List of University of Dhaka alumni and faculty
This is a list of University of Dhaka alumni and faculty members.
Nobel laureate
Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner
- Muhammad Younus
Presidents
- Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, 1st and 4th President and Father of the Nation of Bangladesh
- Syed Nazrul Islam, former acting President of Bangladesh during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971
- Mohammad Mohammadullah, 3rd President of Bangladesh
- Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad, 5th President of Bangladesh
- A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury, 9th President of Bangladesh
- Hussain Muhammad Ershad, 10th President of Bangladesh
- Abdur Rahman Biswas, 11th President of Bangladesh
- Shahabuddin Ahmed, 12th President of Bangladesh
- A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury, 13th President of Bangladesh
- Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar, former acting President of Bangladesh
- Iajuddin Ahmed, 14th President of Bangladesh
- Zillur Rahman, 15th President of Bangladesh
Vice Presidents
- Mirza Nurul Huda, 3rd Vice President of Bangladesh
Prime ministers
- Tajuddin Ahmad, 1st Prime Minister of Bangladesh
- Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, 2nd Prime Minister of Bangladesh
- Mashiur Rahman, former senior minister, with the rank and status of a prime minister
- Ataur Rahman Khan, 5th Prime Minister of Bangladesh
- Moudud Ahmed, 7th Prime Minister of Bangladesh and 6th Vice President of Bangladesh
- Kazi Zafar Ahmed, 8th Prime Minister of Bangladesh
- Sheikh Hasina, 10th and incumbent Prime Minister of Bangladesh in her second term
Deputy Prime Ministers
- Jamal Uddin Ahmad, Deputy Prime Minister of Bangladesh, 1977–1982[1]
Chief Advisers (Head of the Government)
- Shahabuddin Ahmed, 12th President of Bangladesh, Chief Adviser from 1990 to 1991
- Muhammad Habibur Rahman, 7th Chief Justice of Bangladesh, Chief Adviser in 1996
- Latifur Rahman, 10th Chief Justice of Bangladesh, Chief Adviser in 2001
- Iajuddin Ahmed, 14th President of Bangladesh, Chief Adviser from 2006 to 2007
- Fakhruddin Ahmed, former governor of the Bangladesh Bank, Chief Adviser from 2007 to 2009
Chief Justices
- Badrul Haider Chowdhury, 5th Chief Justice of Bangladesh
- Shahabuddin Ahmed, 6th Chief Justice of Bangladesh
- Muhammad Habibur Rahman, 7th Chief Justice of Bangladesh
- Justice Mustafa Kamal, 9th Chief Justice of Bangladesh
- Latifur Rahman, 10th Chief Justice of Bangladesh
- Syed Jillur Rahim Mudasser Husain, 14th Chief Justice of Bangladesh
- Md. Tafazzul Islam, 17th Chief Justice of Bangladesh
- Md. Muzammel Hossain, 20th Chief Justice of Bangladesh
Justices of High Court
- Farah Mahbub, judge
Politics and public service
Abul Fateh, Vienna, 1962
- Abul Fateh, first foreign secretary of Bangladesh
- Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury, former foreign minister of Bangladesh and former Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations
- Jahanara Imam, writer and political activist, popularly known as "Shaheed Janani" (Mother of Martyrs)
Leela Roy née Nag, radical leftist Indian politician and reformer
- Leela Roy, radical leftist Indian politician and reformer; close associate of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose; fought with university authorities and became the first woman to be admitted to the University of Dhaka and earn an M.A. degree
- Mainul Hosein, former law minister of Bangladesh
- Mukhlesur Rahman Chowdhury, former minister; career journalist; former press secretary to the President of Bangladesh
- Saifur Rahman, former finance minister of Bangladesh
- Shah A M S Kibria, diplomat, former finance minister of Bangladesh (1996–2001), former executive secretary of ESCAP[2]
Sheikh Razzak Ali chairing a session at the UN
- Sheikh Razzak Ali, founding member of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Deputy Speaker and Speaker of Bangladesh Jatiyo Sangsad
- Tabarak Husain, former foreign secretary of Bangladesh
- Anisul Huq, current Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs of Bangladesh
- Matia Chowdhury, former left-wing student leader and NAP politician and current BAL Presidum member and Minister of Agriculture
- Tofail Ahmed, former student leader and current BAL Presidum member and Minister of Commerce
- Obaidul Quader, current Minister of Communications of Bangladesh
- Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, current Finance Minister of Bangladesh
- Nurul Islam Nahid, current Minister of Education of Bangladesh
- Rashed Khan Menon, current Minister of Tourism and Civil Aviation of Bangladesh
- Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir, former Minister of Home Affairs of Bangladesh
- Asaduzzaman Noor, current Minister of Cultural Affairs of Bangladesh
- Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, acting secretary general of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party
Chiefs of Forces
- Lieutenant General H M Ershad, 5th Chief of Army Staff of Bangladesh
- Lieutenant General Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury, 13th Chief of Army Staff of Bangladesh
- General Abu Belal Muhammad Shafiul Huq, 17th Chief of Army Staff of Bangladesh
Science and engineering
Physics
Satyendra Nath Bose FRS, best known for providing the foundation for Bose-Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose-Einstein condensate
- Satyendra Nath Bose, FRS, best known for his work on quantum statistics in the early 1920s.
