







The Most Famous
Writers from Bangladesh
This page contains a list of the greatest Bangladeshi Writers. The pantheon dataset contains 7,302 Writers, 15 of which were born in Bangladesh. This makes Bangladesh the birth place of the 65th most number of Writers behind Lebanon and Morocco.
Top 10 Bangladeshi Writers
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Bangladeshi Writers of all time. This list of famous Bangladeshi Writers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of Bangladeshi Writers.
- #1

Sri Chinmoy
1931 - 2007
HPI 64.1536 langsIndian writer and guru
- #2

Mahasweta Devi
1926 - 2016
HPI 60.4438 langsIndian Bengali fiction writer and socio-political activist
- #3

Begum Rokeya
1880 - 1932
HPI 59.5237 langsBengali feminist writer and social reformerand establishing women rights in the Bengal during the British India.
- #4

Chittaranjan Das
1869 - 1925
HPI 58.9925 langsIndian politician, poet and author and leader of the Bengali Swaraj Party (1870-1925)
- #5

Taslima Nasrin
b. 1962
HPI 58.4854 langsPoet, columnist, novelist
- #6

Kamini Roy
1864 - 1933
HPI 57.1925 langsBritish India's first female graduate, Bengali poet, social activist and feminist writer
- #7

Humayun Ahmed
1948 - 2012
HPI 55.0117 langsauthor, poet, dramatist and film director (1948–2012)
- #8

Ahmed Sofa
1943 - 2001
HPI 54.3715 langsBangladeshi writer, thinker, novelist, poet, and public intellectual (1943–2001)
- #9

Sufia Kamal
1911 - 1999
HPI 54.3318 langsBangladeshi writer
- #10

Shankha Ghosh
1932 - 2021
HPI 54.2916 langsIndian poet (1932-2021)
People by Birth Decade
Browse notable Bangladeshi Writers grouped by birth decade. Each decade shows the top 10 by HPI; expand to see everyone.
1940s(2)
1930s(2)
1920s(1)
1910s(1)
1880s(1)
1860s(2)
Overlapping Lives
Which Writers were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 10 most globally memorable Writers since 1700.





