List of people from Howrah

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

## Writers[edit]

* Afsar Amed, known for his Novels.
* 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, famous 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 Bantu the Great, Nonte Phonte and Handa Bhoda.

## Educationists[edit]

* Kanailal Bhattacharyya, ex-minister of Ministry of Commerce and Indrustries, 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, got Padma Bhushan award

## 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
* Bidita Bag, television actress
* Bibhu Bhattacharya, actor
* Hiran Chatterjee, actor, producer, singer, magician
* Kanan Devi, the first star actress of Bengali cinema
* N. K. Salil, Screenplay Writer, 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

## 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

## 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 Indrustries, 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 Indian cricketer
* Jolly Sarkar, first-class cricketer
* Harold Denham, English cricketer
* Laxmi Ratan Shukla, first class Indian cricketer
* Manoj Tiwary, Indian 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, Indian 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
* N. K. Salil, film screenplay and story writer
* Narayan Debnath, popular comic artist
* Subhas Datta, environment activist
* Subroto Mukherjee, first air marshal of 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.