- Sultana N. Nahar, physicist and astronomer
- Imdadul Haque Khan [3][4]
- Quamrul Haider,[5][6]
- Khandker Abdul Muttalib,[7]
- M. A. Wazed Miah, physicist
- Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan, FRS, co-discoverer of the Raman Effect in physics
- M Innas Ali, physicist, founder of the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission
- Mohammad Ataul Karim, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth[8] IEEE Fellow [9]
- A. M. Harun-ar-Rashid, physicist, author of many physics books
- Khondkar Siddique-e-Rabbani, physicist
- M. Shamsher Ali, nuclear scientist and educator
- Mohammad Sajjad Alam, particle physicist
- Abdul Matin Chowdhury, physicist, ex-Vice Chancellor, University of Dhaka, member, Nobel Committee for Physics[10]
- Miftahur Rahman, physicist
Chemistry
Abdus Suttar Khan, distinguished aerospace researcher
- Fazlul Halim Chowdhury, chemist, educationalist, ex-Vice Chancellor of the University of Dhaka
- Abul Hussam, inventor of the SONO filter for arsenic removal
- Abdus Suttar Khan, aerospace researcher
- Abed Chaudhury, geneticist
- Sasanka Chandra Bhattacharyya - natural product chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
Other
- Fazlur Rahman Khan, structural engineer and architect; works include Sears Tower and John Hancock Center
- M. Anwar Hossain, biochemist, Vice-Chancellor of Jahangirnagar University, 2012-[11]
- Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan, Mathematician, co-discoverer of Pisot–Vijayaraghavan number
- Abul Kalam Azad Chowdhury, Chairman of University Commission of Bangladesh, former Vice-Chancellor of University of Dhaka.[12]
- S.M. Ullah, soil scientist and environmentalist who researched arsenic contamination with the Seibersdorf Research Center, Austria.
- Shah M. Faruque, director of the Centre for Food and Water Borne Diseases at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
- Zeba Islam Seraj, a Bangladeshi Scientist known for her research in developing salt-tolerant rice varieties suitable for growth in the coastal areas of Bangladesh
- Mir Masoom Ali, George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Statistics, Ball State University
- Bhagawan Koirala, cardiothoracic surgeon
Education, philosophy and academia
Muhammad Shahidullah, educator, writer philologist and linguist
Abdullah-Al-Muti Sharfuddin, scientist and science writer
- Muhammad Shahidullah, educator, writer, philologist, and linguist
- Govinda Chandra Dev, professor of philosophy at University of Dhaka
- Azfar Hussain, academic, writer, and activist
- Sardar Fazlul Karim, academic, philosopher, and essayist
- Mohammad Abul Kashem, author, politician, educator, pioneer of the Language Movement
- R.C. Majumdar, historian and vice-chancellor of Dacca University
- Sayed Moazzem Hossain, Academic, Islamic scholar, 6th vice-chancellor of the University of Dhaka.
- M Osman Ghani, scientist, educationist, and academic, 11th vice-chancellor of the University of Dhaka.
