Dhaka College ( bn, ঢাকা কলেজ also known as DC) is the oldest secular educational institution of
Bangladesh
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located in
Dhaka
Dhaka ( or ; bn, ঢাকা, Ḍhākā, ), formerly known as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh, as well as the world's largest Bengali-speaking city. It is the eighth largest and sixth most densely populated city i ...
. It offers higher secondary education (
HSC). It has
Honours
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and
Masters programs as well which are affiliated to the
University of Dhaka
The University of Dhaka (also known as Dhaka University, or DU) is a public research university located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is the oldest university in Bangladesh. The university opened its doors to students on July 1st 1921. Currently i ...
.
History
Dhaka College is one of Bangladesh's most important as well as earliest higher-secondary educational institutions. It was established by James Taylor Wise (civil surgeon at Dhaka) in 1835 as an English Seminary School (present
Dhaka Collegiate School
Dhaka Collegiate School is a secondary school in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is one of the oldest schools in Bangladesh. The students of collegiate school are called Collegiatian.
History
The school was established in Dhaka on 21 June 1835 as Dhaka E ...
). Mr. Wise organized a local Committee of Public Instruction with the help of district magistrate Mr. Grant.
The school building was built partly out of public donations on the grounds of an English factory. On 18 July 1841, the school got its approval from the college. On 20 November 1841, the foundation stone of the college was placed and buildings were completed in 1846, with the aid of the Bishop of Calcutta. In the first graduating class there were both Muslim and Hindu students, as well as a number of foreign students, mainly from Armenia and Portugal.
The college was relocated in 1873 to a large building to the east of Victoria Park in order to accommodate the physics and chemistry laboratories. In 1908, it shifted to Curzon Hall while the science departments were housed in the present chemistry building of the University of Dhaka and two new halls were built there as well. In 1921, the college shifted again to the old High Court Building as the University of Dhaka was established there. During the Second World War, it moved to Siddique Bazar in Purana Dhaka. Finally, the college found its own permanent campus on Mirpur Road, Dhanmondi near Dhaka New Market in 1955.
;Affiliations
*
Calcutta University
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(18 July 1857 – 1 July 1921)
*
University of Dhaka
The University of Dhaka (also known as Dhaka University, or DU) is a public research university located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is the oldest university in Bangladesh. The university opened its doors to students on July 1st 1921. Currently i ...
(1 July 1921 – 20 October 1992)
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National University, Bangladesh
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(21 October 1992 – 15 February 2017)
*
University of Dhaka
The University of Dhaka (also known as Dhaka University, or DU) is a public research university located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is the oldest university in Bangladesh. The university opened its doors to students on July 1st 1921. Currently i ...
(16 February 2017 – present)
;Partial list of the principals
* IK Selim Ullah Khandakar (2021–present)
Campus
Library
The library of Dhaka College was established in 1841 at the time of establishment of the college. It has a collection around 50,000 books.
Sports facilities
There are three sports filed in this institution. One of the biggest fields is known as the main field of the college, the other one is located around the halls and the other is situated ahead of the main building which is named Dhaka College Badminton Court.
Residential student halls
There are eight residential halls:
* South Hostel
* North Hostel
* International Hall
* West Hall (for Non-Muslim only)
* Akhtaruzzaman Elias Hall
* Shaheed Farhad Hossain Hall (Also known as Masters Hall)
* Southern Hall
* Shaheed Sheikh Kamal Hall (For HSC Student)
Transport
Dhaka college has eight buses to transport students from different areas of Dhaka city. They are:
* Bus no. 1 Shankhanil (শঙ্খনীল) - starts from Mirpur 10.
* Bus no. 2 Puspak (পুস্পক) - Starts from Signboard.
* Bus no. 3 Shankhachil (শঙ্খচিল) - starts from Shahjatpur, Notun bazar, Gulshan.
* Bus no. 4 Poddonil (পদ্মনীল) - starts from Malibagh Bazar.
* Bus no. 5 Nilgiri (নীলগিরি) - starts from Bosila Bridge.
* Bus no. 6 Bijoy 71 (বিজয় ৭১) starts from Uttara.
* Bus no. 7 -starts from Chittagong Road.
* Bus no. 8 - starts from College Campus.
Organizations
Dhaka College has various types of social organizations to implement its student skill.
