Buddhadeb Bhattacharya
- Born on March 1, 1944 at Kolkata
- Passed out from Sailendra Sarkar Vidyalaya, Kolkata and B.A. Hons in Bengali from Presidency College, Kolkata
- Joined Party in 1966
- Secretary West Bengal State Committee of Democratic Youth Federation – June 1968
- Member, West Bengal State Committee, CPI(M) – 1971, Member Secretariat 1982
- Permanent Invitee to Central Committee – 1984
- Member Central Committee in 1985; Member Polit Bureau – 2000
- Minister West Bengal Cabinet as Minister of Information and Public Relations – 1977; minister of Information and Cultural Affairs etc. 1987; Minister of Home– 1996; Deputy Chief Minister – 1999; Chief Minister – 2000-2011
- Was an important functionary of the Vietnam Solidarity Committee in the late sixties.
- Translated famous poem of Le Duc Tho composed in 1975, just after the liberation of Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City); visited Vietnam on the occasion of the birth centenary of Ho Chi Minh; visited China in 1982 as companion of Promode Dasgupta.
- Married, one daughter.
- Currently member of the Polit Bureau of the CPI(M)