{"id":2739,"date":"2025-09-20T13:26:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T13:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/?p=2739"},"modified":"2025-09-20T13:26:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T13:26:38","slug":"great-bangalis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/2025\/09\/20\/great-bangalis\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Bangalis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ref: Wikipedia:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Nobel_laureates\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Bengalis\">Nobel laureates<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rabindranath_Tagore\">Rabindranath Tagore<\/a>, Nobel Prize in Literature, First Nobel Prize winner of Asia, 1913<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amartya_Sen\">Amartya Sen<\/a>, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, 1998<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Muhammad_Yunus\">Muhammad Yunus<\/a>, Nobel Peace Prize, 2006<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abhijit_Banerjee\">Abhijit Banerjee<\/a>, Nobel Prize in Economic science, 2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Pala_Dynasty\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pala_Empire\">Pala Dynasty<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gopala_I\">Gopala I<\/a>, the founder of the Pala dynasty, which was based in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bengal\">Bengal<\/a>\u00a0region of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indian_subcontinent\">Indian subcontinent<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dharmapala_(emperor)\">Dharmapala<\/a>, founder of ancient\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vikramashila\">Vikramashila<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buddhist\">Buddhist Mahavihara<\/a>, it was one of the three most important\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buddhist\">Buddhist Mahaviharas<\/a>\u00a0in ancient India, along with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nalanda\">Nalanda<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taxila\">Taxila<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Devapala_(Pala_dynasty)\">Devapala<\/a>, expanded the frontiers of the empire by conquering the present-day Assam and Orissa.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mahendrapala\">Mahendrapala<\/a> and etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Chandra_Dynasty\">Chandra Dynasty<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Traillokyachandra\">Traillokyachandra<\/a>\u00a0(900\u2013930)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Srichandra\">Srichandra<\/a>\u00a0(930\u2013975)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kalyanachandra\">Kalyanachandra<\/a>\u00a0(975\u20131000)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ladahachandra\">Ladahachandra<\/a>\u00a0(1000\u20131020)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Govindachandra_(Chandra_dynasty)\">Govindachandra<\/a>\u00a0(1020\u20131050)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Deva_Dynasty\">Deva Dynasty<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dasharathadeva\">Dasharathadeva<\/a>\u00a0(1281)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pratapaditya\">Pratapaditya<\/a>, Maharaja of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jessore_(city)\">Jessore<\/a>\u00a0(1561\u20131611)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kirtinarayan_Basu\">Kirtinarayan Basu<\/a>, Raja of Chandradwip (from 1668), converted to Islam<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Ilyas_Shahi_dynasty_(1352\u20131414)\">Ilyas Shahi dynasty (1352\u20131414)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Main article:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ilyas_Shahi_dynasty\">Ilyas Shahi dynasty<\/a> and etc etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><th>Name<\/th><th>Reign<\/th><th>Notes<\/th><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shamsuddin_Ilyas_Shah\">Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah<\/a><\/td><td>1352\u20131358<\/td><td>Became the first sole ruler of whole&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bengal\">Bengal<\/a>&nbsp;comprising&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sonargaon\">Sonargaon<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Satgaon\">Satgaon<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gau%E1%B8%8Da_(city)\">Lakhnauti<\/a>.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sikandar_Shah\">Sikandar Shah<\/a><\/td><td>1358\u20131390<\/td><td>Killed in battle with his son and successor,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ghiyasuddin_Azam_Shah\">Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ghiyasuddin_Azam_Shah\">Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah<\/a><\/td><td>1390\u20131411<\/td><td>Patron of the first recorded Bengali poet&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shah_Muhammad_Saghir\">Shah Muhammad Saghir<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rabindranath_Tagore\"><br>Rabindranath Tagore<\/a>&nbsp;(1861\u20111941)<\/td><td>Bishwakobi Gurudev<sup><em>(Divine Mentor)<\/em><\/sup><\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Rabindranath_Tagore_in_1909.jpg\"><\/a><\/td><td><strong>Author<\/strong>Nobel Prize Winner<\/td><td>Bengali polymath. Referred by many as the&nbsp;<em>Bengali Shakespeare<\/em>. Most successful and influential writer in Bengali literature. First&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nobel_Prize\">Nobel Prize<\/a>&nbsp;winner from Asia. Composer of national anthems of India and Bangladesh.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>5<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Subhas_Chandra_Bose\">Subhas Chandra Bose<\/a>&nbsp;(1897\u20111945)<\/td><td>Netaji<em><sup>(Honorable Leader)<\/sup><\/em><\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Netaji_Subhas_Chandra_Bose.jpg\"><\/a><\/td><td><strong>Politician<\/strong>Nationalist Activist<\/td><td>One of the principal figures of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indian_independence_movement\">Indian Independence Movement<\/a>. Built own army to fight against British colonial rule. Visited around the globe to seek support and assistance for India&#8217;s independence.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>14<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amartya_Sen\">Amartya Sen<\/a>&nbsp;(1933\u2011)<\/td><td><\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Amartya_Sen_NIH.jpg\"><\/a><\/td><td><strong>Economist<\/strong>Nobel Prize Winner<\/td><td>Prominent economist. Won Nobel Prize in economics<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>1<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sheikh_Mujibur_Rahman\">Sheikh Mujibur Rahman<\/a>&nbsp;(1920\u20111975)<\/td><td>Bangabandhu<sup><em>(Friend of Bengal)<\/em><\/sup><\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Sheikh_Mujibur_Rahman_in_1950.jpg\"><\/a><\/td><td><strong>Politician<\/strong>Leader of IndependencePresidentPrime Minister<\/td><td>Founding Father of Bangladesh. Firebrand politician who shook the foundation of Pakistan by breaking away its eastern wing (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/East_Bengal\">East Bengal<\/a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/East_Pakistan\">East Pakistan<\/a>) as the sovereign state of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bangladesh\">Bangladesh<\/a>. Led Bengalis&#8217; decade-long struggle for independence against the then autocratic regime, finally resulting in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bangladesh_Liberation_War\">Bangladesh Liberation War<\/a>&nbsp;and the independence of Bangladesh in 1971.Served twice as President and once as Prime Minister of Bangladesh after independence. Assassinated along with almost his entire family in a military coup in 1975.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Reference: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greatest_Bengali_of_All_Time\">Greatest Bengali of All Time<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Hussain_Shahi_dynasty_(1494\u20131538)\">Hussain Shahi dynasty (1494\u20131538)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Main article:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hussain_Shahi_dynasty\">Hussain Shahi dynasty<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><th>Name<\/th><th>Reign<\/th><th>Notes<\/th><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alauddin_Hussain_Shah\">Alauddin Hussain Shah<\/a><\/td><td>1494\u20131518<\/td><td>His witnessed a remarkable development of Bengali literature.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nasiruddin_Nasrat_Shah\">Nasiruddin Nasrat Shah<\/a><\/td><td>1518\u20131533<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alauddin_Firuz_Shah_II\">Alauddin Firuz Shah<\/a><\/td><td>1533<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ghiyasuddin_Mahmud_Shah\">Ghiyasuddin Mahmud Shah<\/a><\/td><td>1533\u20131538<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Academics\">Academics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a class=\"mw-file-description\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Dr._Abdul_Malik.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/3\/38\/Dr._Abdul_Malik.jpg\/250px-Dr._Abdul_Malik.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abdul_Malik_(physician)\">Abdul Malik<\/a>&nbsp;was Pakistan&#8217;s first cardiologist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Momtazuddin_Ahmed_(philosopher)\">Momtazuddin Ahmed<\/a>, philosopher and educationist<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abu_Sayeed_Ayyub\">Abu Sayeed Ayyub<\/a>, Indian philosopher, teacher, literary critic.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dewan_Mohammad_Azraf\">Dewan Mohammad Azraf<\/a>, National Professor of Bangladesh<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sanghamitra_Bandyopadhyay\">Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay<\/a>, first women Director of Indian Statistical Institute, India<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chandramukhi_Basu\">Chandramukhi Basu<\/a>, computer scientist and first female graduate in India, and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/British_Empire\">British Empire<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sekhar_Basu\">Sekhar Basu<\/a>\u00a0was an Indian nuclear scientist who served as the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary to the Government of India<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nurunnahar_Fatema_Begum\">Nurunnahar Fatema Begum<\/a>, head of paediatric cardiology at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Combined_Medical_Hospital_(Dhaka)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\">Combined Medical Hospital (Dhaka)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anudvaipayan_Bhattacharya\">Anudvaipayan Bhattacharya<\/a>, university lecturer martyred in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bangladesh_Liberation_War\">Bangladesh Liberation War<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jatindramohan_Bhattacharya\">Jatindramohan Bhattacharya<\/a>, academic and literary researcher&#8230;etc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Actors_and_entertainers\">Actors and entertainers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a class=\"mw-file-description\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Khalil11.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/7\/79\/Khalil11.jpg\/250px-Khalil11.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Khalil_Ullah_Khan\">Khalil Ullah Khan<\/a>&nbsp;earned Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in&nbsp;<em>Gunda<\/em>&nbsp;in 1976.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Siam_Ahmed\">Siam Ahmed<\/a>, Bangladeshi actor and model<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amala_Akkineni\">Amala Akkineni<\/a>, Bollywood actress<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alamgir_(actor)\">Alamgir<\/a>, Bengali film actor and TV host<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Niloy_Alamgir\">Niloy Alamgir<\/a>, model and actor<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ruhul_Amin\">Ruhul Amin<\/a>, film director<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Afshan_Azad\">Afshan Azad<\/a>, actress best known for the role of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Padma_Patil\">Padma Patil<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harry_Potter_(film_series)\">Harry Potter<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Azim_(actor)\">Azim<\/a>, actor best known for the role of Rahim Badshah in\u00a0<em>Rupban<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jaya_Bachchan\">Jaya Bachchan<\/a>, Bollywood and Bengali film actress<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abhishek_Bachchan\">Abhishek Bachchan<\/a>, Bollywood actor; son of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jaya_Bachchan\">Jaya Bachchan<\/a> etc etc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Artists_and_designers\">Artists and designers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zainul_Abedin\">Zainul Abedin<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shahabuddin_Ahmed\">Shahabuddin Ahmed<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shahidul_Alam\">Shahidul Alam<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ramkinkar_Baij\">Ramkinkar Baij<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ramaprasad_Banik\">Ramaprasad Banik<\/a> etc etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Bharat_Ratna_Receivers\">Bharat Ratna Receivers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>List of Bengalis who received&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bharat_Ratna\">Bharat Ratna<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jawaharlal_Nehru\">Jawaharlal Nehru<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indian_National_Congress\">Indian National Congress<\/a>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1961\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bidhan_Chandra_Roy\">Bidhan Chandra Roy<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patna\">Patna<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bengal_Presidency\">Bengal Presidency<\/a>, now\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bihar\">Bihar<\/a>, India)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/P._V._Narasimha_Rao\">P. V. Narasimha Rao<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indian_National_Congress\">Indian National Congress<\/a>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1992\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Satyajit_Ray\">Satyajit Ray<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Calcutta\">Calcutta<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bengal_Presidency\">Bengal Presidency<\/a>, now\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/West_Bengal\">West Bengal<\/a>, India)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1997\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aruna_Asaf_Ali\">Aruna Asaf Ali<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kalka\">Kalka<\/a>, Punjab, British India,(now in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Haryana\">Haryana<\/a>, India)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atal_Bihari_Vajpayee\">Atal Bihari Vajpayee<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bharatiya_Janata_Party\">Bharatiya Janata Party<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Democratic_Alliance\">NDA<\/a>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1999\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amartya_Sen\">Amartya Sen<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shantiniketan\">Shantiniketan<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bengal_Presidency\">Bengal Presidency<\/a>, now\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bolpur\">Bolpur<\/a>, West Bengal, India)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1999\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ravi_Shankar\">Ravi Shankar<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Varanasi\">Varanasi<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benares_State\">Benares State<\/a>, now\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Varanasi\">Varanasi<\/a>, Uttar Pradesh, India)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Narendra_Modi\">Narendra Modi<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bharatiya_Janata_Party\">Bharatiya Janata Party<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Democratic_Alliance\">NDA<\/a>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2019\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pranab_Mukherjee\">Pranab Mukherjee<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Birbhum\">Birbhum<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bengal\">Bengal<\/a>, now\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/West_Bengal\">West Bengal<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Bloggers_\/_media_artists\">Bloggers \/ media artists<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hasan_M._Elahi\">Hasan M. Elahi<\/a>, interdisciplinary media artist<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pritish_Nandy\">Pritish Nandy<\/a>, poet, author, editor in chief of\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Illustrated_Weekly_of_India\">The Illustrated Weekly of India<\/a><\/em>\u00a0as well as Publishing Director and Managing Editor of\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Times_of_India_Group\">The Times of India Group<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reihan_Salam\">Reihan Salam<\/a>, journalist, blogger at\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_American_Scene\">The American Scene<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and associate editor of\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Atlantic_Monthly\">The Atlantic Monthly<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Business_and_industry\">Business and industry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Billionaires\">Billionaires<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sanjit_Biswas\">Sanjit Biswas<\/a>, Indian American entrepreneur and CEO\/ Co-founder of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Samsara_(company)\">Samsara (company)<\/a>, built and sold Meraki to Cisco for $1.2 billion.