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Bandopadhyay or Banerjee (Bengali: বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায় (Bandōpādhyāẏa)) is a native Bengali surname. The surname is used by the Bengali Kulin Brahmin community of India and Bangladesh.

Notable people with the surname include

• Bappaditya Bandopadhyay (1970—2015), Indian director and poet
• Bhanu Bandopadhyay (1920–1983), Bengali film actor
• Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay (1894–1950), Bengali novelist and writer
• Haradhan Bandopadhyay (1926–2013), Indian Bengali male actor of television and films
• Manik Bandopadhyay (1908–1956), one of the founding fathers of modern Bengali fiction
• Padmavathy Bandopadhyay (born 1944), the first woman Air Marshal of the Indian Air Force
• Sailesh Kumar Bandopadhyay (born 1926), a Gandhian
• Sanjoy Bandopadhyay (born 1954), Bengali Hindustani classical sitar player
• Subhro Bandopadhyay (born 1978), Bengali poet
• Tarashankar Bandopadhyay (1898–1971), one of the leading Bengali novelists