List of Bangladeshi Hindus

This is an incomplete list of notable and prominent Hindus from Bangladesh.

Martyrs and Freedom Fighters in 1971

• Dhirendranath Datta, martyred intellectual, politician
• Jagat Joity Das (Bir Bikrom), founder of Das Party, martyred freedom fighter
• Dr. Govinda Chandra Dev, martyred intellectual, scholar, philosopher, Dhaka University professor
• Jogesh Chandra Ghosh, martyred intellectual, scholar, Ayurveda practitioner, entrepreneur and philanthropist
• Jyotirmoy Guhathakurta, martyred intellectual, scholar, Dhaka University professor
• Dr. Santosh Chandra Bhattacharya, martyred intellectual, scholar, Dhaka University professor
• Ranada Prasad Saha, businessman and philanthropist (founded educational institutes like Bharateswari Homes, Kumudini College and Debendra College). Martyred during the War of Liberation.
• Bishnu Chattopadhyay, freedom fighter and leader of peasant movement.Martyred during the War of Liberation.
• Nutan Chandra Singha, martyred intellectual, industrialist, a pioneer of women's education in Chittagong, a social reformer and a charitable man
• Sukharanjan Samaddar, martyred freedom fighter, Sanskrit scholar, educationalist, Rajshahi University professor
• Saroj Kumar Nath Adhikari, martyred intellectual, educationist
• Harinath Dey, martyred intellectual, biochemist, research scientist
• Anudvaipayan Bhattacharya, martyred intellectual, lecturer in Physics, Dhaka University
• Laxman Das, martyred intellectual
• Madhusudan Dey, martyred intellectual, social worker and businessman
• Moni Singh, freedom fighter, communist leader
• Chitta Ranjan Dutta (Bir Uttam), sector commander during the War of Liberation
• Manik Lal Ray, freedom fighter, communist politician, teacher, pioneer of mass-education
• Purnendu Dastidar, freedom fighter, communist leader, writer and lawyer
• Suranjit Sengupta, freedom fighter, politician
• Monikrishna Sen, freedom fighter, Bangladeshi communist revolutionary
• Ashutosh Bhardwaj, freedom fighter, Bangladeshi communist revolutionary
• Bipul Bhattacharya, freedom fighter, vocalist of Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra during Bangladesh liberation war
• Pankaj Bhattacharya, coordinator of the NAP-Communist Party-Students Union Special Guerrilla Forces

