List of Kayasth

The following is a list of prominent people belonging to the Kayastha caste of India.

Statesmen
Dr. Rajendra Prasad- The first President of India.
Jayaprakash Narayan
Lal Bahadur Shastri

Politics
Jyoti Basu
Bal Thackeray
Yashwant Sinha
Biju Patnaik

Literature
Premchand
Mahadevi Varma
Harivansh Rai Bachchan
Bhagwati Charan Verma
Dhirendra Verma
Ramkumar Verma
Dharmavir Bharati
Bimal Mitra
Premendra Mitra
Jibananda Das
Buddhadeva Bose
Firaq Gorakhpuri
Phanishwar Nath 'Renu'
Nirad Chaudhuri
Amitav Ghosh
Kamleshwar

Science & technology
Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar
Jagadis Chandra Bose
Satyendra Nath Bose
Vinod Dham
Ashoka Jahnavi-Prasad
Ashesh Prosade Mitra
Sisir Kumar Mitra
Mriganka Sur

Art
Nandlal Bose
Jamini Roy

Films, television and music
Abhishek Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan
Anil Biswas
Debabrata Biswas
Gautam Ghose
Manna Dey
Motilal
Mukesh
Nutan
Ramanand Sagar
Raju Srivastava
Salil Chowdhury
Shatrughan Sinha
Shekhar Suman
Sombhu Mitra
Sonu Nigam
Tanuja
Utpal Dutta

Spirituality
Swami Vivekananda
Sri Aurobindo
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Paramhansa Yogananda
Prabhupada

Historians
Sir Jadunath Sarkar
Banarsi Prasad Saxena
Ashirwadi Lal Srivastava

Sports
Gopal Bose
Shib Sunder Das
Dipu Ghosh
Raman Ghosh
Subroto Guha
Ramesh Saxena former Cricket Test player

Freedom fighters
Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi
Bipin Chandra Pal
Subhash Chandra Bose
Khudiram Bose
Rash Behari Bose
Har Dayal
Barin Ghosh

Journalists
Tushar Kanti Ghosh
Chandan Mitra
Barkha Dutt

Administration
Shyam Saran (1970; IFS)