List of University of Dhaka alumni and faculty

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This is a list of University of Dhaka alumni and faculty members. .

Nobel laureate[]

Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner
  • Muhammad Younus Nobel prize medal.svg, Bangladesh's only Nobel prize winner, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006

Presidents[]

Vice Presidents[]

Prime ministers[]

  • Tajuddin Ahmad, 1st Prime Minister of Bangladesh
  • Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, 2nd Prime Minister of Bangladesh
  • Mashiur Rahman, former senior minister, with the rank and status of a prime minister
  • Ataur Rahman Khan, 5th Prime Minister of Bangladesh
  • Moudud Ahmed, 7th Prime Minister of Bangladesh and 6th Vice President of Bangladesh
  • Kazi Zafar Ahmed, 8th Prime Minister of Bangladesh
  • Sheikh Hasina, 10th and incumbent Prime Minister of Bangladesh in her second term
  • Lotay Tshering, 8th and incumbent Prime Minister of Bhutan

Deputy Prime Ministers[]

Chief Advisers (Head of the Government)[]

Judges of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh[]

Chief Justices of Bangladesh[]

Judges of High Court Division[]

Chairman, National Human Rights Commission[]

  • Professor Dr. Mizanur Rahman

Politics and public service[]

  • A M Nurul Islam, private secretary to Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman[2]
  • Abdus Salam Khan, lawyer and politician, Minister of Public Works and Communication in the East Pakistan provincial cabinet[3]
  • Abul Fateh, first foreign secretary of Bangladesh
  • Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, Former Finance Minister of Bangladesh
  • Anisul Huq, current Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs of Bangladesh
  • Asaduzzaman Noor, former Minister of Cultural Affairs of Bangladesh
  • Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury, former foreign minister of Bangladesh and former Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations
  • Imran Ahmad, minister of Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment in Bangladesh
  • Jahanara Imam, writer and political activist, popularly known as "Shaheed Janani" (Mother of Martyrs)
  • Leela Roy, progressive leftist Indian politician and reformer; close associate of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose; fought with university authorities and became the first woman to be admitted to the University of Dhaka and earn an M.A. degree
  • Mainul Hosein, former law minister of Bangladesh
  • Matia Chowdhury, former left-wing student leader and NAP politician and current BAL Presidum member and Minister of Agriculture
  • Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Secretary-General of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party
  • Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir, former Minister of Home Affairs of Bangladesh
  • Mukhlesur Rahman Chowdhury, former minister; career journalist; former press secretary to the President of Bangladesh
  • Nurul Islam Nahid, former Minister of Education of Bangladesh
  • Obaidul Quader, current Minister of Communications of Bangladesh & current general secretary of Bangladesh Awami League
  • Rashed Khan Menon, current Minister of Tourism and Civil Aviation of Bangladesh
  • Raufun Basunia, student leader, was killed during an anti-autocratic protest against military ruler Hussain Muhammad Ershad in 1985.[4]
  • Saifur Rahman, former finance minister of Bangladesh. Sulran Ahmed Chowdhury, Ex Depty Speaker Bangkadesh Parliament and.former Minister and First Civil Administrator Ctg. Municipal Corporation
  • Shah A M S Kibria, diplomat, former finance minister of Bangladesh (1996–2001), former executive secretary of ESCAP[5]
  • Sheikh Razzak Ali, founding member of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Deputy Speaker and Speaker of Bangladesh Jatiyo Sangsad
  • Tabarak Husain, former foreign secretary of Bangladesh
  • Tandi Dorji, current Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bhutan
  • Tofail Ahmed, former student leader and current BAL Presidum member and Minister of Commerce
  • Sheikh Shahidul Islam, former Minister of Education, Public Works, former President Bangladesh Chattra League, current Secretary-General of Jatiya Party.

Science and engineering[]

Physics[]

Satyendra Nath Bose FRS, best known for providing the foundation for Bose-Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose-Einstein condensate

Chemistry[]

Abdus Suttar Khan, distinguished aerospace researcher

Other[]

Education, philosophy and academia[]

