Mymensingh - Notable Personalities

Notable Personalities

Mymensingh has multiple meanings. It may refer to the original Mymensingh district comprising Netrokona, Jamalpur and Kishoreganj as well as Tangail. It may also refer to Mymensingh town per se in a narrow sense.

Indian scientist Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose was born in Mymensingh on 30 November 1858. The name of Mymensingh is associated with people like anti-British leader Mahadev Sannyal, writer Upendra Kishore Roychowdhury, Sukumar Roy and Leela Majumder, musician and a disciple of Rabindranath Tagore Sailaja Ranjan Majumder, Maharaja Surya Kanta Acharyya, Maharaja Soshi Kanta Acharya, Maharajkumar Sitangshu Kanta Acharya, eminent musician andformer MLA of the then East Pakistan Legislative Assembly, Maharajkumar Snehangshu Kanta Acharya, eminent musician Maharaja Brajendra Kishore Roy Chaudhuri, painter Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin, ballad collector Sirajuddin Kashimpuri, noveslist Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay who received early education in Mymensingh town, Humayun Ahmed a popular Bengali writer, Nihar Ranjan Roy, prominent writer, P.C. Sorcar - famous magician, acting president of Bangladesh during the war of liberation Syed Nazrul Islam in addition to three other presidents of the country, namely, Justice Abu Sayeed Chowdhury, Ahsanuddin Ahmed Chowdhury. Politician and author Abul Mansur Ahmed, the-then Governor of East Pakistan Abdul Monem Khan, educationist principal Ibrahim Khan, president Shahabuddin Ahmed, Language Hero and veteran Politician Khaleque Nawaz Khan, poets Nirmalendu Goon, Helal Hafiz, Musharraf Karim, and Abid Azad, singer Mitali Mukherjee, writers Jatin Sarker, Ghulam Rabbani an Urdu speaking Bangladeshi, author of first Urdu-Bangla and Bangla-Urdu dictionary, played an important role in maintaining communal harmony during the 1964 riots and the 1971 liberation war. Among the prominent politicians of Mymensingh today are Cpatain (Rtd) Mujibur Rahman Fakir, Mr. Promod Mankhin, Principal Motiur Rahman, Mr. Mosharraf Hossain, Advocate Jahirul Huq, Dr. Amanullah etc.

Golam Samdani Quraishy, writer, founder GS-BCUTA; Shahid Akhand, Helena Khan, and Iffat Ara and international cricketer Prabir Kumar (Khokan) Sen, one of the few wicketkeeper to stump Don Bradman and football player, Jahurul Islam one of the wealthiest people in 1970s Bangladesh are associated with Mymensingh.

The Oscar-winning Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray and Bollywood actress Rani Mukherjee's family hail from this district. Taslima Nasreen, the feminist writer and critic of Islam, and well-known physician of Jhansi, India, Dr. Sudhangsu Mohan Bhowmick of Lytton Medical School and his late wife Ina were born and brought up here. Dr. Subhrangshu Kanta Acharya, the former Director General of Geological Survey of India and the noted agriculturalist, chemist and engineer, Satrughna Kanta Acharya originated from the district. Dr. Komol Krishno Kundu ex- head of department of Pathology, Mymensingh medical college. He is a freedom fighter and paticipated in the war of liberation and servs many injured freedom fighters. Dr.Jagadish Chandra Dutta, politician, social and cultural activist, one of the founder members of Satsang and fought for Liberation war of Bangladesh. Mr. Ujjwal Bikash Dutta, Secretary of Fisheries and Livestock of People's Republic of Bangladesh Government. He is a freedom fighter. He contributed in Arts and culture of this region, acted as Nobab Shiraj-ud-doulla in junior Drama of Nobab Shiraj-ud-doulla directed by prof. Syedur Rahman.