*
Red Crescent
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Youth
* Rover
Scout
*
BNCC
* Badhon
* Dhaka College Cultural Club
* Dhaka College Debating Club
* Dhaka College English Club
* Dhaka College Science Club
* Dhaka College Business Club
* Dhaka College Journalist Association
Academics
Dhaka College offers HSC, four years Honours, and one year Masters course in various majors.
HSC level
*
Science
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Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earli ...
*
Business Studies
*
Humanities
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Honours and Masters level
* Department of
Management
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Management includ ...
* Department of
Accounting
* Department of
English
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* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national ide ...
* Department of
Bengali
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*something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia
* Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region
* Bengali language, the language they speak
** Bengali alphabet, the w ...
* Department of
Botany
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* Department of
Chemistry
* Department of
Economics
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Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analyzes ...
* Department of
Geography
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and
Environment
* Department of
History
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* Department of Islamic History and Culture
* Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies
* Department of
Mathematics
* Department of
Political Science
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* Department of
Psychology
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* Department of
Philosophy
* Department of
Physics
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* Department of
Statistics
* Department of
Sociology
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* Department of
Zoology
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Notable alumni
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M. Zahid Hasan, scientist and endowed chair Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics at Princeton University
*
Zillur Rahman, the 19th
President of Bangladesh
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* Major General
Khaled Mosharraf
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,
Bir Uttom
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Since the independence of Bang ...
, 4th Chief of Army Staff,
Bangladesh Army
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* Colonel
Shafaat Jamil,
Bir Bikrom
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*
Tajuddin Ahmad
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, first
Prime Minister of Bangladesh
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.
*
A Q M Badruddoza Chowdhury, 13th
President of Bangladesh
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*
Jamilur Reza Choudhury, Adviser (Minister) to
Caretaker Government of Bangladesh
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& Former
Vice-Chancellor
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In most Commonwealth and former Commonwealth nations, the chancellor ...
of
BRAC University
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*
Ismail Faruque Chowdhury
Major General Md. Ismail Faruque Chowdhury (born 25 July 1953) is a former Engineer-in-Chief of the Bangladesh Army.
Early life and education
Chowdhury was born on 25 July 1953 in the Maulvibazar District of Sylhet Division of Bangladesh. He ...
, former
Engineer-in-Chief of the
Bangladesh Army
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*
Musharrof Husain Khan, 5th vice-chancellor of
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, commonly known by the acronym BUET, is a public technological research university in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Founded in 1876 as the Dacca Survey School, it is the oldest institution for the study ...
*
Sheikh Kamal, freedom fighter, founder of
Abahani Limited (Dhaka)
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*
Sheikh Jamal
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Early life
Jamal was born at Tungipara, Gopalganj on 28 April 1954. His father was She ...
, freedom fighter, second son of
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
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*
Monirul Islam (police officer), additional commissioner of
Bangladesh Police
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and the current Chief of
Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC).
*
Imran Khan (businessman)
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, Entrepreneur & Former CSO - Chief Strategy Officer of
Snap Inc.
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*
Golam Maula Rony
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Childhood
R ...
is a Bangladeshi politician, businessman & writer
*
Mujibur Rahman Chowdhury
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Early life
Chowdhury was born on 3 March 1978 in Dhaka, Banglad ...
popularly known as Nixon Chowdhury, is a Bangladeshi politician
*
Shafi Imam Rumi
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, freedom fighter and martyr, son of
Jahanara Imam
*
Abdur Razzak
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, educator, intellectual and one of the
National Professor
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s of Bangladesh
*
Mufazzal Haider Chaudhury, prominent Bengali essayist, educator and linguist of the Bengali language and
Martyred Intellectual
*
A R Mallick, historian, founding vice-chancellor of
Chittagong University
The University of Chittagong ( bn, চট্টগ্রাম বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়, caṭṭagram bishwabidyalay) is a public research university with multidisciplinary faculties situated across a 1754-acres hilly landmas ...
, and former Minister of Finance
*
Fazle Hasan Abed
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Early life
Abed was born on 27 April 1936 in the vi ...
