prasanna Majumdar
Raichand Boral
Sachin Dev Burman
Kamal Dasgupta
Salil Chowdhury
Hemanta Mukherjee
Sudhin Dasgupta
Nachiketa Ghosh
Rahul Dev Burman
Debojyoti Mishra

सङ्गीतज्ञाः (वाद्यकाः)
 Pandit Ravi Shankar, Sitar
 Ali Akbar Khan, Sarod
 Annapurna Devi, Surbahar
 Nikhil Banerjee, Sitar
 Buddhadev Dasgupta, Sarod
 Pannalal Ghosh, Flute
 Sankha Chatterjee, Tabla
 Pandit Shankar Ghosh,Tabla

सङ्गीतज्ञाः

पारम्परिकसङ्गीतज्ञाः
 Bishnupur Gharana
 Gopeshwar Banerjee
 Naina Devi

रवीन्द्रसङ्गीतज्ञाः
 Dinendranath Tagore
 Dilipkumar Roy
 Sahana Devi
 Amiya Tagore
 Renuka Dasgupta
 Malati Ghoshal
 Santidev Ghosh
 Debabrata Biswas
 Uma Bose
 Subinoy Roy
 Kanika Bandyopadhyay
 Suchitra Mitra
 Nilima Sen
 Gita Ghatak
 Sarmila Bose

आधुनिकसङ्गीतज्ञाः
 K. C. Dey
 Sachin Dev Burman
 Pankaj Kumar Mullick
 Kanan Devi
 Hemanta Mukherjee
 Sandhya Mukhopadhyay
 Amit Kumar
 Abhijeet Bhattacharya
 Bappi Lahiri
 Babul Supriyo
 Indrani Sen
 Kishore Kumar
 Kumar Sanu
 Madhushree
 Kabir Suman
 Manna Dey
 Nachiketa
 Ruma Guha Thakurta
 Shaan
 Shilajeet Majumdar
 Shyamal Mitra
 Shreya Ghoshal
 Antara Chowdhury
 Srikanta Acharya
 Anjan Dutt

चलच्चित्रम्

चलच्चित्रपरिचालकाः
 Satyajit Ray
 Ritwik Ghatak
 Mrinal Sen
 Tapan Sinha
 Debaki Bose
 Bimal Roy
 Hrishikesh Mukherjee
 Basu Chatterjee
 Basu Bhattacharya
 Chidananda Dasgupta
 Aparna Sen
 Gautam Ghose
 Rituparno Ghosh
 Suman Mukhopadhyay
 Arin Paul

अभिनेता
 Mithun Chakraborty
 Biswajit
 Joy Mukherjee
 Pradeep Kumar
 Ashok Kumar
 Kishore Kumar
 Prasenjit
 Rahul Bose
 Rahul Roy
 Soumitra Chatterjee
 Uttam Kumar
 Victor Banerjee
 Ranjit Mallick
 Chhabi Biswas
 Pahari Sanyal
 Tulsi Chakraborty
 Kali Banerjee
 Rabi Ghosh
 Chinmoy Roy
 Bhanu Banerjee
 Dhritiman Chaterji
 Tapas Paul
 Chiranjit
 Arun Mukherjee
 Abdur Razzak
 Keshto Mukherjee
 Anil Chatterjee
 Asit Sen
 Harindranath Chattopadhyay
 Utpal Dutta

अभिनेत्री

 Aparna Sen
 Arundhati Devi
 Bipasha Basu
 Chhaya Devi
 Debasree Roy
 Devika Rani
 Indrani Haldar
 Jaya Bachchan
 June Malia
 Kajol
 Kananbala
 Kanan Devi 
 Koena Mitra
 Madhabi Mukherjee
 Mamata Shankar
 Moon Moon Sen
 Moushmi Chatterji
 Raakhee
 Rachna Banerjee
 Raima Sen
 Rani Mukherjee
 Rimi Sen
 Rituparna Sengupta
 Riya Sen
 Ruma Guha Thakurta
 Sabitri Chatterjee
 Sharmila Tagore
 Suchitra Sen
 Sumita Sanyal
 Supriya Devi
 Sushmita Sen
 Tanushree Dutta
 Sushmita Sen

नृत्यम्
 Uday Shankar
 Amala Shankar
 Mamata Shankar
 Sharmila Biswas

चिकित्सकाः
 B.C. Roy
 S. K. Burman

नाटकम्
 Girish Chandra Ghosh
 Dinabandhu Mitra
 P. C. Sorcar, Jr.
 Jyotirindranath Tagore
 Dwijendralal Ray
 Rabindranath Tagore
 Sisir Bhaduri
 Bijon Bhattacharya
 Shambhu Mitra
 Utpal Dutt
 Rudraprasad Sengupta
 Badal Sarkar
 Usha Ganguly
 Manoj Mitra
 Bibhas Chakraborty

