Personalities of West Bengal have glorified the name of their homeland in varied sectors with success. Be it science, religion, films, politics, music, dance, literature or anything, the Bengalis have excelled without any limitations. Many stalwarts of the nation are from West Bengal.

Personalities of West Bengal in Academics
Some of the well known Personalities from West Bengal in the field of Academics are as follows:

Dipesh Chakrabarty
Sumit Sarkar
Ashis Nandy
Partha Chatterjee
Sukumar Sen

Personalities of West Bengal in Film Industry
Some of the well known Personalities from West Bengal in the field of Acting are as follows:

Mithun Chakraborty
Rani Mukherji
Soumitra Chatterjee
Aparna Sen
Sharmila Tagore

Personalities of West Bengal as Artists and Painters
Some of the well known Personalities from West Bengal in the field of Art and Painting are as follows:

Paresh Maity
Ganesh Pyne
Jamini Roy
Nandalal Bose
Abanindranath Tagore

Personalities of West Bengal as Economists
Some of the well known Personalities from West Bengal in the field of Economics are as follows:

Amartya Sen
Muhammad Yunus
Abhijit Banerjee
Debraj Ray

Personalities of West Bengal as Entrepreneurs
Some of the well known Personalities from West Bengal in the field of Business are as follows:

Jawed Karim
Amar Bose
Subrato Roy
Dwarkanath Tagore

Personalities of West Bengal as Filmmakers
Some of the well known Personalities from West Bengal in the field of Filmmaking are as follows:

Satyajit Ray
Aparna Sen
Rituporno Ghosh
Ritwik Ghatak
Anjan Dutta

Personalities of West Bengal as Social Reformers
Some of the well known Personalities from West Bengal as Social Reformer are as follows:

Shri Aurobindo
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Ram Mohan Roy
Keshab Chandra Sen
Debendranath Tagore

Personalities of West Bengal as Journalists and News Reporters
Some of the well known Personalities from West Bengal in the field of Journalism and News Reporting are as follows:

Swapan Dasgupta
Pritish Nandy
Matiur Rahman
Prannoy Roy
Harish Chandra Mukherjee

Personalities of West Bengal as Musicians
Some of the well known Personalities from West Bengal in the field of Music are as follows:

R.D. Burman
S.D. Burman
Kishore Kumar
Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay
Ravi Shankar

Personalities of West Bengal as Politicians
Some of the well known Personalities from West Bengal in the field of Politics are as follows:

Subhas Chandra Bose
Pranab Mukherjee
Priyaranjan Dasmunsi
Buddhadeb Bhattacharya
Jyoti Basu

Personalities of West Bengal as Sportsperson
Some of the well known Personalities from West Bengal in the field of Sports are as follows:

Brojen Das
P.K. Banerjee
Sourav Ganguly
Jhulan Goswami
Jyotirmoyee Sikdar

Personalities of West Bengal as Scientists and Engineers
Some of the well known Personalities from West Bengal in the field of Science and Engineering are as follows:

Satyendra Nath Bose

Jagdish Chandra Bose
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Prafulla Chandra Roy
Megh Nad Saha

Personalities of West Bengal as Writers
Some of the well known Personalities from West Bengal in the field of Writing are as follows:

Rabindranath Tagore
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
Sunil Gangopadhyay
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Jhumpa Lahiri

The Bengalis have spread all across the globe with their untamed talent and thus made their homeland a mine of jewels.