Some Notable People of East Bengal Ancestry

[kobiraaz]

Please don't bring any nationalist debate. This thread is for my reference . Bangladeshis and Bangals of West Bengal is the topic

Abdus Suttar Khan

Born : 1940/1941 Brahmanbaria District, Bengal Presidency

Institutions: Florida State University, NASA, Alstom, United Technologies

Known For: Khan invented more than forty different alloys for commercial application in space shuttles, jet engines, train engines and industrial gas turbines.

One of Khan's inventions, high strength nickel based alloys, were used for increased fuel efficiency in F-15 & F-16 fighter engines. Subsequently, these alloys were declared as 21st Century materials for advanced aircraft engines in the Advanced Manufacturing and Materials Magazine (Popular Science, June 1990)

1. Nano-catalysts developed are used for in fuel flow path in advanced jet engines for high mach propulsion
2. Advanced abrasion resistant materials developed are used for increased fuel efficiencies of US AF fighter engines (Proprietary to United Technologies' Pratt & Whitney)
3. Corrosion & fatigue resistant coatings deposited by cathodic arc process is used in advanced commercial in Pratt & Whiney jet engines (Proprietary to United Technologies' Pratt & Whitney)
4. Electrodeposited wear resistant coatings developed is used in advanced GT24/26 industrial gas turbine engines by Alstom, Switzerland (Proprietary to Alstom, Switzerland)
5. Electrodeposited oxidation-corrosion resistant coatings used by Alstom, Switzerland in Alstom Power GT-11 industrial gas turbine engines (Proprietary to Alstom, Switzerland)

Jagadish Chandra Bose
Born 30 November 1858
Munshiganj, Bengal Presidency, British India (now Bangladesh)

IEEE named him one of the fathers of radio science. He is considered the father of Bengali science fiction. He also invented the crescograph. A crater on the moon has been named in his honor.

He made remarkable progress in his research of remote wireless signalling and was the first to use semiconductor junctions to detect radio signals. However, instead of trying to gain commercial benefit from this invention, Bose made his inventions public in order to allow others to further develop his research.

Bose subsequently made a number of pioneering discoveries in plant physiology. He used his own invention, the crescograph, to measure plant response to various stimuli, and thereby scientifically proved parallelism between animal and plant tissues.



Meghnad Saha
Born 6 October 1893
Shaoratoli, Dhaka,

Astrophysicist best known for his development of the Saha equation, used to describe chemical and physical conditions in stars.The Saha ionization equation, also known as the Saha–Langmuir equation, is an expression that relates the ionization state of an element to the temperature and pressure


Khan Bahadur Qazi Azizul Huq
Born: born in 1872 in the village of Paigramkasba, Fultala (Phultala), in the Khulna division of Bengal, now Bangladesh

Azizul Haque (also Azizul Hacque, Khan Bahadur Qazi Azizul Huq, Quazi Syed Azizul Haque 1872–1935) was a police officer of British India who worked with Edward Henry to develop the Henry Classification System of fingerprints. Haque, reportedly, provided the mathematical basis for the system. Though the His supervisor British Officer claimed the credit, Several modern researcher proved that It was Azizul Haque who provided the Fundamental research.


Atiśa Dīpaṃkara Śrījñāna

Born: 980 Munshiganj District of Bangladesh

He was one of the major figures in the spread of 11th-century Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism in Asia and inspired Buddhist thought from Tibet to Sumatra. He is recognised as one of the greatest figures of classical Buddhism, and Atisa's chief disciple Dromtön was the founder of the Kadam School.Atisa is also considered to be a key figure in the establishment of the Sarma schools of Tibetan Buddhism.







Amartya Sen

Born Amartya Kumar Sen
3 November 1933 (age 82)
Manikganj, British India (present-day Bangladesh)

Sen has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, economic and social justice, economic theories of famines, and indexes of the measure of well-being of citizens of developing countries. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998.


Nobel Laureat Muhammad Yunus

Born 28 June 1940 (age 76)
Chittagong, Bengal Presidency, British India

Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist, and civil society leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance.

 

[kobiraaz]

Fazlur Rahman Khan

Born 3 April 1929
Dhaka, British Raj

Architect of Sears tower. He is recognized as one of the most influential engineers and architects of the 20th century, and has been called "the father of tubular designs for high-rises" by the American Society of Civil Engineers. Khan was also a pioneer in computer-aided design. He is the designer of the Willis Tower, the second-tallest building in the United States and the 100-story John Hancock Center. Khan helped usher in a renaissance in skyscraper construction during the second half of the 20th century.The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat named their lifetime achievement medal after him.


