List of Bangladeshi Americans
This is a list of notable Bangladeshi Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.
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To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Bangladeshi American or must have references showing they are Bangladeshi American and are notable.
Sportspeople
- Syque Caesar, American artistic gymnast, member of Michigan Wolverines
Politicians and activists
- Hansen Clarke, U.S. Congressman and former Michigan State Senator
- Rais Bhuiyan, shooting survivor and activist
Entrepreneurs
- Omar Ishrak, Chairman of Intel and Medtronic
- Jawed Karim, co-founder of YouTube and lead technical architect of PayPal[1]
- Salman Khan, founder of Khan Academy [2]
- Abul Hussam, inventor of the Sono arsenic filter
- Kamal Quadir, founder and CEO of CellBazaar Inc, First Mover Fellow of The Aspen Institute, TEDIndia Fellow
- Iqbal Quadir, founder of Grameen Phone, Bangladesh's largest telecom group; has lectured at Harvard's Kennedy School and at MIT
- Fahim Saleh, founder and CEO of Pathao and Gokada
Intellectuals
- Maqsudul Alam, scientist and professor, achieved three milestones in genomics - sequencing the genomes of papaya, rubber plants and jute at University of Hawaii.
- Mir Masoom Ali, George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Statistics Ball State University
- Leepu Nizamuddin Awlia, car engineer, designer and coachbuilder; builds imitation supercars out of old models in a workshop on Discovery Channel's reality television programme Bangla Bangers/Chop Shop: London Garage[3]
- Fazle Hussain, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Texas Tech University. Elected Fellow of National Academy of Engineering.
- M. Zahid Hasan, scientist and Eugene Higgins endowed chair professor of quantum physics, at Princeton University. Known for many pioneering discoveries in the quantum world including topological insulators, quantum magnets and topological quantum matter.[4] Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[5]
- Mohammad Ataul Karim, known for many original contributions to the fields of electro-optical devices and systems, optical computing and processing, and pattern recognition; ranked amongst the top 50 researchers who contributed most to Applied Optics in its 50-year history[6]
- Fazlur Rahman Khan, structural engineer
- Abdus Suttar Khan, chemist and aerospace researcher
- Asif Azam Siddiqi, space historian, currently serves as an assistant professor of history at Fordham University
- Jalal Alamgir, academic and an associate professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts-Boston
- Latifur Khan, known for stream analytics work in the field of data mining (in computer science area); ranked amongst the top 2200 researchers/scientists in the world who contributed most to Computer Science and Electronics [7]
- Towfique Raj, formerly Gates-Cambridge Scholar; Geneticist/Neuroscientist; currently serves as an associate professor of neuroscience and genetics at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- K. Sabeel Rahman, legal scholar
Government officials and diplomats
- Abuhena Saifulislam, first Muslim to be appointed as imam in the U.S. Navy
- M. Osman Siddique, former US Ambassador
Writer
- Supreme Understanding, author, publisher, activist and outspoken member of the Nation of Gods and Earths
- Dilruba Ahmed, poet and historian
- Sydney Magruder Washington, blogger, mental health activist, and ballet dancer
- Rumaan Alam, award-winning novelist
Culture, Art, Media and journalism
- Saif Ahmad, World Series of Poker winner
- Kamal Ahmed, comedian, part of the Jerky Boys duo
- Abdul "Duke" Fakir, American singer of Ethiopian and Bangladeshi descent
- Naeem Mohaiemen, filmmaker, writer, visual artist
- Hasan M. Elahi, interdisciplinary media artist whose research interests include issues of surveillance
- Firoz Mahmud, visual artist/creator, painter, academician
- Anik Khan, rapper from queens
- Rahsaan Islam, actor
- Marjana Chowdhury, model, philanthropist and beauty queen Miss Bangladesh USA
- Sezan Mahmud, nationally awarded writer of Bengali literature, lyricist, columnist and medical scientist; Associate Professor of Public Health, Florida A & M University; Clinical Research Faculty, Florida State University College of Medicine; first Asian recipient of APHA-PHEHP Early Career Award, 2006
- Ellis Miah, music producer
- Reihan Salam, blogger at The American Scene and associate editor of The Atlantic Monthly
- Palbasha Siddique, singer
- Monica Yunus, soprano singer, daughter of Muhammad Yunus and Vera Forostenko
- Shikhee, singer and auteur of industrial band Android Lust
- Jai Wolf, electronic music producer
- Fuad al Muqtadir, musician
See also
References
- With YouTube, Student Hits Jackpot Again, The New York Times, October 12, 2006.
- "Questions Sal is Frequently Asked". Khan Academy. Archived from the original on 2010-06-19. Retrieved 2010-09-25.
- Baker, Erin (20 October 2008). "Metal gurus". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 1 August 2013.
- Ornes, S. (2016). "Topological insulators promise computing advances, insights into matter itself". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113 (37): 10223–10224. doi:10.1073/pnas.1611504113. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 5027448. PMID 27625422.
- "16 faculty members, 18 alumni elected to nation's historic academies". The Princetonian. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
- "Karim Among Top Authors of Applied Optics Journal". Old Dominion University. Archived from the original on 2012-12-14. Retrieved 2012-06-24.
- "Latifur Khan". Guide2Research. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
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