Actors and actresses 42.Lisa Ray Model & actress 43.Hrithik Roshan Bollywood actor 44.Subrata Routh Bengali-American actor 45.Reena Roy Bollywood actress 46.Debashree Roy Bollywood actress 47.Deep Roy Hollywood Actor 48.Rohit Roy TV actor 49.Abdur Razzak Bengali actor 50.Aparna Sen Bengali film actress 52.Nandana Sen Bollywood actress 53.Raima Sen Bengali Film & Bollywood actress 54.Reema Sen Bollywood & Kollywood actress 55.Rimi Sen Bollywood actress 56.Riya Sen Bollywood actress 57.Suchitra Sen Bollywood actress 58.Sushmita Sen Bollywood actress 59.Konkona Sen Sharma Bollywood Actress 60.Shabana Bangladeshi Actress 61.Shabnam(JharnaBasak) Bangladeshi Actress 62.Sharmila Tagore Bollywood Actress 63.Ruma Guha Thakurta Actress Artists 1.Zainul Abedin 10.Shahabuddin Ahmed 2.Ramkinkar Baij 11.Nandalal Bose 3.Rashid Choudhury 12.Anil Kumar Dutta 4.Quamrul Hassan 13.Syed Jahangir 5.Norah Jones 14.Prosenjit Kundu 6.Paresh Maity 15.Ganesh Pyne 7.Ranabi 16.Jamini Roy 8.Paritosh Sen 17.Shuvaprasanna 9.SM Sultan 18.Abanindranath Tagore Writers 1.Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) poet, novelist, essayist 2.Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1876-1938) novelist 3.Pramatha Chaudhuri editor of Sbuj patra,one of the Greatest writer even in the pervasive era of Rabindranath Tagore. 4.Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar a philosopher, academic, educator, writer, translator, printer, publisher, entrepreneur, reformer, and philanthropist of the Bengal Renaissance period. 5.Sukanta Bhattacharya one of the most honoured poets of Bengali literature 6.Banaphool writer of short stories 7.Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay (1894-1950) novelist 8.Manik Bandopadhyay (1908-1956) novelist, short story writer 9.Tarashankar Bandopadhyay (1898-1971) novelist 10.Satyajit Ray (1921-1992) Oscar winning Film Director, he was also is well known for his contributions to Bangla literature. He created two of the most famous characters in Bengali: Feluda the sleuth, and Professor Shanku the scientist. 11.Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (1838-1894) novelist, essayist, penned the Indian National Song of integrity Vande Mataram     * Krittibas Ojha - medieval Bengali poet,his major contribution to Bangla literature and culture was the translation of the great Indian epic Ramayana to Bangla 12.Chandidas Chandidas is perhaps most well known for his strikingly modern assertion Shobar upor manush shotto tahar upore nai (Above all is human, none else) 13.Buddhadeb Bose (1908-1974) poet, essayist 14.Kumud Ranjan Mullick one of the most eminent poets of the Tagore era of Bengali literature. 15.Swarnakumari Devi first among the women writers in Bengali to gain prominence. 16.Nirendranath Chakravarty (b. 1924) poet 17.Haraprasad Shastri He is most known for discovering the Charyapada, the earliest known examples of Bengali literature 18.Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1897-1999) scholar, essayist 19.Sandipan Chattopadhyay (1933-2005) novelist 20.Shakti Chattopadhyay poet 21.Jibanananda Das (1899-1954) poet 22.Amit Chaudhuri currently Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia, 2002 Sahitya Akademi Award for A New World 23.Jhumpa Lahiri novelist, short story writer, Pulitzer prize winner. 24.Ashapurna Devi (1909-1995) novelist, short story writer 25.Mahasweta Devi (b. 1926) novelist, short story writer 26.Michael Madhusudan Dutt (1824-1873) poet, dramatist