Dasgupta

Dasgupta (pronounced [ˈdaʃɡupto]) (Bengali: দাশগুপ্ত) is a common Bengali surname that is used by the Bengali Hindus of West Bengal, Assam, Tripura and Bangladesh. The surname is found among the members of the Baidya caste of Bengal.¹

As of 2014, 62.2% of all known bearers of the surname Dasgupta were residents of India and 28.9% were residents of Bangladesh. In India, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average in the following states and union territories:²

• 1. West Bengal (1: 2,387)
• 2. Tripura (1: 6,243)
• 3. Arunachal Pradesh (1: 15,711)
• 4. Delhi (1: 16,187)
• 5. Daman and Diu (1: 18,685)
• 6. Assam (1: 21,393)

• Aloke Dasgupta, sitar player
• Alokeranjan Dasgupta, Bengali poet
• Amiya Kumar Dasgupta, Indian economist
• Asim Dasgupta (also known as Dr. Asim Kumar Dasgupta), West Bengal Ex Finance and Excise Minister.

• Basudeb Dasgupta, Bengali novelist and short-story writer
• Benu Dasgupta, cricketer
• Bijon Dasgupta, Art Director
• Biplab Dasgupta, Marxist economist
• Birsa Dasgupta, film director
• Buddhadeb Dasgupta (1944–2021), Indian filmmaker and poet
• Buddhadev Das Gupta (1933–2018), Indian classical musician who played the sarod

• Chandan Dasgupta, Indian theoretical physicist
• Chidananda Dasgupta (born 1921), filmmaker, film critic and historian

• Deep Dasgupta, cricketer

• Gurudas Dasgupta (born 1936), senior trade-union leader, Communist Party of India, and Member of Parliament

• Hem Chandra Dasgupta, geologist

• Indraadip Dasgupta, music composer
• Indrani Dasgupta, Indian Supermodel.

• Jahar Dasgupta, painter
• Jishu Dasgupta, Bengali actor
• Jnanendra Das Gupta, Indo-Swedish chemist

• Kankar Shubra Dasgupta, scientist and academic
• Kamal Dasgupta, Bengali music director
• Khagendra Nath Dasgupta, Independence activist
• Kurchi Dasgupta, painter and writer
• Kinshuk Dasgupta, Scientist and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Awardee

• Mahananda Dasgupta, experimental physicist

• Nairanjana Dasgupta, statistician
• Nilanjana Dasgupta, social psychologist

• Partha Dasgupta, economist
• Piyush Dasgupta, academic, political activist
• Poonam Dasgupta, actress
• Prabuddha Dasgupta, photographer
• Pratim Dasgupta, film director
• Probal Dasgupta (1953–2026), linguist, Esperantist and academic administrator
• Prokar Dasgupta, urologist
• Purnendu Dasgupta, Indian-American academic

• Rabindra Kumar Das Gupta, scholar
• Rana Dasgupta, British-Indian writer
• Renuka Dasgupta, Bengali singer
• Roma Dasgupta (Suchitra Sen before marriage), Indian actress

• Sailen Dasgupta, politician
• Samit Dasgupta, mathematician
• Sanjoy Dasgupta, computer scientist
• Sayantani DasGupta, Indian-American physician
• Shamik Dasgupta, comic book writer
• Shamita Das Dasgupta, social activist
• Shashibhusan Dasgupta, Bengali scholar in philosophy, languages and literature
• Somnath Dasgupta, academic and geologist
• Sudhangshu Dasgupta, CPI(M) politician
• Sudhin Dasgupta, Bengali music director
• Surendranath Dasgupta, Sanskrit scholar and philosopher
• Sujaya Dasgupta, actress
• Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta, singer
• Swapan Dasgupta, Indian journalist, MP, Politician

• Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta, Indian physicist

• Uma Dasgupta, Indian actress

• Yash Dasgupta, actor and model