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List of British Bangladeshis

This is a list of notable British Bangladeshis (). This includes Bangladeshi immigrants settled or residing in the United Kingdom and British-born citizens of Bangladeshi national origin.

Successful members from the community are recognised in the annual BritBangla, British Bangladeshi Who's Who and British Bangladeshi Power & Inspiration 100 for their significant work, contribution and achievements in British society.

Business

  • Abdul Latif – Restaurateur known for his dish "Curry Hell".
  • Aktar Islam – Restaurateur, curry chef and businessman. In 2010, his restaurant Lasan won the Best Local Restaurant category on Channel 4's The F Word. In 2011, he won the Central regional heat to reach the final of the BBC Two series Great British Menu.
  • Aref Karim – Accountant and hedge fund manager. In 1995, he founded Quality Capital Management (QCM), which has assets in the region of £150 million according to the Sunday Times Rich List.
  • Atique Choudhury – Businessman whose restaurant Yum Yum is Europe's largest Thai restaurant.
  • Ayub Ali Master – One of the first Bengali restaurateurs, founder of the Shah Jalal Restaurant which became a hub for the British Asian community.
  • Bajloor Rashid MBE – Businessman and former president of the Bangladesh Caterers Association.
  • Enam Ali MBE – Restaurateur and businessman. In 2005, he founded The British Curry Awards. He is also the founder, publisher and editor of Spice Business Magazine.
  • Foysol Choudhury MBE MSP – Businessman, community activist and Chairman of Edinburgh and Lothians Regional Equality Council.
  • Iqbal Ahmed OBE – Entrepreneur, and chairman and chief executive of Seamark Group. In 2006, he became the highest British Bangladeshi to feature on the Sunday Times Rich List (listed at number 511). He has a net worth of $250 million.
  • Iqbal Wahhab OBE – Entrepreneur, restaurateur, journalist and publisher. He founded Tandoori Magazine and multi-award-winning restaurant Cinnamon Club.
  • Jobeda Ali – Social entrepreneur, documentary filmmaker and chief executive of Three Sisters Care. In 2010, she won the Social Business Leader award at Ogunte Women's Social Leadership Awards.
  • Leepu Nizamuddin Awlia – Car engineer, designer and coachbuilder, who builds imitation supercars out of old models in a workshop on Discovery Channel's reality television programme Bangla Bangers/Chop Shop: London Garage.
  • Mahee Ferdous Jalil – Businessman, founder of Channel S, owner of Prestige Auto Group and television 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 in recognition of its increase in sales.
  • Muquim Ahmed – Entrepreneur who became the first Bangladeshi millionaire at the age of 26 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 who has a net worth of $250 million.
  • Sabirul Islam – Author, entrepreneur and motivational speaker. He has written three self-help books and developed a board game. Since 2011, he has spoken at over 700 events worldwide as part of his Inspire1Million campaign.
  • Shelim Hussain MBE – Entrepreneur, and founder, chairman and managing director of Euro Foods (UK).
  • Siraj Ali – Restaurateur and philanthropist. In 2011, he was awarded the British Bangladeshi Who's Who "Outstanding Contribution Award" for his long standing contribution to the hospitality and catering industry.
  • Syed Ahmed – Entrepreneur, businessman and television personality. He is best known for being a candidate on series two of BBC reality television programme The Apprentice in 2006.
  • Mohammad Ajman "Tommy" Miah MBE – Celebrity chef and restaurateur. In 1991, he founded the Indian Chef of the Year Competition.
  • Waliur Rahman Bhuiyan OBE – Managing Director and Country Head of BOC Bangladesh Limited.

