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Amartya Sen
Indian economist and philosopher (1933-)
Aurobindo Ghosh
Indian Bengali philosopher, yogi, maharishi, poet and nationalist (1872–1950)
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
15th century Indian Vaishnavite saint
Ram Mohan Roy
Indian religious, social, and educational reformer, and humanitarian

William Carey
English Baptist missionary and Particular Baptist minister (1761-1834)

Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Philosopher, academic, writer, translator, entrepreneur, social reformer and philanthropist (1820-1891)

M. N. Roy
Indian political activist and intellectual
Sogyal Rinpoche
Tibetan Dzogchen lama of the Nyingma tradition
Suniti Kumar Chatterji
Bengali linguist (1890–1977)
Kalu Rinpoche
Tibetan lama (1905–1989)

Ramprasad Sen
Shakta poet of eighteenth century Bengal
Dwijendranath Tagore
Indian poet, song composer, philosopher, mathematician, painter (1840–1926)
Sridhara
Śrīdhara or Śrīdharācārya (8th–9th century) was an Indian mathematician, known for two extant treatises about arithmetic and practical mathematics, Pāṭīgaṇita and Pāṭīgaṇita-sāra, and a now-lost treatise about algebra, Bījagaṇita.
Tarak Nath Das
Indian revolutionary (1884–1958)
Sukumar Sen
Indian linguist (1900–1992)
Khana
Bengali poet and astrologer
Gauri Ma
Indian activist
Lotika Sarkar
Indian feminist, educator and lawyer
Raghunatha Siromani
Indian philosopher
Khandro Rinpoche
Buddhist lama
Prabodh Chandra Bagchi
Indian Sino-Indologist

Nityananda
Nityananda (, ; c. 1474-c. 1540), also called Nityananda Prabhu and Nitai, was a primary religious figure within the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition of Bengal. Nityananda was Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's friend and disciple. Chaitanya and Nityananda are often mentioned together as Gaura-Nitai (Gaura, referring to Chaitanya) or Nimai-Nitai (Nimai being a name of Chaitanya).
Joyita Mondal
transgender judge in India
Jiva Goswami
16th-century Indian philosopher

Bunker Roy
Indian social activist
Kshitimohan Sen
Indian scholar
Naila Kabeer
British economist
Kamala Sankrityayan
Indian writer
Gadadhara Pandita
Gaudiya roop Of Srimati Radha Rani
Advaita Acharya
Indian Hindu saint
Radhakamal Mukerjee
Indian academic (1889-1968)
Jigdral Yeshe Dorje
Tibetan Lama (1904-1987)
Joshua Marshman
Christian missionary (1768-1837)
Amit Ray
Indian author
Sumit Sarkar
Indian historian of modern India (born 1939)
Dineshchandra Sircar
Indian epigraphist, historian, numismatist and folklorist (1907–1985)
Kisari Mohan Ganguli
Indian translator
Jagadananda Roy
Scientific article writer (1869-1933)
Hasan Shaheed Suhrawardy
Bengali diplomat, poet and art critic (1890–1965)
Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya
Indian philosopher (1875-1949)
Protap Chunder Mozoomdar
Philosopher, reformer (1840–1905)
Hemchandra Kanungo
Indian Bengali revolutionary
Ashok Mitra
Indian economist and Marxist politician
Azizul Haque
Bengali lawyer and activist
Bimal Krishna Matilal
Indian philosopher
Krishna Kriplani
Indian politician and author
Swami Madhavananda
Indian Hindu Sannyasi and writer (1888-1965)
Srivasa Thakura
Hindu deite
Palash Baran Pal
Indian physicist

Muhammad Abdul Hye
Bengali educationist, linguist and writer
Nirmal Kumar Sidhanta
Indian linguist

Swami Trigunatitananda
Anand Yang
Indian-American historian

Satish Chandra Vidyabhusan
Bengali scholar
Susobhan Sarkar
Indian historian (1900–1982)
Hafiz Ahmad Jaunpuri
Indian Islamic scholar
Hemanta Kumar Sarkar
Indian writer and activist
Bhakti Prajnana Kesava Goswami
Gaudiya Vaishnava guru, founder of the Gaudiya Vedanta Samiti (1898-1968)