# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/khujastha-akhtar-banu
# Generated: 2026-08-15T15:18:15.673Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/khujastha-akhtar-banu"
name: "Khujastha Akhtar Banu"
slug: "khujastha-akhtar-banu"
description: "Khujista Akhtar Banu Suhrawardiyya, popularly known as Suhrawardy Begum, was a late 19th-century writer, Bengali socialite, educationist, and social reformer. Khujista was the first Indian woman to pass the Senior Cambridge examinations, in the year 1887. She was also the first Indian woman to be appointed as an examiner by the prestigious Calcutta University. She was the mother of Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, the former Prime Minister of Bengal."
tagline: "Urdu writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Khujista_Akhtar_Banu.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1874"
deathDate: "1919"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.075630666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "خجستہ اختر بانو"
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    title: "ᱠᱷᱩᱡᱤᱥᱛᱟ ᱟᱠᱛᱟᱨ ᱵᱟᱱᱩ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ఖుజిస్తా అక్తర్ బాను"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump