Abdur Rasheed Choudhury (died 1944) was a Bengali politician from Sylhet.
Choudhury was born to Bengali Muslim parents from Dargapasha, Sunamganj.
Chowdhury and Abdul Matin Chaudhury together established Minar Printing and Publishing Limited on 14 July 1932 which published the weekly newspaper Jugabheri. Before that, he worked as an Extra Assistant Commissioner in Sylhet. The editor of the newspaper was Moqbul Hussain Choudhury. Chowdhury was a tea planter and owned Sirajnagar tea garden. He also owned Hamdard Tea Company Limited and Dilkusha tea estate.
Chowdhury served in the Central Legislative Assembly of India in the 1940s as an independent politician from the Muslim block of Assam.
Abdur Rasheed Choudhury first married Razia Rashid, a senior Cambridge graduate from an institution in Calcutta. She died from tuberculosis in 1918. He had three children including Aminur Rashid Chowdhury (1915âÂÂ1985) from this marriage.
Choudhury then married Begum Serajunnessa Choudhury (1910âÂÂ1974) in 1926. He went on to have seven more children from this marriage. The eldest son, Humayun Rashid Choudhury (1928âÂÂ2001), was a diplomat and later the speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad (parliament of Bangladesh). Another son, Faruk Rashid Chowdhury, served as the state minister of finance, and fisheries and livestock.
Choudhury had 10 children, among them:
Choudhury died in 1944.