- Muntassir Mamoon, historian, author, translator and professor
- Farhad Mazhar, writer, social and human rights activist, and environmentalist
- Mohammad Noman, Vice-Chancellor of Jahangirnagar University[13]
- Imran Rahman, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh
- M Harunur Rashid, archaeologist, educationist, and museum curator[14]
- Abdur Razzaq, academic and educator
- Salimullah Khan, author, essayist, thinker, public intellectual
- Gowher Rizvi, historian, academic
- Abdullah-Al-Muti Sharfuddin, scientist and science writer
- Wahiduddin Ahmed, thirdthe 3rd vice-chancellor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology[15]
- Syed Abul Kalam Azad, former treasurer of University of Dhaka[16]
- Bazlul Chowdhury, Vice-Chancellor of Independent University, Bangladesh
- Sadeka Halim, first woman in Bangladesh to serve as Chief Information Commissioner
Arts, culture and literature
- Maksudul Ahsan, artist
- Munier Choudhury, playwright
- Kabir Chowdhury, academic, essayist, materialist, translator
- Anisuzzaman, academic, professor
- Zahir Raihan, Pioneer Bangladeshi filmmaker and noted novelist and short-story writer.
- Shahidullah Kaiser, major Bengali novelist and Dhaka University professor, brutally murdered by Pakistani Army and local collaborators on 14 December 1971 (Martyred Intellectuals Day)
- Anwar Pasha, author of 'Rifle, Roti, Awrat (1971), the first novel set on the Bangladesh War of Independence, brutally murdered by Pakistani Army and local collaborators on 14 December 1971 (Martyred Intellectuals Day)
- Serajul Islam Choudhury, literary critic, public intellectual, social analyst, historian, editor, and professor emeritus
- Nurul Momen, playwright, director, belles letters writer, satirist, personal essayist, lawyer
- Ghulam Murshid, author, researcher and journalist
- Abdul Kadir, poet, awarded Ekushey Padak (1976) and Independence Day Award (1983)
- Akhteruzzaman Elias, Bengali novelist
- Alamgir Kabir, filmmaker; three of his feature films are featured in the British Film Institute's list of "Top 10 Bangladeshi Films"
- Buddhadeb Bosu, major Bengali writer of the mid-twentieth century, belonging to the Kollol age
- Debabrata Basu, mathematical statistician
- Humayun Ahmed, contemporary Bengali fiction writer and playwright
- Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, popular sci-fi writer
- Shamsur Rahman, Bengali poet, columnist and journalist
- Humayun Azad, Bengali writer and professor
- Hosne Ara Shahed, Bengali writer and educationist
- Syed Manzoorul Islam, Bangladeshi academic, writer, novelist, translator, columnist, and critic
- Khondakar Ashraf Hossain, poet, essayist, translator and editor from Bangladesh
- Dr. Fakrul Alam, Bangladeshi academic, writer, and translator
- Kaiser Hamidul Haq, Bangladeshi poet, translator, essayist, critic and academic
- Hasnat Abdul Hye, Bangladesi writer and novelist
- Jahanara Imam, Bengali writer and political activist
- Niaz Zaman, Bangladeshi academic, writer
- Ahsan Habib, Bangladeshi cartoonist, writer and editor of Unmad, a satire magazine
- Shahriar Kabir, Bangladeshi novelist, journalist, filmmaker and human rights activist
- Zobeda Khanum, writer
- Asad Chowdhury, poet, writer, translator and journalist
- Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah, poet
- Murtaza Bashir, Bangladeshi painter
- Rafiqun Nabi, Bangladeshi artist and cartoonist
- Shishir Bhattacharjee, artist
- Firoz Mahmud, Bangladeshi contemporary visual artist, painter, and creator
- Bipasha Hayat, Bangladeshi actress
- Abul Fazal, Bangladeshi writer and educationist
- Ahmed Sofa, Bangladeshi poet, novelist, writer, critic, translator and intellectual
- Syed Abul Maksud, Bangladeshi author, columnist, research scholar, and essayist
- Abdul Mannan Syed, poet, author and researcher
- Abdullah Al Mamun, Bangladeshi playwright, actor and filmmaker
- Tareque Masud, Bangladeshi independent film director, film producer, screenwriter and lyricist
- Tanvir Mokammel, Bengali filmmaker, and author
- Ilias Kanchan, Bangladeshi filmstar, actor and road-safety activist
- Ferdous Ahmed, Bangladeshi actor
- Chanchal Chowdhury, Bangladeshi actor
- Golam Mustafa, Bangladeshi actor
- Suborna Mustafa, Bangladeshi television and film actress
- Dino Shafeek, Bengali actor based in the United Kingdom
