Shyamal Chakraborty (5 February 1944 – 6 August 2020) was an Indian politician and trade unionist, who was a member of the Rajya Sabha from 2008 to 2014 from West Bengal.

After partition, his family moved to West Bengal and settled in Motijheel refugee colony in Dumdum.

[2] He was elected to the West Bengal Legislative Assembly in 1981 in a byelection from Maniktala (Vidhan Sabha constituency).

He led the West Bengal Centre of Indian Trade Unions as its state president for around two decades.

[9] He also visited Switzerland, U.S.S.R., China, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Cuba, Germany, Austria, U.K., U.S.A., France, Italy, Spain and Vietnam as member of different government delegations.