List of Bengali-language authors (alphabetical)

This article provides an alphabetical list of Bengali language authors. For a chronological list, see List of Bengali language authors.

A

 * Abdul Hakim (1620–1690)
 * Afzal Ali (16th-century)
 * Alaol (1606–1680)
 * Akkhoykumar Boral (1860–1919)

B

 * Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (1838–94)
 * Bharatchandra Ray (1712–60)
 * Begum Rokeya (1880–1932)

D

 * Daulat Qazi (1600–1638)
 * Dawlat Wazir Bahram Khan (16th-century)
 * Dinesh Chandra Sen (1866–1939)
 * Dwijendralal Ray (1863–1913)

E

 * Ekramuddin Ahmad (1872–1940)
 * Eyakub Ali Chowdhury (1888–1940)

G

 * Girish Chandra Ghosh (1844–1912)
 * Girish Chandra Sen (1835/36-1910)
 * Gobindachandra Das (1885–1918)

H

 * Heyat Mahmud (1693–1760)

I

 * Ismail Hossain Siraji (1880–1931)
 * Ishwar Chandra Gupta (1812–59)
 * Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820–91)

K

 * Krittibas Ojha (1443-15??)

M

 * Michael Madhusudan Dutt (1824–73)
 * Mohammad Lutfur Rahman (1889–1936)
 * Muhammad Muqim (18th-century)

N

 * Nabinchandra Sen (1847–1909)
 * Nur Qutb Alam (died 1416)

P

 * Pramatha Chowdhury (1868–1946)
 * Prabhat Kumar Mukhopadhyay (1873–1932)

R

 * Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941)
 * Rahimunnessa (1763–1800)
 * Rajanikanta Sen (1865–1910)

S

 * Sarasibala Basu (1886–1929)
 * Satyendranath Dutta (1882–1922)
 * Satyendranath Tagore (1842–1923)
 * Shah Muhammad Saghir (14th-century)
 * Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1876–1938)
 * Sheikh Fazlul Karim (1882–1936)
 * Sukumar Ray (1887–1923)
 * Swami Nigamananda (1880–1935)
 * Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902)
 * Swarnakumari Devi, (1855–1932)
 * Syed Sultan (1550–1648)

T

 * Troilokyanath Mukhopadhyay (1847–1919)

U

 * Upendrakishore Ray (1863–1915)

Z

 * Zainuddin (15th-century)

A

 * Abanindranath Tagore (1871–1951)
 * Abul Bashar (b. 1951)
 * Achintyakumar Sengupta (1903–76)
 * Amiya Bhushan Majumdar (1918–2001)
 * Amiya Chakravarty (1901–86)
 * Anil Ghorai (b. 1957)
 * Annadashankar Roy (1904–2002)
 * Arun Mitra (1909–2000)
 * Ashapoorna Devi (1909–95)
 * Ashutosh Mukherjee (1920–89)
 * Atin Bandyopadhyay (1934–2019)

B

 * Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay (1899–1979)
 * Bani Basu (b. 1939)
 * Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay (1894–1950)
 * Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay (1894–1987)
 * Bijon Bhattacharya (1917–78)
 * Bimal Kar (1921–2002)
 * Bimal Mitra (1912–91)
 * Binoy Majumdar (1934–2006)
 * Bishnu Dey (1909–82)
 * Buddhadeb Bosu (1908–74)
 * Buddhadeb Guha (b. 1936)

D

 * Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumder (1877–1957)
 * Dibyendu Palit (b. 1939)
 * Dinesh Das (1913–85)
 * Debasis Bandyopadhyay(b.1980 -)

E

 * Ekram Ali (b. 1950)

H

 * Hemendrakumar Roy (1888–1963)

J

 * Jagadish Gupta (1886–1957)
 * Jatindramohan Bagchi (1878–1948)
 * Jatindranath Sengupta (1880–1954)
 * Jibanananda Das (1899–1954)
 * Joy Goswami (b. 1954)

K

 * Kalidas Roy (1889–1975)
 * Kamal Kumar Majumdar (1914–79)
 * Kamini Roy (1864–1933)
 * Kumud Ranjan Mullick (1883–1970)