Broadcast media

  • Ajmal Masroor – Television presenter, politician and Imam. He was the Liberal Democrats Parliamentary candidate for Bethnal Green and Bow constituency in the 2010 general election. He is a television presenter on political and Islamic programmes on Islam Channel and Channel S.
  • Ali Shahalom – Comedian who hosts his own YouTube channel called Aliofficial1 with comedy sketches. Since 2014, he has hosted The Variety Show on Channel S.
  • Fazle Lohani – Journalist, writer, television presenter and filmmaker. He was best known as the presenter of variety television programme Jodi Kichhu Mone Na Koren.
  • Hasina Momtaz – News presenter for Channel i Europe and previously for NTV Europe, and former press officer for the Mayor of London between 2003 and 2011.
  • Kanak "Konnie" Huq – Television presenter best known for being the longest-serving female Blue Peter presenter.
  • Lisa Aziz – News presenter and journalist, best known as the co-presenter of the Bristol-based ITV West Country nightly weekday news programme The West Tonight, and as one of the first Asian presenters to be seen on television. In 2004, she won the Ethnic Multicultural Media Academy's Best Television News Journalist Award.
  • Nadia Ali – Television and radio presenter. Since 2012, she has presented the live Bengali show on Sunday nights for BBC Asian Network.
  • Nadiya Hussain – Columnist and television personality best known for winning series six of BBC baking competition programme The Great British Bake Off in 2015.
  • Nina Hossain – Journalist, newscaster and sole presenter of ITV London's regional news programme ITV News London.
  • Nurul Islam – Broadcast journalist, radio producer and presenter. He is best remembered for his work with the BBC World Service.
  • Reshmin Chowdhury – Sports journalist and broadcaster. Since 2010, she has broadcast as a sports presenter for the BBC News Channel and BBC World News. In 2015, she won the Media Award at the Asian Football Awards.
  • Rizwan Hussain – Television presenter, philanthropist, international humanitarian aid worker, barrister, and former Hindi music singer and producer. He presents Islamic and charity programmes on Channel S and Islam Channel.
  • Shafik Rehman – Journalist, political analyst, and writer, who is best known for introducing Valentine's Day in Bangladesh.
  • Syed Neaz Ahmad – Academic, writer, journalist, columnist and critic. He is best known for anchoring NTV Europe current affairs talk show Talking Point.
  • Tasmin Lucia-Khan – Journalist, presenter and producer. She is best known for delivering BBC Three's nightly hourly "World News" bulletins on 60 Seconds and presenting E24 on the rolling news channel BBC News. She currently delivers news bulletins and breaking stories on ITV breakfast television programme Daybreak.

Finance

Journalism

Politics

Members of Parliament

Life peers

Mayors

  • Lutfur Rahman – Community activist and Independent politician who was convicted of electoral fraud and banned from standing for election for seven years. From 2010 to 2015, he was the first directly elected mayor of Tower Hamlets and the first Bangladeshi leader of the council.
  • Nadia Shah – Labour Party politician, councillor in Regent's Park ward and former Mayor of Camden. In May 2016, she became the first female mayor in the United Kingdom of Bangladeshi origin.
  • Nasim Ali OBE – Labour Party politician, councillor in Regent's Park ward, Cabinet Member for Young People in Camden Council and former Mayor of Camden. In 2003, at the age of 34, he became UK's youngest mayor as well as the first Bangladeshi and first Muslim mayor.

Local

Public policy and leadership

Music

Film and drama

Arts and culture

  • Akram Khan MBE – Dancer and choreographer with a background in classical kathak training and contemporary dance. He has received numerous awards, including Outstanding Newcomer 2000, Best Modern Choreography 2002 and Outstanding Male or Female Artist (Modern) 2005 at the Critics' Circle National Dance Awards. In 2012, Khan and his dance company performed at the London Olympics opening ceremony.
  • Amina Khayyam – Dancer, choreographer and dance teacher. She is best known for her adaptation of Federico García Lorca's play Yerma and her own play A Thousand Faces.
  • Kaniz Ali – Makeup artist and freelance beauty columnist. In 2011, she was awarded the Best Make-Up Artist category at International Asian Fashion Awards.
  • Momtaz Begum-Hossain – Journalist and craft expert. She has a blog called Cos I Like Making Stuff and has written two craft books. She has been named one of the Top 100 influential crafters in the UK.
  • Nadiya Hussain – Winner of the 2015 The Great British Bakeoff, Author and Television Presenter
  • Rezia Wahid MBE – Textile artist whose work has been exhibited both in the UK and abroad.
  • Ruby Hammer MBE – Fashion and beauty makeup artist, and founder of Ruby & Millie cosmetics brand.
  • Runa Islam – Film and photography visual artist, who was nominated for the 2008 Turner Prize.
  • Saiman Miah – Architecture student who designed one of the two £5 coins for the 2012 London Summer Olympics.
  • Sanchita Islam – Artist, writer and filmmaker. In 1999, she founded Pigment Explosion, which has branched out into projects, including film, painting, drawing, writing and photography.
  • Shahidul Alam – Photographer, social activist and founder of Drik Picture Library.
  • Sunara Begum – Visual artist, filmmaker, photographer and writer, she uses installation, film, photography and text. In 2006, she co-produced the short film The Idea and founded Chand Aftara Visual Arts, an interdisciplinary arts organisation based in London.

