Sen (surname)
Sen (Bengali: সেন) (pronounced Shen) is a Bengali Hindu surname derived from the Sanskrit word for "Army", Sena (सेना).
It is found in the east of the Indian Subcontinent; namely Bangladesh & West Bengal, India mainly among Baidya and Kayastha communities. Instances of the surname are also found in the Nepalese community.
Notables
- Sena Dynasty, the successors to the Pala Empire and the last Hindu kings of Greater Bengal
A
- Amarendra Nath Sen, jurist
- Amartya Sen (born 1933), Indian economist and philosopher, Nobel Prize winner
- Anil Kumar Sen, jurist
- Antara Dev Sen (born 1963), a British–Indian journalist
- Aparna Sen (born 1945), an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter and actress
- Asit Sen (actor) (1917 – 1993), a prolific Indian film actor and comedian in the Hindi film industry
- Ashoke Sen, theoretical physicist
- Ashoke Kumar Sen former law minister, lawyer, and parliamentarian
B
- Benoyendranath Sen, theologian of New Dispensation Brahmoism
- Binay Ranjan Sen, former Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Binayak Sen, human rights activist
D
- Dinesh Chandra Sen, researcher of Bengali folklore
J
- Jogendra Nath Sen, First Bengali soldier to die in the First World War
K
- Kaushik Sen (or Koushik Sen), an Indian actor of film, television and theatre based in Kolkata
- Keshab Chandra Sen, social reformer of India
- Konkona Sen (born 1979), an Indian actress, writer, and director
L
- Lakshya Sen (born 2001), an Indian male badminton player
M
- Mihir Sen (born 1930), a famous Indian long distance swimmer, a national hero and youth icon
- Moon Moon Sen (born 1954), an Indian film actress working in Bengali, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Marathi and Kannada films
- Mrinal Sen, Dadasaheb Phalke award-winning film director
N
- Nabinchandra Sen, poet and writer
- Nandana Sen (born 1967), daughter of Amartya Sen, actress in Hindi cinema, screenwriter, children's author and child-rights activist
P
- Pabitra Kumar Sen, scientist and social reformer
- Palash Sen, Band member of Euphoria (Indian band)
- Probir Sen, wicket keeper, the only wicket keeper to have stumped out Sir Donald Bradman
- Prafulla Chandra Sen, former chief minister of West Bengal
R
- Ramprasad Sen, singer and lyricist
- Raima Sen (born 1979), an Indian actress
- Reema Sen (born 1981), an Indian actress and model primarily working in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi films
- Rii Sen, actress
- Rimi Sen (born 1981), an Indian actress and film producer who has appeared in Bollywood, Telugu and Bengali films
- Riya Sen (born 1981), an Indian film actress and model
S
- Samar Sen, poet
- Sandipta Sen (born 1987), a Bengali television actress
- Shobha Sen (1923 - 2017, also known as Sova Sen), a Bengali theatre and film actress
- Shyamal Kumar Sen, jurist and former governor of West Bengal
- Srabani Sen (also spelt as Sraboni Sen), a Bengali Indian singer of Rabindra Sangeet and other genres of Bengali songs
- Surya Sen (1894 – 1934), a revolutionary and a famous Bengali freedom fighter
- Suchitra Sen (born as Roma Dasgupta, 1931), an Indian actress
- Sudeep Sen, poet
- Sukumar Sen, First Chief Election Commissioner of India
- Sukumar Sen, Bengali linguist
- Surya Sen (1894 – 1934), a revolutionary and a famous Bengali freedom fighter
- Susmit Sen, member of the band Indian Ocean
- Sushmita Sen (born 1975), an Indian actress, model and beauty queen former Miss Universe
Fictional characters
- Banalata Sen, fictional character in Jibanananda Das's poem
- Mr. Saurav Sen, fictional characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's short story, Mrs. Sen's, from her collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies.
See also
- Şen, Turkish surname
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