List of Bangladeshi Hindus

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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), 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
• 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

Politics

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Sukhendu Dastidar, a revolutionary, Bangladeshi communist leader, freedom fighter, one of the companions of Surya Sen during Chittagong armoury raid
• 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
• 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
• Anil Chandra Mukhopadhyay, Bangladeshi communist revolutionary and writer
• Bhabesh Chandra Nandi, pre-independence politician of Bangladesh
• 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
• Hemonto Sarkar, Bangladeshi communist revolutionary and writer
• Bijan Sen, martyred communist politician, pre-independence politician of Bangladesh
• Sailendra Kumar Sen, pre-independence politician of Bangladesh
• Joya Sengupta, Member of Parliament
• Suranjit Sengupta, Former Member of Parliament
• Kamparam Singh, martyred communist politician, pre-independence politician of Bangladesh
• Comrade Moni Sinha, founding general secretary of Bangladesh Communist Party

Current ministers

• Sadhan Chandra Majumder, Minister of Food^[2]
• Narayan Chandra Chanda , Minister of Land
• Dr. Samanta Lal Sen , Minister of Health and Family Planning
• Kujendra Lal Tripura , State Minister of Ministry of Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs

Current members of Jatiya Sangsad

Current 12th Jatiya Sangsad has 12 Hindu MP.^[3]

1। Pankaj Nath

2। Ramesh Chandra Sen

3।Jaya Sengupta

4।Biren Sikder

5।Narayon Chandra Chanda

6।Nani Gopal Mandal

7।Sadhan Chandra Majumder

8।Sourendra Nath Chakraborty

9।Soumendra Prasad Pandey

10।Pran Gopal Datta

11।Kujendra Lal Tripura

12।Ranjit Chandra Sarkar

Previous 11th Jatiya Sangsad had 16 Hindu MP.^[4]

• Mrinal Kanti Das^[5]
• Manoranjan Shill Gopal
• Pankaj Nath
• Ramesh Chandra Sen
• Jaya Sengupta, Sunamganj, (from Awami League)
• Dhirendra Debnath Shambhu
• Biren Sikder
• Dipankar Talukdar

Justices of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh

• 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
• 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]}
• Surendra Kumar Sinha, Chief Justice of Bangladesh (2015–2017)^[6]
• 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
• 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.

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

• Shayan Chowdhury Arnob, singer-songwriter, artist
• Bipul Bhattacharya, producer, composer, music director and folk music artist
• Kumar Bishwajit, pop singer
• Dia Chakravarty, singer, political activist, tax consultant, barrister, journalist
• Amaresh Roy Chowdhury, classical vocalist
• Gouri Choudhury, singer and music teacher
• 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
• 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
• 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^[7]
• Timir Nandi, singer, writer, activist, anchor
• 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

• 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
• Jayanta Chattopadhyay, actor
• Bappy Chowdhury, actor
• Chanchal Chowdhury, actor, singer, lecturer
• Brindaban Das, Bangladeshi playwright, actor, writer and director
• Sumita Devi (Hena Bhattacharya), actress
• 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
• Prabir Mitra, film actor
• Mousumi Nag, actress
• Manoj Pramanik, actor
• Yash Rohan , actor
• Puja Cherry Roy, contemporary actress
• Shabnam (Jharna Basak), actress
• 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

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
• 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
• 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, 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

• Ajoy Dasgupta, journalist, writer and lecturer at Dhaka University and Jagannath University
• Kaberi Gayen, journalist and academic
• 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
• Tapash Baishya, cricket
• Rajani Kanta Barman, football
• Topu Barman, football
• Biplob Bhattacharjee, football
• Disha 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
• 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

• 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 in Bangladesh
• Bengali Hindus
• Lists of Hindus

References