28 Notable alumni of
Rajshahi University
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Rajshahi University is 1787th in the world, 413th in Asia, and 3rd in Bangladesh by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 28 notable alumni from Rajshahi University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Mohammad Shahabuddin
- Occupations
- judgepoliticiancivil servant
- Biography
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Mohammed Shahabuddin, natively known as Chuppu, is a Bangladeshi jurist, civil servant and politician who has served as the 16th and current president of Bangladesh since 2023. He was elected unopposed in the 2023 presidential election as the nominee of the ruling Awami League. Prior to his presidency, Shahabuddin served as a district and sessions judge and a commissioner of the Anti-Corruption Commission from 2011 to 2016.
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Riaz
- Occupations
- modelfilm produceractor
- Biography
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Riaz Uddin Ahamed Siddique, popularly known as Riaz, is a Bangladeshi film actor, producer, and television presenter who has appeared in more than 100 Bengali films in genres ranging from romance to action to comedies. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including three National Film Awards and seven Meril Prothom Alo Awards. He portrayed the famous literary character, Shuvro, created by Humayun Ahmed, in Daruchini Dip.
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Andrew Kishore
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- singer
- Biography
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Andrew Kishore Kumar Baroi was a Bangladeshi playback singer. He is considered the "Playback King" of Bangladesh for his contributions to the golden era of dhaliwood. He worked in more than a 100 films, where he was the lead playback singer in more than 15 thousand songs. He also judged in a popular reality TV show called Bangladeshi Idol.
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Annisul Huq
- Occupations
- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Annisul Huq was a Bangladeshi entrepreneur, television show host and the mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation.
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Selina Hossain
- Occupations
- author
- Biography
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Selina Hossain is a Bangladeshi novelist. Her major works include Hangor Nodi Grenade (1976) and Poka Makorer Ghor Boshoti (1996). She earned all major national awards – Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1980, Ekushey Padak in 2009 and Independence Day Award in 2018. Her novels and short stories have been translated into English, Russian, French, Japanese, Korean, Finnish and Malay. She served as the chairperson of Bangladesh Shishu Academy from 2014 until 2018. Selina served as the president of the Bangla Academy from 3 February 2022 until her resignation on 17 October 2024.
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Muhammad Habibur Rahman
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- politicianjudge
- Biography
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Muhammad Habibur Rahman was a Chief Justice of Bangladesh Supreme Court in 1995. He was the Chief Adviser of the 1996 caretaker government which oversaw the Seventh parliamentary elections in Bangladesh. He was a faculty member at the Department of Law, University of Rajshahi and University of Dhaka. Besides, being a language activist, advocate of the Bengali language, he wrote extensively and published eight books on the subject. He played a significant role to implement Bengali in the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. He wrote Jathashabdo (1974), the first thesaurus in the Bengali language.
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Hossain Toufique Imam
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- 1939-2021 (aged 82)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Hossain Toufique Imam was a Bangladesh Awami League politician and political advisor to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh. His rank was equivalent to a cabinet minister.
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Al-Amin Hossain
- Occupations
- cricketer
- Biography
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Al-Amin Hossain is a Bangladeshi international cricketer. He made his international debut for the Bangladesh cricket team in February 2014
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Harunur Rashid
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Harunur Rashid is a politician of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and was the Jatiya Sangsad member for the Chapai Nawabganj-3 constituency from 2019 to 2022.
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Arun Kumar Basak
- Occupations
- nuclear physicisttheoretical physicist
- Biography
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Arun Kumar Basak FInstP CPhys is a Bangladeshi physicist. He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Physics, University of Rajshahi.
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Giasuddin Selim
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Bangladesh - Occupations
- film directorplaywright
- Biography
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Giasuddin Selim is a Bangladeshi film director and screenwriter. He is best known for directing Monpura and Swapnajaal (2018). He won Bangladesh National Film Award twice: Best Story for the film Adhiar (2003) in 2003 and Best Screenplay for Monpura in 2008. His recent film is Kajolrekha (2024).
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Mahadev Saha
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- 1944-.. (age 81)
- Occupations
- poet
- Biography
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Mahadev Saha is a Bangladeshi poet. He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 2001 and Independence Day Award in 2021 by the government of Bangladesh.
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Abu Hena Rony
- Years
- 1987-.. (age 38)
- Occupations
- film actor
- Biography
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Abu Hena Rony is a Bangladeshi stand-up comedian, actor, presenter and model. In 2011, he participated and won the Zee Bangla comedy show Mirakkel season 6 jointly with Vicky and Partha.
