Bose (surname) Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose_(surname)
Bose, Basu, Bosu, Boshu or Bosh (Bengali: বসু, romanized: Bôsu, Bengali pronunciation: [boʃu]) is a surname found amongst upper caste Kulin Kayastha of West Bengal, India. The traditional Bengali version is Bosu, which is sometimes written Basu, which is alternately spelled as Bose or Basu. It from Sanskrit वासु (Vāsu, a name of Viṣṇu meaning ‘dwelling in all beings’).[1]
History[edit]
Boses belong to Kayastha caste in Bengal. The Bengali Kayasthas evolved between the 5th/6th century AD and 11th/12th century AD, its component elements being putative Kshatriyas and mostly Brahmins, according to André Wink.[2] Boses are considered as Kulin Kayasthas of Gautam gotra, along with Ghoshes, Mitras and Guhas.[3]
Notables of Indian or Bengali descent[edit]
- Abala Bose (1865–1951), Indian social worker
- Amar Bose (1929–2013), MIT professor, founder and chairman of the Bose Corporation
- 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
- Benoy Basu (1908–1930), Indian revolutionary
- Buddhadeb Bosu (1908–1974), Bengali writer
- Fanindra Nath Bose (1888–1926), Bengal-born sculptor
- Girish Chandra Bose (1853–1939), Indian educator and botanist
- Jyoti Basu (1914–2010), Indian politician of the Communist Party (Marxist), 6th chief minister of West Bengal
- Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858–1935), Bengali physicist, science fiction writer, and student of radio science
- Kamal Bose (1915–1995), Indian cinematographer, winner of five Filmfare Awards
- Khudiram Bose (1889–1908), Indian freedom fighter
- Mankumari Basu (1863–1943), Bengali poet
- Mihir Bose (born 1947), Indian-born British journalist, former BBC's sports editor
- N. S. Chandra Bose (1932–2010), medical doctor and politician
- Nandalal Bose (1883–1966), Indian painter
- Pooja Bose (born 1987), Indian actress
- Pratap Bose (born 1974), British-Indian automotive designer
- Rahul Bose (born 1967), Indian actor
- Rajsekhar Bose (1880–1960), Bengali writer, chemist and lexicographer
- Raj Chandra Bose (1901–1987), Indian mathematician and statistician
- Rash Behari Bose (1886–1945), Indian freedom fighter
- Kaushik Basu (born 1952), Professor of Economics at Cornell and Chief Economist at World Bank
- Sarat Chandra Bose (1889–1950), Indian lawyer and freedom fighter (brother of Subhas Chandra Bose)
- Soumya Sankar Bose (born 1990), Indian Artist and Photographer
- Sarmila Bose (born 1959), Indian journalist and researcher
- Satyendra Nath Bose (1894–1974), Indian physicist, known for the Bose–Einstein collaborations
- Sachindra Prasad Bose (died 1941), designer of the Calcutta Flag
- Shree Bose (born 1994), American scientist, winner of the inaugural Google Science Fair
- Sudhindra Bose (1883–1946), pioneer in teaching Asian politics and civilization in the United States
- Swadesh Bose (1928–2009), Bangladeshi economist
- Sugata Bose (born 1956), Harvard professor, Member of Parliament and grandnephew of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
- Subhas Chandra Bose (1897–1945), fighter of the Indian independence movement and eminent personality of the Indian National Army
- Uma Bose (1921–1942), 'The Nightingale of Bengal', musical prodigy
- Vivian Bose (1891–1983), judge of the Supreme Court of India and one of the founders of scouting in India
Notable others[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 is an unrelated German surname
- Julius von Bose (1809–1894), Prussian Army general
- Countess Louise von Bose (1813–1883), German philanthropist
- Herbert von Bose (1893–1934), German civil servant
- Jobst-Hilmar von Bose (1897–1949), German soldier
- Hans-Jürgen von Bose (born 1953), German composer
Bosé is an unrelated European surname
- 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]
- ^ Dictionary of American Family Names. Oxford University Press. 2013.
- ^ Andre Wink (1991). Al-Hind, the Making of the Indo-Islamic World, Volume 1. Brill Academic Publishers. p. 269. ISBN 978-90-04-09509-0. Retrieved 3 September 2011.
- ^ 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. Retrieved 2011-10-31.
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