List of Bengalis

Pala Dynasty

Chronological order

Sena Dynasty

• Hemanta Sen
• Vijaya Sena
• Ballala Sena
• Lakshmana Sena

Chandra Dynasty

• Traillokyachandra (900–930)
• Srichandra (930–975)
• Kalyanachandra (975–1000)
• Ladahachandra (1000–1020)
• Govindachandra (1020–1050)

Deva Dynasty

• Damodaradeva (1231–1243)
• Dasharathadeva (1281)

Business executives

• Iqbal Ahmed, CMD of Seamark Group
• Syed Ahmed, British entrepreneur, businessman, television personality
• Rajat Gupta, first foreign-born Managing Director (chief executive) of management consultancy firm McKinsey & Company from 1994 to 2003. Sentenced to 2 years of prison in 2012 for insider trading
• Moorad Choudhry –former Managing Director, Head of Business Treasury and Global Banking & Markets at Royal Bank of Scotland
• Arundhati Bhattacharya, first woman director of State Bank of India
• Kumar Bhattacharyya, Baron Bhattacharyya, Director, Warwick Manufacturing Group
• Ashok Sekhar Ganguly, former chairman, Hindustan Unilever
• Asim Ghosh, former CEO of Husky Energy
• Aktar Islam, restaurateur, curry chef and businessman
• Sir Birendra Nath Mukherjee, IISCO
• Bhaskar Pramanik, chairman, Microsoft India
• Subir Raha, former head, ONGC
• Roy Sagnik, director of TXYCO LTD
• Aveek Sarkar, chairman, Ananda Bazaar Patrika
• Mutty Lal Seal, businessman and entrepreneur
• Dwarkanath Tagore, known for partnership with the British East India Company

Entrepreneurs

• Amar Bose, founder of Bose Corporation
• Anjan Chatterjee, founder, Speciality Group of Restaurants
• Alamohan Das, founder, India Machinery Company
• Barun Sengupta, founder of Bartaman
• Bicky Chakraborty, Sweden's biggest hotelier;^[1] President and founder of Elite Hotels of Sweden and The Bishop's Arms^[2]
• Chandra Shekhar Ghosh, founder of Bandhan Bank
• Diptendu Pramanick, founder, Secretary of Eastern India Motion Pictures Association (EIMPA)
• Kamal Quadir, founder and CEO of CellBazaar Inc, First Mover Fellow of The Aspen Institute, TEDIndia Fellow
• Neeraj Roy, co-founder Hungama Digital Media Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.
• Prannoy Roy, founder, NDTV
• Purnendu Chatterjee, founder, TCG Group
• Pradeep Kar, founder of Microland
• Pritish Nandy, founder of Pritish Nandy Communications
• Sir Rajendra Nath Mukherjee, co-founder, Martin Burn Ltd, IISCO
• Siddhartha Basu,founder and CMD of BIG Synergy
• Sadhan Dutt, founder, Development Consultants of Kuljian Group
• Subroto Roy Sahara, founder and chairman, Sahara India Pariwar
• Somen Banerjee, Indian American entrepreneur and co-founder of Chippendales

Bangladesh

• Mahfuz Anam
• Abul Asad
• Nurjahan Begum
• Shahriar Kabir
• Abed Khan
• Fazle Lohani
• A B M Musa
• Matiur Rahman
• Manik Chandra Saha
• Ataus Samad
• Shykh Seraj
• Korvi Rakshand

India

• Swapan Dasgupta, journalist
• Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, journalist
• Sagarika Ghose, editor in CNN-IBN
• Chandan Mitra, editor and managing director of The Pioneer newspaper
• Harish Chandra Mukherjee, pioneer of nationalistic Hindu journalism
• Udayan Mukherjee, editor and anchor in CNBC India
• Pritish Nandy, Pritish Nandy Communications Ltd
• Prannoy Roy, founder and President of NDTV, one of India's largest television and media production houses
• Samar Sen, journalist
• Barun Sengupta, political critic, the founder-editor of Bartaman newspaper
• Vishnu Som, news anchor and journalist
• Dwarkanath Vidyabhusan, scholar, editor and publisher of the weekly Bengali newspaper Somprakash