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ankiti_Bose\">Ankiti Bose<\/a>, Founder of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zilingo\">Zilingo<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Purnendu_Chatterjee\">Purnendu Chatterjee<\/a>, Founder &amp; Chairman, TCG Group, that owns\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Haldia_Petrochemicals\">Haldia Petrochemicals<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tapan_Chowdhury_(businessman)\">Tapan Chowdhury<\/a>, CEO and MD of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Square_Pharmaceuticals\">Square Pharmaceuticals<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Square_Group\">Square Group<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Square_Hospital\">Square Hospital<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maasranga_Television\">Maasranga Television<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chandra_Shekhar_Ghosh\">Chandra Shekhar Ghosh<\/a>, Founder, Managing Director &amp; CEO of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bandhan_Bank\">Bandhan Bank<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pradeep_Kar\">Pradeep Kar<\/a>, Founder of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Microland\">Microland<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Salman_F_Rahman\">Salman F Rahman<\/a>, Founder &amp; Vice Chairman of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BEXIMCO\">BEXIMCO<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sunil_Kanti_Roy\">Sunil Kanti Roy<\/a>, Founder of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peerless_Group\">Peerless Group<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aveek_Sarkar\">Aveek Sarkar<\/a>, Vice Chairman &amp; Editor Emeritus,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ananda_Bazaar_Patrika\">Ananda Bazaar Patrika<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ahmed_Akbar_Sobhan\">Ahmed Akbar Sobhan<\/a>, Founder and Chairman of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bashundhara_Group\">Bashundhara Group<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Business_leaders\">Business leaders<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iqbal_Ahmed\">Iqbal Ahmed<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Order_of_the_British_Empire\">OBE<\/a>, entrepreneur and CEO of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seamark_Group\">Seamark Group<\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sunday_Times_Rich_List_2006\">In 2006<\/a>, he became the highest British Bangladeshi to feature on the\u00a0<em>Sunday Times<\/em>\u00a0Rich List (listed at number 511). He has a net worth of $250 million.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Bengalis#cite_note-worldsrichpeople-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Syed_Ahmed_(businessman)\">Syed Ahmed<\/a>, British entrepreneur, businessman, television personality<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prith_Banerjee\">Prith Banerjee<\/a>, CTO of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ANSYS\">ANSYS<\/a>, former director of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HP_Labs\">HP Labs<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arundhati_Bhattacharya\">Arundhati Bhattacharya<\/a>, chairperson and CEO of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Salesforce\">Salesforce<\/a>\u00a0India and first woman director of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/State_Bank_of_India\">State Bank of India<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kumar_Bhattacharyya,_Baron_Bhattacharyya\">Kumar Bhattacharyya, Baron Bhattacharyya<\/a>, Director,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Warwick_Manufacturing_Group\">Warwick Manufacturing Group<\/a> etc etc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Entrepreneurs\">Entrepreneurs<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Muquim_Ahmed\">Muquim Ahmed<\/a>, banking, travel, a chain of restaurants with the Cafe Naz group, publishing and property development.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Badruddin_Ajmal\">Badruddin Ajmal<\/a>, managing director of Ajmal Perfumes and Lok Sabha MP from Dhubri, Assam<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Enam_Ali\">Enam Ali<\/a>, founder of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/British_Curry_Awards\">British Curry Awards<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spice_Business_Magazine\">Spice Business Magazine<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ion_TV\">Ion TV<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ragib_Ali\">Ragib Ali<\/a>, industrialist, pioneer tea-planter, educationalist, philanthropist and banker who has a net worth of $250 million.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Bengalis#cite_note-worldsrichpeople-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Subroto_Bagchi\">Subroto Bagchi<\/a>, founder and former chairman,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mindtree\">Mindtree<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Siddhartha_Basu\">Siddhartha Basu<\/a>, founder and CMD of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BIG_Synergy\">BIG Synergy<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amar_Bose\">Amar Bose<\/a>, founder of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bose_Corporation\">Bose Corporation<\/a> etc etc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Sahitya_Akademi_Award\">Sahitya Akademi Award<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Main article:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Sahitya_Akademi_Award_winners_for_Bengali\">List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Bengali<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Cartoonists_\/_comics_creators\">Cartoonists \/ comics creators<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jayanto_Banerjee\">Jayanto Banerjee<\/a>, Indian cartoonist and illustrator<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neelabh_Banerjee\">Neelabh Banerjee<\/a>, Indian cartoonist and illustrator<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sarnath_Banerjee\">Sarnath Banerjee<\/a>, graphic story writer, co-founded the comics publishing house\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phantomville\">Phantomville<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Samit_Basu\">Samit Basu<\/a>, comics writer at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virgin_Comics\">Virgin Comics<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Suddhasattwa_Basu\">Suddhasattwa Basu<\/a>, illustrator<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chittaprosad_Bhattacharya\">Chittaprosad Bhattacharya<\/a>, Indian cartoonist<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rimi_B._Chatterjee\">Rimi B. Chatterjee<\/a>, graphic story writer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shamik_Dasgupta_(writer)\">Shamik Dasgupta<\/a>, graphic story writer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Narayan_Debnath\">Narayan Debnath<\/a>, creator of\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nonte_Phonte\">Nonte Phonte<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Batul_the_Great\">Batul the Great<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Handa_Bhonda\">Handa Bhonda<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chandi_Lahiri\">Chandi Lahiri<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cartoonist\">cartoonist<\/a>\u00a0and painter<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Satyajit_Ray\">Satyajit Ray<\/a>, filmmaker, creator of comic characters like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Feluda\">Feluda<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Professor_Shonku\">Professor Shonku<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atanu_Roy\">Atanu Roy<\/a>, illustrator<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gaganendranath_Tagore\">Gaganendranath Tagore<\/a>, cartoonist and painter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Cinematographers\">Cinematographers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ayananka_Bose\">Ayananka Bose<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sudeep_Chatterjee\">Sudeep Chatterjee<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Subrata_Mitra\">Subrata Mitra<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Avik_Mukhopadhyay\">Avik Mukhopadhyay<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soumendu_Roy\">Soumendu Roy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Dadasaheb_Phalke_Award_winners\">Dadasaheb Phalke Award winners<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Raichand_Boral\">Raichand Boral<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nitin_Bose\">Nitin Bose<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kanan_Devi\">Kanan Devi<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manna_Dey\">Manna Dey<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mithun_Chakraborty\">Mithun Chakraborty<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soumitra_Chatterjee\">Soumitra Chatterjee<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dhirendra_Nath_Ganguly\">Dhirendra Nath Ganguly<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ashok_Kumar\">Ashok Kumar<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hrishikesh_Mukherjee\">Hrishikesh Mukherjee<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pankaj_Mullick\">Pankaj Mullick<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Devika_Rani\">Devika Rani<\/a>, was the first recipient of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dadasaheb_Phalke_Award\">Dadasaheb Phalke Award<\/a>\u00a0and was awarded the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Padma_Shri\">Padma Shri<\/a>. Widely acknowledged as the First Lady of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cinema_of_India\">Indian cinema<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Satyajit_Ray\">Satyajit Ray<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mrinal_Sen\">Mrinal Sen<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tapan_Sinha\">Tapan Sinha<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/B._N._Sircar\">B. N. Sircar<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Diplomats\">Diplomats<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atul_Chandra_Chatterjee\">Atul Chandra Chatterjee<\/a>, former ambassador to the UK<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chandrashekhar_Dasgupta\">Chandrashekhar Dasgupta<\/a>, former ambassador to China<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Munshi_Mohammad_Fazle_Kader\">Munshi Mohammad Fazle Kader<\/a>, Assistant High Commissioner to Pakistan<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bhupendra_Nath_Mitra\">Bhupendra Nath Mitra<\/a>, former ambassador to the UK<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Siddhartha_Shankar_Ray\">Siddhartha Shankar Ray<\/a>, former ambassador to the US<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Binay_Ranjan_Sen\">Binay Ranjan Sen<\/a>, former ambassador to the US<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ronen_Sen\">Ronen Sen<\/a>, former ambassador to the US and UK<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Samar_Sen_(diplomat)\">Samar Sen (diplomat)<\/a>, served as the 1st permanent representative to the United Nations, Geneva<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Economists\">Economists<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a class=\"mw-file-description\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:M._Saifur_Rahman.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/c\/c3\/M._Saifur_Rahman.jpg\/250px-M._Saifur_Rahman.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">In 1994,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saifur_Rahman_(Bangladeshi_politician)\">Saifur Rahman<\/a>&nbsp;was elected governor of the golden jubilee conference of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_Bank\">World Bank<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_Monetary_Fund\">International Monetary Fund<\/a>&nbsp;in Madrid, Spain.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Bengalis#cite_note-thedailystar.net-4\">[4]<\/a><\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Salahuddin_Ahmed_(governor)\">Salahuddin Ahmed<\/a>, 9th governor of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bangladesh_Bank\">Bangladesh Bank<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mir_Masoom_Ali\">Mir Masoom Ali<\/a>, George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Statistics, Ball State University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abhijit_Banerjee\">Abhijit Banerjee<\/a>, Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology\">Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/a>, co-founder of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abdul_Latif_Jameel_Poverty_Action_Lab\">Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab<\/a>, winner of Nobel Prize<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pranab_Bardhan\">Pranab Bardhan<\/a>, professor of economics,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_California,_Berkeley\">University of California, Berkeley<\/a>, has been on the editorial board of a number of economics journals<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kaushik_Basu\">Kaushik Basu<\/a>, Chief Economist,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_Bank\">World Bank<\/a>; C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cornell_University\">Cornell University<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arundhati_Bhattacharya\">Arundhati Bhattacharya<\/a>, first woman director of SBI, largest bank in India<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/P.C._Bhattacharya\">P.C. Bhattacharya<\/a>, former governor of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reserve_Bank_of_India\">Reserve Bank of India<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amitava_Bose\">Amitava Bose<\/a>, professor of economics at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta etc etc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Fellows_of_the_Royal_Society\">Fellows of the Royal Society<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kumar_Bhattacharyya\">Kumar Bhattacharyya<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jagdish_Chandra_Bose\">Jagdish Chandra Bose<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Satyendranath_Bose\">Satyendra Nath Bose<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Partha_Dasgupta\">Partha Dasgupta<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anil_Kumar_Gain\">Anil Kumar Gain<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prasanta_Chandra_Mahalanobis\">Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ashesh_Prasad_Mitra\">Ashesh Prasad Mitra<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sisir_Kumar_Mitra\">Sisir Kumar Mitra<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sharat_Kumar_Roy\">Sharat Kumar Roy<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meghnad_Saha\">Meghnad Saha<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ashoke_Sen\">Ashoke Sen<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Filmmakers\">Filmmakers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Humayun_Ahmed\">Humayun Ahmed<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/San_Banarje\">San Banarje<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dibakar_Banerjee\">Dibakar Banerjee<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anurag_Basu\">Anurag Basu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aditya_Bhattacharya\">Aditya Bhattacharya<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Basu_Bhattacharya\">Basu Bhattacharya<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sachin_Bhowmick\">Sachin Bhowmick<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Debaki_Bose\">Debaki Bose<\/a> etc etc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Grammy_winners\">Grammy winners<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sandeep_Das\">Sandeep Das<\/a>, award for Best World Music Album, at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/59th_Grammy_Awards\">59th Grammy Awards<\/a>, 2017<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Norah_Jones\">Norah Jones<\/a>, 9-time winner<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ravi_Shankar\">Ravi Shankar<\/a>, 5-time winner<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Journalists\">Journalists<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Bangladesh\">Bangladesh<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shah_Alamgir\">Shah Alamgir<\/a>, journalist<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Syed_Mohammad_Ali\">Syed Mohammad Ali<\/a>, founder of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Daily_Star_(Bangladesh)\">The Daily Star<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 the largest circulating daily English-language newspaper in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bangladesh\">Bangladesh<\/a>.