List of University of Dhaka alumni and faculty

This is a list of University of Dhaka alumni and faculty members.

Academia and education

Muhammad Shahidullah, educator, writer, philologist and linguist

Abdullah-Al-Muti Sharfuddin, scientist and science writer

• Abdullah-Al-Muti Sharfuddin, scientist and science writer
• Abdul Haque Faridi, educator, lecturer and writer
• Abdul Khaleque, educator and translator
• Abu Nasr Waheed, educationist, first head of the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies
• Abdul Majed Khan, Bangladeshi-New Zealander academic, researcher, and activist
• Abdur Razzaq, academic and educator
• Anisuzzaman, academic, professor
• Aslam Anis, health economist
• Azfar Hussain, academic, writer, and activist
• Bazlul Chowdhury, vice-chancellor of Independent University, Bangladesh
• Farhad Mazhar, writer, social and human rights activist, and environmentalist
• Husne Ara Kamal, academic, professor, author, and social worker
• M. A. Gaffar, influential rohingya politician, legislator of the Union of Burma, Parliamentary secretary of Ministry of Health (Myanmar)
• Momtaz Begum, academic and educator
• Maqbular Rahman Sarkar, tenth vice-chancellor of Rajshahi University
• Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib, Reformist Islamic Scholar, academic, writer and leader of the religious organisation Ahlehadeeth Movement Bangladesh
• Govinda Chandra Dev, professor of philosophy at University of Dhaka
• Gowher Rizvi, historian, academic
• Imran Rahman, vice-chancellor of the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh
• Laila Nur, Bangladeshi language-movement activist and academic
• Md. Hasibur Rashid, 5th vice chancellor of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur
• M Harunur Rashid, archaeologist, educationist, and museum curator
• M Osman Ghani, scientist, educationist, and academic, 11th vice-chancellor of the University of Dhaka
• Mohammad Noman, vice-chancellor of Jahangirnagar University
• Muhammad Shahidullah, educator, writer, philologist, and linguist
• Muntassir Mamoon, historian, author, translator and professor
• Nurul Alam Khan, academic, professor
• Mohammad Abul Kashem, author, politician, educator, pioneer of the Language Movement
• Niaz Zaman, Bangladeshi academic, writer
• R.C. Majumdar, historian and vice-chancellor of Dacca University
• Sadeka Halim, first woman in Bangladesh to serve as chief information commissioner
• Salimullah Khan, author, essayist, thinker, public intellectual
• Sardar Fazlul Karim, academic, philosopher, and essayist
• Sayed Moazzem Hossain, academic, Islamic scholar, 6th vice-chancellor of the University of Dhaka
• Shireen Akbar MBE, Indian-born British educator and artist
• Syed Abul Kalam Azad, former treasurer of University of Dhaka
• Wahiduddin Ahmed, 3rd vice-chancellor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
• Ehsan H. Feroz, professor, researcher and author
• Qazi Mu'tasim Billah, former professor at the faculty of Islamic studies
• Mohammad A. Quayum, academic, expert on Singaporean literature and Rabindranath Tagore.

