Joel Hayward – New Zealand-born British scholar and writer
Delwar Hussain – writer, anthropologist and correspondent for The Guardian. In 2013, his first book Boundaries Undermined: The Ruins of Progress on the Bangladesh-India Border was published.[13]
Dilwar Hussain – research fellow at The Islamic Foundation in Leicester; co-authored the 2004 book British Muslims Between Assimilation and Segregation; is on the Home Office's committee tackling radicalisation and extremism[14]
Musharraf Hussain – scientist, educator and religious scholar, the Chief executive of the Karimia Institute Nottingham. Awarded an OBE by Her Majesty the Queen in 2008 for his services to community relations.
Saiful Islam – Professor of Materials Chemistry at the University of Bath and a recipient of the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit award.[15]
Naila Kabeer – Social economist, research fellow and writer. She works primarily on poverty, gender and social policy issues. Her research interests include gender, poverty, social exclusion, labour markets and livelihoods, social protection, focussed on South and South East Asia.[16][17]
Mushtaq Khan – Heterodox economist and Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies. His work focuses on the economics of poor countries, including contributions to the field of institutional economics and South Asian development.[20]
Yasmin Khan – historian of British India and associate professor of history at The University of Oxford[21][22]
Ehsan Masood – science writer, journalist and broadcaster; editor of Research Fortnight and Research Europe;[23] teaches International Science Policy at Imperial College London[24]
Mohammad Hashem Pesaran – academic, economist, professor of economics at Cambridge University, fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge[27]
Nazneen Rahman – geneticist who specialises in cancer and heads up the Cancer Genetics Clinical Unit at the Royal Marsden. Her research has seen success in identifying genes that cause cancer particularly in women and children.[28]
Mona Siddiqui – University of Edinburgh Professor of Islamic Studies a Public Understanding; regular contributor to BBC Radio 4, The Times, Scotsman, The Guardian, and The Herald[35]
Afzal Kahn – Bradford-based entrepreneur; owns a specialist car design company; broke records in 2008 for paying £440,000 for a distinctive "F1" number plate;[42] previously showed an interest in purchasing Newcastle football club[43]
Ali Parsa – former chief executive officer of private healthcare partnership Circle[44]
Iqbal AhmedOBE – entrepreneur, chairman and chief executive of Seamark Group'; made his fortune in shrimp; the highest British Bangladeshi to feature on the Sunday Times Rich List (placed at number 511 in 2006)[65]
Iqbal Wahhab OBE – entrepreneur, restaurateur, journalist, publisher; founder of Tandoori Magazine and multi-award-winning restaurant Cinnamon Club[66]
James Caan – businessman and entrepreneur; formerly a part of Dragons' Den[67]
Javed Ahmed – chief executive of Tate & Lyle plc,[68] – a FTSE 250 company which is one of Britain's oldest brands;[69]
Mo Chaudry – born in Pakistan, he was raised in England and went on to become a millionaire businessman in the West Midlands
Mohammad Ajman 'Tommy Miah' – internationally renowned celebrity chef, award-winning restaurateur,[73][74] founder and promoter of the Indian Chef of the Year Competition[75]
Mohsin Issa – billionaire, businessman and founder of Euro Garages, a chain of petrol filling stations that operate in the United Kingdom and Europe.[77]
Muquim Ahmed – entrepreneur; became the first Bangladeshi millionaire at the age of 26,[80] due to diversification in banking, travel, a chain of restaurants with the Cafe Naz group, publishing and property development[81]
Mustafa Suleyman – entrepreneur, activist and, most notably, the co-founder and Head of Applied AI at DeepMind,[82] an artificial intelligence company acquired by Alphabet.[83]
Leepu Nizamuddin Awlia – car engineer and coachbuilder who converts rusty old cars into imitation supercars in a workshop on Discovery Channel reality television programme Bangla Bangers/Chop Shop: London Garage[87]
Wali Tasar Uddin MBE – entrepreneur, restaurateur, community leader, and chairman of the Bangladesh-British Chamber of Commerce[97][98]
Waliur Rahman Bhuiyan OBE – 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[99]
Zameer Choudrey – billionaire, Chief Executive of Bestway Group[100]
Zuber Issa – billionaire, businessman and founder of Euro Garages, a chain of petrol filling stations that operate in the United Kingdom and Europe.[77]
