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Abul Hasanat Abdullah,
Bangladesh Awami League politician, MP •
Mohiuddin Ahmed, a Language Movement veteran and 1971 War organiser •
Tania Ahmed, actress •
Tofail Ahmed, Bangladeshi politician, Minister of Commerce and Minister of Industries •
Ziauddin Ahmed, war hero, fighter and sub-sector Commander under Sector 9 of
Mukti Bahini during Bangladesh Independence war in 1971 •
Jewel Aich, magician, veteran of 1971 Bangladesh war •
Mir Maswood Ali, mathematician and statistician •
Amir Hossain Amu, politician •
Abdur Rahman Biswas, former
President of Bangladesh •
Anil Biswas, Hindi and Bengali film song composer •
Mohammad Ali Bogra, Bengali politician, statesman, served as third Prime Minister of Pakistan, 1953 – 1955. •
Abala Bose, social reformer and wife of
Jagadish Chandra Bose •
Nachiketa Chakraborty, famous
Tollywood singer's family hails from Chechri Rampur village in
Kathalia Upazila •
Abdul Gaffar Choudhury, an author, columnist, lyricist. •
Asad Chowdhury, poet, writer, translator, radio, television personality and journalist, as well as a cultural activist in Bangladesh. •
Jibanananda Das, poet •
Kusumkumari Das, poet and mother of
Jibanananda Das •
Mukunda Das, Bengali poet, ballad singer, composer •
Gurudas Dasgupta, politician •
Basudeb DasSarma, chemist •
Arundhati Devi, Indian actress, director and writer •
Utpal Dutt, Indian actor, director and writer-playwright •
Aswini Kumar Dutta, social reformer and philanthropist •
Narayan Gangopadhyay, was a Bengali novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer, a leading writer of modern Bengali literature. •
Sohag Gazi, Bangladeshi cricketer •
Debaprasad Ghosh, an Indian mathematician, linguist, lawyer, journalist, educationist and statesman. •
Nikhil Ghosh, was an Indian musician, teacher and writer, known his proficiency on the percussion instrument of tabla. •
Pannalal Ghosh, musician and flutist •
Parul Ghosh, was an Indian playback singer. Ghosh sang in Hindi and Bengali movies from 1935 to 1951. •
Jyotirmoy Guhathakurta, Bengali educator and humanist of
East Pakistan •
Hiranmay Sen Gupta, physicist •
Ahsan Habib, Bangladeshi poet and literary figure •
A. M. Harun-ar-Rashid, Bangladeshi physicist and Bose Professor of Physics at the
University of Dhaka •
Abul Hasan, poet, journalist and literary figure in Bengali culture •
Ehsan Hoque, medical doctor, social entrepreneur and child rights activist, founder and honorary executive director of Distressed Children & Infants International •
Mainul Hosein, lawyer and the printer, publisher of daily newspaper, The New Nation, former chairman of the editorial board of
The Daily Ittefaq •
Kamal Hossain, Bangladeshi jurist, statesman and fighter, Minister of Law from 1972 to 1973 and as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1973 to 1975. •
A.K. Fazlul Huq, Bengali lawyer, legislator and statesman •
Mohiuddin Jahangir (Bir Shreshto), a fighter • Major
M. A. Jalil, commander of Sector 9 during Bangladesh War of Independence in 1971. •
Shamsuddin Abul Kalam, actor and an author of Bengali literature •
Mostafa Kamal (Bir Shreshto), a fighter. •
Sufia Kamal, poet •
Fazlul Karim, scholar, academic, philosopher and essayist •
Mosharraf Karim, actor •
A.Z.M. Enayetullah Khan, veteran journalist, former minister of Bangladesh •
Abdul Jabbar Khan, 6th Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan. •
Abdul Karim Khan, folk-singer •
Sadek Khan, Bangladeshi journalist, columnist and filmmaker •
Salman Khan, founder of
Khan Academy •
Abdul Wahab Khan, 3rd speaker of the
National Assembly of Pakistan. •
Nazia Khanum, , academic and management consultant •
Abdul Latif, singer, musician, and lyricist •
Altaf Mahmud, Bengali film song composer •
Anwar Hossain Manju, Bangladeshi politician •
Naziur Rahman Manzur, Jatiya Party politician •
Hasan Masood, Bangladeshi actor, former journalist and military officer •
Aroj Ali Matubbar, astronomer and philosopher •
Rashed Khan Menon, Bangladeshi politician •
Tofazzal Hossain Manik Miah, founder editor of
The Daily Ittefaq •
Khalid Hassan Milu, Bangladeshi singer •
Mehedi Hasan Miraz, Bangladeshi cricketer •
Ghulam Murshid, author, scholar and journalist, based in London •
Golam Mustafa, film actor •
Suborna Mustafa, actress •
Shahriar Nafees, Bangladeshi cricketer •
Jahangir Kabir Nanak, Awami League politician •
Abu Zafar Obaidullah, poet •
Shahjahan Omar,
Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician •
Andaleeve Rahman, president of
Bangladesh Jatiya Party •
Bazlur Rahman, editor, writer •
Selima Rahman,
Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician •
Sohel Rana, Bangladeshi film actor, director and producer. •
Nasreen Jahan Ratna, Member of Parliament •
Sudhir Ray, Indian politician •
Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri, physicist •
Tapan Raychaudhuri, historian •
Kamini Roy, poet and first woman graduate with honours in the subcontinent. •
Mir Sabbir, actor •
Hanif Sanket, TV presenter, entertainer, writer and producer •
Golam Sarwar, journalist, writer and the founding editor of Samakal and Jugantor •
Papia Sarwar, Bangladeshi singer •
Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar, speaker and politician •
Manikuntala Sen, revolutionary •
Nikhil Sen, dramatist •
Mihir Sengupta, writer •
Abdur Rab Serniabat, cabinet minister, brother-in-law of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman •
Kaliprasanna Vidyaratna, scholar of Sanskrit == References ==