List of people from West Bengal

This is a list of notable people from West Bengal, India. This list does not include the significant number of prominent East Bengali refugees from East Bengal who settled in West Bengal after the partition of the Indian sub-continent in 1947.

Major figures

 * Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
 * Manik Bandopadhyay
 * Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay
 * Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay
 * Rajshekhar Basu
 * Suchitra Bhattacharya
 * Shibram Chakraborty
 * Amiya Chakravarty
 * Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
 * Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
 * Pramatha Chaudhuri
 * Ashapurna Devi
 * Mahasweta Devi
 * Michael Madhusudan Dutt
 * Sudhindranath Dutta
 * Kazi Nazrul Islam
 * Samaresh Majumdar
 * Premendra Mitra
 * Mimi Mondal
 * Ashutosh Mukhopadhyay
 * Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay
 * Annada Shankar Ray
 * Satyajit Ray
 * Narayan Sanyal
 * Syed Mustafa Siraj
 * Rabindranath Tagore

Children's story writers

 * Sasthipada Chattopadhyay
 * Shibram Chakraborty
 * Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury
 * Anish Deb
 * Narayan Debnath
 * Narayan Gangopadhyay
 * Sunil Gangopadhyay
 * Leela Majumdar
 * Samaresh Majumdar
 * Premendra Mitra
 * Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay
 * Sourav Mukhopadhyay
 * Moti Nandi
 * Sukumar Ray
 * Hemendra Kumar Roy
 * Syed Mustafa Siraj

Medieval Bengal literary scene

 * Chandidas
 * Kashiram Das
 * Govindadasa
 * Krishnadasa Kaviraja
 * Krittibas Ojha
 * Bharatchandra Ray
 * Vidyapati

Other authors from early modern period

 * Akshay Kumar Baral
 * Nirupama Devi
 * Swarnakumari Devi
 * Romesh Chunder Dutt
 * Anil Kumar Gain
 * Ishwar Chandra Gupta
 * Peary Chand Mitra
 * Parijat
 * Indra Bahadur Rai
 * Dwijendralal Ray
 * Begum Rokeya
 * Kaliprasanna Singha
 * Jyotirindranath Tagore
 * Swami Vivekananda

Prominent foreign-language authors from Bengal

 * Sri Aurobindo
 * Anirban Bhattacharyya
 * Upamanyu Chatterjee
 * Amit Chaudhuri
 * Souhardya De
 * Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
 * Toru Dutt
 * Kaberi Gayen
 * Amitav Ghosh
 * Jhumpa Lahiri
 * Mimi Mondal
 * Pritish Nandy

Other authors from early/mid-twentieth century and some contemporary authors

 * Anita Agnihotri
 * Ekram Ali
 * Afsar Amed
 * Jatindramohan Bagchi
 * Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay
 * Tapan Bandyopadhyay
 * Subimal Basak
 * Abul Bashar
 * Sukanta Bhattacharya
 * Nachiketa Chakraborty
 * Smaranjit Chakraborty
 * Nirendranath Chakravarty
 * Shibram Chakraborty
 * Sandipan Chattopadhyay
 * Sanjib Chattopadhyay
 * Sasthipada Chattopadhyay
 * Shakti Chattopadhyay
 * Malay Roy Choudhury
 * Salil Chowdhury
 * Alokeranjan Dasgupta
 * Buddhadeb Dasgupta
 * Anish Deb
 * Nabaneeta Dev Sen
 * Mahasweta Devi
 * Anil Kumar Gain
 * Kaberi Gayen
 * Narayan Gangopadhyay
 * Joy Goswami
 * Prabir Ghosh
 * Santosh Kumar Ghosh
 * Shankha Ghosh
 * Subodh Ghosh
 * Buddhadeb Guha
 * Baby Halder
 * Moinul Hassan
 * Syed Kawsar Jamal
 * Humayun Kabir
 * Bimal Kar
 * Binoy Majumdar
 * Samaresh Majumdar
 * Tarun Mandal
 * Arun Mitra
 * Bimal Mitra
 * Narendranath Mitra
 * Ashutosh Mukhopadhyay
 * Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay
 * Subhash Mukhopadhyay
 * Kumud Ranjan Mullick
 * Moti Nandi
 * Purnendu Pattrea
 * Sheikh Abdur Rahim
 * Dilipkumar Roy
 * Samir Roychoudhury
 * Sankar
 * Narayan Sanyal
 * Subodh Sarkar
 * Jatindranath Sengupta
 * Mallika Sengupta
 * Syed Mustafa Siraj

