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Sarvadaman D. Banerjee. Victor Banerjee, Bengali Tollywood, Bollywood and Hollywood actor; the only Indian to win National Board of Review Award for Best Actor. Bipasha Basu, Bollywood actress. Jaya Bhattacharya, actress. Nivedita Bhattacharya, theatre actress. Samit Bhanja, Bollywood and Bengali actor.
Begum Rokeya. Social Reformer. Pioneer of Bengali Muslim women uprising. Within the conservative socio-system of her time, managed to educate herself and later became a popular writer and educationist. Inspired millions of girls and women to educate themselves and obtain self-reliance. 7. Jagadish Chandra Bose. Acharya.
Bengali Americans are predominantly Bangladeshi Americans and are usually Bengali speaking Muslims. Since the early 1970s, Bangladeshi immigrants have arrived in significant numbers to become one of the fastest growing ethnic groups in the U.S. New York City is home to two-thirds of the Bangladeshi American population.
The ancient political divisions of the Ganges delta. The term Bengali is generally used to refer to someone whose linguistic, cultural or ancestral origins are from Bengal. The Indo-Aryan Bengalis are ethnically differentiated from the non-Indo-Aryan tribes inhabiting Bengal. Their ethnonym, Bangali, along with the native name of the Bengali ...
2. Sir Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy. Bengali Hindu family, Khulna, Bengal, now Bangladesh (East Bengal) Chemistry. Father of Chemistry in India, discoverer of Mercurous Nitrite. 2 August 1861, Khulna, Bengal, now Bangladesh (East Bengal) 16 June 1944, Calcutta, Bengal, now West Bengal. 3.
Biggest festival of Bengalis, Pohela Boishakh. The culture of Bengal defines the cultural heritage of the Bengali people native to eastern regions of the Indian subcontinent, mainly what is today Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal and Tripura, where they form the dominant ethnolinguistic group and the Bengali language is the official and primary language.
Susobhan Sarkar, historian. Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize awardee in Economics. Dinesh Chandra Sen, historian of Bengali literature and folklorist. Sukumar Sen, linguist. Hara Prasad Shastri, historian of Bengali language and culture. Maniklal Sinha, novelist, historian and archaeologist of west Rarh.
Rahsaan Islam, actor. Palbasha Siddique, singer. Sanjoy, Bangladeshi-American musician, electronic music producer and DJ. Monica Yunus, soprano singer, daughter of Muhammad Yunus and Vera Forostenko. Shikhee, singer and auteur of industrial band Android Lust. Jai Wolf, electronic music producer.