Medinipur division is one of the 5 divisions in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the westernmost division of West Bengal. Earlier it was a part of Burdwan division and was curved out from it in 2016. The port city of Haldia is located in this division.
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Districts
It consists of 5 districts:
Demographics
Hindus form the majority of the population of Medinipur division and comprises 82.3% of the population. There is a significant population of various tribes in this division such as Kudmi, Santhal, Munda, etc. Muslims comprises 9.1% of the population.
Notable people
Birendranath Sasmal, independence activist, barrister, freedom fighter and politician
Satish Chandra Samanta, freedom fighter, politician and principal leader of Tamralipta Jatiya Sarkar
Sushil Kumar Dhara, freedom fighter, politician & another leader of Tamralipta Jatiya Sarkar
Ajoy Mukherjee, freedom fighter, politician & former Chief Minister of West Bengal
Serajuddin Ahmad, MLA for Midnapore
Syed Shah Mehr Ali Alquadri Al Baghdadi (1808–1868), Sufi saint
Sheikh Siraj Ali, politician
Tamal Bandyopadhyay, Indian business journalist
Syed Shamsul Bari, politician
Rajnarayan Basu, writer and proponent of Young Bengal movement
Anirban Bhattacharya, actor in Tollywood movies
Khudiram Bose, one of the youngest martyrs of the Indian Independence Movement.
Soumya Sankar Bose, Photographer
Byomkes Chakrabarti, Linguist, writer and poet
Ramapada Chowdhury, Bengali author and editor
Souhardya De, orientalist and Bal Puraskar recipient
Mahasweta Devi, writer and Magsaysay Award winner
Nirmal Jibon Ghosh, revolutionary
Sheikh Najmul Haque, six-term legislator
Syed Moazzam Hossain, politician
Sheikh Humayun Kabir, state minister
Hemchandra Kanungo, an Indian nationalist and prime organiser of Anushilan Samiti
Sheikh Jahangir Karim, teacher and politician
Ghulam Faruque Khan, politician and businessman
Selima Khatun, teacher and politician
Abha Maiti, freedom fighter, former minister of West Bengal and Government of India
Moulana Muhammad Momtaz, Islamic scholar and politician
Mohiuddin Nawab, novelist, screenwriter and poet
Tawfique Nawaz, lawyer
Anath Bondhu Panja, freedom fighter, member of the Bengal Volunteers, martyred after successfully assassinating oppressive District magistrate Bernard E. J. Burge.
Narayan Chandra Rana, scientist
Suhrawardy family
Begum Badar un nissa Akhtar, social reformer
Khujista Akhtar Banu, writer and educationist
Abdullah Al-Mamun Suhrawardy, Islamic scholar, barrister and academic
Hasan Shaheed Suhrawardy, diplomat and poet
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Chief Minister of Bengal during British period, Prime Minister of Pakistan and founder of the Awami League
Ubaidullah Al Ubaidi Suhrawardy, Islamic scholar, educationist and author
Zahid Suhrawardy, jurist
Begum Akhtar Sulaiman, social worker and political activist
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, reformer and philanthropist, key figure of the Bengal Renaissance.
Zamindar family of Midnapore
Sir Abdur Rahim KCSI, President of India
Jalaludin Abdur Rahim, diplomat and political philosopher
Matangini Hazra, freedom fighter, martyr in Quit India Movement
Madhusudan Jana, doctor, journalist, teacher and social worker. Founder of Nihar Press
Basanta Kumar Das, freedom fighter, politician, member of the Constituent Assembly which helped to create the Constitution of India
Nikunja Behari Maiti, Independence activist, politician, first Education Minister of West Bengal
Anil Ghorai, poet, novelist and short story writer
Mani Lal Bhaumik, Indian American physicist and an internationally bestselling author, entrepreneur and philanthropist
Anil Kumar Gain, Indian statistician and Mathematician, founder of Vidyasagar University
Samit Bhanja, famous Indian actor
Abha Maiti, Indian politician and lawyer, minister of state for Industry in the Morarji Desai government
Ashok Dinda, Indian cricketer turned politician
Suryakant Tripathi, Indian poet, novelist, essayist and writer. One of the most significant poets of Hindi literature
Rai Sahib Bipin Bihari Sasmal, Zamindar, educationist and politician
Phulrenu Guha, educationist and politician
Biswanath Mukherjee, Indian politician and leader of Communist Party of India, one of the founder members of AISF
Paresh Maity, painter and Padma Shri and awardee 2014
Jadugopal Mukherjee, Indian politician and revolutionary, one of the leaders of Jugantar group
Somenath Maity, Indian artist famous for urban landscape paintings
Bhupal Chandra Panda, Indian revolutionary and politician
Biplab Roy Chowdhury, politician
Ashutosh Kuila, Indian revolution, freedom fighter, famously martyred during the Quit India Movement
Suvendu Adhikari, Politician, Chief Minister, West Bengal