Bose is either a Bengali Kayastha surname (see Basu) or a name of European origin, sometimes as von Bose or Bosé.

Notables of Indian descent

A

• Abala 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

• Bipin Krishna Bose Barrister, first Vice Chancellor of Nagpur University (1923–1928)

C

• C. V. Ananda Bose, Governor of Bengal

F

• Fanindra Nath Bose (1888–1926), Bengal-born sculptor

G

• Girish Chandra Bose (1853–1939), Indian educator and botanist

H

• Hemendra Mohan Bose, entrepreneur

J

• Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858–1935), Bengali physicist, science fiction writer, and student of radio science

K

• Kamal Bose (1915–1995), Indian cinematographer
• Khudiram Bose (1889–1908), Indian freedom fighter

M

• Mihir Bose (born 1947), Indian-born British journalist, former BBC's sports editor

N

• N. S. Chandra Bose (1932–2010), medical doctor and politician
• Nandalal Bose (1883–1966), Indian painter

P

• Pratap Bose (born 1974), British-Indian automotive designer

R

• Rahul Bose (born 1967), Indian actor
• Raj Chandra Bose (1901–1987), Indian mathematician and statistician

• Rash Behari Bose (1886–1945), Indian freedom fighter

S

• 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
• Sugata Bose (born 1956), Harvard professor, Member of Parliament and grandnephew of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
• Swadesh Bose (1928–2009), Bangladeshi economist

U

• Uma Bose (1921–1942), 'The Nightingale of Bengal', musical prodigy

V

• Vivian Bose (1891–1983), judge of the Supreme Court of India

European origin

• Georg Matthias Bose, (1710-1761), Leipzig born professor of natural philosophy and electrostatics inventor
• Sterling Bose (1906–1959), American jazz trumpeter and cornetist
• Sudip Bose, American emergency physician

von Bose

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

• 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