America

• Sanjiv Bhattacharya
• Bobby Ghosh (Aparisim Ghosh), journalist, former TIME magazine World Editor; the first non-American to be named World Editor in TIME's more than 80 years
• Reihan Salam

Britain

• Fareena Alam
• Lisa Aziz, British television news presenter
• Mihir Bose, BBC's head sports editor
• Reeta Chakrabarti, political correspondent for the BBC Television's Breakfast programme shown on BBC One and the BBC News Channel
• Mo Dutta, former TV presenter for BBC Radio 2, BBC Asian Network, BBC Radio Kent
• Pallab Ghosh, BBC News science reporter
• Nina Hossain, British television news broadcaster
• Faisal Islam
• Tasmin Lucia Khan, English journalist and television presenter
• Sarah Mukherjee, former BBC Environment Correspondent, currently is a regular contributor on Radio 4's Today programme

Pakistan

• Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Pakistan's first female editor; first woman to be included in a press delegation; in 1955, became the first woman to speak at the ancient al Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt

Qatar

• Shiulie Ghosh, television journalist at Al Jazeera English

Bollywood

Bangla rock

• Anindya Chatterjee, lead vocalist and one of the founders of the Bengali band Chandrabindoo
• Anjan Dutt
• Ayub Bachchu, founding member and the leader of the Bengali rock band Love Runs Blind (LRB)
• Bappa Mazumder
• Chandril Bhattacharya, one of the main lyricists of the Bangla band Chandrabindoo
• Gautam Chattopadhyay, composer, founder of the group Mohiner Ghoraguli
• James
• Khaled 'Bassbaba' Sumon, vocalist for the band Aurthohin
• Partha Barua
• Raef al Hasan Rafa
• Rupam Islam, frontman of Bengali hard rock band Fossils
• Shafin Ahmed
• Shishir Ahmed
• Somlata Acharyya Chowdhury, lead singer of Bangla rock band Somlata and The Aces
• Suman Chattapaddhay
• Ziaur Rahman Zia
• Nachiketa Chakraborty

Classical and folk musicians

• Abdul Alim
• Abdul Latif
• Ajoy Chakrabarty
• Ali Akbar Khan, sarod performer, composer, musicologist, founder of the Ali Akbar College of Music in California, USA
• Alka Yagnik
• Allauddin Khan
• Anjan Chattopadhyay, sitar player
• Annapurna Devi, surbahar performer
• Anoushka Shankar, sitar player and composer
• Arnab Chakrabarty, Indian Classical musician, sarod player
• Budhaditya Mukherjee
• Chitra Singh, Hindi/Urdu Ghazal singer and wife of Jagjit Singh
• Debabrata Biswas, Rabindrasangeet performer
• Dhananjay Bhattacharya, Shyama Sangeet singer
• Farida Parveen, Lalon singer
• Firoza Begum, eminent exponent of Nazrul Geeti
• Hason Raja
• Indrani Sen, Rabindrasangeet and Nazrulgeeti performer, also modern and folk songs
• Kalyan Mukherjea
• Kanika Banerjee, Rabindrasangeet performer
• Kashinath Mukherjee, Hindustani classical musician and sitar player of Etawah Gharana
• Kumar Bose, tabla performer and composer
• Lalon, mystic devotional composer and singer
• Momtaz Begum, Bangladeshi folk singer, world record holder
• Naina Devi (1917-1993), Indian classical singer
• Nikhil Banerjee, sitar performer
• Pandit Jnan Prakash Ghosh, tabla master, composer and musician
• Pannalal Bhattacharya, singer
• Pannalal Ghosh, pioneering master of the Indian classical flute, composer, musicologist
• Purna Das Baul, known as 'Baul-samrat', is a pioneering folk artist and known for working with Bob Dylan
• Ravi Shankar, sitar virtuoso, composer, musicologist
• Ritwik Sanyal
• Manabendra Mukhopadhyay,Singer and composer
• Ruma Guha Thakurta, founder and lead singer of Calcutta Youth Choir and playback singer
• Runa Laila, folk, ghazal, and pop fusion singer
• Shah Abdul Karim
• Shahadat Hossain Khan, Sarod virtuoso, composer, musicologist, international master, renowned Sarod player
• Shankar Ghosh, tabla master and singer
• Srabani Sen, rabindrasangeet performer, also modern and folk songs
• Suchitra Mitra, rabindrasangeet performer, also playback singer and composer
• Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta, classical and rabindrasangeet exponent performer, also folk modern and devotional music
• Swapan Chaudhuri, tabla exponent
• Tanmoy Bose, table master, composer, actor, fusion musician
• Vilayat Khan, sitar performer

