Freedom Fighters
- General Muhammad Ataul Gani Osmani - Supreme Commander of Mukti Bahini, former MP, former minister and former Adviser to President of Bangladesh.
- Major General Azizur Rahman (Retd) Bir Uttam
- Major General C R Dutta, Bir Uttam, Ex Sector Commander, Bangladesh liberation war
- Major General Ejaz Ahmed Choudhury, A war hero of 3 Sector
- Major General Harun Ahmed Chowdhury (Retd) Bir Uttam
- Major General Imamuzzaman (Retd) Bir Bikrom
- Major General M. Abdur Rab Bir Uttam, war hero, Assistant Commander in Chief of Liberation war and first Army Chief of Bangladesh, former M.P. born in Baniachang.
- Major General Mainul Hossain Chowdhury (Retd) Bir Bikrom, Ex Adviser
- Major General M R Chowdhury (Retd), Bir Uttam
- Govinda Chandra Dev, a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dhaka. He was abducted and executed in 1971 by the Pakistan Army as part of a plan to eliminate the Bangladeshi intelligentsia.
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