# Sengupta

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**Sengupta** (Bengali: সেনগুপ্ত) is a surname found among the [Bengalis](/source/Bengalis) of [West Bengal](/source/West_Bengal), [Assam](/source/Assam), [Tripura](/source/Tripura) and [Bangladesh](/source/Bangladesh). They belong to the [Baidya](/source/Baidya) caste of [Bengal](/source/Bengal).[1] The surname is a compound of [Sen](/source/Sen_(surname)) and [Gupta](/source/Gupta).[2][3]

## Notables

- [Achintyakumar Sengupta](/source/Achintyakumar_Sengupta) (1903–1976), Bengali author
- [Aditya Vikram Sengupta](/source/Aditya_Vikram_Sengupta) (born 1983), Indian film director, cinematographer and graphic designer
- [Ambar Sengupta](/source/Ambar_Sengupta), mathematician
- [Anasuya Sengupta (poet)](/source/Anasuya_Sengupta_(poet)) (born 1974), Indian poet, author, activist
- [Anasuya Sengupta](/source/Anasuya_Sengupta_(actress)) (born 1980), Indian actress, production designer
- [Anita Sengupta](/source/Anita_Sengupta), British-born American aerospace engineer
- [Anup Sengupta](/source/Anup_Sengupta), Bengali film director and producer
- [Apoorva Sengupta](/source/Apoorva_Sengupta) (1939–2013), Indian cricketer
- [Arjun Kumar Sengupta](/source/Arjun_Kumar_Sengupta) (1937–2010), Indian politician and Member of the Parliament of India
- [Arunabha Sengupta](/source/Arunabha_Sengupta) (born 1973), Indian novelist
- [Atiha Sen Gupta](/source/Atiha_Sen_Gupta) (born 1988), British playwright and screenwriter
- [Barkha Sengupta](/source/Barkha_Sengupta) (born 1979), Indian television and film actress
- [Barun Sengupta](/source/Barun_Sengupta) (1934–2008), Bengali journalist and founder-editor of Bartaman newspaper
- [Biswatosh Sengupta](/source/Biswatosh_Sengupta) (born 1944), Indian academic from Kolkata
- [Bonny Sengupta](/source/Bonny_Sengupta), Indian Bengali film actor
- [Bratin Sengupta](/source/Bratin_Sengupta) (born 1963), Indian politician
- [Deep Sengupta](/source/Deep_Sengupta) (born 1988), Indian chess grandmaster
- [Dipankar Sengupta Dipon](/source/Dipankar_Dipon), Bangladeshi film director
- [Gurunath Sengupta](/source/Gurunath_Sengupta) (1848–1914), Sanskrit scholar from the Jessore District of Bangladesh
- [Hindol Sengupta](/source/Hindol_Sengupta), (born 1979), Indian historian and journalist
- [Hiranmay Sen Gupta](/source/Hiranmay_Sen_Gupta) (born 1934), Bangladeshi nuclear physicist
- [Indraneil Sengupta](/source/Indraneil_Sengupta), Indian model and actor
- [Jatindra Mohan Sengupta](/source/Jatindra_Mohan_Sengupta) (1885–1933), Indian revolutionary, President of then Bengal Provincial Congress Committee and Bengal Swaraj Party
- [Jatindranath Sengupta](/source/Jatindranath_Sengupta) (1887–1954), Bengali poet and writer
- [Jisshu Sengupta](/source/Jisshu_Sengupta), also known as Jisshu, Bengali film actor
- [Joy Sengupta](/source/Joy_Sengupta) (born 1968), Indian film and stage actor
- [Joya Sengupta](/source/Joya_Sengupta), Bangladesh Awami League politician, doctor
- [Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta](/source/Kalyan_Jyoti_Sengupta) (born 1953), Indian lawyer, Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court
- [Krishnendu Sengupta](/source/Krishnendu_Sengupta) (born 1970), Indian professor of theoretical physics
- [Mallika Sengupta](/source/Mallika_Sengupta) (1960–2011), Bengali poet, feminist, and reader of Sociology from Kolkata
- [Mihir Sengupta](/source/Mihir_Sengupta), Bengali Indian writer
- [Moinak Sengupta](/source/Moinak_Sengupta) (born 1973), Indian cricketer
- [N. C. Sen Gupta](/source/N._C._Sen_Gupta), the eleventh Governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 19 May to 19 August 1975
- [Narendra Nath Sen Gupta](/source/Narendra_Nath_Sen_Gupta) (1889–1944), Indian psychologist, philosopher, and professor
- [Nares Chandra Sen-Gupta](/source/Nares_Chandra_Sen-Gupta) (1882–1964), legal scholar and Bengali novelist
- [Nellie Sengupta](/source/Nellie_Sengupta) (1886–1973), Englishwoman who fought for Indian Independence
