Dasgupta
{{Short description|A Bengali surname}}
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{{Infobox Given name
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| pronunciation = {{IPA|bn|ˈdaʃɡupto|}}
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| region = Bengal
| language = Bengali
| variant = Gupta, Sengupta, Duttagupta, Kargupta, Debgupta
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Dasgupta (pronounced {{IPA|bn|ˈdaʃɡupto|}}) ({{langx|bn|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.{{Cite book |last=Hood |first=John W. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ymdi_yQzgYYC |title=Films of Buddhadeb Dasgupta |date=2005 |publisher=Orient Blackswan |isbn=978-81-250-2802-4 |pages=2 |language=en}}
Geographical distribution
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:[http://forebears.co.uk/surnames/dasgupta#surnames Dasgupta Surname Distribution]
- 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)
Notable people
=A=
- 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.
=B=
- Basudeb Dasgupta, Bengali novelist and short-story writer
- Benu Dasgupta, cricketer
- Bijon Dasgupta, Art Director
- Biplab Dasgupta, Marxist economist
- Birsa Dasgupta, film director
- Buddhadev Dasgupta (born 1933), an Indian classical maestro who plays the sarod
- Buddhadev Dasgupta, (born 1944) Indian film-maker
=C=
- Chandan Dasgupta, Indian theoretical physicist
- Chidananda Dasgupta (born 1921), filmmaker, film critic and historian
=D=
- Deep Dasgupta, cricketer
=G=
- Gurudas Dasgupta (born 1936), senior trade-union leader, Communist Party of India, and Member of Parliament
=H=
- Hem Chandra Dasgupta, geologist
=I=
- Indraadip Dasgupta, music composer
- Indrani Dasgupta, Indian Supermodel.
=J=
- Jahar Dasgupta, painter
- Jishu Dasgupta, Bengali actor
- Jnanendra Das Gupta, Indo-Swedish chemist
=K=
- 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
=M=
- Mahananda Dasgupta, experimental physicist
=N=
- Nairanjana Dasgupta, statistician
- Nilanjana Dasgupta, social psychologist
=P=
- Partha Dasgupta, economist
- Piyush Dasgupta, academic, political activist
- Poonam Dasgupta, actress
- Prabuddha Dasgupta, photographer
- Probal Dasgupta, linguist
- Prokar Dasgupta, urologist
- Purnendu Dasgupta, Indian-American academic
=R=
- Rabindra Kumar Das Gupta, scholar
- Rana Dasgupta, British-Indian writer
- Renuka Dasgupta, Bengali singer
- Roma Dasgupta (Suchitra Sen before marriage), Indian actress
- Rohit K. Dasgupta, Academic and Politician
=S=
- 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
=T=
- Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta, Indian physicist
=U=
- Uma Dasgupta, Indian actress
=Y=
- Yash Dasgupta, actor and model