, founder and chairman of
BRAC, recipient of
Ramon Magsaysay Award
*
Muhammad Shahjahan, 6th vice-chancellor of
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
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*
Nooruddin Ahmed, 8th vice-chancellor of
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
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*
Humayun Ahmed
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, novelist, filmmaker, songwriter, and chemist
*
Muhammed Zafar Iqbal
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, academic and writer, recipient of
Bangla Academy Literary Award
*
Jamilur Reza Choudhury, vice-chancellor of
University of Asia Pacific
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Bangladesh (}, ), officially the P ...
, recipient of the
Ekushey Padak
Ekushey Padak ( bn, একুশে পদক; lit. "Twentyfirst Award") is the second highest civilian award in Bangladesh, introduced in memory of the martyrs of the Bengali Language Movement of 1952. The award is given to recognize contribut ...
*
Rashed Khan Menon
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, politician
*
Abdur Razzaq
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, former minister of water resources
*
Shafique Ahmed
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Education
Ahmed earned his bachelor's and master's in geography fro ...
, former law minister
*
Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir
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, former home minister
*
Faruk Khan, former civil aviation and tourism minister
*
Kazi Zafarullah
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Early life
Zafa ...
, industrialist and politician
*
Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury
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Early life
Chowdhury's ancestral home is in the village of Nateshwar in Beanibazar, Sylhet District. Chowdhury passed Secondary School Cer ...
,
Bir Bikram and the Energy Adviser to the
Prime Minister of Bangladesh
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*
Abul Hassan Mahmud Ali, diplomat and politician, current Bangladesh foreign minister
*
Zunaid Ahmed Palak
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Early life and education
Palak was born on 17 May 1980 to a Bengali Muslim family in the village of Serkol-Teligram in Sin ...
, lawyer and politician, current Telecommunications & Information Technology Minister
*
Tanzir Tuhin
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, architect, musician, member of the band Avash
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Shafiq Tuhin, lyricist and music director
*
Manna
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, actor
*
Khaled Khan, actor
*
Shajal Noor
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, actor
*
Afran Nisho
Ahammed Fazle Rabbi ( bn, আহাম্মেদ ফজলে রাব্বি; Born 8 December 1980), best known as Afran Nisho, is a Bangladeshi actor. He won the critics' choice "Best Actor (TV)" at the 2016 Meril Prothom Alo Awards for ...
, actor
*
Ferdous Ahmed
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, actor
*
Haider A. Khan: Freedom Fighter, professor, international economist, poet, translator, literary, music, art and film critic
*
Mosharraf Karim
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, Actor
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Mohiuddin Ahmad
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, historian
*
Dinesh Chandra Sen
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, writer and researcher of Bengali folklore
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Lutfor Rahman Riton, recipient of
Bangla Academy Literary Award
*
Nowsher Ali Khan Yusufzai, writer and philanthropist
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Shamsur Rahman, poet
*
Mahadev Saha
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Early life
Born Dhanghara, Sirajganj, 5 August 1944. His father is Gadadhar Saha. H ...
, poet
*
Kaiser Haq
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, poet and writer
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Abu Zafar Obaidullah, poet
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Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah, poet
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Abul Hasan, poet and journalist
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Shahidul Zahir
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, poet
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Mir Masoom Ali, George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor Emeritus, statistician and educator
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Ghulam Murshid, author, scholar and journalist
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Qazi Motahar Hossain
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Hossain was a pioneer educationalist of Bangladesh. He did original research in statistics and pioneered i ...
, author, statistician and one of the
National Professor
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s of Bangladesh
*
Khan Bahadur Abdul Aziz, educationist, writer and social worker
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Syed Modasser Ali, ophthalmologist
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ABM Sohel Rashid, Actor and Writer.
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Zafrullah Chowdhury
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, public health activist, recipient of
Ramon Magsaysay Award and
Independence Day Award
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*
Mohammed Fazle Rabbee
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, cardiologist, medical researcher an
Martyred Intellectual*
Meghnad Saha
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,
FRS, astrophysicist and developer of
Saha equation
In physics, the Saha ionization equation is an expression that relates the ionization state of a gas in thermal equilibrium to the temperature and pressure. The equation is a result of combining ideas of quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics ...
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Akbar Ali Khan, economist
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Abdul Karim, soil scientist
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Mustafa Jabbar
Mustafa Jabbar (, ; born 12 August 1949) is a Bangladeshi businessman, technology entrepreneur and the current Minister of Post and Telecommunication in the Government of Bangladesh. He also served as the president of Bangladesh Association ...
