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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.
Siddhartha Shankar Ray, former Congress Chief Minister of West Bengal, former Indian ambassador to United States; Bidhan Chandra Roy, physician, former Congress Chief Minister of West Bengal, Bharat Ratna; Ashoke Kumar Sen, former Law Minister, barrister, and parliamentarian
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman: Voted as the Greatest Bengali of all time in the 2004 BBC opinion poll. Soon after the completion of 100 Greatest Britons poll in 2002, the BBC organized a similar opinion poll to find out the greatest Bengali personalities throughout the history of Bengali people.
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.
People from the state of West Bengal, India. See also Category:People from Kolkata , the capital of the state. Wikimedia Commons has media related to People of West Bengal .
Women writers (poets, novelists, screenplay writers, playwrights, journalists etc) who live or have lived West Bengal. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Writers from West Bengal . It includes writers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
Girls' schools in West Bengal (1 C, 34 P) U. Women's universities and colleges in West Bengal (2 C, 60 P) Pages in category "Women from West Bengal"
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Musicians from West Bengal. It includes musicians that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Women musicians (instrumentalists, composers, singers etc) who live or have lived in West Bengal.