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Bose (surname)

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Bose is a surname. In Bengal the surname primarily belongs Bengali Kayastha as anglicized form of Basu.[1][2][3] Another European surname Bose, sometimes as von Bose or Bosé, stems from Germanic Boso, which means leader, nobleman or arrogant person.[4]

Notables of Indian descent

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A

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  • Abala Bose (Lady Bose) (1865–1951), Indian social worker
  • Amar Bose (1929–2013), MIT professor, founder and chairman of the Bose Corporation
  • Amit Bose (government official) Administrator of Federal Railroad Administration
  • Amit Bose (1930-2019), Indian filmmaker
  • Amit Bose (born circa 1972), American attorney and transportation policy advisor
  • Aniruddha Bose judge of Supreme Court of India since 2019
  • Ankiti Bose (born 1992), Indian entrepreneur who works on the digitisation of the textile and apparel industry
  • Ashish Bose (1930–2014), Demographer who coined BIMARU

B

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C

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F

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G

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H

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J

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  • Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858–1935), Bengali physicist, science fiction writer, and student of radio science

K

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M

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  • Mihir Bose (born 1947), Indian-born British journalist, former BBC's sports editor

N

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P

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  • Pratap Bose (born 1974), British-Indian automotive designer

R

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S

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U

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  • Uma Bose (1921–1942), 'The Nightingale of Bengal', musical prodigy

V

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  • Vivian Bose (1891–1983), judge of the Supreme Court of India

European origin

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von Bose

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von Bose is an unrelated German surname

Bosé

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  • Lucia Bosè (Italian spelling, born Lucia Borloni) or Lucía Bosé (Spanish spelling) (1931–2020), Italian actress
  • Miguel Bosé (born 1956), Spanish singer and son of Lucia Bosè

References

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  1. ^ Inden, Ronald B. (1976). Marriage and Rank in Bengali Culture: A History of Caste and Clan in Middle Period Bengal. University of California Press. pp. 55–56. ISBN 978-0-520-02569-1.
  2. ^ Hopkins, Thomas J. (1989). "The Social and Religious Background for Transmission of Gaudiya Vaisnavism to the West". In Bromley, David G.; Shinn, Larry D. (eds.). Krishna consciousness in the West. Bucknell University Press. pp. 35–36. ISBN 978-0-8387-5144-2.
  3. ^ Basu, Lokeshwar (1981). Amader Padobir Itihas (in Bengali). Kolkata: Ananda. p. 29.
  4. ^ Hanks, Patrick (2003-05-08). Dictionary of American Family Names: 3-Volume Set. Oxford University Press, USA. p. 201. ISBN 978-0-19-508137-4.

See also

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