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'''Chatterjee''' or '''Chattopadhyay''' is a [[Bengalis|Bengali Hindu]] family name, used primarily by Pancha-Gauda Brahmins in [[Indian name|India]], and associated with the [[Bengali Brahmins|Bengali Brahmin]] caste.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vG7MZ9J6dAgC&q=chatterjee%20chattopadhyay%20anglicize&pg=PA320|title=Dictionary of American Family Names: 3-Volume Set|last=Hanks|first=Patrick|date=2003-05-08|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA|isbn=9780195081374|pages=320|language=en|chapter=Chatterjee}}</ref> ''Chatterjee'' is an [[Anglicisation|Anglicized]] variant of the Sanskritized ''Chattopadhyay''.<ref name=":0"/> English language spellings include Chatterjee, Chatterjea, Chatarji, Chatterji, Chaterjee, Chattopadhyay, and Chattopadhyaya.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=onyaEhwhJBUC&pg=PA320|title=Ritual Worship of the Great Goddess: The Liturgy of the Durga Puja with Interpretations|last=Rodrigues|first=Hillary|date=2003|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=9780791488447|pages=320|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/inanothercountry0000josh|url-access=registration|title=In Another Country: Colonialism, Culture, and the English Novel in India|last=Joshi|first=Priya|date=2002-04-24|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=9780231500906|pages=[https://archive.org/details/inanothercountry0000josh/page/283 283]|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z8zoBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA21|title=Names of Persons: National Usages for Entry in Catalogues|last=Institutions|first=International Federation of Library Associations and|date=2013-06-21|publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG|isbn=9783110974553|pages=21|language=en|chapter=Bengali}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EH08DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA5|title=Ānandamaṭh, Or, The Sacred Brotherhood|last1=Chatterji|first1=Bankim Chandra|last2=Caṭṭopādhyāẏa|first2=Baṅkimacandra|date=2005|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780195178579|pages=5|language=en|chapter=Introduction}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u1ZxDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PT70|title=The Refugee Woman: Partition of Bengal, Gender, and the Political|last=Chakraborty|first=Paulomi|date=2018-07-27|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780199095391|pages=270|language=en}}</ref>Together with Banerjees, Mukherjees, Gangulys, Chatterjees form the [[Kulin Brahmins]], the highest tier of the Bengali caste system.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17984402|title=Krishna consciousness in the West|date=1989|publisher=Bucknell University Press|others=David G. Bromley, Larry D. Shinn, International Society for Krishna Consciousness|isbn=0-8387-5144-X|location=Lewisburg [Pa.]|oclc=17984402}}</ref>They belong to the [[Kashyapa]] gotra.

