List of people from Sylhet Division

• 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.

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

• 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
• 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 (British 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.

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  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 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:

• Gour Govinda, final king of the Gour Kingdom, defeated in the Conquest of Sylhet
• 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
• 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
• Lutfullah Shirazi, Mughal faujdar of Sylhet from 1658 to 1665
• Isfandiyar 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
• Abdullah Shirazi, Mughal faujdar of Sylhet and mosque builder
• Robert Lindsay, 4th superintendent and 1st collector of Sylhet from 1778 to 1790

• 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]
• Runa Laila, playback singer
• Sanjeeb Chowdhury, singer and journalist
• Shah Abdul Karim, minstrel and folk songwriter
• Shapla Salique, singer and harmonium player
• Shushama Das, folk musician^[6]
• Shuvro Dev, playback singer
• Subir Nandi, playback singer

• 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)