The Most Famous
LAWYERS from Bangladesh
This page contains a list of the greatest Bangladeshi Lawyers. The pantheon dataset contains 136 Lawyers, 2 of which were born in Bangladesh. This makes Bangladesh the birth place of the 16th most number of Lawyers behind Poland, and Canada.
Top 3
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Bangladeshi Lawyers of all time. This list of famous Bangladeshi Lawyers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Radhabinod Pal (1886 - 1967)
With an HPI of 52.59, Radhabinod Pal is the most famous Bangladeshi Lawyer. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
Radhabinod Pal (27 January 1886 – 10 January 1967) was an Indian jurist who was a member of the United Nations' International Law Commission from 1952 to 1966. He was one of three Asian judges appointed to the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, the "Tokyo Trials" of Japanese war crimes committed during the Second World War. Among all the judges of the tribunal, he was the only one who submitted a judgment which insisted all defendants were not guilty. The Yasukuni Shrine and the Kyoto Ryozen Gokoku Shrine have monuments specially dedicated to Pal.
2. Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem (1916 - 1997)
With an HPI of 47.49, Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem is the 2nd most famous Bangladeshi Lawyer. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages.
Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem (29 March 1916 – 8 July 1997) was a Bangladeshi jurist and statesman. He was first Chief Justice of Bangladesh from 1972 to 1975. He became the president of Bangladesh in the aftermath of counter-coups in November 1975. He was made Chief Martial Law Administrator. Sayem presided over a cabinet headed by the three chiefs of the armed forces. The cabinet included civilian technocrats and politicians. Sayem resigned on grounds of ill health in April 1977, and was replaced by President Ziaur Rahman.
3. Irene Khan (b. 1956)
With an HPI of 42.23, Irene Khan is the 3rd most famous Bangladeshi Lawyer. Her biography has been translated into 20 different languages.
Irene Zubaida Khan (born 24 December 1956) is a Bangladeshi lawyer appointed as of August 2020 to be the United Nations Special Rapporteur for freedom of expression and opinion. She previously served as the seventh Secretary General of Amnesty International (from 2001 to 2009). In 2011, she was elected Director-General of the International Development Law Organization (IDLO) in Rome, an intergovernmental organization that works to promote the rule of law, and sustainable development. She was a consulting editor of The Daily Star in Bangladesh from 2010 to 2011.
People
Pantheon has 3 people classified as Bangladeshi lawyers born between 1886 and 1956. Of these 3, 1 (33.33%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Bangladeshi lawyers include Irene Khan. The most famous deceased Bangladeshi lawyers include Radhabinod Pal, and Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem. As of April 2024, 1 new Bangladeshi lawyers have been added to Pantheon including Radhabinod Pal.
