 Nanoor is the birthplace of the 14th-century poet Chandidas Rami. Nityananda Swami (Nitai of the famous Nitai-Gaur pair) the co – founder of Vaishnav religion with Shri Chityanyadev was born at Ekachakra. Tarashankar Bandopadhyay (1898 – 1971), one of the leading Bengali literary figures in recent times and who wrote extensively about life in Birbhum, belongs to Labhpur. Justice Sattar, a former president of Bangladesh and a former chief election commissioner of Pakistan, was born in Birbhum district in 1906.
