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Kalikrishna Mitra
Indian philanthropist
Abul Kashem
Bangladeshi politician and writer (1920-1991)
Shamsunnahar Mahmud
Pakistani politician
Girish Chandra Sen
Bengali writer (1835–1910)
Chitra Deb
Bengali novelist and editor
Humayun Kabir
British Indian politician and writer (1906-1969)
Shibdas Ghosh
Indian politician (1923-1976)
Muhammad Shahidullah
Bangladeshi linguist (1885–1969)
Krishna Das Kaviraj
15th-century Bengali author of Chaitanya Charitamrita
Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay
Indian Bengali writer
Lal Behari Day
Bengali Indian journalist and Christian missionary
Devapriya Roy
author
Agradoot
Agradoot () was a group of Indian film technicians signing collectively as director, a phenomenon unique to Bengali cinema. The Agradoot core unit, formed in 1946, consisted initially of Bibhuti Laha (cameraman, 1915–1997), Jatin Datta (sound), Sailen Ghosal (lab work), Nitai Bhattacharya (scenarist) and Bimal Ghosh (production). The group was active up to the end of 1980s.
Kabir Chowdhury
Bangladeshi academic and writer
Utpalendu Chakrabarty
Indian film director
Tushar Kanti Ghosh
Bengali writer (1898–1994)
Dineshchandra Sircar
Indian epigraphist, historian, numismatist and folklorist (1907–1985)
Ramananda Chatterjee
Indian magazine editor (1865-1943)
Hemendranath Tagore
Indian Brahmo (1844–1884)
Hariharananda Giri
Indian Yogi (1907-2002)
Surendranath Tagore
Bengali writer (1872-1940)
Mrinalini Sen
Bengali writer
Syed Mustafa Siraj
Bangali Writer (1930–2012)
Manikuntala Sen
Indian politician (c. 1911–1987)
Amlan Datta
Indian economist
Samaresh Basu
Bengali writer (1924-1988)
Shaikh Jamiruddin
writer and religious preacher
M. A. Wazed Miah
Bangladeshi physicist
Dwarkanath Ganguly
social reformer (1844–1898)
Samaresh Majumdar
Indian Bengali writer (1944–2023)
Prabhat Kumar Mukhopadhyay
Indian writer (1873–1932)
Sukhalata Rao
Bengali writer
Anusree Roy
Indian-Canadian writer
Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya
Indian philosopher (1875-1949)
Troilokyanath Mukhopadhyay
Indian museum superintendent and writer
Protap Chunder Mozoomdar
Philosopher, reformer (1840–1905)
Sugata Bose
Indian historian
Shaktipada Rajguru
Indian writer
Kaliprasanna Singha
Bengali writer of nineteenth-century and translator of the epic Mahabharata in Bangla
Benimadhab Barua
Bengali Writer, Indologist, and pundit of Pali and Buddhism (1888-1948)
Krishnabhabini Das
Bengali author and social activist
Hemchandra Kanungo
Indian Bengali revolutionary
Brahmabandhav Upadhyay
Indian activist (1861–1907)
Rizia Rahman
Bangladeshi writer (1939-2019)
Pramatha Chaudhuri
Bengali essayist, poet and writers (1868–1946)
Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay
writer (1899–1970)
Bijon Bhattacharya
Indian actor (1917-1978)
Leema Dhar
Indian author
Rangalal Bandyopadhyay
Bengali author
Monica Das
Indian writer
Belal Muhammad
Bangladeshi writer
Amiya Kumar Bagchi
Indian economic historian (1936-2024)
Kunal Basu
Indian author
Jayasri Chattopadhyay
Hemchandra Bandyopadhyay
Bengali poet (1838-1903)
Subodh Ghosh
Bengali writer, journalist (1909–1980)
Naresh Chandra Sengupta
Indian lawyer and writer
Ashalata Sen
writer and Revolutionary women.
Jaygopal Tarkalankar
Bengali writer
Kazi Abdul Wadud
Bengali writer and academic (1894–1970)