L

 * Leela Majumdar (1908–2007)

M

 * Mahasweta Devi (b. 1926)
 * Malay Roy Choudhury (b. 1939)
 * Mani Shankar Mukherjee (b. 1933)
 * Manik Bandopadhyay (1908–56)
 * Mohit Chattopadhyay (b. 1934)
 * Moniruddin Khan (b. 1974)
 * Moti Nandi (1931–2010)
 * Mohitolal Majumdar (1888–1952)
 * Maniklal Sinha (1916–1994)

N

 * Nabanita Dev Sen (b. 1938)
 * Nabarun Bhattacharya(1948–2014)
 * Narayan Debnath (b. 1926)
 * Narayan Gangopadhyay (1918–70)
 * Narayan Sanyal (1924–2005)
 * Narendranath Mitra (1916–75)
 * Nihar Ranjan Gupta (1911–86)
 * Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1897–1999)
 * Nirupama Devi (1883–1951)

P

 * Prabir Ghosh (b. 1945)
 * Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar (1921–1990)
 * Premendra Mitra (1904–88)
 * Priyanath Mukhopadhyay (1855–1947)
 * Protiva Bose (1915–2006)

R

 * Rajsekhar Bose (1880–1960)

S

 * Sachin Sengupta (1891–1961)
 * Samaresh Majumdar (b. 1944)
 * Samir Roychoudhury (b. 1933)
 * Sandipan Chattopadhyay (1933–2005)
 * Sanjib Chattopadhyay (b. 1936)
 * Satyajit Ray (1921–92)
 * Shamik Ghosh (b. 1983)
 * Shankha Ghosh (1932–2021)
 * Shakti Chattopadhyay (1933–95)
 * Shaktipada Rajguru (b. 1922)
 * Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay (1899–1970)
 * Shibram Chakraborty (1902–80)
 * Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay (b. 1935)
 * Subhas Mukhopadhyay (1919–2003)
 * Subodh Ghosh (1909–80)
 * Sudhindranath Dutta (1901–1960)
 * Sudhir Chakravarti (1934–2020)
 * Sukanta Bhattacharya (1926–47)
 * Sukumar Sen (1900–92)
 * Sunil Gangopadhyay (1934–2012)
 * Syed Kawsar Jamal (b. 1950)
 * Syed Mustafa Siraj (b. 1930)

T

 * Tarapada Roy (b. 1936)
 * Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya (1898–1971)

U

 * Utpal Dutt (1929–93)

A

 * Abdullah Abu Sayeed (b. 1939)
 * Abdullah-Al-Muti (1930–1998)
 * Abdul Gaffar Choudhury (b. 1934)
 * Abdul Mannan Syed (b. 1943)
 * Abdul Kadir (1906–84)
 * Abdul Karim Sahitya Bisharad (1869–1953)
 * Abdur Rouf Choudhury (1929–1996)
 * Abu Ishaque (1926–2003)
 * Abu Rushd
 * Abubakar Siddique (b. 1936)
 * Abujafar Shamsuddin (1911–89)
 * Abul Kashem (1920–1991)
 * Abul Mansur Ahmed (1898–1979)
 * Ahmed Sharif (1921–1999)
 * Ahmed Sofa (1943–2001)
 * Ahsan Habib (1917–1985)
 * Ahsan Habib (cartoonist)
 * Akhteruzzaman Elias (1943–97)
 * Akbar Hossain (1917–1981)
 * Alauddin Al-Azad (b. 1932)
 * Al Mahmud
 * Ali Imam
 * Anwar Pasha (1928–1971)
 * Anisul Hoque (b. 1965)
 * Aroj Ali Matubbar
 * Asad Chowdhury
 * A. T. M. Shamsuddin

B

 * Baby Halder (b. 1973)
 * Bande Ali Mia (1906–82)
 * Bashir Al Helal (b. 1936)
 * Benojir Ahmed (1903–1983)
 * Bipradash Barua (b. 1940)

