List of people from Sylhet

• Abdul Muktadir, academician martyred in the Bangladesh Liberation War
• Altab Ali, factory garment worker murdered by three teenagers in a racially motived attack on 4 May 1978.
• Anudvaipayan Bhattacharya, university lecturer martyred in the Bangladesh Liberation War
• Dia Chakravarty, political activist, singer, former political director of the TaxPayers' Alliance and editor of The Daily Telegraph.
• Gurusaday Dutt, founder of the Bratachari movement
• Jagat Joity Das, Mukti Bahini member killed in the Bangladesh Liberation War
• Kakon Bibi, freedom fighter and secret agent in the Bangladesh Liberation War
• Kamala Bhattacharya, student martyred in the Bengali Language Movement of the Barak Valley
• Leela Roy, reformer and politician
• M. A. G. Osmani, commander-in-chief of Bangladesh Liberation War
• Rawshan Ara Bachchu, woman rights activist and part of the Bengali language movement
• Rubel Ahmed, died in Morton Hall immigration detention centre under controverted circumstances.
• Saifur Rahman (Bangladeshi politician), Mohammad Saifur Rahman was a Bangladeshi economist and politician.
• Sachindra Chandra Pal, student martyred in the Bengali Language Movement of the Barak Valley
• Shamsuddin Ahmed, medical doctor martyred in the Bangladesh Liberation War
• Sushil Sen, martyred in the Indian independence movement
• Suhasini Das, social worker and activist
• Syeda Shahar Banu, woman rights activist and part of the Bengali language movement
• Zobeda Khanom Chowdhury, woman rights activist and part of the Bengali language movement

• Dhruba Esh, cover artist and writer
• Jalal Ahmad, president of the Institute of Architects Bangladesh, vice-president of the Commonwealth Association of Architects
• Saiman Miah, architectural and graphic designer, designed one of the two £5 commemorative coins for the 2012 Summer Olympics.

• Abdul Latif, British restaurateur known for his dish "Curry Hell".
• Ayub Ali Master, founder of the Shah Jalal Restaurant in London which became a hub for the British Asian community.
• Bajloor Rashid MBE, businessman and former president of the Bangladesh Caterers Association UK.
• Enam Ali, founder of the British Curry Awards, Spice Business Magazine and Ion TV
• Fazle Hasan Abed KCMG – founder of the world's largest non-governmental organisation, BRAC
• Foysol Choudhury MBE – Businessman, community activist and Chairman of Edinburgh and Lothians Regional Equality Council.
• Iqbal Ahmed OBE – Entrepreneur and CEO of Seamark Group. In 2006, he became the highest British Bangladeshi to feature on the Sunday Times Rich List (listed at number 511).
• James Leo Ferguson, tea industrialist and chairman of the Lakshmiprasad Union
• Mahee Ferdous Jalil, founder of Channel S, owner of Prestige Auto Group and TV presenter.
• Mamun Chowdhury – Businessman, and founder and co-director of London Tradition. In 2014, the company was awarded a Queen's Award for Enterprise for International Trade in recognition of its increase in sales.
• Muquim Ahmed - Entrepreneur who became the first Bangladeshi millionaire at the age of 26^[1] due to diversification in banking, travel, a chain of restaurants with the Cafe Naz group, publishing and property development.
• Ragib Ali – Industrialist, pioneer tea-planter, educationalist, philanthropist and banker
• Shah Abdul Majid Qureshi, first Sylheti to open a restaurant in the United Kingdom
• Shelim Hussain - Founder of Euro Foods (UK)
• Syed Ahmed - Candidate on BBC reality television programme The Apprentice
• Mohammad Ajman "Tommy" Miah MBE – Celebrity chef and restaurateur. In 1991, he founded the Indian Chef of the Year Competition.
• Wali Tasar Uddin MBE – Entrepreneur, restaurateur, community leader and Chairman of the Bangladesh-British Chamber of Commerce.

