{{Short description|Brahmin surname from the Indian subcontinent}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2023}} {{Use Indian English|date=October 2023}} {{Infobox surname |name = Banerjee |pronunciation = |image = |caption = |meaning = |region = Bengal |origin = Bengali Hindu |variant = |footnotes = }} {{Wiktionary|Banerjee}}
'''Banerjee''', also known as '''Bandyopadhyay''', is a Bengali Kulin Brahmin surname originating from the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent. The surname belongs to the Rarhi clan of the Hindu Bengali Brahmin caste.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bhattacharya|first=Jogendra Nath|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xlpLAAAAMAAJ&q=Bandopadhyay|title=Hindu Castes and Sects: An Exposition of the Origin of the Hindu Caste System and the Bearing of the Sects Towards Each Other and Towards Other Religious Systems|date=1896|publisher=Thacker, Spink|pages=38|language=en|access-date=3 May 2021|archive-date=13 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230313094609/https://books.google.com/books?id=xlpLAAAAMAAJ&q=Bandopadhyay|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Bromley">{{cite book |title=Krishna consciousness in the West |editor1-first=David G. |editor1-last=Bromley |editor2-first=Larry D. |editor2-last=Shinn |first=Thomas J. |last=Hopkins |chapter=The Social and Religious Background for Transmission of Gaudiya Vaisnavism to the West |publisher=Bucknell University Press |year=1989 |isbn=978-0-8387-5144-2 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F-EuD3M2QYoC&pg=PA35 |pages=35–36 |accessdate=28 February 2022}}</ref>
== History == {{blockquote|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".|''Dictionary of American Family Names''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hanks |first1=Patrick |title=Dictionary of American Family Names |date=8 May 2003 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-977169-1 |page=94 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FJoDDAAAQBAJ |language=en}}</ref>}}
== Notable people == Notable people with the surname Banerjee, Bandopadhyay, or variations, include: <!-- PLACED ALPHABETICALLY --><!-- Subjects need to have Wikipedia articles about them to be considered notable here -->
* Abhijit Banerjee (born 1961), Nobel laureate economist * Abhishek Banerjee (actor) * Abhishek Banerjee (politician) * Ajit Kumar Banerjee, environmentalist * Alapan Bandyopadhyay (born 1961), IAS officer * Albion Rajkumar Banerjee (1871–1950), Indian civil servant and administrator * Ambica Banerjee (1928–2013), member of the 15th Lok Sabha * Amit Banerjee (disambiguation), multiple people * Anjan Bandyopadhyay (1965–2021), journalist * Audrish Banerjee (born 1975), Indian former cricketer * Bhanu Banerjee (1920–1983), actor and freedom activist * Beena Banerjee, Actress * Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (1895–1950), Indian writer * Bidisha Bandyopadhyay (born 1978), writer, broadcaster * Bratati Bandyopadhyay, elocutionist * Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (born 1956), Indian-born American author, poet, and professor * Dibakar Banerjee (born 1969), Indian film director, screenwriter, producer and advertisement-filmmaker * Dola Banerjee (born 1980), Indian sportswoman who competes in archery * Durgadas Bannerjee, Indian actor * Gargi Banerjee, Indian cricketer * Gauri Rani Banerjee, Indian social worker * Gooroodas Banerjee (1844–1918), aka Gurudas Bandyopadhyay, Bengali Indian High Court judge * Gurudas Banerjee, actor * Gopeshwar Banerjee (1880–1963), Indian classical singer and musicologist * Haradhan Bandopadhyay (1926–2013) a Bengali Indian actor * Ishwar Chandra Bandyopadhyay (1820–1891), Indian educator and social reformer * Jenni Banerjee (born 1981), Finnish actress with Indian ancestry * John Banerjee (1873–?), the second non-European bishop of the Church of India, Burma and Ceylon * Kali Banerjee, Indian actor * Kali Charan Banerjee, Indian politician * Kali S. Banerjee, mathematician * Kalyan Banerjee (politician) * Kalyan Banerjee (homoeopath) * Kanika Bandyopadhyay (1924–2000), singer * Kanu Banerjee (1905–1985), actor (''Pather Panchali'') * Karuna Banerjee (1919–2001), actress (''Pather Panchali'') * Krishna Mohan Banerjee, Bengali scholar * Kaushik Banerjee, actor * Kaustav Banerjee, American electrical engineer * Kedareswar Banerjee, physicist * Mamata Banerjee, politician and chief minister of West Bengal * Manik Bandopadhyay, writer and novelist * Mrinal Banerjee, politician * Nikhil Banerjee, composer and musician * Nyra Banerjee, Indian television actress and assistant director * Paran Bandopadhyay, actor * Pradip Kumar Banerjee, footballer, coach * Prith Banerjee, Indian computer scientist * Pooja Banerjee, television actress * Pratyusha Banerjee, television actress * Puja Banerjee, film and television actress * Pulak Bandyopadhyay, lyricist and songwriter * Rachna Banerjee, Indian actress * Raghab Bandyopadhyay, prose writer * Rahul Banerjee, archer * Rahul Banerjee, actor * R. D. Banerji, discoverer of Mohenjo-daro, the principal site of the Indus Valley Civilisation * Reba Bandyopadhyay (born 1972), American astronomer and science policy analyst * Rina Banerjee * Ruprekha Banerjee * Satya Bandyopadhyay, actor * Satya Banerjee, actor * Samar Banerjee, footballer * San Banarje, film director, producer, and photographer * Sanjay Banerjee, Indian engineer * Sara Banerji, writer * Sarnath Banerjee, artist * Sarvadaman D. Banerjee, actor and social worker * Sarobindu Nath Banerjee, footballer * Shakuntala Banerjee (born 1973), German journalist * Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay * Sid Banerjee, Indian-American pop singer, songwriter, and producer * Steve Banerjee, arsonist, racketeer, and murderer * Subhamita Banerjee, musician * Subir Banerjee (born 1946), Indian actor * Subir Kumar Banerjee (born 1939), Indian-American geophysicist * Surendranath Banerjee, first Indian to qualify Indian Civil Service Examination * Sushmita Banerjee, writer * Sushovan Banerjee, physian and politician * Subhankar Banerjee (musician) * Subhankar Banerjee (photographer) * Suvojit Banerjee, cricketer * Syagnik Banerjee, scholar, author, and professor * Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay, author, novelist * Victor Banerjee, actor in Tollywood, Bollywood and Hollywood * Vikram Banerjee * Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee, first president of the Indian National Congress
==See also== *Bandopadhyay, alternate transliteration
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