Barisal Zilla School is a boys school located in Barisal, Bangladesh. It is one of the oldest and top ranked high schools in the country and the first high school in Barisal Division.

It was founded by an Englishman, N. W. Garret, on 23 December 1829 with only 8 students. Now it has more than two thousand students.

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Notable alumni

Barisal Zilla School produced many leading local reformers, politicians, statesmen, educationists, philosophers, poets-writers, and sportsmen. Those notable persons include:

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Sher-e-Bangla A. K. Fazlul Huq, Bengali nationalist and statesman

Abdul Jabbar Khan, former speaker

Abdur Rahman Biswas, former president of Bangladesh

Altaf Mahmud, music composer

Sardar Fazlul Karim, scholar, academic, philosopher and essayist

Buddhadeb Guha, writer

Lieutenant General Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury, ex-chief of Army staff

References

Barisal

1829 establishments

19th-century establishments in Asia

Schools in Bangladesh

Barisal Zilla School