Some Inspirational Bangladeshis in Recent Times

Some Inspirational Bangladeshis in Recent Times

Bangladesh became an independent country in 1971. After getting the freedom from the Pakistanis, there are so many people who work hard in both national and international arena to bring the development of this country so that this country can reach in higher level of development. People are contributing with their great efforts in the different aspects such as Economics, Business, Social Works, Science and Technology, Sports and Entrepreneurship etc. They are the role models for the procurement of motivation for all Bangladeshis. Some top names of inspirational Bangladeshis are enlisted here;  

Muhammad Yunus

Mohammad Yunus is a noble prize winning economist who pioneered micro financing in Bangladesh. He founded the Grameen Bank, with which he shared the 2006 Noble Peace Prize ‘For their efforts to create social and economic development.’ Grameen Bank used to give loans to those who are surviving with extreme level of poverty and could not able to get the traditional loans from the banks. Yunus and the team of his Grameen Bank show that, even poor has the capability to bring some positive change by developing their own condition of life. Besides the Noble Prize, Dr Muhammad Yunus awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009 and Congressional Gold Medal award in 2010.

Dr Muhammad Yunus

Sir Fazle Hasan Abed

Sir Fazle Hasan Abed is the founder and the chairman of the world’s largest non – governmental organization ‘BRAC’. Sir Fazle Abed establish ‘BRAC’ with the primary objectives of alleviating poverty and empowering the poor. Now the ‘BRAC’ has over 120000 employees across the world. Sir Fazle Hasan Abed was awarded ‘Ramon Magsaysay’ Award. He is appointed Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in 2010 for dominating to reduce poverty and empowering the poor in Bangladesh and globally.

Sir Fazle Hasan Abed

 Jawed Karim

Jawed Karim is an American internet entrepreneur of Bangladesh origin. He is the co- founder of the popular video sharing website YouTube. Many of the core components of PayPal, including its real- time anti- fraud system, were designed and implemented by Jawed Karim. YouTube was acquired by Google in 2007. Jawed Karim’s payoff was an estimated $65m.

Jawed Karim

Salman Khan

Salman khan is a graduate of MIT and Harvard Business School. He is listed as one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world. He is the founder of the Khan Academy, a non-profit educational website which is now the largest virtual ‘school’ in the world with over 10 million students.

Salman Khan

Shakib Al Hasan

Shakib is considered as the best cricketer in recent Bangladeshi sporting record. Shakib is Bangladesh’s first and the 28th player in the history of test cricket to score a century and pick up 5 wickets in an innings in a test match in 2011 vs Pakistan.  He is the World Number 7 Popular Cricket Player. Shakib was listed as the World’s Number 1 All Rounder cricketer who is ranked in all three, (Test match, ODI and T20) format of Cricket in January 2015.

Shakib Al Hasan

Sumaya Kazi

As founder of a web based social networking platform for professionals, Sumaya has been recognized by Business Week as one of America’s “Best Young Entrepreneurs,” CNN heralded her as a “Young Person Who Rocks,” and by Silicon Valley Business Journal as a “Woman of Influence”. Sumaya is awarded as ‘Young People Who Rock’ in 2007 by CNN. Sumaya Kazi

Sumaya Kazi

Omar Ishrak

Omar Ishrak is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Medtronic. He is previous president and CEO of GE Healthcare Systems, a $12 billion division of GE Healthcare, Omar now heads Medtronic, the world’s leading medical technology company, with more than $16 billion in annual revenue, and operations reaching more than 120 countries worldwide.

Omar Ishrak

Sara Hossain, Esq

Sara Hossain is a High Court Lawyer and Human Rights Activist in Supreme Court of Bangladesh. Sara has represented, amongst others, slum dwellers seeking protection against forced evictions, women in protective custody, and journalists facing contempt of court prosecutions for reporting on judicial corruption.

Sara Hossain

Nishat Mazumder

Nishat Mazumder is an Everest climber. She is an accountant by profession in Dhaka Water and Sewerage Supply Authority (WASA). Nishat hoisted the Bangladeshi flag atop the 8,848-metre-high peak of Mount Everest, becoming the first Bangladeshi woman to make it to the top of the highest mountain in the world. She is an awesome role model for girls all around the world to reach every height imaginable.

Nishat

Korvi Rakshand

Korvi Rakshand is the founder of ‘Jaago Foundation’. He is a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur. Korvi was listed in the “Top 99 under 33 Influential Foreign Policy Leaders” by The Diplomatic Courier, in Washington D.C. He has engaged 10,000 volunteers to work with Jaago on tackling issues from illiteracy, malnutrition in children to helping families build better lives. Rakshand was awarded Commonwealth Youth Award in 2013.

Korvi

Siddikur Rahman

Siddikur Rahman is a professional golfer of Bangladesh. He is known as Tiger Woods of Bangladesh. He won so many golf events in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and India. Siddikur became the first Bangladeshi golfer to win an Asian Tour event at the Brunei Open at August 2010.

Siddikur Rahman

Salma Khatun

Salma Khatun is a captain and an all round cricketer of Bangladesh national women’s cricket team. Bangladesh national women’s cricket team won historic silver medal under Salma’s captaincy in Asian Games 2010 against China women’s cricket team. Salma Khatun is a wonderful example of women empowerment in Bangladesh.

Salma Khatun

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