Politics

• Manorama Basu, political activist, social reformer
• Pijush Kanti Bhattacharjee, Former Member of Parliament
• Shukhen Bhattacharjee, martyred communist politician, pre-independence politician of Bangladesh
• Swapan Bhattacharjee, Former Member of Parliament
• Chitra Bhattacharya, Former Member of Parliament
• Gaan Chakraborty, Bangladeshi communist revolutionary and writer
• Sourendra Nath Chakraborty, Former Member of Parliament
• Trailokyanath Chakravarty, pre-independence politician of Bangladesh
• Raj Kumar Chakraverty, pre-independence politician of Bangladesh
• Gautam Chakroborty, Former Member of Parliament, Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician
• Narayan Chandra Chanda, Former Member of Parliament, Former Minister of Land
• Sris Chandra Chattopadhyaya, pre-independence politician of Bangladesh
• Bhupati Bhushan Chowdhury, Bangladeshi politician, freedom fighter and businessman
• Binod Bihari Chowdhury, Bangladeshi social worker and an anti-colonial revolutionary, politician, one of the companions of Surya Sen during Chittagong armoury raid
• Nipun Roy Chowdhury, Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician, lawyer, activist
• Nitai Roy Chowdhury, Former Member of Parliament, vice chairman of the Central Committee of Bangladesh Nationalist Party
• Shankar Gobind Chowdhury, Former Member of Parliament, freedom fighter
• Mrinal Kanti Das, Former Member of Parliament
• Sukhendu Dastidar, a revolutionary, Bangladeshi communist leader, freedom fighter, one of the companions of Surya Sen during Chittagong armoury raid
• Pran Gopal Datta, Former Member of Parliament
• Pulin De,^[1] politician, professor
• Manoranjan Dhar, Bangladeshi politician, diplomat, lawyer
• Aroma Dutta, Bangladeshi politician and human rights activist
• Chitta Ranjan Dutta, a leader of the minority communities, former military personnel
• Kamini Kumar Dutta, pre-independence politician of Bangladesh
• Manoranjan Shill Gopal, Former Member of Parliament
• Debendra Nath Ghosh, politician
• Jiten Ghosh, an armed revolutionary, communist leader, writer and freedom fighter
• Sunil Kumar Gupta, Former Member of Parliament, Jatiya Party (Ershad) and Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician
• Gopal Krishna Maharatna, politician, one of the founding members of Sarbadaliya Sangram Parishad, social worker
• Ranesh Maitra, Bangladeshi politician, journalist and columnist
• Jnanendra Chandra Majumdar, pre-independence politician of Bangladesh
• Manu Majumdar, Former Member of Parliament
• Phani Bhushan Majumder, Former Member of Parliament
• Sadhan Chandra Majumder, Former Member of Parliament, Former Minister of Food^[2]
• Nani Gopal Mandal, Former Member of Parliament
• Anil Chandra Mukhopadhyay, Bangladeshi communist revolutionary and writer
• Bhabesh Chandra Nandi, pre-independence politician of Bangladesh
• Pankaj Nath, Former Member of Parliament
• Soumendra Prasad Pandey, Former Member of Parliament
• Barun Roy, Bangladeshi communist leader, freedom fighter, former member of Parliament
• Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, Former Member of Parliament, vice-president of Bangladesh Nationalist Party
• Rupnarayan Roy, a veteran communist and peasant leader
• Satish Chandra Roy, Former Member of Parliament
• Dhirendra Nath Saha, Former Member of Parliament, Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician
• Hemonto Sarkar, Bangladeshi communist revolutionary and writer
• Ranjit Chandra Sarkar, Former Member of Parliament
• Amal Sen, Bangladeshi communist politician, founding president of the Workers Party of Bangladesh
• Bijan Sen, martyred communist politician, pre-independence politician of Bangladesh
• Dr. Samanta Lal Sen, Former Member of Parliament, Former Minister of Health and Family Planning
• Ramesh Chandra Sen, Former Member of Parliament
• Sailendra Kumar Sen, pre-independence politician of Bangladesh
• Joya Sengupta, Former Member of Parliament
• Suranjit Sengupta, Former Member of Parliament
• Dhirendra Debnath Shambhu, Former Member of Parliament
• Biren Sikder, Former Member of Parliament
• Kamparam Singh, martyred communist politician, pre-independence politician of Bangladesh
• Comrade Moni Singh, founding general secretary of Bangladesh Communist Party
• Dipankar Talukdar, Former Member of Parliament
• Kujendra Lal Tripura, Former Member of Parliament, Former State Minister of Ministry of Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs

Advisers of interim/caretaker governments

• Bimalendu Bikash Roy Chowdhury
• BK Das
• Dhiraj Kumar Nath
• Bidhan Ranjan Roy
• Manik Lal Samaddar

Justice of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh

• Surendra Kumar Sinha, Chief Justice of Bangladesh (2015–2017)^[3]
• Bhishmadev Chakrabortty, justice of the High Court Division
• Bimalendu Bikash Roy Chowdhury, former justice and adviser of Caretaker Government
• Debasish Roy Chowdhury, justice of the High Court Division
• Ashish Ranjan Daash, justice of the High Court Division
• Biswajit Debnath, 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]}
• Gour Gopal Saha, justice of the High Court Division
• Sashanka Shekhar Sarkar, justice of the High Court Division
• Gobinda Chandra Tagore, justice of the High Court Division

Military and Police

• Chitta Ranjan Dutta (Bir Uttam), Retired Major General
• Jibon Kanai Das, retired Major General
• Banaj Kumar Majumder, Additional Inspector-general of police
• Devdas Bhattacharya, Additional Inspector-general of police
• Krishna Pada Roy, Additional Inspector-general of police
• Proloy Kumar Joarder, superintendent of police

