Barisal Zilla School

Barisal Zilla School is a boys school located in Barisal, Bangladesh. It is one of the oldest and top ranked high schools in the country and the first high school in Barisal Division.

It was founded by an Englishman, N. W. Garret, on 23 December 1829 with only 8 students. Now it has more than two thousand students.

 Notable alumni 

 A. K. Fazlul Huq, Prime Minister of Bengal (1937–1943)
 Khan Bahadur Hasem Ali Khan, Bengali nationalist and former minister of United Bengal
 Abdul Jabbar Khan, Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan (1965–1969)
 Abdur Rahman Biswas, President of Bangladesh (1991–1996)
 Altaf Mahmud, music composer
 Sardar Fazlul Karim, philosopher
 Buddhadeb Guha, writer
 Golam Mustafa, Ekushey Padak and National Film Award winning actor
 Manzoor Alam Beg, father of the fine art photography movement in Bangladesh, Alokchitracharya (the great teacher of photography), Ekushey Padak awardee
 Lieutenant General Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury, former chief of Army staff of Bangladesh
 Tapan Raychaudhuri, historian, Padma Bhushan awardee
 Promode Dasgupta, communist leader
 Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury, Bir Bikrom
 Hafizuddin Ahmed, Bir Bikrom
 Siraj Sikder, communist revolutionist

References

Category:Barisal
Category:1829 establishments in Asia
Category:19th-century establishments in Bangladesh
Category:Schools in Bangladesh