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Bengalis#cite_note-5\">[5]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mahfuz_Anam\">Mahfuz Anam<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abul_Asad\">Abul Asad<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nurjahan_Begum\">Nurjahan Begum<\/a> etc etc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"India\">India<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Swapan_Dasgupta\">Swapan Dasgupta<\/a>, journalist<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sunanda_K._Datta-Ray\">Sunanda K. Datta-Ray<\/a>, journalist<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sagarika_Ghose\">Sagarika Ghose<\/a>, editor at CNN-IBN<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chandan_Mitra\">Chandan Mitra<\/a>, editor and managing director of\u00a0<em>The Pioneer<\/em>\u00a0newspaper<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ramananda_Chatterjee\">Ramananda Chatterjee<\/a>, &#8220;father of Indian journalism&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Udayan_Mukherjee\">Udayan Mukherjee<\/a>, editor and anchor in CNBC India<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pritish_Nandy\">Pritish Nandy<\/a>, Publishing Director and Managing Editor, The Times of India Group; Editor in Chief, The Illustrated Weekly of India; chairman, Pritish Nandy Communications Ltd<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prannoy_Roy\">Prannoy Roy<\/a>, founder and President of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NDTV\">NDTV<\/a>, one of India&#8217;s largest television and media production houses<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Samar_Sen_(poet)\">Samar Sen<\/a>, journalist<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barun_Sengupta\">Barun Sengupta<\/a>, political critic, founder-editor of\u00a0<em>Bartaman<\/em>\u00a0newspaper<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vishnu_Som\">Vishnu Som<\/a>, news anchor and journalist<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"America\">America<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sanjiv_Bhattacharya\">Sanjiv Bhattacharya<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bobby_Ghosh\">Bobby Ghosh<\/a>\u00a0(Aparisim Ghosh), journalist, former\u00a0<em>TIME<\/em>\u00a0magazine World Editor; the first non-American to be named World Editor in\u00a0<em>TIME<\/em>&#8216;s more than 80 years<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reihan_Salam\">Reihan Salam<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"United_Kingdom\">United Kingdom<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fareena_Alam\">Fareena Alam<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lisa_Aziz\">Lisa Aziz<\/a>, British television news presenter<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mihir_Bose\">Mihir Bose<\/a>, BBC&#8217;s head sports editor<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reeta_Chakrabarti\">Reeta Chakrabarti<\/a>, political correspondent for the BBC Television&#8217;s Breakfast programme shown on BBC One and the BBC News Channel<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mo_Dutta\">Mo Dutta<\/a>, former TV presenter for BBC Radio 2, BBC Asian Network, BBC Radio Kent<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pallab_Ghosh\">Pallab Ghosh<\/a>, BBC News science reporter<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nina_Hossain\">Nina Hossain<\/a>, British television news broadcaster<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Faisal_Islam\">Faisal Islam<\/a>, current Economics Editor of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BBC_News\">BBC News<\/a>. Former Political Editor of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sky_News\">Sky News<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tasmin_Lucia_Khan\">Tasmin Lucia Khan<\/a>, English journalist and television presenter<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hasina_Momtaz\">Hasina Momtaz<\/a>, former\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Press_officer\">press officer<\/a>\u00a0for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mayor_of_London\">Mayor of London<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sarah_Mukherjee\">Sarah Mukherjee<\/a>, former BBC Environment Correspondent, currently a regular contributor on Radio 4&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Today<\/em>\u00a0programme<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Pakistan\">Pakistan<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zaib-un-Nissa_Hamidullah\">Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah<\/a>, Pakistan&#8217;s first female editor; first woman to be included in a press delegation; in 1955, became the first woman to speak at the ancient\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Al_Azhar_University\">al Azhar University<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cairo\">Cairo<\/a>, Egypt<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Altaf_Husain\">Altaf Husain<\/a>, 1st editor-in-chief of Pakistan&#8217;s oldest, leading and most widely read English-language newspaper,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dawn_(newspaper)\">Dawn<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and former\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Minister_for_Industries_and_Production_(Pakistan)\">Industry Minister of Pakistan<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Qatar\">Qatar<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shiulie_Ghosh\">Shiulie Ghosh<\/a>, television journalist at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Al_Jazeera_English\">Al Jazeera English<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Uganda\">Uganda<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rajat_Neogy\">Rajat Neogy<\/a>, journalist, poet, columnist, founding editor of\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transition_Magazine\">Transition Magazine<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Law\">Law<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Syed_Ameer_Ali\">Syed Ameer Ali<\/a>, prominent Indian (British Indian) lawyer, key jurist of Muslim personal law, founding member of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/All_India_Muslim_League\">All India Muslim League<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bankim_Chandra_Ray\">Bankim Chandra Ray<\/a>, former chief justice of India<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kalyan_Banerjee_(Rotary_International)\">Kalyan Banerjee<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rotary_International\">Rotary International<\/a>&#8216;s 101st president<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gooroodas_Banerjee\">Gooroodas Banerjee<\/a>, former High Court judge, Calcutta<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mahmudul_Amin_Choudhury\">Mahmudul Amin Choudhury<\/a>, 11th\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chief_Justice_of_Bangladesh\">chief justice of Bangladesh<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chittaranjan_Das\">Chittaranjan Das<\/a>, barrister and Indian independence activist, represented the accused in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alipore_Bomb_case\">Alipore Bomb case<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sudhi_Ranjan_Das\">Sudhi Ranjan Das<\/a>, former chief justice of India<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monomohun_Ghose\">Monomohun Ghose<\/a>, first practising\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barrister\">barrister<\/a>\u00a0of Indian origin<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kamal_Hossain\">Kamal Hossain<\/a>, the author of Bangladeshi Constitution and icon of secular democracy in South Asia; prominent international lawyer and arbitrator etc etc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Magicians\">Magicians<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jewel_Aich\">Jewel Aich<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maneka_Sorcar\">Maneka Sorcar<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/P._C._Sorcar\">P. C. Sorcar<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/P._C._Sorcar,_Jr.\">P. C. Sorcar, Jr.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Musicians\">Musicians<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Bangla_rock\">Bangla rock<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shafin_Ahmed\">Shafin Ahmed<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ayub_Bachchu\">Ayub Bachchu<\/a>, founding member and the leader of the Bengali rock band\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Love_Runs_Blind_(LRB)\">Love Runs Blind (LRB)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Balam_(singer)\">Balam<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Partha_Barua\">Partha Barua<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chandril_Bhattacharya\">Chandril Bhattacharya<\/a>, lyricist and one of the founders of the Bangla band Chandrabindoo<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nachiketa_Chakraborty\">Nachiketa Chakraborty<\/a> etc etc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Bangladeshi_film_industry\">Bangladeshi film industry<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abdul_Alim\">Abdul Alim<\/a>, National Award-winning playback singer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Asif_Akbar\">Asif Akbar<\/a>, National Award-winning playback singer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Momtaz_Begum\">Momtaz Begum<\/a>, National Award-winning playback singer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kumar_Biswajit\">Kumar Biswajit<\/a>, National Award-winning playback singer and composer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ahmed_Imtiaz_Bulbul\">Ahmed Imtiaz Bulbul<\/a>, freedom fighter and National Award-winning music director<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kanak_Chapa\">Kanak Chapa<\/a>, National Award-winning playback singer etc etc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Bollywood\">Bollywood<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mohammed_Aziz\">Mohammed Aziz<\/a>, Bollywood playback singer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abhijeet_Bhattacharya\">Abhijeet Bhattacharya<\/a>, Bollywood playback singer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amitabh_Bhattacharya\">Amitabh Bhattacharya<\/a>, lyricist and singer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anil_Biswas_(composer)\">Anil Biswas<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/R._D._Burman\">Rahul Dev Burman<\/a>, Bollywood music composer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/S._D._Burman\">Sachin Dev Burman<\/a>, Bollywood music composer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Raichand_Boral\">Raichand Boral<\/a>, Bollywood music composer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soham_Chakraborty\">Soham Chakraborty<\/a>, singer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Salil_Chowdhury\">Salil Chowdhury<\/a>, Bollywood music composer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kamal_Dasgupta\">Kamal Dasgupta<\/a>, composer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geeta_Dutt\">Geeta Dutt<\/a>, Bollywood playback singer etc etc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Classical_and_folk_musicians\">Classical and folk musicians<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abbasuddin_Ahmed\">Abbasuddin Ahmed<\/a>\u00a0(1901\u20131959)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abd_al-Alim\">Abd al-Alim<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kanika_Banerjee\">Kanika Banerjee<\/a>\u00a0(1924\u20132000), Rabindrasangeet performer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikhil_Banerjee\">Nikhil Banerjee<\/a>\u00a0(1931\u20131986), sitar performer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Firoza_Begum_(singer)\">Firoza Begum<\/a>\u00a0(1930\u20132014), eminent exponent of Nazrul Geeti<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Momtaz_Begum\">Momtaz Begum<\/a>\u00a0(born 1974), Bangladeshi folk singer, world record holder etc etc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Hindi_rock\">Hindi rock<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Asheem_Chakravarty\">Asheem Chakravarty<\/a>, co-founder of the popular Indian band\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indian_Ocean_(band)\">Indian Ocean<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Palash_Sen\">Palash Sen<\/a>, lead vocalist of Indian band Euphoria<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Susmit_Sen\">Susmit Sen<\/a>, co-founder of the popular Indian band Indian Ocean<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Western\">Western<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sameer_Bhattacharya\">Sameer Bhattacharya<\/a>, lead guitarist of the American alternative rock band\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flyleaf_(band)\">Flyleaf<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Futurecop!\">Futurecop!<\/a>, electronic band, members include Manzur Iqbal from United Kingdom<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Norah_Jones\">Norah Jones<\/a>, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress, daughter of sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar; Indian Bengali<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sanjaya_Malakar\">Sanjaya Malakar<\/a>, American born Indian origin singer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shikhee\">Shikhee<\/a>, singer; auteur of American industrial band Android Lust<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mumzy_Stranger\">Mumzy Stranger<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monica_Yunus\">Monica Yunus<\/a>, operatic soprano<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Military\">Military<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Bangladesh_2\">Bangladesh<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shakil_Ahmed_(general)\">Shakil Ahmed<\/a>, former head of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bangladesh_Rifles\">Bangladesh Rifles<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mohammad_Ruhul_Amin\">Mohammad Ruhul Amin<\/a>, awarded\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bir_Sreshtho\">Bir Sreshtho<\/a>, the highest military award of Bangladesh; war hero of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bangladesh_Liberation_War\">Bangladesh Liberation War<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saiful_Azam\">Saiful Azam<\/a>, served under\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bangladesh_Air_Force\">Bangladesh Air Force<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iraqi_Air_Force\">Iraqi Air Force<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pakistan_Air_Force\">Pakistan Air Force<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Royal_Jordanian_Air_Force\">Royal Jordanian Air Force<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hasan_Mashhud_Chowdhury\">Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury<\/a>, 11th\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chief_of_Army_Staff_of_the_Bangladesh_Army\">Chief of Army Staff of the Bangladesh Army<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ismail_Faruque_Chowdhury\">Ismail Faruque Chowdhury<\/a>, engineer-in-chief of the Bangladesh Army<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saiful_Islam_Duke\">Saiful Islam Duke<\/a>, former Lieutenant Commander of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bangladesh_Navy\">Bangladesh Navy<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chitta_Ranjan_Dutta\">Chitta Ranjan Dutta<\/a>, Bangladeshi\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/War_hero\">war hero<\/a>\u00a0and retired\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Major-General\">Major-General<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bangladesh_Army\">Bangladesh Army<\/a>, key sector commander of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mukti_Bahini\">Mukti Bahini<\/a>\u00a0during the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bangladesh_Liberation_War\">Bangladesh Liberation War<\/a> etc etc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"India_2\">India<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Flight Lieutenant\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Suhas_Biswas\">Suhas Biswas<\/a>\u00a0(1924\u20131993), recipient of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ashoka_Chakra_(military_decoration)\">Ashoka Chakra<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Subhas_Chandra_Bose\">Subhas Chandra Bose<\/a>\u00a0(1897\u20131945), leader,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indian_National_Army\">Indian National Army<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Air Marshal\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Padma_Bandopadhyay\">Padma Bandopadhyay<\/a>, PVSM, AVSM, VSM, first woman to be promoted to three-star rank in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indian_Air_Force\">Indian Air Force<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Air Vice Marshal\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Madhavendra_Banerji\">Madhavendra Banerji<\/a>\u00a0(1934\u20132019), MVC, VM of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indian_Air_Force\">Indian Air Force<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Major General (Retd.)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dipankar_Banerjee_(general)\">Dipankar Banerjee (general)<\/a>, Founding Director of the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies<sup>[<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Citation_needed\">citation needed<\/a><\/em>]<\/sup><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Vice Admiral\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pradeep_Kumar_Chatterjee\">Pradeep Kumar Chatterjee<\/a>, Indian Navy, later Commander-in-Chief, Andaman and Nicobar Command<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Admiral\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adhar_Kumar_Chatterji\">Adhar Kumar Chatterji<\/a>\u00a0(1914\u20132001), Indian Navy Chief 1966\u20131970<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>General\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joyanto_Nath_Chaudhuri\">Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri<\/a>\u00a0(1908\u20131983), Indian Army Chief during the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indo-Pakistani_War_of_1965\">Indo-Pakistani War of 1965<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Commodore\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ajitendu_Chakraverti\">Ajitendu Chakraverti<\/a>, Indian Navy, first Indian officer to be promoted to Commodore<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>etc etc<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Other_2\">Other<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abuhena_Saifulislam\">Abu Hena Saiful Islam<\/a>\u00a0(born 1963), Muslim chaplain for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/US_Navy\">US Navy<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kalapahad\">Kalapahad<\/a>\u00a0(died 1575), military general for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Karrani_dynasty\">Karrani dynasty<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Masum_Khan\">Masum Khan<\/a>\u00a0(born 1604), Zamindar of Sarail and soldier of the Mughal empire<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hayat_Mahmud\">Hayat Mahmud<\/a>, military general and Zamindar of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barisal_District\">Buzurg-Umedpur<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Padma_Vibhushan\">Padma Vibhushan<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Milon_K._Banerji\">Milon K. Banerji<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nand_Lal_Bose\">Nand Lal Bose<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Satyendra_Nath_Bose\">Satyendra Nath Bose<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Suniti_Kumar_Chatterji\">Suniti Kumar Chatterji<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/D._P._Chattopadhyaya\">D. P. Chattopadhyaya<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joyanto_Nath_Chaudhuri\">Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri<\/a> etc etc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Political_leaders_outside_of_India,_Bangladesh_and_Pakistan\">Political leaders outside of India, Bangladesh and Pakistan<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Australia\">Australia<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Varun_Ghosh\">Varun Ghosh<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Canada\">Canada<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doly_Begum\">Doly Begum<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Member_of_Provincial_Parliament_(Ontario)\">MPP<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scarborough_Southwest_(provincial_electoral_district)\">Scarborough Southwest<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shuv_Majumdar\">Shuv Majumdar<\/a>, Member of Parliament for Calgary Heritage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"United_Kingdom_2\">United Kingdom<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a class=\"mw-file-description\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Official_portrait_of_Lisa_Nandy_MP_crop_2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/5\/59\/Official_portrait_of_Lisa_Nandy_MP_crop_2.jpg\/250px-Official_portrait_of_Lisa_Nandy_MP_crop_2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marina_Ahmad\">Marina Masuma Ahmad<\/a>, Member of the London Assembly for Lambeth and Southwark<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lisa_Nandy\">Lisa Nandy<\/a>\u00a0Indian (Bengali)-British politician serving as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shadow_Secretary_of_State_for_Levelling_Up,_Housing_and_Communities\">Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities<\/a>\u00a0since 2021. A member of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Labour_Party_(UK)\">Labour Party<\/a>, she has been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)\">member of parliament<\/a>\u00a0(MP) for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wigan_(UK_Parliament_constituency)\">Wigan<\/a>\u00a0since 2010.