Journalists

 * Ekram Ali
 * Tamal Bandyopadhyay
 * Mrinal Chatterjee
 * Ramananda Chatterjee
 * Sunanda K. Datta-Ray
 * Kaberi Gayen
 * Tushar Kanti Ghosh
 * Chandan Mitra
 * Moti Nandi
 * Pritish Nandy
 * Sukumar Ray
 * Barun Sengupta

Comics Writer

 * Narayan Debnath

Language/linguistics, anthropology, history, and other social sciences

 * Haricharan Bandopadhayaya, lexicographer
 * Rajshekhar Basu, major contributor for scientific terms in Bengali and lexicographer
 * Girindrasekhar Bose, first non-European correspondent of Freud
 * Nirmal Kumar Bose, anthropologist, associate of Gandhi
 * Suniti Kumar Chatterji, linguist
 * Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya, social philosopher
 * Kirti N. Chaudhuri, historian
 * Pramatha Chaudhuri, creator of modern Bengali prose (chalit bhasha) along with Tagore
 * Harinath De, linguist
 * Romesh Chunder Dutt, historian
 * Anil Kumar Gain, fellow of the Royal Society
 * Biraja Sankar Guha, anthropologist
 * Ranajit Guha, subaltern theorist
 * R. C. Majumdar, historian
 * Vina Mazumdar, women's studies academic
 * Rajendralal Mitra, first Indian to work with Indologists
 * Bhudev Mukhopadhyay, earliest educationist
 * Niharranjan Ray, historian
 * Hem Chandra Raychaudhuri, Indian historian
 * Tapan Raychaudhuri, professor of history at Oxford University
 * Raja Ram Mohan Roy, first Bengali prose writer
 * Jadunath Sarkar, historian
 * Sumit Sarkar, historian
 * Susobhan Sarkar, historian
 * Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize awardee in Economics
 * Dinesh Chandra Sen, historian of Bengali literature and folklorist
 * Sukumar Sen, linguist
 * Hara Prasad Shastri, historian of Bengali language and culture
 * Maniklal Sinha, novelist, historian and archaeologist of west Rarh
 * Surajit Chandra Sinha, anthropologist
 * Dineshchandra Sircar, epigraphist
 * Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, literature theorist.
 * Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, creator of Standard Bengali prose (sadhu bhasha)

Scholars and polymaths

 * Asima Chatterjee, scholar of chemistry
 * Suniti Kumar Chatterji, linguist
 * Amlan Datta, economist, Vice Chancellor of Visva Bharati
 * Radhakanta Deb, linguist
 * Anil Kumar Gain, scholar, mathematician
 * Prithwindra Mukherjee, scholar of Indian history, philosophy, religion and culture
 * Ramendra Sundar Tribedi, scientist

Pioneers

 * Girish Chandra Bose
 * Anil Kumar Gain
 * Ashutosh Mukherjee
 * Satish Chandra Mukherjee
 * Begum Rokeya
 * Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

Post-independence

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

Modern times

 * Shuddhaanandaa Brahmachari

Others

 * Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya

Teachers

 * Babar Ali, the world's youngest headmaster, headmaster & founder of Ananda Siksha Niketan
 * Katyayanidas Bhattacharya, philosophy, Presidency College
 * Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya, philosophy, University of Calcutta
 * Barun De, history, Presidency College
 * Mahasweta Devi, English, Vijaygarh Jyotish Ray College
 * Chinmoy Guha, English, Vijaygarh Jyotish Ray College and University of Calcutta
 * K. C. Nag, mathematics, Mitra institution
 * Susobhan Sarkar, history, Presidency College

