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This is a list of notable British Bangladeshis.

Successful members from the community are recognized in the annual "British Bangladeshi Who's Who"^[1] for their community work, contribution and achievements in British society.

Business

• Restauranteur, well-known for his dish "Curry Hell" — (he claimed it was "the world's hottest" curry). His restaurant is also listed in Guinness World Records in 2004, for the world's longest-distance curry delivery.^[2]
• publisher, founded Tandoori Magazine, and founder of multi-award winning Cinnamon Club^[3]
• Honorary Consul in Scotland.^[4]
• editor of Spice Business Magazine, and founder of The British Curry Awards.^[5]
• British Bangladeshi to feature on the Sunday Times Rich List (placed at number 511 in 2006).^[6]
• Mohammad Ajman 'Tommy Miah' - Internationally renowned celebrity chef, award winning restaurateur,^[7][8][9] founder and promoter of the International Indian Chef of the Year Competition.^[10]
• Entrepreneur, became the first Bangladeshi millionaire at the age of 26,^[11] due to diversification in banking, travel, a chain of restaurants with the Cafe Naz group, publishing and property development.^[12]
• Discovery Channel reality television programme Bangla Bangers/Chop Shop: London Garage.^[13]
• banker.^[14]
• managing director of Euro Foods (UK) Limited.^[15]
• series two in 2006.^[16]
• Managing Director and Country Head of BOC Bangladesh Limited, one of the first British companies to invest in Bangladesh in the 1950s to produce and supply industrial and medical gases.^[17]

Media

• Ajmal Masroor - Television presenter, politician, imam and UK Parliamentary candidate for Bethnal Green and Bow constituency.^[18]
• A. N. M. Serajur Rahman - Journalist, broadcaster, and Bangladeshi nationalist.^[19]
• editor and correspondent for Channel 4 News.^[20]
• Editor of British Muslim Magazine Q News.^[21] She was named Media Professional of the Year by Islamic Relief in 2005 and at the Asian Women of Achievement Awards in 2006.^[22]
• Konnie Huq - Television presenter, the longest-serving female Blue Peter presenter.^[23]
• The West Country Tonight,^[24] one of the first Asian presenters to be seen on television.^[25]
• London Tonight.^[26]
• singer and producer. Very well known for TV presenting Islamic and charity shows on Channel S and Islam Channel, mainly known within the community.^[27]
• World News' bulletins on in 60 Seconds,^[29][30] and presenting E24 on the rolling news channel BBC News.^[31] Currently delivers news bulletins and breaking stories on ITV breakfast television programme Daybreak.^[32]

Politics

• Baroness Manzila 'Pola' Uddin - Labour life peer, and first Muslim and Asian to sit in the House of Lords^[33]
• Cllr Muhammad Abdullah Salique - Labour Party member, Councillor for Bethnal Green North ward, Mayor of London Borough of Tower Hamlets for 2008/09 municipal year.^[34]
• directly elected mayor of Tower Hamlets in 2010 and the first Bangladeshi leader of the council.^[35]
• Murad Qureshi - Labour Party politician, and Greater London Assembly Member.^[36]
• Bethnal Green and Bow Labour Party constituency.^[37]

Music

• MC, and former member of electronica band Asian Dub Foundation known then as Master D.^[38]
• Singer, songwriter, signed to 2Point9 Records (Doh Point Nau). He won Best Newcomer at the UK Asian Music Awards 2011.^[39]
• Joi (band) - alternative dub/dance music DJ team. Band member Farook Shamsher received the Commitment to Scene award at the UK Asian Music Awards 2006.^[40]
• R&B and hip-hop singer-songwriter. The first Bangladeshi to release a music single, called One More Dance.^[41] Also won Best Urban Act at the UK Asian Music Awards 2011.^[42]
• Awakening Records.^[43]
• DJ and producer associated with the Asian Underground movement, recording as State Of Bengal.^[44]
• Double Platinum award.^[45]
• actress, and television presenter. She released her debut band album Suzana Ansar with Khansar in 2009.^[46]
• Zoe Rahman - Jazz composer, and pianist.^[47] She won the Perrier Young Jazz Musician of the Year Award 1999.^[47]