== Notable Chatterjees ==
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* [[Abhishek Chatterjee]] {{en dash}} Bengali film and television actor
* [[Abir Chatterjee]] – actor
* [[Adhar Kumar Chatterji]] – former Chief of the Naval Staff of the Indian Navy (1966–1970)
* [[Amarendranath Chatterjee]] – freedom fighter
* [[Amitabha Chattopadhyay]] - biophysicst
* [[Amitava Chattopadhyay]] – INSEAD professor of marketing and innovation
* [[Angana P. Chatterji]] – anthropologist, activist and feminist historian
*[[Anil Chatterjee]] – actor
* [[Anindo Chatterjee]] - tabla player
*[[Anjan Chattopadhyay]] – sitar maestro
* [[Anjan Chatterjee (neuroscientist)]] - cognitive neuroscientist
*[[Aroup Chatterjee]] – British Indian atheist, physician, author of ''Mother Teresa: The Untold Story''
* [[Ashim Chatterjee]] – politician and activist
* [[Asima Chatterjee]] – Indian organic chemist and the second woman to be conferred a Doctorate of Science by an Indian university
* [[Atul Chandra Chatterjee]] - Indian diplomat and government official. Served as the Indian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 1925–1931.
*[[Bamakhepa|Bamacharan Chattopadhyay]] – ardent devotee of Maa Tara, also considered to be an avatar of Lord Shiva
*[[Bankim Chandra Chatterjee]] - Indian patriot, writer, poet and journalist and composer of [[Vande Mataram]], the national song of India.
* [[Basu Chatterjee]] – film director
* [[Bhaswar Chatterjee]] – Indian actor
* [[Biswajit Chatterjee]] – Bollywood actor
* [[Debabarta Chatterjee]] - botanist
*[[Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya]] – author,philosopher
* [[Debjani Chatterji]] – Indian-born British poet
* [[Dhritiman Chatterjee]] – actor
* [[Dhruva Chatterjee]] – writer and screenplay writer of Hindi movies
* [[Dipankar Chatterji]] - molecular biologist
* [[Ramakrishna|Gadadhar Chattopadhyay]] - Sri Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa, devotee of Dakshina Kali and Priest of Dakshineswar Kali Temple.
* [[Gautam Chattopadhyay]] – musician
* [[Harindranath Chattopadhyay]] – poet, actor and brother of Sarojini Naidu
* [[Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee]] – Indian freedom fighter, activist and member of Rajya Sabha
* [[Joya Chatterji]] - Professor of South Asian history
*[[Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay]] – social reformer
*[[Kshetresa Chandra Chattopadhyaya]] – Sanskrit scholar
* [[Mirai Chatterji]] – Indian social worker
* [[Moushmi Chatterjee]] – Bollywood actress
* [[Neil Chatterjee]] – Current Chair of the United States Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
* [[Parambrata Chatterjee]] – actor
* [[Partha Chatterjee (scholar)|Partha Chatterjee]] – scholar and author
*[[Piya Chattopadhyay]] – Canadian broadcaster
* [[Pratap Chatterjee]] – journalist and author
* [[Priyadarshini Chatterjee]] – Miss India World 2016
* [[Priyanshu Chatterjee]] – Bollywood actor
* [[Prosenjit Chatterjee]] – actor
* [[Pulok Chatterji]] – former bureaucrat and Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India (2011–2014)
* [[Purnendu Chatterjee]] – businessman, founder of TCG
*[[Ramakrishna Paramahamsa]] – born Gadadhar Chattopadhyay, a famous mystic of 19th-century India
*[[Ramananda Chatterjee]] — founder, editor, and owner of the [[Modern Review (Calcutta)|Modern Review]], He has been described as the father of Indian journalism.

* [[Sabitri Chatterjee]] – Indian Bengali female actress
* [[Sankar Chatterjee]] – paleontologist
*[[Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay]], Indian Writer
* [[Sarojini Naidu]] née Chattopadhyay – freedom fighter, poet
* [[Saswata Chatterjee]] – actor
*[[Shakti Chattopadhyay]] – poet
* [[Shekhar Chatterjee]] – entrepreneur
* [[Shiba P. Chatterjee]] – professor, former president of International Geographical Union
* [[Somnath Chatterjee]] – eminent lawyer and former speaker of Lok Sabha
* [[Soumitra Chatterjee]] – actor
* [[Sourav Chatterjee]] – mathematician
* [[Sovan Chatterjee]] – former mayor of the city of Kolkata
* [[Srabanti Chatterjee]] – actress
* [[Subhendu Chatterjee]] – actor
* [[Subhadeep Chatterjee]] - molecular biologist
* [[Sudeep Chatterjee]] – cinematographer
* [[Sudip Chattopadhyay]] - biologist
* [[Suman Chatterjee]] (now Kabir Suman) – musician
* [[Suniti Kumar Chatterji]] – Indian linguist, educationist and litterateur
*[[Swapan Chattopadhyay]] – director of the Cockcroft Institute
* [[Tannishtha Chatterjee]] – actress
* [[Upamanyu Chatterjee]] - author
* [[Utpal Chatterjee]] – cricketer
* [[Uttam Kumar]] (Arun Chatterjee) – actor
*[[Vikram Chatterjee]] - Famous Telivision personality
*[[Virendranath Chattopadhyaya]] – activist
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== See also ==
* [[Kulin Brahmins]]

== References ==
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[[Category:Brahmin communities]]
[[Category:Social groups of West Bengal]]
[[Category:Indian surnames]]
[[Category:Hindu surnames]]
[[Category:Bengali Hindu surnames]]
[[Category:Kulin Brahmin surnames]]

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