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a class=\"mw-file-description\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Anwar_choudhury.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/1\/1b\/Anwar_choudhury.jpg\/150px-Anwar_choudhury.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anwar_Choudhury\">Anwar Choudhury<\/a>&nbsp;was the first non-white British person to be appointed in a senior diplomatic post.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nasim_Ali\">Nasim Ali<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Officer_of_the_British_Empire\">OBE<\/a>, Labour Party politician, councillor in Regent&#8217;s Park ward, Cabinet Member for Young People in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Camden_London_Borough_Council\">Camden Council<\/a>\u00a0and former Mayor of Camden; in 2003, at age 34, became UK&#8217;s youngest mayor as well as the first Bangladeshi and first Muslim mayor<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Bengalis#cite_note-camdennewjournalali-6\">[6]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Farida_Anwar\">Farida Anwar<\/a>, Labour Party politician, councillor for Headington Hill and Northway in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oxford_City_Council\">Oxford City Council<\/a>; in 2014, became Oxfordshire&#8217;s first city councillor from a Bangladeshi background<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Bengalis#cite_note-oxfordtimesanwar-7\">[7]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anwar_Choudhury\">Anwar Choudhury<\/a>, former\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Governor_of_the_Cayman_Islands\">governor of the Cayman Islands<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_High_Commissioners_of_the_United_Kingdom_to_Bangladesh\">High Commissioner of the UK to Bangladesh<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rabina_Khan\">Rabina Khan<\/a>, Liberal Democrat councillor for Shadwell ward, former Cabinet Member for Housing in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tower_Hamlets_London_Borough_Council\">Tower Hamlets London Borough Council<\/a>, community worker and author of\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ayesha%27s_Rainbow\">Ayesha&#8217;s Rainbow<\/a><\/em><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Bengalis#cite_note-thenationalkhan-8\">[8]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Syeda_Khatun\">Syeda Khatun<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Member_of_the_British_Empire\">MBE<\/a>, Labour Party politician, councillor for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tipton_Green\">Tipton Green<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sandwell_Metropolitan_Borough_Council\">Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council<\/a>\u00a0and Cabinet Advisor for Education; in 1999, the first Bangladeshi woman to be elected in the Midlands<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Bengalis#cite_note-birminghammail-9\">[9]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Murad_Qureshi\">Murad Qureshi<\/a>, Labour Party politician and former Greater\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/London_Assembly\">London Assembly<\/a>\u00a0member<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Bengalis#cite_note-murad-10\">[10]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lutfur_Rahman_(British_politician)\">Lutfur Rahman<\/a>, community activist and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Independent_(politician)\">Independent<\/a>\u00a0politician; from 2010 to 2015 the first\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Directly_elected_mayor_of_Tower_Hamlets\">directly elected mayor of Tower Hamlets<\/a>\u00a0and the first Bangladeshi leader of the council<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Bengalis#cite_note-guardianlutfurrahman-11\">[11]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Luthfur_Rahman\">Luthfur Rahman<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Officer_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire\">OBE<\/a>, current deputy leader of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manchester_City_Council\">Manchester City Council<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nadia_Shah\">Nadia Shah<\/a>, Labour Party politician, councillor in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Regent%27s_Park_(Camden_ward)\">Regent&#8217;s Park ward<\/a>\u00a0and former Mayor of Camden; in May 2016, became the first female mayor in the United Kingdom of Bangladeshi origin<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Bengalis#cite_note-dhakatribuneshah-12\">[12]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baroness\">Baroness<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pola_Uddin,_Baroness_Uddin\">&#8220;Pola&#8221; Manzila Uddin<\/a>, Labour Party\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Life_peer\">life peer<\/a>, community activist, and the first Muslim and second Asian woman to sit in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/House_of_Lords\">House of Lords<\/a><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Bengalis#cite_note-guardianpola-13\">[13]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apsana_Begum\">Apsana Begum<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Member_of_Parliament\">MP<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Labour_Party_(UK)\">Labour Party<\/a>\u00a0Member of Parliament for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Poplar_and_Limehouse_(UK_Parliament_constituency)\">Poplar and Limehouse<\/a>, first\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hijabi\">Hijabi<\/a>\u00a0to be elected as an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Member_of_Parliament\">MP<\/a>\u00a0for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/British_parliament\">British parliament<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rupa_Huq\">Rupa Huq<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Member_of_Parliament\">MP<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Labour_Party_(UK)\">Labour Party<\/a>\u00a0Member of Parliament for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ealing_Central_and_Acton_(UK_Parliament_constituency)\">Ealing Central and Acton constituency<\/a>,<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Bengalis#cite_note-getwestlondonhuq2-14\">[14]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0writer, columnist, senior lecturer in sociology at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kingston_University\">Kingston University<\/a>\u00a0and former\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deputy_Mayor\">Deputy Mayor<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/London_Borough_of_Ealing\">London Borough of Ealing<\/a><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Bengalis#cite_note-gbnews24huq-15\">[15]<\/a><\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Bengalis#cite_note-getwestlondonhuq1-16\">[16]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rushanara_Ali\">Rushanara Ali<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Member_of_Parliament\">MP<\/a>, Labour Party Member of Parliament for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bethnal_Green_and_Bow_(UK_Parliament_constituency)\">Bethnal Green and Bow constituency<\/a>; first person of Bangladeshi origin to be elected to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom\">House of Commons<\/a><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Bengalis#cite_note-thisislondonrushanara-17\">[17]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0and one of the first three Muslim women to be elected as a member of parliament<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Bengalis#cite_note-guardianali-18\">[18]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tulip_Siddiq\">Tulip Siddiq<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Member_of_Parliament\">MP<\/a>, Labour Party Member of Parliament for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hampstead_and_Kilburn_(UK_Parliament_constituency)\">Hampstead and Kilburn<\/a>,<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Bengalis#cite_note-camdennewjournalsiddiq-19\">[19]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0former councillor for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Regent%27s_Park_(Camden_ward)\">Regent&#8217;s Park ward<\/a>\u00a0and Cabinet Member for Culture and Communities in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Camden_London_Borough_Council\">Camden London Borough Council<\/a>; in 2010, became the first Bengali female councillor in Camden Council<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Bengalis#cite_note-bdnewssiddiq-20\">[20]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"United_States_of_America\">United States of America<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amit_Bose_(government_official)\">Amit Bose<\/a>, Administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saikat_Chakrabarti\">Saikat Chakrabarti<\/a>, chief of staff to Ocasio-Cortez<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neil_Chatterjee\">Indranil Chatterjee<\/a>, Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Swadesh_Chatterjee\">Swadesh Chatterjee<\/a>, chairman and co-founder of the U.S.-India Friendship Council<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jay_Chaudhuri\">Jay Chaudhuri<\/a>, Member of the North Carolina Senate<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Raj_Mukherji\">Raj Mukherji<\/a>, Majority Whip and Democratic member of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Jersey_General_Assembly\">New Jersey General Assembly<\/a>\u00a0from New Jersey&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/33rd_Legislative_District_(New_Jersey)\">33rd Legislative District<\/a>\u00a0covering portions of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hudson_County,_New_Jersey\">Hudson County<\/a>\u00a0(second Indian American elected to NJ state legislature); former Deputy Mayor of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jersey_City,_New_Jersey\">Jersey City, NJ<\/a>; former Commissioner and Chairman of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jersey_City_Housing_Authority\">Jersey City Housing Authority<\/a>\u00a0(then the youngest to serve in that position); Reservist (2001\u201309) in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Marine_Corps\">United States Marine Corps<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hansen_Clarke\">Hansen Clarke<\/a>, Member of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/U.S._House_of_Representatives\">U.S. House of Representatives<\/a>\u00a0from Michigan&#8217;s 13th district, Democrat, Member of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michigan_Senate\">Michigan Senate<\/a>\u00a0from the 1st district, Member of the Michigan House of Representatives from the 7th and 16th district<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Politicians\">Politicians<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a class=\"mw-file-description\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:A_k_fazlul_hoque.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/8\/8f\/A_k_fazlul_hoque.jpg\/250px-A_k_fazlul_hoque.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A._K._Fazlul_Huq\">A. K. Fazlul Huq<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a class=\"mw-file-description\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Sheikh_Mujibur_Rahman_in_1950.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/9\/99\/Sheikh_Mujibur_Rahman_in_1950.jpg\/250px-Sheikh_Mujibur_Rahman_in_1950.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sheikh_Mujibur_Rahman\">Sheikh Mujibur Rahman<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a class=\"mw-file-description\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Khaleda_Zia_former_Prime_Minister_of_Bangladesh_cropped.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/8\/8b\/Khaleda_Zia_former_Prime_Minister_of_Bangladesh_cropped.jpg\/250px-Khaleda_Zia_former_Prime_Minister_of_Bangladesh_cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Khaleda_Zia\">Khaleda Zia<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a class=\"mw-file-description\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Sheikh_Hasina_in_London_2011.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/e\/e1\/Sheikh_Hasina_in_London_2011.jpg\/250px-Sheikh_Hasina_in_London_2011.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sheikh_Hasina\">Sheikh Hasina Wazed<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Bangladesh_3\">Bangladesh<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tajuddin_Ahmad\">Tajuddin Ahmad<\/a>, first\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prime_Minister_of_Bangladesh\">prime minister of Bangladesh<\/a>\u00a0(1971\u20131972)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abdus_Samad_Azad\">Abdus Samad Azad<\/a>, former\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Minister_of_Foreign_Affairs_(Bangladesh)\">Minister of Foreign Affairs<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abdul_Hamid_Khan_Bhashani\">Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani<\/a>, popularly known with the honorary title Mazlum Jananeta (Leader of the Oppressed)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abdul_Gaffar_Biswas\">Abdul Gaffar Biswas<\/a>\u00a0(born 1949), former MP for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Khulna-3\">Khulna-3<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abdul_Latif_Biswas_(Bangladeshi_politician)\">Abdul Latif Biswas<\/a>\u00a0(born 1953), Bangladeshi minister<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abdur_Rahman_Biswas\">Abdur Rahman Biswas<\/a>\u00a0(1926\u20132017), former president of Bangladesh<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abdur_Rasheed_Biswas\">Abdur Rasheed Biswas<\/a>\u00a0(died 1991), former MP of Jessore<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abu_Raihan_Biswas\">Abu Raihan Biswas<\/a>\u00a0(1940\u20132019), high school teacher and socialist etc etc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"British_India\">British India<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a class=\"mw-file-description\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Syed_Shamsul_Huda_(Nawab,1913).jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/c\/cc\/Syed_Shamsul_Huda_%28Nawab%2C1913%29.jpg\/250px-Syed_Shamsul_Huda_%28Nawab%2C1913%29.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Nawab&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Syed_Shamsul_Huda\">Syed Shamsul Huda<\/a>&nbsp;was a patron, and donated immensely towards education for the Muslim students of Bengal during a difficult period.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a class=\"mw-file-description\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Abul_Kalam_Azad_1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/0d\/Abul_Kalam_Azad_1.jpg\/250px-Abul_Kalam_Azad_1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abul_Kalam_Azad\">Abul Kalam Azad<\/a>&nbsp;was India&#8217;s first&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Minister_of_Education_(India)\">Minister of Education<\/a>, and his birthday is now recognised as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Education_Day_(India)\">National Education Day<\/a>&nbsp;across the country.