Arts, culture and literature

Abdullah Abu Sayeed, teacher, writer, television presenter, and activist

Rafiqun Nabi, artist and cartoonist

Firoz Mahmud, visual artist and educator

• Abdul Kadir, poet, awarded Ekushey Padak (1976) and Independence Day Award (1983)
• Abdul Mannan Syed, poet, author and researcher
• Abdullah Abu Sayeed, writer, television presenter, organizer and activist
• Abdullah Al Mamun, playwright, actor and filmmaker
• Abu Hena Mustafa Kamal, songwriter of contemporary Bengali, poet, essayist, critic and presenter
• Abu Zafar Obaidullah, poet and civil servant
• Abul Fazal, writer and educationist
• Ahmed Sofa, poet, novelist, writer, critic, translator and intellectual
• Ahsan Habib, cartoonist, writer and editor of satire magazine Unmad
• Akhteruzzaman Elias, novelist and short-story writer
• AKM Bazlul Karim, theater personality
• Alamgir Kabir, filmmaker; three of his feature films are featured in the British Film Institute's list of "Top 10 Bangladeshi Films"
• Aly Zaker, actor, director, businessman and Bangladeshi freedom fighter
• Anwar Pasha, author of 'Rifle, Roti, Awrat (1971), the first novel set on the Bangladesh War of Independence, murdered by Pakistani Army and local collaborators on 14 December 1971 (Martyred Intellectuals Day)
• Asad Chowdhury, poet, writer, translator and journalist
• Bipasha Hayat, actress
• Buddhadeb Bosu, Bengali writer of the mid-twentieth century, belonging to the Kollol age
• Chanchal Chowdhury, actor
• Dino Shafeek, Bengali actor based in the United Kingdom
• Fakrul Alam, academic, writer, and translator
• Ferdausi Rahman, playback, ghazal and folk singer
• Ferdous Ahmed, actor
• Ferdousi Mazumder, actress
• Firoz Mahmud, contemporary visual artist
• Ghulam Murshid, author, researcher and journalist
• Golam Mustafa, actor
• Hasnat Abdul Hye, writer and novelist
• Helal Hafiz, poet
• Hosne Ara Shahed, Bengali writer and educationist
• Humayun Ahmed, Bengali novelist, short-story writer and filmmaker
• Humayun Azad, Bengali novelist, poet, essayist and professor
• Ilias Kanchan, actor and road-safety activist
• Kabir Chowdhury, academic, essayist, materialist, translator
• Kaiser Hamidul Haq, poet, translator, essayist, critic and academic
• Khan Ataur Rahman, film actor, director, producer, screenplay writer, music composer, and singer
• Khondakar Ashraf Hossain, poet, essayist, translator and editor from Bangladesh
• Kiran Chandra Roy, baul and folk musician and songwriter
• Maksudul Ahsan, artist
• Mobarak Hossain Khan, music researcher, surbahar player
• Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, popular sci-fi writer
• Munier Choudhury, playwright
• Murtaza Bashir, painter
• Nilufar Yasmin, singer
• Natyaguru Nurul Momen, playwright, director, belles letters writer, satirist, personal essayist, lawyer
• Qazi Anwar Hussain, author, publisher and translator
• Qazi Motahar Hossain, author, scientist, statistician and journalist
• Rafiqun Nabi, artist and cartoonist
• Ramendu Majumdar, actor, stage director and theater producer and President of the International Theatre Institute
• Rashid Askari, Bengali-English writer, academic, columnist, fictionist, translator and the 12th Vice Chancellor of Islamic University, Bangladesh
• Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah, poet
• Sabina Yasmin, singer
• Sara Zaker, theater and television actor, entrepreneur and social activist
• Sayeem Rana, poet, researcher, musicologist, music director, National Film Award 2014
• Serajul Islam Choudhury, literary critic, public intellectual, social analyst, historian, editor, and professor emeritus
• Shafiq Tuhin, lyricist, music director and singer
• Shahidul Zahir, novelist and short-story writer
• Shahidullah Kaiser, Bengali novelist and Dhaka University professor, murdered by Pakistani Army and local collaborators on 14 December 1971 (Martyred Intellectuals Day)
• Shahriar Kabir, novelist, journalist, filmmaker and human rights activist
• Shamsur Rahman, Bengali poet, columnist and journalist
• Shishir Bhattacharjee, artist
• Shuvro Dev, musician
• Suborna Mustafa, television and film actress
• Syed Abul Maksud, author, columnist, research scholar, and essayist
• Syed Ali Ahsan, poet and author
• Syed Manzoorul Islam, academic, writer, novelist, translator, columnist, and critic
• Tahsan Rahman Khan, singer, keyboardist, guitarist, composer, lyricist, actor, anchor and teacher
• Tanvir Mokammel, Bengali filmmaker, and author
• Tareque Masud, independent film director, film producer, screenwriter and lyricist
• Taslima Akhter, activist and photographer
• Taslima Nasrin, atheist writer
• Waheedul Haq, journalist, writer, musicologist and founder of Chhayanaut
• Zahir Raihan, filmmaker and noted novelist and short-story writer
• Zobeda Khanum, writer

Business

• Abul Barkat, economist, former chairman of state-owned Janata Bank and former chairperson of Department of Economics, Dhaka University
• Abul Khair Litu, chairman of the Bengal Foundation
• Ahmed Akbar Sobhan, founder and chairman of Bashundhara Group
• Anis Ud Dowla, founder of ACI group of industries.
• Chandra Shekhar Ghosh, chairman managing director of Bandhan Bank, India
• Mohammad Shahjahan, acting managing director of Grameen Bank
• Mustafa Jabbar, IT entrepreneur, creator of Bijoy font, and former minister.
• Samson H. Chowdhury, entrepreneur and former chairman of Astras Ltd. and Square (Bangladesh)
• Syed Humayun Kabir, philanthropist and chairman of Renata Limited
• Syed Manzur Elahi, chairman of Apex Group
• Muhammad Aziz Khan, businessperson, founder of Summit Group and first Bangladeshi on the Forbes billionaire's list.

