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'''Chakraborty''' is a surname | '''Chakraborty''' is a surname of [[Bengali Hindus]] of India and Bangladesh,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thebizdom.in/how-well-do-you-know-about-the-origins-of-some-indian-occupational-surnames/|title=How well do you know about the origins of some Indian Occupational Surnames?|date=22 February 2020|access-date=23 February 2022|publisher=TheBizdom}}</ref> the surname is used by people of the Bengali [[Brahmin]] community.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gupta |first1=Sankar Sen |title=Folklore of Bengal: A Projected Study |year=1976 |publisher=Indian Publications |page=16 |url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Folklore_of_Bengal/x0AiAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=brahmin+surname+chakravarty&dq=brahmin+surname+chakravarty&printsec=frontcover |language=en|quote=It is said that when the five brahmins went to the court of Adisura, there were 700 families of brahmin residents in Bengal, who were called Saptasatis or Satsatis (meaning 700). These Saptasatis too were honoured by the rulers and often they received grants of villages. Gradually they became priests to the lower castes and thereby descended to the rank of degraded brahmins , even though they have boasted such surnames such as '''Chakravarty''' and Bhattacharya}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Clark |first1=Gregory |title=The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility |date=25 August 2015 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-16837-1 |page=147 |url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/The_Son_Also_Rises/p22YDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=chakraborty+bengali+brahmin+kshatriya+surname&printsec=frontcover |language=en |quote=This chapter examines social mobility in Bengal from 1860 to the present.. This group [Bengali Brahmins]: Bandopadhyaya/Banerjee, Bhattacharya/Bhattacharjee, '''Chakraborty/Chakravarty''', Chattopadhyaya/Chatterjee, Gangopadhyaya/Ganguly, ...}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Folk-lore |year=1975 |publisher=Indian Publications |page=172 |url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Folk_lore/IMvjAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=bengal%20brahmin%20chakravarty |language=en|quote=A few Bengali Surnames that identify a caste - Surname Caste Identificatoin Brahmin Bandyopadhyay ( Banerjee ) , Mukhopadhyay ( Mukherjee ) , Gangopadhyaya ( Ganguli ) , Chattopadhyay ( Chatterjee ) , Chakravarty , Kanjilal , Sanyal , Lahiri ...}}</ref> | ||
==Notable persons with this surname== | ==Notable persons with this surname== | ||
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*[[Akinchan Chakrabarty]] (18th century), Bengali poet | *[[Akinchan Chakrabarty]] (18th century), Bengali poet | ||
*[[Amal Chakraborty]], Indian paediatric surgeon | *[[Amal Chakraborty]], Indian paediatric surgeon | ||
*[[Ambika Chakrabarty]] (1892–1962), Bengali | *[[Ambika Chakrabarty]] (1892–1962), Indian Bengali independence movement activist and revolutionary | ||
*[[Amiya Chakravarty]] (1901–1986), literary critic, academic, and Bengali poet | *[[Amiya Chakravarty]] (1901–1986), literary critic, academic, and Bengali poet | ||
*[[Amiya Chakravarty (director)|Amiya Chakravarty]] (1912-1957), Indian film director, screenwriter and producer | *[[Amiya Chakravarty (director)|Amiya Chakravarty]] (1912-1957), Indian film director, screenwriter and producer | ||
*[[Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty]] ( | *[[Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty]] (1938 - 2020), Indian microbiologist, party to the U.S. Supreme Court case Diamond v. Chakrabarty | ||