• Abu Nasr Waheed, educationist, was born in Sylhet in 1878.^[3]
• Aminul Hoque MBE, lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London, writer
• Govinda Chandra Dev, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dhaka assassinated at the onset of the Bangladesh Liberation War by the Pakistan Army.
• K M Baharul Islam, Dean of the Indian Institute of Management Kashipur
• Mamun al-Mahtab, hepatologist
• M. A. Rashid, first Vice-chancellor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
• Mohammad Ataul Karim, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
• Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, physicist, writer and columnist
• Najma Chowdhury, founder of the Women and Gender Studies department in the University of Dhaka, adviser to Caretaker Government of Bangladesh
• Nurul Islam Nahid, former Education Minister of Bangladesh
• Nurunnahar Fatema Begum, head of paediatric cardiology at the Combined Military Hospital (Dhaka)
• Padmanath Bhattacharya Vidya Vinod, professor at Cotton University
• Parvez Haris, biomedical science professor at De Montfort University
• Ragib Ali, founder of Leading University, Jalalabad Ragib-Rabeya Medical College and the University of Asia Pacific
• Sadruddin Ahmed Chowdhury, physicist and vice-chancellor of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology and Sylhet International University
• Sasanka Chandra Bhattacharyya, natural product chemist and director of Bose Institute, Kolkata
• Shafi Ahmed, surgeon and entrepreneur
• Sudhansu Datta Majumdar, physicist and faculty member of the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
• Sundari Mohan Das, founder principal of Calcutta National Medical College
• Syed Manzoorul Islam, critic, writer, former professor of Dhaka University

• Abdul Malik, Brigadier (rtd.), founder of National Heart Foundation
• Dewan Mohammad Azraf, teacher, author, politician
• Jamilur Reza Choudhury, vice-chancellor of University of Asia Pacific, adviser to Caretaker Government of Bangladesh
• Rangalal Sen, academician and writer
• Shahla Khatun, obstetrician and gynecologist

• Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, former Finance Minister of Bangladesh
• B. B. Bhattacharya, professor and Director of the Institute of Economic Growth in Delhi
• Mohammed Farashuddin, 7th Governor of Bangladesh Bank, founder of East West University
• Mrinal Datta Chaudhuri, theoretical economist, academic and professor of the Delhi School of Economics
• Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad, chairman of the Dhaka School of Economics
• Saifur Rahman, longest serving Finance Minister of Bangladesh and a leader of BNP
• Shah A M S Kibria, economist, diplomat and former executive secretary of the United Nations' ESCAP
• Shegufta Bakht Chaudhuri, 4th Governor of Bangladesh Bank

• Adnan Faruque, actor, presenter, model and YouTuber
• Ali Shahalom, comedian and television presenter
• Azim, actor best known for the role of Rahim Badshah in Rupban
• Bibhash Chakraborty, theatre personality and actor
• C. B. Zaman, film director, actor, and model
• Helal Khan, film actor and producer
• Islah Abdur-Rahman, film director, actor and screenwriter
• Khaled Choudhury, theatre personality and artist
• Khalil Ullah Khan, film and TV actor
• Marjana Chowdhury, a Beauty pageant residing in the United States
• Nadiya Hussain, columnist, chef, author and TV personality best known for winning the baking competition The Great British Bake Off
• Niranjan Pal, playwright, director and founding member of Bombay Talkies
• Raihan Rafi, film director and screenwriter
• Ruhul Amin, film director
• Salman Shah, film actor
• Shefali Chowdhury, actress best known for the role of Parvati Patil in Harry Potter

• Abaqati family, Uttar Pradeshi family who had jagirs in Sylhet
• Mazumdars of Sylhet, Nawabs and Qanungoh of Barshala/Gorduar/Mazumdari, Sylhet
• Pal family, a former ruling family of Panchakhanda, Beanibazar
• Nawabs of Prithimpassa, founded by Sakhi Salamat Isfahani
• Sareqaum, custodians of Shah Jalal's dargah complex, founded by Haji Yusuf