Journalism and media

• Abdul Hafiz (journalist)
• Abdul Quadir
• Abdul Wahab (journalist)
• Abed Khan
• Abul Hasan (poet) checked
• Abul Kalam Azad (journalist)
• Abul Momen
• Ahmadul Kabir
• Ahmed Humayun
• Ahmed Zaman Chowdhury
• AKM Shamim Chowdhury
• Ali Riaz
• Altaf Husain, founding editor of Dawn
• Ataus Samad
• Bazlur Rahman (journalist)
• Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin
• Enayetullah Khan
• Faruk Quazi
• Fazle Lohani
• Gaziul Hasan Khan
• Ghulam Murshid
• Gias Kamal Chowdhury
• Golam Sarwar
• Haroon Habib, chief editor and managing director of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS)
• Humayun Kabir Dhali
• Ihsanul Karim
• K G Mustafa
• Kaberi Gayen, journalist and columnist for The Daily Star
• Khaled Muhiuddin, head of the German-based international media Deutsche Welle Bangla Department
• Mahbub Anam, former editor of the Bangladesh Times
• Mahbub Jamal Zahedi, establishing newspaper editor of the Khaleej Times
• Mahbubul Alam (journalist)
• Mahfuz Anam, editor of The Daily Star
• Mahfuz Ullah
• Mahmudur Rahman
• Mainul Hosein
• Matiur Rahman, editor of Daily Prothom Alo
• Mishuk Munier, former CEO and chief editor of satellite TV channel ATN News
• Mithila Farzana
• Moniruddin Yusuf
• Monzur Hossain
• Muhammad Ziauddin, Pakistani journalist, economist and historian
• Mukhlesur Rahman Chowdhury
• Naem Nizam
• Nayeemul Islam Khan
• Nazim Uddin Mostan
• Nobonita Chowdhury
• Nurul Kabir, editor of The New Age
• Obaidul Huq
• Qazi Motahar Hossain
• Ranesh Maitra
• Riaz Uddin Ahmed, awarded Ekushey Padak for journalism
• Saiful Alam (journalist)
• Samudra Gupta (poet)
• Sanjeeb Choudhury
• Sayeed Atiqullah
• Shafik Rehman
• Shafiqul Alam
• Shah Alamgir
• Shahadat Chowdhury
• Shahriar Kabir
• Shamsur Rahman (poet)
• Shaukat Mahmood
• Shykh Seraj, news director at Channel i
• SM Haroon-or-Rashid
• Swadesh Roy
• Syed Badrul Ahsan
• Syed Mohammad Ali
• Tofazzal Hossain (civil servant)
• Zafar Wazed

Judiciary

• Badrul Haider Chowdhury, 5th Chief Justice of Bangladesh
• Shahabuddin Ahmed, 6th Chief Justice of Bangladesh
• Muhammad Habibur Rahman, 7th Chief Justice of Bangladesh
• Justice Mustafa Kamal, 9th Chief Justice of Bangladesh
• Latifur Rahman, 10th Chief Justice of Bangladesh
• Syed Jillur Rahim Mudasser Husain, 14th Chief Justice of Bangladesh
• Md. Tafazzul Islam, 17th Chief Justice of Bangladesh
• Md. Muzammel Hossain, 20th Chief Justice of Bangladesh
• Obaidul Hassan, 24th and Incumbent Chief Justice of Bangladesh
• Khizir Hayat Lizu, Justice of the Supreme court of Bangladesh
• Farah Mahbub, judge
• Amir Hossain, judge

Military

• Lieutenant General H M Ershad, 5th Chief of Army Staff of Bangladesh
• Lieutenant General Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury, 13th Chief of Army Staff of Bangladesh
• General Abu Belal Muhammad Shafiul Huq, 17th Chief of Army Staff of Bangladesh

Nobel Laureates

Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner

• Muhammad Younus, Bangladesh's only Nobel prize winner, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006

