Chakraborty
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Chakraborty is a common surname
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...

 of Bengali
Bengali people
The Bengali people are an ethnic community native to the historic region of Bengal in South Asia. They speak Bengali , which is an Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian subcontinent, evolved from the Magadhi Prakrit and Sanskrit languages. In their native language, they are referred to as বাঙালী...

 and Assamese
Assamese people
The Assamese people are a well-defined subgroup of People of Assam. Though sometimes they are defined as the Assamese-speaking Indo-Aryans of the Brahmaputra valley,, this definition is not legally binding...

 Hindu
Hindu
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s in India
India
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 and Bangladesh
Bangladesh
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. People with the surname Chakraborty commonly belong to the Brahmin
Brahmin
Brahmin Brahman, Brahma and Brahmin.Brahman, Brahmin and Brahma have different meanings. Brahman refers to the Supreme Self...

 caste
Caste
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. It is spelled in various ways, including Chakraborti,Chakrabarti,Chakrabarty for East Indians and Chakravarty, Chakravarthy, Chakravarti, Chakravorti and Chakravorty for South Indians. It is an honorary title and many with it can be found to be not brahmins, although the name indicates the purest of Assamese and Bengali Brahmins. However, in Assam valley; people with this surname are always Brahmins (see, Assamese Brahmins
Assamese Brahmins
In Assam, out of many sects of Hindu people which include Brahmins , Kalitas, Ahoms amongst others; the Brahmin community is comparatively small. Brahmins are found everywhere in Assam and surrounding areas. However most predominantly in Jorhat, Nalbari, Barpeta, Goalpara and Darrang districts....

). They always use their traditional family name (surname) for the rituals like weddings and Upanayan.

In the past some practicioners of Tantra meditation would seat in a symbol called Tantra Chakra to perform their practices. As they would sit in this symbol they were given the respectable title of Chakravarty.

It is also a surname for Tamil, Telugu and Kannada Sri Vaishnavas.

In all of India, it is a given name, but largely found in use in Assam, Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh regions.

It is almost a euphemistic term for a local landlord to be called the "king of kings" as it means.
Some notable personalities with this surname are:

Chakraborty's

  • Dipesh Chakrabarty
    Dipesh Chakrabarty
    Dipesh Chakrabarty is a Bengali historian who has also made contributions to postcolonial theory and subaltern studies.He attended Presidency College of the University of Calcutta, where he received his undergraduate degree in physics. He also received a diploma in business management from the...

    , Indian historian
  • Saikat Chakraborty, Indian Engineer
  • Visvanatha Chakravarti
    Visvanatha Chakravarti
    Visvanatha Chakravarti Thakura was a Gaudiya Vaishnava acharya born in the village of Devagram within Nadia district, West Bengal, India. His parents were Radhi Sreni brahmanas. He also had two brothers named Rambhadra and Raghunatha....

     (1626–1708), Indian guru
  • Tulsi Chakrabarti
    Tulsi Chakrabarti
    Tulsi Chakrabarti was a virtuoso comic actor in Bengali cinema in 1940s and 1950s. His most notable role could be the lead role in Parash Pathar, directed by Satyajit Ray.-Childhood:Chakraborty was born on 3rd March, 1899 in the small village called Goari...

     (1899–1961), Indian comic actor
  • Thakur Anukulchandra
    Thakur Anukulchandra
    Sri Sri Thakur Anukulchandra the son of God was a guru, and founder of the Satsang ashram.-Biography:...

     (1888–1969), Indian guru
  • Byomkes Chakrabarti
    Byomkes Chakrabarti
    Dr. Byomkes Chakrabarti was a Bengali research worker on ethnic languages. He was also a renowned educationist and a poet. His major contribution to linguistics was in finding out some basic relationship between Santali and the Bengali language...

     (1923–1981), Indian linguist
  • Panchanan Chakraborty
    Panchanan Chakraborty
    Panchanan Chakravarti was a Bengali Indian revolutionary, one of the creators of the Revolt group after the momentary unification of the Anushilan Samiti and the Jugantar in the 1920s...

     (1900–1995), Indian revolutionary
  • Nripen Chakraborty (1905–2004), Indian politician
  • Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
    Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
    Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is an Indian literary critic, theorist and a University Professor at Columbia University. She is best known for the essay "Can the Subaltern Speak?", considered a founding text of postcolonialism, and for her translation of Jacques Derrida's Of Grammatology. She...

     (born 1942), Indian literary critic
  • Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty
    Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty
    Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty , Ph.D. is an Bengali American microbiologist, scientist, and researcher, most notable for his work in directed evolution and his role in developing a genetically engineered organism using plasmid transfer while working at GE....

