100 Notable alumni of
University of Dhaka
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The University of Dhaka is 177th in the world, 33rd in Asia, and 1st in Bangladesh by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Dhaka sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Muhammad Yunus
- Occupations
- entrepreneuruniversity teacherbankereconomistinternational forum participant
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Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist and civil society leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance. These loans are given to entrepreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans. Yunus and the Grameen Bank were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for their efforts through microcredit to create economic and social development from below". The Norwegian Nobel Committee said that "lasting peace cannot be achieved unless large population groups find ways in which to break out of poverty" and that "across cultures and civilizations, Yunus and Grameen Bank have shown that even the poorest of the poor can work to bring about their own development". Yunus has received several other national and international honours. He received the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2010.
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Fazlur Khan
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- engineerarchitectcivil engineerstructural engineer
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Fazlur Rahman Khan was a Bangladeshi-American structural engineer and architect, who initiated important structural systems for skyscrapers. Considered the "father of tubular designs" for high-rises, Khan was also a pioneer in computer-aided design (CAD). He was the designer of the Sears Tower, since renamed Willis Tower, the tallest building in the world from 1973 until 1998, and the 100-story John Hancock Center.
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Humayun Ahmed
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- film directorscience fiction writerwriterscreenwriter
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Humayun Ahmed was a Bangladeshi novelist, dramatist, screenwriter, filmmaker, songwriter, scholar, and academic. His breakthrough was his debut novel Nondito Noroke published in 1972. He wrote over 200 fiction and non-fiction books. He was one of the most popular authors and filmmakers in post-independence Bangladesh. Dawn referred to him as the cultural legend of Bangladesh.
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Hussain Muhammad Ershad
- Enrolled in the University of Dhaka
- Studied in 1950
- Occupations
- military officerpolitician
- Biography
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Hussain Muhammad Ershad was a Bangladeshi military officer and politician who served as the president of Bangladesh from 1983 to 1990, heading a military dictatorship.
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Tahsan Rahman Khan
- Occupations
- actorsingermusician
- Biography
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Tahsan Rahman Khan is a Bangladeshi musician and actor. He was the former keyboardist and second vocalist of the Grunge and Alternative rock band Black. Currently he is the lead singer of his own band ‘Tahsan and the Band.’
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Tarique Rahman
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Tarique Rahman is a Bangladeshi politician and businessman who is the current acting chairman of Bangladesh Nationalist Party since February 2018. He is the eldest son of former president Ziaur Rahman and former two-time prime minister Khaleda Zia. He was born on 20 November 1965, Tarique was involved in politics from a young age and rose to prominence in the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) during his mother's tenure as prime minister in the early 2000s.
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Chanchal Chowdhury
- Occupations
- television actoractor
- Biography
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Suchinta Chowdhury Chanchal, is a Bangladeshi actor. He is notable for his performances in Rupkothar Golpo (2006), Monpura (2009), Television (2012), Aynabaji (2016), Debi (2018) and Hawa (2022). He has received three Bangladesh National Film Awards for Best Actor and three Meril Prothom Alo Awards for Best Actor.
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Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad
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- politician
- Biography
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Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad was a Bangladeshi politician. He was the fourth president of Bangladesh from 15 August to 6 November 1975, after the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. He was involved in the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on 15 August 1975. He took on the role of president immediately after the assassination, praised the assassins as "sons of the sun" and put cabinet ministers loyal to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in jail.
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M. A. Wazed Miah
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- nuclear physicistphysicistwriter
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M. A. Wazed Miah was a Bangladeshi physicist and the writer of a number of texts in physics and some political history books, a former chairman of the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission and husband of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
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Abdul Hamid
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mohammad Abdul Hamid is a Bangladeshi politician who served as the president of Bangladesh from 2013 to 2023. He was elected to his first term in April 2013, and re-elected in 2018. Previously, he served as the speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad from January 2009 to April 2013. He was the acting president after the death of Zillur Rahman in March 2013. He was the longest serving president in the history of Bangladesh.
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Lotay Tshering
- Years
- 1969-.. (age 55)
- Occupations
- physiciansurgeonpolitician
- Biography
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Lotay Tshering is a Bhutanese politician and surgeon who was the prime minister of Bhutan, in office from 7 November 2018 to 1 November 2023. He has also been the president of Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa since 14 May 2018.
