Famous People with Name Abdur

Abdur Rouf Choudhury            Origin/Culture/Country: Muslim

Abdur Rouf Choudhury: was a Bengali writer.Choudhury was born on 1 March 1929, in Habiganj District, Bangladesh (then part of Assam) where his father Azhar Choudhury, a land owner, and his mother Nazmun Nesa Choudhury, a house wife resided.In his contributions to Bengali literature, the writer and philosopher Choudhury depicted a transparent portrait of modern Bangladeshi’s life in abroad. He was a scholar of science, with great intellectual abilities and eloquent of both pen and speech. He had a remarkable openness to modern Western knowledge as well as Eastern knowledge. Choudhury made a lasting contribution to Bengali literature with his novels, travelogue, essays and his introspective autobiographical and epistolary works.

Abdur Rahman Biswas            Origin/Culture/Country: Muslim

Abdur Rahman Biswas: a Bangladeshi politician. He was the President of Bangladesh between 1991 and 1996.Abdur Rahman Biswas was born in the village Shaistabad of Barisal District on 1 September 1926. He received school and college education in his hometown Barisal and obtained BA (Honours) and MA degree in History as well as LLB from the University of Dhaka.Initially, Abdur Rahman Biswas began his career as chairman of a local cooperative bank. He also took initiatives in spreading education by setting up a string of educational institutions. For his contribution to cooperative movement and various socio-economic activities he got formal recognition by the government as a 'veteram social worker' in 1958. Later he joined the bar of the Distrcit Judge's Court of Barisal as a pleader, later renamed advocate.