*[[Animesh Chakravorty]] (born 1935), Indian chemist | *[[Animesh Chakravorty]] (born 1935), Indian chemist | ||
*[[Aravinda Chakravarti]] (born 1954), Indian geneticist | *[[Aravinda Chakravarti]] (born 1954), Indian geneticist | ||
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*[[Mithun Chakraborty]] (born 1950), Indian actor, director and businessman | *[[Mithun Chakraborty]] (born 1950), Indian actor, director and businessman | ||
*[[Nachiketa Chakraborty]] (born 1965), Indian Bengali singer-songwriter | *[[Nachiketa Chakraborty]] (born 1965), Indian Bengali singer-songwriter | ||
*[[Nirendranath Chakravarty]] ( | *[[Nirendranath Chakravarty]] (1924 - 2018), Bengali poet | ||
*[[Nripen Chakraborty]] (1905–2004), Indian politician | *[[Nripen Chakraborty]] (1905–2004), Indian politician | ||
*[[Oliphant Chuckerbutty]] (1884–1960), English composer and organist of Anglo-Indian descent | *[[Oliphant Chuckerbutty]] (1884–1960), English composer and organist of Anglo-Indian descent | ||
*[[Panchanan Chakraborty]] (1900–1995), Indian revolutionary | *[[Panchanan Chakraborty]] (1900–1995), Indian revolutionary | ||
*[[Phani Bhusan Chakravartti]] (1898–1981), first Indian Bengali permanent Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court. | |||
*[[Pramod Chakravorty]] (1929–2004), Indian film director and producer | *[[Pramod Chakravorty]] (1929–2004), Indian film director and producer | ||
*[[Praveen Chakravarty]] (born 1973), Indian businessman | *[[Praveen Chakravarty]] (born 1973), Indian businessman | ||
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*[[Rajorshi Chakraborti]] (born 1977), Indian writer in English | *[[Rajorshi Chakraborti]] (born 1977), Indian writer in English | ||
*[[Ranajit Chakraborty]], Indian geneticist | *[[Ranajit Chakraborty]], Indian geneticist | ||
*[[Ritwick Chakraborty]], Actor | |||
*[[Rupram Chakrabarty]] (17th century), Bengali poet | *[[Rupram Chakrabarty]] (17th century), Bengali poet | ||
*[[S. S. Chakravarthy]], Indian Tamil film producer | *[[S. S. Chakravarthy]], Indian Tamil film producer | ||
*[[Sabyasachi Chakrabarty]], (born 1956), Bengali | *[[Sabyasachi Chakrabarty]], (born 1956), Indian Bengali TV and film actor | ||
*[[Saikat Chakrabarti]], American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and political activist | *[[Saikat Chakrabarti]], American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and political activist | ||
*[[Samiran Chandra Chakrabarti]] Indian Indologist and scholar of onomastics & Vedic studies | *[[Samiran Chandra Chakrabarti]] Indian Indologist and scholar of onomastics & Vedic studies | ||
*[[Samrat Chakrabarti]] (born 1975), British-American actor and musician | *[[Samrat Chakrabarti]] (born 1975), British-American actor and musician | ||
*[[Sandip Chakrabarti]] (born 1958), Indian astrophysicist | *[[Sandip Chakrabarti]] (born 1958), Indian astrophysicist | ||
*[[ | *[[Sankar Chakraborti]] (born 1970), Indian business leader | ||
*[[Shibram Chakraborty]] (1903–1980), Bengali writer, humorist and revolutionary | *[[Shibram Chakraborty]] (1903–1980), Bengali writer, humorist and revolutionary | ||
*[[Shibu Chakravarthy]] (born 1961), lyricist, screenplay and script writer who mainly works in Malayalam Cinema | *[[Shibu Chakravarthy]] (born 1961), lyricist, screenplay and script writer who mainly works in Malayalam Cinema | ||
*[[Shyam Sundar Chakravarthy]] (1869–1932), Bengali revolutionary, independence activist and journalist | *[[Shyam Sundar Chakravarthy]] (1869–1932), Bengali revolutionary, independence activist and journalist | ||
*[[Snehasish Chakraborty]] (born 1989), Indian footballer | *[[Snehasish Chakraborty]] (born 1989), Indian footballer | ||
*[[Soham Chakraborty]], Actor | |||
