List of Kayasthas
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This is a list of noteworthy people of the Kayastha caste of India.
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[edit] Spirituality
[edit] Religious Organisation
- Acharya Giriraj Kishore (A Kulshreshtha Kayastha)
[edit] Statesmen
[edit] Politics
- Jyoti Basu
- Bal Thackeray
- Raj Thackeray
- Yashwant Sinha
- Biju Patnaik
- Shiv Charan Mathur
- Ravi Shankar Prasad
[edit] Defence
- General Arun Shridhar Vaidya, MVC(Bar),AVSM
- Flight Lieutenant Arun Kumar Sinha, Retd.
[edit] Literature
- Munshi Premchand
- Mahadevi Varma
- Dr. Vrindavan Lal Verma
- Harivansh Rai Bachchan
- Bhagwati Charan Verma
- Nirmal Verma
- Ramkumar Verma
- Dharmavir Bharati
- Bimal Mitra
- Premendra Mitra
- Jibananda Das
- Buddhadeva Bose
- Firaq Gorakhpuri
- Nirad Chaudhuri
- Amitav Ghosh
- Kamleshwar
- Neeraj
- K.P. Saxena
[edit] Science & technology
- Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar
- Jagadis Chandra Bose
- Satyendra Nath Bose
- Vinod Dham
- Ashesh Prosade Mitra
- Sisir Kumar Mitra
- Mriganka Sur
[edit] Art
[edit] Films, television and music
- Amitabh Bachchan
- Abhishek Bachchan
- Aadesh Srivastav
- Anil Biswas
- Anjan Srivastav
- Gautam Ghose
- Manna Dey
- Madhur Jaffrey
- Motilal
- Mukesh
- Nandita Das
- Nutan
- Raju Srivastava
- Rhona Mitra
- Salil Chowdhury
- Shekhar Suman
- Sombhu Mitra
- Sonu Nigam
- Tanuja
- Utpal Dutt
- Bipasha Basu
- Virendra Saxena
- Shatrughan Sinha
[edit] Historians
[edit] Sports
[edit] Freedom fighters
- Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi
- Bipin Chandra Pal
- Subhash Chandra Bose
- Khudiram Bose
- Rash Behari Bose
- Har Dayal
- Barin Ghosh
[edit] Journalists
- Tushar Kanti Ghosh
- Chandan Mitra
- Sagarika Ghose
- Prashant Kumar
[edit] Administration
- Brajendranath De, 8th Indian I.C.S. officer; third Indian (acting) Divisional Commissioner of Burdwan
- Basanta Kumar De, 2nd Indian Commercial Traffic Manager (Chief Commercial Superintendent) of the B.N.R.
- Lt. Col. J.C.De, I.M.S. 2nd Indian Principal of Calcutta Medical College, Calcutta
- Dr. Paresh Chandra Datta, Additional Director, Department of Public Health, Government of West Bengal
- Gurusaday Dutt, I.C.S., Secretary, Local Self Government and Public Health and founder of Bratachari Movement
- Romesh Dutt, I.C.S., 2nd Indian I.C.S. officer; first Indian Divisional Commissioner of Orissa
- Sir Sarat Kumar Ghosh, I.C.S., First Indian Chief Justice of Rajasthan
- Alakh Kumar Sinha, C.I.E., O.B.E. (first Indian Inspector-General of Police)[1]
- Mithilesh Kumar Sinha, K.P.M., President's Police Medal (longest serving Inspector-General of Police and noted philanthropist)
- S. K. Sinha (Lt.Gen (retd) Governor of Kashmir and Ex Governor of Assam)
- Shyam Saran (1970; IFS)
- Girish Chandra Saxena (IPS(Retd) and Ex Governor of Kashmir)
- Anami Narayan Roy(IPS & Ex- Commissioner of Police Mumbai)
- Ram Chandra Sinha(IAS & Former Chief Secretary to the Chief Minister, Bihar)
- Krishna Chandra Sinha(IPS & Foermer Director General Police, Bihar)
- J.N.Saxena(IPS & Former Director General Police, J&K, who was nearly blown up in a bomb blast in Srinagar in early 1990s)
