Famous People with Name Basu

Basu Bhattacharya            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Basu Bhattacharya: was a Hindi film director, most famous for his 1966 film Teesri Kasam, starring Raj Kapoor and Waheeda Rehman, based on the short story by Phanishwar Nath 'Renu', which won the National Film Award for Best Film in 1967, he also produced, Sparsh 1985 starring Shabana Azmi and Naseeruddin Shah, which won the Filmfare Best Movie Award.

Basu Chatterjee            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Basu Chatterjee: a noted Indian film director. His films are very similar to those of Hrishikesh Mukherjee. Like Mukherjee, he built his plots on middle-class lives. Some of his best films are Rajnigandha (1974), Dillagi, Chitchor, Choti Si Baat, Khatta Meetha, Ek Ruka Hua Faisla. He has directed many Bengali films. He has also directed the Detective Series for Doordarshan Byomkesh Bakshi.

Gérard Lifondja            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Gérard Lifondja: is a retired Congolese footballer who played as a midfielder. Lemba played for Zaire at the 1992 and 1994 Africa Cup of Nations, with both tournaments ending in quarterfinal exits.

Basudeb Acharia            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Basudeb Acharia: is an Indian politician and a leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) political party. His family originally hails from Tamil Nadu but has been settled in Bengal for a few generations. The son of late Kanai Lal Acharia and Smt. Konak Lata Acharia

Basudeb Barman            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Basudeb Barman: was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Mathurapur constituency of West Bengal and is a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) party. Mr. Barman completed M.Sc. (Tech) in Applied Chemistry at the University of Ca

Rajnarayan Basu            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Rajnarayan Basu: was a writer and intellectual of the Bengal Renaissance. He was born in Boral in 24 Parganas and studied at the Hare School and Hindu College, both premier institutions in Kolkata, Bengal at the time. A monotheist at heart, Rajnarayan Basu converted to Br

Debabrata Basu            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Debabrata Basu: was an Indian statistician, who specialised in the foundations of statistics. Basu’s theorem on the independence of a complete sufficient statistic and an ancillary statistic was given in a 1955 paper.

Samit Basu            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Samit Basu: the author of The Simoqin Prophecies, The Manticore's Secret and The Unwaba Revelations, the three parts of The GameWorld Trilogy, a fantasy trilogy published by Penguin Books, India. He currently lives and works in Delhi, India.The Simoqin Prophecies was written when Basu was 22 and published when he was 23, making him one of India's youngest authors. In 2003, Basu was in Outlook magazine's list of 16 Indian achievers under 25. He has contributed to The Harper Collins Anthology of New Indian Writing (2004). He has also written short stories for children, which appear in the Puffin Book of Bedtime stories (2005), the Puffin Book of Funny Stories (2005) and 'Seven Science Fiction Stories' (Scholastic India, 2006).

Bani Basu            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Bani Basu: a Bengali Indian author, essayist, critic and poet. She was educated at the well-known Scottish Church College and at the University of Calcutta.She began her career as a novelist with the publication of Janmabhoomi Matribhoomi. A prolific writer, her novels have been regularly published in Desh, the premier literary journal of Bengal. Her major works include Swet Pastharer Thaala (The Marble Salver) , Ekushe Paa (twenty One Steps) , Maitreya Jataka (published as The Birth of the Maitreya by Stree) , Gandharvi , Pancham Purush (The Fifth Man, or Fifth Generation?) and Ashtam Garbha (The Eighth Pregnancy).

Rajshekhar Basu            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Rajshekhar Basu: was a Bengali writer, chemist and lexicographer. He was chiefly known for his comic and satirical short stories, and is considered the greatest Bangla humorist of the twentieth century. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1956.Basu began his writing career in the 1920s. He adopted the pen name of Parashuram while writing humorous pieces for a monthly magazine. The name was not, apparently, an homage to the Parashurama of mythology. In fact, Basu simply borrowed the surname of someone at hand, the family goldsmith, Tarachand Parashuram. His first book of stories, Gaddalika, was published in 1924 and drew praise from such personalities as Rabindranath Tagore.