Civil Service

• Sunil Kanti Bose, former Secretary of the Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology and the former chairperson of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission
• Pradip Ranjan Chakrabarty, retired Secretary, Chairman of the Bangladesh Competition Commission
• Phani Bhoushon Choudhury, Secretary of the government of Bangladesh, member of the Bangladesh Public Service Commission, chief of the Criminal Investigation Department, former police officer
• Tapan Kanti Ghosh, Bangladeshi retired bureaucrat and former Senior Secretary of the Ministry of Commerce, vice-chairman of Bangladesh Foreign Trade Institute
• Satyajit Karmaker, Secretary of the Planning Division
• Shib Nath Roy, Bangladeshi civil servant, former Ambassador of Bangladesh to Bhutan
• Manik Lal Samaddar, Bangladeshi civil servant and former special assistant to the Chief Advisor of the Caretaker government
• Nepal Chandra Sarker, retired Bangladeshi Civil Servant and former Commissioner of the Information Commission
• Sukesh Kumar Sarker, Director General (Secretary) of NAPD

Lawyers and Legal Writers

• Debesh Bhattacharya, Human rights activist, lawyer, jurist and judge.
• Sir Nikhilesh Dutta, Deputy Attorney General, Bangladeshi barrister and activist.
• Rana Dasgupta, Senior Advocate and General Secretary of the Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council.

Activism

• Purabi Basu
• Barada Bhushan Chakraborty
• Pinaki Bhattacharya
• Jharna Dhara Chowdhury
• Hena Das
• Suhasini Das
• Sitesh Ranjan Deb
• Aroma Dutta
• Debendra Nath Ghosh
• Meghna Guhathakurta
• Kumudini Hajong
• Ranesh Maitra
• Manik Lal Ray

Arts

• Shishir Bhattacharjee, cartoonist, academic
• Devdas Chakraborty, fine artist, Chittagong University professor
• Samarjit Roy Chowdhury, one of the pioneers of contemporary art in Bangladesh, Dhaka University professor
• Shib Narayan Das, designer of the first national flag of Bangladesh, vexillographer, student leader
• 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

• Sanjit Acharya, Chittagonian folk lyricist, playwright, singer
• Shayan Chowdhury Arnob, singer-songwriter, artist
• Shyam Sundar Baishnab, folk singer
• Bipul Bhattacharya, producer, composer, music director and folk music artist
• Deebo Bhattacharya, musician, painter and singer
• Kumar Bishwajit, pop singer
• Dia Chakravarty, singer, political activist, tax consultant, barrister, journalist
• Amaresh Roy Chowdhury, classical vocalist
• Gouri Choudhury, singer and music teacher
• Probal Chowdhury, 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, playback singer
• Kalipada Das, singer
• Ramkanai Das, Bangladeshi singer
• Samar Das, music composer
• Sudhin Das, Nazrul Sangeet artist and Swaralipikar
• Kamal Dasgupta, music director
• Sunil Dhar, classical musician
• Shuvro Dev, pop-artist, singer-songwriter, music director, composer
• Pabitra Mohan Dey, instrumental musician
• Kalyani Ghosh, singer of Chittagonian folk
• 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 (Shubhashish Mazumder Bappa), singer, and son of Ustad Barin Mazumder, member of Dalchhut
• Chandana Mazumdar, Lalon-geeti singer
• Ila Majumder, Bangladeshi classical vocalist
• Ustad Barin Mazumder, classical singer
• Mitali Mukherjee, Bangladeshi classical and playback singer
• Mihir Kumar Nandi, Bangladeshi Rabindra Sangeet singer and classical vocalist
• Subir Nandi, singer^[4]
• Timir Nandi, singer, writer, activist, anchor
• Ajit Roy, Rabindra Sangeet singer
• Anima Roy, Rabindra Sangeet singer
• Kiran Chandra Roy, playback singer
• Rathindranath Roy, singer
• Emon Saha, music director
• Satya Saha, music director
• Bijoy Sarkar, baul singer, lyricist, composer and poet
• Chandan Sinha, playback singer, producer

