List of people from Howrah

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

• 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

• 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

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

People associated with films and television

• Anjana Basu, television actress
• Ayaz Ahmed, television 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

• 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

• 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

• Alamohan Das, industrialist

Sports

• 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

• 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

• 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

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.