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Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
President of the Provisional Government of Bangladesh and the 2nd Prime Minister and first President of Bangladesh
Kazi Nazrul Islam
National poet of Bangladesh (1899-1976)
Iskandar Ali Mirza
Pakistani politician, statesman and military general (1899–1969)
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Bengali feminist writer and social reformer (1880-1932)
Muhammad Ali Bogra
Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1953 to 1955
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy
Bengali barrister and politician (1892–1963)
A.K. Fazlul Huq
Bengali-Pakistani statesman and jurist (1873–1962)
Nurul Amin
Bengali lawyer, politician and Prime Minister and Vice-President of Pakistan (1893-1974)
M. J. Akbar
Indian journalist and politician
Nussrat Jahan
Indian actress and politician
Nawab Faizunnesa
Bengali writer
Syed Ameer Ali
Indian Muslim jurist (1849-1928)
Altamas Kabir
39th Chief Justice of India (1948–2017)
Princess Sarvath El Hassan
Jordanian princess
Titumir
Syed Mir Nisar Ali (27 January 1782 – 19 November 1831), better known as Titumir, was one of the first Bengali-speaking revolutionaries in British India who developed a strand of Islamic revivalism, sometimes also for Bengali nationalism coupled with agrarian and political consciousness. He is famed for having built a large bamboo fort to resist the British, which passed into Bengali Muslim folk legend.
Mashiur Rahman
Indian Former politician
Idris Ali
Indian politician (1950–2024)
Isa Khan
Bhuyan chieftain (1529-1599)
Bengali Muslims
ethno-linguistic and religious population from Bengal region in the Indian subcontinent
Syed Mahbub E Khoda
Age reformer, Religious Teacher, Sufi & Freedom Fighter
Hamoodur Rahman
Pakistani judge (1910–1975)
Khujista Akhtar Banu
Bengali aristocrat and writer
Kalapahar
Kālā Pahaṛ (; died 12 July 1576), also known as Kalapahada was a Bengali Muslim General of the Bengal Sultanate under the reigning Karrani Dynasty.
Abdur Razzak Molla
Indian politician
Mir Mosharraf Hossain
Bengali novelist, essayist and playwright
Ismail Hossain Siraji
Bengali writer
Hasan Shaheed Suhrawardy
Bengali diplomat, poet and art critic (1890–1965)
Golam Mostofa
Bengali writer (1897–1964)
Iqbal Quadir
American businessman; founder and director emeritus of the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Gazi Pir
Bengali Muslim saint who lived during the spread of Islam in Bengal
Azizul Haque
Bengali lawyer and activist
Kazi Abdul Wadud
Bengali writer and academic (1894–1970)
Syed Badrudduja
an Indian-Bengali politician, parliamentarian, and activist.
Musa Khan
chief of Baro-Bhuiyans of Bengal
Abdur Rahim
British Indian judge (1867–1952)
Siddiqullah Chowdhury
Indian politician
Mohammad Mozammel Huq
Indian writer
Muhammad Mohsin
Bengali philanthropist
Hassan Suhrawardy
academic (1884–1946)
A. F. Golam Osmani
Indian politician (1933-2009)
Abdul Hakim
Bengali writer
Miya people
Bengali Muslim descendants
Ahmed Sharif
educationist, philosopher, critic, writer and scholar of medieval Bengali literature (1921–1999)
Sheikh Abdur Rahim
Bengali writer
Ahsan Habib
Bangladeshi writer (1917–1985)
Qazi Motahar Hossain
Bangladeshi writer and scientist (1897-1981)
Husne Ara Kamal
Bangladeshi academician and social worker
Shahid Rahimullah
leader of resistance movement against British Raj in Bengal