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This is a list of notable people from West Bengal, India. This list does not include the significant number of prominent East Bengali refugees from East Bengal who settled in West Bengal after the partition of the Indian sub-continent in 1947.
Name Reign Notes Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah: 1352–1358 Became the first sole ruler of whole Bengal comprising Sonargaon, Satgaon and Lakhnauti.: Sikandar Shah: 1358–1390 Killed in battle with his son and successor, Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah
Satyendra Nath Bose (1894—1974), physicist and polymath from Bengal; Suniti Kumar Chattopadhyay (1890—1977), Bengali linguist; Krishnendu Chaudhury, computer scientist; Barun De (1932—2013), historian; Brajendranath De (1852—1932), Indian civil servant and orientalist; Anil Kumar Gain (1919—1978), mathematician and statistician.
Bengalis around the world, specifically from Bangladesh, India (states of West Bengal, Tripura, Orissa and Assam) and overseas Bengali communities participated in the poll. A total of 140 nominations were produced from the opinion poll.
People from the state of West Bengal, India. See also Category:People from Kolkata, the capital of the state.
16 June 1944, Calcutta, Bengal, now West Bengal: 3 Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy: Bengali Hindu family, Khulna, Bengal, now Bangladesh (East Bengal) Medicine: National Doctors' Day in India is celebrated every year on July 1 to commemorate his birth anniversary, recipient of Bharat Ratna (1961), Chief Minister of West Bengal (1948-1962)
Dramatists and playwrights from West Bengal (35 P) J. Journalists from West Bengal (68 P) N. Novelists from West Bengal (95 P) P. Poets from West Bengal (1 C, 104 P) S.
Women scientists who live or have lived in West Bengal. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:scientists from West Bengal . It includes writers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.