Academia

  • Andy Miah – Bioethicist, Professor in Ethics and Emerging Technologies and Director of the Creative Futures Research Centre at the University of the West of Scotland. His work often focuses on technology and posthumanism.
  • Dilwar Hussain – Research fellow at The Islamic Foundation in Leicester. He co-authored the 2004 book British Muslims Between Assimilation and Segregation and is on the Home Office's committee tackling radicalisation and extremism.
  • Ghulam Sarwar – Director of the Muslim Educational Trust, and an internationally recognised writer on Islam in English, especially for writing and publishing the first English textbook '.
  • Mushtaq Khan – Heterodox economist and Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies. His work focuses on the economics of poor countries, including contributions to the field of institutional economics and South Asian development.
  • Naila Kabeer – Social economist, research fellow and writer. She works primarily on poverty, gender and social policy issues. Her research interests include gender, poverty, social exclusion, labour markets and livelihoods, social protection, focussed on South and South East Asia.
  • Nazneen Rahman – Geneticist who specialises in cancer and heads up the Cancer Genetics Clinical Unit at the Royal Marsden. Her research has seen success in identifying genes that cause cancer particularly in women and children.
  • Tipu Aziz – Professor of neurosurgery at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, and lecturer at Magdalen College, Oxford and Imperial College London medical school. He specialises in the study and treatment of Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, dystonia, spasmodic torticollis, fixed abnormal posture of the neck, tremor and intractable neuropathic pain.

Legal

  • Akhlaq Ur-Rahman Choudhury – Barrister specialising in employment law and public law. In 2017, he became the first became the first British person of Bangladeshi origin and Muslim faith to have been appointed as a High Court of Justice.
  • Jelina Berlow-Rahman – Solicitor whose practice J R Rahman Solicitors specialises in human rights, asylum, family and immigration legal advice and assistance.
  • Khatun Sapnara – Judge. In 2003, she became the first ethnic person to be elected to the Family Law Bar Association Committee. In 2004, she was appointed to the Family Justice Council. She assisted in formulating and drafting the Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007. 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. In 2014, she was appointed as a Circuit Judge to hear cases in the Crown and Family Court.
  • M. A. Muid Khan – Barrister who was selected as the Best Human Rights Lawyer of England and Wales for 2012 by the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEX). In September 2012, he was ranked as third in the top five Chartered Legal Executive Lawyers of England and Wales by the Law Society.
  • Mumtaz Hussain – Solicitor, radio presenter

Literature

Heads of organisations

Human rights and humanitarianism

  • Husna Ahmad OBE – Chief Executive Officer of the Faith Regen Foundation. She sits on the Advisory Board of East London Mosque and she previously sat on the Department for Work and Pensions' Ethnic Minority Advisory Group (EMAG).
  • Mya-Rose Craig, ornithologist, campaigner for equal rights, youngest British person to receive an honorary doctorate in science
  • Nazia Khanum OBE – Management consultant, researcher, Director of Equality in Diversity, non-executive director for NHS Luton and chair of various voluntary community organisations. In 2008, she carried out a research study of "Forced marriage, family cohesion and community engagement: national learning through a case study of Luton" for the Home Office and Metropolitan Police Service.
  • Rahima Begum – Human rights activist, and co-founder and co-director of Restless Beings.
  • Sandra Kabir – Philanthropist, executive director of BRAC UK, Labour Party politician and councillor for Queensbury ward in Brent Borough.

Religious figures

Sport

Cause célèbres

Criminals

See also

References

External links