page_title: Khandkar Manwar Hossain
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Khandkar Manwar Hossain / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Dr. Hosneara Begum First Female Student of BL College Photo: Saturday, September 24, 2016
context_page_description: Khandkar Manwar Hossain was a Bangladeshi statistician. In 1950, he was among the students graduating from the first statistics course at the University of Dhaka. He was the founder of the Department of Statistics of Rajshahi University.
context_section_description: Hossain was born in 1930 at the police station of Pachuria village, Mahadevpur, Manikganj, British India, (now Bangladesh). His parents were Moulavi Khandkar Abdul Hamid and Mosammat Akhtara Khatun. Hossain's brother was Khandaker Delwar Hossain, the former Secretary General of the Bangladesh National Party. Hossain spent his childhood in Manikganj.
  On 25 June 1964, Hossain married Hosneara Begum Jharna (born 1942). Jharna served as a professor in  the Department of Statistics in Rajshahi University. Together they had four sons and two daughters.
caption: Hosneara Begum
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