Saturday, May 21, 2016

Remarkable Personalities from Munshiganj District

Revolutionary Nationalists
  • M. Hamidullah Khan, Bangladesh Forces, Sector Commander, Sector 11, Bangladesh War of Independence 1971
  • Jagadish Chandra Bose, Great Bengali physicist
  • Badal Gupta, revolutionary against British India
  • Benoy Basu, revolutionary against British India
  • Dinesh Gupta, revolutionary against British India
Social & Scientific
  • Chashi Nazrul Islam - artist
  • Humayun Azad, linguistic scientist, poet and novelist 
  • Durga Mohan Das, Brahmo reformer
  • Dwarkanath Ganguly, Brahmo reformer
Art, Culture & Sports
  • Brojen Das, the first Bangladeshi and Asian to swim across the English Channel, and the first person to cross it four times
  • Emdadul Huq Milon, writer and media personality
  • Buddhadeb Bosu‚ writer, poet, playwright, essayist
Public Affairs
  • A. N. Hamidullah, First Governor, Bangladesh Bank 
  • Abu Sayeed Hafizullah, first Bengali Accountant General of East Pakistan 
  • Fakhruddin Ahmed, former chief adviser, Non-Party Caretaker Government of Bangladesh, 2007–2008.
  • Iajuddin Ahmed, former President of Bangladesh
  • A.Q.M. Badruddoza Chowdhury, former shortest term appointed President of Bangladesh
  • Sadeque Hossain Khoka‚ former Mayor of Dhaka
  • M. A. Naser, pioneer in Engineering Education, former Vice Chancellor or BUET, Ekushey Padak recipient

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