# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/farooque
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:19:28.309Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/farooque"
name: "Farooque"
slug: "farooque"
description: "Akbar Hossain Pathan Dulu, known by the stage name Farooque, was a Bangladeshi actor, politician, businessman and producer. He was known as 'Mia Bhai' to mass people. He appeared in over 150 films in a career spanning more than five decades. Most of his films were commercially and critically successful. Farooque was one of the most recognizable stars of the classical and golden era of Bangladeshi film industry."
tagline: "Bangladeshi film actor, freedom fighter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Akbar_Hossain_Farooque_(10)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1948-08-18"
deathDate: "2023-05-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.23
  momentum:             12.6
  historical:           5.076746666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2594295/"
    handle:    "nm2594295"
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farooque"
    title: "Farooque"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AB%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%95"
    title: "ফারুক"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farooque"
    title: "Farooque"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%82"
    title: "فاروق"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikiquote.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AB%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%95"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19741088"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2573172"
    title: "Farooque"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump