Category
page 1Bengali-language writers
Satyajit Ray
Indian filmmaker and writer (1921–1992)
Mahasweta Devi
Indian Bengali fiction writer and socio-political activist (1926-2016)
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Bengali feminist writer and social reformer (1880-1932)
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
Bengali novelist and short story writer (1876-1938)
Sushmita Banerjee
writer, memoirist, women's rights activist
Abanindranath Tagore
Indian painter and writer (1871–1951)

Ritwik Ghatak
Indian Bengali filmmaker and script writer (1925–1976)
Ashapoorna Devi
Indian writer (1909–1995)
Humayun Ahmed
author, poet, dramatist and film director (1948–2012)
Sukumar Ray
Bengali poet, story writer, playwright and editor (1887-1923)

Buddhadeb Dasgupta
Indian director (1944–2021)
Sunil Gangopadhyay
Award-winning and bestselling Bengali poet and author (1934-2012)
Upendra Kishore Ray Choudhury
Bengali artist (1863-1915)
Baby Halder
Indian author (born 1973)
Nawab Faizunnesa
Bengali writer
Leela Majumdar
Indian author of children's books (1908–2007)

Ramprasad Sen
Shakta poet of eighteenth century Bengal
Ghulam Azam
Bangladeshi politician (1922-2014)
Badal Sarkar
Indian Dramatist and theatre personality
Azizul Haque
Islamic studies scholar
Selina Hossain
Bengali writer
Bhupendranath Dutta
Indian revolutionary and noted sociologist (1880–1961)
Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay
Indian archaeologist (1885–1930)
Kedarnath Dutta
Indian spiritual leader (1838–1914)
Prabir Ghosh
Indian writer & rationalist
Abul Mansur Ahmed
Journalist, writer and politician (1898–1979)

Rajshekhar Basu
Indian writer (1880–1960)
Joy Goswami
Bengali writer

Anisuzzaman
Abu Tayyab Muhammad Anisuzzaman (18 February 1937 – 14 May 2020) was a Bangladeshi academic of Bengali literature. He was an activist who took part in the Language Movement (1952), participated in the Mass Uprising (1969), and took part in the Bangladesh Liberation War (1971).
Muhammed Zafar Iqbal
Bangladeshi scientist and writer
Rajnarayan Basu
Indian writer
Dinabandhu Mitra
Bengali dramatist (1830–1873)

Prajnasundari Devi
Bengali writer
Nilima Ibrahim
Bangladeshi writer (1921-2002)
Mandākrāntā Sen
Indian writer
Akshay Kumar Datta
Indian writer, essayist and journalist (1820-1886)
Muhammad Shahidullah
Bangladeshi linguist (1885–1969)
Bimal Mitra
Bengali writer (1912–1991)
Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay
Indian Bengali writer
Krittibas Ojha
Indian writer and poet of mediaval period

Lal Behari Day
Bengali Indian journalist and Christian missionary
Hasan Azizul Huq
Bangladeshi novelist (1939–2021)
Humayun Kabir
British Indian politician and writer (1906-1969)
Chitra Deb
Bengali novelist and editor
M. A. Wazed Miah
Bangladeshi physicist

Shakti Chattopadhyay
Indian writer (1933–1995)
Rabindra Puraskar
Literary award
Kabir Chowdhury
Bangladeshi academic and writer
Syed Mustafa Siraj
Bangali Writer (1930–2012)
Shibnath Shastri
Indian Academics, social reformer, philosopher, writer, translator, historian (1847–1919)

Ram Chandra Vidyabagish
Indian academic
Ullaskar Dutta
Bengali revolutionary (1885–1965)

Rassundari Dasi
Bengali writer (1810–1900)
Mukundaram Chakrabarti
poet of Bengal

Manikuntala Sen
Indian politician (c. 1911–1987)
Sumit Sarkar
Indian historian of modern India (born 1939)
Samaresh Majumdar
Indian Bengali writer (1944–2023)
Rizia Rahman
Bangladeshi writer (1939-2019)
Abdul Gaffar Choudhury
writer from Bangladesh
Razia Khan
Bangladeshi writer (1936–2011)