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jalaluddin_Ahmad\">Jalaluddin Ahmad<\/a>, Bengali landlord, jurist and health minister<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aftab_Ali\">Aftab Ali<\/a>, founder of All-India Seamen&#8217;s Federation and vice-president of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/All-India_Trade_Union_Congress\">All-India Trade Union Congress<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aruna_Asaf_Ali\">Aruna Asaf Ali<\/a>, Indian independence activist<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mahmud_Ali_(statesman)\">Mahmud Ali<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indian_independence_movement\">Freedom Movement leader<\/a>, statesman<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abul_Kalam_Azad\">Abul Kalam Azad<\/a>, senior leader of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indian_National_Congress\">Indian National Congress<\/a>\u00a0during the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indian_independence_movement\">Indian independence movement<\/a> etc etc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"India_3\">India<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"West_Bengal\">West Bengal<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Muzaffar_Ahmad\">Muzaffar Ahmad<\/a>, one of the founders of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Communist_Party_of_India\">Communist Party of India<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maziruddin_Ahmed\">Maziruddin Ahmed<\/a>\u00a0(born 1898), inaugural MLA of Cooch Behar<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tamser_Ali\">Tamser Ali<\/a>\u00a0(born 1953), MLA for Natabari<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Syed_Badrudduja\">Syed Badrudduja<\/a>, former\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mayor_of_Kolkata\">mayor of Kolkata<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abhishek_Banerjee_(politician)\">Abhishek Banerjee<\/a>, member of Lok Sabha from Diamond Harbour, National General Secretary of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/All_India_Trinamool_Congress\">All India Trinamool Congress<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mamata_Banerjee\">Mamata Banerjee<\/a>, Chief Minister of West Bengal (from 2011), ex-minister for Railways, Government of India, Chairman\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/All_India_Trinamool_Congress\">All India Trinamool Congress<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mrinal_Banerjee\">Mrinal Banerjee<\/a>, former minister etc etc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Assam\">Assam<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abdur_Rahim_Ahmed\">Abdur Rahim Ahmed<\/a>, MLA of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barpeta_(Vidhan_Sabha_constituency)\">Barpeta<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hafiz_Bashir_Ahmed\">Hafiz Bashir Ahmed<\/a>, MLA of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bilasipara_West_(Vidhan_Sabha_constituency)\">Bilasipara West<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jahan_Uddin_Ahmed\">Jahan Uddin Ahmed<\/a>, member of Lok Sabha for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dhubri_(Lok_Sabha_constituency)\">Dhubri<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jamal_Uddin_Ahmed_(politician)\">Jamal Uddin Ahmed<\/a>, former MLA of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Badarpur_(Assam_Vidhan_Sabha_constituency)\">Badarpur<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kobad_Hussain_Ahmed\">Kobad Hussain Ahmed<\/a>, inaugural MLA of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mankachar_(Vidhan_Sabha_constituency)\">Mankachar<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moinuddin_Ahmed\">Moinuddin Ahmed<\/a>, former MLA of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jaleswar,_Assam_(Vidhan_Sabha_constituency)\">Jaleswar<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sahab_Uddin_Ahmed\">Sahab Uddin Ahmed<\/a>, former MLA of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jaleswar,_Assam_(Vidhan_Sabha_constituency)\">Jaleswar<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sherman_Ali_Ahmed\">Sherman Ali Ahmed<\/a>, MLA of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baghbar_(Vidhan_Sabha_constituency)\">Baghbar<\/a> etc etc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Bihar\">Bihar<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dulal_Chandra_Goswami\">Dulal Chandra Goswami<\/a>, MP for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Katihar_(Lok_Sabha_constituency)\">Katihar<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ajit_Sarkar\">Ajit Sarkar<\/a>, four-time MLA of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Purnia\">Purnia<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Madhavi_Sarkar\">Madhavi Sarkar<\/a>, MLA of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Purnia\">Purnia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Meghalaya\">Meghalaya<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Akramozzaman\">Akramozzaman<\/a>, inaugural MLA of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phulbari_Assembly_constituency\">Phulbari<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shamsul_Hoque\">Shamsul Hoque<\/a>, inaugural MLA of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mahendraganj_Assembly_constituency\">Mahendraganj<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mizanur_Rahman_Kazi\">Mizanur Rahman Kazi<\/a>, MLA of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rajabala_(Vidhan_Sabha_constituency)\">Rajabala<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Khorsedur_Rahman_Khan\">Khorsedur Rahman Khan<\/a>, former MLA of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rajabala_(Vidhan_Sabha_constituency)\">Rajabala<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/S._G._Esmatur_Mominin\">S. G. Esmatur Mominin<\/a>, current MLA of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phulbari_Assembly_constituency\">Phulbari<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abu_Taher_Mondal\">Abu Taher Mondal<\/a>, former three-time MLA of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phulbari_Assembly_constituency\">Phulbari<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mozibur_Rahman\">Mozibur Rahman<\/a>, inaugural MLA of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rajabala_(Vidhan_Sabha_constituency)\">Rajabala<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abdus_Saleh\">Abdus Saleh<\/a>, MLA of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rajabala_(Vidhan_Sabha_constituency)\">Rajabala<\/a>\u00a0and former two-time MLA of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mahendraganj_Assembly_constituency\">Mahendraganj<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manirul_Islam_Sarkar\">Manirul Islam Sarkar<\/a>, former two-time MLA of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phulbari_Assembly_constituency\">Phulbari<\/a>\u00a0and Minister of Agriculture &amp; Transport<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Azad_Zaman\">Azad Zaman<\/a>, former MLA of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rajabala_(Vidhan_Sabha_constituency)\">Rajabala<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Uttar_Pradesh\">Uttar Pradesh<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sucheta_Kripalani\">Sucheta Kripalani<\/a>\u00a04th\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chief_Minister_of_Uttar_Pradesh\">Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh<\/a>\u00a0also 1st Female Chief Minister of India.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Member_of_Parliament,_Lok_Sabha\">Lok Sabha M.P.<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gonda_Lok_Sabha_constituency\">Gonda Lok Sabha constituency<\/a>\u00a0(1967-1971) &amp;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Member_of_Legislative_Assembly\">MLA<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Menhdawal_Assembly_constituency\">Menhdawal Assembly constituency<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Uttar_Pradesh_Legislative_Assembly\">Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly<\/a>\u00a0(1962-1967)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/S._M._Banerjee\">S. M. Banerjee<\/a>, 4-time\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Member_of_Parliament_(India)\">M.P.<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kanpur_(Lok_Sabha_constituency)\">Kanpur<\/a>\u00a0as an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Independent_politician\">Independent<\/a>\u00a0candidate with support of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Communist_Party_of_India\">CPI<\/a>\u00a0from 1962 to 1977.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shyamdev_Roy_Chaudhari\">Shyamdev Roy Chaudhari<\/a>, 7-time\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Member_of_Legislative_Assembly\">M.L.A<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Varanasi_South_(Assembly_constituency)\">South Varanasi<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bharatiya_Janata_Party\">Bharatiya Janata Party<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Tripura\">Tripura<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manik_Sarkar\">Manik Sarkar<\/a>, former chief minister of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tripura\">Tripura<\/a>, Politburo member<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Biplab_Kumar_Deb\">Biplab Kumar Deb<\/a>, former chief minister of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tripura\">Tripura<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Other_3\">Other<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nawab_Abdul_Jabbar\">Nawab Abdul Jabbar<\/a>\u00a0(1837\u20131918), Prime Minister of Bhopal State<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abul_Kasem_(politician,_born_1872)\">Abul Kasem<\/a>\u00a0(1872\u20131936), Secretary to the Prime Minister of Bhopal State<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sucheta_Kripalani\">Sucheta Kripalani<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Member_of_Parliament,_Lok_Sabha\">Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Delhi_Lok_Sabha_constituency\">New Delhi Lok Sabha constituency<\/a>\u00a0from 1951-1961<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jogendra_Nath_Mandal\">Jogendra Nath Mandal<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rabi_Ray\">Rabi Ray<\/a>, speaker of Lok Sabha<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ashab_Uddin\">Ashab Uddin<\/a>, member of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manipur_Legislative_Assembly\">Manipur Legislative Assembly<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jiribam_(Vidhan_Sabha_constituency)\">Jiribam<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Pakistan_2\">Pakistan<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nurul_Amin\">Nurul Amin<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prime_Minister_of_Pakistan\">Prime Minister of Pakistan<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abdullah_al-Baqi\">Abdullah al-Baqi<\/a>\u00a0(1886\u20131952), member of the 1st National Assembly of Pakistan<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abdul_Latif_Biswas_(Pakistani_politician)\">Abdul Latif Biswas<\/a>, member of the Pakistan National Assembly<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mohammad_Ali_Bogra\">Mohammad Ali Bogra<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prime_Minister_of_Pakistan\">Prime Minister of Pakistan<\/a>\u00a01953\u20131955<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abdul_Matin_Chaudhary\">Abdul Matin Chaudhary<\/a>, served as the first Agriculture Minister of Pakistan<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Minister_Abdul_Hamid\">Abdul Hamid<\/a>, first Education Minister of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/East_Bengal\">East Bengal<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abu_Ahmad_Abdul_Hafiz\">Abu Ahmad Abdul Hafiz<\/a>, Muslim League politician and lawyer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abdul_Wahab_Khan_(politician)\">Abdul Wahab Khan<\/a>, 3rd\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Speaker_of_the_National_Assembly_of_Pakistan\">Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abdullah_al_Mahmood\">Abdullah al Mahmood<\/a>\u00a0(d. 1975), member of the 1st National Assembly of Pakistan<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jogendra_Nath_Mandal\">Jogendra Nath Mandal<\/a>, served as the first Law &amp; Labour Minister of Pakistan<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iskander_Mirza\">Iskander Mirza<\/a>, first\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/President_of_Pakistan\">President of Pakistan<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Khawaja_Nazimuddin\">Khawaja Nazimuddin<\/a>, 2nd\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prime_Minister_of_Bengal\">prime minister of Bengal<\/a>\u00a0(Undivided), 2nd\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prime_Minister_of_Pakistan\">prime minister of Pakistan<\/a>, 2nd\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Governor-General_of_Pakistan\">Governor-General of Pakistan<\/a>, president of Muslim League<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Khurram_Khan_Panni\">Khurram Khan Panni<\/a>, former chief whip of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/East_Pakistan_Provincial_Assembly\">East Pakistan Provincial Assembly<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Md._Hafizur_Rahman\">Md. Hafizur Rahman<\/a>, Minister of Food and Agriculture of Pakistan (1958\u20131960); Minister of Commerce of Pakistan (1960\u20131962); Provincial Minister of Finance and Planning of East Pakistan (1962\u20131965)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Huseyn_Shaheed_Suhrawardy\">Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy<\/a>, second Chief Minister of Bengal,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prime_Minister_of_Pakistan\">Prime Minister of Pakistan<\/a>\u00a0(1956\u20131957)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Other_4\">Other<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a class=\"mw-file-description\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:I%27tisam-ud-Din.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/7\/76\/I%27tisam-ud-Din.png\/250px-I%27tisam-ud-Din.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/I%27tisam-ud-Din\">I&#8217;tisam-ud-Din<\/a>&nbsp;was the first educated Bengali and South Asian to have travelled to Europe.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/I%27tisam-ud-Din\">I&#8217;tisam-ud-Din<\/a>, Mughal diplomat and munshi<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Ramon_Magsaysay_Award\">Ramon Magsaysay Award<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tahrunessa_Abdullah\">Tahrunessa Abdullah<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fazle_Hasan_Abed\">Fazle Hasan Abed<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Knight_Commander_of_the_Order_of_St_Michael_and_St_George\">KCMG<\/a>, founder of the world&#8217;s largest non-governmental organisation,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BRAC_(NGO)\">BRAC<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amitabha_Chowdhury\">Amitabha Chowdhury<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zafrullah_Chowdhury\">Zafrullah Chowdhury<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mahasweta_Devi\">Mahasweta Devi<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gour_Kishore_Ghosh\">Gour Kishore Ghosh<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Angela_Gomes\">Angela Gomes<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Syeda_Rizwana_Hasan\">Syeda Rizwana Hasan<\/a>, attorney,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heroes_of_the_Environment_(2009)\">Hero of the Environment<\/a>\u00a0and winner of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Goldman_Environmental_Prize\">Goldman Environmental Prize<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A.H.M._Noman_Khan\">A.H.M. Noman Khan<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sombhu_Mitra\">Sombhu Mitra<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Matiur_Rahman_(journalist)\">Matiur Rahman<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Satyajit_Ray\">Satyajit Ray<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abdullah_Abu_Sayeed\">Abdullah Abu Sayeed<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ravi_Shankar\">Ravi Shankar<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Muhammad_Yunus\">Muhammad Yunus<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Religion_and_spirituality\">Religion and spirituality<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a class=\"mw-file-description\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Swami_vivekanand_old_archive.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/4\/4e\/Swami_vivekanand_old_archive.jpg\/250px-Swami_vivekanand_old_archive.jpg\" alt=\"Image of Swami Vivekananda relaxing in a chair\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Swami Vivekananda in Bushnell Studio in San Francisco, 1900<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Bengalis#cite_note-21\">[21]<\/a><\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Brahmoism\">Brahmoism<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charulata_Mukherjee\">Charulata Mukherjee<\/a>, women&#8217;s rights activist and social worker from Calcutta, associated with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brahmo_Samaj\">Brahmo Samaj<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/All_India_Women%27s_Conference\">All India Women&#8217;s Conference<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ram_Mohan_Roy\">Ram Mohan Roy<\/a>, founder of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brahmo_Samaj\">Brahmo Samaj<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Keshub_Chandra_Sen\">Keshub Chandra Sen<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Debendranath_Tagore\">Debendranath Tagore<\/a>, social thinker and reformer, founder of the Brahmo Religion or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brahmoism\">Brahmoism<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Buddhism\">Buddhism<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anagarika_Munindra\">Anagarika Munindra<\/a>\u00a0(1915\u20132003),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vipassana\">vipassana<\/a>\u00a0meditation teacher, taught many notable meditation teachers including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dipa_Ma\">Dipa Ma<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joseph_Goldstein_(writer)\">Joseph Goldstein<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sharon_Salzberg\">Sharon Salzberg<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Surya_Das\">Surya Das<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bishuddhananda_Mahathera\">Bishuddhananda Mahathera<\/a>, a Buddhist scholar and monk<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jyotipal_Mahathero\">Jyotipal Mahathero<\/a>, a Buddhist monk and the 10th\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sangharaja\">Sangharaja<\/a>\u00a0of Bangladeshi Buddhists<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Hinduism\">Hinduism<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Swami_Abhedananda\">Swami Abhedananda<\/a>\u00a0(Kaliprasad Chandra), monk, author, philosopher, occultist, reformer, founder of the Ramakrishna Vedanta Math<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Advaita_Acharya\">Advaita Acharya<\/a>, Vaishnava guru<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sri_Aurobindo\">Sri Aurobindo<\/a>, yogi, nationalist, philosopher, author, poet, visionary<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gaura_Kisora_dasa_Babaji\">Gaura Kisora dasa Babaji<\/a>, Vaishnava ascetic, mystic and recluse<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mahavatar_Babaji\">Mahavatar Babaji<\/a>, yogi and tantrik master<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bamakhepa\">Bamakhepa<\/a>\u00a0(Bamacharan Chattopadhyay), tantrik guru and mystic of Tarapith<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kamalakanta_Bhattacharya_(West_Bengal)\">Kamalakanta Bhattacharya<\/a>, Tantrik\/Shakta saint and master, composer of Shakta devotional songs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sri_Chinmoy\">Sri Chinmoy<\/a>, Indian spiritual master etc etc <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Islam\">Islam<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a class=\"mw-file-description\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Shah_Ahmad_Shafi.