Nawab Ali


Nawab Ali is a Bangladeshi physician and academic. He was an elected member of East Pakistan provincial assembly. He was also the first Bangladeshi principal of Dhaka Medical College.

Early life

He was born at Matlab uttar of Chandpur in the then undivided India in 1902.

Education and career

Ali passed Entrance from Munshiganj High School and HSC from Dhaka College. He passed MBBS from Calcutta Medical College, Calcutta in 1927. He obtained MRCP in 1944. He received FRCP in 1958.
Ali was a renowned professor of Medicine and served as the head of the department of Medicine and principal of Dhaka Medical College. He was the first Bangladeshi principal of this prestigious institution. He was also the dean of the faculty of medicine of University of Dhaka. He was the president of the then All Pakistan Medical Association. He founded a diarrhoeal disease hospital under ICDDR,B at Matlab. He was elected as a member of East Pakistan legislative assembly in 1962.

Death

Ali died on August 4, 1977 in Dhaka.

Honors

passed an obituary reference on him in 2003 and the postal department issued a first-day cover and stamp in his honour in 2005.