Chatterjee

Chatterjee or Chattopadhyay is a Bengali family name, used primarily by Pancha-Gauda Brahmins in India, and associated with the Bengali Brahmin caste of one screen.[1] Chatterjee is an Anglicized variant of the Sanskritized Chattopadhyay.[2] Chattopadhyay (compound of village name "Chaṭṭa"[1] and "upādhyāya" denoting "priest, teacher"[1] originally granted with the village named Chaṭṭa) is the Sanskritized form of the local Prakrit word "chaturjye", anglicized to Chatterjee. English language spellings include Chatterjee, Chatterjea, Chatarji, Chatterji, Chaterjee, Chattopadhyay, and Chattopadhyaya.[3][4][5][6][7]

Lineage and ancestry

Chatterjees are from the Kashyapa Gotra, indicating their presumed descent from the ancient sage.[8]

Notable Chatterjees

• Abhishek Chatterjee – Bengali film and television actor
• Abir Chatterjee – actor
• Adhar Kumar Chatterji – former Chief of the Naval Staff of the Indian Navy (1966–1970)
• Amarendranath Chatterjee – freedom fighter
• Amitava Chattopadhyay – INSEAD professor of marketing and innovation
• Angana P. Chatterji – anthropologist, activist and feminist historian
• Anil Chatterjee – actor
• Anjan Chattopadhyay – sitar maestro
• Aroup Chatterjee – British Indian atheist, physician, author of Mother Teresa: The Untold Story
• Ashim Chatterjee – politician and activist
• Asima Chatterjee – Indian organic chemist and the second woman to be conferred a Doctorate of Science by an Indian university
• Atul Chandra Chatterjee - Indian diplomat and government official. Served as the Indian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 1925-1931.
• Bamacharan Chattopadhyay – ardent devotee of Maa Tara, also considered to be an avatar of Lord Shiva
• Bankim Chandra Chatterjee - Indian patriot, writer, poet and journalist and composer of Vande Mataram, the national song of India.
• Basu Chatterjee – film director
• Bhaswar Chatterjee – Indian actor
• Biswajit Chatterjee – Bollywood actor
• Debabarta Chatterjee - botanist
• Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya – author
• Debjani Chatterji – Indian-born British poet
• Dhritiman Chatterjee – actor
• Dhruva Chatterjee – writer and screenplay writer of Hindi movies
• Gadadhar Chattopadhyay - Sri Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansadeb, devotee of DakshinaKali and Priest of Dakshineswar Kali Temple.
• Gautam Chattopadhyay – musician
• Harindranath Chattopadhyay – poet, actor and brother of Sarojini Naidu
• Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee – Indian freedom fighter, activist and member of Rajya Sabha
• Joya Chatterji - Professor of South Asian history
• Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay – social reformer
• Kshetresa Chandra Chattopadhyaya – Sanskrit scholar
• Mirai Chatterji – Indian social worker
• Moushmi Chatterjee – Bollywood actress
• Neil Chatterjee – Current Chair of the United States Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
• Parambrata Chatterjee – actor
• Partha Chatterjee – scholar and author
• Piya Chattopadhyay – Canadian broadcaster
• Pratap Chatterjee – journalist and author
• Priyadarshini Chatterjee – Miss India World 2016
• Priyanshu Chatterjee – Bollywood actor
• Prosenjit Chatterjee – actor
• Pulok Chatterji – former bureaucrat and Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India (2011–2014)
• Purnendu Chatterjee – businessman, founder of TCG
• Ramakrishna Paramahamsa – born Gadadhar Chattopadhyay, a famous mystic of 19th-century India
• Ramananda Chatterjee — founder, editor, and owner of the Modern Review, He has been described as the father of Indian journalism.
• Sabitri Chatterjee – Indian Bengali female actress
• Sankar Chatterjee – paleontologist
• Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian Writer
• Sarojini Naidu née Chattopadhyay – freedom fighter, poet
• Saswata Chatterjee – actor
• Shakti Chattopadhyay – poet
• Shekhar Chatterjee – entrepreneur
• Shiba P. Chatterjee – professor, former president of International Geographical Union
• Somnath Chatterjee – eminent lawyer and former speaker of Lok Sabha
• Soumitra Chatterjee – actor
• Sourav Chatterjee – mathematician
• Sovan Chatterjee – current mayor of the city of Kolkata
• Srabanti Chatterjee – actress
• Subhendu Chatterjee – actor
• Sudeep Chatterjee – cinematographer
• Suman Chatterjee (now Kabir Suman) – musician
• Suniti Kumar Chatterji – Indian linguist, educationist and litterateur
• Swapan Chattopadhyay – director of the Cockcroft Institute
• Tannishtha Chatterjee – actress
• Upamanyu Chatterjee - author
• Utpal Chatterjee – cricketer
• Uttam Kumar (Arun Chatterjee) – actor
• Virendranath Chattopadhyaya – activist

See also

• Kulin Brahmins

References

1. Hanks, Patrick (2003-05-08). "Chatterjee". Dictionary of American Family Names: 3-Volume Set. Oxford University Press, USA. p. 320. ISBN 9780195081374.
2. Hanks, Patrick (2003-05-08). "Indian Family Names". Dictionary of American Family Names: 3-Volume Set. Oxford University Press, USA. pp. xcviii. ISBN 9780195081374.
3. Rodrigues, Hillary (2003). Ritual Worship of the Great Goddess: The Liturgy of the Durga Puja with Interpretations. SUNY Press. p. 320. ISBN 9780791488447.
4. Joshi, Priya (2002-04-24). In Another Country: Colonialism, Culture, and the English Novel in India. Columbia University Press. pp. 283. ISBN 9780231500906.
5. Institutions, International Federation of Library Associations and (2013-06-21). "Bengali". Names of Persons: National Usages for Entry in Catalogues. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. p. 21. ISBN 9783110974553.
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7. Chakraborty, Paulomi (2018-07-27). The Refugee Woman: Partition of Bengal, Gender, and the Political. Oxford University Press. p. 270. ISBN 9780199095391.
8. Roy, Tathagata (2014-06-25). The Life & Times of Shyama Prasad Mookerjee. Prabhat Prakashan. p. 13. ISBN 9789350488812.