Banerjee Explained

Banerjee (Bengali: ব্যানার্জী), 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 Bengali Brahmin caste.^[1]

Lineage and ancestry

Banerjees are from the ancient Shandilya Gotra, which means all Banerjees are descended from Kannauj from the ancient sage Shandilya as per the Puranas.^[2] Together with Mukherjees, Chatterjees, Bhattacharjees and Gangulys, Banerjees form the Kulin Brahmins.^[3]

Notable people

Notable people with the surname Banerjee, Bandopadhyay, or variations, include:

• Alapan Bandyopadhyay, (born 1961) IAS Officer
• Anjan Bandyopadhyay, (1965 – 2021) journalist
• Abhijit Banerjee, (born 1961) Nobel laureate economist
• Abhishek Banerjee (actor)
• Abhishek Banerjee (politician)
• Albion Rajkumar Banerjee (1871 – 1950) an Indian civil servant and administrator
• Ambica Banerjee (1928 – 2013) a member of the 15th Lok Sabha.
• Audrish Banerjee (born 1975) an Indian former cricketer.
• Bhanu Banerjee, (1920 – 1983) actor and freedom activist
• Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (1895 – 1950), Indian writer
• Bidisha Bandyopadhyay, (born1978) writer, broadcaster
• 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) is an Indian sportswoman who competes in archery
• Gargi Banerjee, cricketer
• Gooroodas Banerjee, (1844 –1918) aka Gurudas Bandyopadhyay, Bengali Indian High Court judge
• Gopeshwar Banerjee (1880–1963) an 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, actor
• Kali Charan Banerjee
• Kalyan Banerjee
• Kanika Bandyopadhyay (1924–2000), singer
• Kanu Banerjee (1905–1985), actor (Pather Panchali)
• Karuna Banerjee (1919–2001), actress (Pather Panchali)
• Krishna Mohan Banerjee
• Kaushik Banerjee, actor
• Kaustav Banerjee, American electrical engineer
• Mamata Banerjee, politician and Chief Minister of West Bengal
• Manik Bandopadhyay, writer, novelist
• Nikhil Banerjee, composer, musician
• Nyra Banerjee, Indian television actress and assistant director.
• Pradip Kumar Banerjee
• Prith Banerjee
• Pooja Banerjee, television actress
• Pratyusha Banerjee, television actress
• Puja Banerjee, film and television actress
• Pulak Bandyopadhyay, lyricist and songwriter
• Rachana Banerjee, actor
• Raghab Bandyopadhyay, prose writer
• Rahul Banerjee, archer
• R D Banerji, The 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
• San Banarje, film director, producer, photographer
• Sanjay Banerjee, Indian engineer
• Sara Banerji, writer
• Sarnath Banerjee, artist
• Shakuntala Banerjee (born 1973), German journalist
• Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay
• Sid Banerjee, an Indian-American pop singer, songwriter, and producer
• Somen Banerjee
• 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
• Syagnik Banerjee, scholar, author, and professor
• Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay, novelist
• Victor Banerjee, actor both in Tollywood, Bollywood and Hollywood
• Vikram Banerjee
• Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee, first president of the Indian National Congress

See also

• Bandopadhyay, alternate transliteration

Notes and References

1. Book: Bhattacharya, Jogendra Nath. 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. 1896. Thacker, Spink. 38. en. 3 May 2021. 13 March 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230313094609/https://books.google.com/books?id=xlpLAAAAMAAJ&q=Bandopadhyay. live.
2. Book: Ghurye . Govind Sadashiv . Caste and Race in India . 1969 . Popular Prakashan . 978-81-7154-205-5 . 257 . 16 March 2020 . en.
3. Book: Hopkins, Thomas J. . Krishna consciousness in the West . David G. . Bromley . Larry D. . Shinn . The Social and Religious Background for Transmission of Gaudiya Vaisnavism to the West . Bucknell University Press . 1989 . 978-0-8387-5144-2 . https://books.google.com/books?id=F-EuD3M2QYoC&pg=PA35 . 35–36 . 28 February 2022.