# List of people from Comilla

This is a list of notable residents and people who have origins in the Comilla District of Bangladesh. This list also includes British Bangladeshis, Bangladeshi Americans, Bangladeshi Canadians, and other non-resident Bengalis who have origins in the Comilla District.

## Freedom fighters

* Shib Narayan Das, member of BLF, one of the designers of the first flag of Bangladesh
* Shaheed Dhirendranath Datta (1886–1971), ex-Minister of Law, Language movement activist and Shaheed of 1971
* Lt-Col. Akbar Hossain (1942–2006), veteran freedom fighter, ex-Minister of Mineral Sources (1978), ex-Minister of Forest Preservation (1991), ex-Minister of Inland Water
* AKM Bahauddin Bahar

## Politicians

* Muzaffar Ahmed (1922-2019),He was a Bangladeshi Politician & Professor. He was an adviser of Provisional Government of Bangladesh during war time in 1971.He was the President of Bangladesh National Awami Party (Pro-Moscow) .
* Kazi Zafar Ahmed (1939-2015), member of the presidium of Jatiya Party, ex-Prime Minister (1988), ex-Minister of Education (1986)
* Ghulam Azam (1922–2014), ex Leader of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami; professor; politician; convicted war criminal
* Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, member of the standing committee of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, ex-Minister of Energy & Mineral Resources (1991) and ex-Minister of Health & Family Welfare (2001)
* Mustafa Kamal (1947-), politician and cricket official
* Shaukat Mahmood (1959-), senior journalist, editor of Weekly Economic Times, adviser to Begum Khaleda Zia and elected president (2007–08, 2009-incumbent) of National Press Club
* Jehangir Khan Tareen, Pakistani politician of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, born in Comilla
* Mujibul Haque Mujib, a member of the Bangladesh National Parliament for the constituency of Comilla-11 and is the current Minister for Railways of Bangladesh
* Muhammad Hasanuzzaman (1900–1968), member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly
* Khan Bahadur Nawab Sir Kazi Golam Mohiuddin Faroqui (1891–1984), knight and politician

## Social activists and philanthropists

* Nawab Faizunnesa, poet, pioneer in women's education, founder of Faizunnesa Girls’ School
* Ayman Sadiq Founder at ten minute school

## Educators and scholars

* Fazlul Halim Chowdhury, former vice-chancellor, Dhaka University
* Mohammad Kabir Hassan, noted financial scholar, University of New Orleans

## Writers

* Buddhadeb Bosu (1908–1974), Bangla poet, novelist, translator, editor and essayist
* Kazi Nazrul Islam, from West Bengal, but resided at Comilla for long
* Abdul Kadir (1906–1984), researcher, poet and editor

## Musicians

* Sachin Dev Burman (1906–1975), known as S.D. Burman, singer, composer and music director
* Rahul Dev Burman, known as R.D. Burman, son of S.D. Burman, composer and pioneer in Bollywood music direction
* Alauddin Khan
* Sudhin Das
* Ali Akbar Khan
* Gazi Mazharul Anwar
* Alaka Das, artist of classical music, principal of Sangeet Shikhharthee Sammilan
* Asif Akbar

## Actors

* Sabitri Chatterjee, Indian actress
* Ferdous Ahmed, Bangladeshi actor
* Chinmoy Roy, Bengali actor
* Bidya Sinha Saha Mim, Bangladeshi actress

## Scientists

* Harold John Finlay (1901–1951), New Zealand palaeontologist, was born in Comilla

## Sports

* Ranjit Saha (born 1964), ex-international footballer

## Religious scholars

* Abu Taher Misbah (born 1956), Islamic scholar, academic and textbook author