# Chakraborty

Chakraborty (spelling variations include Chakraborti, Chakrabarti and Chakrabarty) is a surname of Bengali Hindus and Assamese Hindus of India and Bangladesh, which literally means 'wheels rolling'; metaphorically it denotes a ruler whose chariot wheels roll everywhere without obstruction (čakra 'wheel' + vart- 'to roll'). The surname is mainly used by people of the Bengali Brahmin and Assamese Brahmin communities in the states of West Bengal, Tripura and Assam.

## Notable persons with this surname
### Male

* Abani Chakravarty (1941–1994?), Indian Assamese poet
* Ajay Chakraborty (born 1943), Indian politician
* Ajoy Chakrabarty (born 1953), Indian singer
* Akinchan Chakrabarty (18th century), Bengali poet
* Amal Chakraborty, Indian paediatric surgeon
* Ambika Chakrabarty (1892–1962), Indian Bengali independence movement activist and revolutionary
* Amiya Chakravarty (1901–1986), literary critic, academic, and Bengali poet
* Amiya Chakravarty (director) (1912–1957), Indian film director, screenwriter and producer
* Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty (1938–2020), Indian microbiologist, party to the U.S. Supreme Court case Diamond v. Chakrabarty
* Animesh Chakravorty (born 1935), Indian chemist
* Aravinda Chakravarti (born 1954), Indian geneticist
* Arindam Chakrabarti, Indian philosopher working in Hawaii
* Arjun Chakrabarty, Indian actor
* Arnab Chakrabarty (born 1980), Indian musician and Sarod player
* Arup Chakraborty, American engineer
* Bicky Chakraborty (born 1943), Swedish hotel mogul
* Bikas K Chakrabarti (born 1952), Indian physicist
* Birendra Narayan Chakraborty (1904–1976), Indian politician
* Bonnie Chakraborty, Bengali singer
* Byomkes Chakrabarti (1923–1981), Indian linguist
* Chiranjeet Chakraborty (born 1960), Indian Bengali film actor
* Dhirendra Kishore Chakravarti (1902 – after 1982), Indian geologist and palaeontologist
* Dilip Kumar Chakrabarti, Indian archaeologist
* Dipesh Chakrabarty (born 1948), Indian historian
* Gaurav Chakrabarty (born 1987), Indian actor
* Ghanaram Chakrabarty (c. 1669-?), Bengali poet
* Haranath Chakraborty (born 1959), Indian Bengali film director
* J. D. Chakravarthy (born 1970), Indian film actor and director in Telugu cinema and Bollywood
* Janardan Chakravarti (1901–1987), Indian professor of Bengali
* K. Chakravarthy (1936–2002), music director in the South Indian film industry
* Keshab Chakravarthy (active 1925), Indian revolutionary
* Khelaram Chakrabarty (16th century), Bengali poet
* Kshitindra Mohan Chakravarty (1900–1988), Indian chemist, fuel technician and teacher
* Kushal Chakraborty (born 1968), Bengali actor and film director
* M. C. Chakrabarti (died 1972), Indian statistician
* Mahaakshay Chakraborty (born 1984), Indian actor
* Manoj Chakraborty (born 1954), Indian politician
* Mithun Chakraborty (born 1950), Indian actor, director and businessman
* Nachiketa Chakraborty (born 1965), Indian Bengali singer-songwriter
* Nirendranath Chakravarty (1924–2018), Bengali poet
* Nripen Chakraborty (1905–2004), Indian politician
* Oliphant Chuckerbutty (1884–1960), English composer and organist of Anglo-Indian descent
* Panchanan Chakraborty (1900–1995), Indian revolutionary
* Phani Bhusan Chakravartti (1898–1981), first Indian Bengali permanent Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court
* Pramod Chakravorty (1929–2004), Indian film director and producer
* Praveen Chakravarty (born 1973), Indian businessman
* Pritam Chakraborty (born 1971), Indian Bengali music director and composer
* Pritish Chakraborty Indian film actor, director, writer, producer, singer in Bollywood
