Bose (surname)
Appearance
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
[edit]A
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Bipin Krishna Bose Barrister, first Vice Chancellor of Nagpur University (1923–1928)
C
[edit]- C. V. Ananda Bose, Governor of Bengal
F
[edit]- Fanindra Nath Bose (1888–1926), Bengal-born sculptor
G
[edit]- Girish Chandra Bose (1853–1939), Indian educator and botanist
H
[edit]- Hemendra Mohan Bose, entrepreneur
J
[edit]- Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858–1935), Bengali physicist, science fiction writer, and student of radio science
K
[edit]- Kamal Bose (1915–1995), Indian cinematographer
- Khudiram Bose (1889–1908), Indian freedom fighter
M
[edit]- Mihir Bose (born 1947), Indian-born British journalist, former BBC's sports editor
N
[edit]- N. S. Chandra Bose (1932–2010), medical doctor and politician
- Nandalal Bose (1883–1966), Indian painter
P
[edit]- Pratap Bose (born 1974), British-Indian automotive designer
R
[edit]- Rahul Bose (born 1967), Indian actor
- Raj Chandra Bose (1901–1987), Indian mathematician and statistician
- Rash Behari Bose (1886–1945), Indian freedom fighter
S
[edit]- Sachindra Prasad Bose (died 1941), designer of the Calcutta Flag
- Sahay Ram Bose (1888-1970), Indian botanist
- Sarat Chandra Bose (1889–1950), Indian lawyer and freedom fighter (brother of Subhas Chandra Bose)
- Sarmila Bose (born 1959), Indian journalist and researcher
- Satyendra Nath Bose (1894–1974), Indian physicist, known for the Bose–Einstein collaborations
- Shree Bose (born 1994), American scientist
- Soumya Sankar Bose (born 1990), Indian artist and photographer
- Subhas Chandra Bose (1897–1945), fighter of the Indian independence movement and personality of the Indian National Army
- Subhasish Bose (born 1995), Indian footballer
- Sudhindra Bose (1883–1946), pioneer in teaching Asian politics and civilization in the United States
- Sudip Bose, American emergency physician
- Sugata Bose (born 1956), Harvard professor, Member of Parliament and grandnephew of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
- Swadesh Bose (1928–2009), Bangladeshi economist
U
[edit]- Uma Bose (1921–1942), 'The Nightingale of Bengal', musical prodigy
V
[edit]- Vivian Bose (1891–1983), judge of the Supreme Court of India
European origin
[edit]- Georg Matthias Bose, (1710-1761), Leipzig born professor of natural philosophy and electrostatics inventor
- Sterling Bose (1906–1959), American jazz trumpeter and cornetist
von Bose
[edit]von Bose is an unrelated German surname
- Hans-Jürgen von Bose (born 1953), German composer
- Herbert von Bose (1893–1934), German civil servant
- Jobst-Hilmar von Bose (1897–1949), German soldier
- Julius von Bose (1809–1894), Prussian Army general
- Countess Louise von Bose (1813–1883), German philanthropist
Bosé
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Basu, Lokeshwar (1981). Amader Padobir Itihas (in Bengali). Kolkata: Ananda. p. 29.
- ^ 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.