Recipients of the Independence Award

Bangladeshi banker, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and the former Chief Adviser of Bangladesh

President of the Provisional Government of Bangladesh and the 2nd Prime Minister and first President of Bangladesh

president of Bangladesh in 2013-2023

Begum Khaleda Zia was a Bangladeshi politician who served as the prime minister of Bangladesh from 1991 to 1996 and again from 2001 to 2006. She was the first female prime minister of Bangladesh and the second female prime minister in the Muslim world after Benazir Bhutto. She was the wife of the former president of Bangladesh and army chief, Ziaur Rahman. She was the longest serving chairperson of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) from 1984 until her death in 2025.

microfinance organization and community development bank

National poet of Bangladesh (1899-1976)

Chief of Army Staff and President of Bangladesh (1936-1981)

public university located in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Bangladeshi politician and first Prime Minister of Bangladesh (1925-1975)

Bangladeshi architect (1929–1982)

Bangladeshi writer

Bangladeshi singer

Bengali painter (1914–1976)

air warfare branch of Bangladesh Armed Forces

Bangladeshi politician (1925–1975)

President of Bangladesh from 2001 to 2002 (1930–2024)

ground warfare branch of the Bangladesh Armed Forces

Prime Minister of Bangladesh in 1975

Bangladeshi political leader (1880–1976)

naval warfare branch of the Bangladesh Armed Forces

Bangladeshi singer (1930-2014)

Bangladeshi artist (1939–2015)

Commander in Chief of Bangladesh Army (1918–1984)

Bangladeshi novelist, writer & filmmaker (1935-1972)

Bangladeshi researcher and scientist

Bengali writer

Bangladeshi poet, writer, journalist (1929–2006)

Bangladeshi writer (1929–1994)

Bangladesh's national language authority

Governing Body of Bangladesh Cricket

Journalist, writer and politician (1898–1979)

Bangladeshi social worker and the founder of BRAC

Bangladeshi activist

Bangladeshi former footballer

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).

international development organization based in Bangladesh

Bengali activist (1886-1971)

Playwrite and educator

Bangladeshi diplomat (1928-2001)

Bangladeshi writer (1921-2002)

Poet, novelist, writer (1936-2019)

Bangladeshi novelist (1939–2021)

Bangladeshi politician

Bangladeshi chess player

Bangladeshi writer

Wife of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

Bangladeshi politician

Bangladeshi linguist (1885–1969)

Pakistani politician

Bangladeshi politician and writer (1920-1991)

Bangladeshi musician and freedom fighter (1933 – 1971)

Bangladeshi artist (1921-1988)

Bangladeshi artist (1932-2020)

Bangladeshi poet

Bangladeshi architect, professor

Bangladeshi academic and writer

Bengali singer

Bangladeshi writer (1935–2021)

Bangladeshi politician

writer from Bangladesh