British people of Bengali descent

The list British people of Bengali descent includes Rhona Mitra, Dino Shafeek, Sameena Ali-Khan, Paul Bhattacharjee and Shami Chakrabarti. The list consists of 43 members and 2 sublists.

British people of Bangladeshi descent
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Rhona Mitra

British, Actress

Overview: Rhona Natasha Mitra (born 9 August 1976) is a British actress.

Date of birth: 9 August 1976

Age: 48

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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Models from the City of Westminster 13T

Actors from the City of Westminster 213T

Actors from Paddington 37T
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Carmen Plant

British, Dancer

Date of birth: 21 October 1968

Age: 56

Nationality: British

Occupation: Dancer

Gender: Female

Partner: Charlie Jones (Married)

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English producers 7T

21st-century British dancers 30T

20th-century British dancers 23T
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Maureen Plant

British, Nurse

Date of birth: 20 November 1948

Age: 76

Nationality: British

Occupation: Nurse

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)

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British women nurses 67T

Bengali diaspora 3T

English people of Bengali descent 35T
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Logan Plant

English, Business

Date of birth: 21 January 1979

Age: 46

Nationality: English

Occupation: Business

Gender: Male

Partner: Bridget Plant (Married)

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Inter Cardiff F.C. players 16T

British brewers 16T

Models (profession) 65T
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Shirley Wilson

British, Educator

Date of birth: October 1950

Age: 74

Nationality: British

Occupation: Educator

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

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20th-century British women educators 55T

Women educators 341T

English people of Bengali descent 35T
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Dino Shafeek

Actor

Overview: Dino Shafeek (born Gholam D. Shafeek, 21 March 1930 – 10 March 1984) was a Bangladeshi actor. Born and raised in Dacca, Bengal Province, he moved to the UK from East Pakistan in 1958 and appeared in several ...

Date of birth: 1929

Date of death: 10 March 1984

Age: 54 (age at death)

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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Bangladeshi Biharis 1T

Urdu-speaking Bangladeshi 4T

20th-century British comedians 383T
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Sameena Ali-Khan

English, TV Personality

Overview: Sameena Ali-Khan (born 30 December 1967) is a British media personality who is known as a television presenter, journalist and newsreader. She is also a published author.

Date of birth: 30 December 1967

Age: 57

Nationality: English

Occupation: TV Personality

Gender: Female

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British women television journalists 148T

ITV regional newsreaders and journalists 109T

British television newsreaders and news presenters 69T
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Anoushka Shankar

British-American musician (born 1981)

Overview: Anoushka Shankar (born 9 June 1981) is a British-American sitar player and music artist. She was the youngest and first woman to receive a British House of Commons Shield; she has had nine Grammy Awards ...

Date of birth: 9 June 1981

Age: 43

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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American classical musicians of Indian descent 3T

Films scored by Anoushka Shankar 15T

21st-century British women musicians 27T
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Karac Plant

British, Relative

Date of birth: 20 April 1972

Date of death: 26 July 1977

Age: 5 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Relative

Gender: Male

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Jhumpa Lahiri

American author

Overview: Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" Lahiri (born July 11, 1967) is an American author known for her short stories, novels and essays in English, and, more recently, in Italian.

Date of birth: 11 July 1967

Age: 57

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

Partner: Alberto Vourvoulias (Married)

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Boston University College of Arts and Sciences alumni 158T

American women non-fiction writers 2,184T

American short story writers of Indian descent 3T
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Rita Wolf

British-Indian actress

Overview: Rita Wolf (born Rita Ghose, 25 February 1960 in Calcutta, India) is a British-Indian actress and theatre producer, best known for her role as Tania in My Beautiful Laundrette (1985).

Date of birth: 25 February 1960

Age: 65

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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Women theatre managers and producers 88T

British actresses of Indian descent 54T

Actresses from Kolkata 134T
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Jesse Plant

British, Relative

Date of birth: 1991

Age: 33

Nationality: British

Occupation: Relative

Gender: Male

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English men 31T

English people of Bengali descent 35T

Robert Plant 19T
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Shami Chakrabarti

British politician (born 1969)

Overview: Sharmishta "Shami" Chakrabarti, Baroness Chakrabarti, CBE, PC (born 16 June 1969) is a British Labour Party politician, barrister, and human rights activist. She served as the Director of Liberty ...

Date of birth: 16 June 1969

Age: 55

Nationality: British

Occupation: Politician

Gender: Female

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Wikipedia articles with UKPARL identifiers 4T

Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers 247T

Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers 557T
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Paul Bhattacharjee

British actor

Overview: Gautam Paul Bhattacharjee (4 May 1960 – c. 10 July 2013) was a British actor who worked on stage, film and television.

Date of birth: 4 May 1960

Date of death: 9 July 2013

Age: 53 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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2013 suicides 73T

English male actors who committed suicide 32T

Suicides by jumping in England 21T
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Paul Sinha

British stand-up comedian

Overview: Supriya Kumar "Paul" Sinha (born 28 May 1970) is an English comedian, broadcaster and quiz player. He is one of the professional quizzers on the ITV game show The Chase.

Date of birth: 28 May 1970

Age: 54

Nationality: British

Occupation: Comedian

Gender: Male

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21st-century English comedians 249T

20th-century English comedians 250T

21st-century British comedians 223T
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Reeta Chakrabarti

British journalist and television presenter

Overview: 'Reeta Chakrabarti is a British journalist, newsreader and correspondent for BBC News. She is known for being the main relief presenter for BBC News at One, BBC News at Six, BBC News at Ten and BBC Weekend ...

Date of birth: 12 December 1964

Age: 60

Nationality: British

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Female

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English political pundits 20T

English people of Bengali descent 27T

People educated at King Edward VI High School for Girls, Birmingham 28T
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Robert Ashby

British actor (1940–2019)

Overview: Robert Bob Ashby was a British actor and writer who was the only son of former Prime Minister of Pakistan Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy. He was known for his role in film Jinnah.

Date of birth: 1940

Date of death: 7 February 2019

Age: 78 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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21st-century Bengalis 255T

20th-century Bengalis 427T

Urdu-speaking Bangladeshi 9T
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Sarah Mukherjee

British journalist

Overview: Sarah Mukherjee (born 1967, London) is a former BBC Environment Correspondent. She was educated at Loughton County High School in Essex, before attending St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she read Law ...

Date of birth: 1967

Age: 57

Nationality: British

Occupation: Journalist

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Alumni of St Hilda's College, Oxford 117T

Date of birth missing (living people) 2,589T

Alumni of the University of Westminster 225T
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Faisal Islam

British journalist

Overview: Faisal Islam (born 29 May 1977) is a British political and economics journalist who is serving as the economics editor of BBC News. He was the political editor of Sky News from 2014 to 2019, and from May ...

Date of birth: 29 May 1977

Age: 47

Nationality: British

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Male

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Journalists from Manchester 18T

Alumni of City University London 172T

English people of Bengali descent 27T
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Neil Taylor (footballer)

Footballer

Overview: Neil John Taylor (born 7 February 1989) is a Welsh professional footballer who plays as a left back for Premier League club Aston Villa and the Wales national team. A former Manchester City trainee, he ...

Date of birth: 7 February 1989

Age: 36

Nationality: British

Occupation: Football

Gender: Male

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Sportspeople from St Asaph 34T

British people of Anglo-Indian descent 14T

UEFA Euro 2016 players 552T