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Fazlur Rahman Khan

1929 - 1982

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Fazlur Rahman Khan (Bengali: ফজলুর রহমান খান, Fazlur Rôhman Khan; 3 April 1929 – 27 March 1982) was a Bangladeshi-American structural engineer and architect, who initiated important structural systems for skyscrapers. Considered the "father of tubular designs" for high-rises, Khan was also a pioneer in computer-aided design (CAD). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fazlur Rahman Khan has received more than 1,742,541 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Fazlur Rahman Khan is the 398th most popular architect (down from 390th in 2019), the 33rd most popular biography from Bangladesh (down from 31st in 2019) and the most popular Bangladeshi Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Fazlur Rahman Khan ranks 398 out of 424. Before him are Johann Friedrich Höger, Franco Albini, Daniel Marot, Walter Burley Griffin, Mihály Pollack, and Jan Kaplický. After him are Kenneth Frampton, Sándor Tarics, Alberto Palacio, Baron Karl von Hasenauer, Ventura Rodríguez, and Rudolph Schindler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Fazlur Rahman Khan ranks 346. Before him are Germain Derycke, Zbigniew Messner, Alfredo Pérez, Azzeddine Laraki, Richard Bass, and Elizabeth Roemer. After him are Eliseo Prado, Beverly Sills, Len Deighton, Nathalia Timberg, Michael D. Coe, and Ignacio Velasco. Among people deceased in 1982, Fazlur Rahman Khan ranks 188. Before him are Clifford Curzon, Boris Andreyev, J. B. Kripalani, Alexandre Alexeieff, Alexander Abusch, and Francisco Martínez Soria. After him are Elis Wiklund, Stanley Holloway, Hitoshi Sasaki, Jimmy McGrory, Palden Thondup Namgyal, and Dominique Dunne.

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In Bangladesh

Among people born in Bangladesh, Fazlur Rahman Khan ranks 33 out of 57. Before him are Abdur Rahman Biswas (1926), Kalpana Datta (1913), Bagha Jatin (1879), Ritwik Ghatak (1925), Nurul Amin (1893), and Mrinal Sen (1923). After him are Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem (1916), Motiur Rahman Nizami (1943), Suchitra Sen (1931), Abu Sayeed Chowdhury (1921), Abdul Quader Molla (1948), and Pritilata Waddedar (1911).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Bangladesh

Among architects born in Bangladesh, Fazlur Rahman Khan ranks 1. 

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