Chatterjee
Chatterjee/Chatarjee (sometimes Chatterji or Chatterjea or chatarjee) Chêṭarji) is an Indian family name of the Bengali Brahmin caste. It is a variant of Chattopadhyay(a). Chattopadhyay (compound of village name "Chaṭṭa" and "upādhyāya" denoting "priest, teacher" originally granted with the village named Chaṭṭa) is the Sanskritized form of the local Prakrit word "chaturjye", anglicized to Chatterjee. The renowned 19th century mystic Gadadhar Chattopadhyay or Sri Ramakrishna is from this caste.
Lineage and ancestry
Chatterjees or Chatarjees are from the ancient Kashyap Gotra, which means all Chatterjees are descended from the ancient sage Kashyapa, son of Marichi as per the Puranas.
Notable Chatterjees
- Abir Chatterjee – actor
- Adhar Kumar Chatterji – former Chief of the Naval Staff of the Indian Navy (1966–1970)
- Amarendranath Chatterjee – freedom fighter
- Amitava Chattopadhyay – INSEAD professor of marketing and innovation
- Angana P. Chatterji – anthropologist, activist and feminist historian
- Anil Chatterjee – actor
- Aroup Chatterjee – British Indian atheist, physician, author of Mother Teresa: The Untold Story
- Ashim Chatterjee – politician and activist
- Asima Chatterjee – Indian organic chemist and the second woman to be conferred a Doctorate of Science by an Indian university
- Atul Chandra Chatterjee - Indian diplomat and government official. Served as the Indian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 1925-1931.
- Bankim Chandra Chatterjee - Indian patriot, writer, poet and journalist and composer of Vande Mataram, the national song of India.
- Basu Chatterjee – film director
- Bhaswar Chatterjee – Indian actor
- Biswajit Chatterjee – Bollywood actor
- Debjani Chatterji – Indian-born British poet
- Dhritiman Chatterjee – actor
- Dhruva Chatterjee – writer and screenplay writer of Hindi movies
- Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee – Indian freedom fighter, activist and member of Rajya Sabha
- Joya Chatterji - Professor of South Asian history
- Mirai Chatterji – Indian social worker
- Moushmi Chatterjee – Bollywood actress
- Parambrata Chatterjee – actor
- Partha Chatterjee – scholar and author
- Pratap Chatterjee – journalist and author
- Priyadarshini Chatterjee – Miss India World 2016
- Priyanshu Chatterjee – Bollywood actor
- Prosenjit Chatterjee – actor
- Pulok Chatterji – former bureaucrat and Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India (2011–2014)
- Purnendu Chatterjee – businessman, founder of TCG
- Sabitri Chatterjee – Indian Bengali female actress
- Sankar Chatterjee – paleontologist
- Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian Writer
- Sarojini Naidu née Chattopadhyay – freedom fighter, poet
- Saswata Chatterjee – actor
- Shekhar Chatterjee – entrepreneur
- Shiba P. Chatterjee – professor, former president of International Geographical Union
- Somnath Chatterjee – eminent lawyer and former speaker of Lok Sabha
- Soumitra Chatterjee – actor
- Sourav Chatterjee – mathematician
- Sovan Chatterjee – current mayor of the city of Kolkata
- Srabanti Chatterjee – actress
- Subhendu Chatterjee – actor
- Sudeep Chatterjee – cinematographer
- Suman Chatterjee (now Kabir Suman) – musician
- Suniti Kumar Chatterji – Indian linguist, educationist and litterateur
- Tannishtha Chatterjee – actress
- Tara Chatterjea – philosopher
- Upamanyu Chatterjee - author
- Utpal Chatterjee – cricketer
- Uttam Kumar (Arun Chatterjee) – actor
See also
References
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