List of Ekushey Padak award recipients (1980–89)

1980

1. Abul Hussain
2. Bedaruddin Ahmad
3. Mohammad Abdul Jabbar
4. Hamidur Rahman
5. Murtaja Baseer
6. Ronen Kushari
7. Mujibur Rahman Khan
8. Mohammad Ferdous Khan

   1981

9. Abu Rushd Matinuddin
10. Aminul Islam
11. Abdul Halim Chowdhury
12. Mumtaz Ali Khan
13. Gauhar Jamil
14. Mohammad Zakaria
15. Zahur Hossain Chowdhury
16. Obaidul Huq
17. Mustafa Nurul Islam

    1982

18. Syed Ali Ahsan
19. Abul Hasan
20. Talim Hossain
21. Abdul Hakim
22. Ful Mohammad
23. SM Sultan
24. G A Mannan
25. Sanaullah Nuri

    1983

26. Shawkat Osman
27. Sanaul Huq
28. Abdul Gaffar Chowdhury
29. M A Kuddus
30. Shahidullah Kaisar
31. Syed Nur Uddin
32. Abu Jafar Shamsuddin
33. Mohammad Kibria
34. Barin Mazumder
35. Muhammad Mansuruddin

    1984

36. Anisuzzaman
37. Habibur Rahman
38. Syed Waliullah
39. Hasan Hafizur Rahman
40. Syed Shamsul Huq
41. Rashid Karim
42. Sikandar Abu Zafar
43. Mir Qasim Khan
44. Sabina Yasmin
45. Qayyum Chowdhury

    1985

46. Abu Zafar Obaidullah
47. Gazi Shamsur Rahman
48. Abdullah Al-Muti
49. Govinda Chandra Dev
50. Mohammad Abdul Jabbar
51. Kalim Sharafi
52. Abed Hossain Khan
53. Syed Jahangir

    1986

54. Alauddin Al Azad
55. Al Mahmud
56. Satyen Sen
57. Askar Ibne Shaikh
58. Munshi Raisuddin
59. Mobarak Hossain Khan
60. Dhir Ali Miah

    1987

61. Mohammad Moniruzzaman
62. Abu Hena Mustafa Kamal
63. Anis Siddiky
64. Jahanara Arzu
65. Ahmad Shamsul Islam
66. M. A. Naser
67. Principal Abul Kashem
68. Nurul Islam Patowary
69. Ahmed Humayun
70. Kanailal Shil
71. Farida Parveen
72. Syed Mainul Hossain

    1988

73. Bonde Ali Miah
74. Ashraf Siddiqui
75. Fazal Shahabuddin
76. Anwar Hossain
77. Sudhin Das

    1989

78. Shahed Ali
79. Razia Mazid
80. Mahmud Shah Koreshi
81. Mohammad Asafudowlah Reza
82. AKM Shahidul Huq
83. Abdur Razzak
84. Amalendu Biswas