Banerjee

Banerjee, also known as Bandyopadhyay, is a Bengali Kulin Brahmin surname originating from the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent. The surname belongs to the Rarhi clan of the Hindu Bengali Brahmin caste.^[1][2]

Banerjee

Origin
Word/name	Bengali Hindu
Region of origin	Bengal

History

Indian (Bengal) and Bangladeshi: Hindu (Brahman) name, the first element of which, Ban-, is taken from Bandyopadhyay The final element -jee is derived from jha (greatly reduced form of Sanskrit upadhyaya "teacher"); thus, Banerjee "teacher who is head and only performs the main work aarti" or, Vandana. A Sanskrit version of this name, Vandyopadhyaya, was coined from the elements vandya "venerable" + upadhyaya "teacher".

— Dictionary of American Family Names^[3]

Notable people

Notable people with the surname Banerjee, Bandopadhyay, or variations, include:

• Abhijit Banerjee (born 1961), Nobel laureate economist
• Abhishek Banerjee (actor)
• Abhishek Banerjee (politician)
• Ajit Kumar Banerjee, environmentalist
• Alapan Bandyopadhyay (born 1961), IAS officer
• Albion Rajkumar Banerjee (1871–1950), Indian civil servant and administrator
• Ambica Banerjee (1928–2013), member of the 15th Lok Sabha
• Anjan Bandyopadhyay (1965–2021), journalist
• Audrish Banerjee (born 1975), Indian former cricketer
• Bhanu Banerjee (1920–1983), actor and freedom activist
• Beena Banerjee, Actress
• Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (1895–1950), Indian writer
• Bidisha Bandyopadhyay (born 1978), writer, broadcaster
• Bratati Bandyopadhyay, elocutionist
• Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (born 1956), Indian-born American author, poet, and professor
• Dibakar Banerjee (born 1969), Indian film director, screenwriter, producer and advertisement-filmmaker
• Dola Banerjee (born 1980), Indian sportswoman who competes in archery
• Durgadas Bannerjee, actor
• Gargi Banerjee, cricketer
• Gooroodas Banerjee (1844–1918), aka Gurudas Bandyopadhyay, Bengali Indian High Court judge
• Gurudas Banerjee, actor
• Gopeshwar Banerjee (1880–1963), Indian classical singer and musicologist
• Haradhan Bandopadhyay (1926–2013) a Bengali Indian actor
• Ishwar Chandra Bandyopadhyay (1820–1891), Indian educator and social reformer
• Jenni Banerjee (born 1981), Finnish actress with Indian ancestry
• John Banerjee (1873–?), the second non-European bishop of the Church of India, Burma and Ceylon
• Kali Banerjee, actor
• Kali Charan Banerjee
• Kali S. Banerjee, mathematician
• Kalyan Banerjee (politician)
• Kalyan Banerjee (homoeopath)
• Kanika Bandyopadhyay (1924–2000), singer
• Kanu Banerjee (1905–1985), actor (Pather Panchali)
• Karuna Banerjee (1919–2001), actress (Pather Panchali)
• Krishna Mohan Banerjee
• Kaushik Banerjee, actor
• Kaustav Banerjee, American electrical engineer
• Kedareswar Banerjee, physicist
• Mamata Banerjee, politician and chief minister of West Bengal
• Manik Bandopadhyay, writer and novelist
• Mrinal Banerjee, politician
• Nikhil Banerjee, composer and musician
• Nyra Banerjee, Indian television actress and assistant director
• Paran Bandopadhyay, actor
• Pradip Kumar Banerjee, footballer, coach
• Prith Banerjee
• Pooja Banerjee, television actress
• Pratyusha Banerjee, television actress
• Puja Banerjee, film and television actress
• Pulak Bandyopadhyay, lyricist and songwriter
• Rachna Banerjee, Indian actress
• Raghab Bandyopadhyay, prose writer
• Rahul Banerjee, archer
• Rahul Banerjee, actor
• R. D. Banerji, discoverer of Mohenjo-daro, the principal site of the Indus Valley Civilisation
• Reba Bandyopadhyay (born 1972), American astronomer and science policy analyst
• Rina Banerjee
• Ruprekha Banerjee
• Satya Bandyopadhyay, actor
• Satya Banerjee, actor
• Samar Banerjee, footballer
• San Banarje, film director, producer, and photographer
• Sanjay Banerjee, Indian engineer
• Sara Banerji, writer
• Sarnath Banerjee, artist
• Sarvadaman D. Banerjee, actor and social worker
• Sarobindu Nath Banerjee, footballer
• Shakuntala Banerjee (born 1973), German journalist
• Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay
• Sid Banerjee, Indian-American pop singer, songwriter, and producer
• Steve Banerjee, arsonist, racketeer, and murderer
• Subhamita Banerjee, musician
• Subir Banerjee (born 1946), Indian actor
• Subir Kumar Banerjee (born 1939), Indian-American geophysicist
• Surendranath Banerjee, first Indian to qualify Indian Civil Service Examination
• Sushmita Banerjee, writer
• Sushovan Banerjee, physian and politician
• Subhankar Banerjee (musician)
• Subhankar Banerjee (photographer)
• Suvojit Banerjee, cricketer
• Syagnik Banerjee, scholar, author, and professor
• Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay, author, novelist
• Victor Banerjee, actor in Tollywood, Bollywood and Hollywood
• Vikram Banerjee
• Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee, first president of the Indian National Congress

See also

• Bandopadhyay, alternate transliteration