Engineering College, and military school Barishal Cadet College. Religion Islam is the predominant religion in the Barisal division, with a large minority population of Hindus, and small populations of Christians and Buddhists, and others. Notable residents Abul Hasanat Abdullah is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a member of Parliament. Mohiuddin Ahmed was a Language Movement veteran and 1971 Liberation War organiser. Tania Ahmed, actress Tofail Ahmed, Bangladeshi politician, Minister of Commerce and Minister of Industries Ziauddin Ahmed, war hero, freedom fighter and sub-sector Commander under Sector 9 of Mukti Bahini during Bangladesh liberation war in 1971. Jewel Aich, a Bangladeshi magician and bansuri player. He is a veteran of the 1971 Bangladesh liberation war. Mir Maswood Ali, mathematician and statistician Amir Hossain Amu, a Bangladeshi politician and leader in the Bangladesh Awami League. Abdur Rahman Biswas, former President of Bangladesh Anil Biswas noted Hindi and Bengali film song composer Mohammad Ali Bogra, Bengali politician, statesman, who served as third Prime Minister of Pakistan, 1953 – 1955. Abala Bose, social reformer and wife of Jagadish Chandra Bose Nachiketa Chakraborty, famous Tollywood singer's family hails from Chechri Rampur village in Kathalia Upazila Abdul Gaffar Choudhury, an author, columnist, lyricist. Asad Chowdhury, poet, writer, translator, radio, television personality and journalist, as well as a cultural activist in Bangladesh. Jibanananda Das, poet Kusumkumari Das, poet and mother of Jibanananda Das Mukunda Das, was a Bengali poet, ballad singer, composer and patriot, who contributed to the spread of Swadeshi movement in rural Bengal. Gurudas Dasgupta, is a Member of the Indian Parliament and a leader of the Communist Party of India. Basudeb DasSarma, chemist Arundhati Devi, was an Indian actress, director and writer who is known for her work in Bengali cinema. Utpal Dutt, Indian actor, director and writer-playwright Aswini Kumar Dutta, social reformer and philanthropist Narayan Gangopadhyay, was a Bengali novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer, a leading writer of modern Bengali literature. Sohag Gazi, Bangladeshi cricketer Debaprasad Ghosh, an Indian mathematician, linguist, lawyer, journalist, educationist and statesman. Nikhil Ghosh, was an Indian musician, teacher and writer, known his proficiency on the percussion instrument of tabla. Pannalal Ghosh, musician and flutist Parul Ghosh, was an Indian playback singer. Ghosh sang in Hindi and Bengali movies from 1935 to 1951. Jyotirmoy Guhathakurta, Bengali educator and humanist of East Pakistan, now Bangladesh. One of the Bengali intellectuals killed by the Pakistan Army during the