Sylhet District

History

Administration

• Balaganj
• Beanibazar
• Bishwanath
• Companiganj
• Dakshin Surma
• Fenchuganj
• Golapganj
• Gowainghat
• Jaintiapur
• Kanaighat
• Osmani Nagar
• Sylhet Sadar
• Zakiganj

  Notable people

• Shah Jalal, Sufi saint and mystic.
• Shah Paran, Sufi saint.
• Swami Nikhilananda, Ramakrishna Math and Mission Order monk and Founder-Minister, Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, New York City 1933-1973
• Swami Premeshananda, Ramakrishna Math and Mission Order monk
• Swami Gambhirananda, Ramakrish Math and Mission Order monk and President of the Order 1985-1988
• Nurul Islam Nahid, Former Education Minister of Bangladesh
• Govinda Chandra Dev, known as G. C. Dev, was a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dhaka. He was assassinated at the onset of Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971 by the Pakistan Army.
• Abdul Malik, National Professor, Brigadier, Cardiologist, Founder and President of National Heart Foundation of Bangladesh.
• Rushanara Ali, first Bangladeshi to be elected as an MP for the British parliament.
• Ajmal Masroor, television presenter, politician and imam, Parliamentary candidate for a UK Parliament constituency.
• Lutfur Rahman, the first elected mayor of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets council.
• Mukhlesur Rahman Chowdhury,former minister and adviser to the president of Bangladesh.
• Humayun Rashid Choudhury, Awami League leader and former speaker of National parliament.
• Dilwar Khan, poet.
• Salman Shah, film actor, model.
• Shuvro Dev, playback singer.
• Syed Ahmed, businessman, British TV personality.
• Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran, Mayor of Sylhet since 2003, AL.