Abul Mansur Ahmed

Abul Mansur Ahmed was a Bangladeshi littérateur, politician and journalist.  He was awarded Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1960 and Independence Day Award in 1979 by the Government of Bangladesh.  He was the father of Mahfuz Anam, journalist and editor of The Daily Star. Ahmed's maternal grandfather Meherullah Faraizi took part in the non-communal anti-British Faraizi movement.

Ahmed was born in Dhanikhola in Mymensingh to Abdur Rahim Farazi and Mir Jahan Begum. During 1929-1938 he practiced law in Mymensingh. Later, worked at Kolkata as a professional journalist and a political activist until the 1947 partition.

He worked for The Krsak, Navayug, Ittehad, Soltan and The Mohammadi. Ahmed joined the Congress movement under Subhas Chandra Bose. He became an active member of the Muslim League after the elections of 1937 and became an activist of the Pakistan movement since 1940. He died on 18 March 1979.