Muhammad Shahidullah, educator, writer philologist and linguist
Abdullah-Al-Muti Sharfuddin, scientist and science writer
  • Abdullah-Al-Muti Sharfuddin, scientist and science writer
  • Abdul Haque Faridi, Educator, lecturer and writer
  • Abdur Razzaq, academic and educator
  • Anisuzzaman, academic, professor
  • Azfar Hussain, academic, writer, and activist
  • Bazlul Chowdhury, Vice-Chancellor of Independent University, Bangladesh
  • Farhad Mazhar, writer, social and human rights activist, and environmentalist
  • Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib, Reformist Islamic Scholar, academic, writer and leader of the religious organisation Ahlehadeeth Movement Bangladesh.
  • Govinda Chandra Dev, professor of philosophy at University of Dhaka
  • Gowher Rizvi, historian, academic
  • Imran Rahman, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh
  • M Harunur Rashid, archaeologist, educationist, and museum curator[14]
  • M Osman Ghani, scientist, educationist, and academic, 11th vice-chancellor of the University of Dhaka.
  • Mohammad Noman, Vice-Chancellor of Jahangirnagar University[15]
  • Muhammad Shahidullah, educator, writer, philologist, and linguist
  • Muntassir Mamoon, historian, author, translator and professor
  • Mohammad Abul Kashem, author, politician, educator, pioneer of the Language Movement
  • Niaz Zaman, Bangladeshi academic, writer
  • R.C. Majumdar, historian and vice-chancellor of Dacca University
  • Sadeka Halim, first woman in Bangladesh to serve as Chief Information Commissioner
  • Salimullah Khan, author, essayist, thinker, public intellectual
  • Sardar Fazlul Karim, academic, philosopher, and essayist
  • Sayed Moazzem Hossain, Academic, Islamic scholar, 6th vice-chancellor of the University of Dhaka.
  • Syed Abul Kalam Azad, former treasurer of University of Dhaka[16]
  • Wahiduddin Ahmed, thirdthe 3rd vice-chancellor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology[17]
  • Jasim Uddin Ahmad, 12 th Vice Chancellor, Jahangirnagar University, Recipient of Ekushey Padak, 2006
  • Ehsan H. Feroz - Professor, researcher and author

Arts, culture and literature[]