, the entrepreneur behind the
Bijoy Bangla computing interface
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M Harunur Rashid
M Harunur Rashid (born 28 December 1939) is a distinguished teacher of English literature and language, a notable educational administrator, editor and translator of modern poetry and prose, in Bangladesh, a noted writer of Sufism and Sufi lit ...
, archaeologist, educationist and museum curator
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Mohammad Samir Hossain, a theorist in
death anxiety
Death anxiety is anxiety caused by thoughts of one's own death, and is also referred to as thanatophobia (fear of death). Death anxiety differs from necrophobia, which is the fear of others who are dead or dying.
Psychotherapist Robert Langs ...
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Debapriya Bhattacharya, economist and public policy analyst
* Sir
Krishna Govinda Gupta
Sir Krishna Govinda Gupta ( bn, স্যার কৃষ্ণগোবিন্দ গুপ্ত; 28 February 1851 – 20 March 1926) was a noted British Indian civil servant, the sixth Indian member of the Indian Civil Service, a barrister ...
,
ICS, member, Secretary of State's Council, UK (1907)
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Niaz Murshed
Niaz Murshed ( bn, নিয়াজ মোরশেদ; also Morshed; born May 13, 1966) is a Bangladeshi chess player. In 1987 he became the first South Asian to earn the Grandmaster title.
Early life
Murshed was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, ...
, chess
Grandmaster
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Nicholas Pogose
Joachim Gregory Nicholas Pogose ( hy, Նիկոլաս Պոգոսե; known as Nicky Pogose; died ) was an Armenian merchant and a zamindar. He belonged to the Armenian community of Dhaka.
Career
Pogose studied in Dhaka Collegiate School and Dhaka ...
, Armenian merchant and
zamindar
A zamindar ( Hindustani: Devanagari: , ; Persian: , ) in the Indian subcontinent was an autonomous or semiautonomous ruler of a province. The term itself came into use during the reign of Mughals and later the British had begun using it as ...
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Anwarul Iqbal, BPM (Bar), PPM, adviser (2007–2009) to the interim
Caretaker Government of Bangladesh, founder Director General of the
Rapid Action Battalion
Rapid Action Battalion or RAB, is an anti-crime and anti-terrorism unit of the Bangladesh Police. This elite force consists of members of the Bangladesh Army, Bangladesh Police, Bangladesh Navy, Bangladesh Air Force, Border Guard Bangladesh, B ...
(RAB)
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Waheedul Haq, journalist, writer, musicologist, and one of the founders of
Chhayanaut
The Chhayanaut Sangeet Vidyatan ( bn, ছায়ানট) is an institution devoted to Bengali culture, founded in Bangladesh in 1961. As in the case of many similar organizations, it was established during Pakistani rule in Bangladesh to prom ...
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Abul Mansur Ahmed, journalist, recipient of
Bangla Academy Literary Award and
Independence Day Award
The Independence Day Award ( bn, স্বাধীনতা পদক), also termed Independence Award ( bn, স্বাধীনতা পুরস্কার), Swadhinata Padak, and Swadhinata Puroskar, is the highest state award given by t ...
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Ahmed Humayun, journalist, recipient of the
Ekushey Padak
Ekushey Padak ( bn, একুশে পদক; lit. "Twentyfirst Award") is the second highest civilian award in Bangladesh, introduced in memory of the martyrs of the Bengali Language Movement of 1952. The award is given to recognize contribut ...
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Serajur Rahman, journalist, broadcaster, columnist
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Abul Kalam Shamsuddin
Abul Kalam Shamsuddin (3 November 18974 March 1978) was a journalist, politician and littérateur. He was born at Trishal of Mymensingh.
Early life
Shamsuddin passed HSC from Dhaka College in 1919. Then we went to Ripon College (presently S ...
, journalist and author
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Shafik Rehman
Shafik Rehman (born 11 November 1934) is a Bangladeshi journalist, political analyst, and writer. He is credited for introducing Valentine's Day in Bangladesh.
He has worked to gather support in favour of Bangladesh in England with Justice Abu Sa ...
, journalist
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A. F. M. Abdur Rahman, justice of Bangladesh Supreme court
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Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed, former Attorney General
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A. F. Mujibur Rahman, jurist and first Bengali Muslim
Indian Civil Service
The Indian Civil Service (ICS), officially known as the Imperial Civil Service, was the higher civil service of the British Empire in India during British rule in the period between 1858 and 1947.