Pre-modern period

 * Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (Achintya Bhedabheda Vedanta) born in Nabadwip of Nadia district to parents who hailed from Sylhet in present day Bangladesh
 * Madhusūdana Sarasvatī (Advaita Vedanta), born in Kotalipara, Gopalganj District in present day Bangladesh & studied at Nabadwip in Nadia district
 * Raghunatha Siromani (Navya Nyaya) from Nabadwip

Modern age

 * Sri Aurobindo
 * Abu Sayeed Ayyub, Born in Kolkata
 * Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya born in Serampore in Howrah district
 * Anukulchandra Chakravarty born in Pabna district in present day Bangladesh, worked & preached in Kolkata. After the Partition of India in 1947, he relocated to Deoghar
 * Surendranath Dasgupta, born in Kusthia of present day Bangladesh which was then a part of Nadia before Partition of India, studied in Kolkata
 * Balaram Hari, born in Nadia
 * Bimal Krishna Matilal, born in Jaynagar Majilpur in South 24 Parganas district
 * Amartya Sen, born in Shantiniketan in Birbhum District
 * Keshub Chandra Sen born in Kolkata
 * Rabindranath Tagore born in Kolkata
 * Swami Vivekananda, born in Kolkata

Early / Mid twenty century

 * Chandril Bhattacharya, born in Kolkata
 * Ramkrishna Bhattacharya, born in kolkata
 * Shuddhaanandaa Brahmachari, born in Kolkata
 * Sibnarayan Ray, born in kolkata
 * Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, born in Kolkata

Science

 * Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, computer scientist
 * Amar Nath Bhaduri, Indian molecular enzymologist and chemical biologist
 * Somnath Bharadwaj, cosmology
 * Avik Bhattacharya, remote sensing
 * Santanu Bhattacharya, chemistry
 * Bhabatarak Bhattacharyya, Indian structural biologist, biochemist
 * Mani Lal Bhaumik
 * Birendra Bijoy Biswas, Indian molecular biologist and a geneticist
 * Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian theoretical physicist and mathematician
 * Upendranath Brahmachari
 * Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri, Computer scientist
 * Asis Datta, Indian biochemist, molecular biologist and genetic engineer
 * Moumita Dutta, Indian Physicist
 * Anil Kumar Gain, mathematics
 * Partha Ghose
 * Sankar Ghosh, Indian-American immunologist, microbiologist, and biochemist
 * Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
 * Chanchal Kumar Majumdar, Indian condensed matter physicist
 * Dwijesh Dutta Majumdar, Computer scientist
 * Ujjwal Maulik, computer scientist
 * Ashesh Prosad Mitra
 * Sisir Kumar Mitra, Indian physicist
 * Subhash Mukhopadhyay, physician
 * Indira Nath, Indian immunologist
 * Sankar Kumar Pal, Computer scientist
 * Shehla Pervin, Molecular biologist
 * Prafulla Chandra Ray, Indian chemist, industrialist and philanthropist
 * Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri
 * Somak Raychaudhury, Indian astrophysicist
 * Anjali Roy, mycologist
 * Subrata Roy, plasma physics
 * Ram Brahma Sanyal, zoology
 * Debi Prasad Sarkar, Indian biochemist, immunologist and virologist
 * Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate, economist, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences
 * Ashoke Sen, physics
 * Radhanath Sikdar
 * Snehasikta Swarnakar, Indian chemical biologist

Muslim

 * Jalaluddin Tabrizi (13th-century)
 * Gazi Pir (13th-century)
 * Pir Gorachand (13th-century)
 * Usman Serajuddin (1258–1357)
 * Alaul Haq (1301–1384)
 * Nur Qutb Alam (d. 1416)
 * Shah Mehr Ali (1808–1868)
 * Ubaidullah Al Ubaidi Suhrawardy (1832–1885)
 * Azangachhi Shaheb (1828–1932)
 * Mohammad Abu Bakr Siddique (1865–1943)
 * Abdullah al-Baqi (1886–1952)
 * Abbas Siddiqui (born 1987)

