Rameshwar Banerjee

Rameshwar Banerjee (; 8 February 1925 – 21 November 1945) was a revolutionary and martyr of the Indian independence movement. He participated in the Quit India Movement in 1942. left Picture of Rameshwar Banerjee in a local newspaper on 22 November 1945.

After his death, a two-mile-long procession was organized in the streets of Calcutta on 22 November. At least 25,000 students marched, and the whole city was shut down by Hartal. The students marching along gave the anti-colonial slogans of "Dilli chalo (March to Delhi), Lal-Kila tod do (Break down the Red Fort)", and then "Rameshwar Banerjee Zindabad". Although initially they were denied to march through Dalhousie Square (the seat of power of the Bengal Government at that time), they were ultimately successful in parading through there. The colonial government's police had fired on the unarmed youths several times - 13 students were killed and at least 125 were injured. Among the killed was educationist Jyotirmayee Gangopadhyay.

The Bengali poet Nirendranath Chakravarty wrote a poem eulogizing Rameshwar.

Birth Rameshwar Banerjee was born in Baghra of Dhaka. His father's name is Shailendramohan Bandopadhyay.