Chakraborty
Chakraborty (Chôkrôbôrti) is a surname meaning "Ruler of the country" or "Emperor"[1] of Bengali and Assamese people in Indian states of West Bengal and Assam. People with the surname Chakraborty are Bengali/Assamese, a caste of Bengali Brahmins /Kshatriyas It is spelled in various ways, including Chakraborti, Chokroborti, Chakrabarti, Chakrabarty, Chakravarty, Chakravarthy, Chakravarti, Chakravarthi, Chakravorti, Chakravorty and Chuckerbutty.
Origin and meaning
From Sanskrit čakravartī ‘king of kings’. Čakravartī means literally ‘wheels rolling’; metaphorically, it denotes a ruler whose chariot wheels roll everywhere without obstruction (čakra ‘wheel’ + vart- ‘to roll or turn’). chankravarthi means "Raaja"
Notable persons with this surname
Male
- Khelaram Chakrabarty (16th century), Bengali poet
- Rupram Chakrabarty (17th century), Bengali poet
- Visvanatha Chakravarti (1626? - 1708?), Bengali guru
- Ghanaram Chakrabarty (c. 1669-?), Bengali poet
- Akinchan Chakrabarty (18th century), Bengali poet
- Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty (ca 1826–1874), one of the earliest Indians to practice modern medicine
- Shyam Sundar Chakravarthy (1869–1932), Bengali revolutionary, independence activist and journalist
- Oliphant Chuckerbutty (1884–1960), English composer and organist of Anglo-Indian descent
- Trailokyanath Chakravarty (1889–1970), Indian revolutionary.
- Ambika Chakrabarty (1892–1962), Bengali Indian independence movement activist and revolutionary
- Tulsi Chakrabarti (1899–1961), Indian comic actor
- Panchanan Chakraborty (1900–1995), Indian revolutionary
- Amiya Chakravarty (1901–1986), literary critic, academic, and Bengali poet
- Shibram Chakraborty (1903–1980), Bengali writer, humorist and revolutionary
- Birendra Narayan Chakraborty (1904–1976), Indian politician
- Nripen Chakraborty (1905–2004), Indian politician
- Hiralal Chakraborty (1911–1968), publisher of modern Bengali works
- Amiya Chakravarty (1912-1957), Indian film director, screenwriter and producer
- Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan (1915–2003), Indian diplomat
- Byomkes Chakrabarti (1923–1981), Indian linguist
- Nirendranath Chakravarty (born 1924), Bengali poet
- Pramod Chakravorty (1929–2004), Indian film director and producer
- Animesh Chakravorty (born 1935), Indian chemist
- K. Chakravarthy (1936–2002), music director in the South Indian film industry
- Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty (born 1938), Indian microbiologist, party to the U.S. Supreme Court case Diamond v. Chakrabarty
- Abani Chakravarty (1941-1994?), Indian Assamese poet
- Subhas Chakraborty (1942–2009), Indian Communist politician
- Ajay Chakraborty (born 1943), Indian politician
- Swadesh Chakraborty (born 1943), Indian politician
- Vinu Chakravarthy (born 1945), Tamil actor, script writer and director
- Utpalendu Chakrabarty (born 1948), Indian film director
- Dipesh Chakrabarty (born 1948), Indian historian
- Biswajit Chakraborty, (born 1948) Bengali actor
- Mithun Chakraborty (born 1950), Indian actor, director and businessman
- Bikas K Chakrabarti (born 1952), Indian physicist
- Ajoy Chakrabarty (born 1953), Indian singer
- Aravinda Chakravarti (born 1954), Indian geneticist
- Swapan Kumar Chakravorty (born 1954) Director General of the National Library of India, Kolkata
- Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, (born 1956), Bengali Indian TV and film actor
- Sandip Chakrabarti (born 1958), Indian astrophysicist
- Sujan Chakraborty (born 1959), Indian politician
- Sujit Chakravarty (born 1959), Indian football manager
- Suma Chakrabarti (born 1959), British civil servant, President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
- Haranath Chakraborty (born 1959), Indian Bengali film director
- Shibu Chakravarthy (born 1961), lyricist, screenplay and script writer who mainly works in Malayalam Cinema
- Nachiketa Chakraborty (born 1965), Indian Bengali singer-songwriter
- Kushal Chakraborty (born 1968), Bengali actor and film director
- George Chakravarthi (born 1969), British Indian artist
- J. D. Chakravarthy (born 1970), Indian film actor and director in Telugu cinema and Bollywood
- Pritam Chakraborty (born 1971), Indian Bengali music director and composer
- Praveen Chakravarty (born 1973), Indian businessman
- Samrat Chakrabarti (born 1975), British-American actor and musician
- Raj Chakraborty (born 1975), Indian Bengali film director
- Rajorshi Chakraborti (born 1977), Indian writer in English
- Arnab Chakrabarty (born 1980), Indian musician and Sarod player
- Pritish Chakraborty (born 1984), Indian film actor and director in Bollywood
- Mahaakshay Chakraborty (born 1984), Indian actor
- Gaurav Chakrabarty (born 1987), Indian actor
- Rahi Chakraborty (born 1988), Indian singer, songwriter, programmer and guitarist
- Snehasish Chakraborty (born 1989), Indian footballer
- Souvik Chakraborty (born 1991), Indian footballer
- Sourav Chakraborty (born 1992), Indian footballer
- Keshab Chakravarthy (active 1925), Indian revolutionary
- M. C. Chakrabarti (died 1972), Indian statistician
- Amal Chakraborty, Indian paediatric surgeon
- Arindam Chakrabarti, Indian philosopher working in Hawaii
- Arjun Chakrabarty, Indian actor
- Bonnie Chakraborty, Bengali singer
- Dilip Kumar Chakrabarti, Indian archaeologist
- Janardan Chakravarti, Indian professor of Bengali
- Kuntal Chakraborty, Indian sports journalist
- Manoj Chakraborty, Indian politician
- Ranajit Chakraborty, Indian geneticist
- S. Chakravarthi, Indian cricketer
- S. S. Chakravarthy, Indian Tamil film producer
- Samiran Chandra Chakrabarti, Indian Indologist and scholar of onomastics & Vedic studies
- Sapan Chakraborty, Bengali Indian music composer
- Sugato Chakravarty, Indian marketing academic
- Sumon K Chakrabarti, Indian journalist
- Vijay C Chakravarthy, Indian cinematographer
- Vinayak Chakravorty, Indian film critic and film journalist
Female
- Bijoya Chakravarty (born 1939), Indian politician from Assam
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (born 1942), Indian literary critic
- Ipsita Roy Chakraverti (born 1950), Indian Wiccan priestess
- Sharmila Chakraborty (born 1961), Indian cricketer
- Uthpala Chakraborty, Indian cricketer
- Reeta Chakrabarti (born 1964), British television journalist
- Lolita Chakrabarti (born 1969), British actress and writer
- Shami Chakrabarti (born 1969), British barrister and civil liberties campaigner
- Rushmi Chakravarthi (born 1977), Indian tennis player
- Kaushiki Chakrabarty (born 1980), Indian classical vocalist
- Rhea Chakraborty (born 1992), Indian video jockey