List of Bengali poets

This List of Bengali poets includes poets who write in Bengali language who produce Bengali poetry. This list classifies poets into three groups based on geographical location. These are poets from Bangladesh, poets from West Bengal of India and poets from other parts of the world including Bengali Diaspora and non-Bengali people writing poetry in Bengali. However, the list starts with early Bengali poets to be followed by those who are identified not only with Indian sub-continent before partition in 1947, but also as founders of Bengali poetry. The list also contains separate sub-lists of "rhyme composers" and "song writers". Finally, there are two sub-sets of woman poets and poets in exile.

Siddhacharyas (6th to 12th CE)
The poets of the Charyāpada (Bengali: চর্যাপদ), known as the Siddhacharyas, lived in eastern India and Nepal. The names of the Siddhacharyas in Sanskrit (or its Tibetan language equivalent), and the raga in which the verse was to be sung, are mentioned prior to each pada (verse). The surviving 50 manuscripts contains the name of 24 Siddhacharyas including Lui Pa, Kukkuri Pa, Birua Pa, Gundari Pa, Chatil Pa, Bhusuku Pa, Kanha Pa, Kambalambar Pa, Dombi Pa, Shanti Pa, Mahitta Pa, Bina Pa, Saraha Pa, Shabar Pa, Aryadeb Pa, Dhendhan Pa, Darik Pa, Bhade Pa, Tadak Pa, Kankan Pa, Ja’anandi Pa, Dham Pa, Tanti Pa and Loridombi Pa. Most of these names were pseudonyms as the poets rejected Vedic Hinduism and profess Sahajayana Buddhism. Lui Pa is considered as the earliest poet of Charyapadas. Kanha Pa's 11 poems survived which is the largest number among these poets.

The poets and their works as mentioned in the text are as follows:

Founders of modern Bengali poetry

 * Amiya Chakravarty
 * Bishnu Dey
 * Sudhindranath Dutta
 * Buddhadev Bose
 * Sukanta Bhattacharya
 * Ahsan Habib
 * Farrukh Ahmad
 * Syed Ali Ahsan
 * Shamsur Rahman
 * Al Mahmud
 * Abul Hasan
 * Quazi Johirul Islam
 * Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah
 * Girindramohini Dasi

Bengali poets from other parts of the world

 * Abdul Gaffar Choudhury
 * Shamim Azad
 * Taslima Nasrin
 * Abid Azad

Hungryalist poets

 * Shakti Chattopadhyay
 * Binoy Majumdar
 * Samir Roychoudhury
 * Malay Roy Choudhury
 * Subimal Basak

Metrical poets

 * Annada Shankar Ray
 * Sukumar Ray
 * Farrukh Ahmad
 * Shamsur Rahman
 * Motiur Rahman Mollik (1950–2010)
 * Abu Zafar Obaidullah
 * Rafiqul Haque
 * Fayez Ahmed
 * Ekhlasuddin Ahmed
 * Abdur Rahman
 * Nirmalendu Goon
 * Asad Chowdhury
 * Bimal Guha
 * Shahabuddin Nagari

Song composers

 * Lalon Shah
 * Rabindranath Tagore
 * Dwijendralal Ray
 * Atulprasad Sen
 * Rajanikanta Sen
 * Kazi Nazrul Islam
 * Hason Raja
 * Kangal Harinath
 * Shah Abdul Karim
 * Abu Hena Mustafa Kamal
 * Shahabuddin Nagari
 * Motiur Rahman Mollik
 * Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah
 * Anjan Dutt
 * Kabir Suman
 * Nachiketa
 * Gobinda Haldar

Poets of Kolkata

 * Joy Goswami
 * Sunil Gangopadhyaya
 * Shakti Chattopadhyay
 * Ekram Ali
 * Subodh Sarkar
 * Srijato

Poets of North Bengal

 * Bikash Sarkar