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Banerjee
Banerjee or Bandyopadhyay is a surname of Brahmins originating from the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent.
Lineage and ancestry[edit]
Banerjees are from the ancient Shandilya Gotra, which means all Banerjees are descended from Kannauj from the ancient sage Shandilya as per the Puranas.[1] Together with Mukherjees, Chatterjees, Bhattacharjees and Gangulys, Banerjees form the Kulin Brahmins.[2]
History[edit]
"Indian (Bengal) and Bangladeshi: Hindu (Brahman) name, the first element of which, Ban-, is taken from Bandyopadhyay The final element -jee is derived from jha (greatly reduced form of Sanskrit upadhyaya 'teacher'); thus, Banerjee 'teacher who is head and only performs the main work aarti or,Vandana. A Sanskrit version of this name, Vandyopadhyaya, was coined from the elements vandya 'venerable' + upadhyaya 'teacher'. "
Notable people[edit]
Notable people with the surname Banerjee, Bandopadhyay, or variations, include:
- Alapan Bandyopadhyay, IAS Officer
- Anjan Bandyopadhyay, Noted journalist
- Abhijit Banerjee, Nobel laureate economist
- Albion Rajkumar Banerjee
- Ambica Banerjee
- Audrish Banerjee
- Bhanu Banerjee, actor and freedom activist
- Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
- Bidisha Bandyopadhyay, writer, broadcaster
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Dibakar Banerjee, film director
- Dola Banerjee
- Gooroodas Banerjee, High Court judge
- Gurudas Bandyopadhyay, Actor
- Gopeshwar Banerjee
- Haradhan Bandopadhyay, actor
- Ishwar Chandra Bandyopadhyay
- Jenni Banerjee, actress
- Kali Banerjee, actor
- Kali Charan Banerjee
- Kalyan Banerjee
- Kanika Bandyopadhyay (1924–2000), singer
- Kanu Banerjee (1905–1985), actor (Pather Panchali)
- Karuna Banerjee (1919–2001), actress (Pather Panchali)
- Krishna Mohan Banerjee
- Kaushik Banerjee, actor
- Mamata Banerjee
- Manik Bandopadhyay, writer, novelist
- Nikhil Banerjee, composer, musician
- Nyra Banerjee, Indian television actress and assistant director.
- Pradip Kumar Banerjee
- Prith Banerjee
- Pooja Banerjee, television actress
- Puja Banerjee, film and television actress
- Rachana Banerjee, actor
- Raghab Bandyopadhyay, prose writer
- Rahul Banerjee, archer
- R D Banerji, The discoverer of Mohenjo-daro, the principal site of the Indus Valley Civilisation
- Rina Banerjee
- Ruprekha Banerjee
- San Banarje, film director, producer, photographer
- Sanjay Banerjee, Indian engineer
- Shakuntala Banerjee (born 1973), German journalist
- Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay
- Sarnath Banerjee
- Somen Banerjee
- Surendranath Banerjee, first Indian to qualify Indian Civil Service Examination
- Sushmita Banerjee, writer
- Victor Banerjee, actor both in Tollywood, Bollywood and Hollywood
- Vikram Banerjee
- Gargi Banerji, cricketer
- Sara Banerji, writer
- Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee, first president of the Indian National Congress.
References[edit]
- ↑ Ghurye, Govind Sadashiv (1969). Caste and Race in India. Popular Prakashan. p. 257. ISBN 978-81-7154-205-5. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
- ↑ Hopkins, Thomas J. (1989). "The Social and Religious Background for Transmission of Gaudiya Vaisnavism to the West". In Bromley, David G.; Shinn, Larry D. (eds.). Krishna consciousness in the West. Bucknell University Press. pp. 35–36. ISBN 978-0-8387-5144-2. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
- ↑ Hanks, Patrick (8 May 2003). Dictionary of American Family Names. Oxford University Press. p. 94. ISBN 978-0-19-977169-1.
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