Pre-modern period

 * Krishnananda Agamavagisha
 * Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
 * Nityananda
 * Ramprasad Sen
 * Six Goswamis of Vrindavan

The Brahmo Samaj

 * Anandamohan Bose
 * Raja Ram Mohan Roy
 * Keshub Chandra Sen
 * Debendranath Tagore
 * Ram Chandra Vidyabagish

Hindu revival movement

 * Sri Aurobindo
 * Sarada Devi
 * Ramakrishna
 * Swami Vivekananda

Mid-twentieth-century religious figures

 * Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri
 * Lahiri Mahasaya
 * A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
 * Paramahansa Yogananda

Major figures

 * Anil Kumar Gain
 * Dwarkanath Ganguly
 * Nibaran Chandra Mukherjee
 * Satish Chandra Mukherjee
 * Protap Chunder Mozoomdar
 * Raja Ram Mohan Roy
 * Keshub Chandra Sen
 * Harichand Thakur
 * Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
 * Swami Vivekananda

Derozians

 * Krishna Mohan Banerjee
 * Rajnarayan Basu
 * Michael Madhusudan Dutt
 * Hara Chandra Ghosh
 * Ramgopal Ghosh
 * Ramtanu Lahiri
 * Rasik Krishna Mallick
 * Kishori Chand Mitra
 * Peary Chand Mitra
 * Radhanath Sikdar

Women's rights

 * Chandramukhi Basu
 * Sarala Devi
 * Kadambini Ganguly
 * Kaberi Gayen
 * Charulata Mukherjee
 * Rani Rashmoni
 * Begum Rokeya
 * Romola Sinha

Military

 * Air Vice Marshal Madhavendra Banerji, recipient of Maha Vir Chakra
 * Flight Lieutenant Suhas Biswas, recipient of Ashoka Chakra
 * Subhas Chandra Bose, founder, Indian National Army
 * General Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri, Indian Army Chief during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
 * Admiral Adhar Kumar Chatterji, Indian Navy Chief between 1966 and 1970
 * Air Commodore Sudhindra Kumar Majumdar (1927–2011), India's first military helicopter pilot
 * Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee, former Head of Indian Air Force
 * Chief of the Air Staff Arup Raha, 24th chief of Indian Air Force
 * Captain Man Bahadur Rai, recipient of Ashoka Chakra
 * Indra Lal Roy, first Indian (pre Independence) flying ace
 * General Shankar Roychowdhury, former Indian Army Chief

Early modern period

 * Ramkinkar Baij
 * Nandalal Bose
 * Mukul Dey
 * Kalipada Ghoshal
 * Sailoz Mookherjea
 * Benode Behari Mukherjee
 * Jamini Roy
 * Abanindranath Tagore
 * Gaganendranath Tagore

From mid-twentieth century

 * Bikash Bhattacharjee
 * Jogen Chowdhury
 * Jahar Dasgupta
 * Somnath Hore
 * Chintamoni Kar
 * Anil Karanjai
 * Paresh Maity
 * Hemen Majumdar
 * Rabin Mondal
 * Samir Mondal
 * Ganesh Pyne
 * Paritosh Sen

Film and photography

 * Dulal Dutta
 * Goutam Ghose, filmmaker, cinematographer, and music composer
 * Rituparno Ghosh, filmmaker
 * Suman Ghosh, filmmaker, documentary filmmaker
 * Atiul Islam, filmmaker, screenwriter
 * Ajoy Kar, cinematographer, filmmaker, screenwriter
 * Tarun Majumdar, filmmaker, screenwriter, author, illustrator
 * Subrata Mitra, cinematographer
 * Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian film director, editor and writer
 * Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri
 * Satyajit Ray, filmmaker, screenwriter, author, illustrator and music composer
 * Mrinal Sen, filmmaker, screenwriter, author

