# Basu

Basu (Bengali: বসু), also Bose (anglicized), Boshu, Bosu, or Bosh, is a Bengali surname of primarily Bengali Kayastha community originating from the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent. The name stems from Vāsu (Sanskrit: वसु), which means 'Bright one'.
Basus are considered as Kulin Kayasthas of Gautam gotra, along with Ghoshes, Mitras and Bangaja (Eastern Bengal) Guhas.

## Notable people

* Amrita Basu, (b. 1953) American scholar
* Amar Bose, (1929 – 2013) Founder and chairman of Bose Corporation which make Bose home audio products. Indian American entrepreneur and academic. Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
* Anurag Basu film director
* Bani Basu, (b. 1939), Bengali Indian author, essayist, critic, and poet
* Benoy Basu, (1908-1930), Indian revolutionary and freedom fighter
* Bipasha Basu, Bollywood actress and model
* Buddhadeb Bosu, (1908–1974), Bengali writer
* Chandranath Basu, (1844-1910), Bengali conservative litterateur
* Debabrata Basu, (1924 - 2001) Indian statistician who proved Basu's theorem
* Durga Das Basu, (1910 - 1997), Indian jurist and lawyer who wrote the Commentary on the Constitution of India and Casebook on the Indian Constitutional Law
* Jagadish Chandra Bose, (1858 - 1937), Biologist, physicist, botanist and an early writer of science fiction. One of the fathers of radio science, inventor of crescograph, founder of Bose Institute.
* Jyoti Basu, (1914-2010), founding member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) . Barrister, longest serving chief minister of West Bengal.
* Jyotirmoy Basu, (1920-1982), Indian politician for CPM party .
* Kaushik Basu, (b. 1952), Indian economist
* Khudiram Bose, (1889-1908), Indian Freedom Fighter
* Kumudini Basu (1873–1942), Bengali writer, social reformer and women's rights activist in British India.
* Kunal Basu, author of the novel Racists
* Maladhar Basu, a poet of the Hossain-Shahi period in Bengal history, writer of Sri Krishna Vijaya (শ্রীকৃষ্ণবিজয়, Triumph of Lord Krishna)
* Mankumari Basu (1863–1943), Bengali poet
* Neil Basu (b. 1968), senior British police officer.
* Nagendranath Basu (1866-1938), encyclopedia compiler, archaeologist, and historian
* Nandita Basu, Indian-born American environmental engineer
* Nandalal Bose, seminal painter and sculptor
* Pam Basu (1958–1992), victim of carjacking and murder
* Rajnarayan Basu, (1826-1899), writer and intellectual of the Bengal Renaissance
* Rajshekhar Basu (1880–1960), Bengali writer, chemist and lexicographer
* Rash Behari Basu (1886-1945), Indian Revolutionary Leader
* Samaresh Basu, writer; winner of the 1980 Sahitya Akademi Award
* Samit Basu, (b. 1979), Indian author
* Sankar Basu, electrical engineer
* Satyendra Nath Bose, (1894 – 1974), Indian mathematician and physicist. Best known for his work on quantum mechanics, Bose–Einstein statistics and Bose–Einstein condensate. Elementary particles Bosons were named after him.
* Satyendranath Bosu, (1882-1908), Indian revolutionary and freedom fighter
* Sekhar Basu, (1952-2020), Indian nuclear scientist who served as the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, Awarded the Padma Shri in 2014
* Siddhartha Basu, Indian television producer-director and quiz show host
* Sreyashi Jhumki Basu, (1977-2008) American science educator
* Subhas Chandra Bose, (1897-1945), Indian nationalist leader