Abdullah Abu Sayeed, teacher, writer, television presenter, and activist
Rafiqun Nabi, Bangladeshi artist and cartoonist
Firoz Mahmud, visual artist and educator
  • Abdul Kadir, poet, awarded Ekushey Padak (1976) and Independence Day Award (1983)
  • Abdul Mannan Syed, poet, author and researcher
  • Abdullah Abu Sayeed, Bangladeshi writer, television presenter, organizer and activist
  • Abdullah Al Mamun, Bangladeshi playwright, actor and filmmaker
  • Abu Hena Mustafa Kamal, a major songwriter of contemporary Bengali, poet, essayist, critic and presenter
  • Abu Zafar Obaidullah, poet and civil servant
  • Abul Fazal, Bangladeshi writer and educationist
  • Ahmed Sofa, Bangladeshi poet, novelist, writer, critic, translator and intellectual
  • Ahsan Habib, Bangladeshi cartoonist, writer and editor of Unmad, a satire magazine
  • Akhteruzzaman Elias, Bengladeshi novelist and short-story writer
  • Alamgir Kabir, filmmaker; three of his feature films are featured in the British Film Institute's list of "Top 10 Bangladeshi Films"
  • Aly Zaker, actor, director, businessman, Bangladeshi freedom fighter and occasional writer and photographer
  • Anwar Pasha, author of 'Rifle, Roti, Awrat (1971), the first novel set on the Bangladesh War of Independence, brutally murdered by Pakistani Army and local collaborators on 14 December 1971 (Martyred Intellectuals Day)
  • Asad Chowdhury, poet, writer, translator and journalist
  • Bipasha Hayat, Bangladeshi actress
  • Buddhadeb Bosu, major Bengali writer of the mid-twentieth century, belonging to the Kollol age
  • Chanchal Chowdhury, Bangladeshi actor
  • Debabrata Basu, mathematical statistician
  • Dino Shafeek, Bengali actor based in the United Kingdom
  • Fakrul Alam, Bangladeshi academic, writer, and translator
  • Ferdausi Rahman, eminent playback, ghazal and folk singer
  • Ferdous Ahmed, Bangladeshi actor
  • Ferdousi Mazumder, Bangladeshi actress
  • Firoz Mahmud, Bangladeshi contemporary visual artist, painter, and creator
  • Ghulam Murshid, author, researcher and journalist
  • Golam Mustafa, Bangladeshi actor
  • Hasnat Abdul Hye, Bangladesi writer and novelist
  • Helal Hafiz, Bangladeshi poet
  • Hosne Ara Shahed, Bengali writer and educationist
  • Humayun Ahmed, Bengali novelist, short-story writer and filmmaker
  • Humayun Azad, Bengali novelist, poet, essayist and professor
  • Ilias Kanchan, Bangladeshi filmstar, actor and road-safety activist
  • Kabir Chowdhury, academic, essayist, materialist, translator
  • Kaiser Hamidul Haq, Bangladeshi poet, translator, essayist, critic and academic
  • Khan Ataur Rahman, Bangladeshi film actor, director, producer, screenplay writer, music composer, and singer
  • Khondakar Ashraf Hossain, poet, essayist, translator and editor from Bangladesh
  • Kiran Chandra Roy, Bangladeshi baul and folk musician and songwriter.
  • Maksudul Ahsan, artist
  • Mobarak Hossain Khan, music researcher, surbahar player
  • Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, popular sci-fi writer
  • Munier Choudhury, playwright
  • Murtaza Bashir, Bangladeshi painter
  • Nilufar Yasmin, Bangladeshi singer
  • Natyaguru Nurul Momen, playwright, director, belles letters writer, satirist, personal essayist, lawyer
  • Qazi Anwar Hussain, author, publisher and translator
  • Qazi Motahar Hossain, Bangladeshi author, scientist, statistician and journalist
  • Rafiqun Nabi, Bangladeshi artist and cartoonist
  • Ramendu Majumdar, Bangladeshi actor, stage director and theater producer and President of the International Theatre Institute
  • Rashid Askari, Bengali-English writer, academic, columnist,fictionist,translator and the 12th Vice Chancellor of Islamic University, Bangladesh
  • Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah, poet
  • Sabina Yasmin, Bangladeshi singer
  • Sara Zaker, theater and television actor, entrepreneur and social activist
  • Sayeem Rana, Poet, Researcher, Musicologist, Music Director, National film Award 2014
  • Serajul Islam Choudhury, literary critic, public intellectual, social analyst, historian, editor, and professor emeritus
  • Shafiq Tuhin, Bangladeshi lyricist, music director and singer
  • Shahidul Zahir, Bengladeshi novelist and short-story writer
  • Shahidullah Kaiser, major Bengali novelist and Dhaka University professor, brutally murdered by Pakistani Army and local collaborators on 14 December 1971 (Martyred Intellectuals Day)
  • Shahriar Kabir, Bangladeshi novelist, journalist, filmmaker and human rights activist
  • Shamsur Rahman, Bengali poet, columnist and journalist
  • Shishir Bhattacharjee, artist
  • Shuvro Dev, Bangladeshi musician
  • Suborna Mustafa, Bangladeshi television and film actress
  • Syed Abul Maksud, Bangladeshi author, columnist, research scholar, and essayist
  • Syed Ali Ahsan, poet and author
  • Syed Manzoorul Islam, Bangladeshi academic, writer, novelist, translator, columnist, and critic
  • Tahsan Rahman Khan, singer, keyboardist, guitarist, composer, lyricist, actor, anchor and teacher
  • Tanvir Mokammel, Bengali filmmaker, and author
  • Tareque Masud, Bangladeshi independent film director, film producer, screenwriter and lyricist
  • Taslima Akhter, activist and photographer
  • Taslima Nasrin, atheist writer
  • Waheedul Haq, journalist, writer, musicologist and founder of Chhayanaut
  • Zahir Raihan, Pioneer Bangladeshi filmmaker and noted novelist and short-story writer.
  • Zobeda Khanum, writer

Journalism and media[]

Games and sports[]

  • Athar Ali Khan, former international cricketer and cricket commentator
  • Jahurul Islam, international cricketer
  • Mosharraf Hossain, international cricketer
  • Musa Ibrahim, first Bangladeshi to summit Mount Everest
  • Shahriar Nafees, international cricketer
  • Ziaur Rahman, chess player from Bangladesh and the second Grandmaster of the country

Chiefs of Forces[]

  • Lieutenant General H M Ershad, 5th Chief of Army Staff of Bangladesh
  • Lieutenant General Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury, 13th Chief of Army Staff of Bangladesh
  • General Abu Belal Muhammad Shafiul Huq, 17th Chief of Army Staff of Bangladesh

Business[]

Others[]

  • Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, founder of BRAC, 1980 Ramon Magsaysay awardee for Community Leadership
  • Tahrunessa Abdullah, 1978 Ramon Magsaysay awardee for Community Leadership

References[]

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