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{{Short description|Americans of Bengali birth or descent}}
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{{Infobox ethnic group
|group = Bengali Americans
|image =
|caption =
|population = 375,143 <ref>[https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=bengali&hidePreview=false&tid=ACSDT1Y2018.B16001&vintage=2018|title=2018: ACS 1-Year Estimates]</ref> (~.01% of U.S. population)
|regions = [[New York City]], [[Central Los Angeles]]<ref>{{cite news |author= |title=More Foreign-Born Immigrants Live In NYC Than There Are People In Chicago |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/19/new-york-city-immigrants_n_4475197.html |newspaper=Huffington Post |date=19 December 2013 |access-date=25 February 2015 |quote=Over 40 percent of the United States' Bengali population lives in New York City. }}</ref>
|languages = [[American English]], [[Bengali language|Bengali]]
|religions = Predominantly [[Islam]] and [[Hinduism]]; small minorities of [[Christianity]], [[Buddhism]]
|related = [[Bangladeshi Americans]], [[Indian Americans]]
}}

'''Bengali Americans''' ({{lang-bn|মার্কিন বাঙ্গালী}}) are [[Americans]] of Bengali ethnic, [[Culture of Bengal|cultural]] and [[Bengali language|linguistic]] heritage and [[Identity (social science)|identity]]. They trace their ancestry to the historic ethnolinguistic region of [[Bengal]] in [[South Asia]] (now divided between [[Bangladesh]] and [[India]]). Bengali Americans are also a subgroup of [[Bangladeshi Americans]] and [[Indian Americans]]. Bengalis are also classified under Bangladeshi Americans.

<ref>{{cite web|url=https://qz.com/1151854/the-us-census-bureau-is-finally-tracking-tamil-punjabi-telugu-and-bengali-speakers/|title=Bengali speakers to be counted in US census}}</ref> Significant immigration of Bengalis to the United States started after 1965.

Bengali Americans may refer to:
* [[Bangladeshi Americans]], Americans of [[Bangladesh]]i descent of [[Bengali Muslims]]. Bengali Muslims are usually classified as Bangladeshi Americans and [[Islam in America|American Muslims]].
* Bengali [[Indian Americans]], Americans of [[India]]n and [[Bengali Hindus|Bengali Hindu]] descent whose ancestral origins are in [[West Bengal]], [[Bangladesh]] or erstwhile [[East Bengal]], [[Jharkhand]], [[Purnia]], [[Odisha]], [[Goalpara]] region, [[Assam]], the [[Barak Valley]], [[Tripura]], [[Nepal]], [[Meghalaya]], [[Rakhine State|Rakhine state]] and other parts of India who are known as [[Bengali Hindu diaspora|Probashi Bengalis]]. [[Bengali Hindus|Bengali Hindu]] Americans also come from [[Southeast Asia]], [[Europe]], [[Australia]], [[New Zealand]], [[South America]], [[Caribbean]] and other parts of the world.

==Culture==
Many Bengali Americans participate in an annual conference, the [[North American Bengali Conference]], in order to celebrate their culture and discuss issues the community faces. They often form regional organizations to network and plan events.

===Religions===
Bengali Americans are mostly adherents of either [[Islam]] or [[Hinduism]]. This is manifested in the yearly celebration of [[Eid ul-Fitr]], [[Durga Puja]] and other religious celebrations. Several secular holidays are also enjoyed by the whole community, such as the Bengali new year, [[Pohela Boishakh]].