Politicians

• Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, 1st and 4th President of Bangladesh
• Syed Nazrul Islam, former acting President of Bangladesh during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971
• Mohammad Mohammadullah, 3rd President of Bangladesh
• Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad, 5th President of Bangladesh
• A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury, 9th President of Bangladesh
• Hussain Muhammad Ershad, 10th President of Bangladesh
• Abdur Rahman Biswas, 11th President of Bangladesh
• Shahabuddin Ahmed, 12th President of Bangladesh
• A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury, 13th President of Bangladesh
• Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar, former acting President of Bangladesh
• Iajuddin Ahmed, 14th President of Bangladesh
• Zillur Rahman, 15th President of Bangladesh
• Mohammad Abdul Hamid, 16th President of Bangladesh
• Mirza Nurul Huda, 3rd Vice President of Bangladesh
• Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, 2nd Prime Minister of Bangladesh
• Mashiur Rahman, former senior minister, with the rank and status of a prime minister
• Ataur Rahman Khan, 5th Prime Minister of Bangladesh
• Moudud Ahmed, 7th Prime Minister of Bangladesh and 6th Vice President of Bangladesh
• Kazi Zafar Ahmed, 8th Prime Minister of Bangladesh
• Sheikh Hasina, 10th Prime Minister of Bangladesh in her second term
• Lotay Tshering, 8th and incumbent Prime Minister of Bhutan
• Jamal Uddin Ahmad, Deputy Prime Minister of Bangladesh, 1977–1982
• Shahabuddin Ahmed, 12th President of Bangladesh, Chief Adviser 1990–1991
• Muhammad Habibur Rahman, 7th Chief Justice of Bangladesh, Chief Adviser in 1996
• Latifur Rahman, 10th Chief Justice of Bangladesh, Chief Adviser in 2001
• Iajuddin Ahmed, 14th President of Bangladesh, Chief Adviser 2006–2007
• Fakhruddin Ahmed, former governor of the Bangladesh Bank, Chief Adviser 2007– 2009
• AKM Azizul Haque, Minister of Agriculture (1976–1979)
• A M Nurul Islam, private secretary to Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
• Abdus Salam Khan, lawyer and politician, Minister of Public Works and Communication in the East Pakistan provincial cabinet
• Abul Fateh, first foreign secretary of Bangladesh
• Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, former Finance Minister of Bangladesh
• Anisul Huq, current Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs of Bangladesh
• Asaduzzaman Noor, former Minister of Cultural Affairs of Bangladesh
• Asif Mahmud, Advisor, 2024 Bangladesh interim government and Coordinator, Bangladesh quota reform movement
• Nahid Islam, Advisor, 2024 Bangladesh interim government
• Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury, former foreign minister of Bangladesh and former Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations
• Imran Ahmad, minister of Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment in Bangladesh
• Jahanara Imam, writer and political activist, popularly known as "Shaheed Janani" (Mother of Martyrs)
• Leela Roy, progressive leftist Indian politician and reformer; close associate of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose; fought with university authorities and became the first woman to be admitted to the University of Dhaka and earn an M.A. degree
• Mainul Hosein, former law minister of Bangladesh
• Matia Chowdhury, former left-wing student leader and NAP politician and former deputy leader of Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) and former Minister of Agriculture
• Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Secretary-General of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party
• Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir, former Minister of Home Affairs of Bangladesh
• Mukhlesur Rahman Chowdhury, former minister; career journalist; former press secretary to the President of Bangladesh
• Nahida Sobhan, Ambassador to Jordan
• Nasima Haider, High Commissioner to South Africa (2005–2007)
• Nurul Islam Nahid, former Minister of Education of Bangladesh
• Obaidul Quader, former Minister of Communications of Bangladesh & current General Secretary of Bangladesh Awami League
• Rashed Khan Menon, former Minister of Tourism and Civil Aviation of Bangladesh
• Raufun Basunia, student leader, killed during an anti-autocratic protest against military ruler Hussain Muhammad Ershad in 1985
• Saifur Rahman, former finance minister of Bangladesh
• Shah A M S Kibria, diplomat, former finance minister of Bangladesh (1996–2001), former executive secretary of ESCAP
• Sheikh Razzak Ali, founding member of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Deputy Speaker and Speaker of Bangladesh Jatiyo Sangsad
• Tabarak Husain, former foreign secretary of Bangladesh
• Tandi Dorji, current Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bhutan
• Tarique Rahman, politician and Acting Chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party
• Tofail Ahmed, former student leader and current AL Presidum member and former Minister of Commerce
• Sheikh Shahidul Islam, former Minister of Education, Public Works, former president Bangladesh Chattra League, current secretary-general of Jatiya Party
• Nurul Haq Nur, former VP, Dhaka University Central Students' Union

