# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mahmudur-rahman
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:00:54.374Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mahmudur-rahman"
name: "Mahmudur Rahman"
slug: "mahmudur-rahman"
description: "Mahmudur Rahman is the owner and editor of the Bengali daily Amar Desh in Bangladesh also an author, engineer and businessman. A strong critic of the Awami League government since 2008, he has faced over 50 defamation and sedition charges. He is the only person sentenced for contempt by the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, with human rights groups labeling the government's actions against him as judicial harassment."
tagline: "Bangladeshi newspaper editor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mahmudur_Rahman_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1953-07-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.82
  momentum:             0.8035714285714284
  historical:           5.750181333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "محمود الرحمن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "محمود الرحمن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "মাহমুদুর রহমান"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmudur_Rahman"
    title: "Mahmudur Rahman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "महमूदुर रहमान"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mahmudur Rahman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "மகமதூர் ரகுமான்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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