Timeline of Famous Bengali Personalities
| Year | Name of The Personalities | Notability |
|---|---|---|
| 1820 -1891 | Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar | |
| 1838 - 1894 | Bankim Chandra Chatterjee | |
| 1861 - 1941 | Rabindranath Tagore | Writer, song composer, playwright, essayist, painter |
| 1899 -1979 | Kazi Nazrul Islam | |
| 1868 - 1946 | Pramatha Chaudhuri | |
| 1876 - 1938 | Sarat Chandra Chatterjee | |
| 1880 -1960 | Rajsekhar Basu | |
| 1894 -1950 | Bibhutibhushan Banerjee | |
| 1898 - 1971 | Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay | |
| 1901 - 1986 | Amiya Chakravarty | |
| 1904 - 2002 | Annadashankar Roy | |
| 1909 - 1982 | Bishnu Dey | |
| 1901 - 1960 | Sudhindranath Datta | |
| 1921-1992 | Satyajit Ray | |
| 1924-2005 | Narayan Sanyal | |
| 1926-2016 | Mahashweta Devi | |
| 1903-1980 | Sibram Chakraborty | |
| 1887-1923 | Sukumar Ray | |
| 1908-2007 | Leela Majumdar | |
| 1935 - | Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay | |
| 1934-2012 | Sunil Gangopadhyay | |
| 1904-1988 | Premendra Mitra | |
| 1931-2010 | Moti Nandi | |
| Narayan Gangopadhyay | ||
| Samaresh Majumdar | ||
| Upendra Kishore Roychoudhuri | ||
| Chandidas | Medieval Bengal literarture | |
| Vidyapati | Medieval Bengal literarture | |
| Krittibas Ojha | Medieval Bengal literarture | |
| Govindadas | Medieval Bengal literarture | |
| Kashiram Das | Medieval Bengal literarture | |
| Bharat Chandra | Medieval Bengal literarture | |
| Ramprasad | Medieval Bengal literarture | |
| Krishnadasa Kaviraj | Medieval Bengal literarture | |
| Madan Mohan Tarkalankar | Medieval Bengal literarture | |
| Iswar Gupta | Medieval Bengal literarture | |
| Anil Kumar Gain | ||
| Peary Chand Mitra | ||
| Kaliprasanna Sinha | ||
| Akshay Kumar Baral | ||
| Romesh Chunder Dutt | ||
| Jyotirindranath Tagore | ||
| Swami Vivekananda | ||
| Dwijendralal Ray | ||
| Trailokyanath Sanyal | ||
| Toru Dutt | ||
| Sri Aurobindo | ||
| Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| Amitav Ghosh | ||
| Amit Chaudhuri | ||
| Upamanyu Chatterjee | ||
| Kaberi Gain | ||
| Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| Jatindranath Sengupta | ||
| Kumud Ranjan Mullick | ||
| Jatindramohan Bagchi | ||
| Dilipkumar Roy | ||
| Subodh Ghosh | ||
| Anil Kumar Gain | ||
| Sukanta Bhattacharya | ||
| Subhash Mukhopadhyay | ||
| Bimal Kar | ||
| Shakti Chattopadhyay | ||
| Shankha Ghosh | ||
| Kaberi Gain | ||
| Purnendu Patri | ||
| Narendranath Mitra | ||
| Arun Mitra | ||
| Nirendranath Chakraborty | ||
| Alokranjan Dasgupta | ||
| Santosh Kumar Ghosh | ||
| Mahasweta Devi | ||
| Sanjeev Chattopadhyay | ||
| Shibram Chakraborty | ||
| Narayan Gangopadhyay | ||
| Narayan Sanyal | ||
| Bimal Mitra | ||
| Buddhadeb Guha | ||
| Samaresh Majumdar | ||
| Sandipan Chattopadhyay | ||
| Samir Roychoudhury | ||
| Buddhadev Dasgupta | ||
| Salil Choudhury | ||
| Prabir Ghosh | ||
| Malay Roy Choudhury | ||
| Subimal Basak | ||
| Baby Halder | ||
| Binoy Majumdar | ||
| Joy Goswami | ||
| Nachiketa Chakraborty | ||
| Mallika Sengupta | ||
| Srijato | ||
| Subodh Sarkar | ||
| Tarashankar Bandopadhyay | ||
| Harish Chandra Mukherjee | Journalists | |
| Dwarkanath Vidyabhusan | Journalists | |
| Tushar Kanti Ghosh | Journalists | |
| Kaberi Gain | Journalists | |
| Sukumar Ray | Journalists | |
| Chandan Mitra | Journalists | |
| Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Journalists | |
| Mrinal Chatterjee | Journalists | |
| Barun Sengupta | Journalists | |
| Chandramukhi Basu | first female graduate in India, and the British Empire | |
