Notable Bangladeshi Americans
- Hansen Clarke was elected to the United States Congress in 2010 from Michigan's House of Representatives.
- Aziz Huq is the first Bangladeshi to clerk at the Supreme Court of the US. He is currently a professor at University of Chicago.
- Jawed Karim was the co-founder of YouTube and designed key parts of PayPal.
- Salman Khan (educator), whose father is from Barisal, Bangladesh, is the founder of Khan Academy, a non-profit education organization.
- Arianna Afsar is a former Miss California and placed in the Top 10 of the 2011 Miss America pageant.
- Iqbal Quadir founded Grameenphone, Bangladesh's largest mobile phone company. He now heads the Legatum Center at MIT.
- Badal Roy is a tabla player, percussionist, and recording artist.
- Sumaya Kazi, founder of Sumazi, was recognized by BusinessWeek as one of America's Best Young Entrepreneurs.
- Professor Badrul Khan, coined the phrase Web based instruction.
- Sezan Mahmud, a writer, medical scientist is the first Asian to receive American Public Health Association, APHA-PHEHP Early Career Award and Two-time (2008, 2010) recipeint of MSI Faculty Scholar in Cancer Research Award given by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
- Monica Yunus is a Bangladeshi-Russian-American operatic soprano.
- Kamal Quadir is an entrepreneur known for founding two of Bangladesh's key technology companies, CellBazaar and bKash.
- Jalal Alamgir was a political scientist and professor before his untimely death in 2011.
- Reihan Salam is a conservative American political commentator. Blogger at The American Scene and associate editor of The Atlantic Monthly
- Mohammad Ataul Karim - known for his many original contributions to the fields of electro-optical devices and systems, optical computing and processing, and pattern recognition; he is ranked amongst the top 50 researchers who contributed most to Applied Optics in its 50-year history.
- Asif Azam Siddiqi - space historian and currently serves as an assistant professor of history at Fordham University.
- Hasan M. Elahi - interdisciplinary media artist whose research interests include issues of surveillance
- MOBONIX - musician
- Palbasha Siddique - singer
- Fazle Hussain - is a Cullen Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Physics, and Geosciences at the University of Houston.
- Kali S. Banerjee - Statistics expert and professor
- Saif Ahmad - World Series of Poker winner.
- M. Shahid Alam - Professor of economics at Northeastern University
- M. Osman Siddique - Former US Ambassador
- Narasingha Sil - Professor of History at Western Oregon University
- Dipa Ma - yoga teacher
- Supreme Understanding - Book author, publisher, activist and outspoken member of the Nation of Gods and Earths
- Shikhee - singer; auteur of industrial band Android Lust
- Abul Hussam - inventor of the Sono arsenic filter
- Maqsudul Alam - Scientist and professor. Maqsudul Alam achieved three milestones in genomics - sequencing the genomes of papaya, rubber plants and jute.
- Rais Bhuiyan - shooting survivor and activist
- Hameem Ibn Kawsar - researcher and physician.
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