Bhattacharya (surname)
Bhattacharya, Bhattacharyya, and Bhattacharjee are three common spellings of a Bengali Brahmin and Assamese Brahmin surname, Bhoṭṭacarjo. In Bengal, Bhattacharjees, together with Banerjees, Chatterjees, Gangulys and Mukherjees, form the Kulin Brahmins.
Notables
- A. Bhattacharya, Indian statistician who worked at the Indian Statistical Institute in the 1930s and early 40s
- Abhi Bhattacharya, Indian actor of Hindi and Bengali cinema
- Abhijeet Bhattacharya, Indian playback singer and composer
- Abhinash Bhattacharya, leader in revolutionary movement for Indian independence
- Aditya Bhattacharya, Indian film director and screenwriter, Raakh
- Ajay Bhattacharya, Bengali communist revolutionary and anti-colonial activist
- 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
- Arindam Bhattacharya, Indian politician, Member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly and President, West Bengal Youth Congress
- Arindam Bhattacharya, Indian footballer
- Arundhati Bhattacharya, Indian banker
- Asoke Kumar Bhattacharyya, Indian archaeologist
- Atanu Bhattacharya, Indian football goalkeeper coach
- B. B. Bhattacharya, Indian economist and educationist
- Basu Bhattacharya, Indian film director
- Bhabani Bhattacharya, Indian writer, Indo-English literature
- Bibhu Bhattacharya, Indian male actor in Bengali cinema
- Bidhayak Bhattacharya, Indian playwright, litterateur and journalist
- Bijon Bhattacharya, Indian theatre and film personality
- Bikash Bhattacharya, Indian politician
- Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya, Indian novelist and modern Assamese littérateur
- Biswajit Bhattacharya, Indian footballer, manager, and head coach on many prominent Indian domestic league teams
- Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, Indian politician, member of the politburo of the Communist Party of India, Chief Minister of West Bengal
- Chandril Bhattacharya, Indian singer
- Charu Chandra Bhattacharya, prominent Indian science teacher and writer of various scientific articles mainly for children in Bangla
- Chitra Bhattacharya, Bangladeshi politician from the Awami League and member of parliament
- Chittaprosad Bhattacharya, Indian political artist of the mid-20th century
- Debashish Bhattacharya, Indian classical musician who plays the lap slide guitar
- Debapriya Bhattacharya, Bangladeshi economist and public policy analyst
- Deben Bhattacharya, Indian radio producer, record producer, ethnomusicologist, anthropologist, documentary filmmaker, photographer
- Debesh Bhattacharya, Bangladeshi jurist and judge
- Devoleena Bhattacharjee, Indian television actress
- Dhananjay Bhattacharya, Indian singer
- Dipankar Bhattacharya, Indian politician
- Durga Mohan Bhattacharyya, Indian scholar and professor of Sanskrit.
- Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya, celebrated Indian political scientist.
- Ganga Kishore Bhattacharya, Indian journalist, teacher and reformer
- Gautam Bhattacharya, Indian sports journalist, sports editor of the Ananda Bazar Patrika
- Gopal Chandra Bhattacharya, Indian entomologist and naturalist
- Haridas Bhattacharya, Indian philosopher and educationist
- Hiren Bhattacharyya, Indian Assamese language poet
- Jaya Bhattacharya, Indian television actress
- Jay Bhattacharya, Indian professor of medicine, economics, and health research policy
- Jogendra Nath Bhattacharya, Indian pandit and one of a group of Hindu nationalists who held a benevolent view of the traditional role of caste in Indian society
- Kamalakanta Bhattacharya, Indian poet of the late 18th century
- Kanailal Bhattacharya, Indian educationist, former minister of Commerce and Industries and food department, West Bengal
- Kanailal Bhattacharya, Indian nationalist
- Kankan Bhattacharyya, Indian scientist prominent for work on modern non-linear laser spectroscopy
- Kedarnath Bhattacharya, Indian municipal leader, first elected vice-chairman of Howrah Municipal Corporation
- Kumar Sanu/Kedarnath Bhattacharya, Indian playback singer
- Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya, Indian philosopher
- Kumar Bhattacharyya, Baron Bhattacharyya, CBE, British Indian engineer, educator and government advisor
- Lilabati Bhattacharjee, Indian mineralogist and former Director, Geological Survey of India
- Lokenath Bhattacharya, prolific Indo-French writer and philosopher
- Madhuri Bhattacharya, Indian actress and former model who has appeared in Kannada and Bollywood films
- Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya CIE, 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, Indian writer
- Nagendra Kumar Bhattacharyya, Indian politician, Commissioner of the Berhampore Municipality from 1932 to 1948
- Nalinidhar Bhattacharya, Indian Assamese language poet and literary critic
- Narendra Nath Bhattacharyya, Indian revolutionary, radical activist and political theorist, known as M. N. Roy
- Nirmalendu Bhattacharya, Indian politician
- Nivedita Bhattacharya, Indian actress
- P. C. Bhattacharya, Indian central banker, seventh Governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 1 March 1962 to 30 June 1967
- Panchanan Bhattacharya, Indian yogi and chief disciple of Yogiraj Sri Shama Churun Lahiri Mahasaya
- Pannalal Bhattacharya, Indian singer
- Rinki Bhattacharya, Indian writer, columnist and documentary filmmaker
- Ritwik Bhattacharya, Indian squash player
- Sameer Bhattacharya, Indian American guitarist for Texas rock band Flyleaf
- Sanjiv Bhattacharya, British Indian journalist based in the US
- Santanu Bhattacharya, Indian scientist, Director of the IISER Tirupati, former professor, IISc Bangalore and former Director, IACS Kolkata.
- Santosh Bhattacharyya, Indian scholar, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calcutta
- Santosh Chandra Bhattacharyya, Bangladeshi professor at Dhaka University and an intellectual martyr in the Bangladesh Liberation War
- Sharmila Bhattacharya, Indian American head of the Biomodel Performance and Behavior laboratory at NASA Ames Research Center
- Shoumo Bhattacharya, Indian medical doctor and academic
- Siva Brata Bhattacherjee, Indian Professor of physics and crystallographer, University of Calcutta
- Sonali Bhattacharyya, British playwright
- Soumya Bhattacharya, Indian journalist and author
- Subrata Bhattacharya, Indian football Defender who played for India in the 1984 Asian Cup
- Suchitra Bhattacharya, Indian novelist
- Sukanta Bhattacharya, Indian language poet and playwright
- Suma Bhattacharya, Indian model and film actress
- Sushil Bhattacharya, 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, Indian American finance professor at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business
- Vidyadhar Bhattacharya, Indian architect, chief city planner of Jaipur
- Shishir Bhattacharja, Bangladeshi linguist and writer