*[[Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty]] (ca 1826–1874), one of the earliest Indians to practice modern medicine | *[[Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty]] (ca 1826–1874), one of the earliest Indians to practice modern medicine | ||
*[[Sourav Chakraborty]] (born 1992), Indian footballer | *[[Sourav Chakraborty]] (born 1992), Indian footballer | ||
*[[Souvik Chakraborty]] (born 1991), Indian footballer | *[[Souvik Chakraborty]] (born 1991), Indian footballer | ||
*[[Subhas Chakraborty ]] Indian politician, former minister of West Bengal Legislative Assembly. Died in 2009. Member of Communist Party of India Marxist and also former transport minister of West Bengal | *[[Subhas Chakraborty]] Indian politician, former minister of West Bengal Legislative Assembly. Died in 2009. Member of Communist Party of India Marxist and also former transport minister of West Bengal | ||
*[[Sugato Chakravarty]] Indian marketing academic | *[[Sugato Chakravarty]] Indian marketing academic | ||
*[[Sujan Chakraborty]] (born 1959), Indian politician | *[[Sujan Chakraborty]] (born 1959), Indian politician | ||
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*[[Sumon K Chakrabarti]], Indian journalist | *[[Sumon K Chakrabarti]], Indian journalist | ||
*[[Swadesh Chakraborty]] (born 1943), Indian politician | *[[Swadesh Chakraborty]] (born 1943), Indian politician | ||
*[[Swapan Kumar Chakravorty]] ( | *[[Swapan Kumar Chakravorty]] (1954 - 2021) Director General of the National Library of India, Kolkata | ||
*[[Trailokyanath Chakravarty]] (1889–1970), Indian revolutionary | *[[Trailokyanath Chakravarty]] (1889–1970), Indian revolutionary | ||
*[[Tulsi Chakraborty]] (1899–1961), Indian comic actor | *[[Tulsi Chakraborty]] (1899–1961), Indian comic actor | ||
*[[Utpalendu Chakrabarty]] (born 1948), Indian film director | *[[Utpalendu Chakrabarty]] (born 1948), Indian film director | ||
*[[Varun Chakravarthy]], Cricketer | |||
*[[Vijay C Chakravarthy]] Indian cinematographer | *[[Vijay C Chakravarthy]] Indian cinematographer | ||
*[[Vinayak Chakravorty]] Indian film critic and film journalist | *[[Vinayak Chakravorty]] Indian film critic and film journalist | ||
*[[Vinu Chakravarthy]] ( | *[[Vinu Chakravarthy]] (1945 - 2017) Tamil actor, script writer and director | ||
*[[Visvanatha Chakravarti]] (1626? - 1708?) Bengali guru | *[[Visvanatha Chakravarti]] (1626? - 1708?) Bengali guru | ||
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{{surname}} | {{surname}} | ||
[[Category:Hindu surnames]] | [[Category:Hindu surnames]] | ||
[[Category:Surnames of Indian origin]] | [[Category:Surnames of Indian origin]] | ||
[[Category:Bengali Hindu surnames]] | [[Category:Bengali Hindu surnames]] | ||
[[Category:Assamese-language surnames]] | [[Category:Assamese-language surnames]] | ||
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Chakraborty is a surname of Bengali Hindus of India and Bangladesh,[1] the surname is used by people of the Bengali Brahmin community.[2][3][4]
Notable persons with this surnameEdit
MaleEdit
- Abani Chakravarty (1941-1994?), Indian Assamese poet
- Ajay Chakraborty (born 1943), Indian politician
- Ajoy Chakrabarty (born 1953), Indian singer
- Akinchan Chakrabarty (18th century), Bengali poet
- Amal Chakraborty, Indian paediatric surgeon
- Ambika Chakrabarty (1892–1962), Indian Bengali independence movement activist and revolutionary
- Amiya Chakravarty (1901–1986), literary critic, academic, and Bengali poet
- Amiya Chakravarty (1912-1957), Indian film director, screenwriter and producer
- Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty (1938 - 2020), Indian microbiologist, party to the U.S. Supreme Court case Diamond v. Chakrabarty
- Animesh Chakravorty (born 1935), Indian chemist
- Aravinda Chakravarti (born 1954), Indian geneticist
- Arindam Chakrabarti, Indian philosopher working in Hawaii