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Muhammed Zafar Iqbal
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- physicistchildren's writerscience fiction writerwriter
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Muhammed Zafar Iqbal is a Bangladeshi science fiction author, physicist, academic, activist and former professor of computer science and engineering and former head of the department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST). He achieved his PhD from University of Washington. After working 18 years as a scientist at California Institute of Technology and Bell Communications Research, he returned to Bangladesh and joined Shahjalal University of Science and Technology as a professor of Computer Science and Engineering. He retired from his teaching profession in October 2018. He is considered one of Bangladesh's top science fiction writers.
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Obaidul Quader
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- politician
- Biography
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Obaidul Quader is a Bangladeshi politician who has been General Secretary of Bangladesh Awami League since October 2016. He has served as the Minister of Road Transport and Bridges since December 2011 and as a Member of Parliament representing the Noakhali-5 constituency since January 2009. He is also Media Adviser for the Bangladesh Awami League and regularly conducts press conferences on their behalf. He was the State Minister for Youth and Sports from 1996 to 2001.
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Ferdous Ahmed
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- film directorfilm produceractorbusinessperson
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Ferdous Ahmed is a Bangladeshi film actor, producer and politician. He is the Member of Parliament of Dhaka-10.
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Fazle Hasan Abed
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- charity workerinternational forum participantchartered accountantsocial worker
- Biography
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Sir Fazle Hasan Abed was the founder of BRAC, one of the world's largest non-governmental organizations.
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Zahir Raihan
- Occupations
- film directorwriter
- Biography
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Mohammad Zahirullah, known as Zahir Raihan, was a Bangladeshi novelist, writer and filmmaker. He is most notable for his documentary Stop Genocide (1971), made during the Bangladesh Liberation War. He was posthumously awarded Ekushey Padak in 1977 and Independence Day Award in 1992 by the Government of Bangladesh.
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Zillur Rahman
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mohammed Zillur Rahman was a Bangladeshi politician who served as the President from 2009 to his death in 2013. He was also a senior presidium member of the Awami League. He is the third president of Bangladesh, after Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Ziaur Rahman, to die in office, while being the first to die of natural causes.
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Sheikh Kamal
- Enrolled in the University of Dhaka
- Studied in 1969
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sheikh Kamal was the eldest son of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, former President of Bangladesh and the younger brother of Sheikh Hasina, the current Prime Minister of Bangladesh.
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Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir
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- politicianacademic
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Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir is a Bangladeshi politician. He has been the secretary general of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) since 2016. He was a member of the parliament for Thakurgaon-1 constituency from 2001 to 2006. In that term, he was also appointed as the Minister of State in charge of the Ministry of Agriculture and later Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism.
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Sabina Yasmin
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Sabina Yasmin is a Bangladeshi singer. She is best known as a playback singer in Bengali cinema. She has won Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer a record 14 times. She has recorded more than 1,500 songs for films and more than 10,000 songs in total.
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Shamsur Rahman
- Occupations
- journalistwriterpoet
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Shamsur Rahman was a Bangladeshi poet, columnist and journalist. A prolific writer, Rahman produced more than sixty books of poetry collection and is considered a key figure in Bengali literature from the latter half of the 20th century. He was regarded as the unofficial poet laureate of Bangladesh. Major themes in his poetry and writings include liberal humanism, human relations, romanticised rebellion of youth, the emergence of and consequent events in Bangladesh, and opposition to religious fundamentalism.
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Fakhruddin Ahmed
- Occupations
- bankerpoliticianeconomist
- Biography
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Fakhruddin Ahmed is a Bangladeshi economist, civil servant, and a former governor of the Bangladesh Bank, the country's central bank.
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Suborna Mustafa
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Suborna Mustafa is a Bangladeshi television, film and stage actress. She is the current Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Reserved Women's Seat-4 since February 2019. She is a member of Bangladesh Awami League party.
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Ahmed Akbar Sobhan
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- honorary consulbusinessperson
- Biography
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Ahmed Akbar Sobhan is a Bangladeshi business magnate and philanthropist. He is the founder and chairman of Bashundhara Group. Bashundhara Group operates in various lines of activities including real estate, cement manufacturing, paper and allied products, steel products, LP Gas, sports and shipping.
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Ahmed Sofa
- Occupations
- poet
- Biography
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Ahmed Sofa was a Bangladeshi writer, thinker, novelist, poet, philosopher and public intellectual. Sofa is considered by many, including National Professor Abdur Razzaq and Salimullah Khan, to be the most important Bengali Muslim writer after Mir Mosharraf Hossain and Kazi Nazrul Islam. A writer by occupation, Sofa wrote 18 non-fiction books, 8 novels, 4 collections of poems, 2 collections of short stories, and several books in other genres.
