| Office: | Member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly |
| Term: | 1946 - 1947 |
| Constituency: | Dinajpur |
| Party: | Communist Party of India (until 1947) Communist Party of Pakistan (after 1947) National Awami Party[1] (during ban on CPP) Communist Party of Bangladesh (from 1968) |
| Death Date: | 24 March 1974 |
| Death Place: | Lalpurdanga, Amrabari Mauza, Phulbari Upazila, Dinajpur |
| Birth Date: | 1908(assumed) |
| Birth Place: | Phulbari Upazila, Dinajpur |
Rupnarayan Roy was a veteran communist and peasant leader of undivided Bengal and then Bangladesh. One of the three first communist legislators who were elected to the Bengal Legislative Assembly in 1946.[2] He died a martyr, some miscreants entered his house, called him from his bed at night and beheaded him.[3]
A marxist revolutionary, one of the top organizers of Tebhaga Movement, leader of anti-British movement, MLA of undivided Bengal, organizer of CPB-NAP-BSU led guerrilla force in the Bangladesh Liberation War.