Academic:

 Lists of famous and notable Bengali people, from West Bengal, India or Bangladesh, or people with Bengali ancestry.
                                       

•  Abdus Suttar Khan, chemist
•  Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri, internationally-renowned theoretical physicist, widely respected    educator
•  Amartya Sen, economist and Nobel Laureate
•  Andre Béteille, sociologist
•  Ashis Nandy, political psychologist
•  Ashoke Sen, physicist
•  Dipesh Chakrabarty, historian
•  Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, literary critic and theorist
•  Kaushik Basu, economist
•  Mir Masoom Ali, statistician
•  Muhammad Shahidullah, educationist, writer, philologist and linguist
•  Partha Chatterjee, political scientist
•  Satyendranath Bose, physicist
•  Sugata Bose, historian
•  Sukumar Sen, Linguist
•  Suniti Kumar Chatterjee, linguist, educationist, litterateur
•  Sumit Sarkar, Historian
•  Vina Mazumdar, Women studies