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This is an incomplete list of notable and prominent Hindus from Bangladesh.
Martyrs and Freedom Fighters in 1971 edit
- Jagat Joity Das
- Laxman Das
- Purnendu Dastidar
- Dhirendranath Datta
- Govinda Chandra Dev
- Chitta Ranjan Dutta, sector commander during the War of Liberation
- Jogesh Chandra Ghosh
- Jyotirmoy Guhathakurta
- Ranada Prasad Saha, businessman and philanthropist (founded educational institutes like Bharateswari Homes, Kumudini College and Debendra College). Martyred during the War of Liberation.
- Suranjit Sengupta
- Moni Singh
- Nutan Chandra Singha, businessman martyred during the War of Liberation
Politics edit
- Trailokyanath Chakravarty
- Pulin De[1]
- Chitta Ranjan Dutta
- Gopal Krishna Maharatna
- Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, vice-president of Bangladesh Nationalist Party
- Joya Sengupta
- Suranjit Sengupta, Former Member of Parliament
- Comrade Moni Sinha, founding general secretary of Bangladesh Communist Party
- Swapan Bhattacharjee Member of Parliament
- Nitai Roy Chowdhury vice chairman of the Central Committee of Bangladesh Nationalist Party
Current ministers edit
Current members of Jatiya Sangsad edit
Current 11th Jatiya Sangsad has 18 Hindu MP.[3]
Justices of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh edit
- Bhishmadev Chakrabortty, justice of the High Court Division
- Bimalendu Bikash Roy Chowdhury, former justice and adviser of Caretaker Government
- Ashish Ranjan Daash, justice of the High Court Division
- Krishna Debnath, justice of the High Court Division
- Bhabani Prasad Singha, justice of the High Court Division[citation needed]
- Surendra Kumar Sinha, Chief Justice of Bangladesh (2015–2017)[5]
- Gobinda Chandra Tagore, justice of the High Court Division
Lawyers and Legal Writers edit
- Rana Dasgupta, Senior Advocate and General Secretary of the Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council.
Arts edit
- Shishir Bhattacharjee, cartoonist
- Shib Narayan Das, designer of the first national flag of Bangladesh
- Dhruba Esh, cover-artist and writer
- Uttam Guho, stage and art director
- Kalidas Karmakar, painter
- Nitun Kundu, sculptor, businessman
- Partha Pratim Majumder, pioneer mime-artist
- Sarker Protick or Protick Sarkar
Music edit
- Shayan Chowdhury Arnob, singer-songwriter, artist
- Kumar Bishwajit, pop singer
- Sanjeeb Chowdhury, singer-songwriter, member of Dalchhut
- Tapan Chowdhury, singer of modern songs and former frontmant of Souls
- Alaka Das, classical music artist
- Haimanti Rakshit Das
- Samar Das, music composer
- Sudhin Das, Nazrul Sangeet artist and Swaralipikar
- Kamal Dasgupta, music director
- Sunil Dhar, classical musician
- Shuvro Dev, pop-artist, singer
- Robin Ghosh, music director
- Shefali Ghosh, singer of mostly Chittagonian folk music
- Priyanka Gope, singer
- Pantho Kanai, singer, member of Bangla, Arnab and Friends
- Bappa Mazumder, singer, and son of Ustad Barin Mazumder, member of Dalchhut
- Chandana Mazumdar, Lalon-geeti singer
- Ustad Barin Mazumder, classical singer
- Subir Nandi, singer[6]
- Ajit Roy, Rabindra Sangeet singer
- Anima Roy, Rabindra Sangeet singer
- Kiran Chandra Roy, folk singer
- Rathindranath Roy, singer
- Emon Saha, music director
- Satya Saha, music director
- Bijoy Sarkar, baul singer, lyricist, composer and poet
Cinema and television edit
- Animesh Aich, director
- Amalendu Biswas, stage actor of the jatra-pala genre
- Anam Biswas, director, screenwriter, composer and writer
- Apu Biswas, contemporary actress
- Aruna Biswas, television, stage and film actress
- Jyotsna Biswas, stage-actress of jatra-pala genre, recipient of Ekushey Padak
- Jayanta Chattopadhyay, actor
- Bappy Chowdhury, actor
- Chanchal Chowdhury, actor,Singer, lecturer
- Sumita Devi, actress
- Sujata, actress
- Dipankar Dipon, director
- Subhash Dutta, filmmaker, actor
- Anju Ghosh, actress, starred in record-breaking Beder Meye Josna
- Aparna Ghosh, contemporary actress
- Chitralekha Guho, television actress
- Urmila Srabonti Kar, contemporary television actress
- Ashish Kumar Louho, film actor, playwright, dialogue writer and story writer
- Bidya Sinha Saha Mim, contemporary actress
- Ramendu Majumdar, actor and theatre-activist
- Narayan Ghosh Mita, film director and writer
- Prabir Mitra, film actor
- Manoj Pramanik, actor
- Puja Cherry Roy, contemporary actress
- Shabnam, actress
- Brindaban Das, Bangladeshi playwright, actor, writer and director.