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Shahabuddin Ahmed
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Shahabuddin Ahmed was a Bangladeshi politician who served as the President of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2001, and the Chief Justice of Bangladesh from 1990 to 1995. He previously served as the acting president during 1990–91 when Hussain Muhammad Ershad resigned from the post. He headed a caretaker government and held a general election in February 1991.
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Iajuddin Ahmed
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- diplomatuniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Iajuddin Ahmed was the President of Bangladesh, serving from 6 September 2002 until 12 February 2009. From late October 2006 to January 2007, he also served as Chief Advisor of the caretaker government. From October 2006 to early 2008, his responsibilities as president included the Defense Ministry of the caretaker government.
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Abul Maal Abdul Muhith
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- diplomatpoliticianeconomist
- Biography
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Abul Maal Abdul Muhith was a Bangladeshi economist, writer, civil servant, secretary, diplomat and politician. He served as the finance minister of the government of Bangladesh from January 2009 until January 2019.
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SM Shafiuddin Ahmed
- Occupations
- military officer
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Sheikh Mohammad Shafiuddin Ahmed is a four star general of the Bangladesh Army and the current Chief of Army Staff (CAS) of the Bangladesh Army since June 2021. Prior to his appointment as CAS, he served as the quartermaster general (QMG) of Bangladesh Army as a lieutenant general. In his 40 year long military career he has also served as director general of Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS), director of military training (DMT), besides commanding an infantry brigade and an infantry division.
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Humayun Azad
- Enrolled in the University of Dhaka
- 1964-1968 graduated with academic aspirant in Bangla literature
- Occupations
- writerteacherpoetlinguistresearcher
- Biography
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Humayun Azad was a Bangladeshi poet, novelist, short-story writer, critic, linguist, columnist and professor of Dhaka University. He wrote more than sixty titles. He was awarded the Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1986 for his contributions to Bengali linguistics. In 2012, the government of Bangladesh honored him with Ekushey Padak posthumously for his contributions to Bengali literature.
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Syed Nazrul Islam
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Syed Nazrul Islam was a Bangladeshi politician and a senior leader of the Awami League. During the Bangladesh Liberation War, he was declared as the Vice President of Bangladesh by the Provisional Government. He served as the Acting President in the absence of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
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Syed Shamsul Haque
- Occupations
- writerpoet
- Biography
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Syed Shamsul Haq was a Bangladeshi writer. He was awarded Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1966 (the youngest among all to receive it), Ekushey Padak in 1984 and Independence Day Award in 2000 by the Government of Bangladesh for his contributions to Bangla literature. His notable works include "Payer Awaj Pawa Jai", "Nishiddho Loban", "Khelaram Khele Ja", "Neel Dongshon" and "Mrigoya".
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Munier Choudhury
- Occupations
- author
- Biography
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Munier Choudhury was a Bangladeshi educationist, playwright, literary critic and political dissident. He was a victim of the mass killing of Bangladeshi intellectuals in 1971. He was awarded Independence Day Award in 1980, by the then president Ziaur Rahman's government, posthumously.
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Nurul Haq Nur
- Enrolled in the University of Dhaka
- In 2013 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in English
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Nurul Haque Nur is a Bangladeshi activist and politician. He came to prominence in 2018 as a joint-convener of Bangladesh Sadharon Chhatra Odhikar Songrokkhon Parishad, which led the Quota Reform Movement. In 2019, he was elected as the vice president of Dhaka University Central Students' Union (DUCSU). He is currently the convener of the Chatro, Jubo and Probashi Odhikar Porishod.
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Ghulam Azam
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ghulam Azam was a Bangladeshi Islamist politician. He was the former leader of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, the largest Islamist political party in Bangladesh.
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Chandra Shekhar Ghosh
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Chandra Shekhar Ghosh, is the Founder, MD & CEO of Bandhan Bank. He has been one of the foremost proponents of financial inclusion in India. He has more than 30 years of experience in the microfinance and development terrain.
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Siam Ahmed
- Occupations
- film actorbarristertelevision actor
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Siam Ahmed is a Bangladeshi television and film actor. He made his debut Bangladeshi telefilm Bhalobasha 101 and he is best known for his debut role in the film Poramon 2 directed by Raihan Rafi. He is also well known for his various roles in Bengali TV dramas. He won Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Actor twice for his roles in Bishwoshundori (2020) and Mridha Bonam Mridha (2021).
