Category
page 1Bengali musicians
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)
Satyajit Ray
Indian filmmaker and writer (1921–1992)

Ravi Shankar
Indian sitar player (1920–2012)
Norah Jones
American musician (born 1979)
Kazi Nazrul Islam
National poet of Bangladesh (1899-1976)
Anoushka Shankar
British-American musician
Kishore Kumar
Indian singer and actor (1929–1987)
Ali Akbar Khan
Hindustani musician (1922–2009)

Kumar Sanu
Indian playback singer

R. D. Burman
Rahul Dev Burman was an Indian music director and singer, who is considered to be one of the greatest and most successful music directors of the Hindi film music industry. From the 1960s to the 1990s, Burman composed musical scores for 331 films, bringing a new level of music ensemble with his compositions. Burman did his major work with legendary singers Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle and Mohammed Rafi. He also worked extensively with lyricists like Majrooh Sultanpuri, Anand Bakshi and Gulzar, with whom he created some of the most memorable numbers in his career. Nicknamed Pancham, he was the only son of the composer Sachin Dev Burman and his Bengali lyricist wife Meera Dev Burman.

Pritam Chakraborty
Pritam Chakraborty (; born 14 June 1971), also popularly known mononymously as Pritam, is a National Film Award winning Indian composer. Graduating from FTII in Sound Engineering, he worked as an ad jingle composer, sound designer & theme music composer for TV serials, and later debuted as a co-composer alongside Jeet Gannguli in the 2001 Hindi film Tere Liye.
Bappi Lahiri
Indian music director (1952–2022)
Hemanta Mukhopadhyay
Indian singer (1920–1989)
Runa Laila
Bangladeshi singer
Vilayat Khan
Indian musician (1928–2004)

Lalon
Lalon (; 1772 – 17 October 1890), also known as Lalon Shah, Lalon Fakir and Shahji, was a Bengali spiritual leader, philosopher, mystic poet and social reformer. Born in what is now Khulna Division in Bangladesh, Lalon is regarded as an icon of Bengali culture, as he inspired and influenced many philosophers, poets and social thinkers including Rabindranath Tagore, Kazi Nazrul Islam and Allen Ginsberg. Lalon's philosophy of humanity rejects all distinctions of caste, class, and creed and takes a stand against theological conflicts and racism. It denies all worldly affairs in search of the soul
Salil Chowdhury
Indian composer, poet and playwright (1925–1995)
Annapurna Devi
Indian musician (1927-2018)
Allauddin Khan
Indian musician, circa 1881-1972
Nikhil Banerjee
Indian sitar player (1931–1986)

Rajesh Roshan
Indian composer
Sanchita Bhattacharya
Indian playback singer
Farida Parveen
Bangladeshi singer (1954–2025)
Meher Afroz Shaon
Bangladeshi actress, director and architect
Jeet Ganguly
Indian score composer, music director and singer
Shantanu Moitra
Indian composer
Ananda Shankar
Indian musician (1942–1999)
Raichand Boral
Indian composer (1903-1981)
Amitabh Bhattacharya
Lyricist and singer who works in Bollywood films
Atulprasad Sen
Indian musician and activist (1871-1934)
Sandhya Mukhopadhyay
Indian singer
Dwijendralal Ray
Bengali poet, playwright, and musician
Kabir Suman
Bengali singer
Paban Das Baul
Indian Baul singer
Anupam Roy
Indian musician
Anjan Dutt
Indian filmmaker and musician
Ayub Bachchu
Bangladeshi musician, singer, and songwriter (1962-2018)
Neeta Sen
Indian musician
Neha Rajpal
singer and film producer from India
Mohini Dey
Indian bass guitarist
Santidev Ghosh
Indian singer (1910-1999)

Lily Chakraborty
Composer, Singer
Harinath Majumder
Editor, Grambarta prakashika (1833–1896)
Abbas Uddin
Bengali singer
Nachiketa Chakraborty
Indian Bengali singer-songwriter and composer
Shyamal Mitra
Indian singer (1929-1987)
Sabina Yasmin
Bangladeshi musician (* 1954)
Shimul Yousuf
Bangladeshi singer, actress
Robin Ghosh
Pakistani and Bangladeshi composer (1939-2016)
Dilip Kumar Roy
Indian musician, musicologist, novelist, poet and essayist (1897–1980)
Shankar Ghosh
Indian musician
Bickram Ghosh
Indian actor
Kanika Banerjee
Indian singer

Alpana Banerjee
musician (1934-2009)
Runki Goswami
Indian musician
Bahadur Khan
Indian musician

Mimlu Sen
Indian translator, musician, producer and composer
Ferdausi Rahman
Bangladeshi singer
Tapas Das
Indian musician and formar member of Tapas Das Moheener Ghoraguli
Amar Pal
Indian folk singer