Akbar Kabir

{{short description|Bangladeshi social worker}}

{{infobox officeholder

|native_name= আকবর কবির

|native_name_lang= bn

|office1= Adviser for Information and Broadcasting

|term_start1= 18 September 1976

|term_end1= 12 October 1977

|president1= ASM Sayem
Ziaur Rahman (acting)

|predecessor1= Ziaur Rahman

|successor2= Shamsul Huda Chaudhury

|birth_date= January 5, 1915

|birth_place= Faridpur, Bengal Presidency, British India

|death_date= {{death date and age|2002|10|3|1915|1|5}}

|death_place= Dhaka, Bangladesh

|nationality={{flag|British India}} (before 1947)
{{PAK}} (before 1971)
{{BAN}}

|children=Khushi Kabir
Sigma Huda
Selim Kabir

|alma_mater= Calcutta University

|resting_place= Faridpur, Bangladesh

}}

Akbar Kabir (5 January 1915-3 October 2002) was a Bangladeshi social worker and an adviser for the information ministry in the advisory council of presidents Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem and Major General Ziaur Rahman from September 1976 to October 1977.{{cite web |title=১৯৭১ সাল থেকে ০৭-০১-২০১৯ গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশের রাষ্ট্রপতি, উপ-রাষ্ট্রপতি, প্রধানমন্ত্রী ও মন্ত্রিপরিষদের সদস্যবৃন্দ এবং নির্দলীয় তত্ত্বাবধায়ক সরকারের প্রধান উপদেষ্টা ও উপদেষ্টা পরিষদের সদস্যবৃন্দের দপ্তর বন্টনসহ নামের তালিকা। |url=https://cabinet.gov.bd/sites/default/files/files/cabinet.portal.gov.bd/publications/e166b4bd_012d_4abe_85fc_e72aea80d8ed/1971-07.01.2019_bn_1_182%20(1).pdf |website=মন্ত্রিপরিষদ বিভাগ |publisher=Ministry Department, Government of Bangladesh |access-date=16 August 2024}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bJfcCPUr0OoC&pg=PA1|title=Historical Dictionary of Bangladesh|last=Rahman|first=Syedur|date=2010-04-27|pages=310–8|publisher=Scarecrow Press|language=en|isbn=978-0-8108-7453-4}} He was also the brother of former Indian Bengali education minister Humayun Kabir and Congress politician Jehangir Kabir as well as the father-in-law of renowned Bangladeshi barrister Nazmul Huda, who has also served in the Ministry of Information during former prime minister Khaleda Zia's first ministry.{{Cite web |date=2023-02-20 |title=Nazmul Huda passes away |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/obituary/news/nazmul-huda-passes-away-3252646 |access-date=2023-02-19 |website=The Daily Star |language=en}}