The Most Famous
SOCIAL ACTIVISTS from Bangladesh
This page contains a list of the greatest Bangladeshi Social Activists. The pantheon dataset contains 538 Social Activists, 2 of which were born in Bangladesh. This makes Bangladesh the birth place of the 56th most number of Social Activists behind Latvia and Uruguay.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Bangladeshi Social Activists of all time. This list of famous Bangladeshi Social Activists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Surya Sen (1894 - 1934)
With an HPI of 51.42, Surya Sen is the most famous Bangladeshi Social Activist. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
Surya Sen, also known as Surya Kumar Sen (22 March 1894 – 12 January 1934), was an Indian revolutionary who was influential in the independence movement against British rule in India and is best known for leading the 1930 Chittagong armoury raid. Sen was a school teacher by profession and was popularly known as Master Da ("da" is an honorific suffix in Bengali language). He was influenced by the nationalist ideals in 1916 while he was a student of B.A. in Berhampore College (Now MES College). In 1918, he was selected as president of the Indian National Congress's Chittagong branch. Sen was known for recruiting a group of young and passionate revolutionaries known as the Chittagong group. The group included Ananta Singh, Ganesh Ghosh and Lokenath Bal, and fought against the British stationed in Chittagong. He was an active participant in the Non-co-operation movement and was later arrested and imprisoned for 2 years from 1926 to 1928 for his revolutionary activities. A brilliant and inspirational organiser, Sen was fond of saying "Humanism is a special virtue of a revolutionary." After the Chittagong raid in 1930 and a fierce battle where over 80 British Indian Army soldiers and 12 revolutionaries were killed, Sen and other surviving revolutionaries dispersed into small groups and hid in neighbouring villages, launching raids on government personnel and property. Sen was arrested on 16 February 1933, tried and was hanged on 12 January 1934. Many of his fellow revolutionaries were also caught and sentenced to long periods of imprisonment.
2. Bagha Jatin (1879 - 1915)
With an HPI of 46.93, Bagha Jatin is the 2nd most famous Bangladeshi Social Activist. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Bagha Jatin (lit. 'Tiger Jatin'; pronounced [ˈbaɡʰa ˈd͡ʒot̪in]) or Baghajatin, born Jatindranath Mukherjee (pronounced [ˈd͡ʒot̪ind̪roˌnatʰ ˈmukʰoˌpaddʰaj]); 7 December 1879 – 10 September 1915) was an Indian independence activist. He was one of the principal leaders of the Jugantar party that was the central association of revolutionary independence activists in Bengal.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as social activists born between 1879 and 1894. Of these 2, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased social activists include Surya Sen and Bagha Jatin. As of April 2022, 1 new social activists have been added to Pantheon including Surya Sen.