- Arjun Chakrabarty, Indian actor
- Arnab Chakrabarty (born 1980), Indian musician and Sarod player
- Arup Chakraborty, American engineer
- Bicky Chakraborty (born 1943), Swedish hotel mogul
- Bikas K Chakrabarti (born 1952), Indian physicist
- Birendra Narayan Chakraborty (1904–1976), Indian politician
- Bonnie Chakraborty, Bengali singer
- Byomkes Chakrabarti (1923–1981), Indian linguist
- Chiranjeet Chakraborty (born 1960), Indian Bengali film actor
- Dhirendra Kishore Chakravarti (1902 – after 1982), Indian geologist and palaeontologist
- Dilip Kumar Chakrabarti, Indian archaeologist
- Dipesh Chakrabarty (born 1948), Indian historian
- Gaurav Chakrabarty (born 1987), Indian actor
- Ghanaram Chakrabarty (c. 1669-?), Bengali poet
- Haranath Chakraborty (born 1959), Indian Bengali film director
- J. D. Chakravarthy (born 1970), Indian film actor and director in Telugu cinema and Bollywood
- Janardan Chakravarti (1901-1987), Indian professor of Bengali
- K. Chakravarthy (1936–2002), music director in the South Indian film industry
- Keshab Chakravarthy (active 1925), Indian revolutionary
- Khelaram Chakrabarty (16th century), Bengali poet
- Kushal Chakraborty (born 1968), Bengali actor and film director
- M. C. Chakrabarti (died 1972), Indian statistician
- Mahaakshay Chakraborty (born 1984), Indian actor
- Manoj Chakraborty (born 1954), Indian politician
- Mithun Chakraborty (born 1950), Indian actor, director and businessman
- Nachiketa Chakraborty (born 1965), Indian Bengali singer-songwriter
- Nirendranath Chakravarty (1924 - 2018), Bengali poet
- Nripen Chakraborty (1905–2004), Indian politician
- Oliphant Chuckerbutty (1884–1960), English composer and organist of Anglo-Indian descent
- Panchanan Chakraborty (1900–1995), Indian revolutionary
- Phani Bhusan Chakravartti (1898–1981), first Indian Bengali permanent Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court.
- Pramod Chakravorty (1929–2004), Indian film director and producer
- Praveen Chakravarty (born 1973), Indian businessman
- Pritam Chakraborty (born 1971), Indian Bengali music director and composer
- Pritish Chakraborty Indian film actor, director, writer, producer, singer in Bollywood
- Rahi Chakraborty (born 1988), Indian singer, songwriter, programmer and guitarist
- Raj Chakraborty (born 1975), Indian Bengali film director
- Rajorshi Chakraborti (born 1977), Indian writer in English
- Ranajit Chakraborty, Indian geneticist
- Ritwick Chakraborty, Actor
- Rupram Chakrabarty (17th century), Bengali poet
- S. S. Chakravarthy, Indian Tamil film producer
- Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, (born 1956), Indian Bengali TV and film actor
- Saikat Chakrabarti, American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and political activist
- Samiran Chandra Chakrabarti Indian Indologist and scholar of onomastics & Vedic studies
- Samrat Chakrabarti (born 1975), British-American actor and musician
- Sandip Chakrabarti (born 1958), Indian astrophysicist
- Sankar Chakraborti (born 1970), Indian business leader
- Shibram Chakraborty (1903–1980), Bengali writer, humorist and revolutionary
- Shibu Chakravarthy (born 1961), lyricist, screenplay and script writer who mainly works in Malayalam Cinema
- Shyam Sundar Chakravarthy (1869–1932), Bengali revolutionary, independence activist and journalist
- Snehasish Chakraborty (born 1989), Indian footballer
- Soham Chakraborty, Actor
- Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty (ca 1826–1874), one of the earliest Indians to practice modern medicine
- Sourav Chakraborty (born 1992), Indian footballer
- Souvik Chakraborty (born 1991), Indian footballer
- Subhas Chakraborty Indian politician, former minister of West Bengal Legislative Assembly. Died in 2009. Member of Communist Party of India Marxist and also former transport minister of West Bengal
