List of Bangladeshi Americans

This is a list of notable Bangladeshi Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.

To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Bangladeshi American or must have references showing they are Bangladeshi American and are notable.

List

• Asif Azam Siddiqi - space historian and currently serves as an assistant professor of history at Fordham University.
• Hasan M. Elahi - interdisciplinary media artist whose research interests include issues of surveillance
• Jawed Karim - co-founder of YouTube and lead technical architect of PayPal.^[1]
• Fazlur Khan - civil engineer, lead architect of the Sears Tower and the John Hancock Center,^[2] considered "the greatest architectural engineer of the second half of the 20th century."^[3]
• Badal Roy - tabla player
• MOBONIX - Musician
• Jazmin - pornographic actress
• Abuhena Saifulislam, first Muslim who was appointed as imam in the U.S. Army.
• Iqbal Quadir - Founder of Grameen Phone, Bangladesh's largest telecom group. Iqbal Quadir has also lectured for Harvard's Kennedy School and for MIT.
• Fazle Hussain - is a Cullen Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Physics, and Geosciences at the University of Houston.
• Monica Yunus - daughter of Muhammad Yunus and soprano singer Vera Forostenko
• Mir Masoom Ali - George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Statistics Ball State University
• Kali S. Banerjee - Statistics expert and professor ^[4]
• Saif Ahmad - World Series of Poker winner.
• Reihan Salam - blogger at The American Scene and associate editor of The Atlantic Monthly
• Hansen Clarke - Senator of Michigan State of the USA
• M. Shahid Alam - professor of economics at Northeastern University
• M. Osman Siddique - US Ambassador
• Narasingha Sil - Professor of History at Western Oregon University
• Dipa Ma - famous yoga teacher
• Badal Roy - tabla player
• Nora Ali - America's Junior Miss 2007 (Minnesota)
• Amitav Ghosh - Indo-nostalgic writer (raised in Bangladesh)
• Shikhee - singer; auteur of industrial band Android Lust

Footnotes

1. ^ With YouTube, Student Hits Jackpot Again, The New York Times, October 12, 2006.
2. ^ [1] "Fazlur Rahman Khan Bangladeshi American civil engineer known for his innovations in high-rise building construction."
3. ^ Ali Mir (2001). Art of the Skyscraper: the Genius of Fazlur Khan. Rizzoli International Publications. ISBN 0-8478-2370-9.
4. ^ [2] Eulogy

See also

• List of Bangladeshis
• List of Bengalis