Mirza Mazharul Islam
Mirza Mazharul Islam is a Bangladeshi surgeon and language movement veteran. He is the chief consultant at the Department of Surgery in BIRDEM. In recognition of his contribution to the Bengali language movement, the government of Bangladesh awarded him the country's second highest civilian award Ekushey Padak in 2018.Islam was born on 1 January 1927 in Agacaran village under Kalihati in Tangail of the then British India. His father Helaluddin was an officer in a British company and mother Canda Khatun was a housewife.