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Jahanara Imam
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Jahanara Imam was a Bangladeshi writer and political activist. She is known for her efforts to bring those accused of committing war crimes in the Bangladesh Liberation War to trial. She has been called "Shaheed Janani" (Mother of Martyrs).
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Buddhadeb Bose
- Occupations
- writerpoet
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Buddhadeva Bose, also spelt Buddhadeb Bosu, was an Indian Bengali writer of the 20th century. Frequently referred to as a poet, he was a versatile writer who wrote novels, short stories, plays and essays in addition to poetry. He was an influential critic and editor of his time. He is recognised as one of the five poets who moved to introduce modernity into Bengali poetry. It is said that since Rabindranath Tagore, there has not been a more versatile talent in Bengali literature.
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Moudud Ahmed
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- barristerpolitician
- Biography
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Moudud Ahmed was a Bangladeshi lawyer and politician. He was a standing committee member of Bangladesh Nationalist Party. Ahmed was elected as a Jatiya Sangsad member total five times from Noakhali-1 and Noakhali-5 constituencies.
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Asaduzzaman Noor
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- television actorpoliticianfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Asaduzzaman Noor is a Bangladeshi actor, politician and activist. He has been a Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Nilphamari-2 constituency since 2001 and served as the Cultural Affairs Minister during 2014–2019.
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Salimullah Khan
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Salimullah Khan is a Bangladeshi writer, academic, teacher and public intellectual. Khan explores national and international politics and culture using Marxist and Lacanian theories. Informed and influenced by Ahmed Sofa's thoughts, his exploration of Bangladesh's politics and culture has a significant following among the country's young generation of writers and thinkers. Khan translated the works of Plato, James Rennell, Charles Baudelaire, Frantz Fanon, Dorothee Sölle into Bengali. In Bangladesh, he is a regular guest in talk shows on national and international political issues.
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Matiur Rahman
- Occupations
- authorjournalist
- Biography
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Matiur Rahman is the editor of Prothom Alo, the largest circulated Bengali language daily in Bangladesh. He is the recipient of the 2005 Ramon Magsaysay Award in the journalism, literature and creative communication arts category.
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Mahfuz Ahmed
- Years
- 1967-.. (age 57)
- Occupations
- actorfilm actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Mahfuz Ahmed is a Bangladeshi television and film actor. He is also a television presenter, model and television producer. He won Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Actor twice for his roles in Laal Sobuj (2005) and Zero Degree (2015).
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Athar Ali Khan
- Occupations
- cricketer
- Biography
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Athar Ali Khan is a Bangladeshi cricket commentator and former cricketer. Throughout the 1980s, Athar played as a middle order batsman, batting mostly at No. 4 or 5.
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Tarana Halim
- Occupations
- lawyermodelpoliticianactor
- Biography
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Tarana Halim is a Bangladeshi politician, former lawyer, television and film actress and playwright. In January 2018, she was appointed as the State Minister of Information. Earlier, she served as the state minister of the Post and Telecommunications Division under the Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology of the Government of Bangladesh since July 2014.
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Tareque Masud
- Occupations
- film directorlyricistscreenwriterfilm producer
- Biography
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Tareque Masud was a Bangladeshi independent film director, film producer, screenwriter and lyricist. He first found success with the films Muktir Gaan (1995) and Matir Moina (2002), for which he won three international awards, including the International Critics' FIPRESCI Prize, in the Directors' Fortnight at 2002 Cannes Film Festival. The film became Bangladesh's first film to compete for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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Atiur Rahman
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Atiur Rahman is a Bangladeshi development economist, author, and banker. He served as the 10th Governor of Bangladesh Bank, the central bank of Bangladesh. He has been called "the banker of the poor" for his contributions in developing the Bangladeshi economy. Rahman is credited with instituting changes in the banking industry that greatly increased the country's foreign exchange reserves and brought automation and digitization in the banking sector. Achievements during his tenure include the creation of the National Payment Switch; introducing automated check clearing for banks using local currency cheques; starting mobile banking; establishing the Bangladesh Electronic Funds Transfer Network (BEFTN); and installing the Bangladesh Automated Clearing House (BACH). On 15 March 2016, he resigned as central bank governor after the cyber hacking and theft of US$101 million in foreign reserves from the Bangladesh Bank account held at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
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Nazmul Hasan Papon
- Years
- 1961-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- politiciancricket administrator
- Biography
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Nazmul Hassan Papon is a Bangladeshi politician and a cricket administrator. He is the incumbent Minister of Youth and Sports and the incumbent Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Kishoreganj-6 constituency. He is also the president of the Bangladesh Cricket Board.
