List of people from Howrah

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Find sources: "List of people from Howrah" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (March 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

|

Howrah or Haora, is one of the largest cities in West Bengal, India. This is a list of notable people who lived in or came from Howrah. A name can repeat in the following sections.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

## Writers

[edit]

* Afsar Amed, novelist
* Bharatchandra Ray, known for his poetic work, Annadamangal or Annapurnamangal
* Mani Shankar Mukherjee, well known for his book on Swami Vivekananda[1]
* Purnendu Pattrea, writer
* Muhammad Shahidullah, writer[2]
* Sandipan Chattopadhyay, famous for his book Kritadas Kritadasi
* Sankari Prasad Basu, famous for his books on Swami Vivekananda, Sahashya Vivekananda and Bandhu Vivekananda
* Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Bengali novelist and short story writer
* Sasthipada Chattopadhyay, Bengali novelist and short story writer, popularly known for his detective series Pandab Goenda
* Narayan Debnath, Bengali comics artist and illustrator, whose popular works are Bantul the Great, Nonte Phonte and Handa Bhoda

## Educationists

[edit]

* Kanailal Bhattacharyya, ex-minister of Ministry of Commerce and Industries, West Bengal
* Kedarnath Bhattacharya, created first vernacular Bengali medium school of Howrah Santragachi Minor School
* Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya, scholar of Sanskrit, and the former principal of the Sanskrit College between 1876 and 1895
* Muhammad Shahidullah, linguist, writer and philologist
* Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, Computer Scientist, Director Indian Statistical Institute
* Suniti Kumar Chatterji, Indian linguist, educationist, litterateur, Padma Bhushan award winner

## Doctors

[edit]

* Mahendralal Sarkar, founder of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
* Jagannath Bhattacharya, physicist

## People associated with films and television

[edit]

* Anjana Basu, television actress
* Ayaz Ahmed, television actor
* Abbas, film actor
* Bidita Bag, television actress
* Bibhu Bhattacharya, actor
* Hiran Chatterjee, actor, producer, singer
* Kanan Devi, the first star actress of Bengali cinema
* N. K. Salil, screenwriter, film actor
* Purnendu Pattrea, film director
* Raviranjan Maitra, film actor, producer and editor
* Rudranil Ghosh, film actor
* Sayani Datta, actress
* Soumitra Chatterjee, film actor
* Sisir Bhaduri, film actor and director
* Sujan Mukhopadhyay, film actor
* Suman Mukhopadhyay, director and film-maker
* Tulsi Chakraborty, actor
* N. K. Salil, screenwriter and story writer

## Singers

[edit]

* Dilip Bagchi, mass singer
* Juthika Roy, awarded with Padma Shri
* Koushik Bhattacharjee, classical vocalist
* Sagarika Mukherjee Da Costa, singer, songwriter and actress
* Tarun Bhattacharya, classical musician
* Pulak Bandyopadhyay, musician

## Politicians

[edit]

* Ambica Banerjee, Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
* Arup Roy, cabinet minister of West Bengal since 2011 and also an MLA
* Kanailal Bhattacharyya, ex-minister of Ministry of Commerce and Industries, West Bengal
* Kedarnath Bhattacharya, first elected vice-chairman of Howrah Municipal Corporation
* Hannan Mollah, member of Lok Sabha of India from the 7th Lok Sabha to the 14th Lok Sabha
* Jagannath Bhattacharya, politician
* Jatu Lahiri, member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly[3]
* Swapan Sadhan Bose, politician
* Swadesh Chakraborty, politician

## Business people

[edit]

* Alamohan Das, industrialist

## Sports

[edit]

* Aloke Bhattacharjee, cricketer and umpire
* Bikash Chowdhury, first-class cricketer
* Charanjit Singh, first-class cricketer
* Dibyendu Chakrabarty, first-class cricketer
* Gitimoy Basu, first-class cricketer
* Jolly Sarkar, first-class cricketer
* Harold Denham, English cricketer
* Laxmi Ratan Shukla, first class cricketer
* Manoj Tiwary, cricketer; played for the Kings XI Punjab and Kolkata Knight Riders in Indian Premier League
* Pritam Chakraborty, first-class cricketer, U-19 Indian Cricket Team
* Rabin Das, footballer, played for Mohun Bagan
* Saurasish Lahiri, cricketer; played in the international
* Sailen Manna, footballer; played for the Mohun Bagan team and played in international competitions including the Asian Games and Olympics
* Soumik Chatterjee, first-class cricketer
* Sanjib Sanyal, first-class cricketer
* Shyama Shaw, international cricketer, left-hand batsman, played test and one-day matches
* Sudip Chatterjee, international football player

## Artists

[edit]

* Kalipada Ghoshal, last successor of Abanindranath Tagore's Indian Society of Oriental Art and Bengal school of art
* Rabin Mondal, founding member of the Calcutta Painters

## Others

[edit]

* K. C. Paul, conspiracy theorist, self-proclaimed scientist and astronomer
* Narayan Debnath, comic artist
* Subhas Datta, environment activist
* Subroto Mukherjee, first air marshal of the Indian Air Force

## References

[edit]

1. ^ "Lifetime award for Shankar". The Times of India. 28 January 2013. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
2. ^ "Safdar Hashmi: The new word, the wake up call, the cult of defiance". 19 December 2016.
3. ^ "Jatu Lahiri(All India Trinamool Congress(AITC)):Constituency- SHIBPUR(HOWRAH) - Affidavit Information of Candidate". myneta.info.