• Altaf Husain, 1st editor-in-chief of Pakistan's oldest, leading and most widely read English-language newspaper, Dawn and former Industry Minister of Pakistan
• Hasina Momtaz, former press officer for the Mayor of London
• Hassan Shahriar, journalist
• Lenin Gani, senior member of the Bangladesh Sports Journalists Association
• Rizwan Hussain, TV presenter, philanthropist, humanitarian aid worker, barrister and former CEO of Global Aid Trust
• Rizwana Hasan, attorney, Hero of the Environment and winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize and Ramon Magsaysay Award
• Salah Choudhury, editor of Weekly Blitz
• Shamim Chowdhury, TV and print journalist for Al Jazeera English
• Sirajul Hossain Khan, editor of Pakistan Times and the Eastern News Agency.
• Syed Mohammad Ali, founder of The Daily Star - the largest circulating daily English-language newspaper in Bangladesh.^[4]
• Syed Nahas Pasha, journalist and editor of Janomot and Curry Life

• Abdul Moshabbir, lawyer and politician
• Knight Bachelor Akhlaq Choudhury, first Muslim at the British High Court of Justice
• Irene Khan, seventh Secretary General of Amnesty International, Director-General of the International Development Law Organization
• Khatun Sapnara, judge and first non-white to be elected to the Family Law Bar Association Committee. In 2006, she was appointed as a Recorder of the Crown, which made her the only person of Bangladeshi origin in a senior judicial position.

• Abdur Rouf Choudhury, writer
• Achyut Charan Choudhury, writer and historian
• Arjumand Ali, first Bengali Muslim novelist
• Arun Kumar Chanda, freedom fighter, social worker, writer and editor of the Saptak
• Asaddor Ali, writer and researcher of Sylheti folk literature
• Ashraf Hussain, poet, writer, researcher of folk literature
• Chowdhury Gulam Akbar, writer and collector of Bengali folk literature for the Bangla Academy
• Dilwar Khan, poet known as Gonomanusher Kobi (Poet of the mass people)
• Dwijen Sharma, naturalist and science writer
• Gurusaday Dutt, folklorist
• Hason Raja, minstrel and writer of mystical songs
• Ibrahim Ali Tashna, poet, Islamic scholar and activist
• Ismail Alam, Urdu poet and activist
• Mufti Nurunnessa Khatun, writer, academic, and botanist
• Muhammad Mojlum Khan, non-fiction writer best known for The Muslim 100
• Muhammad Nurul Haque, cultural activist, social worker and writer
• Sadeq Ali, writer, poet and judge best known for the Halat-un-Nabi puthi
• Shahida Rahman, author and publisher
• Syed Mujtaba Ali, author, journalist, travel enthusiast, academician, scholar and linguist.
• Syed Murtaza Ali, writer and historian
• Syed Pir Badshah, Persian-language writer
• Syed Rayhan ad-Din, celebrated Persian-language writer
• Syed Shah Israil, considered to be Sylhet's first author
• Syed Sultan, wrote the first Prophetic biography in Bengali in 16th century

• Anwarul Momen, general officer commanding 17th Infantry Division
• Ashab Uddin, major general and ambassador to Kuwait and Yemen
• Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury, 11th Chief of Army Staff of the Bangladesh Army
• Ismail Faruque Chowdhury, engineer-in-chief of the Bangladesh Army
• Bangabir M. A. G. Osmani, Supreme Commander of the Mukti Bahini
• Mahbub Ali Khan, Bangladesh Navy rear admiral and the Chief of Naval Staff
• Mahmudur Rahman Majumdar, Bangladesh Army brigadier, formerly the most senior ethnic Bengali in the Pakistan Army
• Mohammad Abdur Rab, 1st Chief of Army Staff of the Bangladesh Army, Major general during the Bangladesh Liberation War
• Muhammad Ghulam Tawab, Bangladesh's second Chief of Air Staff
• Nurul Huq, second temporary chief of Bangladesh Navy
• Prince Garuda of Gour, fought against the Muslims during the Conquest of Sylhet
• Syed Mohammad Ziaul Haque, Bangladesh Army officer and fugitive
• Syed Nasiruddin – Sipah Salar of Shamsuddin Firoz Shah

Chronological list of articles:

