List of people from Sylhet

This is a list of notable residents and people who have origins in the Sylhet Division of Bangladesh and the Barak Valley of the Indian state of Assam. This list also includes British Bangladeshis, Bangladeshi Americans, Bangladeshi Canadians, and other non-resident Bengalis who have origins in Greater Sylhet. The people may also be known as Sylheti.

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Activism and cause célèbres

Art and design

Business and industry
Sir Fazle Hasan Abed KCMG receiving the Thomas Francis Jr Medal in Global Public Health award from the University of Michigan (April 2016)

Education
Abdul Malik was Pakistan's first cardiologist.
In 1994, Saifur Rahman was elected governor of the golden jubilee conference of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Madrid, Spain.[3]

National Professors of Bangladesh

Economists
Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, an economist, diplomat, and Bengali Language Movement veteran who served Bangladesh's 2nd Finance Minister.

Entertainment
Khalil Ullah Khan earned Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Gunda in 1976.

Families

Journalism
  • Altaf Husain, 1st editor-in-chief of Pakistan's oldest, leading and most widely read English-language newspaper, Dawn and former Industry Minister of Pakistan
  • Aminur Rashid Cshowdhury, Editor and Publisher of Weekly Jugabheri.
  • Abdul Wahed Khan Editor and Publisher of first ever daily news paper in Sylhet. The news paper was "The Daily Jalalabadi". Mr. Khan was also famous for his weekly news paper "Sylhet Shamachar". Sylhet Shamachar was very famous in 70/80 decade. Mr. Khan was a member of Commonwealth Journalist Association, He was Co-founder and trustee of Sylhet khajanchi International School and college, Co-founder Sylhet Pressclub, He was Generel Secretary and Patron of Central Muslim Shahittya Shangshad, He was Divisional incharge Bangladesh Shangbad Shangstha (basos), He was a former General Secretary of Daily Ittefaq.

Literature
Arun Kumar Chanda on a 2000 stamp of India
Hason Raja, a mystical poet and songwriter

Military

Monarchs and rulers

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Music and dance

Politics and government

Bangladesh
There have been reports that Mukhlesur Rahman Chowdhury became the de facto President and Prime Minister of the Caretaker government of Bangladesh.[7]
Dr Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury served as Secretary to the Govt. of Bangladesh for nearly a decade in the Ministries of Food, Statistics, Power Energy & Mineral Resources and Planning.
J. R. Mudassir Husain served as Chief Justice from 2004 to 2007.
Syed Abdul Majid was a very notable pioneer in the native tea industry.
Mahmud Ali demanded the recognition of Bengali as a national language of Pakistan.
Lala Lajpat Rai of Punjab, Bal Gangadhar Tilak of Maharashtra, and Bipin Chandra Pal of Bengal, the triumvirate were popularly known as Lal Bal Pal, changed the political discourse of the Indian independence movement.

Chief Justices

British India

India

West
Anwar Choudhury was the first non-white British person to be appointed in a senior diplomatic post.
  • Anwar Choudhury, The British High Commissioner for Bangladesh between 2004 and 2008. He is currently the Director of International Institutions at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office.
  • Apsana Begum, first Hijabi to be elected as an MP for the British parliament
  • Doly Begum, Canadian politician
  • Hansen Clarke, former congressman of MI 13
  • Lutfur Rahman, the first directly elected mayor of Tower Hamlets and the first Bangladeshi leader of the council.
  • Nadia Shah, former Mayor of Camden. The first female mayor in the United Kingdom of Bangladeshi origin.
  • Nasim Ali OBE, former Mayor of Camden. He became UK's youngest mayor as well as the first Bangladeshi and first Muslim mayor.
  • Rabina Khan, councillor for Shadwell and former Housing Cabinet member in Tower Hamlets
  • Rushanara Ali, first Bangladeshi to be elected as an MP for the British parliament

Religion and spirituality

Islam
Ajmal Masroor was nominated for the Religious Advocate of the Year award at the 2013 & 2015 British Muslim Awards.

Shah Jalal's disciples
  • Shah Jalal, Sufi saint associated with spreading Islam to Sylhet
  • Ghazi Burhanuddin, considered to be Sylhet's first Muslim
  • Haji Muhammad Yusuf, first custodian of Shah Jalal's dargah
  • Adam Khaki, associated with spreading Islam to Badarpur
  • Aziz Chishti, companion of Shah Jalal
  • Khanda Jhokmok, companion of Shah Jalal
  • Shah Gabru, associated with spreading Islam to Osmani Nagar
  • Shah Halim ad-Din Narnauli, associated with spreading Islam to Kanihati
  • Shah Kamal Quhafa, late disciple of Shah Jalal
  • Shah Malum, associated with spreading Islam to Fenchuganj
  • Shah Mustafa, associated with spreading Islam to Moulvibazar
  • Shah Paran, early disciple and nephew of Shah Jalal
  • Shah Ruknuddin, associated with spreading Islam to Rajnagar
  • Shah Siddiq, associated with spreading Islam to Osmanpur
  • Shah Tajuddin, associated with spreading Islam to Tajpur
  • Syed Yaqub, associated with spreading Islam to Barlekha

Other

Sports

Bangladesh

Cricket

Football
Hamza Choudhury (in blue) playing in a Premier League match on 12 May 2019

Other

India

Fictional characters
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References
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  2. "Muquim Ahmed". The Sunday Times. 27 April 2008. Retrieved 24 May 2009.
  3. "Saifur Rahman's life sketch". The Daily Star. 5 September 2009. Archived from the original on 7 October 2012.
  4. Newspaper Trends: Bangladesh Archived 19 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine, World Advertising Research Center; Retrieved: 14 September 2007
  5. Zahangir Alom (7 September 2014). "Sunset Of A Music Maestro". The Daily Star.
  6. "একুশে পদক পাচ্ছেন সুনামগঞ্জের সুষমা দাস". sunamkantha.com (in Bengali). 14 February 2017. Retrieved 14 February 2017.
  7. https://www.academia.edu/5608019/History_of_Bangladesh_after_Independence
  8. Ahmed Ully, Ansar (19 September 2012). "Kick-boxer Ruqsana wins bronze". The Daily Star. Bangladesh. Retrieved 1 November 2012.
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