Notable Refugees and Migrants
- Achintyakumar Sengupta (Noakhali; literature)
- Amartya Sen (Dhaka, economics/academia)
- Bijon Bhattacharya (Faridpur, cinema)
- Binoy Ghosh (Jessore, Sociologist, Author and Journalist)
- Buddhadev Bose (Comilla; literature)
- Chuni Goswami (Kishoreganj; football)
- Comrade Muzaffar Ahmed (Noakhali; politics, founder of Communist Party of India)
- Debabrata Biswas (Maymensingh, Tagore song)
- Jibananda Das (Barisal, poet)
- Jogendra Nath Mandal (Barisal; politics, First Law Minister, Pakistan (1947–1950)
- Jyoti Basu (Dhaka; politics, Chief Minister, West Bengal 1977-2000)
- Bimal Roy (Dhaka; cinema)
- Hemanga Biswas (Sylhet; music)
- Hiralal Chakraborty (Noakhali; Publisher - Founder of Prakashani Limited and Nababidhan Press)
- Humayun Kabir (Faridpur; literature and academics)
- Ila Mitra (Rajshahi, human rights activist)
- Kazi Abdul Wadud (Faridpur; literature)
- Lokesh Chandra Chakraborty (Noakhali; Principal - David Hare Training College, Jadavpur)
- Madhabi Mukherjee (Barisal; cinema)
- Mahasweta Devi (Dhaka; literature, human rights)
- Megh Nad Saha (Dhaka; science)
- Mrinal Sen (Faridpur; cinema)
- Narendranath Mitra (Faridpur; literature and journalism)
- Nirad Chaudhuri (Mymensingh; author)
- Nirmalendu Chowdhury (Sylhet; music)
- Pankaj Roy (Dhaka; Cricketer)
- Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi (Dinajpur, politics)
- Ritwik Ghatak (Dhaka; cinema)
- Pannalal Ghosh (Barisal; music)
- Sachin Dev Burman (Comilla; music)
- Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay (Dhaka - Bikrampur; writer)
- Suchitra Sen (Pabna, cinema)
- Sunil Gangopadhyay (Faridpur; writer)
- Sunil Ganguly (Faridpur; musician)
- Tulsi Lahiri (Rangpur; music and cinema)
- Ustad Alauddin Khan (Brahmanbaria; music)
- Ustad Bahadur Hossain Khan (Dhaka; music)
- Vilayat Khan (Mymensingh; music)
- Utpal Dutta (Barisal, theatre)
- Suchitra Sen (Pabna, Cinema)
- Bhanu Banerjee (Dhaka, Cinema)
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