• Gangadhwaj Govardhan, 20th king of the Gour Kingdom
• Madan Rai, penultimate minister of Gour
• Amar Singh, military general and short-lasted minister of Brahmachal under Govardhan
• Jaidev Rai, governor of Brahmachal (southern Sylhet) under Tripura Kingdom
• Gour Govinda, final king of the Gour Kingdom, defeated in the Conquest of Sylhet
• Mona Rai, final minister of Gour
• Sikandar Khan Ghazi, first wazir of Srihat
• Haydar Ghazi, second wazir of Srihat
• Muqabil Khan, wazir of Srihat in 1440
• Khurshid Khan, minister of Srihat, constructed numerous mosques
• Majlis Alam, dastur of Srihat, constructed numerous mosques
• Sarwar Khan, Nawab of Sylhet after Gawhar Khan
• Mir Khan, Nawab and Qanungoh of Sylhet
• Bayazid of Sylhet, Baro-Bhuyan Afghan chieftain who ruled over North Sylhet
• Muhammad Sani, Manipur migrant
• Khwaja Usman, Baro-Bhuyan Afghan chieftain who ruled over South Sylhet
• Mubariz Khan, Mughal sardar of Sylhet, fought against many Baro-Bhuiyan chieftains
• Mukarram Khan, Mughal sardar of Sylhet who would later become Subahdar of Bengal
• Mirak Bahadur Jalair, Mughal sardar of Sylhet
• Sulayman Banarsi, Mughal co-sardar of Sylhet, governed over southern parts of Sylhet
• Lutfullah Shirazi, Mughal faujdar of Sylhet from 1658 to 1665
• Isfandiyar Khan, Mughal faujdar of Sylhet
• Syed Ibrahim Khan, Mughal faujdar of Sylhet
• Jan Muhammad Khan, Mughal faujdar of Sylhet
• Mahafata Khan, Mughal faujdar of Sylhet
• Farhad Khan, most well-known Mughal faujdar of Sylhet
• Sadeq Khan, Mughal faujdar of Sylhet
• Inayetullah Khan, Mughal faujdar of Sylhet and founder of Inatganj
• Rafiullah Khan, Mughal faujdar of Sylhet
• Ahmad Majid, Mughal faujdar of Sylhet
• Abdullah Shirazi, Mughal faujdar of Sylhet and mosque builder
• Robert Lindsay, 4th superintendent and 1st collector of Sylhet from 1778 to 1790
• Ganar Khan, last faujdar of Sylhet

• Alaur Rahman, singer and music teacher
• Amina Khayyam, dancer and choreographer
• Bidit Lal Das, folk singer and composer
• Debojit Saha, playback singer
• Gouri Choudhury, music teacher
• Kalika Prasad Bhattacharya, folk singer
• Mumzy Stranger, singer, producer and lyricist
• Radharaman Dutta, lyricist and composer of folk and traditional dhamail
• Ramkanai Das, classical and folk musician^[5]
• Rowshanara Moni, singer and actress
• Runa Laila, playback singer
• Sanjeeb Chowdhury, singer and journalist
• Selim Chowdhury, folk singer^[6]
• Shah Abdul Karim, minstrel and folk songwriter
• Shapla Salique, singer and harmonium player
• Shushama Das, folk musician^[7]
• Shuvro Dev, playback singer
• Subir Nandi, playback singer

• Abdus Shahid, former chief whip for Bangladesh Awami League
• Ariful Haque Choudhury, Mayor of Sylhet
• Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran, former mayor of Sylhet
• C. M. Shafi Sami, former Bangladeshi diplomat
• Hafiz Ahmed Mazumder, chairman of Bangladesh Red Crescent Society, Pubali Bank Board of Directors and founder of Scholarshome
• Humayun Rashid Choudhury, former speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad, 41st President of the UN General Assembly
• Ilias Ali, Organizing Secretary of the Bangladesh National Party
• Mifta Uddin Chowdhury Rumi, vice-president of Bangladesh Nationalist Party-Sunamganj
• Shafiqur Rahman, Amir of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami
• Syed Muazzem Ali, foreign service officer, high commissioner and career diplomat

• J. R. Mudassir Husain, 14th Chief Justice of Bangladesh
• Mahmudul Amin Choudhury, 11th Chief Justice of Bangladesh
• Surendra Kumar Sinha, 21st Chief Justice of Bangladesh
• Syed A. B. Mahmud Hossain, 2nd Chief Justice of Bangladesh

