List of Bengalis

This article provides lists of famous and notable Bengali people in the Indian subcontinent, people with Bengali ancestry, and people who speak Bengali as their primary language.

List of Bengalis who received Bharat Ratna:

A 19th century sketch of Isa Khan , a Muslim Rajput leader of Bengal.
Abdul Malik was Pakistan's first cardiologist.
Khalil Ullah Khan earned Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Gunda in 1976.
In 1994, Saifur Rahman was elected governor of the golden jubilee conference of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Madrid , Spain . [ 4 ]
Anwar Choudhury was the first non-white British person to be appointed in a senior diplomatic post.
A. K. Fazlul Huq
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Khaleda Zia
Sheikh Hasina Wazed
Nawab Syed Shamsul Huda was a patron, and donated immensely towards education for the Muslim students of Bengal during a difficult period.
Abul Kalam Azad was India's first Minister of Education , and his birthday is now recognised as National Education Day across the country.
I'tisam-ud-Din was the first educated Bengali and South Asian to have travelled to Europe.
Image of Swami Vivekananda relaxing in a chair
Swami Vivekananda in Bushnell Studio in San Francisco, 1900 [ 21 ]
Shah Ahmad Shafi in 2019
Ajmal Masroor was nominated for the Religious Advocate of the Year award at the 2013 & 2015 British Muslim Awards .
Seated (L to R): Meghnad Saha , Jagadish Chandra Bose , Jnan Chandra Ghosh . Standing (L to R): Snehamoy Dutt, Satyendranath Bose , Debendra Mohan Bose , N R Sen, Jnanendra Nath Mukherjee , N C Nag.
Abdus Suttar Khan invented more than forty different alloys for commercial application in space shuttles, jet engines, train engines and industrial gas turbines.
Sir Fazle Hasan Abed KCMG receiving the Thomas Francis Jr Medal in Global Public Health award from the University of Michigan (April 2016)
Brojen Das was the first Bengali to swim across the English Channel.
Hamza Choudhury playing for Leicester City F.C. in 2021.
Rabindranath Tagore is the first Indian as well as Asian Nobel laureate.
Al Mahmud is considered one of the greatest Bengali poets to have emerged in the 20th century. [ 23 ]
Hason Raja , mystical poet and songwriter