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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.
Firebrand politician who shook the foundation of Pakistan by breaking away its eastern wing (East Bengal or East Pakistan) as sovereign state of Bangladesh. Led Bengalis' decade-long struggle for independence against the then autocratic regime, finally resulting in the Bangladesh Liberation War and the independence of Bangladesh in 1971.
1999 Amartya Sen (Shantiniketan, Bengal Presidency, now Bolpur, West Bengal, India) 1999 Ravi Shankar (Varanasi, Benares State, now Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh,India) By Narendra Modi, Bharatiya Janata Party, NDA. 2019 Pranab Mukherjee (Birbhum, Bengal, now West Bengal)
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)
Satyendra Nath Bose (1894–1974), physicist and polymath from Bengal; Suniti Kumar Chattopadhyay (1890–1977), Bengali linguist; Barun De (1932–2013), historian; Brajendranath De (1852–1932), civil servant and orientalist; Anil Kumar Gain (1919–1978), mathematician and statistician
Writers from West Bengal (8 C, 103 P) This page was last edited on 29 September 2019, at 12:01 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Field hockey players from West Bengal (1 C, 5 P) Footballers from West Bengal (1 C, 125 P) G. Golfers from West Bengal (4 P) H. Sportspeople from Howrah (23 P) M.