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/9\/9d\/Shah_Ahmad_Shafi.jpg\/250px-Shah_Ahmad_Shafi.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Shah Ahmad Shafi in 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a class=\"mw-file-description\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Ajmal_Masroor.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/8\/8b\/Ajmal_Masroor.jpg\/250px-Ajmal_Masroor.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ajmal_Masroor\">Ajmal Masroor<\/a>&nbsp;was nominated for the Religious Advocate of the Year award at the 2013 &amp; 2015&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/British_Muslim_Awards\">British Muslim Awards<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mearajuddin_Ahmad\">Mearajuddin Ahmad<\/a>\u00a0(c.\u20091890), author of Tufat al-Muslimin<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dudu_Miyan\">Muhsinuddin Ahmad<\/a>\u00a0(1819\u20131862), second leader of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Faraizi_movement\">Faraizi movement<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nesaruddin_Ahmad\">Nesaruddin Ahmad<\/a>\u00a0(1873\u20131952), inaugural Pir of Sarsina and founder of Darussunnat Kamil Madrasa<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nur_Qutb_Alam\">Nur Qutb Alam<\/a>\u00a0(d. 1416), Islamic scholar involved in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bengal-Jaunpur_confrontation\">Bengal-Jaunpur confrontation<\/a>\u00a0and pioneer of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dobhashi\">Dobhashi<\/a>\u00a0tradition<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abu_Saeed_Muhammad_Omar_Ali\">Abu Saeed Muhammad Omar Ali<\/a>\u00a0(1945\u20132010), author, teacher and translator<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ayub_Ali\">Muhammad Ayyub Ali<\/a>\u00a0(1919\u20131995), former principal of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Government_Madrasah-e-Alia\">Madrasah-e-Alia Dhaka<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sylhet_Government_Alia_Madrasah\">Sylhet Alia Madrasa<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ruhul_Amin_(mufti)\">Ruhul Amin<\/a>\u00a0(born 1962),\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Khatib\">khatib<\/a><\/em>\u00a0of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baitul_Mukarram_National_Mosque\">Baitul Mukarram National Mosque<\/a> etc etc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Christianity\">Christianity<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kali_Charan_Banerjee\">Kali Charan Banerjee<\/a>, lawyer and theologian, founder of the Calcutta Christo Samaj, member of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indian_National_Congress\">Indian National Congress<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Krishna_Mohan_Banerjee\">Krishna Mohan Banerjee<\/a>, Bengali philosopher and litterateur, President of the Bengal Christian Association<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Puroshottam_Choudhary\">Puroshottam Choudhary<\/a>, preacher, evangelist, writer of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christian_literature\">Christian literature<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lal_Behari_Dey\">Lal Behari Dey<\/a>, Indian journalist, writer, and Christian missionary<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patrick_D%27Rozario\">Patrick D&#8217;Rozario<\/a>, first Bangladeshi\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cardinal_(Catholic_Church)\">Cardinal<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Archbishop_of_Dhaka\">Archbishop of Dhaka<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aurobindo_Nath_Mukherjee\">Aurobindo Nath Mukherjee<\/a>, first Indian\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anglican_Diocese_of_Calcutta\">Bishop of Calcutta<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metropolitan_bishop\">Metropolitan of India<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Krishna_Pal\">Krishna Pal<\/a>, Bengali evangelist and missionary, first Bengali convert to Christianity under\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Carey_(missionary)\">William Carey<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Other_5\">Other<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ipsita_Roy_Chakraverti\">Ipsita Roy Chakraverti<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Freedom_Fighters_and_Revolutionaries\">Freedom Fighters and Revolutionaries<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alimuddin_Ahmad\">Alimuddin Ahmad<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Revolt_of_Rajab_Ali\">Rajab Ali Khan<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sri_Aurobindo\">Sri Aurobindo<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Surendranath_Banerjee\">Surendranath Banerjee<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abul_Barkat\">Abul Barkat<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benoy_Basu\">Benoy Basu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Basanta_Kumar_Biswas\">Basanta Kumar Biswas<\/a> etc etc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Science_and_technology\">Science and technology<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a class=\"mw-file-description\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:M_N_Saha,_J_C_Bose,_J_C_Ghosh,_Snehamoy_Dutt,_S_N_Bose,_D_M_Bose,_N_R_Sen,_J_N_Mukherjee,_N_C_Nag.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/6\/63\/M_N_Saha%2C_J_C_Bose%2C_J_C_Ghosh%2C_Snehamoy_Dutt%2C_S_N_Bose%2C_D_M_Bose%2C_N_R_Sen%2C_J_N_Mukherjee%2C_N_C_Nag.jpg\/250px-M_N_Saha%2C_J_C_Bose%2C_J_C_Ghosh%2C_Snehamoy_Dutt%2C_S_N_Bose%2C_D_M_Bose%2C_N_R_Sen%2C_J_N_Mukherjee%2C_N_C_Nag.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Seated (L to R):&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meghnad_Saha\">Meghnad Saha<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jagadish_Chandra_Bose\">Jagadish Chandra Bose<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jnan_Chandra_Ghosh\">Jnan Chandra Ghosh<\/a>. Standing (L to R): Snehamoy Dutt,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Satyendranath_Bose\">Satyendranath Bose<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Debendra_Mohan_Bose\">Debendra Mohan Bose<\/a>, N R Sen,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jnanendra_Nath_Mukherjee\">Jnanendra Nath Mukherjee<\/a>, N C Nag.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Physicists\">Physicists<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ahsan_Ali_(physician)\">Ahsan Ali<\/a>, doctor, physician and researcher<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kedareswar_Banerjee\">Kedareswar Banerjee<\/a>, first crystallographer of India, known for X-ray Crystallography and was director of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/K._Banerjee_Centre_of_Atmospheric_and_Ocean_Studies\">K. Banerjee Centre of Atmospheric and Ocean Studies<\/a>\u00a0was established in his honour<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Srikumar_Banerjee\">Srikumar Banerjee<\/a>, director of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bhabha_Atomic_Research_Centre\">BARC<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atomic_Energy_Commission_of_India\">AECI<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mani_Lal_Bhaumik\">Mani Lal Bhaumik<\/a>, physicist, helped develop the first excimer laser at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_California\">University of California<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Debendra_Mohan_Bose\">Debendra Mohan Bose<\/a>, physicist, made contributions in the field of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cosmic_rays\">cosmic rays<\/a>, artificial radioactivity and neutron physics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jagadish_Chandra_Bose\">Jagadish Chandra Bose<\/a>, physicist, radio and wireless transmission pioneer, also did substantial work on botany<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Satyendra_Nath_Bose\">Satyendra Nath Bose<\/a>, physicist, founded\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bose%E2%80%93Einstein_statistics\">Bose\u2013Einstein statistics<\/a>, which helped to produce Bose\u2013Einstein condensate (2001 Nobel Prize in Physics was given for this discovery); the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boson\">Boson<\/a>, an elementary particle named after him<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Swapan_Chattopadhyay\">Swapan Chattopadhyay<\/a>, particle accelerator physicist, contributed to the development of many accelerators around the world, e.g. the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Super_Proton_Synchrotron\">Super Proton-Antiproton Synchrotron<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Large_Hadron_Collider\">Large Hadron Collider<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CERN\">CERN<\/a>, and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Advanced_Light_Source\">Advanced Light Source<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Berkeley,_California\">Berkeley<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Swapan_K._Gayen\">Swapan Kumar Gain<\/a>, Bengali-American physicist, professor of Physics at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/City_University_of_New_York\">City University of New York<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amitabha_Ghosh_(planetary_geologist)\">Amitabha Ghosh<\/a>, only Asian on NASA&#8217;s Mars Pathfinder mission<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dipan_Ghosh\">Dipan Ghosh<\/a>, theoretical physicist, known for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Majumdar%E2%80%93Ghosh_model\">Majumdar\u2013Ghosh model<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hiranmay_Sen_Gupta\">Hiranmay Sen Gupta<\/a>, physicist, has published around 200 research papers in various international journals<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/M._Zahid_Hasan\">M. Zahid Hasan<\/a>, physicist, Eugene Higgins endowed chair professor of quantum physics at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Princeton_University\">Princeton University<\/a>\u00a0and scientist at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lawrence_Berkeley_National_Laboratory\">Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory<\/a>, known for discoveries in quantum matter and topology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mohammad_Ataul_Karim\">Mohammad Ataul Karim<\/a>, known for contributions to the fields of electro-optical devices and systems, optical computing and processing, and pattern recognition<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ashesh_Prasad_Mitra\">Ashesh Prasad Mitra<\/a>, performed major work in the field of the Earth&#8217;s near-space environment, through group based and space techniques<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sisir_Kumar_Mitra\">Sisir Kumar Mitra<\/a>, physicist, pioneer in the investigations of ionosphere, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mitra_(crater)\">Mitra<\/a>\u00a0crater on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moon\">Moon<\/a>\u00a0is named after him<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bedabrata_Pain\">Bedabrata Pain<\/a>, co-inventor of CMOS image sensor, also an award-winning filmmaker<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amal_Kumar_Raychaudhuri\">Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri<\/a>, physicist, known for his contributions to relativity and cosmology including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Raychaudhuri%27s_equation\">Raychaudhuri&#8217;s equation<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Somak_Raychaudhury\">Somak Raychaudhury<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Astrophysicist\">astrophysicist<\/a>\u00a0and observational\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cosmologist\">cosmologist<\/a>, Director,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Inter-University_Centre_for_Astronomy_and_Astrophysics\">Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Subrata_Roy_(scientist)\">Subrata Roy<\/a>, known for his contributions in the modelling of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plasma_physics\">plasma physics<\/a>\u00a0and the invention of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wingless_Electromagnetic_Air_Vehicle\">Wingless Electromagnetic Air Vehicle<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Serpentine_geometry_plasma_actuator\">serpentine geometry plasma actuator<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meghnad_Saha\">Meghnad Saha<\/a>, physicist, produced the Thermo-Ionization Equation or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saha_Equation\">Saha Equation<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ashoke_Sen\">Ashoke Sen<\/a>, physicist, known for his contributions to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/String_theory\">string theory<\/a>, co-discovered\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/S-duality\">S-duality<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bikash_Sinha\">Bikash Sinha<\/a>, former director of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saha_Institute_of_Nuclear_Physics\">SINP<\/a>\u00a0and Padmabhusan awardee<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Biologists\">Biologists<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maqsudul_Alam\">Maqsudul Alam<\/a>, scientist and professor, achieved four milestones in genomics &#8211; sequencing the genomes of papaya, rubber plants, jute and fungus<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gopal_Chandra_Bhattacharya\">Gopal Chandra Bhattacharya<\/a>, known for his pioneering work on social insects and the role of bacteria in metamorphosis<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sharmila_Bhattacharya\">Sharmila Bhattacharya<\/a>, head of the Biomodel Performance and Behavior laboratory at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NASA_Ames_Research_Center\">NASA Ames Research Center<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ananda_Mohan_Chakrabarty\">Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty<\/a>, most notable for his work in directed evolution and his role in developing a genetically engineered organism using plasmid transfer while working at GE<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maharani_Chakravorty\">Maharani Chakravorty<\/a>, organized the first laboratory course on recombinant DNA techniques in Asia and Far East in 1981<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Biraja_Sankar_Guha\">Biraja Sankar Guha<\/a>, first director of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anthropological_Survey_of_India\">Anthropological Survey of India<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jahangir_Alam_Khan\">Jahangir Alam Khan<\/a>, agricultural economist and researcher<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dilip_Mahalanabis\">Dilip Mahalanabis<\/a>, biologist, under his leadership the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_Centre_for_Diarrhoeal_Disease_Research\">International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research<\/a>\u00a0(Bangladesh medical centre), discovered oral rehydration therapy, which has saved more than 40 million lives from diarrhea<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Swadhin_Kumar_Mandal\">Swadhin Kumar Mandal<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexander_von_Humboldt_Fellow\">Alexander von Humboldt Fellow<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shanti_Swaroop_Bhatnagar_Award\">Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award<\/a>\u00a0winner<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Panchanan_Mitra\">Panchanan Mitra<\/a>, first professor of anthropology in India, among the first Indians to study at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yale_University\">Yale University<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mohammad_Hossain_Mondol\">Mohammad Hossain Mondol<\/a>, director-general of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bangladesh_Agricultural_Research_Institute\">Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sarat_Chandra_Roy\">Sarat Chandra Roy<\/a>, widely regarded as the\u00a0<em>father of Indian ethnography<\/em>, the\u00a0<em>first Indian ethnographer<\/em>, and as the\u00a0<em>first Indian anthropologist<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ram_Brahma_Sanyal\">Ram Brahma Sanyal<\/a>, pioneer in captive breeding; one of the first zookeepers trained as a biologist; a corresponding member of the Zoological Society of London<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dwijen_Sharma\">Dwijen Sharma<\/a>, naturalist and science writer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sourindra_Mohan_Sircar\">Sourindra Mohan Sircar<\/a>, One of the greatest Indian botanist, was also the General President of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indian_Science_Congress_Association\">Indian Science Congress Association<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Geologists\">Geologists<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pramatha_Nath_Bose\">Pramatha Nath Bose<\/a>, one of the early Indians to join\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geological_Survey_of_India\">Geological Survey of India<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nibir_Mandal\">Nibir Mandal<\/a>, known for studies on the evolution of geological structures,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shanti_Swaroop_Bhatnagar_Award\">Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award<\/a>\u00a0winner<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sharat_Kumar_Roy\">Sharat Kumar Roy<\/a>, Indian geologist and adventurer, first Indian to set foot in North Pole<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sudipta_Sengupta\">Sudipta Sengupta<\/a>, Indian geologist and one of the first Indian Women to set foot on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antarctica\">Antarctica<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/M._A._Zaher_(geologist)\">M. A. Zaher<\/a>, director-general of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geological_Survey_of_Bangladesh\">Geological Survey of Bangladesh<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Chemists\">Chemists<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a class=\"mw-file-description\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Suttar_006.