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Abul Kalam Abdul Momen
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Abul Kalam Abdul Momen, known as AK Abdul Momen, is a Bangladeshi economist, diplomat, and politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh from January 2019 to January 2024. He served as Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations from August 2009 until October 2015. He was elected a member of Jatiya Sangsad from the Sylhet-1 constituency at the 2018 general elections. Following his election, he was appointed the minister of foreign affairs by the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
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Abdullah Abu Sayeed
- Occupations
- politicianauthor
- Biography
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Abdullah Abu Sayeed is a Bangladeshi educator, writer, television presenter, and activist. He is the founder and chairman of Bishwa Sahitya Kendra, a non-profit organization that promotes the study of literature, reading habits and progressive ideas.
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Nurul Islam Nahid
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Nurul Islam Nahid is a Bangladeshi politician and author. He served as a member of the Bangladeshi parliament from the Sylhet-6 constituency for 15 years, being elected in 1996, 2008, 2014, and 2018. He was also the country's Minister of Education from 2014 to 2018.
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Afsana Mimi
- Occupations
- television actoractor
- Biography
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Afsana Mimi is a Bangladeshi actress, model and director. She won Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film Paap Punno.
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Mustafa Jabbar
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Mustafa Jabbar is a Bangladeshi businessman, technology entrepreneur and a former Minister of Post and Telecommunication in the Government of Bangladesh. He also served as the president of Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS). He is best known for the creation of Bijoy Bengali keyboard, which was developed in 1988, and it was most widely used Bengali input method until the release of Unicode based Avro Keyboard. He served as the president of Bangladesh Computer Samity, the national ICT organisation of Bangladesh for four consecutive periods. He is a champion of Bangla Bhasha Procholon Ain, 1987, and has been praised for promoting the Bengali language in the digital media.
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Zayed Khan
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Md. Zahirul Haque, best known by his stage name as Zayed Khan, is a Bangladeshi film actor who has appeared in more than 25 films to date. He began his career in 2006 with the film Bhalobasha Bhalobasha. Since then he has appeared in the films Nagar Mastan opposite Pori Moni and Dabangg. He was cast in Antor Jala due to director Malek Afsary's preference for him as an actor. He was the former general secretary of Bangladesh Film Artists' Association, the organisation of local film artists.
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Leela Roy
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Leela Roy, née Nag, was a radical leftist Indian woman politician and reformer, and a close associate of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. She was born in Goalpara, Assam to Girish Chandra Naag, who was a deputy magistrate, and her mother was Kunjalata Naag. She was the first female student of Dhaka University.
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Ahsan Habib
- Enrolled in the University of Dhaka
- Graduated with Master of Science
- Occupations
- cartoonistwritereditorprofessor
- Biography
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Ahsan Habib is a Bangladeshi cartoonist, writer and editor of Unmad, a satire magazine.
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Matia Chowdhury
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Matia Chowdhury is a Bangladeshi politician serving as the incumbent Deputy Leader of the House, and the incumbent Member of Parliament from Sherpur-2. She was the Minister of Agriculture under the first, second and third premiership of Sheikh Hasina, from 1996 to 2001 and then again on 2009 to 2019 during the previous tenures of Bangladesh Awami League in power. She is known as a veteran politician from the Awami League, and currently a presidium member of the party.
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Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib
- Occupations
- theologianacademic
- Biography
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Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib is a Bangladeshi reformist Islamic scholar and former professor of Arabic at the University of Rajshahi. He is the leader of a puritan Islamic movement Ahl-i Hadith Andalon Bangladesh (AHAB). He is also the founder of an Islamic research journal, Monthly At-tahreek. In an interview in 2017, Shakhawat Hossain, Ahl-e Hadith Andolon Bangladesh spokesperson, said the group claimed its lineage and the inspiration for its name from Islamist groups that had fought British colonialism in the early 19th century.
