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 , Bangladesh's only Nobel prize winner, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006

Presidents

• Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, 1st and 4th President and Father of the Nation of Bangladesh but he did not get any degree from the university. He was admitted in law, doing full time politics and hardly any time to study anything.
• 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
• Abdul Hamid (politician), 16th and incumbent 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
• Lotay Tshering, 8th and incumbent Prime Minister of Bhutan

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

Judges of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh

Chief Justices of Bangladesh

• 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

Judges of High Court Division

• Farah Mahbub, judge
• Amir Hossain, judge
• Naima Haider, judge

Chairman, National Human Rights Commission

• Professor Dr. Mizanur Rahman

Politics and public service

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

Science and engineering

Physics

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

• A. M. Harun-ar-Rashid, physicist, author of many physics books
• Abdul Matin Chowdhury, physicist, ex-Vice Chancellor, University of Dhaka, member, Nobel Committee for Physics[6]
• Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan, FRS, co-discoverer of the Raman Effect in physics
• Khandker Abdul Muttalib,[7]
• Khondkar Siddique-e-Rabbani, physicist
• M Innas Ali, physicist, founder of the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission
• M. A. Wazed Miah, physicist
• M. Shamsher Ali, nuclear scientist and educator
• Miftahur Rahman, physicist
• Mohammad Ataul Karim, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth[8] IEEE Fellow[9]
• Mohammad Sajjad Alam, particle physicist
• Golam Dastegir Al-Quaderi, BPS, renowned teacher and all-rounder physicist.
• 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[10][11]

Chemistry

Abdus Suttar Khan, distinguished aerospace researcher

• Abdus Suttar Khan, aerospace researcher and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Great Britain
• Abed Chaudhury, geneticist
• Abul Hussam, inventor of the SONO filter for arsenic removal
• Fazlul Halim Chowdhury, chemist, educationalist, ex-Vice Chancellor of the University of Dhaka
• Sasanka Chandra Bhattacharyya - natural product chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate

Other

• Abul Kalam Azad Chowdhury, Chairman of University Commission of Bangladesh, former Vice-Chancellor of University of Dhaka.[12]
• Bhagawan Koirala, cardiothoracic surgeon
• Fazlur Rahman Khan, pioneering structural engineer and architect; contributed to modern skyscraper design technology. works include Sears Tower and John Hancock Center
• M. Anwar Hossain, biochemist, Vice-Chancellor of Jahangirnagar University, 2012-[13]
• Mir Masoom Ali, George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Statistics, Ball State University
• 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
• Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan, Mathematician, co-discoverer of Pisot–Vijayaraghavan number
• 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

Education, philosophy and academia

Muhammad Shahidullah, educator, writer philologist and linguist

Abdullah-Al-Muti Sharfuddin, scientist and science writer

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

Arts, culture and literature

Abdullah Abu Sayeed, teacher, writer, television presenter, and activist

Rafiqun Nabi, Bangladeshi artist and cartoonist

Firoz Mahmud, visual artist and educator

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

Journalism and media

• Altaf Husain, founding editor of Dawn Newspaper
• Haroon Habib, Chief Editor and Managing Director of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS)
• Kaberi Gayen, journalist and columnist for The Daily Star
• Mahbub Anam, former editor of the Bangladesh Times
• Mahbub Jamal Zahedi, establishing newspaper editor of the Khaleej Times
• Mahfuz Anam, editor of The Daily Star
• Matiur Rahman, editor of Daily Prothom Alo
• Mishuk Munier, former CEO and Chief Editor of satellite TV channel ATN News
• Nurul Kabir, editor of The New Age
• Shykh Seraj, news director at Channel i

Games and sports

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

Chiefs of Forces

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

Business

• Abul Khair Litu, Chairman of the Bengal Foundation
• Ayman Sadiq, educator, entrepreneur and founder of 10 Minute School
• Chandra Shekhar Ghosh, Chairman Managing Director of Bandhan Bank, India
• Mohammad Shahjahan, Acting Managing Director of Grameen Bank
• Samson H. Chowdhury, entrepreneur and former chairman of Astras Ltd. and Square (Bangladesh)
• Syed Manzur Elahi, Chairman of Apex Group
• Abul Barkat (economist), economist, former Chairman of state-owned Janata Bank and former Chairperson of Department of Economics, Dhaka University

Others

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

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