Sen (surname)
Sen (Bengali: সেন , pronounced Shen) is a Bengali Hindu surname derived from the Sanskrit word for "Army", Sena (Sanskrit: सेना).
It is found predominantly in Bangladesh & West Bengal, India among Vaidya/Baidya and Kayastha/Kshatriya communities.
Notable people with this surname include:
- Sena Dynasty, the successors to the Pala Empire and the last Hindu kings of Greater Bengal
- Amartya Sen, economist, Nobel Prize winner
- Aparna Sen, Indian film director and actress
- Ashoke Sen (b. 1956), theoretical physicist
- Ashoke Kumar Sen (1913-1996); sometime Indian Law Minister, lawyer, and parliamentarian
- Binayak Sen (b. 1950); MBBS, MD; pediatrician, public health specialist, Human Rights activist
- Dinesh Chandra Sen (1866-1939), academic, researcher of Bengali folklore
- Keshab Chandra Sen, social reformer of India
- Konkona Sen, actress
- Mihir Sen, swimmer
- Moonmoon Sen, actress
- Mrinal Sen, film director
- Nandana Sen, daughter of Amartya Sen, actress in Hindi cinema
- Pabitra Kumar Sen, scientist and social reformer
- Palash Sen, Band member of Euphoria (Indian band)
- Ramprasad Sen, singer and lyricist
- Raima Sen, granddaughter of Suchitra Sen, actress in Hindi cinema and Bengali cinema
- Reema Sen, Indian actress
- Rimi Sen, Indian actress
- Riya Sen, granddaughter of Suchitra Sen, actress in Hindi cinema
- Samar Sen (1916-1987), poet, grandson of Dinesh Chandra Sen
- Suchitra Sen - notable actress in Bengali and Hindi cinema
- Sudeep Sen, poet
- Sukumar Sen (Chief Election Commissioner, India), deceased;
- Sukumar Sen, Bengali linguist
- Susmit Sen, member of the band Indian Ocean
- Sushmita Sen, actress, Miss Universe, 1994
- Surya Sen, Indian freedom fighter
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