# Sengupta

Sengupta (Bengali: সেনগুপ্ত) is a Bengali surname found among the Bengalis of West Bengal, Assam, Tripura and Bangladesh. They belong to the Baidya caste of Bengal. The surname is a compound of Sen and Gupta.

## Notables

* Achintyakumar Sengupta (1903–1976), Bengali author
* Aditya Vikram Sengupta (born 1983), Indian film director, cinematographer and graphic designer
* Anasuya Sengupta (born 1974), Indian poet, author, activist
* Anita Sengupta, British-born American aerospace engineer
* Anup Sengupta, Bengali film director and producer
* Apoorva Sengupta (1939–2013), Indian cricketer
* Arjun Kumar Sengupta (1937–2010), Indian politician and Member of the Parliament of India
* Arunabha Sengupta (born 1973), Indian novelist
* Atiha Sen Gupta (born 1988), British playwright and screenwriter
* Barkha Sengupta (born 1979), Indian television and film actress
* Barun Sengupta (1934–2008), Bengali journalist and founder-editor of Bartaman newspaper
* Biswatosh Sengupta (born 1944), Indian academic from Kolkata
* Bonny Sengupta, Indian Bengali film actor
* Bratin Sengupta (born 1963), Indian politician
* Deep Sengupta (born 1988), Indian chess grandmaster
* Dipankar Sengupta Dipon, Bangladeshi film director
* Gurunath Sengupta (1848–1914), Sanskrit scholar from the Jessore District of Bangladesh
* Hindol Sengupta, (born 1979), Indian historian and journalist
* Hiranmay Sen Gupta (born 1934), Bangladeshi nuclear physicist
* Indraneil Sengupta, Indian model and actor
* Jatindra Mohan Sengupta (1885–1933), Indian revolutionary, President of then Bengal Provincial Congress Committee and Bengal Swaraj Party
* Jatindranath Sengupta (1887–1954), Bengali poet and writer
* Jisshu Sengupta, also known as Jisshu, Bengali film actor
* Joy Sengupta (born 1968), Indian film and stage actor
* Joya Sengupta, Bangladesh Awami League politician, doctor
* Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta (born 1953), Indian lawyer, Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court
* Krishnendu Sengupta (born 1970), Indian professor of theoretical physics
* Mallika Sengupta (1960–2011), Bengali poet, feminist, and reader of Sociology from Kolkata
* Mihir Sengupta, Bengali Indian writer
* Moinak Sengupta (born 1973), Indian cricketer
* N. C. Sen Gupta, the eleventh Governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 19 May to 19 August 1975
* Narendra Nath Sen Gupta (1889–1944), Indian psychologist, philosopher, and professor
* Nares Chandra Sen-Gupta (1882–1964), legal scholar and Bengali novelist
* Nellie Sengupta (1886–1973), Englishwoman who fought for Indian Independence
* Nikhil Baran Sengupta (1943–2014), Indian art director of Oriya films
* Niranjan Sen Gupta, Bengali Indian revolutionary
* Nitish Sengupta (1933–2013), Revenue Secretary of the Government of India
* Papiya Sengupta, Indian television actress
* Partho Sen-Gupta (born 1965), Indian-born French independent film director and screenwriter
* Paulami Sengupta, the editor of three magazines in India: Anandamela, Unish Kuri and Career
* Phani Gopal Sen Gupta (born 1905), Indian politician, member of Lok Sabha from Purnia (1952–1970)
* Piya Sengupta (born 1969), Indian film actress, producer, director and writer
* Poile Sengupta (born 1948), Indian writer, playwright and actress
* Prabodh Chandra Sengupta (1876–1962), historian of astronomy in ancient India
* Pramod Ranjan Sengupta (1907–1974), Marxist intellectual and Bengali revolutionary
* Priti Sengupta, Gujarati poet and writer
* Pulak Sengupta (born 1963), Indian petrologist
* Ramananda Sengupta (1916–2017), Indian cinematographer
* Ratnottama Sengupta (born 1955), Indian film journalist, festival curator, and author
* Rituparna Sengupta (born 1971), Indian actress in Bengali and Hindi films
* Rudraprasad Sengupta (born 1935), Bengali Indian actor, director and cultural critic
* Sachin Sengupta (1891–1961), Bengali playwright and theatre producer and director
* Sagar Sengupta (born 1968), Indian immunologist and cancer biologist
* Shantanu Sengupta, Indian cell biologist
* Sohini Sengupta, Indian film and theatre actress
* Somini Sengupta (fl. 2023), American journalist
* Stephanie Sengupta, American producer and writer
* Subodh Chandra Sengupta (1903–1998), Indian academic and critic of English literature, Shakespearean scholar
* Sudipta Sengupta (born 1946), professor in structural geology in Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India
* Sukhamoy Sen Gupta, Chief Minister of Tripura in India from 1972 to 1977
* Suranjit Sengupta (1945–2017), senior Bangladesh Awami League politician
* Swatilekha Sengupta (1950–2021), Bengali actress
* Tarakeswar Sengupta (1905–1931), Indian independence activist
* Upal Sengupta, lead vocalist of Bengali band Chandrabinoo
* Ushoshi Sengupta (born 1988), Indian beauty pageant contestant and winner of Miss India Universe 2010