Lutful Haider Chowdhury was a Bangladeshi essayist, researcher of Bengali language and literature, educationist and intellectual. In 1990, the government of Bangladesh awarded him the Ekushey Padak, the state's second-highest civilian honour, for his contribution to education.
Chowdhury's elder brother, Mufazzal Haider Chaudhury, was a professor at the University of Dhaka who was killed in the Bangladesh Liberation War.