Hindi rock

• Asheem Chakravarty, co-founder of the popular Indian band Indian Ocean
• Palash Sen, lead vocalist of Indian band Euphoria
• Susmit Sen, co-founder of the popular Indian band Indian Ocean

Western

• Jernade Miah
• Monica Yunus, operatic soprano
• Mumzy Stranger
• Norah Jones, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress, daughter of sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar – Indian Bengali
• Sameer Bhattacharya, lead guitarist of the American alternative rock band Flyleaf
• Sanjaya Malakar, American born Indian origin singer
• Shikhee, singer; auteur of American industrial band Android Lust
• Futurecop! Electronic Band members include Manzur Iqbal from United Kingdom

India

• Subhas Chandra Bose, founder, Indian National Army
• General Joyanto 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 Mukherjee, former Head of Indian Air Force
• Chief of the Air Staff Designate Arup Raha, currently Vice Chief of Air Staff of Indian Air Force
• Indra Lal Roy, first Indian (pre Independence) flying ace
• General Shankar Roychowdhury, former Indian Army Chief

Bangladesh

• Chitta Ranjan Dutta, Bangladeshi war hero and retired Major-General of the Bangladesh Army, key sector commander of the Mukti Bahini during the Bangladesh Liberation War
• M. A. G. Osmani, Supreme Commander of Bangladesh Forces during the Bangladesh Liberation War

Bangladesh

• Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad, ex-President of Bangladesh
• Tajuddin Ahmed, first Prime Minister of Bangladesh (1971–1972)
• Hussain Mohammed Ershad, Chief Martial Law Administrator (CMLA), later President (1982–1990)
• A. K. Fazlul Huq, first Chief Minister of Bengal, presented the Lahore Resolution, Governor of East Pakistan
• Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bengali nationalist politician, founder of Bangladesh, headed the Awami League, served as the first President of Bangladesh
• Ziaur Rahman, founder of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, President of Bangladesh (1977–1981), first to propose the creation of SAARC, sector commander and liberation war hero in Bangladesh
• Khwaja Salimullah, founder of Muslim League, proposed establishing University of Dhaka
• Sheikh Hasina Wazed, Prime Minister of Bangladesh (1996–2001; 2009–present)
• Khaleda Zia, Prime Minister of Bangladesh (1991–1996; 2001–2006)

India

• Aruna Asaf Ali, Indian independence activist
• Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister of West Bengal (from 2011), ex-minister for Railways, Government of India, Chairman All India Trinamool Congress
• Mrinal Banerjee, former Minister
• Surendranath Banerjee, one of the founding members of the Indian National Congress
• Jyoti Basu, former communist Chief Minister of West Bengal, former Politburo Member of the Communist Party of India(Marxist)
• Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, former communist Chief Minister of West Bengal, Politburo Member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) after 19th Party Congress
• Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee, first president of Indian National Congress
• Rash Behari Bose, revolutionary leader against the British Raj in India and one of the key organisers of the Ghadar conspiracy and later, the Indian National Army
• Subhas Chandra Bose, former President of Indian National Congress, Head of State of India's first free Provisional Government of Azad Hind and Co-Founder Indian National Army
• Somnath Chatterjee, former Speaker of the Lok Sabha (Lower House of Parliament), expelled member of CPI(M), senior parliamentarian, prominent barrister
• A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury, senior leader of Indian National Congress
• Chittaranjan Das, prominent in the Indian independence movement (also known as Deshabandhu)
• Santosh Mohan Dev, former Union Cabinet Minister, elected to the Lok Sabha, senior leader of Indian National Congress
• Sucheta Kriplani, freedom fighter and politician
• Jogendra Nath Mandal, served as the first Law & Labour Minister of Pakistan
• Pranab Mukherjee, President of India 2012, Minister for External Affairs, senior leader of Indian National Congress
• Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, founder of Bharatiya Jana Sangh, later Bharatiya Janata Party
• Sarojini Naidu, freedom fighter and poet
• Bipin Chandra Pal, freedom fighter for Indian independence movement
• Kabindra Purkayastha, former Minister
• Rabi Ray, speaker of Lok Sabha
• Siddhartha Shankar Ray, former Congress Chief Minister of West Bengal, former Indian ambassador to United States
• Bidhan Chandra Roy, physician, former Congress Chief Minister of West Bengal, Bharat Ratna
• Manik Sarkar, chief minister of Tripura, Politburo member
• Ashoke Kumar Sen, former Law Minister, barrister, and parliamentarian

