Bengali surname
Dasgupta (pronounced[ˈdaʃɡupto]) (Bengali:দাশগুপ্ত) is a commonBengali surname that is used by theBengali Hindus ofWest Bengal,Assam,Tripura andBangladesh. The surname is found among the members of theBaidya caste ofBengal.[1]
Geographical distribution
[edit]As of 2014, 62.2% of all known bearers of the surnameDasgupta were residents ofIndia and 28.9% were residents ofBangladesh. In India, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average in the followingstates and union territories:[2]
- Gurudas Dasgupta (born 1936), senior trade-union leader, Communist Party of India, and Member of Parliament
- Samit Dasgupta, mathematician
- Sanjoy Dasgupta, computer scientist
- Sayantani DasGupta, Indian-American physician
- Shamik Dasgupta, comic book writer
- Shamita Das Dasgupta, social activist
- Shashibhusan Dasgupta, Bengali scholar in philosophy, languages and literature
- Somnath Dasgupta, academic and geologist
- Sudhangshu Dasgupta, CPI(M) politician
- Sudhin Dasgupta, Bengali music director
- Surendranath Dasgupta, Sanskrit scholar and philosopher
- Sujaya Dasgupta, actress
- Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta, singer
- Swapan Dasgupta, Indian journalist, MP, Politician
Surname list
This page lists people with the
surnameDasgupta.
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