==Notable people==
{{Main list|List of Bangladeshi Americans}}
[[File:Sears Tower ss.jpg|right|upright|thumb|[[Sears Tower]] (now Willis Tower), was designed by [[Fazlur Rahman Khan]]. It was the tallest building in the world for over two decades.]]
* [[Raj Chandra Bose]] - Indian American Mathematician
* [[Moni Lal Bhoumik]] - Indian American physicist and a bestselling author.
* [[Arianna Afsar]] – former Miss California; placed in the Top 10 of the 2011 Miss America pageant
* [[Saif Ahmad]] – [[World Series of Poker]] winner
* [[Maqsudul Alam]] – scientist and professor
* [[Jalal Alamgir]] (d. 2011) – political scientist and professor
* [[Mir Masoom Ali]] – George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor of Statistics, Ball State University
* [[Kali S. Banerjee]] – statistician and professor<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/01-02/banerjee.html|title=In Memoriam Kali S. Banerjee|access-date=17 March 2015}}</ref>
* [[Rais Bhuiyan]] – shooting survivor and activist
* [[Amar Bose]] - founder of [[Bose Corporation]]
* [[Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty]] - scientist
* [[Purnendu Chatterjee]] - industrialist
* [[Subir Chowdhury]] – author and management consultant
* [[Hansen Clarke]] – United States Congress in 2010, from Michigan's House of Representatives
* [[Tarak Nath Das]] - anti-British Bengali Indian revolutionary and internationalist scholar
* [[Hasan M. Elahi]] – interdisciplinary media artist
* [[Rajat Gupta]], former CEO of [[McKinsey and Company]]
*[[M. Zahid Hasan]], the Eugene Higgins endowed chair professor at [[Princeton University]] and scientist at [[Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory]], known for ground-breaking discoveries in the quantum world<ref>{{Cite web|title=16 faculty members, 18 alumni elected to nation's historic academies|url=https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2020/05/academy-election-16-faculty-members|website=The Princetonian|access-date=2020-05-21}}</ref>
* [[Fazle Hussain]] – professor of mechanical engineering, [[physics]], and [[earth science]] at the [[University of Houston]]
* [[Abul Hussam]] – inventor of the [[Sono arsenic filter]]
* [[Norah Jones]] - singer and actress
* [[Mindy Kaling]]- actress
* [[Jawed Karim]] – co-founder of YouTube; designed key parts of [[PayPal]]
* [[Mohammad Ataul Karim]] – electrical engineer<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.odu.edu/ao/news/index.php?todo=details&id=32201|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121214223455/http://www.odu.edu/ao/news/index.php?todo=details&id=32201|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 December 2012|title=News at Old Dominion University|access-date=17 March 2015}}</ref>
* [[Sumaya Kazi]] – founder of [[Sumazi]], was recognised by [[BusinessWeek]] as one of America's Best Young Entrepreneurs
* [[Abdus Suttar Khan]] – chemist and jet fuels inventor
* [[Fazlur Rahman Khan]] – pioneer of modern structural engineering
* [[Salman Khan (educator)|Salman Khan]] – founder of [[Khan Academy]], a nonprofit educational organisation
* [[Jhumpa Lahiri]] - author of ''[[The Namesake (novel)|The Namesake]]''
* [[Dipa Ma]] – yoga teacher
* [[Tasmin Mahfuz]] - American television journalist and news anchor and [[Gracie Awards|Gracie award]] recipient for women.
* [[Sezan Mahmud]] – award-winning novelist<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aacr.org/home/scientists/travel-grants/minority-serving-institution-faculty-scholar-awards/past-msi-faculty-scholars/2010-minority-serving-institution-faculty-scholar-in-cancer-research.aspx |title=Archived copy |access-date=11 December 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130712235305/http://www.aacr.org/home/scientists/travel-grants/minority-serving-institution-faculty-scholar-awards/past-msi-faculty-scholars/2010-minority-serving-institution-faculty-scholar-in-cancer-research.aspx |archive-date=12 July 2013 }}</ref>{{failed verification|date=April 2019}}
* [[A.K. Mozumdar]] - first person of South Asian descent to earn US citizenship, until it was revoked by the Supreme Court in 1924
* [[Dhan Gopal Mukerji]], first South Asian winner of Newbery Medal in 1928
* [[Raj Mukherji]], Majority Whip of the New Jersey General Assembly
* [[Shomi Patwary]] – designer and music video director
* [[Iqbal Quadir]] – founder of Grameenphone, Bangladesh's largest mobile phone company; heads the Legatum Center at [[MIT]]
* [[Kamal Quadir]] – entrepreneur; founded two of Bangladesh's key technology companies, CellBazaar and bKash
* [[Anika Rahman]] – CEO of [[Ms. Foundation for Women]]
* [[Badal Roy]] – tabla player, percussionist, and recording artist
* [[Reihan Salam]] – conservative American political commentator; blogger at ''The American Scene''; associate editor of ''[[The Atlantic Monthly]]''
* [[Shikhee]] – singer; auteur of industrial band [[Android Lust]]
* [[Asif Azam Siddiqi]] – space historian; assistant professor of history at [[Fordham University]]
* [[M. Osman Siddique]] – former US ambassador
* [[Palbasha Siddique]] – singer
* [[Narasingha Sil]] – professor of history at [[Western Oregon University]]
* [[Supreme Understanding]] – author, publisher, activist and outspoken member of the [[Nation of Gods and Earths]]
* [[Monica Yunus]] – Bangladeshi-Russian-American operatic soprano
*[[Sohla El-Waylly]] – American chef, restaurateur, and YouTube personality as part of [[Bon Appétit|Bon Appetit]]’s staff.
* [[Samarendra Nath Roy]] - Indian American Mathematician

==References==
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