List of people from Comilla

This is a list of notable residents and people who have origins in the Comilla District of Bangladesh. This list also includes British Bangladeshis, Bangladeshi Americans, Bangladeshi Canadians, and other non-resident Bengalis who have origins in the Comilla District.

Freedom fighters

Shib Narayan Das, member of BLF, one of the designers of the first flag of Bangladesh
Shaheed Dhirendranath Datta (1886–1971), ex-Minister of Law, Language movement activist and Shaheed of 1971
Lt-Col. Akbar Hussain (1942–2006), veteran freedom fighter, ex-Minister of Mineral Sources (1978), ex-Minister of Forest Preservation (1991), ex-Minister of Inland Water
AKM Bahauddin Bahar

Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad(1918–1996), ex-President of Bangladesh, ex-Minister and member of Exile Cabinet of Meherpur Government
Kazi Zafar Ahmed (1939-), member of the presidium of Jatiya Party, ex-Prime Minister (1988), ex-Minister of Education (1986)
Ghulam Azam (1922–2014), ex Leader of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami; professor; politician; convicted war criminal
Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, member of the standing committee of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, ex-Minister of Energy & Mineral Resources (1991) and ex-Minister of Health & Family Welfare (2001)
Mustafa Kamal (1947-), politician and cricket official
Shaukat Mahmood (1959-), senior journalist, editor of Weekly Economic Times, adviser to Begum Khaleda Zia and elected president (2007–08, 2009-incumbent) of National Press Club
Jehangir Khan Tareen, Pakistani politician of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, born in Comilla
Mujibul Haque Mujib, a member of the Bangladesh National Parliament for the constituency of Comilla-11 and is the current Minister for Railways of Bangladesh
Muhammad Hasanuzzaman (1900–1968), member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly

Nawab Faizunnesa, poet, pioneer in women's education, founder of Faizunnesa Girls’ School
Ayman Sadiq Founder at ten minute school

Buddhadeb Bosu (1908–1974), Bangla poet, novelist, translator, editor and essayist
Kazi Nazrul Islam, from West Bengal, but resided at Comilla for long
Abdul Kadir (1906–1984), researcher, poet and editor

Sachin Dev Burman (1906–1975), known as S.D. Burman, singer, composer and music director
Rahul Dev Burman, known as R.D. Burman, son of S.D. Burman, composer and pioneer in Bollywood music direction
Alauddin Khan
Sudhin Das
Ali Akbar Khan
Gazi Mazharul Anwar
Alaka Das, artist of classical music, principal of Sangeet Shikhharthee Sammilan^[1]
Asif Akbar

Harold John Finlay (1901–1951), New Zealand palaeontologist, was born in Comilla