* Rahi Chakraborty (born 1988), Indian singer, songwriter, programmer and guitarist
* Raj Chakraborty (born 1975), Indian Bengali film director
* Rajorshi Chakraborti (born 1977), Indian writer in English
* Ranajit Chakraborty, Indian geneticist
* Ritwick Chakraborty, Indian film actor
* Rupram Chakrabarty (17th century), Bengali poet
* S. S. Chakravarthy, Indian Tamil film producer
* Sabyasachi Chakrabarty (born 1956), Indian Bengali TV and film actor
* Saikat Chakrabarti, American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and political activist
* Samiran Chandra Chakrabarti, Indian Indologist and scholar of onomastics & Vedic studies
* Samrat Chakrabarti (born 1975), British-American actor and musician
* Sandip Chakrabarti (born 1958), Indian astrophysicist
* Sankar Chakraborti (born 1970), Indian business leader
* Shibram Chakraborty (1903–1980), Bengali writer, humorist and revolutionary
* Shibu Chakravarthy (born 1961), Indian lyricist, screenplay and script writer who mainly works in Malayalam cinema
* Shyam Sundar Chakravarthy (1869–1932), Bengali revolutionary, independence activist and journalist
* Snehasish Chakraborty (born 1989), Indian footballer
* Soham Chakraborty, Indian actor, producer, and politician
* Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty (c. 1826–1874), one of the earliest Indians to practice modern medicine
* Sourav Chakraborty (footballer) (born 1992), Indian footballer
* Souvik Chakraborty (born 1991), Indian footballer
* Subhas Chakraborty (died 2009), Indian politician, transport minister of West Bengal
* Sugato Chakravarty, Indian marketing academic
* Sujan Chakraborty (born 1959), Indian politician
* Sujit Chakravarty (born 1959), Indian football manager
* Suma Chakrabarti (born 1959), British civil servant, President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
* Sumon K Chakrabarti, Indian journalist
* Swadesh Chakraborty (1943–2024), Indian politician
* Swapan Kumar Chakravorty (1954–2021), Director General of the National Library of India, Kolkata
* Trailokyanath Chakravarty (1889–1970), British Indian revolutionary, East Pakistani politician
* Tulsi Chakraborty (1899–1961), Indian comic actor
* Utpalendu Chakrabarty (born 1948), Indian film director
* Varun Chakravarthy (born 1991), Indian cricketer
* Vijay C Chakravarthy, Indian cinematographer
* Vinayak Chakravorty, Indian film critic and film journalist
* Vinu Chakravarthy (1945–2017), Tamil actor, scriptwriter and director
* Visvanatha Chakravarti (1626? – 1708?), Bengali guru

### Female

* Bijoya Chakravarty (born 1939), Indian politician from Assam
* Dia Chakravarty (born 1984), Bangladeshi-born British political activist and singer
* Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (born 1942), Indian literary critic
* Ipsita Roy Chakraverti (born 1950), Indian Wiccan priestess
* Kaushiki Chakrabarty (born 1980), Indian classical vocalist
* Lolita Chakrabarti (born 1969), British actor and writer
* Megha Chakraborty, Indian actress
* Meghna Chakrabarti, American radio personality
* Mimi Chakraborty (born 1989), Bengali film actress, singer and a (nominal) Member of Parliament
* Reeta Chakrabarti (born 1964), British television journalist
* Rhea Chakraborty (born 1992), Indian video jockey and actress
* Ritabhari Chakraborty (born 1992), Indian Bengali film actor
* Rushmi Chakravarthi (born 1977), Indian tennis player
* S. A. Chakraborty (born 1985), American fantasy novelist
* Shami Chakrabarti (born 1969), British member of the House of Lords, barrister and civil liberties campaigner
* Sharmila Chakraborty (born 1961), Indian cricketer
* Sumona Chakravarti, Bollywood actress and celebrity
* Uthpala Chakraborty, Indian cricketer