Bangladeshi Muslims

Begum Khaleda Zia was a Bangladeshi politician who served as the prime minister of Bangladesh from 1991 to 1996 and again from 2001 to 2006. She was the first female prime minister of Bangladesh and the second female prime minister in the Muslim world after Benazir Bhutto. She was the wife of the former president of Bangladesh and army chief, Ziaur Rahman. She was the longest serving chairperson of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) from 1984 until her death in 2025.

Chief of Army Staff and President of Bangladesh (1936-1981)

Tarique Rahman, also known as Tarique Zia, is a Bangladeshi politician who has served as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh and Chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) since 2026. He is the eldest son of former President Ziaur Rahman and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia.

Bangladeshi politician and first Prime Minister of Bangladesh (1925-1975)

English-Bangladeshi association football player (born 1997)

Bangladeshi actor

Bangladeshi politician who served as the President of Bangladesh from 15 August to 6 November 1975

Bangladeshi politician (1925–1975)

Bangladeshi politician and statesman (1906–1985)

Prime Minister of Bangladesh in 1975

Commander in Chief of Bangladesh Army (1918–1984)

Bangladeshi politician (1939–2015)

Journalist, writer and politician (1898–1979)

Bengali author and scholar

British politician (born 1975)

Bangladeshi Islamic Scholar

Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan

British diplomat and governor

Bangladeshi Islamic scholar

Bangladeshi Islamic figure and social activist

English writer

British Imam

British writer and politician (born 1972)

Bangladeshi politician (1932-2009)

British politician (born 1959)

Ekushey Padak recipient (1914-1994)

Bangladeshi cricketer

Bangladeshi Islamic scholar, author and translator

Bengali poet and writer (c. 1903-1983)

Bangladeshi scholar, politician and social reformer.