Pakistan

• Muhammad Ali Bogra, Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1953 until 1955
• Iskander Mirza, first President of Pakistan
• Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, second Chief Minister of Bengal, Prime Minister of Pakistan (1956–1957)

Buddhism

• Anagarika Munindra (1915–2003), vipassana meditation teacher, who taught many notable meditation teachers including Dipa Ma, Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg, and Surya Das
• Atiśa Dipamkara Shrijnana, or Srjnana Atisa Dipanakara, Buddhist scholar, missionary and teacher, inventor of bodhichitta
• Tibbetibaba, philosopher saint
• Tilopa, Buddhist teacher, important figure in Tibetan Buddhism, founder of the Kagyu lineage and progressor of Mahamudra method

Hinduism

• Swami Abhedananda (Kaliprasad Chandra), monk, author, philosopher, occultist, reformer, founder of the Ramakrishna Vedanta Math
• Advaita Acharya, Vaishnava guru
• Sri Aurobindo, yogi, nationalist, philosopher, author, poet, visionary
• Gaura Kisora dasa Babaji, Vaishnava ascetic, mystic and recluse
• Jagannatha Dasa Babaji, Vaishnava ascetic
• Mahavatar Babaji, yogi and tantrik master
• Bamakhepa(Bamacharan Chattopadhyay ), tantrik guru and mystic of Tarapith
• Kamalakanta Bhattacharya, Tantrik/ Shakta saint and master, composer of Shakta devotional songs
• Baba Lokenath Brahmachari, yogi and philosopher
• Swami Brahmananda, one of the direct disciples of Ramakrishna, first president of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission
• Sri Chinmoy, Indian spiritual master
• Swami Satyananda Giri, Manamohan Mazumder monk, preacher and yogi
• Yukteswar Giri, Priyanath Karar, yogi, educationist, astronomer, and astrologer
• Nolini Kanta Gupta, revolutionary, linguist, scholar, critic, poet, philosopher and mystic, the most senior of Sri Aurobindo's disciples, author of many books
• Gopinath Kaviraj, yogi, philosopher, spiritual master, tantrik scholar and author
• Lalon, fakir, sahajiya saint philosopher, humanist, poet and composer of baul/sahajiya mystic songs
• Anandamoyi Ma, mystic, spiritual teacher and Tantrik Guru
• Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Vaishnava mystic, missionary, monk and social reformer
• Acharya Srimat Swami Pranavanandaji Maharaj, founder Bharat Sevashram Sangha
• Lahiri Mahasaya or Shyama Charan Lahiri, yogi, philosopher, the propagator of Kriya Yogay
• Nirmalananda, 19th century monk
• Nityananda, great avadut mystic, social reformer, chief associate of Chaitanya, reincarnation of Balaram and a primary figure within the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition of Bengal
• Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (Gadadhar Chattopadhaya), mystic, preacher of Dakshineshwar
• Nigamananda Paramahansa Saraswat, tantrik guru, vedantic scholar, author, yogi, mystic, philosopher, disciple of Bamakhepa, founder of several institutions
• A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (Abhay Charan Dey), Vaishnava missionary and theologian, founder of ISKCON
• Pranavananda, founder of Bharat Sevashram Sangha
• Rani Rashmoni, founder of Dakshineswar Kali Temple, Kolkata
• Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, Vaishnava missionary and theologian, founder of Gaudiya Math
• Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar or Sri Anandamurti, polymathic personality, author, philosopher, socio-political thinker, educationist, revolutionary, poet, composer, linguist, self-development and human welfare theorist, the founder of Ananda Marga (a socio-spiritual movement)
• Ramprasad Sen, tantrik master, mystic, famous as a composer of mystic, devotional songs to Goddess Kali
• Bhaktivinoda Thakur, Vaishnava missionary and theologian
• Swami Vivekananda (Narendranath Datta), monk, missionary and social reformer, founder of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission
• Paramahansa Yogananda, monk, philosopher, preacher, author and exponent of Kriya Yoga

