List of people from Barisal

The following is a list of prominent people who were born in/lived in or around the city of Barisal as well as Barisal division in Bangladesh.

Government and politics

• Sher-e-Bangla A. K. Fazlul Huq, Prime Minister of Bengal (1937–1943), Chief Minister of East Bengal (1954) and Governor of East Pakistan (1956–1958)[1]
• Mohammad Ali Bogra, (1909-1963), Bengali politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Pakistan.
• Abdul Jabbar Khan, Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan (1965–1969)[2]
• Khan Bahadur Hasem Ali Khan, Politician, lawyer, former cabinet minister. peasant movement leader
• Jogendra Nath Mandal, One of the Founding Fathers of Pakistan, First Law Minister of Pakistan
• Abdur Rahman Biswas, President of Bangladesh (1991–1996)[3]
• Dr. Kamal Hossain, lawyer and politician, 1st Law Minister of Bangladesh, Creator of the Constitution of Bangladesh.
• Shawkat Hossain Hiron, Former Member of Parliament, Mayor of Barisal (2008-2013)[4]
• Abdur Rab Serniabat, cabinet minister[5]
• Abul Hasanat Abdullah, politician[6]
• Jahangir Kabir Nanak, politician, former State Minister of Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives
• Amir Hossain Amu, politician, former Minister of Industries[7]
• Gurudas Dasgupta, member of the Indian Parliament[8]
• M Sakhawat Hossain, Election Commissioner of Bangladesh (2007–2012)
• Shahjahan Omar, Bir Uttam, politician[9]
• Manikuntala Sen, revolutionary
• Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi, Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi was a noted Congress politician, former Union Minister and a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Raiganj of West Bengal and was a member of the Indian National Congress party.
• Syed Azizul Huq, politician and former Member of Parliament.
• Kazi Golam Mahbub, language movement activist and politician
• Nasreen Jahan Ratna, politician, former member of parliament

Art, literature, journalism, and philosophy

• Jibanananda Das, Bengali poet, writer, novelist and essayist.[10]
• Kusumkumari Das, poet, writer and social activist[10]
• Kamini Roy, Bengali poet, social worker and feminist
• Narayan Gangopadhyay, writer and academic[11]
• Buddhadeb Guha, writer[12]
• Mukunda Das, Bengali poet, ballad singer, composer
• Ahsan Habib, poet and journalist[13]
• Abu Zafar Obaidullah, Bengali poet and language movement activist
• Abul Hasan, poet and journalist[14]
• Shamsuddin Abul Kalam, writer[15]
• Sufia Kamal, poet[16]
• Asad Chowdhury, poet, writer, translator, radio, television personality and journalist,
• Tofazzal Hossain Manik Miah, founding editor of The Daily Ittefaq[17]
• Golam Sarwar, journalist and writer, founding editor of daily Samakal and Jugantor.
• Barun Sengupta, journalist, political critic, founder-editor of daily Bartaman
• Bazlur Rahman, journalist and editor of The Sangbad
• Abdul Gaffar Choudhury, an author, columnist, lyricist.
• Shamsuddin Abul Kalam, Bengali author
• Aroj Ali Matubbar, philosopher[18]
• Muhammad Reazuddin Ahmad, Islamic writer, journalist, and thinker.
• Jogesh Chandra Bagal, Indian journalist, historian and writer.

Entertainment

Film, television, theater, and radio

• Hanif Sanket, television host, writer and producer, best known as the creator and host of popular television show Ittyadi
• Alamgir Kabir (film maker), renowned film director and cultural activist
• Golam Mustafa, Film actor[19]
• Utpal Dutt, actor, director, and playwright[20]
• Nikhil Sen, dramatist[21]
• Sohel Rana, Film actor, director and producer
• Masum Parvez Rubel, Film actor
• Omar Sani, Film actor
• Shahidul Islam Khokon, filmmaker and producer
• Mosharraf Karim, Film and Television actor
• Mir Sabbir, Television actor and director
• Tania Ahmed, Television actress and model
• Atiqul Haque Chowdhury, media personality
• Arundhati Devi, actress and director[22]

Singers and Instrumentalists

• Altaf Mahmud, musician and language movement activist[23]
• Abdul Latif (musician), singer, musician, and lyricist.
• Khalid Hassan Milu, singer
• Anil Biswas, film song composer
• Nikhil Ghosh, musician and teacher[24]
• Parul Ghosh, playback singer[25]
• Papia Sarwar, singer[26]
• Manabendra Mukhopadhyay, music composer and a famous singer of Nazrul geeti[27]
• Pannalal Ghosh renowned musician and flutist
• Nachiketa Chakraborty, Indian musician

Performing arts

• Jewel Aich, renowned magician and bansuri player
• Laxman Das, wrestler, weight lifter, circus performer and the founder of Royal Pakistan Circus

Educationist and reformers

• Ashwini Kumar Dutta, Bengali educationist, philanthropist, social reformer.[28]
• Abala Bose, educator and social reformer[29]
• Sal Khan, American educator, mathematician and entrepreneur, Founder of Khan Academy[30]

Freedom fighters and revolutionary

• Mohiuddin Jahangir, Bir Shreshto, Liberation War veteran[31]
• Major M A Jalil, sector 9 commander during Bangladesh liberation war
• Mostafa Kamal (Bir Sreshtho), freedom fighter in Bangladesh liberation war
• Niranjan Sengupta, revolutionary
• Tarakeswar Sengupta, revolutionary
• Kanai Chatterjee, Indian maoist ideologue, founder of the Maoist Communist Centre of India
• Gurudas Dasgupta, Indian politician and a leader of Communist Party of India
• Ardhendu Bhushan Bardhan, Indian politician, trade union leader and the former general secretary of the Communist Party of India (CPI)

Science and academia

• A. M. Harun-ar-Rashid, physicist and professor of physics at the University of Dhaka.
• Biswajit Ghosh, professor, essayist and researcher
• Swadesh Bose, Bengali language movement activist and economist[32]
• Basudeb DasSarma, chemist[33]
• Kadambini Ganguly, first South Asian female physician, social activist
• Acharya Debaprasad Ghosh, Indian mathematician and politician
• Hiranmay Sen Gupta, nuclear physicist[34]
• Ehsan Hoque, medical doctor and philanthropist[35]
• Sardar Fazlul Karim, scholar, academic, philosopher and essayist[36]
• Nazia Khanum, OBE DL, academic and management consultant[37]
• Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri, physicist, known for his research in general relativity and cosmology[38]
• Hem Chandra Raychaudhuri, historian[39]
• Tapan Raychaudhuri, historian[40]
• Kaliprasanna Vidyaratna, Indian scholar of Sanskrit
• Basudeb DasSarma, Bengali chemist and a faculty of the University of Calcutta
• Sukharanjan Samaddar, professor, educationalist, and martyred freedom fighter in the Bangladesh Liberation War

Religious leaders

• Syed Muhammad Fazlul Karim, Muslim scholar, Pir Shaheb Charmonai
• Boro Maa, Hindu leader and a matriarch of the Matua Mahasangha

Sports

• Paresh Lal Roy, Father of Indian Boxing
• Sohag Gazi, cricketer[41]
• Mehedi Hasan, cricketer[42]
• Shahriar Nafees, cricketer[43]
• Kamrul Islam Rabbi, cricketer
• Salman Hossain, cricketer
• Golam Kabir, cricketer
• Mohammad Manik, cricketer
• Golam Kibria, cricketer
• Zakaria Masud, cricketer
• Tanvir Islam, cricketer
• Jahid Hasan Ameli, footballer

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