Composers

 * Abbasuddin Ahmed
 * Atulprasad Sen
 * Anil Biswas
 * Dwijendralal Ray
 * Dilipkumar Roy
 * Gouri Prasanna Majumdar
 * Hemanta Mukherjee
 * Kazi Nazrul Islam
 * Kamal Dasgupta
 * Kabir Suman
 * Manabendra Mukhopadhyay
 * Nachiketa Ghosh
 * Raichand Boral
 * Rajanikanta Sen
 * Salil Chowdhury
 * Sachin Dev Burman
 * Sudhin Dasgupta

Performers (instrumental)

 * Allauddin Khan, sarod and multi-instrumentalist
 * Ali Akbar Khan, sarod
 * Annapurna Devi, surbahar
 * Buddhadeb Dasgupta, sarod
 * Manilal Nag, sitar
 * Nikhil Banerjee, sitar
 * Ravi Shankar, sitar
 * Radhika Mohan Maitra, Sarod and Mohanveena
 * Sankha Chatterjee, tabla
 * Shankar Ghosh, tabla
 * Pannalal Ghosh, flute
 * Jnan Prakash Ghosh, Harmonium and tabla

Classical

 * Gopeshwar Banerjee
 * Naina Devi
 * Ajoy Chakrabarty, vocal
 * Bishnupur Gharana
 * Tarapada Chakraborty
 * Kaushiki Chakraborty

Songs of Tagore and his contemporaries

 * 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
 * Indrani Sen

Modern

 * K. C. Dey
 * Manabendra Mukherjee
 * Pankaj Kumar Mullick
 * Kanan Devi
 * Ruma Guha Thakurta
 * Hemanta Mukherjee
 * Sandhya Mukhopadhyay
 * Manna Dey
 * Geeta Dutt
 * R D Burman
 * Sachin Dev Burman
 * Kishore Kumar
 * Shyamal Mitra
 * Amit Kumar
 * Indrani Sen
 * Antara Chowdhury
 * Bappi Lahiri
 * Anjan Dutt
 * Mohammed Aziz
 * Kumar Sanu
 * Kabir Suman
 * Nachiketa Chakraborty
 * Silajit Majumder
 * Abhijeet Bhattacharya
 * Babul Supriyo
 * Madhushree
 * Srikanta Acharya
 * Shantanu Moitra
 * Jeet Ganguly
 * Pritam
 * Shaan
 * Rupam Islam
 * Shreya Ghoshal
 * Anupam Roy
 * Arijit Singh
 * Monali Thakur

Nazrul geeti

 * Abbasuddin Ahmed
 * Sohrab Hossain
 * Indrani Sen
 * Purabi Dutta
 * Manabendra Mukhopadhyay

Bengali Folk Song

 * Abbasuddin Ahmed
 * Kalika Prasad Bhattacharya
 * Ratan Kahar
 * Basudeb Das Baul
 * Timir Biswas
 * Fulati Gidali
 * Pousali Banerjee

Directors

 * Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury
 * Anjan Dutt
 * Anurag Basu
 * Aparna Sen
 * Ayan Mukerji
 * Atiul islam
 * Basu Bhattacharya
 * Basu Chatterjee
 * Bimal Roy
 * Buddhadeb Dasgupta
 * Chidananda Dasgupta
 * Debaki Bose
 * Farha Khatun
 * Goutam Ghose
 * Hrishikesh Mukherjee
 * Mrinal Sen
 * Mujibar Rahaman
 * Premankur Atorthy
 * Pritish Chakraborty
 * Prem Prakash Modi
 * Raj Chakraborty
 * Mohammad Mohsin
 * Rituparno Ghosh
 * Ritwik Ghatak
 * Satyajit Ray
 * Shiboprosad Mukherjee
 * Shoojit Sircar
 * Srijit Mukherji
 * Sujit Mondal
 * Sujoy Ghosh
 * Supriyo Sen
 * Suman Mukhopadhyay
 * Tapan Sinha
 * Tarun Majumdar