Islam

• Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib, reformist Islamic Scholar of modern era
• Allama Azizul Haque, translated the Sahih Al Bukhari into Bengali language.
• Muhammad Abdul Malek, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar
• Abul Kalam Azad (politician), Bangladeshi preacher and politician from Jamaat-e-Islam
• Nurul Islam Farooqi, Bangladeshi preacher who was associated with TV shows, assassinated by Islamic militants
• Saheb Qiblah Fultali, Bangladeshi preacher
• Fazlul Haque Amini, Bangladeshi preacher
• Muhammad Faizullah,Bangladeshi preacher
• Abdur Rahim (scholar), Bangladeshi scholar
• Abdur Rahman (Islamic scholar), Bangladeshi scholar
• Sayed Kamaluddin Zafree, Bangladeshi preachee
• Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, Jamaat-e-Islam politician
• Ubaidul Haq, late Bangladeshi Imam of its central mosque

Christianity

• Kali Charan Banerjee, lawyer and theologian, founder of the Calcutta Christo Samaj, member of the Indian National Congress
• Krishna Mohan Banerjee, Bengali philosopher and litterateur, President of the Bengal Christian Association
• Puroshottam Choudhary, preacher, evangelist, writer of Christian literature
• Lal Behari Dey, Indian journalist, writer, and Christian missionary
• Mahesh Chandra Ghosh, Bengali philosopher and religious scholar
• Aurobindo Nath Mukherjee, first Indian Bishop of Calcutta and Metropolitan of India
• Krishna Pal, Bengali evangelist and missionary, first Bengali convert to Christianity under William Carey

Brahmoism

• Ram Mohan Roy
• Sivanath Sastri
• Keshub Chandra Sen
• Debendranath Tagore, social thinker and reformer, founder of the Brahmo Religion or Brahmoism, the youngest religion of India

Unitarianism

• Ram Mohan Roy

Wicca

• Ipsita Roy Chakraverti

Others

• Abul Barkat

Physicists

• Kedareswar Banerjee, first crystallographer of India, known for X-ray Crystallography and was director of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata. The K. Banerjee Centre of Atmospheric and Ocean Studies was established in his honour
• Srikumar Banerjee, director of BARC and AECI
• Mani Lal Bhaumik, physicist, helped develop the first excimer laser at the University of California
• Debendra Mohan Bose, physicist,made contributions in the field of cosmic rays, artificial radioactivity and neutron physics
• Jagadish Chandra Bose, physicist, radio and wireless transmission pioneer, also did substantial work on botany
• Satyendra Nath Bose, physicist, founded Bose–Einstein statistics, which helped to produce Bose–Einstein condensate (2001 Nobel Prize in Physics was given for this discovery); the Boson, an elementary particle named after him
• Swapan Chattopadhyay, particle accelerator physicist, contributed to the development of many accelerators around the world, e.g. the Super Proton-Antiproton Synchrotron, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and the Advanced Light Source at Berkeley
• Swapan Kumar Gain, Bengali-American physicist, Professor of Physics at the City University of New York
• Amitabha Ghosh, only Asian on NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission
• Dipan Ghosh, theoretical physicist, known for Majumdar–Ghosh model
• Hiranmay Sen Gupta, physicist, has published around 200 research papers in various international journals
• Mohammad Ataul Karim, known for contributions to the fields of electro-optical devices and systems, optical computing and processing, and pattern recognition
• Ashesh Prasad Mitra, performed major work in the field of the Earth's near-space environment, through group based and space techniques
• Sisir Kumar Mitra, physicist, pioneer in the investigations of ionosphere, the Mitra crater on the Moon is named after him
• Bedabrata Pain, co-inventor of CMOS image sensor, also an award-winning filmmaker
• Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri, physicist, known for his contributions to relativity and cosmology including Raychaudhuri's equation
• Somak Raychaudhury, astrophysicist and observational cosmologist, Director, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics
• Meghnad Saha, physicist, produced the Thermo-Ionization Equation or Saha Equation
• Ashoke Sen, physicist, known for his contributions to string theory, co-discovered S-duality
• Bikash Sinha, former director of SINP and Padmabhusan awardee

