Bhattacharya (surname)

The Bhattacharyas are Kanyakubja Brahmins and originally belonged to the Kanyakubja region of northern India.[2] They later migrated to eastern parts of the Indian subcontinent during the medieval period.[3]

The word is a combination of the Sanskrit titles Bhaṭṭa (meaning Vedic scholar ) and Ācārya (meaning teacher or preceptor) and means 'Vedic teacher'.

Notable people with the name include:

• A. Bhattacharya, Indian statistician who worked at the Indian Statistical Institute in the 1930s and early 40s
• Abhi Bhattacharya (1921−1993), Indian actor of Hindi and Bengali cinema
• Abhijeet Bhattacharya (born 1958), Indian playback singer and composer
• Abhinash Bhattacharya, leader in revolutionary movement for Indian independence
• Aditya Bhattacharya (born 1965), Indian film director and screenwriter, Raakh
• Amitabha Bhattacharya, Indian professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and an author of digital communication
• Amitabh Bhattacharya, Indian lyricist and playback singer who works in Bollywood
• Anirban Bhattacharya, Indian actor
• Anuradha Bhattacharyya (born 1975), Indian writer
• Arindam Bhattacharya, Indian politician, Member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly and President, West Bengal Youth Congress
• Arindam Bhattacharya, Indian footballer
• Arundhati Bhattacharya, Chairman, State Bank of India
• Asoke Kumar Bhattacharyya (1919−2016), Indian archaeologist
• Atanu Bhattacharya, Indian football goalkeeper coach
• B. B. Bhattacharya, Indian economist and educationist
• Basu Bhattacharya (1934−1997), Hindi film director
• Bhabani Bhattacharya (1906-1988), Indian writer, Indo-English literature
• Bibhu Bhattacharya (1944−2011), Indian male actor in Bengali cinema
• Bidhayak Bhattacharya (1907−1986), Indian playwright, litterateur and journalist
• Bijon Bhattacharya (1917−1978), Indian theatre and film personality
• Bikash Bhattacharya, Indian politician
• Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya (1924−1997), Indian novelist and modern Assamese littérateur
• Biswajit Bhattacharya, head coach of George Telegraph SC in the Calcutta Football League
• Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee (born 1944), Indian politician, member of the politburo of the Communist Party of India, Chief Minister of West Bengal (2000–2011)
• Chandril Bhattacharya, Indian singer
• Charu Chandra Bhattacharya (1883−1961), prominent science teacher and writer of various scientific articles mainly for children in Bangla
• Chittaprosad Bhattacharya, political artist of the mid-20th century
• Debashish Bhattacharya (born 1963), Indian classical musician who plays the lap slide guitar
• Deben Bhattacharya (1921−2001), Indian radio producer, record producer, ethnomusicologist, anthropologist, documentary filmmaker, photographer
• Devoleena Bhattacharjee, Indian television actress
• Dhananjay Bhattacharya, son of Surendranath Bhattacharya - Indian singer
• Dipankar Bhattacharya, Indian politician
• Durga Mohan Bhattacharyya, Indian scholar and professor of Sanskrit.
• Ganga Kishore Bhattacharya (died 1831), Indian journalist, teacher and reformer
• Gautam Bhattacharya, Indian sports journalist, sports editor of the Ananda Bazar Patrika
• Gopal Chandra Bhattacharya (1895−1981), Indian entomologist and naturalist
• Haridas Bhattacharya (1891−1956), Indian philosopher and educationist
• Hiren Bhattacharyya (1932-2012), Indian Assamese language poet
• Jaya Bhattacharya, Indian television actress
• Jogendra Nath Bhattacharya, pandit, one of a group of Hindu nationalists who held a benevolent view of the traditional role of caste in Indian society
• Kamalakanta Bhattacharya (1769–1821), Indian poet of the late 18th century
• Kanailal Bhattacharya, educationist, former minister of Commerce and Indrustries and food department, West Bengal
• Kanailal Bhattacharya, Indian nationalist
• Kankan Bhattacharyya, one of the scientists of modern non-linear laser spectroscopy
• Kedarnath Bhattacharya, first elected vice-chairman of Howrah Municipal Corporation
• Kumar Sanu/Kedarnath Bhattacharya (born 1957), Indian playback singer
• Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya (1875−1949), philosopher at Calcutta University
• Kumar Bhattacharyya, Baron Bhattacharyya, CBE (1940−2019), Indian-born British engineer, educator and government advisor
• Lilabati Bhattacharjee, mineralogist and former Director (Mineral Physics), Geological Survey of India
• Lokenath Bhattacharya (1927−2001), prolific Bangla writer who chose to remain in isolation
• Madhuri Bhattacharya, Indian actress and former model who has appeared in Kannada and Bollywood films
• Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya CIE (1836−1906), Indian scholar of Sanskrit, principal of the Sanskrit College for over 18 years
• Monoranjan Bhattacharya, Indian football international player and a club level coach and manager
• Nabarun Bhattacharya (1948−2014), Indian writer
• Nagendra Kumar Bhattacharyya (1888−1967), Commissioner of the Berhampore Municipality from 1932 to 1948
• Nalinidhar Bhattacharya (1921−2016), Indian Assamese language poet and literary critic
• Narendra Nath Bhattacharyya (1887−1954), an Indian revolutionary, radical activist and political theorist, known as M. N. Roy
• Nirmalendu Bhattacharya (died 2020), Indian politician
• Nivedita Bhattacharya, Indian actress
• P. C. Bhattacharya, the seventh Governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 1 March 1962 to 30 June 1967
• Panchanan Bhattacharya (1853−1919), chief disciple of Yogiraj Sri Shama Churun Lahiri Mahasaya
• Pannalal Bhattacharya, Indian singer
• Rinki Bhattacharya (born 1942), Indian writer, columnist and documentary filmmaker
• Ritwik Bhattacharya, junior squash player
• Sameer Bhattacharya, guitarist for Texas rock band Flyleaf
• Sanjiv Bhattacharya, British journalist, based in the US
• Santosh Bhattacharyya (1924−2011), Indian scholar, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calcutta
• Santosh Chandra Bhattacharyya, teacher of Dhaka University and an intellectual martyr in the Bangladesh Liberation War
• Sharmila Bhattacharya, the head of the Biomodel Performance and Behavior laboratory at NASA Ames Research Center
• Shoumo Bhattacharya, Indian medical doctor and academic
• Siva Brata Bhattacherjee (1921−2003), Professor of Physics and crystallographer, University of Calcutta
• Soumya Bhattacharya (born 1969), Indian journalist and author
• Subrata Bhattacharya, Indian football Defender who played for India in the 1984 Asian Cup
• Suchitra Bhattacharya (1950−2015), Indian novelist
• Sukanta Bhattacharya (1926−1947), Indian Bengali language poet and playwright
• Suma Bhattacharya, Indian model and film actress
• Sushil Bhattacharya (1924 - 2015), Indian footballer and veteran coach, first official coach of East Bengal Club, Indian Women's Football Team and Bengal Women's Football Team
• Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Indian politician
• Tarun Bhattacharya, Indian classical musician who plays the santoor, a type of hammered dulcimer
• Utpal Bhattacharya, finance professor at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business
• Vidyadhar Bhattacharya, chief architect and city planner of Jaipur
• Shishir Bhattacharja, Bangladeshi linguist and writer.