Science and engineering

Physics

Satyendra Nath Bose FRS, Indian Physicist, best known for providing the foundation for Bose-Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose-Einstein condensate

• Fazley Bary Malik, professor of theoretical nuclear and atomic physics at Southern Illinois University Carbondale
• Hiranmay Sen Gupta, chairman and professor at physics department at University of Dhaka
• A. M. Harun-ar-Rashid, physicist, author of many physics books
• Abdul Matin Chowdhury, physicist, ex-vice chancellor, University of Dhaka, member, Nobel Committee for Physics
• Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan, FRS, co-discoverer of the Raman Effect in physics
• Khondkar Siddique-e-Rabbani, physicist
• M Innas Ali, physicist, founder of the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission
• M. A. Wazed Miah, physicist
• M. Shamsher Ali, nuclear scientist and educator
• Miftahur Rahman, physicist
• Mohammad Ataul Karim, executive vice chancellor and provost of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth; IEEE Fellow
• Mohammad Sajjad Alam, particle physicist
• Satyendra Nath Bose, FRS, Indian physicist, quantum statistician in the early 1920s
• Sultana N. Nahar, physicist and astronomer
• Shamima Choudhury, physicist

Chemistry

Abdus Suttar Khan, distinguished aerospace researcher

• Abdus Suttar Khan, aerospace researcher of NASA and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Great Britain
• Prof. Dr. Mafizuddin Ahmed, first vice-chancellor of Jahangirnagar University
• Abul Hussam, inventor of the SONO filter for arsenic removal
• Fazlul Halim Chowdhury, chemist, educationalist, ex-Vice Chancellor of the University of Dhaka
• Sasanka Chandra Bhattacharyya, natural product chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate

Other

• Abul Kalam Azad Chowdhury, Chairman of University Commission of Bangladesh, former Vice-Chancellor of University of Dhaka
• Bhagawan Koirala, cardiothoracic surgeon
• Fazlur Rahman Khan, pioneering structural engineer and architect; contributed to modern skyscraper design technology; works include Sears Tower and John Hancock Center
• M. Anwar Hossain, biochemist, Vice-Chancellor of Jahangirnagar University, 2012-
• Mir Masoom Ali, George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Statistics, Ball State University
• S.M. Ullah, soil scientist and environmentalist who researched arsenic contamination with the Seibersdorf Research Center, Austria.
• Mizan Rahman, mathematician, author of the standard work of choice in the field of Basic Hypergeometric Series.
• Shah M. Faruque, director of the Centre for Food and Water Borne Diseases at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
• Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan, mathematician, co-discoverer of Pisot–Vijayaraghavan number
• Zeba Islam Seraj, Bangladeshi scientist known for her research in developing salt-tolerant rice varieties suitable for growth in the coastal areas of Bangladesh
• Debabrata Basu, mathematical statistician

Sports

• AKM Nowsheruzzaman, former international footballer.
• Athar Ali Khan, former international cricketer and cricket commentator.
• Badal Roy, former international footballer.
• Jahurul Islam, former international cricketer.
• Kaiser Hamid, former international footballer.
• Kazi Salahuddin, former international footballer and football administrator
• Manzur Hasan Mintu, international footballer who played for Pakistan.
• Mosharraf Hossain, former international cricketer.
• Mostafa Hossain Mukul, former international footballer.
• Musa Ibrahim, first Bangladeshi to summit Mount Everest.
• Saifur Rahman Moni, former international footballer.
• Sayeed Hassan Kanan, former international footballer.
• Shahriar Nafees, former international cricketer.
• Towhid Hridoy, current international cricketer.
• Wahiduzzaman Khan Pintu,former international footballer.
• Zakaria Pintoo, former international footballer
• Pratap Shankar Hazra, international footballer
• Ziaur Rahman, chess player from Bangladesh and the second Grandmaster of the country
• Zulfiker Mahmud Mintu, former international footballer,

Others

• Fazle Hasan Abed, founder of BRAC, 1980 Ramon Magsaysay awardee for Community Leadership
• M.A.N. Siddique, first managing director of Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited
• Tahrunessa Abdullah, 1978 Ramon Magsaysay awardee for Community Leadership
• Sarjis Alam, activist
• Hasnat Abdullah, activist
• Jalal Ahmed, chairman, Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission
• Mohammad Salah Uddin, former Secretary of the Prime Minister's Office under Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.