Biologists

• Maqsudul Alam, scientist and professor, achieved four milestones in genomics — sequencing the genomes of papaya, rubber plants, jute and fungus
• Gopal Chandra Bhattacharya, known for his pioneering work on social insects and the role of bacteria in metamorphosis
• Sharmila Bhattacharya, head of the Biomodel Performance and Behavior laboratory at NASA Ames Research Center
• Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty, most notable for his work in directed evolution and his role in developing a genetically engineered organism using plasmid transfer while working at GE
• Maharani Chakravorty, organized the first laboratory course on recombinant DNA techniques in Asia and Far East in 1981
• Biraja Sankar Guha, first director of Anthropological Survey of India
• Dilip Mahalanabis, biologist, under his leadership the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (Bangladesh medical centre), discovered Oral Rehydration Therapy, which has saved more than 40 million lives from diarrhoea
• Panchanan Mitra, first professor of anthropology in India, among the first Indians to study at Yale University
• Sarat Chandra Roy, widely regarded as the father of Indian ethnography, the first Indian ethnographer, and as the first Indian anthropologist
• Ram Brahma Sanyal, pioneer in captive breeding, and was one of the first zookeepers trained as a biologist. He was a corresponding member of the Zoological Society of London

Chemistry

• Asima Chatterjee, known for her work in the fields of organic chemistry and phytomedicine; her most notable work includes those on vinca alkaloids, and the development of anti-epileptic and anti-malarial drugs
• Abul Hussam, chemist, inventor of Sono arsenic filter and the gold winner of the 2007 Grainger Challenge Prize for Sustainability
• Abdus Suttar Khan, chemist, inventor of alloys for use in commercial jets, U.S. fighter planes, gas turbines, train engines, and space shuttles
• Jnan Chandra Ghosh, chemist, known for anomaly of strong electrolytes
• Jnanendra Nath Mukherjee, chemist, specialised in the fields of electrochemistry, colloids and soil science
• Prafulla Chandra Roy, pioneer in the field of pharmaceutical and chemical works (discovered mercurous nitrite), The Royal Society of Chemistry honoured him with the first ever Chemical Landmark Plaque outside Europe, founder of Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals, India's first pharmaceutical company

Doctors and physicians

• Rafiuddin Ahmed, dentist, founder of the first dental college of India and Bengal Dental Association, which later became Indian Dental Association
• Hassan Suhrawardy,second Muslim from the sub-continent to become a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
• Upendranath Brahmachari, synthesized Urea Stibamine (carbostibamide) and used it in the treatment of Kala-azar (leishmaniasis), was a nominee for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Surjo Kumar Chakraborty, India's first graduate in medicine
• Kadambini Ganguly, one of the first two Indian women who trained in Western medicine
• Jogesh Chandra Ghosh, pioneer of modern Ayurvedic medicine
• Sake Dean Mahomed, surgeon and entrepreneur
• Siddhartha Mukherjee, physician, scientist and writer, author of the book The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 2011
• Subhash Mukhopadhyay, physician, became the first physician in India and second in the world to perform In Vitro fertilization
• Shuvo Roy, scientist and inventor of implantable artificial kidney
• Mahendralal Sarkar, homeopath and founder of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science

Mathematicians

• Amiya Charan Banerjee, Indian mathematician
• Debabrata Basu, mathematician, found Basu's theorem
• A. Bhattacharya, known for Bhattacharya coefficient, and the Bhattacharya distance
• Raj Chandra Bose, mathematician, known for Association scheme, Bose–Mesner algebra, Euler's conjecture
• Anil Kumar Gain, mathematician and statistician from University of Cambridge, Fellow of the Royal Society
• Jayanta Kumar Ghosh, mathematician, known for Bahadur-Ghosh-Kiefer representation and Ghosh-Pratt identity
• Azizul Haque, pioneered the mathematical formula for Henry Classification System of fingerprinting
• Samarendra Nath Roy, mathematician, known for multivariate analysis
• Radhanath Sikdar, mathematician, calculated the height of Mount Everest

