National Professor () is a teaching award given by the government of Bangladesh for outstanding contribution in the field of education. It is awarded by the President of Bangladesh according to Bangladesh National Professor Resolution (appointment, conditions and facilities) 1981. The awarded persons receive various facilities from the government. They will receive a fixed amount of salary through the University Grants Commission. They will be able to do any educational/research work in with any research organisation/institute in their choice. They will receive all the facilities from the respected organisations/institutes. They will be able to join any foreign university as visiting professor. They will not be able to take any salary from any other organisations/institutes except the government. They will not be treated as government officers.
List of National Professors 1975 Zainul Abedin Abdur Razzaq Qazi Motahar Hossain 1984 Muhammad Ibrahim 1987 Nurul Islam Abul Fazl Atwar Husain Syed Ali Ahsan 1993 Dewan Mohammad Azraf Shamsul Hoque M Innas Ali 1994 MR Khan Sufia Ahmed 1998 Kabir Chowdhury 2006 Abdul Malik AKM Nurul Islam AKM Aminul Haque Talukder Moniruzzaman 2011 Sardar Fazlul Karim A.F. Salahuddin Ahmed Rangalal Sen Mustafa Nurul Islam Shahla Khatun 2018 Rafiqul Islam Anisuzzaman Jamilur Reza Choudhury 2021 Prof A K Azad Khan Alamgir Mohammad Sirajuddin Mahmud Hassan
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