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Muhammad Habibur Rahman

Muhammad Habibur Rahman (3 December 1928 – 11 January 2014) was a Bangladeshi jurist and statesman who served as Chief Justice of Bangladesh in 1995. He was Chief Adviser of the 1996 caretaker government which oversaw the June 1996 Bangladeshi general election. He was a faculty member at the Department of Law, University of Rajshahi and University of Dhaka. Besides, being a language activist, advocate of the Bengali language, he wrote extensively and published eight books on the subject. He played a significant role to implement Bengali in the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. He wrote ''Jathashabdo'' (1974), the first thesaurus in the Bengali language.

Habibur Rahman was awarded Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1984 and Ekushey Padak in 2007 by the Government of Bangladesh. He served as a Fellow of Bangla Academy, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh and Worcester College, Oxford. Provided by Wikipedia