Actors

 * Abhishek Chatterjee
 * Abir Chatterjee
 * Anil Chatterjee
 * Anirban Bhattacharya
 * Ankush Hazra
 * Apurva Agnihotri
 * Arun Mukherjee
 * Asit Sen
 * Bhanu Bandopadhyay
 * Biswajit Chakraborty
 * Chhabi Biswas
 * Chinmoy Roy
 * Chiranjeet Chakraborty
 * Dev
 * Dhritiman Chatterjee
 * Ferdous Ahmed
 * Harindranath Chattopadhyay
 * Hiran Chatterjee
 * Jeet
 * Jisshu Sengupta
 * Joy Kumar Mukherjee
 * Jayant Kripalani
 * Kali Banerjee
 * Kamal Mitra
 * Keshto Mukherjee
 * Lokesh
 * Mir Afsar Ali
 * Mithun Chakraborty
 * Pahari Sanyal
 * Parambrata Chatterjee
 * Pradeep Kumar
 * Pritish Chakraborty
 * Priyanshu
 * Prosenjit Chatterjee
 * Rabi Ghosh
 * Rahul Roy
 * Ranjit Mallick
 * Saswata Chatterjee
 * Soumitra Chatterjee
 * Subhendu Chatterjee
 * Tapas Paul
 * Tathagata Mukherjee
 * Tulsi Chakraborty
 * Utpal Datta
 * Uttam Kumar
 * Victor Banerjee

Actresses

 * Anita Guha
 * Aparna Sen
 * Arundhati Devi
 * Chhaya Devi
 * Debashree Roy
 * Devika Rani
 * Indrani Haldar
 * Joya Ahsan
 * June Malia
 * Kananbala
 * Kanan Devi
 * Koel Mullick
 * Madhabi Mukherjee
 * Mala Sinha
 * Mamata Shankar
 * Mimi Chakraborty
 * Nusrat Jahan
 * Moon Moon Sen
 * Moushmi Chatterji
 * Pratyusha Banerjee
 * Prema Narayan
 * Raakhee
 * Rachna Banerjee
 * Raima Sen
 * Reema Sen
 * Rimi Sen
 * Rituparna Sengupta
 * Riya Sen
 * Ruma Guha Thakurta
 * Sabitri Chatterjee
 * Sharmila Tagore
 * Srabanti Chatterjee
 * Subhashree Ganguly
 * Suchitra Sen
 * Sumita Sanyal
 * Supriya Devi
 * Sushmita Sen
 * Varsha Ashwathi

Cinematographer

 * Avik Mukhopadhyay
 * Baby Islam
 * Binod Pradhan
 * Kamal Bose
 * Nemai Ghosh (director)
 * Ramananda Sengupta
 * Subrata Mitra
 * Sudeep Chatterjee
 * Supratim Bhol

Editor

 * Dulal Dutta
 * Arghyakamal Mitra
 * Rabiranjan Maitra
 * Mainak Bhaumik
 * Srijit Mukherji

Screenplay Writer

 * Nabendu Ghosh
 * Shaktipada Rajguru
 * N. K. Salil
 * Anjan Dutt
 * Rudranil Ghosh

Dance

 * Uday Shankar
 * Amala Shankar
 * Mamata Shankar
 * Sharmila Biswas
 * Gambhir Singh Mura

Doctors

 * Rafiuddin Ahmed
 * Upendranath Brahmachari
 * Sambhu Nath De
 * Kadambini Ganguly
 * Madhusudan Gupta
 * Radha Gobinda Kar
 * Subhash Mukhopadhyay
 * Bidhan Chandra Roy
 * Nilratan Sircar
 * Tabitha Solomon

