Brahmo - Notable Brahmos

Notable Brahmos

• Aruna Asaf Ali, Indian freedom fighter and prominent leader of the Quit India Movement.
• Gunabhiram Barua, Famous playwright and the first widow remarriage in Assam.
• Rajnarayan Basu, Writer and intellectual of the Bengal Renaissance.
• Anandamohan Bose, Noted religious and political reformer, President of Indian National Congress.
• Jagadish Chandra Bose, Noted Indian Scientist.
• Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar, Noted Chemist, Founder of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, First Indian Knighthood for Science.
• Brajendranath De, Civil Servant and orientalist.
• Kadambini Ganguly, First female medical graduate in South Asia.
• Behari Lal Gupta, Civil Servant and Dewan of Baroda.
• Indrajit Gupta, Communist, Pro-tem Speaker of Parliament and Home (Interior) Minister of India (1996–98).
• Sucheta Kriplani, First woman Chief Minister of an Indian State.
• Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Scientist, Noted statistician and Founder of the Indian Statistical Institute in 1931.
• Subroto Mukerjee, First Chief of Air Staff of the Indian Air Force.
• Sarojini Naidu, Poet, Prominent freedom fighter and Politician. First woman Governor of an Indian State.
• Susobhan Sarkar, Legendary teacher; Professor and Head of Department of History, Presidency College, Calcutta
• Hemendranath Tagore, Religious savant, founder of Adi Dharm development of Brahmoism.
• Rabindranath Tagore, Bengali poet and Nobel laureate in Literature
• Satyendranath Tagore, Social Reformer and first Indian to join the Indian Civil Service, in June 1863.
• Girish Chandra Sen, Translated the Quran into Bengali.
• Swarnakumari Devi, Noted Bengali poet, novelist, musician and social worker.