Sir Fazle Hasan Abed

Bangladeshi social worker, the founder and chairman of BRAC, the world's largest non-governmental organization with over 120,000 employees.


Salman Amin "Sal" Khan

is an American educator, entrepreneur, and former hedge fund analyst. He is the founder of the Khan Academy, a free online education platform and an organization with which he has produced over 6,500 video lessons teaching a wide spectrum of academic subjects, mainly focusing on mathematics and sciences.




Jawed Karim

Co founder of Youtube



Also Nobel Laureat Rabindranath Tagore wasn't from East Bengal, his ancestors were, and his Jamindari was in east bengal.

The traditional Bengali family surname of the Tagores is Thakur.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]


Tagores are Bengali Brahmins (Kushari) who came from eastern part of Bengal Khulna(now in Bangladesh) and settled in the region situated on the right bank of river Hooghly (Rarh) in the Fourteenth century.

 

[Goenitz]

Salman Khan was enough.....

 

[Tameem]

Mir Jafar Ali Khan Bahadur (c. 1691–February 5, 1765) was the first Nawab of Bengal with support from British East India Company. He was the second son of Sayyid Ahmad Najafi. His rule is widely considered the start of British imperialism in India and was a key step in the eventual British domination of vast areas of the subcontinent. Siraj ud-Daulah, the previous Nawab of Bengalalong with his army were defeated and killed in the Battle of Plassey by the British due to the betrayal of the commander of Siraj ud-Daulah′s army, Mir Jafar, who betrayed Siraj ud-Daulah to become the next Nawab. Thus after helping the British defeat Siraj ud-Daulah he became the new Nawab of Bengal in 1757 with military support from the British East India Company as a reward for his betrayal.

 

[kobiraaz]

Mir Jafar Ali Khan Bahadur (c. 1691–February 5, 1765) was the first Nawab of Bengal with support from British East India Company. He was the second son of Sayyid Ahmad Najafi. His rule is widely considered the start of British imperialism in India and was a key step in the eventual British domination of vast areas of the subcontinent. Siraj ud-Daulah, the previous Nawab of Bengalalong with his army were defeated and killed in the Battle of Plassey by the British due to the betrayal of the commander of Siraj ud-Daulah′s army, Mir Jafar, who betrayed Siraj ud-Daulah to become the next Nawab. Thus after helping the British defeat Siraj ud-Daulah he became the new Nawab of Bengal in 1757 with military support from the British East India Company as a reward for his betrayal.

Mir Jafar Ali khan was not Bengali. He was Arab from Iraq. He was born there and migrated to Bengal in search of work

 

[Arthur]

Mohammad Ataul Karim

Mohammad Ataul Karim (born May 4, 1953) is a Bangladeshi Americanscientist and Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor[1][2][3] of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth with expertise in electro-optical systems, optical computing, and pattern recognition. His citation record has anh-index value of 28, g-index value of 53, and i10-index value of 87[4] and an RG score of 39.66 with over 3800 publications citing his research results. Karim is ranked amongst the top 50 researchers who contributed most toApplied Optics in its 50-year history.[5][6]He was for 9 years the first Vice President for Research[7] of Old Dominion University (ODU) in Norfolk,Virginia.




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Abul Hussam


Abul Hussam is the inventor of the Sono arsenic filter. He is a chemistry Professor at George Mason University(GMU) in Fairfax, Virginia and a member of advisory board at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology.

Dr. Abul Hussam was born in Kushtia, and raised in Bangladesh.
The National Academy of Engineering announced on 1 February 2007 that the 2007 Grainger challenge Prize forSustainability would go to Hussam.[3]Hussam's invention is already in use today

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Maqsudul Alam

Maqsudul Alam (December 14, 1954 – December 20, 2014)[1] was aBangladeshi scientist and professor. Alam achieved four milestones ingenomics: sequencing the genomes ofpapaya, rubber, jute and fungus.[2] Alam was a professor of the University of Hawaii at Manoa and a member of advisory board at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology.






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[Anubis]

Hasan Elahi,Born Rangpur
Media Artist,

After he was questioned by the FBI and asked to keep them posted about where he goes(what they meant was traveled)....he started taking photos of EVERYWHERE he went and posting them online for the FBI to see...he is still doing it.
You can see where he's at at this link.