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/b\/ba\/Suttar_006.jpg\/250px-Suttar_006.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abdus_Suttar_Khan\">Abdus Suttar Khan<\/a>&nbsp;invented more than forty different alloys for commercial application in space shuttles, jet engines, train engines and industrial gas turbines.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sadhan_Basu\">Sadhan Basu<\/a>, Palit professor at Calcutta University and Bhatnagar Award, CV Raman recipient<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Asima_Chatterjee\">Asima Chatterjee<\/a>, known for her work in the fields of organic chemistry and phytomedicine; her most notable work includes those on vinca alkaloids, and the development of anti-epileptic and anti-malarial drugs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jnan_Chandra_Ghosh\">Jnan Chandra Ghosh<\/a>, chemist, known for anomaly of strong electrolytes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abul_Hussam\">Abul Hussam<\/a>, chemist, inventor of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sono_arsenic_filter\">Sono arsenic filter<\/a>\u00a0and the gold winner of the 2007 Grainger Challenge Prize for Sustainability<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abdus_Suttar_Khan\">Abdus Suttar Khan<\/a>, chemist, inventor of alloys for use in commercial jets, U.S. fighter planes, gas turbines, train engines, and space shuttles<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nurul_Haque_Miah\">Nurul Haque Miah<\/a>, chemist, former professor at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dhaka_College\">Dhaka College<\/a>, textbook author<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jnanendra_Nath_Mukherjee\">Jnanendra Nath Mukherjee<\/a>, chemist, specialised in the fields of electrochemistry, colloids and soil science<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prafulla_Chandra_Roy\">Prafulla Chandra Roy<\/a>, pioneer in the field of pharmaceutical and chemical works (discovered mercurous nitrite), The Royal Society of Chemistry honoured him with the first ever Chemical Landmark Plaque outside Europe, founder of Bengal Chemicals &amp; Pharmaceuticals, India&#8217;s first pharmaceutical company<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Doctors_and_physicians\">Doctors and physicians<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shamsuddin_Ahmed_(surgeon)\">Shamsuddin Ahmed<\/a>, medical doctor martyred in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bangladesh_Liberation_War\">Bangladesh Liberation War<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dr._R._Ahmed_Dental_College_and_Hospital#Dr._R._Ahmed_(1890%E2%80%931965)\">Rafiuddin Ahmed<\/a>, dentist, founder of the first dental college of India and Bengal Dental Association, which later became\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indian_Dental_Association\">Indian Dental Association<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Syed_Modasser_Ali\">Syed Modasser Ali<\/a>, ophthalmic surgeon and a health advisor to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sheikh_Hasina\">Sheikh Hasina<\/a>, founder of Mojibunnessa Eye Hospital and editor-in-chief of the Bangladesh Ophthalmic Journal.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Upendranath_Brahmachari\">Upendranath Brahmachari<\/a>, synthesized Urea Stibamine (carbostibamide) and used it in the treatment of Kala-azar (leishmaniasis), was a nominee for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soorjo_Coomar_Goodeve_Chuckerbutty\">Surjo Kumar Chakraborty<\/a>, India&#8217;s first graduate in medicine<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kadambini_Ganguly\">Kadambini Ganguly<\/a>, one of the first two Indian women who trained in Western medicine<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jogesh_Chandra_Ghosh\">Jogesh Chandra Ghosh<\/a>, pioneer of modern\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ayurvedic\">Ayurvedic<\/a>\u00a0medicine<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Siddhartha_Mukherjee\">Siddhartha Mukherjee<\/a>, physician, scientist and writer, author of\u00a0<em>The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer<\/em>, which won the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pulitzer_Prize_for_General_Nonfiction\">Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction<\/a>\u00a0in 2011<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Subhash_Mukhopadhyay_(physician)\">Subhash Mukhopadhyay<\/a>, physician, first physician in India and second in the world to perform in vitro fertilization<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shuvo_Roy\">Shuvo Roy<\/a>, scientist and inventor of implantable artificial kidney<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mamtaz_Sanghamita\">Syeda Mamtaz Sanghamita<\/a>\u00a0(born 1946), gynaecologist<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mahendralal_Sarkar\">Mahendralal Sarkar<\/a>, homeopath and founder of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indian_Association_for_the_Cultivation_of_Science\">Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hassan_Suhrawardy\">Hassan Suhrawardy<\/a>, second Muslim from the sub-continent to become a Fellow of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Royal_College_of_Surgeons_of_England\">Royal College of Surgeons of England<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Mathematicians\">Mathematicians<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Debabrata_Basu\">Debabrata Basu<\/a>, founded\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Basu%27s_theorem\">Basu&#8217;s theorem<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anil_Kumar_Bhattacharya\">Anil Kumar Bhattacharya<\/a>, known for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bhattacharya_coefficient\">Bhattacharya coefficient<\/a>, and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bhattacharya_distance\">Bhattacharya distance<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Raj_Chandra_Bose\">Raj Chandra Bose<\/a>, known for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Association_scheme\">Association scheme<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bose%E2%80%93Mesner_algebra\">Bose\u2013Mesner algebra<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leonhard_Euler\">Euler&#8217;s conjecture<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sourav_Chatterjee\">Sourav Chatterjee<\/a>, specialised in mathematical statistics and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Probability\">probability<\/a>, professor at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stanford_University\">Stanford University<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anil_Kumar_Gain\">Anil Kumar Gain<\/a>, mathematician and statistician, professor at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_Cambridge\">University of Cambridge<\/a>\u00a0as well as a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society\">Fellow of the Royal Society<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jayanta_Kumar_Ghosh\">Jayanta Kumar Ghosh<\/a>, known for Bahadur-Ghosh-Kiefer representation and Ghosh-Pratt identity<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anadi_Sankar_Gupta\">Anadi Sankar Gupta<\/a>, specialised in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fluid_dynamics\">fluid dynamics<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Magnetohydrodynamics\">magnetohydrodynamics<\/a>\u00a0notably on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heat_transfer\">heat transfer<\/a>\u00a0in free convection flow in the presence of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Magnetic_field\">magnetic field<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Qazi_Azizul_Haque\">Qazi Azizul Haque<\/a>, pioneered the mathematical formula for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henry_Classification_System\">Henry Classification System<\/a>\u00a0of fingerprinting<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Khandkar_Manwar_Hossain\">Khandkar Manwar Hossain<\/a>, Bangladeshi statistician, founder of The Department of Statistics of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_Rajshahi\">Rajshahi University<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prasanta_Chandra_Mahalanobis\">Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis<\/a>, best remembered for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mahalanobis_distance\">Mahalanobis distance<\/a>\u00a0(a statistical measure), founder of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indian_Statistical_Institute\">Indian Statistical Institute<\/a>\u00a0(ISI)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Samarendra_Kumar_Mitra\">Samarendra Kumar Mitra<\/a>, designed, developed and constructed India&#8217;s first indigenous computer (an electronic\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Analog_computer\">analog computer<\/a>) in ISI<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Syamadas_Mukhopadhyaya\">Syamadas Mukhopadhyaya<\/a>, introduced the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Four-vertex_theorem\">four-vertex theorem<\/a>\u00a0and Mukhopadhyaya&#8217;s theorem in eucliden geometry<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A._N._M._Muniruzzaman_(statistician)\">ANM Muniruzzaman<\/a>, Bangladeshi statistician died in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bangladesh_Liberation_War\">Bangladesh Liberation War<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ritabrata_Munshi\">Ritabrata Munshi<\/a>, specialised in number theory, graduate student of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andrew_Wiles\">Andrew Wiles<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dijen_K._Ray-Chaudhuri\">Dijen K. Ray-Chaudhuri<\/a>, known for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BCH_code\">BCH code<\/a>, professor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/emeritus\">emeritus<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ohio_State_University\">Ohio State University<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Samarendra_Nath_Roy\">Samarendra Nath Roy<\/a>, known for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Multivariate_analysis\">multivariate analysis<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sucharit_Sarkar\">Sucharit Sarkar<\/a>, Indian\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Topologist\">topologist<\/a>\u00a0and IMO gold medallist<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Radhanath_Sikdar\">Radhanath Sikdar<\/a>, calculated the height of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mount_Everest\">Mount Everest<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Technologists\">Technologists<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shubham_Banerjee\">Shubham Banerjee<\/a>, inventor of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Braigo\">Braigo<\/a>; at 12 years old (2014) became the youngest entrepreneur to receive\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Venture_capital\">venture capital<\/a>\u00a0funding<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shuman_Ghosemajumder\">Shuman Ghosemajumder<\/a>, co-founder of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/TeachAids\">TeachAids<\/a>, former click fraud czar at Google<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jawed_Karim\">Jawed Karim<\/a>, software engineer, co-founder of YouTube, early employee of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PayPal\">PayPal<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Samarendra_Kumar_Mitra\">Samarendra Kumar Mitra<\/a>, designed, developed, and constructed India&#8217;s first indigenous computer in 1953 (an electronic analog computer)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Architects,_archaeologists_and_engineers\">Architects, archaeologists and engineers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jalal_Ahmad\">Jalal Ahmad<\/a>\u00a0(born 1959), president of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Institute_of_Architects_Bangladesh\">Institute of Architects Bangladesh<\/a>, vice-president of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Commonwealth_Association_of_Architects\">Commonwealth Association of Architects<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sultanuddin_Ahmed\">Sultanuddin Ahmed<\/a>, engineer martyred during the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bangladesh_Liberation_War\">Bangladesh Liberation War<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vidyadhar_Bhattacharya\">Vidyadhar Bhattacharya<\/a>\u00a0(1693\u20131751), the chief architect and city planner of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jaipur\">Jaipur<\/a>, Rajasthan;<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Bengalis#cite_note-Jaipur_history-22\">[22]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sir_Samuel_Swinton_Jacob\">Sir Samuel Swinton Jacob<\/a>, he is credited as the architect of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/City_Palace,_Jaipur\">City Palace, Jaipur<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fazlur_Rahman_Khan\">Fazlur Rahman Khan<\/a>\u00a0(1929\u20131982), structural engineer and architect, father of tubular designs for high-rises such as Willis Tower (aka Sears Tower) and the John Hancock Center<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saiman_Miah\">Saiman Miah<\/a>\u00a0(born 1986), architectural and graphic designer, designed one of the two \u00a35\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Commemorative_coins\">commemorative coins<\/a>\u00a0for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2012_Summer_Olympics\">2012 Summer Olympics<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/M_Harunur_Rashid_(archaeologist)\">M Harunur Rashid<\/a>, archaeologist, educationist and museum curator<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abul_Kalam_Mohammed_Zakaria\">Abul Kalam Mohammed Zakaria<\/a>, archaeologist<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Social_reformers_and_position_holders\">Social reformers and position holders<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a class=\"mw-file-description\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Sir_Fazle_Hasan_Abed_receives_Thomas_Francis,_Jr._Medal.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/3\/30\/Sir_Fazle_Hasan_Abed_receives_Thomas_Francis%2C_Jr._Medal.jpg\/250px-Sir_Fazle_Hasan_Abed_receives_Thomas_Francis%2C_Jr._Medal.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sir&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fazle_Hasan_Abed\">Fazle Hasan Abed<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Knight_Commander_of_the_Order_of_St_Michael_and_St_George\">KCMG<\/a>&nbsp;receiving the Thomas Francis Jr Medal in Global Public Health award from the University of Michigan (April 2016)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fazle_Hasan_Abed\">Fazle Hasan Abed<\/a>\u00a0<small><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Knight_Commander_of_the_Order_of_St_Michael_and_St_George\">KCMG<\/a><\/small>, founder of the world&#8217;s largest non-governmental organisation,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BRAC_(NGO)\">BRAC<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Syed_Ameer_Ali\">Syed Ameer Ali<\/a>, law reformer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rawshan_Ara_Bachchu\">Rawshan Ara Bachchu<\/a>, woman rights activist and part of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bengali_language_movement\">Bengali language movement<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kalyan_Banerjee_(Rotary_International)\">Kalyan Banerjee<\/a>, former president of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rotary_International\">Rotary International<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Syeda_Shahar_Banu\">Syeda Shahar Banu<\/a>, woman rights activist and part of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bengali_language_movement\">Bengali language movement<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Honourable\">The Honourable<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doctor_of_Philosophy\">Doctor<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Muhammad_Abdul_Bari\">Muhammad Abdul Bari<\/a>\u00a0<small><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Member_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire\">MBE<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deputy_Lieutenant\">DL<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Fellows_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Arts\">FRSA<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Esquire\">Esq.<\/a><\/small>, former secretary of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Muslim_Aid\">Muslim Aid<\/a>, former secretary-general of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Muslim_Council_of_Britain\">Muslim Council of Britain<\/a>, former president of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Islamic_Forum_of_Europe\">Islamic Forum of Europe<\/a>\u00a0and former chairman of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/East_London_Mosque\">East London Mosque<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Khuda_Buksh\">Khuda Buksh<\/a>, pioneer of life insurance in Bangladesh etc etc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Sports\">Sports<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a class=\"mw-file-description\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Brojen_das.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/4\/48\/Brojen_das.jpg\/150px-Brojen_das.