• Abdul Hakeem Chowdhury, East Pakistan Provincial council and National Assembly
• Abdul Majid Khan, former MP for Habiganj-2
• Abdul Matin, former MP for Moulvibazar-2
• Abdul Munim Chowdhury, former MP for Habiganj-1
• Abdul Muqit Khan, former MP for Sylhet-3
• Abdul Jabbar, former MP for the erstwhile Sylhet-13 constituency
• Abdul Qahir Chowdhury, former MP for Sylhet-5
• Abdur Raees, East Pakistan Provincial council and National Assembly
• Abdur Rahim, former MP for Sylhet-6
• Abu Lais Md. Mubin Chowdhury, former MP for Habiganj-3
• Abu Zahir, former MP for Habiganj-3
• Abul Hasnat Md. Abdul Hai, former member of the Jatiya Sangsad
• AKM Gouach Uddin, former MP for Sylhet-6
• Ameena Begum Shafiq, doctor and Jamaat-e-Islami politician
• Barun Roy, former MP for Sunamganj-1
• Dewan Farid Gazi, former leader of Habiganj-1
• Dildar Hossain Selim, former MP for Sylhet-4
• Enamul Haque Chowdhury, former MP for Sylhet-2
• Fatema Chowdhury Paru, BNP politician
• Gazi Mohammad Shahnawaz, MP for Habiganj-1
• Gulzar Ahmed Chowdhury, former MP for Sunamganj-3
• Harris Chowdhury, former MP for Sylhet-5
• Ismat Ahmed Chowdhury, MP for Habiganj-1
• Joya Sengupta, politician and doctor
• Khalilur Rahman Chowdhury, MP for Habiganj-1
• Khandaker Abdul Malik, former MP for Sylhet-1
• Lutfur Rahman, former MP for Sylhet-6
• Mahmud Us Samad Chowdhury, former MP for Sylhet-3
• Mahbub Ali, former MP for Habiganj-4
• Maqsood Ebne Aziz Lama, former MP for Sylhet-2
• MM Shahin, former MP for Moulvibazar-2
• Moazzem Hossain Ratan, former MP for Sunamganj-1
• Mokabbir Khan, MP for Sylhet-2
• Mohibur Rahman Manik, former MP for Sunamganj-5
• Mostafa Ali, member of the Bangladesh Constituent Assembly and former governor of Habiganj
• Najmul Hasan Zahed, former MP for Habiganj-2
• Naser Rahman, former MP for Moulvibazar-3 and chairman of the Saifur Rahman Foundation
• Nawab Ali Abbas Khan, Jatiya Party politician and three-time MP for Moulvibazar-2
• Nazim Kamran Choudhury, former MP
• Pir Fazlur Rahman, former MP for Sunamganj-4
• Salim Uddin, former MP for Sylhet-5
• Shafi Ahmed Chowdhury, former MP for Sylhet-3
• Shah Azizur Rahman, former MP for Sylhet-2
• Sharaf Uddin Khashru, former MP for Sylhet-6
• Sheikh Sujat Mia, former MP for Habiganj-1
• Sultan Mohammad Mansur Ahmed, member of Jatiya Sangsad and previously vice-president of Dhaka University Central Students' Union
• Syed Mahibul Hasan, former MP for Sylhet-16
• Syed Makbul Hossain, former MP for Sylhet-6
• Syeda Saira Mohsin, former MP for Moulvibazar-3
• Yahya Chowdhury, former MP for Sylhet-2

• Abdul Haque, former Land Administration and Reforms Minister
• Abdul Mannan, Minister of Planning
• Abdus Samad Azad, former Foreign Minister of Bangladesh
• AK Abdul Momen, Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Enamul Haque Mostafa Shahid, former Minister of Social Welfare
• Imran Ahmad, Minister of Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment
• Mukhlesur Rahman Chowdhury, former Adviser to President Iajuddin Ahmed
• Shamsher M. Chowdhury, Bangladeshi diplomat and former secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Shahab Uddin, Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
• Suranjit Sengupta, former Minister of Railways
• Syed Mohsin Ali, former Minister of Social Welfare
• Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury, energy adviser to the prime minister of Bangladesh
• Rasheda K Chowdhury, primary and mass education adviser to the Caretaker Government led by Fakhruddin Ahmed