Later he found out servers that visited his website were everywhere from the FBI to other agencies and even eop.gov ...eop is Executive Office of the President.

 

[Riyad]

Ritwik Ghatak

(Bengali: ঋত্বিক কুমার ঘটক, Ritbik Kumar Ghôţôk, listen (help·info); 4 November 1925 – 6 February 1976)[3] was a Bengali filmmaker and script writer. Along with prominent contemporary Bengali filmmakers Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen, his cinema is primarily remembered for its meticulous depiction of social reality. Although their roles were often adversarial, they were ardent admirers of each other's work and, in doing so, the three directors charted the independent trajectory of parallel cinema, as a counterpoint to the mainstream fare of Hindi cinema in India. Ghatak received many awards in his career, including National Film Award's Rajat Kamal Award for Best Story in 1974 for his Jukti Takko Aar Gappo[4] and Best Director's Award from Bangladesh Cine Journalist's Association for Titash Ekti Nadir Naam. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri for Arts in 1970.

Early life

Ritwik Ghatak was born in Dhaka in East Bengal (now Bangladesh).[7] Ghatak's father Suresh Chandra Ghatak was a district magistrate and a poet and playwright; his mother's name was Indubala Devi. He and his twin sister Prateeti, were the youngest of nine children. The other children were Manish, Sudhish, Tapati, Sampreeti, Brototi, Ashish Chandra and Lokesh Chandra. He and his family moved to Calcutta (now Kolkata) just before millions of other refugees from East Bengal began to flood into the city, fleeing the catastrophic Bengal famine of 1943 and the partition of Bengal in 1947. Identification with this tide of refugees was to define his practice, providing an over-riding metaphor for cultural dismemberment and exile that unified his subsequent creative work. The 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, which led to more refugees fleeing to India, was to have a similar impact on his work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritwik_Ghatak

 

[Arthur]

A.K.M Fazle Hussain

A. K. M. Fazle Hussain is a Cullen Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Physics, and Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. He is the director of the Institute of Fluid Dynamics & Turbulence at theUniversity of Houston and a member of the advisory board at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology. He is currently serving as the President's Distinguished Chair in Engineering and Science, Senior Adviser to the President and Professor at Texas Tech University.[1]

Hussain did his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. Following his MS and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University in 1966 & 1969 under the guidance of William Craig Reynolds, Hussain was a post-doctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins University with Leslie S. G. Kovasznay and Stanley Corrsin.

 

[dray]

We had similar threads previously:

https://defence.pk/threads/how-indian-bengalis-perceive-bangladesh-and-bangladeshi.235151/

https://defence.pk/threads/famous-people-born-in-bangladesh.275426/

All ended up in flames after realizing that 95% of the famous and notables are Indian Bengalis irrespective of their origin.

 

[kobiraaz]

We had similar threads previously:

https://defence.pk/threads/how-indian-bengalis-perceive-bangladesh-and-bangladeshi.235151/

https://defence.pk/threads/famous-people-born-in-bangladesh.275426/

All ended up in flames after realizing that 95% of the famous and notables are Indian Bengalis irrespective of their origin.

Who is indian bengali in this thread other than Amyarta and Tagore??

https://defence.pk/threads/famous-people-born-in-bangladesh.275426/

All ended up in flames after realizing that 95% of the famous and notables are Indian Bengalis irrespective of their origin.

From this thread it seems all the pashcim banga legendary figures have origin in E Bengal. Never believed in eugenics

 

[Sky lord]

We lay claim to Sal Khan

His father was from Bangladesh but his mother was from West Bengal and he was brought up by his mother. Father did bye bye very early in life.

 

[mb444]

Dr Rafiuddin Ahmed - Father of Indian dentistry.

from Dhaka and off my family.

http://www.bdlinks.net/biography/Rafiuddin-Ahmed.php

 

[Saiful Islam]

We lay claim to Sal Khan

His father was from Bangladesh but his mother was from West Bengal and he was brought up by his mother. Father did bye bye very early in life.

Regardless, In Bangladeshi culture we inherit, represent everything that was our father.

 

[Nilgiri]

Regardless, In Bangladeshi culture we inherit, represent everything that was our father.

He doesn't consider himself to be Bangladeshi....we must let the individuals choose their identity.

India awarded him Padma Shri.....has Bangladesh given him any national award of that level....or anything?