Famous people from bangladesh

FAMOUS & INSPIRATIONAL BANGLADESHIS AROUND THE WORLD

1. Mohammed Yunus 10. Amit Chakma

2. Prafulla Chandra Ray 11. Sir Fazle Hasan Abed

3. Satyendra Nath Bose 12. Jamal Nazrul Islam

4. Brojen Das 13. Mohammad Ataul Karim

5. Maqsudul Alam 14. Omar Ishrak

6. Fajlur Rahman Khan 15. Korvi Rakshand

7. Anwar choudhury 16. Sumaya Kazi

8. Salman Khan 17. Sakib Al Hassan

9. Jawed Karim 18. Musa Ibrahim

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Mohammed Yunus

Founder of Grameen Bank and Nobel laureate

Muhammad Yunus is a Nobel Prize-winning economist who pioneered microfinancing in Bangladesh.

He founded the Grameen Bank, with which he shared the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize “for their efforts to create economic and socialdevelopment”.

Prafulla Chandra Ray

Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray an Bangladeshi chemist, educator and entrepreneur.

The Royal Society of Chemistry honoured his life and work with the first ever Chemical Landmark Plaque outside Europe.

He was the founder of Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals, India's first pharmaceutical company.

Satyendra Nath Bose The latest discovery The

Higgs boson particle "God particle" is named after Satyendra Nath Bose.

Physicist Satyendra Nath Bose discovered what became known as bosons and went on to work with Albert Einstein to define one of two basic classes of subatomic particles.

He also taught at Dhaka university long time period.

Brojen Das The word ‘’Brojen’’ means

the king of heavens. It’s a name in Bangladesh and the person who was named Brojen Das was a swimmer for whom Bangladesh and the whole nation is proud of his achievement.

Brojen Das was a long distance swimmer. He was the first Asian to swim across the English Channel.

Maqsudul Alam

Maqsudul Alam is a Bangladeshi American Scientist and Professor.

Dr. Maqsudul Alam achieved Four milestones in genomics - sequencing the genomes of Papaya, Rubber, Jute and Fungus.

Maksudul Alam is a professor of the University of Hawaii, earlier decoded the genome of papaya in the USA and rubber plant in Malaysia.

Fazlur Rahman Khan

Fazlur Rahman Khan was a Bangladeshi structural engineer and architect, who initiated structural systems that form the basis of tall building construction today.

Considered the Father of tubular designs for high-rises, Khan was also a pioneer in computer-aided design (CAD).

He is the designer of Willis Tower – the 2nd tallest building in the United States (and tallest in the world for many years) and John Hancock Center, a 100-story tall building, etc.

Anwar choudhury

Anwar Choudhury is the Director of International Institutions at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. He was a High Commissioner to Bangladesh, and was the first British Head of Mission to be of Bangladeshi origin. Although born in Sylhet Division, in north-eastern Bangladesh, he is a naturalised British citizen.

Salman Khan

Salman, a graduate of MIT and Harvard Business School, has been listed as one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world.

He is the founder of the Khan Academy, a non-profit educational website which is now the largest virtual ‘school’ in the world with over 10 million students.

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Jawed Karim

Jawed Karim is an American internet entrepreneur of Bangladeshi origin.

He is the co-founder of the popular video sharing website YouTube.

Many of the core components of PayPal, including its real-time anti-fraud system, were also designed and implemented by Karim.

YouTube was acquired by Google in 2007 & Karim’s payoff was an estimated 65 million US Dollar.

Amit Chakma

Amit Chakma is the tenth president of the University of Western Ontario.

From 1988 until 1996, he taught chemical engineering at the University of Calgary. In 1996 he moved to the University of Regina as Dean of Engineering. During his time at the University of Regina Dr. Chakma was named to Canada's Top 40 Under 40 list.

He became Vice President Academic and Provost at the University of Waterloo in 2001.

Sir Fazle Hasan Abed

Founder & Chairperson Brac

Sir Fazle established BRAC with the primary objectives of alleviating poverty and empowering the poor. Under his leadership, in the span of only four decades, BRAC has grown to become one of the largest and most diverse development organisations in the world.

Jamal Nazrul Islam

Jamal Nazrul Islam was a Bangladeshi mathematical physicist and cosmologist. Professor Islam worked in the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy, Cambridge from 1967 until 1971. Later he worked as a researcher in California Institute of Technology and University of Washington.

His research areas include Applied Mathematics, Theoretical Physics, Mathematical Physics, theory of Gravitation, General Relativity, Mathematical Cosmology and Quantum Field Theory.

Mohammad Ataul Karim

Mohammad Ataul Karim is a Bangladeshi American scientist and Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth with expertise in electro-optical systems, optical computing, and pattern recognition.

His citation record has an h-index value of 27, g-index value of 50, and i10-index value of 84 with over 3500 publications citing his research results.

Karim is ranked amongst the top 50 researchers who contributed most to Applied Optics in its 50-year history. He was for 9 years the first Vice President for Research of Old Dominion University (ODU) in Norfolk, Virginia.

Omar Ishrak

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Medtronic

Previously president and CEO of GE Healthcare Systems, a $12 billion division of GE Healthcare, Omar now heads Medtronic, the world’s leading medical technology company, with more than $16 billion in annual revenue, and operations reaching more than 120 countries worldwide.

Sabirul Islam

inspiring 1 million Sabirul Islam is an English

entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker. He has written three self-help books.

His Teen-Trepreneur board game has sold to over 550 schools in the United Kingdom and in 14 countries worldwide.

Since 2010, he has spoken at over 700 events worldwide as part of his “Inspire 1 Million” campaign.

Korvi Rakshand

Founder of “Jaago” Foundation

Korvi was listed in the “Top 99 under 33 Influential Foreign Policy Leaders” by The Diplomatic Courier, in Washington D.C.

He has engaged 10,000 volunteers to work with Jaago on tackling issues from illiteracy, malnutrition in children to helping families build better lives.

Sakib Al Hassan

Bangladesh cricket player

Shakib is unarguably the best cricketer in recent Bangladeshi sporting record.

Shakib is Bangladesh’s first and the 28th player in the history of test cricket to score a century and pick up 5 wickets in an innings in a test match in 2011 vs Pakistan.

Musa Ibrahim

Musa Ibrahim is a Bangladeshi mountaineer and a journalist. He was the first Bangladeshi to reach the top of Mount Everest. He reached the summit around 5:05am BST on May 23, 2010. He put up the flag of Bangladesh on the summit at around 5:16am BST. From then, Bangladesh became the 67th country to have one of its citizens reach the top of Mount Everest.

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Manzurul Anik [ facebook.com/manzur.anik ] Dept. of Microbiology and BiotechnologyJagannath University.

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