Its members ruled over more than 300 million p ...
(ICS) officer
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Maqsudul Alam,
life-science scientist. first to decode the genome sequence of jute in Bangladesh and receiver of the
Independence Day Award
The Independence Day Award ( bn, স্বাধীনতা পদক), also termed Independence Award ( bn, স্বাধীনতা পুরস্কার), Swadhinata Padak, and Swadhinata Puroskar, is the highest state award given by t ...
.
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Dinesh Gupta
Dinesh Chandra Gupta ( bn, দিনেশ চন্দ্র গুপ্ত ''Dinesh Chôndro Gupto'') or Dinesh Gupta (6 December 1911 – 7 July 1931) was an Indian revolutionary against British rule in India, who is noted for launching an ...
, Indian revolutionary who took part in the
Writers' Building
The Writers' Buildings, often shortened to just Writers, is the official secretariat building of the state government of West Bengal in Kolkata, India. The 150-meter long building covers the entire northern stretch of the iconic Lal Dighi pond a ...
attack
* Saima Akter, Indian revolutionary who took part in the
Writers' Building
The Writers' Buildings, often shortened to just Writers, is the official secretariat building of the state government of West Bengal in Kolkata, India. The 150-meter long building covers the entire northern stretch of the iconic Lal Dighi pond a ...
attack
Notable faculty
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Ayub Ali
Abū al-Khayr Muḥammad Ayyūb ʿAlī al-Māturīdī ( ar, أبو الخير محمد أيوب علي الماتريدي; 1919–1995), or simply Ayub Ali ( bn, আইয়ূব আলী), was a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar, author and educatio ...
, educationist
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Akhtaruzzaman Elias, novelist and short story writer
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Akhtar Imam, educationist
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Iqbal Azeem, poet
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Nurul Haque Miah, professor of chemistry
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Walter Allen Jenkins, 7th vice-chancellor of the
University of Dhaka
The University of Dhaka (also known as Dhaka University, or DU) is a public research university located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is the oldest university in Bangladesh. The university opened its doors to students on July 1st 1921. Currently i ...
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George Harry Langley, 2nd vice-chancellor of the
University of Dhaka
The University of Dhaka (also known as Dhaka University, or DU) is a public research university located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is the oldest university in Bangladesh. The university opened its doors to students on July 1st 1921. Currently i ...
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Muhammad Mansuruddin
Muhammad Mansuruddin (31 January 1904 – 19 September 1987) was a Bengali author, literary critic, essayist, lexicographer and biographer from Bangladesh. He was an authority on folklore and was famous for a huge collection of age-old folk son ...
, author, literary critic, essayist, lexicographer
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Mohammad Noman, educationist
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Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir (born 26 January 1948) is a Bangladeshi politician. He has been the secretary general of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) since 2016. He was a member of the parliament for Thakurgaon-1 constituency from 2001 t ...
, Teacher, Politician.
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Shaukat Osman, novelist and short story writer
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Alauddin Al-Azad
Alauddin Al-Azad (6 May 1932 – 3 July 2009) was a modern Bangladeshi author, novelist, and poet.
Early life and education
Azad was born in Dhaka. He Passed Secondary School Certificate and Higher Secondary School Certificate in 1947 and 1949 ...
, poet, novelist, educationist
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Mohammad Rafiq, poet
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Prasanna Kumar Roy
Prasanna Kumar Roy (1849 – 1932; better known as Dr. P. K. Roy) was an educationist and the first Indian principal of Presidency College, Kolkata.
Early life
The son of Shyam Sundar Ray, he belonged to a family originated from Subhaddya in Ke ...
, first Indian principal of
Presidency College, Kolkata
Presidency University, Kolkata (formerly known as Presidency College, Kolkata) is a second major public state aided research university located in College Street, Kolkata. Considered as one of best colleges when Presidency College was affili ...
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Abdullah Abu Sayeed, educationist
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Kazi Abdul Wadud, essayist, critic, dramatist
References
External links
Official Website*
Dhaka College Alumni Category
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Universities and colleges in Dhaka
1841 establishments in British India
Educational institutions established in 1841
University of Dhaka affiliates