Muhammad Shahidullah

Muhammad Shahidullah (Bengali: মুহম্মদ শহীদুল্লাহ; Urdu: محمد شاہد اللہ; 10 July 1885 – 13 July 1969) was a Pakistani Bengali linguist, philologist, educationist, and writer. In 2004, he was ranked number 16 in BBC's poll of the Greatest Bengali of all time. Shahidullah was born on 10 July 1885 to a Bengali Muslim family in the village of Peyara in the erstwhile Bengal Presidency's 24 Parganas district. His father, Mafizuddin Ahmed, was the guardian of a mazar, and his mother, Marguba Khatun, was a housewife.