• Abdul Matlib Mazumdar, freedom fighter and political leader known for retaining the Barak Valley in India
• Bipin Chandra Pal, Indian nationalist, one third of the Lal Bal Pal triumvirate
• Nawab Ali Haider Khan, 9th Nawab of Longla, minister and leader of the Independent Muslim Party
• Syed Abdul Majid CIE, first native minister of Assam, pioneer of the agricultural industry

• Abdul Hamid, Education Minister of Assam and later East Bengal
• Abu Ahmad Abdul Hafiz, Sylhet Muslim League founder and lawyer
• Abdul Hoque, politician, lawyer and freedom fighter
• Moulvi Abdus Salam, Revenue Minister of East Bengal
• Abdul Khaleque Ahmed, member of the 3rd National Assembly of Pakistan
• Abdul Matin Chaudhary, member of the 1st National Assembly of Pakistan and Pakistan's first Minister of Agriculture
• Abdul Muntaquim Chaudhury, member of the 3rd National Assembly of Pakistan
• Aftab Ali, founder of All-India Seamen's Federation and vice-president of All-India Trade Union Congress
• Ajmal Ali, member of the 4th National Assembly of Pakistan
• Akhay Kumar Das, member of the 1st National Assembly of Pakistan
• Basanta Kumar Das, member of the 2nd National Assembly of Pakistan
• Begum Serajunnessa Choudhury, member of the 3rd National Assembly of Pakistan
• Mahmud Ali, Freedom Movement leader, statesman
• Mohammad Keramat Ali, entrepreneur, philanthropist and politician
• Mushahid Ahmad Bayampuri, member of the 3rd National Assembly of Pakistan
• Ibrahim Ali Tashna, poet, Islamic scholar and activist
• Muazzam Ahmed Choudhury, member of the 4th National Assembly of Pakistan
• Muhammad Amin, member of the 3rd National Assembly of Pakistan
• Murtaza Raza Choudhry, member of the 1st National Assembly of Pakistan
• Saiful Alom, member of the East Bengal Legislative Assembly
• Qamarul Ahsan, member of the 3rd National Assembly of Pakistan

• Abdul Munim Choudhury, former MLA of Karimganj South
• A. F. Golam Osmani, Indian National Congress member
• Amar Chand Jain, Bharatiya Janata Party politician
• Anwar Hussain Laskar, All India United Democratic Front politician
• Ashab Uddin, member of the Manipur Legislative Assembly
• Ataur Rahman Mazarbhuiya, All India United Democratic Front politician
• Azad Zaman, member of the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly
• Aziz Ahmed Khan, former MLA of Karimganj South
• Bijoy Malakar, MLA of Ratabari
• Chittendra Nath Mazumder, Bharatiya Janata Party politician
• Dilip Kumar Paul, Bharatiya Janata Party politician
• Dwarka Nath Das, Bharatiya Janata Party politician
• Hazi Salim Uddin Barbhuiya, MLA of Hailakandi
• Kabindra Purkayastha, senior leader of Bharatiya Janata Party in Assam
• Kali Ranjan Deb, Bharatiya Janata Party politician
• Kamalakhya Dey Purkayastha, former MLA of Karimganj North
• Karnendu Bhattacharjee, Indian National Congress member
• Kartik Sena Sinha, Bharatiya Janata Party politician
• Kishor Nath, former MLA of Barkhola
• Kripanath Mallah, Bharatiya Janata Party politician
• Krishnendu Paul, MLA of Patharkandi
• Lalit Mohan Suklabaidya, Indian National Congress member
• Madhusudhan Tiwari, former MLA of Patharkandi (1991–1996)
• Misbahul Islam Laskar, MLA of Barkhola
• Mission Ranjan Das, Bharatiya Janata Party politician
• Moinul Hoque Choudhury, five-time MLA, two-time UN General Assembly representative and Minister of Industrial Development
• Nepal Chandra Das, Indian National Congress member
• Nihar Ranjan Laskar, Indian National Congress member
• Parimal Suklabaidya, Bharatiya Janata Party politician
• Radheshyam Biswas, All India United Democratic Front politician
• Rajdeep Roy, Bharatiya Janata Party politician
• Ramapayare Rabidas, Bharatiya Janata Party politician
• Rashida Haque Choudhury, former Minister of State of Social Welfare
• Rumi Nath, former MLA of Barkhola
• Sambhu Sing Mallah, Bharatiya Janata Party politician
• Santosh Mohan Dev, former cabinet minister of the Government of India and 7-time Member of Parliament from Silchar, Assam and Tripura South.
• Satyabrata Mookherjee, former Minister of State
• Shukhendu Shekhar Dutta, former MLA of Patharkandi
• Siddique Ahmed, MLA of Karimganj South
• Subodh Das, MP for Panisagar
• Surendra Kumar Dey, first Union Cabinet minister for Cooperation and Panchayati raj
• Sushmita Dev, President of the All India Mahila Congress
• Suzam Uddin Laskar, All India United Democratic Front politician
• Tathagata Roy, controversial right-wing Hindutva associate

