- Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman-Founder of Bangladesh.
- Rabindranath Tagore– First Non-European novel laureate in literature.
- Kazi Nazrul Islam– National poet of Bangladesh.
- Sher-e-Bangla A.K. Fazlul Huq– First elected Prime Minister of Bengal.
- Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose– President of Indian National Congress.
- Begum Rokeya– Leading Bangladeshi Feminist writer.
- Jagadish Chandra Bose– Bengali physicist, biologist, and archaeologist.
- Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar– Bengali polymath writer.
- Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani– Political leader and scholar.
- Raja Ram Mohan Roy– Founder of the Brahmo Samaj movement.
- Sahid Titumir– Founder of Basher Kella.
- Lalon Shah– Bengali Baul saint.
- Satyajit Ray– Greatest Bengali filmmaker.
- Amartya Sen– Bangladeshi-born Indian economist and philosopher.
- Doctor Muhammad Shahidullah- Bengali educationist, writer and linguist.
- Swami Vivekananda– Indian Hindu monk.
- Atish Dipankar– ancient Buddhist scholar.
- Ziaur Rahman– Bangladeshi politician and military dictator.
- Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy– Bengali politician and statesman.
- All Language martyrs. Rafiq Uddin Ahmed, Abdus Salam, Abdul Jabbar and Abul Barkat.