Modern Days

 * Shyama Prasad Mandal

Drama/theatre

 * Girish Chandra Ghosh
 * Dinabandhu Mitra
 * Jyotirindranath Tagore
 * Dwijendralal Ray
 * Sisir Bhaduri
 * Bijon Bhattacharya
 * Shambhu Mitra
 * Utpal Dutt
 * Bibhas Chakraborty
 * Rudraprasad Sengupta
 * Badal Sarkar
 * Usha Ganguly
 * Manoj Mitra
 * Ajitesh Bandopadhyay
 * Debshankar Halder

Magicians

 * Ganapati Chakraborty
 * Amin Suhrawardy
 * P. C. Sorcar
 * P. C. Sorcar Jr.
 * P. C. Sorcar, Young
 * Maneka Sorcar

Pre-modern

 * Shashanka
 * Gopala
 * Dharmapala
 * Devapala
 * Mahipala
 * Ballal Sen
 * Lakshman Sen

Colonial period

 * Titumir
 * Alimuddin Ahmad
 * Satyendranath Tagore
 * Romesh Chunder Dutt
 * Lord Satyendra Prasanna Sinha
 * Nripendra Narayan, philanthropist and ruler of Cooch Behar
 * Kalim Sharafi

Early figures

 * Durjan Singh, leader of Chuar Rebellion
 * Rani Shiromani, queen of Karnagarh and leader of Chuar Rebellion
 * Surendranath Banerjee
 * Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee

Twentieth century

 * Bipin Chandra Pal
 * Sri Aurobindo
 * Syed Badrudduja
 * Barindra Kumar Ghosh
 * Khudiram Bose
 * Bagha Jatin
 * Chittaranjan Das
 * Rash Behari Bose
 * Sarat Chandra Bose
 * Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
 * Alimuddin Ahmad
 * 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
 * Sudhamoy Pramanick
 * Saroj Mukherjee
 * Renuka Ray
 * Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
 * Hemchandra Kanungo
 * Kanailal Bhattacharyya
 * Kanailal Bhattacharjee

Politicians

 * Ashok Mitra
 * Ajit Kumar Panja
 * A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury
 * Atulya Ghosh
 * Amit Mitra
 * Abha Maiti
 * Muzaffar Ahmad
 * Bidhan Chandra Roy
 * Bimal Gurung
 * Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
 * Bir Singh Mahato
 * Babul Supriyo
 * Derek O'Brien
 * Dev
 * Firhad Hakim
 * Hashim Abdul Halim
 * Jyoti Basu
 * Kamal Guha
 * Kanailal Bhattacharyya
 * Kedarnath Bhattacharya
 * Mamata Banerjee
 * Mukul Roy
 * Mriganko Mahato
 * Mohammed Salim
 * Narahari Mahato
 * Partha Chatterjee
 * Pratap Chandra Chunder
 * Prafulla Chandra Sen
 * Pranab Mukherjee
 * Siddhartha Shankar Ray
 * Subrata Mukherjee
 * Sultan Ahmed (Indian politician)
 * Saugata Roy
 * Somnath Chatterjee
 * Sabina Yeasmin
 * Sovandeb Chattopadhyay
 * Tathagata Roy
 * Tanmoy Bhattacharya

Others

 * Abul Barkat

Old Calcutta / Bengal legends

 * Raja Nabakrishna Deb
 * Raja Radhakanta Deb, published two Sanskrit dictionaries used by Westerners
 * Gobindram Mitter
 * Anil Kumar Gain
 * Mutty Lal Seal
 * Bijoy Chand Mahtab
 * Uday Chand Mahtab
 * Mother Teresa
 * Manindra Chandra Nandy, Maharaja of Cossimbazar

Chess

 * Dibyendu Barua, Grandmaster
 * Surya Shekhar Ganguly, Grandmaster
 * Nisha Mohota, first woman Grandmaster of West Bengal

