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| |group = Bengali Americans | |||
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| |population = 250,000 | |||
| |regions = ]<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=More Foreign-Born Immigrants Live In NYC Than There Are People In Chicago |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/19/new-york-city-immigrants_n_4475197.html |newspaper=Huffington Post |date=19 December 2013 |access-date=25 February 2015 |quote=Over 40 percent of the United States' Bengali population lives in New York City. }}</ref> | |||
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| '''Bengali Americans''' ({{lang-bn|মার্কিন বাঙ্গালী}}) are ] of Bengali ethnic, ] and ] heritage and ]. They trace their ancestry to the historic ethno-linguistic region of ] in ] (now divided between ] and ]). Bengali American usually refers to ], ], ], ], and ]. Bengali American are also a subgroup of ] and ]. Bengali Muslims are also classified under Bangladeshi Americans, or ]. | |||
| United States has the largest population of Bengali Hindus outside of Asia and second-largest population of ] outside of Asia after the ]. The highest concentration of Bengali Americans is in ], with ], ], ], ], ], and ] being other states with high concentration of Bengali Americans in that particular order.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://names.mongabay.com/languages/Bengali.html|title=Bengali speakers by state}}</ref> Almost half of the Bengali Hindus in the US are in California. California as a subnational division has the largest concentration of Bengali Hindus outside of Asia. New York City has the largest metropolitan Bengali population outside of India, Bangladesh, and ].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://qz.com/1151854/the-us-census-bureau-is-finally-tracking-tamil-punjabi-telugu-and-bengali-speakers/|title=Bengali speakers to be counted in US census}}</ref> Significant immigration of Bengalis to the United States started after 1965. | |||
| Bengali Americans may refer to- | |||
| * ], Americans of ]i descent of ] ancestry, and ]. Bengali Muslims are usually classified as Bangladeshi Americans and ]. | |||
| * Bengali ], Americans of ]n and ] descent whose ancestral origins are in ], ] or erstwhile ], ], ], ], ] region, ], the ], ], ], ], ], and other parts of India who are known as ]. ] Americans also come from ], ], ], ], ], ], and other parts of the world. | |||
| ==Notable people== | |||
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| ] (now Willis Tower), was designed by ]. It was the tallest building in the world for over two decades.]] | |||
| * ] – former Miss California; placed in the Top 10 of the 2011 Miss America pageant | |||
| * ] – ] winner | |||
| * ] – scientist and professor | |||
| * ] (d. 2011) – political scientist and professor | |||
| * Aditi Roy - NBC Philadelphia TV anchor and MSNBC correspondent | |||
| * ] – statistician and professor<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/01-02/banerjee.html|title=In Memoriam Kali S. Banerjee|publisher=|accessdate=17 March 2015}}</ref> | |||
| * ] – shooting survivor and activist | |||
| * ] – author and management consultant | |||
| * ] – George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor of Statistics, Ball State University | |||
| * ] – United States Congress in 2010, from Michigan's House of Representatives | |||
| * ] – interdisciplinary media artist | |||
| * ] – professor of mechanical engineering, ], and ] at the ] | |||
| * ] – inventor of the ] | |||
| * ] – chemist and jet fuels inventor | |||
| * ] – pioneer of modern structural engineering | |||
| * ] – founder of ], a nonprofit educational organisation | |||
| * ] – co-founder of YouTube; designed key parts of ] | |||
| * ] – electrical engineer<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.odu.edu/ao/news/index.php?todo=details&id=32201|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121214223455/http://www.odu.edu/ao/news/index.php?todo=details&id=32201|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 December 2012|title=News at Old Dominion University|publisher=|accessdate=17 March 2015}}</ref> | |||
| * ] – founder of ], was recognised by ] as one of America's Best Young Entrepreneurs. | |||
| * ] – yoga teacher | |||
| * ] – award-winning novelist<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aacr.org/home/scientists/travel-grants/minority-serving-institution-faculty-scholar-awards/past-msi-faculty-scholars/2010-minority-serving-institution-faculty-scholar-in-cancer-research.aspx |title=Archived copy |accessdate=11 December 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130712235305/http://www.aacr.org/home/scientists/travel-grants/minority-serving-institution-faculty-scholar-awards/past-msi-faculty-scholars/2010-minority-serving-institution-faculty-scholar-in-cancer-research.aspx |archivedate=12 July 2013 |df= }}</ref>{{failed verification|date=April 2019}} | |||
| * ] – designer and music video director | |||
| * ] – founder of Grameenphone, Bangladesh's largest mobile phone company; heads the Legatum Center at ] | |||
| * ] – entrepreneur; founded two of Bangladesh's key technology companies, CellBazaar and bKash | |||
| * ] – CEO of ] | |||
| * ] – tabla player, percussionist, and recording artist | |||
| * ] – conservative American political commentator; blogger at ''The American Scene''; associate editor of '']'' | |||
| * ] – singer; auteur of industrial band ] | |||
| * ] – space historian; assistant professor of history at ] | |||
| * ] – former US ambassador | |||
| * ] – singer | |||
| * ] – professor of history at ] | |||
| * ] – author, publisher, activist and outspoken member of the ] | |||
| * ] – Bangladeshi-Russian-American operatic soprano | |||
| *] - an ] ] and news anchor and ] recipient women. | |||
| * Sumit Som, famous cardiologist in NJ | |||
| ==References== | |||
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