Famous Bengalis

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There are well over 200 million bengalis in this world, living primarily in Bangladesh and the West Bengal state of India. Thats a very small area for such a large population, which means that bengalis live in the most over-crowded conditions on the planet. Calcutta (now called Kolkata) in India, and Dhaka and Chittagong in Bangladesh are the three main bengali cities. Economically the bengalis are the poorest of the large ethnicities in the world, with Bangladesh where most bengalis live having a nominal per capita income of just $600 a year. Yet despite their reputation as being the poorest of the poor the bengalis have produced some truly outstanding personalities. In this thread I will list the most prominent of them.

Starting with the spiritual/religious personalities:

1. Ramakrishna: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramakrishna

2. Vivekananda: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Vivekananda

3: Aurobindo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurobindo

4. Yogananda: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogananda

5. Prabhupada: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._C._Bhaktivedanta_Swami_Prabhupada

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Prominent Bengali Scientists:

1. Satyendra Nath Bose: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyendra_Nath_Bose

2. Megh Nad Saha: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megh_Nad_Saha

3. Jagadish Chandra Bose: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagadish_Chandra_Bose

4. Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amal_Kumar_Raychaudhuri

5. Ashoke Sen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashoke_Sen

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Prominent Bengali Writers and Poets:

1. Rabindranath Tagore: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabindranath_Tagore

2. Kazi Nazrul Islam: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazi_Nazrul_Islam

3. Taslima Nasrin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taslima_Nasrin

4. Malay Roy Choudhury: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malay_Roy_Choudhury

5. Buddhadeb Bosu: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhadeb_Bosu

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most of them Indid , Indobrachid, Veddoid

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Famous bengali musicians and singers:

1. Ravi Shankar :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravi_Shankar

2. Kishore Kumar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kishore_Kumar

3. Momtaz Begum :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momtaz_Begum

4. Manna Dey: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manna_Dey

5. Ali Akbar Khan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Akbar_Khan

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1 Chandra Jagdish Bose, pioneer of radio and microwave optics.

2 Rakhee Muzamdar Gulzar, Bengali Bollywood actress of the 70s and 80s.

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Successful Bengali Athletes:

1. Pradip Kumar Banerjee: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pradip_Kumar_Banerjee

2. Saurav Ganguly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saurav_Ganguly

3. Jhulan Goswami:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jhulan_Goswami

4. Rani Hamid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rani_Hamid

5. Jyotirmoyee Sikdar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyotirmoyee_Sikdar

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More prominent Bengalis:

1. Subhas Chandra Bose: legendary revolutionary. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subhas_Chandra_Bose

2. Satyajit Ray: Great Filmmaker. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyajit_Ray

3. Fazlur Khan: Architect of Sears Tower. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fazlur_Khan

4. Amartya Sen: Economics Nobel Laureate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amartya_Sen

5. Ashish Nandy: Socio-political theorist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashis_Nandy

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Bengali Entrepeneuers:

1. Amar Bose: Billionaire half-italian founder of electronics icon Bose Corp. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amar_Bose

2. Jawed Karim: Centi-millionaire half-german co-founder of YouTube. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawed_Karim

3. Pranoy Roy: Half irish/english Founder of NDTV. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prannoy_Roy

4. Subrata Roy: Founder of Sahara Group. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subroto_Roy_Sahara

5. Bibi Russel: Founder Bibi Productions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibi_Russell

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Some more:

1. Muhammad Yunus: Economist, Nobel Peace Prize Winner. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Yunus

2. Norah Jones: half white-american Grammy Award winning singer/songwriter.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norah_Jones

3. Jhumpa Lahiri: Pulitzer Prize winning author. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jhumpa_Lahiri

4. Irene Khan: Former Secretary General of Amnesty International.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramkinkar_Baij

5. Sushmita Sen: Miss Universe 1994. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sushmita_Sen