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Raisul Islam Asad
- Occupations
- film actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Asaduzzaman Mohammad Raisul Islam is a Bangladeshi freedom fighter and an actor in radio, theatre, television and film. He won Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Actor four times for his roles in the films Padma Nadir Majhi (1992), Anya Jibon (1995), Dukhai (1997) and Lalsalu (2001). Besides, he won Best Supporting Actor award twice for the roles in Ghani: The Cycle (2006) and Mrittika Maya (2013). As of 2016, he acted in more than 50 films. He was a member of the Crack Platoon an elite urban guerilla, intelligence and commando unit of the Mukti Bahini.
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Muhammad Habibur Rahman
- Occupations
- judgepolitician
- 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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Mohammad Akhtaruzzaman
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Md. Akhtaruzzaman is a Bangladeshi academic who served as the 28th vice-chancellor of the University of Dhaka. Prior to this position, he served in different academic, administrative and co-curricular development activities at the University of Dhaka including the pro-vice chancellor (administration), dean (Faculty of Arts), chairman, Department of Islamic History & Culture, and provost of the Kabi Jashim Uddin Hall, University of Dhaka.
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Sultana Kamal
- Years
- 1950-.. (age 74)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sultana Kamal is a Bangladeshi lawyer and human rights activist. She serves as the executive director of Ain o Salish Kendra, a civil rights organisation. In 2006, she served as adviser in the Caretaker government of Bangladesh led by President Iajuddin Ahmed during the 2006-2008 Bangladeshi political crisis. Kamal, along with three other advisers, resigned from the caretaker government Her mother Sufia Kamal was a participant of the Bangladesh Liberation War.
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Mahfuz Anam
- Occupations
- journalistauthoreditorpublisher
- Biography
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Mahfuz Anam is a Bangladeshi journalist. He serves as editor and publisher of The Daily Star, one of Bangladesh's largest circulating English-language newspapers. After working in the United Nations for 14 years, Anam co-founded the newspaper with his mentor Syed Mohammad Ali in 1991 during Bangladesh's democratic transition. His criticism of the country's two largest political parties and the military has often resulted in him being sued; Anam dismisses the charges and the suits as attacks on press freedom. He was elected for a second term as chairman of the Asia News Network in 2022 and 2023.
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Gowher Rizvi
- Occupations
- international forum participant
- Biography
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Gowher Rizvi is a Bangladeshi historian, scholar and academic. Currently he is the International Affairs adviser to the prime minister of Bangladesh. Prior to that he was MacArthur Fellow in International Relations at Nuffield College, Oxford University. He was an editor of Contemporary South Asia and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He held various appointments at Oxford University, the University of Warwick, the University of Canterbury, Harvard Kennedy School and the University of Virginia. His publications cover the disciplines of history, international relations, and public policy.
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Musa Ibrahim
- Occupations
- authorjournalist
- Biography
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Musa Ibrahim is a Bangladeshi mountaineer, adventurer, trekker, journalist, and author. He is the first Bangladeshi to reach the summit of Mount Everest. He reached the summit around 5:05 am BST on 23 May 2010 and hoisted the flag of Bangladesh on the apex of the world at around 5:16 am BST. From then, Bangladesh became the 67th Mount Everest conquering country.
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Kazi Salahuddin
- Occupations
- association football managerassociation football player
- Biography
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Kazi Md. Salahuddin is a Bangladeshi former football player currently serving as the president of South Asian Football Federation and Bangladesh Football Federation. He was a member of the Shadhin Bangla Football Team, which played across India to raise awareness about the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. He played for and captained the Bangladesh national team, retiring in 1983. Salahuddin is the first football player from the country to play abroad in the professional league in Hong Kong and is considered to be Bangladsh's first professional sports athlete.
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Aly Zaker
- Occupations
- television directorentrepreneurwritertelevision actoractor
- Biography
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Aly Zaker was a Bangladeshi actor, businessman, director and writer. He was the owner of Asiatic Marketing Communications Limited (Asiatic 3 Sixty).
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Hasan Foez Siddique
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Hasan Foez Siddique is a Bangladeshi lawyer and jurist who served as 23rd Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh.
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Anisul Huq
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Anisul Huq is a Bangladeshi lawyer and politician. He has been the Bangladesh government's Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs since 2014.
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Anwar Hossain Manju
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- politician
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Anwar Hossain Manju is a Bangladeshi politician who is a former Jatiya Sangsad member representing Pirojpur-2 constituency which consists of Kawkhali, Bhandaria and Zianagar upazilas. He was elected a member of Jatiya Sangsad a total of seven times. He is a former Minister of Water Resources, Minister of Communications as Communications Transport and Minister of Energy and Mineral Resource.
