Kamran Hossain Chowdhury

Kamran Hossain Chowdhury (24 July 1952 – 4 December 2024) was a Bangladeshi politician who was a Jatiya Sangsad member of Jatiya Party representing the Faridpur-3 constituency during 1988–1990.

Chowdhury studied at the Residential Model School and Notre Dame College at Dhaka in the then East Pakistan. In parliament, he was a member of the parliamentary standing committee on foreign relations. The committee supported the first dispatch of Bangladesh UN Peacekeeping Forces, as well as deploying Bangladeshi troops to the Gulf War. He also served as chairman of the Faridpur District Council. During his tenure, the River Research Institute was established in Faridpur with Dutch government funding. A road from Goalundo Ghat to Jessore via Faridpur was also built in 1990. During the 1988 floods, President H M Ershad flew to Faridpur by helicopter to oversee relief operations coordinated by Chowdhury and the army.

Chowdhury was the vice president of the Japan-Bangladesh Parliamentary Association. The association played a key role in mobilizing aid for the construction of the Jamuna Bridge. As a member of the fourth parliament, Chowdhury had to vote for the 8th, 9th, and 10th Amendments to the Constitution of Bangladesh. After the fall of Ershad, Chowdhury was a member of the Diplomatic Cell of the Jatiya Party in the 1990s, as well as International Affairs Secretary in one faction of the party from 2001 to 2008. Chowdhury and his family were royal guests in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1996.

Chowdhury worked with Castrol and the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). She was the eldest daughter of Nurul Amin Khan, a former managing director of the Jamuna Oil Company and a niece of Nurul Momen Khan Mihir (d. 1992), the first Director-General of National Security Intelligence, Abdur Raquib Khandaker, a former Inspector General of Police, and Niaz Mahmood Khan (Bobby), an independence activist.

Chowdhury and Shusmita had two sons, Umran Chowdhury, a lawyer, historian, and columnist, and Ayman Chowdhury.

Chowdhury died from heart disease on 4 December 2024, at the age of 72.