Art Malik – Pakistani-born British actor who achieved fame in the 1980s through his starring and subsidiary roles in assorted British and Merchant-Ivory television serials and films[119]
Chunkz – British YouTube personality, host, entertainer and former musician
Dino Shafeek – actor and comedian who starred in several sitcoms during the 1970s and early 1980s; played Char Wallah Muhammed in It Ain't Half Hot Mum and Ali Nadim in Mind Your Language[citation needed]
Mani Liaqat – Manchester-based British Asian actor and comedian, known for his bizarre rants, portly figure, witty voice and mixture of Punjabi/Urdu/Hindi and British everyday-humour[145]
Munsur Ali – film producer, screenwriter and director; in 2014, he wrote, directed and produced Shongram, a romantic drama set during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War;[146] first time a British film was simultaneously written, produced and directed by a British Bangladeshi[147]
Sanchita Islam – artist, writer and filmmaker;[165] in 1999, she founded Pigment Explosion, which has branched out into projects including film, painting, drawing, writing and photography[166]
Sadik Ahmed – film director, cinematographer, and writer;[167] wrote and directed international award-winning short film Tanju Miah, which was the first Bangladeshi film in the Toronto, Sundance, and Amsterdam film festivals in 2007[168]
Selma Chalabi – radio producer and journalist for BBC Wales. She was born in the United Kingdom to an Iraqi father and English mother, and was raised in Winchester.[172][173]
Zain Javadd Malik, known mononymously as Zayn, is a British singer. Born and raised in Bradford, Malik auditioned as a solo contestant for the British music competition television series The X Factor in 2010. [4]
Fareena Alam – editor of British Muslim magazine Q News;[203] named Media Professional of the Year by Islamic Relief in 2005 and at the Asian Women of Achievement Awards in 2006[204]
Hassan Ghani – Scottish[206][207] broadcast journalist and documentary filmmaker, based in London
Javed Malik – television anchor; publisher of the UAE's first diplomatic magazine, The International Diplomat; executive director of the World Forum; served as Pakistan's Ambassador at Large and Special Advisor to The Prime Minister; close friend of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan
Mazher Mahmood (also known as the "Fake Sheikh") – often dubbed as "Britain's most notorious undercover reporter"; in a GQ survey was voted as the 45th most powerful man in Britain;[215] the News of the World paid his six-figure salary, plus an editorial and technical support budget[216]
Mehdi Hasan – senior politics editor at the New Statesman and a former news and current affairs editor at Channel 4[217]
Miqdaad Versi – assistant secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, media commentator, and advocate for accurate reporting on Muslims.[218][219]
Saira Khan – runner-up on the first series of The Apprentice, and now a TV presenter on BBC's Temper Your Temper and Desi DNA[230]
Sarfraz Manzoor – British writer, journalist, documentary maker, and broadcaster; writes regularly for The Guardian; presents documentaries on BBC Radio 4[231]
M. A. Muid Khan – barrister who was selected as the Best Human Rights Lawyer of England and Wales for 2012 by the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives; in September 2012, he was ranked as third in the top five Chartered Legal Executive Lawyers of England and Wales by the Law Society[251]
Mumtaz Hussain – solicitor and radio presenter; since 2010, she has presented Health and Healing with Mumtaz on RedShift Radio[252]
Abdur Rouf Choudhury – Bengali diaspora writer and philosopher; numerous literary awards from Bangladesh including the Granthomela award and life membership from Bangla Academy[255]
Kaniz Ali – makeup artist and freelance beauty columnist;[141] won the "Best Make-Up Artist" category at the 2011 International Asian Fashion Awards[142]
Kia Abdullah – novelist and journalist; contributes to The Guardian newspaper[262] and has written two novels
Mohsin Hamid – Pakistani writer; novels Moth Smoke (2000), The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007), and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (2013)[263]
Muhammed Akbar Khan – served as a British recruit in the First World War and an officer in Second World War; first Muslim to become a general in the British Army[292]
Tarique Ghaffur – high-ranking British police officer in London's Metropolitan Police Service; Assistant Commissioner–Central Operations[293]
Mabs Hussain – Assistant chief constable for the Greater Manchester Police.
