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Poets from West Bengal

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Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)
Aurobindo Ghosh
Indian Bengali philosopher, yogi, maharishi, poet and nationalist (1872–1950)
Kazi Nazrul Islam
National poet of Bangladesh (1899-1976)
Mamata Banerjee
Mamata Banerjee is an Indian politician and lawyer who is currently serving as the chief minister of West Bengal since 20 May 2011; she is the first woman to hold the office. The founder and president of the All India Trinamool Congress, she previously served as a Union Cabinet Minister and is also the current leader of the house in West Bengal's Legislative Assembly.
Vikram Seth
Indian novelist and poet
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
Bengali novelist and short story writer (1876-1938)
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist
Michael Madhusudan Dutt
Bengali poet and dramatist (1824–1873)
Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay
Indian writer (1898–1971)
Ashapoorna Devi
Indian writer (1909–1995)
Toru Dutt
Bengali poet and translator (1856–1877)
Nabaneeta Dev Sen
Indian poet (1938-2019)
Sukumar Ray
Bengali poet, story writer, playwright and editor (1887-1923)
Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala'
Indian Poet, novelist, essayist and story-writer
Sunil Gangopadhyay
Award-winning and bestselling Bengali poet and author (1934-2012)
Mridula Garg
Indian writer
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio
Indian writer (1809-1831)
Maitreyi Devi
Bengali poet and novelist (1914–1989)
Shumona Sinha
French-Indian writer
Mallika Sengupta
Bengali poet
Bishnu Dey
Indian writer and poet (1909-1982)
Subhash Mukhopadhyay
Indian writer (1919–2003)
Rupa Goswami
Indian guru, poet and philosopher of the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition (1489-1564)
Premendra Mitra
Indian writer and film director
Joy Goswami
Bengali writer
Buddhadeb Bose
Indian writer (1908–1974)
Annada Shankar Ray
writer, poet, essayist (1905-2002)
Dwijendralal Ray
Bengali poet, playwright, and musician
Girish Chandra Ghosh
Bengali actor, director, and writer
Nirendranath Chakravarty
Popular contemporary Bengali poet
Subodh Sarkar
Indian Bengali poet, writer and editor
Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay
Indian writer (1899–1979)
Amiya Chakravarty
Indian literary critic, academic and Bengali Poet (1901–1986)
Shakti Chattopadhyay
Indian writer (1933–1995)
Lily Chakraborty
Composer, Singer
Samir Roychoudhury
Indian writer and poet (1933-2016)
Mukundaram Chakrabarti
poet of Bengal
Saroj Kumar Dutta
Indian intellectual and poet (1914-1971)
Kabita Sinha
Indian writer
Dilip Kumar Roy
Indian musician, musicologist, novelist, poet and essayist (1897–1980)
Sanjib Chandra Chattopadhyay
Indian writer
Rabindranath Datta
Indian poet
Alokranjan Dasgupta
Bengali poet (1933-2020)
Kamalakanta Bhattacharya
Bengali Shakta poet and yogi of India
Subimal Basak
Indian writer and poet
Satyendranath Dutta
Bengali poet and writer
Binoy Majumdar
Indian writer and poet
Adhar Lal Sen
Indian academic
Akshay Kumar Boral
Bengali writer (1860–1919)
Ramaranjan Mukherji
Indian academician, writer
Utpal Kumar Basu
Bengali poet (1939–2015)
Shibram Chakraborty
Indian writer, humorist and revolutionary
Arun Mitra
Indian writer (1909-2000)
Mohammad Mozammel Huq
Indian writer
Bijoy Chand Mahtab
Maharaja of Bardhaman and writer
Falguni Roy
Indian poet (1945–1981)
Sibnarayan Ray
Indian writer (1921-2008)
Pinaki Thakur
Indian poet
Meherun Nesa
Bengali poet and martyred Bengali intellectual
Kalidas Roy
Indian poet (1889-1975)