Technology

• Shubham Banerjee, inventor of Braigo; at 12 years old (2014) became the youngest entrepreneur to receive Venture Capital Funding
• Shuman Ghosemajumder, co-founder of TeachAIDS, former click fraud czar at Google
• Jawed Karim, co-founder of YouTube, lead architect of PayPal
• Samarendra Kumar Mitra, designed, developed and constructed, in 1953, India's first indigenous computer (an electronic analog computer)

Architecture

• Vidyadhar Bhattacharya (1693-1751), the chief architect and city planner of Jaipur, Rajasthan.^[4] Along with Sir Samuel Swinton Jacob, he is credited as the architect of City Palace, Jaipur.^[5]
• Fazlur Rahman Khan, structural engineer and architect, father of tubular designs for high-rises such as Willis Tower (AKA Sears Tower) and the John Hancock Center

Athletics

• Swapna Barman, heptathlon athlete
• Soma Biswas, heptathlon athlete
• Shanta Ghosh, retired German sprinter who specialized in the 400 meters
• Hari Shankar Roy, Indian track field athlete
• Saraswati Saha, Indian former track and field sprinter
• Jyotirmoyee Sikdar, athletics, double gold-medallist in track at Asian games, was awarded Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award and Padma Shri award

Archery

• Dola Banerjee, Indian female archer
• Rahul Banerjee, Indian archer
• Krishna Das, former Indian archer
• Jayanta Talukdar, archer

Badminton

• Dipu Ghosh, former badminton player
• Raman Ghosh, former badminton player

Bodybuilding, boxing, and wrestling

• Manohar Aich, bodybuilder
• Tameer Anwar, bodybuilder, Mister Bangladesh
• Laxman Das, wrestler and weight lifter
• Sukhen Dey, weightlifter
• Ambika Charan Guha, Indian wrestler who pioneered the growth of Akhada culture in Bengal
• Gobar Guha, Indian wrestler and practitioner of Pehlwani
• Mohammed Ali Qamar, Indian boxer
• Reba Rakshit, Indian female bodybuilder and exponent of yoga
• Monotosh Roy, Indian bodybuilder, first Asian to be awarded the Mr. Universe title
• Paresh Lal Roy, known as the "father of Indian boxing"
• Asit Kumar Saha, wrestler and wrestling coach
• Sudhir Saha, wrestler, coach and wrestling administrator in India, introduced Greco-Roman wrestling in India

Chess

• Dibyendu Barua, Indian chess grandmaster
• Surya Shekhar Ganguly, Indian grandmaster
• Rani Hamid, awarded the FIDE Woman International Master (WIM) title in 1985
• Niaz Morshed, chess player from Bangladesh, the first Chess Grandmaster to emerge from South Asia
• Ziaur Rahman, Bangladeshi Grandmaster
• Abdullah Al Rakib, Bangladeshi Grandmaster

Cricket

• Taskin Ahmed, Bangladeshi bowler
• Mohammad Ashraful, Bangladeshi cricketer, youngest centurion in test cricket
• Gargi Banerji, former Indian Women cricketer, hold international records
• Habibul Bashar, former Bangladeshi cricketer
• Gopal Bose, former Indian ODI player
• Utpal Chatterjee, former Indian cricketer
• Aftab Ahmed Chowdhury, former Bangladeshi cricketer
• Nirode Chowdhury, former Indian Test cricketer and pace bowler
• Deep Dasgupta, former Indian national cricket team wicket-keeper
• Rumeli Dhar, cricketer, Indian women's cricket team
• Ashok Dinda, Indian cricket team player
• Sourav Ganguly, former Indian cricket team captain, Padma Shri awardee
• Jhulan Goswami, Indian woman cricketer, awarded ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year 2007
• Isa Guha, English women's team cricketer
• Subrata Guha, former Indian Test cricketer
• Shakib Al Hasan, Bangladeshi cricketer
• Rubel Hossain, Bangladeshi cricketer
• Shahadat Hossain, Bangladeshi cricketer
• Tamim Iqbal, Bangladeshi cricketer
• Taijul Islam, Bangladeshi bowler
• Alok Kapali, former Bangladeshi cricketer
• Mithu Mukherjee, former Indian women's cricket team player
• Saradindu Mukherjee, former Indian cricketer
• Mushfiqur Rahim, Bangladeshi cricketer
• Mahmudullah Riyad, Bangladeshi cricketer
• Pankaj Roy, former Indian cricket captain, known for establishing the world record opening partnership of 413 runs against New Zealand
• Pranab Roy, former Test cricketer for India Championship (1983, 1985, 1989)
• Priyanka Roy, former cricketer of Indian women's cricket team
• Wriddhiman Saha, Indian cricket player
• Soumya Sarkar, Bangladeshi cricketer
• Probir Sen, former Indian Test cricketer/wicket-keeper

