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

Scientists & Engineers

• Jagdish Chandra Bose Physicist, radio and wireless transmission pioneer, invented the radio before Marconi. Also did substantial work on botany.
• Satyendra Nath Bose, Physicist, founded Bose–Einstein statistics, which helped to produce Bose-Einstein condensate (2001 Nobel Prize in Physics was given for this discovery); Boson, a study of Elementary particle, is named to honor him
• Megh Nad Saha, Physicist, produced the famous "Thermo-Ionization Equation" or Saha Equation
• Gopal Chandra Bhattacharya -was a Bengali entomologist and naturalist known for his pioneering work on social insects and the role of bacteria in metamorphosis.
• Prafulla Chandra Roy, Pioneer in the field of pharmaceutical and chemical works (discovered mercurous nitrite)
• Sharmila Bhattacharya, head of the Biomodel Performance and Behavior laboratory at NASA Ames Research Center
• Upendranath Brahmachari, Biologist: synthesized Urea Stibamine (carbostibamide) and used it in the treatment of Kala-azar (leishmaniasis), was a nominee for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
•  Mani Lal Bhaumik, Physicist: helped develop the first excimer laser at the University of California
•  Kumar Bhattacharyya, Baron Bhattacharyya, As an academic he has played a prominent role in raising the status of engineering and manufacturing in UK. He was appointed CBE in 1997 and knighted in 2003, Padma Bhushan awardee.
•  Asima Chatterjee, noted for her work in the fields of organic chemistry and phytomedicine. Her most notable work includes those on vinca alkaloids, and the development of anti-epileptic and anti-malarial drugs.
•  Sandip Chakrabarti, A leading Indian astrophysicist, He wrote the first monograph on “Theory of Transonic Astrophysical Flows” (World Scientific Pub. Co., Singapore; 1990). Now a Senior professor at S.N. Bose National Centre where he is a Senior Professor
•  Anirvan Ghosh, A Renowned neuroscientist, His research has contributed to our understanding of the molecular mechanisms that regulate development of the mammalian brain
•  Qazi Motahar Hossain, mathematician and statistician.
•  Abul Hussam, Chemist: Inventor of Sono arsenic filter and the gold winner of the 2007 Grainger Challenge Prize for Sustainability
•  Jamal Nazrul Islam, famous physicist and mathematician
•  Abdus Suttar Khan, Chemist, inventor of alloys for use in commercial jets, U.S. fighter planes, gas turbines, train engines, and space shuttles
•  Fazlur Khan, One of the foremost structural engineers of the 20th century: Structural engineer and designer of Sears Tower, the tallest building in the USA
•  Muhammad Qudrat-i-Khuda, scientist and educator.
•  Dilip Mahalanabis, Biologist: under his leadership International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh medical centre, discovered Oral rehydration therapy, which saved more than 40 millions lives from Diarrhoea
•  Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Statistician: Inventor of Mahalanobis Distance and founder of Indian Statistical Institute
•  Sisir Kumar Mitra, Physicist: pioneer in the investigations of ionosphere and worked with Marie Curie, was awarded Fellowship of the Royal Society and Mitra crater on the Moon is named after him
•  Subhash Mukhopadhyay, Physicist: became the first physician in India and second in the world to perform the In vitro fertilization
•  Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri, Physicist: well known for his contributions to relativistic cosmology produced the famous Raychaudhuri's equation, a key ingredient for other major scientific concepts
•  Bikash Sinha, former director of SINP and Padmabhusan
•  Srikumar Banerjee, director of BARC and AEC
•  Ashoke Sen, Physicist: known for his contributions to string theory and co-discovered S-duality