Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861-7 August 1941)also known by the sobriquet Gurudev,d[›] was a Bengali poet, Brahmo religionist, visual artist, playwright, novelist, and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and ....

Hason Raja literally Hason the king, was a mystical poet and songwriter in Bengal, now Bangladesh. Born at the end of the 19th century 1854 to a traditional Zamindar or landowner family near Sunamganj, Sylhet, though his anchestral home is in ...>

Buddhadeb Guha (born June 29, 1936, Calcutta) is a popular Bengali fiction writer. His novels and short stories are characterized by their dreamy abstractness and romantic appeal. His essays reveal ...

Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay (born 2 November 1935) is a famous writer in Bengali language. His stories for younger readers are as famous as those aimed at adults. ....

Humayun Ahmed (born 1948) is the most famous contemporary Bengali fictionist and playwright who has been writing for over thirty five years. He, formerly a professor of Applied Chemistry at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh is now a full-time ...

Jasimuddin (full name Jasimuddin Mollah) (1903-1976) was a renowned Bengali poet. He is commonly known in Bangladesh as Polli Kobi, the Rural Poet....

Jibanananda Das (17 February 1899 - 22 October 1954) is the most popular Bengali poet after Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam. He is considered one of the precursors who introduced modernist poetry to Bengali Literature, at a ...>

Fakir Lalon Shah, also known as Lalon Shah (c.1774-1890), lived in the village of Cheuria in the area known as Nodia during pre-colonial, undivided Bengal and which is the District of Kushtia in present... > Fakir Lalon Shah

Michael Madhusudan Dutt (Datta), (1824-1873), born Madhusudan Dutt, is a famous 19th century Bengali poet and dramatist. He was born in Sagardari, a village in Jessore , East Bengal (now in Bangladesh). He was a pioneer of Bengali drama. His famous work Meghnadh Badh Kabya, is a tragic epic....>

Satyajit Ray (2 May 1921-23 April 1992) was a Bengali Indian filmmaker. He is regarded as one of the greatest auteurs of 20th century cinema.[1] Born in the city of Kolkata (then known as Calcutta in English, though Kolkata in Bengali) into a ...

Sharat Chandra Chatterji, also known as Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay or Sharat Chandra Chatterjee (15 September 1876 - 16 January 1938) was an novelist from India. He was one of the most popular Bengali novelists of early part of...>

Sufia Kamal (June 20, 1911-November 20, 1999) was a poet, writer, organizer, feminist and activist from Bangladesh. She was born to a Muslim family in Barisal, Bangladesh. She is one of the most widely recognized cultural personalities in ....>

Sukanta Bhattacharya (August 15, 1926 - May 13, 1947) was one of the most honored poets of Bangla literature. He was called 'Young Nazrul' and 'Kishore Bidrohi Kobi'....>

Sukumar Ray (1887-1923) was a Bengali humorous poet, story writer and playwright. As perhaps the most famous Indian practitioner of literary nonsense, he is often compared to Lewis Carroll. His works such as the collection of poems"...>

Sunil Gangopadhyay was born on 7 September 1934 in Faridpur in what is now Bangladesh is an Indian poet. Sunil obtained his Master's degree in Bengali from the University of Calcutta in 1954. He has been associated with the Ananda Bazar ....>

Swami Vivekananda (January 12, 1863 - July 4, 1902), whose pre-monastic name was Narendranath Dutta (Narendranath Dut-tta), was one of the most famous and influential spiritual leaders of the philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga. ....>

Upendrokishore Ray, also known as Upendrokishore Raychowdhury was a famous Bengali writer, painter, violin player and composer. He was born on 10 May 1863 in a little village called Moshua in Mymensingh District in East Bengal, ....