Cinema and television

• Animesh Aich, director
• Amalendu Biswas, stage actor of the jatra-pala genre
• Anam Biswas, director, screenwriter, composer and writer
• Pijush Bandyopadhyay, actor, director, CEO of Ekushey Television
• Malay Bhowmick, actor, director and educationist
• Subhasish Bhowmik, actor
• Apu Biswas, contemporary actress
• Aruna Biswas, television, stage and film actress
• Jyotsna Biswas, stage-actress of jatra-pala genre, recipient of Ekushey Padak
• Amol Bose, actor
• Juwel Aich, magician
• Jayanta Chattopadhyay, actor
• Jumbo, actor
• Bappy Chowdhury, actor
• Chanchal Chowdhury, actor, singer, lecturer
• Chayanika Chowdhury, television drama director
• Brindaban Das, Bangladeshi playwright, actor, writer and director
• Shankha Dasgupta, director, filmmaker
• Sumita Devi (Hena Bhattacharya), actress
• Sumit Sengupta, actor
• Dipankar Sengupta Dipon, director, screenwriter
• Sanchita Datta, actress, model and lawyer
• Subhash Dutta, filmmaker, actor
• Anju Ghosh, actress, starred in record-breaking Beder Meye Josna
• Aparna Ghosh, contemporary actress
• Maya Ghosh, actress
• Chitralekha Guho, television actress
• Urmila Srabonti Kar, contemporary television actress
• Tamalika Karmakar, actress and model.
• 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
• Kalyan Mitra, writer, actor, director and playwright
• Prabir Mitra, film actor
• Mousumi Nag, actress
• Manoj Pramanik, actor
• Yash Rohan, actor
• Puja Cherry Roy, actress
• Shabnam (Jharna Basak), actress
• Shanarei Devi Shanu, television actress and model
• Subrata, actor
• Sujata (Tandra Majumder), actress
• Srabosti Dutta Tinni, television actress and model

Literature

• Tapan Bagchi, poet, rhyme composer, researcher, and journalist
• Kajal Bandyopadhyay, poet, translator and academic
• Topon Chakrabarti, writer on science, technology and environment
• Jyoti Prakash Dutta, short-story writer, novelist, newspaper editor and professor
• Nirmalendu Goon, poet
• Karunamaya Goswami, musicologist and litterateur
• Bimal Guha, poet and academic
• Ranesh Das Gupta, writer, journalist, and politician
• Harishankar Jaladas, novelist
• Radhapada Roy, poet
• Mahadev Saha, poet
• Ashim Saha, poet and novelist.
• Arunabh Sarkar, poet, columnist, literary-editor and freedom fighter
• Satyen Sen, author, founder of Udichi
• Nikhil Sen, dramatist
• Niloy Chatterjee, atheist blogger and writer of Hindu origin, martyred by extremists
• Ananta Bijoy Das, atheist blogger and writer of Hindu origin, martyred by extremists
• Avijit Roy, atheist blogger and writer of Hindu origin, martyred by extremists
• Malay Bhowmick, playright and academic.

Academia

• Debapriya Bhattacharya, Bangladeshi economist and public policy analyst
• Satya Prasad Majumder, 14th Vice-Chancellor of BUET
• Shishir Bhattacharja, writer, researcher, linguist, professor of French
• Swadesh Bose, economist and Language-movement activist
• Govinda Chandra Dev, martyred academic, philosopher, Dhaka University professor
• Santosh Chandra Bhattacharya, martyred academic, scholar, Dhaka University professor
• Sukharanjan Samaddar, martyred freedom fighter, Sanskrit scholar, educationalist, Rajshahi University professor
• Soumitra Sekhar Dey, 6th Vice-chancellor of Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University
• Anupam Sen, Vice-Chancellor of the Premier University, author, sociologist, and social activist
• Gautam Buddha Das, former Vice-chancellor of Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (CVASU)
• Swadesh Chandra Samanta, Bangladeshi Agronomist and Vice-chancellor of Patuakhali Science and Technology University
• Arup Ratan Choudhury, dental surgeon, consultant and academician
• Neem Chandra Bhowmik, professor at Dhaka University and a leader of the hindu minority community in Bangladesh
• Rangalal Sen, academician and writer
• Kaberi Gayen, columnist, academic
• Biswajit Ghosh, Bangladeshi essayist, researcher and academic
• Meghna Guhathakurta, academic, activist
• 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

