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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.
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman[ c ] (17 March 1920 – 15 August 1975), popularly known by the honorific prefix Bangabandhu[ d ] (lit.'Friend of Bengal '), was a Bangladeshi politician, revolutionary, statesman, activist and diarist. As a politician, Mujib had held continuous positions either as Bangladesh's president or as its prime minister from April ...
Victor Banerjee, Bengali Tollywood, Bollywood and Hollywood actor; the only Indian to win National Board of Review Award for Best Actor. Bipasha Basu, Bollywood actress. Jaya Bhattacharya, actress. Nivedita Bhattacharya, theatre actress. Samit Bhanja, Bollywood and Bengali actor. Ritwik Bhowmik, Bollywood actor.
— Letter to Indira Devi. The youngest of 13 surviving children, Tagore (nicknamed "Rabi") was born on 7 May 1861 in the Jorasanko mansion in Calcutta, the son of Debendranath Tagore (1817–1905) and Sarada Devi (1830–1875). [b] Tagore and his wife Mrinalini Devi, 1883 Tagore was raised mostly by servants; his mother had died in his early childhood and his father travelled widely. The ...
Signature. Jibanananda Das ( জীবনানন্দ দাস ) (Bengali pronunciation: ['dʒibonˌanondoː daʃ]) (17 February 1899 – 22 October 1954) [1] was a Bengali poet, writer, novelist and essayist in the Bengali language. Popularly called "Rupashi Banglar Kabi'' ('Poet of Beautiful Bengal'), [2][3] Das is the most read Bengali ...
1998. Amartya Sen (Kolkata , West Bengal , India) India. Awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for fundamental contribution to the welfare economy. 2006. Muhammad Yunus (Chattogram district, Bengal, now Bangladesh) Bangladesh. Muhammad Yunus and his founding Grameen Bank jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for the ...
Kazi Nazrul Islam. Kazi Nazrul Islam (Bengali: কাজী নজরুল ইসলাম, pronounced [kad͡ʒi ˈnod͡ʒɾul islam] ⓘ; 24 May 1899 – 29 August 1976) was a Bengali poet, writer, journalist, and musician. [8] He is the national poet of Bangladesh. Nazrul produced a large body of poetry, music, messages, novels, and stories ...
The term Bengali is generally used to refer to someone whose linguistic, cultural or ancestral origins are from Bengal. The Indo-Aryan Bengalis are ethnically differentiated from the non-Indo-Aryan tribes inhabiting Bengal. Their ethnonym, Bangali, along with the native name of the Bengali language and Bengal region, Bangla, are both derived ...