# Banerjee

Banerjee, also known as Bandyopadhyay, is a Bengali Kulin Brahmin surname originating from the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent. The surname belongs to the Rarhi clan of Hindu Bengali Brahmin caste.

## History

   "Indian (Bengal) and Bangladeshi: Hindu (Brahman) name, the first element of which, Ban-, is taken from Bandyopadhyay The final element -jee is derived from jha (greatly reduced form of Sanskrit upadhyaya 'teacher'); thus, Banerjee 'teacher who is head and only performs the main work aarti or, Vandana. A Sanskrit version of this name, Vandyopadhyaya, was coined from the elements vandya 'venerable' + upadhyaya 'teacher'. "

## Notable people

Notable people with the surname Banerjee, Bandopadhyay, or variations, include:
* Abhijit Banerjee (born 1961) Nobel laureate economist
* Abhishek Banerjee (actor)
* Abhishek Banerjee (politician)
* Ajit Kumar Banerjee, environmentalist
* Alapan Bandyopadhyay (born 1961) IAS officer
* Albion Rajkumar Banerjee (1871 – 1950) an Indian civil servant and administrator
* Ambica Banerjee (1928 – 2013) a member of the 15th Lok Sabha
* Anjan Bandyopadhyay (1965 – 2021) journalist
* Audrish Banerjee (born 1975) Indian former cricketer
* Bhanu Banerjee (1920 – 1983) actor and freedom activist
* Beena Banerjee, Actress
* Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (1895 – 1950), Indian writer
* Bidisha Bandyopadhyay (born 1978) writer, broadcaster
* Bratati Bandyopadhyay, elocutionist
* Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (born 1956) Indian-born American author, poet, and professor.
* Dibakar Banerjee (born 1969) Indian film director, screenwriter, producer and advertisement-filmmaker.
* Dola Banerjee (born 1980) Indian sportswoman who competes in archery
* Durgadas Bannerjee, actor
* Gargi Banerjee, cricketer
* Gooroodas Banerjee (1844 –1918) aka Gurudas Bandyopadhyay, Bengali Indian High Court judge
* Gurudas Banerjee, Actor
* Gopeshwar Banerjee (1880–1963) an Indian classical singer and musicologist,
* Haradhan Bandopadhyay (1926 – 2013) a Bengali Indian actor
* Ishwar Chandra Bandyopadhyay (1820 – 1891) Indian educator and social reformer
* Jenni Banerjee, (born 1981) Finnish actress with Indian ancestry.
* John Banerjee (1873 – ?) the second non-European bishop of the Church of India, Burma and Ceylon
* Kali Banerjee, actor
* Kali Charan Banerjee
* Kali S. Banerjee, mathematician
* Kalyan Banerjee
* Kalyan Banerjee, homoeopath
* Kanika Bandyopadhyay (1924–2000) singer
* Kanu Banerjee (1905–1985) actor (Pather Panchali)
* Karuna Banerjee (1919–2001) actress (Pather Panchali)
* Krishna Mohan Banerjee
* Kaushik Banerjee, actor
* Kaustav Banerjee, American electrical engineer
* Kedareswar Banerjee, physicist
* Mamata Banerjee, politician and chief minister of West Bengal
* Manik Bandopadhyay, writer and novelist
* Mrinal Banerjee, politician
* Nikhil Banerjee, composer and musician
* Nyra Banerjee, Indian television actress and assistant director.
* Paran Bandopadhyay, Actor
* Pradip Kumar Banerjee, Footballer, Coach
* Prith Banerjee
* Pooja Banerjee, television actress
* Pratyusha Banerjee, television actress
* Puja Banerjee, film and television actress
* Pulak Bandyopadhyay, lyricist and songwriter
* Rachna Banerjee, Indian actress
* Raghab Bandyopadhyay, prose writer
* Rahul Banerjee, archer
* Rahul Banerjee, Actor
* R. D. Banerji, The discoverer of Mohenjo-daro, the principal site of the Indus Valley Civilisation
* Reba Bandyopadhyay (born 1972) American astronomer and science policy analyst
* Rina Banerjee
* Ruprekha Banerjee
* Satya Bandyopadhyay, actor
* Satya Banerjee, actor
* Samar Banerjee, Footballer
* San Banarje, film director, producer, and photographer
* Sanjay Banerjee, Indian engineer
* Sara Banerji, writer
* Sarnath Banerjee, artist
* Sarvadaman D. Banerjee, Actor, Social worker
* Sarobindu Nath Banerjee, Footballer
* Shakuntala Banerjee (born 1973), German journalist
* Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay
* Sid Banerjee, Indian-American pop singer, songwriter, and producer
* Steve Banerjee, arsonist, racketeer, and murderer
* Subhamita Banerjee, Musician
* Subir Banerjee (born 1946), Indian actor
* Subir Kumar Banerjee (born 1939), Indian-American geophysicist
* Surendranath Banerjee, first Indian to qualify Indian Civil Service Examination
* Sushmita Banerjee, writer
* Sushovan Banerjee, physian and politician
* Subhankar Banerjee, Musician
* Subhankar Banerjee, Photographer
* Suvojit Banerjee, cricketer
* Syagnik Banerjee, scholar, author, and professor
* Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay, Author, Novelist
* Victor Banerjee, actor both in Tollywood, Bollywood and Hollywood
* Vikram Banerjee
* Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee, first president of the Indian National Congress