Recipients of the Ekushey Padak

National poet of Bangladesh (1899-1976)

former president of Bangladesh (1931-2012)

national museum of Bangladesh

Bangladeshi writer

author, poet, dramatist and film director (1948–2012)

Chief Justice of Bangladesh Supreme Court (1930-2014)

Bengali writer

Bangladeshi academic

Bangladeshi artist (1939–2015)

Bangladeshi novelist, writer & filmmaker (1935-1972)

Bangladeshi author, poet, scholar and linguist. (1947–2004)

Bangladeshi poet, writer, journalist (1929–2006)

Bangladeshi singer (1954–2025)

Bengali writer

Bengali author and scholar

Bengali novelist, short-story writer and playwright

Bangladeshi photojournalist

Demonstrator (1926–1952)

Abu Tayyab Muhammad Anisuzzaman (18 February 1937 – 14 May 2020) was a Bangladeshi academic of Bengali literature. He was an activist who took part in the Language Movement (1952), participated in the Mass Uprising (1969), and took part in the Bangladesh Liberation War (1971).

Bangladeshi singer

Poet, novelist, writer (1936-2019)

Bangladeshi writer (1921-2002)

Bangladeshi politician (1938-2019)

journalist

Bangladeshi writer

Bangladeshi novelist (1939–2021)

Bengali Language Movement activists (1927-1952)

1st Bengali Muslim Physician

Bangladeshi politician and writer (1920-1991)

Bangladeshi journalist

Bangladeshi academic and writer

Bangladeshi activist (1918–1952)

Bangladeshi literary critic (1951–2025)

Bangladeshi writer, Ekushey Padak recipient

Bangladeshi artist (1932-2020)

Bangladeshi poet

dancer

Bangladeshi musician (* 1954)

Bangladeshi film and television actor, director and screenwriter

Bangladeshi writer (1939-2019)

Bengali politician (1918–1975)

Playwright and scholar

law enforcement agency

Bangladeshi singer, actress

Bangladeshi writer, activist and researcher (1929-2025)

Jasimuddin (; 1 January 1903 – 14 March 1976), popularly called Palli Kabi (), was a Bangladeshi poet, lyricist, composer and writer widely celebrated for his modern ballad sagas in the pastoral mode. Although his full name is Jasim Uddin Mollah, he is known as Jasim Uddin. His Nakshi Kanthar Math and Sojan Badiar Ghat are considered among the best lyrical poems in the Bengali language. He is the key figure for the revivals of pastoral literature in Bengal during the 20th century. As a versatile writer, Jasimuddin wrote poems, ballads, songs, dramas, novel, stories, memoirs, travelogues, etc.

Bangladeshi author, sociologist, and social activist

writer from Bangladesh

Bangladeshi Naturalist (1929-2017)

Salam, Abdus, Bengali Language Movement protestor who died (1925-1952)

Bangladeshi writer (1936–2011)

activist

Bangladeshi writer (1935–2021)

Bangladeshi poet

Bangladeshi actor

Poet and writer (1942-2016)

Bangladeshi singer

Bangladeshi folk singer

academic and politician

Language activist with the Bengali Language Movement (1926-2014)