- Sugato Chakravarty Indian marketing academic
- Sujan Chakraborty (born 1959), Indian politician
- Sujit Chakravarty (born 1959), Indian football manager
- Suma Chakrabarti (born 1959), British civil servant, President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
- Sumon K Chakrabarti, Indian journalist
- Swadesh Chakraborty (born 1943), Indian politician
- Swapan Kumar Chakravorty (1954 - 2021) Director General of the National Library of India, Kolkata
- Trailokyanath Chakravarty (1889–1970), Indian revolutionary
- Tulsi Chakraborty (1899–1961), Indian comic actor
- Utpalendu Chakrabarty (born 1948), Indian film director
- Varun Chakravarthy, Cricketer
- Vijay C Chakravarthy Indian cinematographer
- Vinayak Chakravorty Indian film critic and film journalist
- Vinu Chakravarthy (1945 - 2017) Tamil actor, script writer and director
- Visvanatha Chakravarti (1626? - 1708?) Bengali guru
FemaleEdit
- Bijoya Chakravarty (born 1939), Indian politician from Assam
- Dia Chakravarty (born 1984), Bangladeshi-born British political activist and singer
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (born 1942), Indian literary critic
- Ipsita Roy Chakraverti (born 1950), Indian Wiccan priestess
- Kaushiki Chakrabarty (born 1980), Indian classical vocalist
- Lolita Chakrabarti (born 1969), British actor and writer
- Meghna Chakrabarti, American radio personality
- Mimi Chakraborty (born 1989), Bengali film actress, singer and a (nominal) Member of Parliament
- Reeta Chakrabarti (born 1964), British television journalist
- Rhea Chakraborty (born 1992), Indian video jockey and actress
- Ritabhari Chakraborty (born 1992), Indian Bengali film actor
- Rushmi Chakravarthi (born 1977), Indian tennis player
- Shami Chakrabarti (born 1969), British member of the House of Lords, barrister and civil liberties campaigner
- Sharmila Chakraborty (born 1961), Indian cricketer
- Sumona Chakravarti, Bollywood actress and celebrity
- Uthpala Chakraborty, Indian cricketer.
- S. A. Chakraborty, (born 1985), American fantasy novelist
See alsoEdit
- Chakrabarti Inquiry, British Labour Party inquiry into allegations of antisemitism
- Chakravartin, an ancient Indian term used to refer to an ideal universal ruler
- Chakravartin Ashoka Samrat, a 2015 Indian historical drama TV series
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ "How well do you know about the origins of some Indian Occupational Surnames?". TheBizdom. 22 February 2020. Retrieved 23 February 2022.
- ↑ Gupta, Sankar Sen (1976). Folklore of Bengal: A Projected Study. Indian Publications. p. 16.
It is said that when the five brahmins went to the court of Adisura, there were 700 families of brahmin residents in Bengal, who were called Saptasatis or Satsatis (meaning 700). These Saptasatis too were honoured by the rulers and often they received grants of villages. Gradually they became priests to the lower castes and thereby descended to the rank of degraded brahmins , even though they have boasted such surnames such as Chakravarty and Bhattacharya
- ↑ Clark, Gregory (25 August 2015). The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility. Princeton University Press. p. 147. ISBN 978-0-691-16837-1.
This chapter examines social mobility in Bengal from 1860 to the present.. This group [Bengali Brahmins]: Bandopadhyaya/Banerjee, Bhattacharya/Bhattacharjee, Chakraborty/Chakravarty, Chattopadhyaya/Chatterjee, Gangopadhyaya/Ganguly, ...
- ↑ Folk-lore. Indian Publications. 1975. p. 172.
A few Bengali Surnames that identify a caste - Surname Caste Identificatoin Brahmin Bandyopadhyay ( Banerjee ) , Mukhopadhyay ( Mukherjee ) , Gangopadhyaya ( Ganguli ) , Chattopadhyay ( Chatterjee ) , Chakravarty , Kanjilal , Sanyal , Lahiri ...
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