• Anwar Choudhury, The British High Commissioner for Bangladesh between 2004 and 2008. He is currently the Director of International Institutions at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office.
• Apsana Begum, first Hijabi to be elected as an MP for the British parliament
• Doly Begum, Canadian politician
• Gaus Khan, president of the United Kingdom Awami League
• Hansen Clarke, former congressman of MI 13
• Lutfur Rahman, the first directly elected mayor of Tower Hamlets and the first Bangladeshi leader of the council.
• Nadia Shah, former mayor of Camden. The first female mayor in the United Kingdom of Bangladeshi origin.
• Nasim Ali OBE, former mayor of Camden. He became UK's youngest mayor as well as the first Bangladeshi and first Muslim mayor.
• Rabina Khan, councillor for Shadwell and former Housing Cabinet member in Tower Hamlets
• Rushanara Ali, first Bangladeshi to be elected as an MP for the British parliament

• Shaikh-e-Fulbari Abdul Matin Chowdhury, a religious scholar and political activist
• Athar Ali, Deobandi scholar, author and founder of the Nizam-e-Islam party
• Mushahid Ahmad Bayampuri, Islamic scholar and parliamentarian
• Abdul Latif Chowdhury Fultali, Islamic scholar and founder of the Fultali movement
• Nur Uddin Gohorpuri, chairman of Befaqul Madarisil Arabia Bangladesh
• Abdul Momin Imambari, former president of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh
• Abu Hena Saiful Islam, US Navy's imam
• Ajmal Masroor, imam, TV presenter and politician
• Ibrahim Ali Tashna, Islamic scholar, poet and activist
• Ibrahim Danishmand, zamindar and Sufi scholar
• Muhammad Arshad, 16th-century Persian-language scholar
• Najib Ali Choudhury, founder of the Madinatul Uloom Bagbari, the first madrasa in the Greater Sylhet region

• Nurul Islam Olipuri, mufassir and teacher
• Obaidul Haque Wazirpuri, former president of Befaqul Madarisil Arabia Bangladesh
• Tafazzul Haque Habiganji, former vice-president of Hefazat-e-Islam and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam
• Ubaidul Haq, former khatib of Baitul Mukarram
• Zia Uddin, president of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh
• Farid Uddin Chowdhury, former MP for Sylhet-5
• Zohurul Hoque, doctor and translator of the Qur'an

• Shah Jalal, Sufi saint associated with spreading Islam to Sylhet
• Ghazi Burhanuddin, considered to be Sylhet's first Muslim
• Haji Muhammad Yusuf, first custodian of Shah Jalal's dargah
• Adam Khaki, associated with spreading Islam to Badarpur
• Shah Gabru, associated with spreading Islam to Osmani Nagar
• Shah Halim ad-Din Narnauli, associated with spreading Islam to Kanihati
• Shah Kamal Quhafa, late disciple of Shah Jalal
• Shah Malum, associated with spreading Islam to Fenchuganj
• Shah Paran, early disciple and nephew of Shah Jalal
• Shah Ruknuddin, associated with spreading Islam to Rajnagar
• Shah Siddiq, associated with spreading Islam to Osmanpur
• Shah Tajuddin, associated with spreading Islam to Tajpur