     (born 1938), Indian microbiologist, party to the U.S. Supreme Court case Diamond v. Chakrabarty
    Diamond v. Chakrabarty
    Diamond v. Chakrabarty, , was a United States Supreme Court case dealing with whether genetically modified organisms can be patented.-Background:...

  • Mithun Chakraborty
    Mithun Chakraborty
    Mithun Chakraborty is an Indian film actor, social activist, and entrepreneur, who has won three National Film Awards. He made his acting debut with the arthouse drama Mrigaya , for which he won his first National Film Award for Best Actor....

     (born 1950), Indian actor, director and businessman
  • Ajoy Chakraborty
    Ajoy Chakraborty
    Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty is an Indian Hindustani classical vocalist. He belongs to the Patiala gharana.-Early life and background:Chakrabarty was born in Bengal to Ajit Chakrabarty in a Hindu Brahmin family. They moved to India from his homeland, Bangladesh during the partition and raised his two...

     (born 1953), Indian singer
  • Sandip Chakrabarti
    Sandip Chakrabarti
    Sandip Chakrabarti is a leading Indian astrophysicist. He developed a computer model to show how life on Earth could have originated in outer space.- References :...

     (born 1958), Indian astrophysicist
  • Sanket Chakraborty (born 1993), DJ also known as DJ Sanket (Kolkata)
  • Reeta Chakrabarti
    Reeta Chakrabarti
    Reeta Chakrabarti is currently education correspondent for BBC News.-Early life:Chakrabarti was born in London to an Indian Bengali family and was raised in Birmingham, also having spent time in India as a teenager as a student at the Calcutta International School in Kolkata...

     (born 1964), British television journalist
  • Shami Chakrabarti
    Shami Chakrabarti
    Shami Chakrabarti CBE , has been the director of Liberty, a British pressure group, since September 2003. Chakrabarti is the Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University.-Early life:...

     (born 1969), British barrister and civil liberties campaigner
  • Samrat Chakrabarti
    Samrat Chakrabarti
    Samrat Chakrabarti is a British-American actor and musician of Indian descent.-Early life:Born in London, England to immigrant parents from Kolkata, India, he performed in Indian community functions in Boston, Massachusetts, where he was exposed to music, poetry and the plays of Rabindranath...

     (born 1975), British actor and musician
  • Pritam Chakraborty, Indian composer
  • Sabyasachi Chakraborty
    Sabyasachi Chakraborty
    Sabyasachi Chakraborty is a Bengali Indian male actor of TV and films. Sabyasachi Chakraborty is one of the most talented and prolific actors of Bengal whose acting prowess is well known all over India.-Early life:...

    , Indian actor
  • Suma Chakrabarti
    Suma Chakrabarti
    Sir Suma Chakrabarti, KCB is Permanent Secretary at the UK's Ministry of Justice. He holds office as Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, and, as such, is responsible for the running of the Crown Office, under the directions of the Lord Chancellor.He was appointed on 15 November 2007...

    , British civil servant
  • Trailokyanath Chakravarty
    Trailokyanath Chakravarty
    Trailokyanath Chakravarty was an Indian revolutionary. He was born in Mymensingh in present-day Bangladesh. A leader of the Dhaka Anushilan Samiti, he was one of the chief accused in the Barisal Conspiracy Case of 1913, and was sentenced by the British and transported to the Andamans as a result....

     (1889-1970), Indian revolutionary.
  • Pramod Chakraborty, Hindi film director
  • Rajorshi Chakraborti
    Rajorshi Chakraborti
    right|thumb|160px|Rajorshi Chakraborti at the [[West Port Book Festival]]Rajorshi Chakraborti is an Indian novelist and academic. He was born in 1977 in Kolkata, and grew up there and in Mumbai. He attended the Lester B...

    , Indian writer in English
  • Dilip Chakraborty, Noted astrologer and paranormal researcher
  • Bibhas Chakraborty
    Bibhas Chakraborty
    Bibhas Chakraborty is a leading Bengali theatre personality. He is an actor, playwright, theatre director, and theatre organiser. He received Sangeet Natak Akademi award in 1989...

    , Theater personality


Some notable personalities with this given name are:
  • Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari
    C. Rajagopalachari
    Chakravarti Rajagopalachari , informally called Rajaji or C.R., was an Indian lawyer, independence activist, politician, writer and statesman. Rajagopalachari was the last Governor-General of India...

    , Indian freedom fighter and politician
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