- [Nikhil Baran Sengupta](/source/Nikhil_Baran_Sengupta) (1943–2014), Indian art director of Oriya films
- [Niranjan Sen Gupta](/source/Niranjan_Sen_Gupta), Bengali Indian revolutionary
- [Nitish Sengupta](/source/Nitish_Sengupta) (1933–2013), Revenue Secretary of the Government of India
- [Papiya Sengupta](/source/Papiya_Sengupta), Indian television actress
- [Partho Sen-Gupta](/source/Partho_Sen-Gupta) (born 1965), Indian-born French independent film director and screenwriter
- [Paulami Sengupta](/source/Paulami_Sengupta), the editor of three magazines in India: Anandamela, Unish Kuri and Career
- [Phani Gopal Sen Gupta](/source/Phani_Gopal_Sen_Gupta) (born 1905), Indian politician, member of Lok Sabha from Purnia (1952–1970)
- [Piya Sengupta](/source/Piya_Sengupta) (born 1969), Indian film actress, producer, director and writer
- [Poile Sengupta](/source/Poile_Sengupta) (born 1948), Indian writer, playwright and actress
- [Prabodh Chandra Sengupta](/source/Prabodh_Chandra_Sengupta) (1876–1962), historian of astronomy in ancient India
- [Pramod Ranjan Sengupta](/source/Pramod_Ranjan_Sengupta) (1907–1974), Marxist intellectual and Bengali revolutionary
- [Priti Sengupta](/source/Priti_Sengupta), Gujarati poet and writer
- [Pulak Sengupta](/source/Pulak_Sengupta) (born 1963), Indian petrologist
- [Ramananda Sengupta](/source/Ramananda_Sengupta) (1916–2017), Indian cinematographer
- [Ratnottama Sengupta](/source/Ratnottama_Sengupta) (born 1955), Indian film journalist, festival curator, and author
- [Rituparna Sengupta](/source/Rituparna_Sengupta) (born 1971), Indian actress in Bengali and Hindi films
- [Rudraprasad Sengupta](/source/Rudraprasad_Sengupta) (born 1935), Bengali Indian actor, director and cultural critic
- [Sachin Sengupta](/source/Sachin_Sengupta) (1891–1961), Bengali playwright and theatre producer and director
- [Sagar Sengupta](/source/Sagar_Sengupta) (born 1968), Indian immunologist and cancer biologist
- [Shantanu Sengupta](/source/Shantanu_Sengupta), Indian cell biologist
- [Sohini Sengupta](/source/Sohini_Sengupta), Indian film and theatre actress
- [Somini Sengupta](/source/Somini_Sengupta) ( 2023), American journalist
- [Stephanie Sengupta](/source/Stephanie_Sengupta), American producer and writer
- [Subodh Chandra Sengupta](/source/Subodh_Chandra_Sengupta) (1903–1998), Indian academic and critic of English literature, Shakespearean scholar
- [Sudipta Sengupta](/source/Sudipta_Sengupta) (born 1946), professor in structural geology in Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India
- [Sukhamoy Sen Gupta](/source/Sukhamoy_Sen_Gupta), Chief Minister of Tripura in India from 1972 to 1977
- [Suranjit Sengupta](/source/Suranjit_Sengupta) (1945–2017), senior Bangladesh Awami League politician
- [Swatilekha Sengupta](/source/Swatilekha_Sengupta) (1950–2021), Bengali actress
- [Tarakeswar Sengupta](/source/Tarakeswar_Sengupta) (1905–1931), Indian independence activist
- [Upal Sengupta](/source/Upal_Sengupta), lead vocalist of Bengali band Chandrabinoo
- [Ushoshi Sengupta](/source/Ushoshi_Sengupta) (born 1988), Indian beauty pageant contestant and winner of Miss India Universe 2010

## References

1. Bhattacharya, Jogendra Nath (1896). [*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*](https://books.google.com/books?id=xlpLAAAAMAAJ&q=Vaidya+). Thacker, Spink. p. 161. Retrieved 12 May 2026.

1. Hanks, Patrick (2003-05-08). *Dictionary of American Family Names: 3-Volume Set*. Oxford University Press, USA. p. 321. ISBN 978-0-19-508137-4.

1. Bhabtaran Dutta (1981). ["A linguistic study of personal names and surnames in Bengali"](https://books.google.co.in/books?redir_esc=y&id=RxIHAQAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Sen+gupta+). p. 150.

- Bose, Nirmal Kumar (1994). *Structure of Hindu Society*. Orient BlackSwan. p. 163. ISBN 978-8-12500-855-2.
- Leslie, Charles M. (1976). *Asian Medical Systems: A Comparative Study*. University of California Press. p. 37. ISBN 978-0-52003-511-9.

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