• Agha Muhammad Reza - Claimed to be the Mahdi and twelfth imam, engaged in battles against the East India Company and Kachari Kingdom
• Krishna Chaitanya - Hindu mystic
• Shantidas Adhikari, associated with spreading Hinduism to Manipur

• Abu Jayed Rahi, cricketer
• Abul Hasan, cricketer
• A. K. M. Mahmood, cricketer
• Ahmed Sadequr, cricketer for Sylhet Division
• Alok Kapali, cricketer for Bangladesh
• Ardhendu Das, cricketer for Bengal (1934–1942)
• Ebadot Hossain, cricketer for Bangladesh
• Enamul Haque Jr, Bangladesh
• Hasibul Hossain, cricketer for Sylhet Division
• Henry Plowden, cricketer
• Imtiaz Hossain, cricketer
• Jahan Uddin, cricketer for Sikkim
• Khaled Ahmed, cricketer for Bangladesh
• Nasirul Alam, cricketer for Sylhet Division
• Nasum Ahmed, cricketer for Bangladesh
• Nazmul Hossain, Bangladesh
• Punya Datta, cricketer for Bengal and Cambridge University
• Rahatul Ferdous, cricketer
• Rajin Saleh, cricketer for Bangladesh
• Rezaul Haque, cricketer for Sylhet Division
• Sayem Alam, cricketer for Sylhet Division
• Shahanur Rahman, cricketer for Sylhet Division
• Shanaj Ahmed, cricketer for Sylhet Division
• Tapash Baisya, cricketer for Bangladesh

• Alfaz Ahmed, former footballer for Bangladesh
• Ranjit Das, former footballer for East Pakistan
• Rezaul Karim Rehan, former footballer for Bangladesh
• Wahed Ahmed, former footballer for Bangladesh
• Hamza Choudhury, midfielder for English football club Leicester City F.C.
• Kaiser Hamid, former footballer for Mohammedan SC
• Mahbubur Rahman Sufil, footballer
• Md Saad Uddin, footballer
• Motin Mia, footballer
• Ekbal Hussain, footballer
• Biplu Ahmed, footballer
• Yeamin Ahmed Chowdhury Munna, footballer

• Abdul Ali Jacko, two-time world lightweight kick-boxing champion
• Bulbul Hussain, wheelchair rugby player for Kent Crusaders and the Great Britain Paralympic team
• Jumman Lusai, former Bangladesh national field hockey team player and was also selected in the 1989 World XI hockey team.^[8]
• Rani Hamid, chess master, awarded the FIDE Woman International Master (WIM) title in 1985
• Ramnath Biswas, soldier and writer best known for circumnavigating the globe by bicycle.
• Ruqsana Begum – 2010 female atomweight Muay Thai kickboxing champion and nominated captain of the British Muay Thai Team.^[9]

• Pritam Das, cricketer
• Ketaki Prasad Dutta, former president of the District Sports Association, Karimganj

• Ameera Khatun (played by Manjinder Virk in Call the Midwife)
• Avell (played by Sayfuz Ali in Badman)
• Ayub Mohammed (played by Shahnewaz Jake in Call the Midwife)
• Faizal's mother (played by Nina Wadia in Corner Shop Show)
• Faruk Khatun (played by Abhisek Singh in Call the Midwife)
• Farzina Mohammed (played by Salma Hoque in Call the Midwife)
• Jahangeer Bruiser (played by Sayfuz Ali in Corner Shop Show)
• Malik Begum, the main protagonist of the British web series Corner Shop Show played by Islah Abdur-Rahman
• Rahul Mohammed (played by Ahaan Gupta in Call the Midwife)
• Saleem Akbar Chowdhury Shamsul Haque (played by Ali Shahalom in Corner Shop Show)
• Samad Miah (played by Ameet Chana in Corner Shop Show)
• Zaki (played by Islah Abdur-Rahman in Man Like Mobeen)