Chatterjee (Bengali :চ্যাটার্জি ), also known asChattopadhyay is aBengali Hindu surname, used by theKulin group of theBengali Brahmin caste.[ 1] Banerjees ,Mukherjees ,Bhattacharjees , andGangulys , Chatterjees form the Kulin Brahmins, the highest tier of theBengali caste system.[ 2] Rarhi clan of Bengali Brahmins and theKashyapa gotra .
Chatterjee is anAnglicized variant of the SanskritizedChattopadhyay .[ 1] [ 3] [ 4] [ 5] [ 6] [ 7]
Notable Chatterjees [ edit ] Abhishek Chatterjee – Bengali film and television actorAbir Chatterjee – actorAdhar Kumar Chatterji – former Chief of the Naval Staff of the Indian Navy (1966–1970)Aditi Chatterjee – Bengali film and television actressAlok Chatterjee – theatre actor and directorAmarendranath Chatterjee – freedom fighterAmitabha Chattopadhyay – biophysicistAmitava Chattopadhyay – INSEAD professor of marketing and innovationAngana P. Chatterji – anthropologist, activist and feminist historianAnil Chatterjee – actorAnindo Chatterjee – tabla playerAnjan Chattopadhyay – sitar maestroAnjan Chatterjee (neuroscientist) – cognitive neuroscientistAroup Chatterjee – British Indian atheist, physician, author ofMother Teresa: The Untold Story Ashim Chatterjee – politician and activistAsima Chatterjee – Indian organic chemist and the second woman to be conferred a Doctorate of Science by an Indian universityAtul Chandra Chatterjee – Indian diplomat and government official. Served as the Indian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 1925 to 1931.Bamacharan Chattopadhyay – ardent devotee of Maa Tara, also considered to be an avatar of Lord ShivaBankim Chandra Chatterjee – Indian patriot, writer, poet and journalist and composer ofVande Mataram , the national song of IndiaBasu Chatterjee – film directorBhaswar Chatterjee – Indian actorBiswajit Chatterjee – Bollywood actorDebabarta Chatterjee – botanistDebiprasad Chattopadhyaya – author, philosopherDebjani Chatterji – Indian-born British poetDeen K. Chatterjee - philosopherDhritiman Chatterjee – actorDhruva Chatterjee – writer and screenplay writer of Hindi moviesDipankar Chatterji – molecular biologistGadadhar Chattopadhyay – Sri Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa, devotee of Dakshina Kali and Priest of Dakshineswar Kali Temple.Gautam Chattopadhyay – musicianHarindranath Chattopadhyay – poet, actor and brother of Sarojini NaiduIndira Chatterji (born 1973), Swiss-Indian mathematicianJogesh Chandra Chatterjee – Indian freedom fighter, activist and member of Rajya SabhaJoya Chatterji – Professor of South Asian historyKamaladevi Chattopadhyay – social reformerKshetresa Chandra Chattopadhyaya – Sanskrit scholarMirai Chatterjee – Indian social workerMohini Mohun Chatterji – theosophist, scholarMoushumi Chatterjee – Bollywood actressNeil Chatterjee – American lawyer, political advisor, and government official, chair of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission twice between 2017 and 2020Nigamananda – YogiParambrata Chatterjee – actorPartha Chatterjee – scholar and authorPiya Chattopadhyay – Canadian broadcasterPratap Chatterjee – journalist and authorPriyadarshini Chatterjee – Miss India World 2016Priyanshu Chatterjee – Bollywood actorProsenjit Chatterjee – actorPulok Chatterji – former bureaucrat and Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India (2011–2014)Purnendu Chatterjee – businessman, founder of TCGRabiranjan Chattopadhyay , Indian politicianRamakrishna Paramahamsa – born Gadadhar Chattopadhyay, a famous mystic of 19th-century IndiaRamananda Chatterjee — founder, editor, and owner of theModern Review , he has been described as the father of Indian journalismRangan Chatterjee – Physician, author, television presenter and broadcasterSabitri Chatterjee – Indian Bengali female actressSankar Chatterjee – paleontologistSarat Chandra Chattopadhyay , Indian writerSarojini Naidu née Chattopadhyay – freedom fighter, poetSaswata Chatterjee – actorShakti Chattopadhyay – poetShekhar Chatterjee – entrepreneurShiba P. Chatterjee – professor, former president of International Geographical UnionSitaramdas Omkarnath – Bhakti saintSomnath Chatterjee – eminent lawyer and former speaker of Lok SabhaSoumitra Chatterjee – actorSourav Chatterjee – mathematicianSovan Chatterjee – former mayor of the city of KolkataSrabanti Chatterjee – actressSubhendu Chatterjee – actorSubhadeep Chatterjee – Indian molecular biologistSudeep Chatterjee – cinematographerSudip Chattopadhyay – biologistSuman Chatterjee (now Kabir Suman) – musicianSuniti Kumar Chatterji – Indian linguist, educationist and litterateurSwapan Chattopadhyay – director of the Cockcroft InstituteTannishtha Chatterjee – actressUpamanyu Chatterjee – authorUtpal Chatterjee – cricketerUttam Kumar (Arun Chatterjee) – actorVikram Chatterjee – Indian actor of Bengali cinemaVirendranath Chattopadhyaya – activist^a b Hanks, Patrick (2003)."Chatterjee" .Dictionary of American Family Names: 3-Volume Set . Oxford University Press, USA. p. 320.ISBN 9780195081374 ^ Bromley, David G.; Larry D. Shinn, eds. (1989).Krishna Consciousness in the West . Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press.ISBN 0-8387-5144-X OCLC 17984402 . ^ Rodrigues, Hillary (2003).Ritual Worship of the Great Goddess: The Liturgy of the Durga Puja with Interpretations ISBN 9780791488447 ^ Joshi, Priya (2002).In Another Country: Colonialism, Culture, and the English Novel in India 283 .ISBN 9780231500906 ^ International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (2013)."Bengali" .Names of Persons: National Usages for Entry in Catalogues . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. p. 21.ISBN 9783110974553 ^ Chatterji, Bankim Chandra; Caṭṭopādhyāẏa, Baṅkimacandra (2005)."Introduction" .Ānandamaṭh, Or, The Sacred Brotherhood . Oxford University Press. p. 5.ISBN 9780195178579 ^ Chakraborty, Paulomi (2018).The Refugee Woman: Partition of Bengal, Gender, and the Political ISBN 9780199095391 Surname list
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