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Bijori Barkatullah
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- actormodel
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Bijori Barkatullah is a Bangladeshi television actress and dancer.
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Shykh Seraj
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- authorjournalist
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Shykh Seraj is a Bangladeshi journalist, media personality and agriculture development activist. He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 1995 and Independence Day Award in 2018 by the Government of Bangladesh.
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Rehman Sobhan
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- economistacademic
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Rehman Sobhan is a Bangladeshi economist. Regarded as one of the country's top public thinkers, he is the founder of the Centre for Policy Dialogue. Sobhan is an icon of the Bangladeshi independence movement due to his role as a spokesman of the Provisional Government of Bangladesh in the United States during the Bangladesh Liberation War. He was awarded the Independence Day Award, Bangladesh's highest civilian honour, in 2008.
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Akbar Ali Khan
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- economist
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Akbar Ali Khan was a Bangladeshi economist and educationist who served as a bureaucrat until 2001. He was a sub-divisional officer of Habiganj during the Bangladesh Liberation War when he decided to join the war. Later he served as an official of the Mujibnagar Government. After independence, he rejoined the civil service and reached the highest post of Cabinet Secretary. In the meanwhile, he also worked as a university teacher. Towards the end of 2006, he became one of the advisers of the Caretaker Government led by President Iajuddin Ahmed. He resigned along with three other advisers, namely, Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury, C M Shafi Sami and Sultana Kamal on the grounds of dissatisfaction with President Dr. Iajuddin Ahmed caretaker government. According to them, there was no scope to contribute in the caretaker government to create a congenial atmosphere for holding a free and fair election. In October 2007, the Government of Bangladesh constituted a Regulatory Reforms Commission (RRC) with him as the chair.
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Bari Siddiqui
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- flautist
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Bari Siddiqui was a Bangladeshi singer-songwriter and flautist. His songs include Shua Chan Pakhi, Amar Gaye Joto Dukkho Shoy, Pubali Batashe and Manush Dhoro Manush Bhojo.
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Ahmed Sharif
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- author
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Ahmed Sharif was an educationist, philosopher, critic, writer and scholar of medieval Bengali literature. He is recognized as one of the most outspoken atheists and radical thinkers of Bangladesh.
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Aziz Khan
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- businessperson
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Muhammed Aziz Khan, PBM, is a Bangladeshi industrialist, founder and chairman of the Summit Group, one of the largest conglomerates in Bangladesh, whose power projects generate nearly 20% of Bangladesh's electricity. Khan has led Summit Group from starting as Bangladesh's first private sector power producer to a diversified group with investments across power, energy trading, port, telecommunications, hospitality and real estate. He is the 42nd richest person in Singapore.
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Habibur Rahman
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- police officer
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Habibur Rahman is a Bangladeshi police officer. He is the 35th Commissioner of DMP. Prior to join here he was head of the Tourist Police. From 2019 to 2022, he was Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Dhaka Range, and DIG of administration & discipline at the police headquarters in Dhaka.
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Abdur Razzaq
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- intellectual
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Prof. Abdur Razzaq was a Bangladeshi scholar, academic, public intellectual and one of the first National Professors of Bangladesh.
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Qazi Anwar Hussain
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- writer
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Qazi Anwar Hussain was a renowned Bangladeshi writer known for his contributions to spy thrillers, detective novels, and adventure-based literature, many of which were adaptations or heavily influenced by foreign works.
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Helal Hafiz
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- poet
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Helal Hafiz is a Bangladeshi poet. He is considered a true representative of poets of his generation having certain creative traits in an age when his nation and countries in the neighbourhood witnessed dramatic transitions particularly in the arena of politics. He won Bangla Academy Literary Award (2013).
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Anisuzzaman
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- writer
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Anisuzzaman was a Bangladeshi academic of Bengali literature.
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Abu Belal Muhammad Shafiul Huq
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- Bangladesh Army
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General Abu Belal Muhammad Shafiul Haq (born 1 December 1958) is a retired four star general of the Bangladesh Army. He was the chief of army staff of the Bangladesh Army from 25 June 2015 to 25 June 2018. Before becoming the army head, he served as the principal staff officer of Prime Minister's Office of the Armed Forces Division. He has also served as an aide-de-camp to the president of Bangladesh. He was commissioned into the Armoured corps of the Bangladesh Army from 6th SSC (Short Service Commission) in June 1978.
