Chakraborty
Chakraborty is a surname used by Bengali Hindus and Assamese Hindus of India and Bangladesh, as well as by some communities of southern India. It literally means 'wheels rolling'; metaphorically it denotes a ruler whose chariot wheels roll everywhere without obstruction. The surname is mainly used by people of the Bengali Brahmin and Assamese Brahmin communities in the states of West Bengal, Tripura and Assam. The surname is also used by the Jains of southern India.
Notable persons with this surname
Male
- Abani Chakravarty, Indian Assamese poet
- Ajay Chakraborty, Indian politician
- Ajoy Chakrabarty, Indian singer
- Akinchan Chakrabarty, Bengali poet
- Amal Chakraborty, Indian paediatric surgeon
- Ambika Chakrabarty, Indian Bengali independence movement activist and revolutionary
- Amiya Chakravarty, literary critic, academic, and Bengali poet
- Amiya Chakravarty , Indian film director, screenwriter and producer
- Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty, Indian microbiologist, party to the U.S. Supreme Court case Diamond v. Chakrabarty
- Animesh Chakravorty, Indian chemist
- Aravinda Chakravarti, Indian geneticist
- Arindam Chakrabarti, Indian philosopher working in Hawaii
- Arjun Chakrabarty, Indian actor
- Arnab Chakrabarty, Indian musician and Sarod player
- Arup Chakraborty, American engineer
- Bicky Chakraborty, Swedish hotel mogul
- Bikas K Chakrabarti, Indian physicist
- Birendra Narayan Chakraborty, Indian politician
- Bonnie Chakraborty, Bengali singer
- Byomkes Chakrabarti, Indian linguist
- Chiranjeet Chakraborty, Indian Bengali film actor
- Dhirendra Kishore Chakravarti, Indian geologist and palaeontologist
- Dilip Kumar Chakrabarti, Indian archaeologist
- Dipesh Chakrabarty, Indian historian
- Gaurav Chakrabarty, Indian actor
- George Chakravarthi, British-Indian artist
- Ghanaram Chakrabarty, Bengali poet
- Haranath Chakraborty, Indian Bengali film director
- J. D. Chakravarthy, Indian film actor and director in Telugu cinema and Bollywood
- Janardan Chakravarti, Indian professor of Bengali
- K. Chakravarthy, music director in the South Indian film industry
- Keshab Chakravarthy, Indian revolutionary
- Khelaram Chakrabarty, Bengali poet
- Kshitindra Mohan Chakravarty, Indian chemist, fuel technician and teacher
- Kushal Chakraborty, Bengali actor and film director
- M. C. Chakrabarti, Indian statistician
- Mahaakshay Chakraborty, Indian actor
- Manoj Chakraborty, Indian politician
- Mithun Chakraborty, Indian actor, director and businessman
- Nachiketa Chakraborty, Indian Bengali singer-songwriter
- Nirendranath Chakravarty, Bengali poet
- Nripen Chakraborty, Indian politician
- Oliphant Chuckerbutty, English composer and organist of Anglo-Indian descent
- Panchanan Chakraborty, Indian revolutionary
- Phani Bhusan Chakravartti, first Indian Bengali permanent Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court
- Pramod Chakravorty, Indian film director and producer
- Praveen Chakravarty, Indian businessman
- Pritam Chakraborty, Indian Bengali music director and composer
- Pritish Chakraborty, Indian film actor, director, writer, producer, singer in Bollywood
- Rahi Chakraborty, Indian singer, songwriter, programmer and guitarist
- Raj Chakraborty, Indian Bengali film director
- Rajorshi Chakraborti, Indian writer in English
- Ranajit Chakraborty, Indian geneticist
- Ritwick Chakraborty, Indian film actor
- Rupram Chakrabarty, Bengali poet
- S. S. Chakravarthy, Indian Tamil film producer
- Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, Indian Bengali TV and film actor
- Saikat Chakrabarti, American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and political activist
- Samiran Chandra Chakrabarti, Indian Indologist and scholar of onomastics & Vedic studies
- Samrat Chakrabarti, British-American actor and musician
- Sandip Chakrabarti, Indian astrophysicist
- Sankar Chakraborti, Indian business leader
- Shibram Chakraborty, Bengali writer, humorist and revolutionary
- Shibu Chakravarthy, Indian lyricist, screenplay and script writer who mainly works in Malayalam cinema
- Shyam Sundar Chakravarthy, Bengali revolutionary, independence activist and journalist
- Snehasish Chakraborty, Indian footballer
- Soham Chakraborty, Indian actor, producer, and politician
- Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty, one of the earliest Indians to practice modern medicine
- Souvik Chakraborty, Indian footballer
- Subhas Chakraborty, Indian politician, transport minister of West Bengal
- Sugato Chakravarty, Indian marketing academic
- Sujan Chakraborty, Indian politician
- Sujit Chakraborty West Bengal politician from Barjora
- Suma Chakrabarti, British civil servant, President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
- Sumon K Chakrabarti, Indian journalist
- Supriyo Chakraborty,, Indian cricketer
- Swadesh Chakraborty, Indian politician
- Swapan Kumar Chakravorty, Director General of the National Library of India, Kolkata
- Trailokyanath Chakravarty, British Indian revolutionary, East Pakistani politician
- Tulsi Chakraborty, Indian comic actor
- Utpalendu Chakrabarty, Indian film director
- Varun Chakravarthy, Indian cricketer
- Vijay C Chakravarthy, Indian cinematographer
- Vinu Chakravarthy, Tamil actor, scriptwriter and director
- Visvanatha Chakravarti, Bengali guru
Female
- Bijoya Chakravarty, Indian politician from Assam
- Dia Chakravarty, Bangladeshi-born British political activist and singer
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Indian literary critic
- Ipsita Roy Chakraverti, Indian Wiccan priestess
- Jaya Chakrabarti, British public figure and scientist
- Kaushiki Chakrabarty, Indian classical vocalist
- Lolita Chakrabarti, British actor and writer
- Megha Chakraborty, Indian actress
- Meghna Chakrabarti, American radio personality
- Mimi Chakraborty, Bengali film actress, singer and a Member of Parliament
- Reeta Chakrabarti, British television journalist
- Rhea Chakraborty, Indian video jockey and actress
- Ritabhari Chakraborty, Indian Bengali film actor
- Rushmi Chakravarthi, Indian tennis player
- S. A. Chakraborty, American fantasy novelist
- Shami Chakrabarti, British member of the House of Lords, barrister and civil liberties campaigner
- Sharmila Chakraborty, Indian cricketer
- Sumona Chakravarti, Bollywood actress and celebrity
- Uthpala Chakraborty, Indian cricketer