D

 * Datta, Haripada (b. 1947)
 * Dewan Mohammad Azraf (1908–1999)
 * Dilara Hashem (b. 1936)

E

 * Ekhlasuddin Ahmed (b. 1940)

F

 * Farrukh Ahmed

G

 * Golam Mostofa (1897–1964)
 * Nirmalendu Goon

H

 * Hasan Azizul Huq (b. 1939)
 * Hasnat Abdul Hye (b. 1939)
 * Humayun Ahmed (b. 1948)
 * Humayun Azad (1947–2004)

I

 * Imdadul Haq Milon (b. 1955)

J

 * Jagadish Gupta (1886–1957)
 * Jahanara Imam (1929–1994)
 * Jasimuddin
 * Jatin Sarker (b. 1936)

K

 * Kazi Abdul Odud (1894–1970)
 * Kazi Nazrul Islam (1898–1976)
 * Khondakar Ashraf Hossain

M

 * Mahbubul Alam (1898–1981)
 * Mahbub Ul Alam Choudhury (b. 1927)
 * Mir Mosharraf Hossain
 * Mohammad Barkatullah (1898–1974)
 * Mohammad Nurul Huda (b. 1949)
 * Mohammad Rafiq (b. 1943)
 * Moinul Ahsan Saber (b. 1958)
 * Mokbula Manzoor (b. 1938)
 * Motaher Hussain Chowdhury (1903–1956)
 * Muhammad Mohar Ali (1932–2007)
 * M. R. Akhtar Mukul (1929–2004)
 * Mufazzal Haider Chaudhury (1926–1971)
 * Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib (b. 1948)
 * Muhammad Habibur Rahman (b. 1935)
 * Muhammad Shahidullah (1885–1969)
 * Muhammed Zafar Iqbal (b. 1952)
 * Munier Chowdhury (1925–1971)
 * Muntasir Mamun

N

 * Nurul Momen (Sobriquet:- Natyaguru) (1908–1990)
 * Nasreen Jahan (b. 1964)
 * Nilima Ibrahim (1921–2002)

Q

 * Qazi Anwar Hussain
 * Qazi Imdadul Haq
 * Qazi Motahar Hossain (1897–1981)
 * Qazi Nazrul Islam

R

 * Rabeya Khatun (b. 1935)
 * Rafiq Azad
 * Rahat Khan (b. 1940)
 * Rakib Hasan
 * Rashid Askari (b.1965)
 * Rashid Haider
 * Rashid Karim (b. 1925)
 * Razia Khan
 * Rezauddin Stalin
 * Rizia Rahman(b. 1939)
 * Romena Afaz (1926–2003)
 * Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah (1956–1992)

S

 * Salimullah Khan
 * Sardar Fazlul Karim
 * Sarder Jayenuddin (1918–1986)
 * Selim Al-Deen (1949–2008)
 * Selina Hossain (b. 1947)
 * Sezan Mahmud (b. 1967)("NC 1988")
 * Sen, Satyen (1907–81)
 * Shah Muhammad Sagir (?)
 * Shahadat Hussain (1893–1953)
 * Shahed Ali (b. 1925)
 * Shahid Akhand (b. 1935)
 * Shahidul Zahir (1953–2008)
 * Shahidullah Kaiser (1926–1971)
 * Shahriyar Kabir
 * Shamsuddin Abul Kalam (1926–97)
 * Shamsunnahar Mahmud (1908–1964)
 * Shamsur Rahman
 * Shaukat Osman (1917–98)
 * Sirajul Islam Chowdhury
 * Sufia Kamal (1911–99)
 * Syed Ali Ahsan
 * Syed Abul Maksud
 * Syed Emdad Ali (1880–1956)
 * Syed Manzoorul Islam
 * Syed Mujtaba Ali (1904–74)
 * Syed Shamsul Haque (1934)
 * Syed Waliullah (1922–71)

T

 * Tahmima Anam (b. 1975)
 * Taslima Nasrin (b. 1962)

W

 * Wasi Ahmed (b. 1954)

Z

 * Zahir Raihan (1935–1972)