List of people from West Bengal
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This is a list of famous and notable people from West Bengal, India. This would include persons who are known to a large number of people and is not based on the extent of their popularity. Neither is the list viewed from the context of the present. Their fame could be brief, what matters is that they were well-known during the peak of their popularity.

Arts

• Abanindranath Tagore
• Nandalal Bose
• Ramkinkar Baij
• Jamini Roy

Business and Industry

Literature

• Rabindranath Tagore (Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913)
• Kazi Nazrul Islam
• Michael Madhushudhan Dutta
• Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay
• Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
• Tarashankar Bandopadhyay
• Manik Bandopadhyay
• Jibanananda Das
• Sunil Gangopadhyay

Movies

Directors

• Satyajit Ray, (OSCAR for Lifetime Achievementinin 1992)
• Mrinal Sen
• Ritwik Ghatak
• Tapan Sinha

Actors

• Uttam Kumar
• Soumitra Chatterjee
• Pramathesh Barua
• Utpal Dutta

Actresses

• Kanabala
• Suchitra Sen
• Supriya Devi

Music

• Ravi Shankar

Dance

• Uday Shankar

Theatre

• Girish Ghosh
• Shishir Bhaduri
• Shambhu Mitra
• Ajitesh Bandopadhyay

Politics

• Jyoti Basu
• Bidhan Chandra Roy

Science

• Jagadish Chandra Bose
• Satyendra Nath Bose
• Meghnad Saha

Religion

• Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
• Ramkrishna Paramhansa

Sports

• Saurav Ganguly, captain, Indian cricket team

Others

• Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (A social and cultural reformist who can be called the father of Bengali language)

See also: List of people by India state

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