# List of people from Howrah

Howrah or Haora, is one of the largest cities in West Bengal, India. This is a list of notable people who lived in or came from Howrah. A name can repeat in the following sections.

## Writers

* Afsar Amed, novelist
* Bharatchandra Ray, known for his poetic work, Annadamangal or Annapurnamangal
* Mani Shankar Mukherjee, well known for his book on Swami Vivekananda
* Purnendu Pattrea, writer
* Muhammad Shahidullah, writer
* Sandipan Chattopadhyay, famous for his book Kritadas Kritadasi
* Sankari Prasad Basu, famous for his books on Swami Vivekananda, Sahashya Vivekananda and Bandhu Vivekananda
* Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Bengali novelist and short story writer
* Sasthipada Chattopadhyay, Bengali novelist and short story writer, popularly known for his detective series Pandab Goenda
* Narayan Debnath, Bengali comics artist and illustrator, whose popular works are Bantul the Great, Nonte Phonte and Handa Bhoda

## Educationists

* Kanailal Bhattacharyya, ex-minister of Ministry of Commerce and Industries, West Bengal
* Kedarnath Bhattacharya, created first vernacular Bengali medium school of Howrah Santragachi Minor School
* Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya, scholar of Sanskrit, and the former principal of the Sanskrit College between 1876 and 1895
* Muhammad Shahidullah, linguist, writer and philologist
* Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, Computer Scientist, Director Indian Statistical Institute
* Suniti Kumar Chatterji, Indian linguist, educationist, litterateur, Padma Bhushan award winner

## Doctors

* Mahendralal Sarkar, founder of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
* Jagannath Bhattacharya, physicist

## People associated with films and television

* Anjana Basu, television actress
* Ayaz Ahmed, television actor
* Bidita Bag, television actress
* Bibhu Bhattacharya, actor
* Hiran Chatterjee, actor, producer, singer
* Kanan Devi, the first star actress of Bengali cinema
* N. K. Salil, screenwriter, film actor
* Purnendu Pattrea, film director
* Raviranjan Maitra, film actor, producer and editor
* Rudranil Ghosh, film actor
* Sayani Datta, actress
* Soumitra Chatterjee, film actor
* Sisir Bhaduri, film actor and director
* Sujan Mukhopadhyay, film actor
* Suman Mukhopadhyay, director and film-maker
* Tulsi Chakraborty, actor
* N. K. Salil, screenwriter and story writer

## Singers

* Dilip Bagchi, mass singer
* Juthika Roy, awarded with Padma Shri
* Koushik Bhattacharjee, classical vocalist
* Sagarika Mukherjee Da Costa, singer, songwriter and actress
* Tarun Bhattacharya, classical musician
* Pulak Bandyopadhyay, musician

## Politicians

* Ambica Banerjee, Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
* Arup Roy, cabinet minister of West Bengal since 2011 and also an MLA
* Kanailal Bhattacharyya, ex-minister of Ministry of Commerce and Industries, West Bengal
* Kedarnath Bhattacharya, first elected vice-chairman of Howrah Municipal Corporation
* Hannan Mollah, member of Lok Sabha of India from the 7th Lok Sabha to the 14th Lok Sabha
* Jagannath Bhattacharya, politician
* Jatu Lahiri, member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly
* Swapan Sadhan Bose, politician
* Swadesh Chakraborty, politician

## Business people

* Alamohan Das, industrialist

## Sports

* Aloke Bhattacharjee, cricketer and umpire
* Bikash Chowdhury, first-class cricketer
* Charanjit Singh, first-class cricketer
* Dibyendu Chakrabarty, first-class cricketer
* Gitimoy Basu, first-class cricketer
* Jolly Sarkar, first-class cricketer
* Harold Denham, English cricketer
* Laxmi Ratan Shukla, first class cricketer
* Manoj Tiwary, cricketer; played for the Kings XI Punjab and Kolkata Knight Riders in Indian Premier League
* Pritam Chakraborty, first-class cricketer, U-19 Indian Cricket Team
* Rabin Das, footballer, played for Mohun Bagan
* Saurasish Lahiri, cricketer; played in the international
* Sailen Manna, footballer; played for the Mohun Bagan team and played in international competitions including the Asian Games and Olympics
* Soumik Chatterjee, first-class cricketer
* Sanjib Sanyal, first-class cricketer
* Shyama Shaw, international cricketer, left-hand batsman, played test and one-day matches
* Sudip Chatterjee, international football player

## Artists

* Kalipada Ghoshal, last successor of Abanindranath Tagore's Indian Society of Oriental Art and Bengal school of art
* Rabin Mondal, founding member of the Calcutta Painters

## Others

* K. C. Paul, conspiracy theorist, self-proclaimed scientist and astronomer
* Narayan Debnath, comic artist
* Subhas Datta, environment activist
* Subroto Mukherjee, first air marshal of the Indian Air Force