Cricket

 * Arun Lal
 * Benu Dasgupta
 * Deep Dasgupta
 * Gopal Bose
 * Jhulan Goswami
 * Pankaj Roy
 * Priyanka Roy
 * Probir Sen
 * Rumeli Dhar
 * Ambar Roy
 * Saba Karim
 * Sourav Ganguly
 * Subrata Guha
 * Saradindu Mukherjee
 * Ashok Dinda
 * Montu Banerjee
 * Manoj Tiwary
 * Nirode Chowdhury
 * Wriddhiman Saha
 * Shreevats Goswami
 * Shute Banerjee
 * Subroto Banerjee
 * Utpal Chatterjee

Football

 * Rahim Ali
 * P. K. Banerjee
 * Samar Banerjee
 * Shibdas Bhaduri
 * Subrata Bhattacharya
 * Krishanu Dey
 * Chuni Goswami
 * Sailen Manna
 * Abhijit Mondal
 * Arnab Mondal
 * Gostho Pal
 * Mohammed Rafique
 * Gautam Sarkar

Lawn tennis

 * Leander Paes, noted lawn tennis player of India
 * Jaidip Mukerjea

Squash

 * Saurav Ghosal, currently highest ranked Indian player
 * Ritwik Bhattacharya, currently second highest ranked Indian player

Bodybuilding

 * Manohar Aich, Mr. Universe, 1952
 * Monotosh Roy, Mr. Universe, 1951
 * Bishnu Charan Ghosh, Noted bodybuilder and hathayogi

Swimming

 * 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
 * Prasanta Karmakar, para swimmer, 2010 Commonwealth Games, bronze medal
 * Masudur Rahman Baidya, world's first physically handicapped swimmer to swim across the Strait of Gibraltar

Table tennis

 * Subhajit Saha, Commonwealth games gold medalist
 * Mouma Das, table tennis player
 * Poulomi Ghatak, table tennis player
 * Ankita Das, table tennis player, 2012 Summer Olympics; participant in women's singles event, 2014 Commonwealth Games; participant in women's doubles even
 * Soumyajit Ghosh, table tennis player; as of January 2013, his rank is 1st in India and 68th in Asia; 2014 Commonwealth Games, Participant in men's doubles event

Weightlifting

 * Anil Mondal, Indian weightlifter, competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics and the 1976 Summer Olympics, the Arjuna Award in the year (1972)
 * Sukhen Dey, Indian weightlifter; 2014 Commonwealth Games, gold medal; 2010 Commonwealth Games, gold medal

Others

 * Arjun Atwal, golfer
 * Anirban Lahiri, Indian golfer
 * Balaram Bose, philanthropist
 * Chhanda Gain, mountaineering, first Bengali woman to climb Mount Everest
 * Dipa Karmakar, Indian artistic gymnast; 2014 Commonwealth Games, bronze medal; 2010 Commonwealth Games participant
 * Jyotirmoyee Sikdar, athletics, double gold medallist at Bangkok Asiad, 1996
 * Joydeep Karmakar, Indian shooter, 2012 Summer Olympics; qualified to represent India in men's 50m rifle prone event; 2014 Commonwealth Games participant
 * Mohammad Ali Qamar, boxing, Commonwealth games gold medalist
 * Mohammed Ali Qamar, Indian boxer, 2002 Commonwealth Games, gold medal

Industry/business

 * Jagat Seth
 * Dwarakanath Tagore
 * Diptendu Pramanick
 * Rajen Mookerjee
 * S. K. Burman
 * Ghanshyam Das Birla
 * Jugal Kishore Birla
 * Ram Nath Goenka
 * Madhav Prasad Birla
 * Rajat Kumar Gupta
 * Purnendu Chatterjee
 * Sadhan Dutt
 * Subir Raha
 * Sumantra Ghoshal
 * Pritish Chakraborty
 * Alamohan Das
 * Dilip Shanghvi

Other areas

 * Ashis Nandy, author, political psychologist
 * Subroto Mukerjee
 * Shankar Roychowdhury
 * William Tolly
 * P. C. Sorcar, Jr., magician from Kolkata
 * Arup Raha
 * Narayan Debnath
 * Joyita Mondal, Social Worker