Bengali Americans
Bengali Americans (Bengali: মার্কিন বাঙ্গালী) are Americans of Bengali ethnic, cultural and linguistic heritage and identity. They trace their ancestry to the historic ethnolinguistic region of Bengal region in the Indian subcontinent, now divided in South Asia between Bangladesh and West Bengal of India. Bengali Americans are also a subgroup of modern-day Bangladeshi Americans and Indian Americans. Bengalis are also classified under Bangladeshi Americans.[3] Significant immigration of Bengalis to the United States started after 1965.
Bengali Americans may refer to:
- recipient of The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Abhijit Banerjee
- Indian American Mathematician
Raj Chandra Bose
- Indian American physicist and a bestselling author.
Moni Lal Bhoumik
– former Miss California; placed in the Top 10 of the 2011 Miss America pageant
Arianna Afsar
– scientist and professor
Maqsudul Alam
(d. 2011) – political scientist and professor
Jalal Alamgir
– George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor of Statistics, Ball State University
Mir Masoom Ali
– shooting survivor and activist
Rais Bhuiyan
- scientist
Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty
- industrialist
Purnendu Chatterjee
– author and management consultant
Subir Chowdhury
– United States Congress in 2010, from Michigan's House of Representatives
Hansen Clarke
- anti-British Bengali Indian revolutionary and internationalist scholar
Tarak Nath Das
– interdisciplinary media artist
Hasan M. Elahi
the Eugene Higgins endowed chair professor at Princeton University and scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, known for ground-breaking discoveries in the quantum world[7]
M. Zahid Hasan
– professor of mechanical engineering, physics, and earth science at the University of Houston
Fazle Hussain
- singer and actress
Norah Jones
- actress
Mindy Kaling
– founder of Sumazi, was recognised by BusinessWeek as one of America's Best Young Entrepreneurs
Sumaya Kazi
– chemist and jet fuels inventor
Abdus Suttar Khan
– pioneer of modern structural engineering
Fazlur Rahman Khan
- probabilist, statistician, mathematician and philanthropist
Radha Laha
– Vipassana meditation founder in the US
Dipa Ma
- American television journalist and news anchor and Gracie award recipient for women.
Tasmin Mahfuz
- first person of South Asian descent to earn US citizenship, until it was revoked by the Supreme Court in 1924
A.K. Mozumdar
first South Asian winner of Newbery Medal in 1928
Dhan Gopal Mukerji
Majority Whip of the New Jersey General Assembly
Raj Mukherji
– designer and music video director
Shomi Patwary
– founder of Grameenphone, Bangladesh's largest mobile phone company; heads the Legatum Center at MIT
Iqbal Quadir
– entrepreneur; founded two of Bangladesh's key technology companies, CellBazaar and bKash
Kamal Quadir
– tabla player, percussionist, and recording artist
Badal Roy
– conservative American political commentator; blogger at The American Scene; associate editor of The Atlantic Monthly
Reihan Salam
- recipient of The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Amartya Sen
– former US ambassador
M. Osman Siddique
– singer
Palbasha Siddique
– Bangladeshi-Russian-American operatic soprano
Monica Yunus
– American chef, restaurateur, and YouTube personality as part of Bon Appetit’s staff.
Sohla El-Waylly
- Indian American Mathematician