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Saifuzzaman Shikhor
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- 1971-.. (age 54)
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Md. Shifuzzaman Shikhor is a Bangladeshi politician who is the former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Magura-1 constituency. He is connected to the politics of Bangladesh Awami League. His father was Mohammad Asaduzzaman, an MP of Magura-2 constituency and his sister Kamrul Laila Jolly was also an MP.
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Tariqul Islam
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- politician
- Biography
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Tariqul Islam was a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician. He served as the cabinet minister of Ministry of Food, Ministry of Information and Ministry of Environment and Forest in the second Khaleda Zia cabinet. He represented the Jessore-3 constituency in the 6th and 8th Jatiya Sangsad.
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Abul Asad
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Abul Asad is a Bangladeshi writer and journalist. He was the editor of one of the oldest national dailies in Bangladesh, The Daily Sangram. He is admired by Muslim youth of Bangladesh for his thriller series, Saimum Series. He is also known as an Islamic thinker and intellectual in Bangladesh.
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Abu Sayeed
- Occupations
- academicpolitician
- Biography
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Abu Sayeed is a politician from Pabna district of Bangladesh, an organizer of the War of Liberation, and a former minister of state for information who was a member of parliament for the then Pabna 8 and Pabna-1 constituencies.
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Masum Reza
- Born in
- Bangladesh
- Occupations
- screenwriter
- Biography
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Masum Reza is a Bangladeshi playwright, television drama and stage play director. He is best known for writing the screenplay of the television drama serial Ronger Manush. In 2016, he won Bangla Academy Literary Award in the drama category. He wrote screenplay for films including Meghla Akash (2002), Molla Barir Bou (2005), Bapjaner Bioscope (2015) and Hason Raja (2017). In 2010, he published two novels.
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Jatin Sarker
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Jatin Sarker is a Bengali intellectual, researcher and biographer of Bangladesh. He was awarded the Bangla Academy Literary Award in 2008 for research and essays and Independence Day Award in 2010 for education. As of September 2021, he has published 35 books.
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Khan Sarwar Murshid
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- diplomatauthoracademic
- Biography
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Khan Sarwar Murshid was a Bangladeshi educationist, diplomat and intellectual.
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Asadul Habib Dulu
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- 1957-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Asadul Habib Dulu is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former member of parliament from Lalmonirhat Sadar. He was a deputy minister of food and disaster management during 2001 to 2006.
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Malay Bhowmick
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- writer
- Biography
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Malay Bhowmick is a Bangladeshi playwright, actor, director, and educationist.
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Shaikh Abdus Salam
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- writeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Shaikh Abdus Salam is a Bangladeshi academic, writer sports organizer and professor. He was the 13th vice chancellor of the Islamic University serving during 2020–2024. He was a professor of University of Dhaka.
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M. Sayeedur Rahman Khan
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- diplomat
- Biography
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M. Sayeedur Rahman Khan is a prominent academic and diplomat from Bangladesh. He is the former High Commissioner of Bangladesh to the UK. and the vice-chancellor of University of Rajshahi
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Muhammad Mizanuddin
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Muhammad Mizanuddin is a Bangladeshi academic. He served as the 22nd Vice-chancellor of Rajshahi University since March 20, 2013.
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Enamul Huq
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- 1938-.. (age 87)
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Enamul Huq served as the Inspector General of Police of Bangladesh Police, and a member of the Law Commission from 2004 to 2007.
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A B M Shawkat Ali
- Enrolled in Rajshahi University
- 1991-1994 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- 1994-1995 graduated with Master of Science
- 1995-1997 graduated with Master of Philosophy
- Occupations
- writerresearcher
- Biography
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A B M Shawkat Ali is a Bangladeshi origin-Australian author, computer scientist, data analyst and Vice-Chancellor of Bangladesh University of Business and Technology. He has written several books in the area of data mining, computational intelligence and Smart Grid. He is a newspaper columnist. He is an academic and researcher in the areas of machine learning and data science. He set up a research centre and conferences in data science and engineering. He is an adjunct professor in data science in the School of Engineering and Technology, Central Queensland University, Australia.
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Md. Akram-Al-Hossain
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- 1961-.. (age 64)
- Biography
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Md. Akram-Al-Hossain was a Bangladeshi civil servant who is the Chairman of Palli Sanchay Bank. He was the Senior Secretary of the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education. He also was Chairman of Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation.