राजनीति

मध्ययुगः
 Shashanka
 Gopala
 Dharmapala
 Devapala
 Mahipala
 Ballal Sen
 Lakshman Sen

औपनिवेशिककालः
 John Woodburn
 Nripendra Narayan, philanthropist and ruler of Cooch Behar 
 Satyendranath Tagore
 Romesh Chunder Dutt
 Lord Satyendra Prasanna Sinha
 Indra Lal Roy
 Surendranath Banerjee
 Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee
 Bipin Chandra Pal
 Sri Aurobindo
 Barindra Kumar Ghosh
 Khudiram Bose
 Bagha Jatin
 Rash Behari Bose
 Sarat Chandra Bose
 Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
 Jatindra Nath Das
 Bina Das
 Matangini Hazra
 B. C. Roy
 Triguna Sen
 Panchanan Chakraborty
 Syama Prasad Mookerjee
 Basanta Kumar Biswas
 Ambika Chakrobarty
 Bipin Behari Ganguli
 Jogesh Chandra Chattopadhyay
 Narendra Mohan Sen
 Birendranath Sasmal
 Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy
 Jnananjan Niyogi
 Sudhamoy Pramanick
 Saroj Mukherjee
 Renuka Ray
 Shyama Prasad Mukherjee

स्वातन्त्र्यपरवर्तीकालः
 Ashok Mitra
 Ajit Kumar Panja
 Bidhan Chandra Roy
 Atulya Ghosh
 Prafulla Chandra Sen
 Siddhartha Shankar Ray
 Abdul Halim
 Mamata Banerjee
 Buddhadeb Bhattacharya
 A B A Ghani Khan Chowdhury
 Saugata Roy
 Kamal Guha
 Tathagata Roy
 Abha Maiti
 Pratap Chandra Chunder
 Pranab Mukherjee
 Jyoti Basu
 Somnath Chatterjee
 Amit Mitra
 Partha Chatterjee
 Sovandeb Chattopadhyay
 Abul Barkat

क्रीडाः

चतुरङ्गक्रीडा
 Dibyendu Barua, Grandmaster
 Surya Shekhar Ganguly, Grandmaster

क्रिकेट्-क्रीडा
 Benu Dasgupta
 Jhulan Goswami
 Pankaj Roy
 Priyanka Roy
 Rumeli Dhar
 Saba Karim
 Sourav Ganguly, Former Indian Captain
 Ashok Dinda
 Manoj Tiwary
 Wriddhiman Saha

पादकन्दुकक्रीडा
 Gostho Pal
 Krishanu Dey
 P. K. Banerjee
 Sailen Manna
 Subrata Bhattacharya

टेनिस्-क्रीडा
 Leander Paes, noted Lawn tennis player of India

स्कोयास्
 Saurav Ghosal, currently highest ranked Indian player.
 Ritwik Bhattacharya, currently second highest ranked Indian player.

सन्तरणक्रीडा
 Arati Saha, first Asian woman to swim English Channel in 1959.
 Bula Choudhury, first Indian woman to swim the English Channel twice.
 Mihir Sen, first Indian to swim across the English Channel in 1958.
 Richa Sharma, Indian woman crossed English Channel

टेबल्-टेनिस्-क्रीडा
 Soumyadeep Roy, Commonwealth games gold medalist
 Subhajit Saha, Commonwealth games gold medalist

अन्ये
 Jyotirmoyee Sikdar, athletics. Double gold-medallist at Bangkok Asiad, 1996
 Mohammad Ali Qamar, Boxing . Commonwealth games gold medalist
 Arjun Atwal, golfer.
 Balaram Bose, philanthropist.

वाणिज्यकाः
 Jagat Seth of Murshidabad
 Dwarakanath Tagore
 Rajen Mookerjee
 Biren Mookerjee
 S. K. Burman, founder of Dabur. 
 Ghanshyam Das Birla
 Jugal Kishore Birla
 Ram Nath Goenka
 Madhav Prasad Birla
 Mugneeram Bangur - founder of Bangur group based at Kolkata. 
 Rajat Kumar Gupta
 Purnendu Chatterjee
 Sadhan Dutt
 Subir Raha
 Sumantra Ghoshal
 Alamohan Das
 Varun Thapar
 Dilip Shanghvi

अन्यक्षेत्रेषु
 Ashis Nandy, Author, political psychologist
 Subroto Mukerjee
 Shankar Roychowdhury
 William Tolly
 P. C. Sorcar, Jr., the noted magician from Kolkata

टिप्पणी

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