Drama

• Padma Patil in the Harry Potter film series.^[48][49]
• Sangeet Natak Akademi award in 1989.^[50]
• Boyan Uddin Chowdhury - Former lead guitarist of rock band The Zutons.^[51]
• filmmaker.^[52]
• sitcoms during the 1970s and early 80s. He is best remembered for playing the role of Char Wallah Muhammed in It Ain't Half Hot Mum Ali Nadim in Mind Your Language.^[53]
• actress, Her critically acclaimed^[54] radio play Mixed Blood^[55] won the Richard Imison Award
  2006.
• documentaries and experimental dramas.^[56]
• Runa Islam - Film and photography visual artist, nominated for the Turner Prize 2008.^[7][57]
• Sadik Ahmed - Film director, cinematographer, and writer. Wrote and directed international award-winning short film Tanju Miah, which was specifically selected for screening at the Toronto International Film Festival 2005, and was the first Bangladeshi film in the Sundance Film Festival 2007.^[58]
• Parvati Patil in the Harry Potter film series.^[59]

Arts

• choreographer.^[60] Recieved numerous awards including Best Modern Choreography 2002,^[61] and Outstanding Newcomer 2000 at the National Dance Awards^[62]
• Magician, described by The Times in 1999 as "an extraordinary magician, performer and artist".^[63]
• Rezia Wahid MBE - Award-winning textile artist whose work has been exhibited both in the UK and abroad.^[64]
• Ruh al-Alam - Islamic artist who creates mainly Islamic calligraphy works, and founder of Islamic calligraphic artwork project Visual Dhikr.

Literature

• Dr Nahid Afrose Kabir - Author of Young British Muslims: Identity, Culture, Politics and the Media, Edinburgh University.
• Kia Abdullah - Novelist and journalist. She contributes to The Guardian newspaper^[65] and has written two novels: Life, Love and Assimilation^[66] and Child's Play.^[67]
• Mohammed Mahbub 'Ed' Husain - Writer, wrote the book The Islamist on account of his experience for five years with the Hizb ut-Tahrir.^[68][69]
• political scientist
  specialising in interdisciplinary security studies.
• Brick Lane a story based on a Bangladeshi woman.^[70]
• Prof Andy Miah - Professor in Ethics & Emerging Technologies and Director of the Creative Futures Research Centre^[71] at the University of the West of Scotland.
• Prof Tipu Zahed Aziz - Professor of neurosurgery at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, and lecturer at Magdalen College, Oxford and the Imperial College London medical school. He specializes in the study and treatment of Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, dystonia, spasmodic torticollis, fixed abnormal posture of the neck, tremor, and intractable neuropathic pain.^[72][73]

Organisations

• British High Commissioner for Bangladesh in 2004, the first non-white British person to be appointed in a senior diplomatic post.^[74]
• East London Mosque and London Muslim Centre.^[78]
• chairman of the East London Mosque.^[79]
• Celebrity Big Brother (UK) 2006
  .
• Secretary General of human rights organization Amnesty International; she is the first woman, Asian, and Muslim to hold the position;^[84][85] she won Sydney Peace Prize
  2006.
• Senior Fellow in the Climate Change Group at the International Institute for Environment and Development. He was awarded the Burtoni Award in 2007 for his work on climate change adaptation.^[86]
• Award for his outstanding contributions to social improvement in 1980.^[87]

Sport

Anwar Uddin

• Professional footballer who plays as a defender, currently Barnet F.C. captain.^[88]
• Kickboxer, and promoter.^[89]
• Professional footballer who played as a striker.^[90]

Other

• The Road to Guantanamo.^[91][92]

See also

• British Bangladeshi
• Business of British Bangladeshis
• List of Bangladeshi people
• List of Bengalis

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