Academia and education
- Abdullah-Al-Muti Sharfuddin, scientist and science writer
- Abdul Haque Faridi, educator, lecturer and writer
- Abdul Khaleque, educator and translator
- Abu Nasr Waheed, educationist, first head of the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies [1]
- Abdul Majed Khan, Bangladeshi-New Zealander academic, researcher, and activist [2]
- Abdur Razzaq, academic and educator
- Anisuzzaman, academic, professor
- Aslam Anis, health economist
- Azfar Hussain, academic, writer, and activist
- Bazlul Chowdhury, vice-chancellor of Independent University, Bangladesh
- Farhad Mazhar, writer, social and human rights activist, and environmentalist
- Husne Ara Kamal, academic, professor, author, and social worker
- M. A. Gaffar, influential rohingya politician, legislator of the Union of Burma, Parliamentary secretary of Ministry of Health (Myanmar)
- Momtaz Begum, academic and educator
- Maqbular Rahman Sarkar, tenth vice-chancellor of Rajshahi University
- Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib, reformist Islamic scholar, academic, writer and leader of the religious organisation Ahle Hadith Andolon Bangladesh
- Govinda Chandra Dev, professor of philosophy at University of Dhaka
- Gowher Rizvi, historian, academic
- Imran Rahman, vice-chancellor of the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh
- Laila Nur, Bangladeshi language-movement activist and academic
- Md. Hasibur Rashid, 5th vice chancellor of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur
- M Harunur Rashid, archaeologist, educationist, and museum curator [3]
- M Osman Ghani, scientist, educationist, and academic, 11th vice-chancellor of the University of Dhaka
- Mohammad Noman, vice-chancellor of Jahangirnagar University [4]
- Muhammad Shahidullah, educator, writer, philologist, and linguist
- Muntassir Mamoon, historian, author, translator and professor
- Nurul Alam Khan, academic, professor
- Mohammad Abul Kashem, author, politician, educator, pioneer of the Language Movement
- Niaz Zaman, academic, writer
- R.C. Majumdar, historian and vice-chancellor of Dacca University
- Sadeka Halim, first woman in Bangladesh to serve as chief information commissioner
- Salimullah Khan, author, essayist, thinker, public intellectual
- Sardar Fazlul Karim, academic, philosopher, and essayist
- Sayed Moazzem Hossain, academic, Islamic scholar, 6th vice-chancellor of the University of Dhaka
- Shireen Akbar MBE, Indian-born British educator and artist
- Syed Abul Kalam Azad, former treasurer of University of Dhaka [5]
- Wahiduddin Ahmed, 3rd vice-chancellor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology [6]
- Ehsan H. Feroz, professor, researcher and author
- Qazi Mu'tasim Billah, former professor at the faculty of Islamic studies
- Mohammad A. Quayum, academic, expert on Singaporean literature and Rabindranath Tagore.
- Taj Hashmi, an academic and writer
