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People from Chittagong

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Afshan Azad
English actress and model
Sarat Chandra Das
Indian scholar of Tibetan language and culture (1849-1917)
Surya Sen
British Indian Bengali revolutionary (1894-1934)
Ahmed Sofa
Bangladeshi writer, thinker, novelist, poet, and public intellectual (1943–2001)
Novera Ahmed
Bangladeshi artist (1939–2015)
Nabin Chandra Sen
Bengali poet and writer (1847-1909)
Zamor
Louis-Benoît Zamor ( – 7 February 1820) was an Bengali-born slave and revolutionary who spent most of his life in France. Born in Chittagong, Bengal in , he was captured and sold into slavery and brought to France, possibly by a British sea captain. He became a servant of Madame du Barry, though after the French Revolution began in 1789 Zamor became a fervent supporter of the revolution and supplied information which led to du Barry's execution in 1793. Zamor disappears from historical records until 1815, when he was recorded as working as a teacher in Paris until his death in 1820.
Dipa Ma
Indian meditation teacher (1911–1989)
Abul Kashem
Bangladeshi politician and writer (1920-1991)
Wasfia Nazreen
Bangladeshi mountain climber
Bibi Russell
Bangladeshi model
Monica Yunus
Bangladeshi Operatic soprano
Benimadhab Barua
Bengali Writer, Indologist, and pundit of Pali and Buddhism (1888-1948)
Naila Nayem
Bangladeshi model and actress
Masuma Rahman Nabila
Bangladeshi model and television presenter
Hafiz Rashid Khan
Bangladeshi post-colonialist poet, editor, writer and journalist
Somnath Hore
Indian artist (1921-2006)
Ahmed Ullah Maizbhandari
Bangladeshi theologian
Jiban Ghoshal
Indian freedom fighter
Mirza Ahmad Ispahani
Bangladeshi businessman and founder of Orient Airways (1898-1986)
Muhammad Nurul Islam
Honorary consul general of Japan in Chittagong, Bangladesh.
Adolph Medlycott
Bishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Thrissur (1838-1918)
Jack Stephens
set decorator