Sengupta
Sengupta is a surname found among Bengali people of India and Bangladesh. They belong to the Baidya caste.
Geographical distribution
As of 2014, 67.8% of all known bearers of the surname Sengupta were residents of India and 22.5% were residents of Bangladesh. In India, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average in the following states and union territories:[1]
- 1. West Bengal (1: 1,621)
- 2. Tripura (1: 9,413)
- 3. Arunachal Pradesh (1: 10,887)
- 4. Delhi (1: 11,950)
- 5. Andaman and Nicobar Islands (1: 14,613)
Notables
- Achintyakumar Sengupta (1903–1976), renowned Bengali author
- Apoorva Sengupta (1939–2013), former Indian cricketer
- Arjun Kumar Sengupta (1937–2010), Indian politician and Member of the Parliament of India
- Arunabha Sengupta (born 1973), Indian novelist
- Barun Sengupta (1934–2008), Bengali journalist and founder-editor of Bartaman newspaper
- Biswatosh Sengupta (born 1944), Indian academic from Kolkata
- Deep Sengupta (born 1988), chess player from Jharkhand, India, currently residing in Kolkata
- Gurunath Sengupta (1848–1914), Sanskrit scholar from the Jessore District of Bangladesh
- Indraneil Sengupta, Indian model and actor, born in Assam
- Jatindra Mohan Sengupta (1885–1933), Indian revolutionary, President of then Bengal Provincial Congress Committee and Bengal Swaraj Party
- Jatindranath Sengupta (1887–1954), Bengali poet and writer
- Jisshu Sengupta, also known as Jisshu, Bengali film actor
- Mallika Sengupta (1960–2011), Bengali poet, feminist, and reader of Sociology from Kolkata
- N. C. Sen Gupta, the eleventh Governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 19 May to 19 August 1975
- N. Sengupta, Indian cricketer who played for Assam
- Narendra Nath Sen Gupta (1889–1944), Harvard-educated Indian psychologist, philosopher, and professor
- Nares Chandra Sen-Gupta, (1882–1964) legal scholar and a Bengali novelist in Calcutta, India
- Nellie Sengupta (1886–1973), Englishwoman who fought for Indian Independence
- Nikhil Baran Sengupta, (1943–2014) art director of Oriya films
- Niranjan Sen Gupta, Bengali Indian revolutionary
- Nitish Sengupta (1933–2013), Revenue Secretary of the Government of India
- Partho Sen-Gupta, (born 1965) independent film director and screenwriter of Indian origin
- Paulami Sengupta, the editor of three magazines in India: Anandamela, Unish Kuri and Career
- Poile Sengupta (born 1948), one of the foremost Indian writers in English
- Prabodh Chandra Sengupta (1876–1962), historian of astronomy in ancient India
- Rituparna Sengupta (born 1971), Indian actress in Bengali and Hindi films
- Rudraprasad Sengupta (born 1935), Bengali Indian actor, director and cultural critic
- Sachin Sengupta (1891–1961), Bengali playwright and theatre producer and director
- Stephanie Sengupta, American producer and writer
- Sudipta Sengupta, professor in structural geology in Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India
- Sukhamoy Sen Gupta, Chief Minister of Tripura in India from 1972 to 1977
- Suranjit Sengupta (1945–2017), senior Bangladesh Awami League politician in Bangladesh
- Upal Sengupta, lead vocalist of Bengali band Chandrabinoo
- Ushoshi Sengupta, (born 1988) Indian beauty pageant contestant and winner of Miss India Universe 2010
References
See also
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