Football

• Neil Taylor (footballer), Welsh footballer of half-Bengali origin
• Pradip Kumar Banerjee, footballer, named Indian Footballer of the 20th Century by FIFA
• Prasun Banerjee, former Indian national football player, Arjuna award winner
• Sibdas Bhaduri, captained Mohun Bagan in the historic 1911 IFA Shield Final, where they defeated the East Yorkshire Regiment, 2-1
• Arindam Bhattacharya, Indian national football player
• Subhash Bhowmick, former Indian international football player
• Sudip Chatterjee, footballer, considered among the finest in Indian football, declared AIFF player of the decade in 1994
• Narayan Das, Indian national football player
• Krishanu Dey, footballer, known as the "Indian Maradona"
• Robin Dutt, former manager of Bundesliga club Werder Bremen, current representative for sport of VfB Stuttgart
• Chuni Goswami, former Indian Footballer, Padma Shri awardee, awarded best striker of Asia in 1962
• Pronay Halder, Indian national football player
• Mehtab Hossain, former Indian national football player
• Pritam Kotal, Indian national football player
• Shailen Manna, footballer, the only Asian footballer ever to be named among the 10 best captains in the world by the English FA in 1953
• Arnab Mondal, Indian national football player
• Deepak Kumar Mondal, football player, Arjuna award winner
• Syed Rahim Nabi, Indian international footballer, known as 'Mr. Versatile' for his ability to play at any position (except goalkeeper), declared Indian player of the year in 2012
• Gostho Pal, footballer. Member of the 1st Indian team, Mohun Bagan that won the IFA shield against a British team in the pre-independence period
• Subrata Paul, Indian national football player, first Indian goalkeeper to play professionally for a foreign club in 1st division
• Mohammed Salim, first Indian footballer to play overseas (in 1936 for the Scottish Club Celtic F.C.)
• Jewel Raja Shaikh, Indian national football player

Golf

• Anirban Lahiri
• Siddikur Rahman

Gymnastics

• Dipa Karmakar, first Indian woman gymnast to qualify for the Olympics
• Margarita Mamun, Russian woman gymanst of half-Bangladeshi origin

Mountaineering

• Chhanda Gain
• Musa Ibrahim, first Bangladeshi to scale Mount Everest
• Nishat Majumdar, first Bangladeshi woman to scale Mount Everest
• Asim Mukhopadhyay
• Wasfia Nazreen, second Bangladeshi woman to scale Mount Everest

Squash

• Ritwik Bhattacharya
• Saurav Ghosal, highest ranked Indian player

Swimming

• Masudur Rahman Baidya, world's first physically handicapped swimmer to swim across the English Channel in 1997 and the Strait of Gibraltar in 2001
• Bula Choudhury, first woman to cross the seven seas
• Brojen Das, first Asian to swim across the English Channel and the first person to cross it four times
• Prasanta Karmakar, para swimmer
• Sachin Nag, former swimming champion
• Arati Saha, first Indian and Asian woman to swim across English Channel; first Indian female sportsperson to be awarded the Padma Shri
• Mihir Sen, first Indian to swim across the English Channel, from Dover to Calais in 1958, and for swimming across five channels in one calendar year (1956)

Table tennis

• Ankita Das, Olympian
• Mouma Das, Olympian
• Poulomi Ghatak
• Soumyajit Ghosh, Olympian
• Zobera Rahman Linu, Guinness World Record holder
• Subhajit Saha

Tennis

• Leander Paes, Olympic Medalist
• Shibu Lal, Bangladeshi ATP player
• Jaidip Mukerjea, Arjuna award winner
• Afrana Islam Prity, Bangladeshi ITF player