Hakim Habibur Rahman
Bengali physician
Died when: 65 years 337 days (791 months)Star Sign: Aries
Hakim Habibur Rahman (Bengali: ????? ??????? ?????, Urdu: ???? ???? ???????)(23 March 1881 – 23 February 1947) was an Unani physician, litterateur, journalist, politician and chronicler in early 20th-century Dhaka, British India (now Bangladesh).
Rahman was a close associate of Nawab Sir Khwaja Salimullah of the Dhaka Nawab Family.His two chronicles of Dhaka, Asudegan-e-Dhaka and Dhaka Panchas Baras Pahle, remain important primary source material for researchers working on Dhaka.
His wide collection of manuscripts, coins, weapons and artefacts is preserved at the Dhaka University Library as the Hakim Habibur Rahman Collection.
The Hakim Habibur Rahman Lane carries his name near his birthplace, the Choto Katra, a landmark in the old part of Dhaka.