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Saifur Rahman
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- ministerpolitician
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Mohammad Saifur Rahman was a Bangladeshi economist and politician. He was a leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and the longest-serving Finance Minister of Bangladesh. He delivered 12 national budgets in three terms between 1980 and 1981, 1991–1996 and 2001–2006 over a ministerial life spanning from December 1976 until October 2006 in three different governments. He was Trade & Commerce Minister for the first three years, and thereafter Finance and Planning Minister for 12 years.
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Abul Barkat
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Abul Barkat was a protester killed during the Bengali Language Movement protests which took place in the erstwhile East Pakistan (currently Bangladesh), in 1952. He is considered a martyr in Bangladesh.
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Mohammad Javed Patwary
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Bangladesh - Biography
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Mohammad Javed Patwary was a Bangladeshi police officer and a former Inspector General of Police of Bangladesh Police. Earlier, he served as Additional Inspector General of Police Special Branch. After his retirement in 2020, he was appointed as the ambassador to Saudi Arabia by the Government of Bangladesh.
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Kazi Zafar Ahmed
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- politician
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Kazi Zafar Ahmad was a Bangladeshi politician of the Jatiya Party, who was the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from 1989 to 1990.
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Hossain Toufique Imam
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- 1939-2021 (aged 82)
- Occupations
- politician
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Hossain Toufique Imam was a Bangladesh Awami League politician and political advisor to the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh,. His rank was equivalent to a cabinet minister.
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AAMS Arefin Siddique
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- academic
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Abu Ahsan Mohammad Shamsul Arefin Siddique is a Bangladeshi academic who served as the 27th vice-chancellor of the University of Dhaka during 2009–2017. On 15 July 2020, he was appointed as the chairman of the board of directors of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS).
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Amir Hossain Amu
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- politician
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Amir Hossain Amu is a Bangladeshi politician, the incumbent Member of Parliament from Jhalokati-2, and served as the Minister of Industries during 2014–2018. He is currently the coordinator and spokesman for the Awami League-led 14-party Grand Alliance.
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M A Mannan
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- ministerdiplomatpolitician
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Muhammad Abdul Mannan is a Bangladeshi politician and former Minister of Planning of Bangladesh from 2019 to 2024. Abdul Mannan was a former diplomat and bureaucrat of Bangladesh who served to the Government Bangladesh.
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Nasrul Hamid
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- politician
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Nasrul Hamid is an Awami League politician and the State Minister of the Ministry of Power, Energy, and Mineral Resources of Bangladesh.
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Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar
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- politician
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Muhammad Jamiruddin Sarkar is a Bangladeshi lawyer and politician who served as the acting President of Bangladesh in 2002. He served as the Speaker of the Parliament of Bangladesh. He is one of the founding members of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and was a member of the standing committee, which was the policy making body of the party, from its inception.
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Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir
- Years
- 1942-.. (age 82)
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- economistpolitician
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Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir is a Bangladeshi politician. He is a Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Chandpur-1 constituency since 2008, and was Minister of Home Affairs from 2011 to 2013. He is also an economist, civil servant, and writer in Bangladesh.
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Narendra Chandra Dhar
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- authoryogiphilosopher
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Sri Anirvan, born Narendra Chandra Dhar, was an Indian Hindu monk, writer and philosopher. Widely known as a scholar, his principal works were a Bengali translation of Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine and the three-volume treatise Veda Mimamsa.
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Mirza Abbas
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- politician
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Mirza Abbas Uddin Ahmed, known as Mirza Abbas, is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a member of the national standing committee of the party. He was the Mayor of Dhaka City Corporation from 1990 to 1994. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dhaka-6 from 2001 to 2006, and Minister of Housing and Public Works in Khaleda's cabinet.
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Md. Shahriar Alam
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- international forum participantpolitician
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Shahriar Alam is a Bangladeshi politician. He served as the state minister of foreign relations for government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh from January 2014 to January 2024.
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Abdul Monem Khan
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- politician
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Abdul Monem Khan was a Bengali politician of East Pakistan who was the longest serving governor of East Pakistan from 1962 till 1969.
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Khaled Muhiuddin
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- writerjournalist
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Khaled Muhiuddin is a Bangladeshi journalist of international news media DW, writer, Former Assistant Commissioner of Bangladesh Government, Advisor of the World Bank, and Magistrate. He is also known as the presenter of the popular talk show of Independent Satellite Channel Independent Television of Ajker Bangladesh, which he formerly hosted. Khaled is currently working as head of the German-based international media, Deutsche Welle Bangla Department.