Policy
Former British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Anwar Choudhury
Anwar Choudhury – British High Commissioner for Bangladesh, 2004–2008; first non-white British person to be appointed in a senior diplomatic post; Director of International Institutions at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office[296]
Nahid Majid OBE – civil servant, chief operating officer of Regeneration Investment Organisation and deputy director within the Department for Work and Pensions[300] the most senior British Bangladeshi Muslim woman in the civil service
Syed Salah Kamall, Baron Kamall – Professor of Politics and International Relations at St Mary's University, Twickenham and the Academic & Research Director at the Institute of Economic Affairs, a classical liberal think tank in London.[336]
Zahida Manzoor, Baroness Manzoor – Liberal Democrat Baroness; former Legal Services Ombudsman; former Deputy Chair of the Commission for Racial Equality[338]
Members of Scottish Parliament
Anas Sarwar – Leader of the Scottish Labour party and Labour MSP for the Glasgow region[339]
Sajjad Karim former MEP – born in Brierfield, Lancashire; qualified as a solicitor before being elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2007; Conservative Legal Affairs Spokesman; sits on the Industry, Research and Energy Committee
Magid Magid – Green Party MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber.[360]
Bashir Maan – Pakistani-Scottish politician, businessman and writer[363]
Munira Mirza – was the Deputy Mayor for Education and Culture of London. Born in Oldham.[364][365]
CllrNasim Ali – Labour Party politician, councillor in Regent's Park, Cabinet Member for Young People in Camden Council and former Mayor of Camden; in May 2003, at age 34, he became the country's youngest mayor as well as the UK's first Bangladeshi and first Muslim mayor[366]
Syed Muhammad Faisal Sami is an award-winning Birmingham based aid worker for the Dawateislami and FGRF.[1] He travelled with a team of volunteers first-hand from the UK to Turkey when the devastating earthquakes hit earlier this year. He also travelled within the first two days of the earthquake that hit Morocco. Syed has just returned from a deployment to Egypt where he has managed to secure rations, meals, winter items, and daily necessities for the people of Gaza. Earlier in 2023, Syed was awarded the 'West Midlands Best Citizen Award for 2023' from the WM PCC.
Mufti Siraj Saleh Luharvi – Mufti, Sheikh of Hadith of Jamiah Khatamun Nabiyeen (JKN), Khadijatul Kubrah Birmingham, Madrasah Madaniyah Tahfizul Quran (MMTQ) and Jameah kauthar New York. Imam of Masjid e Quba Bradford. Host of show Ar-Ruqyah-Shariyah on IQRA TV.
Akhi Ayman - Motivational speaker from Iraq in Mosul, in London
Mufti Hanif Patel – Mufti, the founder of askourimam.com and senior teacher at Jamiatul Ilm Wal Huda (JIWH).The light in the tunnel of darkness for many.
Maajid Nawaz – former member of the Islamic political group Hizb ut-Tahrir, now the co-founder and executive director of Quilliam, the world's first counter-extremism think tank
Mohammad Naseem – former GP and the chairman of the Birmingham Mosque Trust[372]
Sheraz Daya – ophthalmologist and eye surgeon, best known for his founding of the Centre for Sight in 1996 and use of stem-cell research during sight recovery surgery[383][384]
Rawait Khan – former English cricketer who played for Derbyshire, Derbyshire CB, and Pakistan Customs in a four-year first-class career which saw him bowl mostly in Second XI Championship matches
Rehan Alikhan – English-born former cricketer of Pakistani descent; right-handed batsman and off-break bowler[426]
Sajid Mahmood – Punjabi origin cricketer who plays international cricket for England and county cricket for Lancashire[427]
Shammi Iqbal – English cricketer; right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm medium pace[430]
Usman Afzaal – cricketer who has played three Test matches for England[431]
Waqar Mohammad – former Pakistani-born English cricketer; right-handed batsman who bowled leg break[432]
Wasim KhanMBE – first British-born Pakistani to play professional cricket in England; a talented left-handed batsman who also bowled right-arm medium pace[433]
Atif Bashir – footballer with a British Pakistani father and a Turkish mother[444]
Easah Suliman – footballer currently playing for Aston Villa. Suliman has represented England at youth level; first player of Asian heritage to captain an England representative side, having done so at Under-16, Under-17 and Under-19 levels.[445]
Nisar Smiler – two-time karate world champion and 50-time gold medallist
Ruqsana Begum – Muay Thai kickboxer; in 2010, became the current British female Atomweight (48–50 kg) Muay Thai boxing champion; in September 2012, she was nominated as captain of the British Muay Thai Team[463]
Adam Khan – racing driver from Bridlington, Yorkshire; represents Pakistan in the A1 Grand Prix series; demonstration driver for the Renault F1 racing team[465]
Bulbul Hussain – wheelchair rugby player; plays mostly in a defensive role for Kent Crusaders and the Great Britain paralympic team; in 2008 and 2012, he played for Great Britain at the Paralympic Games[467]
Enaam Ahmed – British F3 racing driver, series' youngest-ever champion at 17 years old[468]
Hiddy Jahan – squash player who was ranked among the top-6 players in the world from 1970 through to 1986[470]
Ikram Butt – former professional rugby league footballer; first south Asian to play either code of international rugby for England, in 1995; founder of the British Asian Rugby Association and the British Pakistani rugby league team[471]
Saiman Miah – architecture student who designed the £5 coins for the 2012 London Summer Olympics[481][482]
Sahil Saeed – boy kidnapped in Pakistan in 2010; released unharmed after the payment of a ransom[483]
Shabina Begum – was involved in the leading House of Lords case UKHL 15 R (Begum) v Governors of Denbigh High School (2006)[484] on the legal regulation of religious symbols and dress under the Human Rights Act 1998
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