- Abdullah Abu Sayeed, Bangladeshi writer, television presenter, organizer and activist
- Abu Zafar Obaidullah, poet and civil servant
- Helal Hafiz, Bangladeshi poet
- Syed Ali Ahsan, poet and author
- Qazi Motahar Hossain, Bangladeshi author, scientist, statistician and journalist
- Qazi Anwar Hussain, author, publisher and translator
- Waheedul Haq, journalist, writer, musicologist and founder of Chhayanaut
- Nilufar Yasmin, Bangladeshi singer
- Fauzia Yasmin, Bangladeshi singer
- Sabina Yasmin, Bangladeshi singer
- Khan Ataur Rahman, Bangladeshi film actor, director, producer, screenplay writer, music composer, and singer
- Mobarak Hossain Khan, music researcher, surbahar player
- Abu Hena Mustafa Kamal, a major songwriter of contemporary Bengali, poet, essayist, critic and presenter
- Sara Zaker, theater and television actor, entrepreneur and social activist
- Aly Zaker, actor, director, businessman, Bangladeshi freedom fighter and occasional writer and photographer
- Ferdousi Mazumder, Bangladeshi actress
- Ramendu Majumdar, Bangladeshi actor, stage director and theater producer and President of the International Theatre Institute
- Ferdausi Rahman, eminent playback, ghazal and folk singer
- Tahsan Rahman Khan, singer, keyboardist, guitarist, composer, lyricist, actor, anchor and teacher
- Shuvro Dev, Bangladeshi musician
- Taslima Akhter, activist and photographer
Journalism and media
- Mahbub Anam, former editor of the Bangladesh Times
- Mahfuz Anam, editor of The Daily Star
- Nurul Kabir, editor of The New Age
- Kaberi Gayen, journalist and columnist for The Daily Star
- Haroon Habib, Chief Editor and Managing Director of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS)
- Altaf Husain, founding editor of Dawn Newspaper
- Mishuk Munier, former CEO and Chief Editor of satellite TV channel ATN News
- Matiur Rahman, editor of Daily Prothom Alo
- Shykh Seraj, news director at Channel i
- Mahbub Jamal Zahedi, establishing newspaper editor of the Khaleej Times
Games and sports
- Mosharraf Hossain, international cricketer
- Musa Ibrahim, first Bangladeshi to summit Mount Everest
- Jahurul Islam, international cricketer
- Athar Ali Khan, former international cricketer and cricket commentator
- Shahriar Nafees, international cricketer
- Ziaur Rahman, chess player from Bangladesh and the second Grandmaster of the country
Business
- Samson H. Chowdhury, entrepreneur and former chairman of Astras Ltd. and Square (Bangladesh)
- Syed Manzur Elahi, Chairman of Apex Group
- Chandra Shekhar Ghosh, Chairman Managing Director of Bandhan Bank, India
- Abul Khair Litu, Chairman of the Bengal Foundation
- Mohammad Shahjahan, Acting Managing Director of Grameen Bank
- Ayman Sadiq, educator, entrepreneur and founder of 10 Minute School
Others
- Tahrunessa Abdullah, 1978 Ramon Magsaysay awardee for Community Leadership
- Fazle Hasan Abed, founder of BRAC, 1980 Ramon Magsaysay awardee for Community Leadership
References
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- ↑ "Kibria's life sketch". The Daily Star. 28 January 2005. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
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- ↑ "MOHAMMAD KARIM, ODU RESEARCH VP, IS ELECTED IEEE FELLOW". Old Dominion University.
- ↑ Murshed, Md Mahbub (2012). "Chowdhury, Abdul Matin". In Islam, Sirajul; Jamal, Ahmed A. Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
- ↑ "Professor M. Anwar Hossain, Ph. D". University of Dhaka. Archived from the original on 4 October 2013. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
- ↑ "Professor Dr. Abul Kalam Azad Chowdhury" (PDF). University Grants Commission of Bangladesh. Archived from the original (pdf) on 4 April 2015. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
- ↑ Jabeen, Farrah (6 September 2010). "Prof. Noman: A teacher extraordinaire". The Daily Star. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
- ↑ Bhuiyan, Mokammal H (2012). "Rashid, M Harunur". In Islam, Sirajul; Jamal, Ahmed A. Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
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- ↑ "Message from the Treasurer". University of Dhaka. Archived from the original on 6 April 2016. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
12. Prof. Syed Abul Kalam Azad - 04.02.2006 - 23.01.2009
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