| Sugata Bose | historian | |
| Kaberi Gain | prominent academic, author, and social activist | |
| Anil Kumar Gain | mathematician from University of Cambridge, Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society | |
| Shomie Das | former headmaster of The Doon School | |
| Satish Ranjan Das | founder of The Doon School, Dehradun | |
| Khudiram Das | literary scholar, educationist, linguist | |
| Supriya Chaudhuri | literary scholar, writer, translator | |
| Sukanta Chaudhuri | literary scholar, writer, translator | |
| Suniti Kumar Chatterjee | linguist, educationist, litterateur | |
| Partha Chatterjee | political scientist | |
| Swapan Kumar Chakravorty | literary scholar and writer | |
| Dipesh Chakrabarty | historian | |
| Swapan K. Gayen | Bengali-American physicist, professor at City University of New York | |
| Ashis Nandy | political psychologist | |
| Satish Chandra Mukherjee | educationist | |
| Nurul Momen | professor of Law, Dhaka University Proctor, Dean | |
| Vina Mazumdar | academic, activist and feminist | |
| Rajendralal Mitra | first modern Indologist of Indian origin | |
| Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis | statistician, founder of Indian Statistical Institute | |
| Nazia Khanum |
Order of the British Empire (OBE) and Deputy Lieutenant (DL) | |
| Salman Khan | American educator, founder of Khan Academy | |
| Khandkar Manwar Hossain | statistician | |
| Joseph Ghosh | first Indian to be awarded the Doctor of Letters , University of Edinburgh | |
| Saroj Ghose | science popularizer and museum maker, won an award for Best Effort in Science Popularisation Amongst Children | |
| Sir Jadunath Sarkar | historian | |
| Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak | literary critic and theorist | |
| Asif Azam Siddiqi | professor and space historian | |
| Muhammad Shahidullah | educationist, writer, philologist and linguist | |
| Sukumar Sen | linguist | |
| Sumit Sarkar | historian | |
| Pranab K. Sen | statistician, Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | |
| Narasingha Sil | professor | |
| Nafees Bin Zafar | Academy Scientific and Technical Award, the first Bangladeshi to win an Oscar | |
| Muhammad Yunus | Nobel Peace Prize, 2006 | |
|
Jayanta Chattopadhyay |
Bangladeshi actor | |
| Victor Banerjee | Bengali Tollywood, Bollywood and Hollywood actor; the only Indian to win National Board of Review Award for Best Actor | |
| Uttam Kumar | Bollywood and Bengali film actor | |
| Ushoshi Sengupta | model, former I Am She – Miss Universe India in 2010 | |
| Utpal Dutt | Bengali actor | |
| Tiya Sircar | American actress | |
| Tulsi Chakraborty | Tollywood actor | |
| Tanushree Dutta | former Miss India and actress | |
| Tannishtha Chatterjee | Bollywood and Bengali actress | |
| Tanisha Mukherjee | Bollywood actress | |
| Swastika Mukherjee | Tollywood actress | |
| Sushmita Sen | Bollywood actress | |
| Supriya Devi | Tollywood actress | |
| Sameer Bhattacharya | Bollywood actor | |
| Sumita Devi | Bangladeshi film and television actress | |
| Suchitra Sen | Bollywood and Bengali film actress | |
| Soumitra Chatterjee | Bengali actor | |
| Shraddha Das | Bollywood and Tollywood actress | |
| Shaun Majumder | Canadian comedian and actor; winner of Gemini Awards | |
| Sharmila Tagore | Bollywood and Bengali film actress | |
| Shakib Khan | Bangladeshi actor | |
| Shahana Goswami | Bollywood actress | |
| Seema Biswas | Bollywood actress | |
| Sangeeta Ghosh | actress, model | |
| Samit Bhanja | Bollywood and Bengali actor | |
