Gour Khyapa (15 August 1947 – 26 January 2013) was a Bengali Baul singer and a philosopher.

[2][3] He also worked with Jerzy Grotowski, a Polish theatre director and theorist.

[4] He refused to visit the United States to perform in Peter Brook’s 1989 film The Mahabharata, when told he couldn’t legally carry hemp with him.

[4] On 22 January 2013, he was hospitalised after a street accident at Ilambazar near Shantiniketan.

[2][3] On 15 September 2019 Indian politician and current Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee homage to Gour Khyapa on Twitter.