- Yash Rohan , actor
- Shashwata Dutta ,actor
Literature edit
- Kajal Bandyopadhyay, poet, translator and academic
- Purabi Basu, short-story writer, pharmacologist and activist
- Ananta Bijoy Das, atheist blogger and writer of Hindu origin, martyred by extremists
- Nirmalendu Goon, poet
- Bimal Guha, poet and academic
- Ranesh Das Gupta, writer, journalist, and politician
- Harishankar Jaladas, novelist
- Avijit Roy, atheist blogger and writer of Hindu origin, martyred by extremists
- Mahadev Saha, poet
- Ashim Saha, poet and novelist.
- Arunabh Sarkar, poet, columnist, literary-editor and freedom fighter
- Satyen Sen, author, founder of Udichi
Academia edit
- Debapriya Bhattacharya, economist
- Shishir Bhattacharja, writer, researcher, linguist, professor of French
- Swadesh Bose, economist and Language-movement activist
- Govinda Chandra Dev, martyred academic, philosopher, Dhaka University professor
- Kaberi Gayen, columnist, academic
- Biswajit Ghosh, Bangladeshi essayist, researcher and academic
- Ajoy Roy, academic and leader of secular-humanist movement in Bangladesh
- Sanat Kumar Saha, essayist, economist, professor and Tagore-exponent
- Jatin Sarker, author and Marxist philosopher
- Swadesh Bose, economist and freedom fighter.
Science and Technology edit
- Arun Kumar Basak
- Pran Gopal Datta, physician, ex-vice chancellor of BSMRMU and member of parliament
- Hiranmay Sen Gupta
- Shuvo Roy
- Senjuti Saha
- Samir Kumar Saha
- Dwijen Sharma
Journalism edit
- Kaberi Gayen, journalist and academic
- Manik Chandra Saha, journalist, recipient of Ekushey Padak
- Munni Saha, journalist, television presenter
Business and philanthropy edit
- Subir Chowdhury Bangladeshi-American author, world renowned expert in quality and management and philanthropist (founded the Subir-Maliny Center for Bangladesh Studies at the University of California-Berkeley)
- Nitun Kundu, sculptor and founder of Otobi
- Ranada Prasad Saha, philanthropist, founder of Kumudini College and Kumudini Hospital at Mirzapur Upazila, Tangail)
- Biplab Saha, founder of Rang clothing
Sports edit
- Tapash Baishya, cricket
- Rajani Kanta Barman, football
- Topu Barman, football
- Debabrata Barua, cricket
- Biplob Bhattacharjee, football
- Disha Biswas, women's cricket
- Kesto Kumar Bose, football
- Narayan Chandra, cricket
- Mithun Chowdhury, football
- Brojen Das, swimmer
- Litton Das, cricket
- Bishwanath Ghosh, football
- Dhiman Ghosh, cricket
- Pinak Ghosh, cricket
- Taposh Ghosh, cricket
- Asim Gope, hockey
- Shuvagata Hom, cricket
- Alok Kapali, cricket
- Pritom Kumar, cricket
- Subashis Roy, cricket
- Kochi Rani Mondal, kabaddi
- Sanjit Saha, cricket
- Sumon Saha, cricket
- Krishna Rani Sarkar, football
- Soumya Sarkar, cricket
- Jony Talukdar, cricket
- Rony Talukdar, cricket
- Sushanto Tripura, football
- Avishek Mitra, cricket
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Rose, Saul (1959). Socialism in southern Asia. Internet Archive. London, New York, Oxford University Press. pp. 65. OCLC 951919875.
- ^ "Hasina axes heavyweights". The Daily Star. 2019-01-07. Retrieved 2019-10-30.
- ^ সংখ্যালঘু প্রার্থীদের মধ্যে জয়ী ১৮ জন. Prothom Alo (in Bengali). 2018-12-31. Retrieved 2019-10-30.
- ^ "500 sued, 2 arrested over attack on Bangladesh Hindu-Buddhist-Christian Oikya Parishad activists". The Business Standard. 16 October 2023.
- ^ "Bangladesh sentences former chief justice to 11 years in jail". Al Jazeera. 10 November 2021.
- ^ "Subir Nandi: Of songs and successes". New Age. 1 March 2019.