| Konnie Huq | British television presenter | |
| Paoli Dam | actress | |
| Pahari Sanyal | Tollywood actor | |
| Nivedita Bhattacharya | Theater actress | |
| Nandana Sen | Bollywood actress | |
| Mouni Roy | Bollywood actress | |
| Moushumi Chatterjee | Bollywood actress | |
| Monikangana Dutta | model and actress | |
| Mithun Chakraborty | Bollywood and Bengali film actor | |
| Mouli Ganguly | actress | |
| Mamata Shankar | Bollywood and Bengali actress | |
| Madhabi Mukherjee | actress notable works include charulata, mahanagar | |
| Lisa Ray | actress and model | |
| Koel Mallick | Bengali actress | |
| Ajitesh Bandopadhyay | stage and film actor | |
| Jaya Bhattacharya | actress | |
| Jaya Bachchan | Bollywood actress | |
| Indrani Chakraborty, | Bollywood actress | |
| Devika Rani | Bollywood and Bengali actress | |
| Hiran Chatterjee | Bengali film actor | |
| Dhritiman Chatterjee | Bollywood and Bengali actor | |
| Debashree Roy | Bollywood actress | |
| Colin Pal | actor and publicist | |
| Amala | Bollywood actress | |
| Biswajit Chatterjee | Bengali and Bollywood actor | |
| Bipasha Basu | Bollywood actress | |
| Bikash Roy | Tollywood actor | |
| Bhanu Bandopadhyay | Tollywood comic actor | |
| Ashok Kumar | Bollywood actor | |
| Aparna Sen | Bengali film actress | |
| Anup Kumar | Tollywood actor | |
| Anil Chatterjee | Tollywood actor | |
| Chhabi Biswas | Bengali actor | |
| Razzak, Bangladeshi actor | ||
| Jenni Banerjee, Indian origin Finnish actor | ||
| Rani Mukerji, Bollywood and Kollywood actress | ||
| Raima Sen, Bengali Film and Bollywood actress | ||
| Rahul Bose, Bengali and Bollywood actor and rugby player | ||
| Rabi Ghosh, Bengali actor | ||
| Raakhee, Bollywood actress | ||
| Priyanshu Chatterjee, Bollywood actor | ||
| Preeti Ganguly, actress | ||
| Prasun Gain, Tollywood actor | ||
| Prasenjit Chatterjee Tollywood and Bollywood actor | ||
| Pradeep Kumar, Bollywood actor | ||
| Konkona Sen Sharma, Bollywood actress | ||
| Koena Mitra, former channel V VJ and Bollywood actress | ||
| Kishore Kumar, Bollywood singer, actor, music composer | ||
| Khan Ataur Rahman Bengali actor, director, producer, screenplay writer, music composer and singer | ||
| Kanchan Mullick Bengali actor | ||
| Kamalini Mukherjee, Bollywood and Tollywood actress | ||
| Kajol Mukherjee Bollywood actress | ||
| K.C. Dey, Bengali actor | ||
| June Malia, Tollywood actress | ||
| Joy Mukherjee, Bollywood actor | ||
| Reema Sen, Bollywood and Kollywood actress | ||
| Santosh Dutta Tollywood actor, famous for his portrayal of Jatayu in Feluda films of Satyajit Ray | ||
| Sarita Choudhury, Indian origin British film, Hollywood actress | ||
| Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, Bollywood and Bengali actor | ||
| Sabitri Chatterjee, Bengali actor | ||
| Rupali Ganguly, actress | ||
| Ruma Guha Thakurta, actress notable works include Ganashatru, Abhijan, Palatak; wife of Kishore Kumar | ||
| Roopa Ganguly, Bengali and Bollywood actress | ||
| Ronit Roy, Bollywood and TV actor | ||
| Rola, Bengali-Japanese model, tarento and actress | ||
| Rohit Roy, TV and Bollywood actor | ||
| Riya Sen, Bollywood actress | ||
| Rituparna Sengupta, Bollywood and Bengali actress | ||
| Rimi Sen, Bollywood actress | ||
| Richa Gangopadhyay, actress and Miss India USA 2007 | ||
| Rhona Mitra, Half-Bengali actress in Britain | ||
| Rhea Chakraborty,Bollywood actress | ||
| Reshmi Ghosh, actress, Miss India Earth 2002 | ||
| Reeth Mazumder, Bollywood actress | ||
| Reena Roy, Bollywood actress | ||