Bose (surname)
Bose or Basu or Boshu is an Indian family name and surname found amongst Bengali Hindus.
Boses belong to the Kayastha clan, a sub-caste of Kshatriyas (warriors/rulers) that originated from Kannauj, the capital of India during much of the classical period, and emerged in eastern India during the 11th century AD. Boses are Kulin Kayasthas, the highest-ranking group amongst all Bengali Kayasthas, and were originally accorded kulin status by King Ballal Sena.
Some notable people with this surname are:
- Amar Bose (born 1929), MIT professor, founder of the Bose Corporation
- Bipasha Basu, Indian model turned actress
- Buddhadeva Bose (1908–1974), Bengali writer
- Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose FRS (1858–1935), Bengali physicist
- Julius von Bose (1809–1894), a Prussian Army general
- Jyoti Basu (1914-2010) Indian Politician
- Khudiram Bose, Indian freedom fighter
- Mihir Bose (born 1947), Indian-born British journalist, currently the BBC's head sports editor
- Nandalal Bose (born 1883), Noted Indian painter.
- Rahul Bose (born 1967), Indian actor
- Rajsekhar Bose, writer
- Raj Chandra Bose (1901–1987), Indian mathematician and statistician
- Rash Behari Bose, Indian freedom fighter
- Sarat Chandra Bose (1889–1950), Indian lawyer and freedom fighter (brother of Subhash Chandra Bose)
- Sarmila Bose, Indian journalist and researcher
- Satyendra Nath Bose FRS (1894–1974), Indian physicist
- Schindra Prasad Bose, designer of the Calcutta Flag
- Sterling Bose, 1920s jazz musician
- Subhash Chandra Bose (aka Netaji) (1897–1945), leader of the Indian independence movement and founder of the Indian National Army. (brother of Sarat Chandra Bose)
- Swadesh Bose (1928–2009), Bangladeshi economist
- Vivian Bose, one of the founders of scouting in India
Bosé is an unrelated European surname:
- Lucia Bosé (born 1931), Italian actress who married the Spanish bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín
- Miguel Bosé (born 1956), Spanish singer, son of Lucia and L.M. Dominguín