Famous bangladeshis around the world

1. FAMOUS & INSPIRATIONAL
BANGLADESHIS AROUND THE WORLD

2. preface
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

3. 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 social
development”.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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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11. 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.

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. Mohammad Ataul Karim
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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.

16. 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.

17. 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.

18. 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.

19. 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.

20. 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.

21. We beg apologize because, we have picked up data about just a few famous
Bangladeshi people around the world.
Limitation of time won’t permit us to tell more..

22. Proud to be a Bangladeshi..

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

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