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A. K. Fazlul Huq

1873 - 1962

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Abul Kasem Fazlul Huq (Bengali: আবুল কাশেম ফজলুল হক; 26 October 1873 – 27 April 1962), popularly known as Sher-e-Bangla (Lion of Bengal), was a Bengali lawyer and politician who presented the Lahore Resolution which had the objective of creating an independent Pakistan. He also served as the first and longest Prime Minister of Bengal during the British Raj. Born in 1873 to a Bengali Muslim family in British Bengal, Fazlul Huq held important political offices in the subcontinent, including president of the All India Muslim League (1916–1921), general secretary of the Indian National Congress (1916–1918), education minister of Bengal (1924), mayor of Calcutta (1935), prime minister of Bengal (1937–1943), advocate general of East Bengal (1947–1952), chief minister of East Bengal (1954), home minister of Pakistan (1955–1956) and Governor of East Pakistan (1956–1958). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of A. K. Fazlul Huq has received more than 790,870 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). A. K. Fazlul Huq is the 12,399th most popular politician (down from 12,059th in 2019), the 29th most popular biography from Bangladesh (down from 22nd in 2019) and the 13th most popular Bangladeshi Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, A. K. Fazlul Huq ranks 12,399 out of 19,576. Before him are Lucius Calpurnius Bestia, Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles, Oldřich Duras, Yarim-Lim I, Rezin, and Thomas Wyatt the Younger. After him are Eva Justin, Julio Antonio Mella, Kaarlo Castrén, Ernst Hoppenberg, Sabina of Brandenburg-Ansbach, and Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, A. K. Fazlul Huq ranks 115. Before him are Mikhail Prishvin, Gabriel Terra, Matteo Bartoli, Richard von Kühlmann, Miklós Bánffy, and Emmanuel de Martonne. After him are Henry, Duke of Parma, Wojciech Korfanty, Cesare Orsenigo, Princess Bathildis of Schaumburg-Lippe, Ivan Shmelyov, and Antonín Švehla. Among people deceased in 1962, A. K. Fazlul Huq ranks 114. Before him are Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Alessandro Pirzio Biroli, Donald Lippincott, Kunio Yanagita, and Josef Uridil. After him are Gary Hocking, Rudolf von Bünau, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Sylvia Beach, Vadym Meller, and Hans Felber.

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In Bangladesh

Among people born in Bangladesh, A. K. Fazlul Huq ranks 29 out of 74. Before him are Shahabuddin Ahmed (1930), Radhabinod Pal (1886), S. D. Burman (1906), Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad (1918), Patrick D'Rozario (1943), and Mrinal Sen (1923). After him are Fakhruddin Ahmed (1940), Ritwik Ghatak (1925), Taslima Nasrin (1962), Kalpana Datta (1913), Humayun Ahmed (1948), and Fazlur Rahman Khan (1929).

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Among POLITICIANS In Bangladesh

Among politicians born in Bangladesh, A. K. Fazlul Huq ranks 13. Before him are Ziaur Rahman (1936), Khawaja Nazimuddin (1894), Iajuddin Ahmed (1931), Tajuddin Ahmad (1925), Shahabuddin Ahmed (1930), and Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad (1918). After him are Kalpana Datta (1913), Abdur Rahman Biswas (1926), Motiur Rahman Nizami (1943), Syed Nazrul Islam (1925), Mohammad Ali Bogra (1909), and Nurul Amin (1893).

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