List of people from Rangpur

This is a list of notable people from the Rangpur City, Bangladesh.

• Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem, 6th President of Bangladesh
• Hussain Muhammad Ershad, former President of Bangladesh, founder Jatiya Party

• Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem, 1st chief justice of Bangladesh
• Mustafa Kamal, Chief Justice of Bangladesh

• Shah Abdul Hamid, 1st speaker of the Constituent Assembly of Bangladesh also 1st Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad(Parliament of Bangladesh)

• Abu Hussain Sarkar, 4th Chief Minister of East Pakistan, one of the founders of United Front, founder of Bangla Academy and a Swadeshi movement revolutionary

• Hassan Mahmood Khandker, 26th Inspector General of Bangladesh Police, He was the longest serving Inspector General in Bangladesh Police's history.

• Sharif Imam, husband of Shahid Janani Jahanara Imam

• Asaduzzaman Noor, actor, politician and activist. Former Minister of Cultural Affairs and MP, popular for his role of Baker Bhai in Kothao Keu Nei
• Abbasuddin Ahmed, Independence Day Awardee, Bhawaiya and Ghazal singer
• Debi Prasad Roy Chowdhury, sculptor
• Dipankar Dipon, film director and screenwriter who predominantly works in Dhallywood
• Ferdausi Rahman, Independence Day Awardee and Ekushey Padak winner legendary folk and playback singer
• Mashiat Rahman, actress^[1]
• Mustafa Zaman Abbasi, Ekushey Padak winner Bangladeshi musicologist
• Rathindranath Roy, founder of Bhawaiya academy and singer
• Rezwana Choudhury Bannya, Rabindra Sangeet artist
• Tulsi Lahiri, actor and dramatist

• General Mustafizur Rahman, 9th Chief of Army Staff of the Bangladesh Army
• Lieutenant General Hussain Muhammad Ershad, 4th Chief of Army Staff of the Bangladesh Army

• Mashiur Rahman Jadu Mia (Politician, Founding member of Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Senior Minister with the rank of a Prime Minister in 1979)
• Tipu Munshi, Minister of Commerce of Bangladesh, former president BGMEA, Awami League politician
• Mashiur Rahaman Ranga Bangladeshi MP and Jatiya Party leader
• M. A. Sattar, Chairman Sattar Jute Mills Ltd, Minister of Jute and Textiles, Minister of Labor and Manpower, Member of Parliament and Chief Whip
• Sharfuddin Ahmed Jhantu First Mayor of Rangpur City Corporation, Jatiya Party leader
• H. N. Ashequr Rahman, Bangladeshi MP, Awami League,Rahman is the treasurer of the Central Committee of the Bangladesh Awami League.^[2] He is the chairman of Meghna Bank Limited^[3] and member of Board of Trustees, East West university.^[4]

• Anisul Hoque, author, novelist, dramatist, and journalist
• Rashid Askari, academic, writer, fictionist, columnist, translator, media personality and the 12th vice-chancellor of Islamic University, Bangladesh
• Buddhadeb Guha, author, novelist and Bengali fiction writer
• Monajatuddin, journalist
• Rebati Mohan Dutta Choudhury, Assamese litterateur, Sahitya Akademi Award winner and an academician

• Majnu Shah, leader of the Fakir-Sannyasi Rebellion. He used to operate in this region.
• Sri Aurobindo, British Indian philosopher, yogi, maharishi, poet, and nationalist. Spent his childhood here.
• Prafulla Chaki, British Indian revolutionary, famous for attempting to murder of a British official along with khudiram Bose. Studied at the Rangpur Zilla School.
• Devi Chaudhurani, revolutionary, one of the organizers of the Fakir-Sannyasi Rebellion

• Begum Rokeya Shakhawat Hossain, who was most famous for her efforts on behalf of gender equality and other social issues
• Karimunnesa Khanam Chaudhurani, Bengali poet, social worker, and patron of literature
• Abu Sayed, quota reform activist who participated in the 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement. He was shot dead by the Bangladesh Police on 16 July, 2024.

• Annette Beveridge, British Indologist, known works being the translations of the Baburnama from the Turki (Turkish) language, and the Humayun-nama from Persian
• William Beveridge, British economist who wrote the Beveridge Report that influenced United Kingdom to implement welfare state policies after World War II
• M. A. Wazed Miah reputed Bangladeshi nuclear scientist who was former Chairman of the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission. He is the husband of former Prime Minister, dictator Sheikh Hasina Wazed

• Nasir Hossain, all-round cricketer
• Akbar ali, cricketer, World Cup winning captain of Bangladesh under-19 team in under-19 world cup 2020
• Mishrat Jahan Moushumi, Women's footballer, Bangladesh Women's National Team
• Sirat Jahan Shopna, Women's footballer, Bangladesh Women's National Team