Science and Technology

• Harinath Dey, biochemist, research scientist, martyred intellectual
• Rakhal Chandra Das, physician, martyred intellectual
• Arun Kumar Basak, physicist, professor
• Purabi Basu, pharmacologist, writer and activist
• Baren Chakraborty, physician, writer, professor
• Suvagoto Chowdhury, physician, writer, professor
• Pran Gopal Datta, physician, ex-vice chancellor of BSMRMU and member of parliament
• Debjani Ghosh, researcher, engineer
• Hiranmay Sen Gupta, nuclear physicist, professor
• Ripon Nath, audio engineer
• Indrajit Prasad,^[5] endocrinologist, academic and medical researcher
• Bibhuti Roy, researcher, engineer, professor
• Shuvo Roy, research scientist, bioengineer, writer
• Samir Kumar Saha, microbiologist, public health expert, professor
• Senjuti Saha, research scientist
• Dwijen Sharma, naturalist and science writer
• Bijan Kumar Shill, microbiologist, scholar, and teacher

Journalism

• Gautam Das, print journalist and bureau chief of Dainik Samakal
• Ajoy Dasgupta, journalist, writer and lecturer at Dhaka University and Jagannath University
• Shyamal Dutta, journalist and editor of Bhorer Kagoj
• Samudra Gupta, poet and journalist
• Santosh Gupta, journalist and writer
• Ranesh Maitra, journalist, columnist and politician
• Swadesh Roy, journalist, writer and political analyst
• Manik Chandra Saha, journalist, recipient of Ekushey Padak
• Munni Saha, journalist, television presenter
• Nirmal Kumar Sengupta, journalist, politician

Business and philanthropy

• 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, entrepreneur, philanthropist, successful businessman, founder of Kumudini College and Kumudini Hospital at Mirzapur Upazila, Tangail)

Sports

• Arup Kumar Baidya, football
• Khitindra Chandra Baishya, swimmer
• Tapash Baishya, cricket
• Rajani Kanta Barman, football
• Topu Barman, football
• Biplob Bhattacharjee, football
• Disha Biswas, cricket
• Lily Rani Biswas, cricket
• Kesto Kumar Bose, football
• Puja Chakraborty, cricket
• Narayan Chandra, cricket
• Mithun Chowdhury, football
• Shuvagata Hom Chowdhury, cricket
• Sunil Krishna Dey Chowdhury, football
• Brojen Das, swimmer
• Litton Das, cricket
• Linkon Dey, cricket
• Bishwanath Ghosh, football
• Dhiman Ghosh, cricket
• Pinak Ghosh, cricket
• Taposh Ghosh, cricket
• Asim Gope, hockey
• Alok Kapali, cricket
• Pritom Kumar, cricket
• Pran Govinda Kundu, football
• Shibu Lal, tennis
• Amit Majumder, cricket
• Avishek Mitra, cricket
• Kochi Rani Mondal, kabaddi
• Arun Nandi, swimmer
• Debabrata Barua Paul, cricket
• Chandon Roy, football
• Dipok Roy, football
• Sandip Roy, cricket
• Subashis Roy, cricket
• Ranjit Saha, football
• Sanjit Saha, cricket
• Sumon Saha, cricket
• Krishna Rani Sarkar, football
• Soumya Sarkar, cricket
• Uttam Kumar Sarkar, cricket
• Amalesh Sen, football
• Jony Talukdar, cricket
• Rony Talukdar, cricket
• Bimal Chandra Tarafdar, track and field
• Sushanto Tripura, football

Religion and spirituality

• Chinmoy Krishna Das, Bangladeshi Hindu monk and former ISKCON member
• Mahanambrata Brahmachari, a yogi, monk, philosopher, writer and religious master
• Sri Sri Ram Thakur (Ram Chandra Chakraborty), a yogi, monk and spiritual teacher of Hindu philosophy

See also

• Hinduism portal
• Bangladesh portal
• Lists portal

• Hinduism in Bangladesh
• Bengali Hindus
• Lists of Hindus