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brojen_Das\">Brojen Das<\/a>&nbsp;was the first Bengali to swim across the English Channel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Administrators\">Administrators<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sourav_Ganguly\">Sourav Ganguly<\/a>, President of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Board_of_Control_for_Cricket_in_India\">Board of Control for Cricket in India<\/a>\u00a0and former Indian cricket team captain, Padma Shri awardee<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Athletics\">Athletics<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mohamed_Mahbub_Alam\">Mohamed Mahbub Alam<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Asian_Games\">South Asian Games<\/a>\u00a0gold medalist sprinter<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Swapna_Barman\">Swapna Barman<\/a>, heptathlon athlete<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soma_Biswas\">Soma Biswas<\/a>, heptathlon athlete<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shanta_Ghosh\">Shanta Ghosh<\/a>, retired German sprinter who specialized in the 400 meters<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mohan_Khan\">Mohan Khan<\/a>, Olympic sprinter<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rahamatulla_Molla\">Rahamatulla Molla<\/a>, track athlete<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beauty_Nazmun_Nahar\">Beauty Nazmun Nahar<\/a>, Olympic sprinter from Bangladesh<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hari_Shankar_Roy\">Hari Shankar Roy<\/a>, Indian track and field athlete<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saraswati_Saha\">Saraswati Saha<\/a>, Indian former track and field sprinter<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jyotirmoyee_Sikdar\">Jyotirmoyee Sikdar<\/a>, athletics, double gold-medallist in track at Asian games, recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award and Padma Shri award<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Archery\">Archery<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dola_Banerjee\">Dola Banerjee<\/a>, Indian female archer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rahul_Banerjee_(archer)\">Rahul Banerjee<\/a>, Indian archer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Krishna_Das_(archer)\">Krishna Das<\/a>, former Indian archer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ruman_Shana\">Ruman Shana<\/a>, Bangladeshi archer, won gold in SA games 2019<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jayanta_Talukdar\">Jayanta Talukdar<\/a>, archer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Badminton\">Badminton<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dipu_Ghosh\">Dipu Ghosh<\/a>, former badminton player<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Raman_Ghosh\">Raman Ghosh<\/a>, former badminton player<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manoj_Sarkar\">Manoj Sarkar<\/a>, para badminton player and bronze medalist at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2020_Paralympic_Games\">2020 Paralympic Games<\/a>, Tokyo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Bodybuilding,_boxing,_rugby_and_wrestling\">Bodybuilding, boxing, rugby and wrestling<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manohar_Aich\">Manohar Aich<\/a>, bodybuilder<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tameer_Anwar\">Tameer Anwar<\/a>, bodybuilder, Mister Bangladesh<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laxman_Das\">Laxman Das<\/a>, wrestler and weight lifter<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sukhen_Dey_(weightlifter)\">Sukhen Dey<\/a>, weightlifter<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ambika_Charan_Guha\">Ambika Charan Guha<\/a>, Indian wrestler who pioneered the growth of Akhada culture in Bengal<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gobar_Guha\">Gobar Guha<\/a>, Indian wrestler and practitioner of Pehlwani etc etc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Chess\">Chess<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dibyendu_Barua\">Dibyendu Barua<\/a>, Indian chess grandmaster<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Surya_Shekhar_Ganguly\">Surya Shekhar Ganguly<\/a>, Indian grandmaster<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rani_Hamid\">Rani Hamid<\/a>, awarded the FIDE Woman International Master (WIM) title in 1985<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Enamul_Hossain\">Enamul Hossain<\/a>, Bangladeshi grandmaster<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Niaz_Morshed\">Niaz Morshed<\/a>, chess player from Bangladesh, first chess\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grandmaster_(chess)\">grandmaster<\/a>\u00a0to emerge from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indian_Subcontinent\">Indian Subcontinent<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ziaur_Rahman\">Ziaur Rahman<\/a>, Bangladeshi grandmaster<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abdullah_Al_Rakib\">Mollah Abdullah Al Rakib<\/a>, Bangladeshi grandmaster<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Cricket\">Cricket<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aftab_Ahmed_(cricketer,_born_1985)\">Aftab Ahmed<\/a>, former Bangladeshi cricketer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nasum_Ahmed\">Nasum Ahmed<\/a>, bowler for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bangladesh_national_cricket_team\">Bangladesh<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taskin_Ahmed\">Taskin Ahmed<\/a>, Bangladeshi bowler<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amit_Ali\">Amit Ali<\/a>, cricketer for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tripura_cricket_team\">Tripura<\/a> etc etc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Football\">Football<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a class=\"mw-file-description\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Hamza_Choudhury_2021.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/7\/7e\/Hamza_Choudhury_2021.jpg\/250px-Hamza_Choudhury_2021.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hamza_Choudhury\">Hamza Choudhury<\/a>&nbsp;playing for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leicester_City_F.C.\">Leicester City F.C.<\/a>&nbsp;in 2021.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alfaz_Ahmed\">Alfaz Ahmed<\/a>, former footballer for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bangladesh_national_football_team\">Bangladesh<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tarif_Akhand\">Tarif Akhand<\/a>, defender for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Punjab_FC\">Punjab FC<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Faisal_Ali_(footballer)\">Faisal Ali<\/a>, former winger for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mohammedan_SC_(Kolkata)\">Mohammedan SC (Kolkata)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rahim_Ali\">Rahim Ali<\/a>, forward for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/India_national_football_team\">India<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/P._K._Banerjee\">Pradip Kumar Banerjee<\/a>, footballer, named Indian Footballer of the 20th Century by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FIFA\">FIFA<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prasun_Banerjee\">Prasun Banerjee<\/a>, former Indian national football player,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arjuna_award\">Arjuna award<\/a>\u00a0winner etc etc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Golf_and_snooker\">Golf and snooker<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anirban_Lahiri\">Anirban Lahiri<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hammad_Miah\">Hammad Miah<\/a>, professional snooker player<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Siddikur_Rahman\">Siddikur Rahman<\/a>, Olympic and Asian Tour golfer of Bangladesh<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Gymnastics\">Gymnastics<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mabia_Akhter\">Mabia Akhter<\/a>, Commonwealth gold medalist, South Asian Games gold medalist<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dipa_Karmakar\">Dipa Karmakar<\/a>, first Indian woman gymnast to qualify for the Olympics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Margarita_Mamun\">Margarita Mamun<\/a>, Russian gymnast of half-Bangladeshi origin<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pranati_Nayak\">Pranati Nayak<\/a>, second Indian women gymnast to qualify for the Olympics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Cycling_and_mountaineering\">Cycling and mountaineering<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ramnath_Biswas\">Ramnath Biswas<\/a>, soldier and writer best known for circumnavigating the globe by bicycle.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chhanda_Gayen\">Chhanda Gain<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Musa_Ibrahim\">Musa Ibrahim<\/a>, first Bangladeshi to scale\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mount_Everest\">Mount Everest<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nishat_Majumdar\">Nishat Majumdar<\/a>, first Bangladeshi woman to scale Mount Everest<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Asim_Mukhopadhyay\">Asim Mukhopadhyay<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wasfia_Nazreen\">Wasfia Nazreen<\/a>, second Bangladeshi woman to scale Mount Everest<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Akke_Rahman\">Akke Rahman<\/a>, first British Muslim\/Bengali to scale Mount Everest<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Shooting\">Shooting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joydeep_Karmakar\">Joydeep Karmakar<\/a>, Olympian and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arjuna_Award\">Arjuna Award<\/a>ee<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mehuli_Ghosh\">Mehuli Ghosh<\/a>, Olympian<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Squash\">Squash<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ritwik_Bhattacharya\">Ritwik Bhattacharya<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saurav_Ghosal\">Saurav Ghosal<\/a>, highest-ranked Indian player<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Swimming\">Swimming<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Masudur_Rahman_Baidya\">Masudur Rahman Baidya<\/a>, world&#8217;s first physically handicapped swimmer to swim across the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/English_Channel\">English Channel<\/a>\u00a0in 1997 and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Strait_of_Gibraltar\">Strait of Gibraltar<\/a>\u00a0in 2001<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bula_Choudhury\">Bula Choudhury<\/a>, first woman to cross the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seven_seas\">seven seas<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brojen_Das\">Brojen Das<\/a>, first Bengali to swim across the English Channel and the first person to cross it four times<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prasanta_Karmakar\">Prasanta Karmakar<\/a>, para-swimmer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sachin_Nag\">Sachin Nag<\/a>, former swimming champion<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arati_Saha\">Arati Saha<\/a>, first Indian woman to swim across\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/English_Channel\">English Channel<\/a>; first Indian female sportsperson to be awarded the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Padma_Shri\">Padma Shri<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mihir_Sen\">Mihir Sen<\/a>, first Indian to swim across the English Channel, from Dover to Calais in 1958, and for swimming across five channels in one calendar year (1956)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Table_tennis\">Table tennis<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ankita_Das\">Ankita Das<\/a>, Olympian<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mouma_Das\">Mouma Das<\/a>, Olympian<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Poulomi_Ghatak\">Poulomi Ghatak<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soumyajit_Ghosh\">Soumyajit Ghosh<\/a>, Olympian<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zobera_Rahman_Linu\">Zobera Rahman Linu<\/a>, Guinness World Record holder<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Subhajit_Saha\">Subhajit Saha<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Tennis\">Tennis<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zeeshan_Ali\">Zeeshan Ali<\/a>, olympian<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Samir_Banerjee\">Samir Banerjee<\/a>, Winner of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2021_Wimbledon_Championships_%E2%80%93_Boys%27_singles\">2021 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Boys&#8217; singles<\/a>\u00a0title<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Syed_Fazaluddin\">Syed Fazaluddin<\/a>, player and coach<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shibu_Lal\">Shibu Lal<\/a>, Bangladeshi ATP player<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jaidip_Mukerjea\">Jaidip Mukerjea<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arjuna_award\">Arjuna award<\/a>\u00a0winner<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leander_Paes\">Leander Paes<\/a>, Olympic Medalist<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Afrana_Islam_Prity\">Afrana Islam Prity<\/a>, Bangladeshi ITF player<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Writers\">Writers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Further information:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Bengali_language_authors\">List of Bengali language authors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a class=\"mw-file-description\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Rabindranath_Tagore_in_1909.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/9\/91\/Rabindranath_Tagore_in_1909.jpg\/250px-Rabindranath_Tagore_in_1909.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rabindranath_Tagore\">Rabindranath Tagore<\/a>&nbsp;is the first Indian as well as Asian Nobel laureate.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a class=\"mw-file-description\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Al_Mahmud.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/1\/1b\/Al_Mahmud.jpg\/250px-Al_Mahmud.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Al_Mahmud\">Al Mahmud<\/a>&nbsp;is considered one of the greatest Bengali poets to have emerged in the 20th century.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Bengalis#cite_note-thedailystar1-23\">[23]<\/a><\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a class=\"mw-file-description\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BE_(%E0%A6%8A%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A7%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%82%E0%A6%B6).jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/e\/e3\/%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BE_%28%E0%A6%8A%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A7%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%82%E0%A6%B6%29.jpg\/250px-%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BE_%28%E0%A6%8A%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A7%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%82%E0%A6%B6%29.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hason_Raja\">Hason Raja<\/a>, mystical poet and songwriter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ekramuddin_Ahmad\">Ekramuddin Ahmad<\/a>\u00a0(1872\u20131940), Bengali litterateur and government officer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Muhammad_Reazuddin_Ahmad\">Muhammad Reazuddin Ahmad<\/a>\u00a0(1861\u20131933), journalist and philosopher<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Humayun_Ahmed\">Humayun Ahmed<\/a>\u00a0(born 1948), novelist<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ismail_Alam\">Ismail Alam<\/a>\u00a0(1868\u20131937), Urdu poet and activist<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alaol\">Alaol<\/a>\u00a0(1607\u20131680), poet of medieval era<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Muhammad_Asadullah_Al-Ghalib\">Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib<\/a>\u00a0(born 1948),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Islamic_scholar\">Islamic scholar<\/a>, writer, academic, essayist<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Afzal_Ali_(poet)\">Afzal Ali<\/a>, 16th-century poet<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arjumand_Ali\">Arjumand Ali<\/a>\u00a0(1870\u20131914), first Bengali Muslim novelist etc etc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Chefs\">Chefs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Keka_Ferdousi\">Keka Ferdousi<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alpana_Habib\">Alpana Habib<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nadiya_Hussain\">Nadiya Hussain<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Siddika_Kabir\">Siddika Kabir<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tony_Karim\">Tony Karim<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tommy_Miah\">Tommy Miah<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"See_also\">See also<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Bangladeshi_people\">List of Bangladeshi people<\/a>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_British_Bangladeshis\">List of British Bangladeshis<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_people_from_West_Bengal\">List of people from West Bengal<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ref: Wikipedia: Nobel laureates Pala Dynasty Chandra Dynasty Deva Dynasty Ilyas Shahi dynasty (1352\u20131414) Main article:\u00a0Ilyas Shahi dynasty and etc etc. Name Reign Notes Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah 1352\u20131358 Became the first sole ruler of whole&nbsp;Bengal&nbsp;comprising&nbsp;Sonargaon,&nbsp;Satgaon&nbsp;and&nbsp;Lakhnauti. Sikandar Shah 1358\u20131390 Killed in battle with his son and successor,&nbsp;Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah 1390\u20131411 Patron of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,7,6,16,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anti-racism","category-articles","category-history","category-opinion","category-world-muslims"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2740,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions\/2740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}