Rokeya Mannan
{{Short description|Bangladeshi social activist (1935–2012)}}
{{infobox person
|name=Rokeya Mannan
|native_name=রোকেয়া মান্নান
|native_name_lang=bn
|birth_date={{birth date|1935|01|06|df=y}}
|alma_mater=Lady Brabourne College
|nationality=Bangladeshi
|relatives=Quazi Anwara Monsur (sister)
|spouses=Sadrul Islam Mohammand Golam Mannan
|death_date={{death date and age|2012|03|29|1935|01|06|df=y}}
|death_place=Dhaka, Bangladesh
}}
Rokeya Mannan (6 January 1935 – 29 March 2012){{cite news |date=2012-03-30 |title=Rokeya Mannan passes away |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-228258|access-date=2025-02-07 |work=The Daily Star |language=en}} was a Bangladeshi social activist and educator. She served as the headmistress of Agrani School and College. She was awarded Begum Rokeya Padak in 2005 by the government of Bangladesh and Anannya Top Ten Awards in 2012 for her contribution to education and social work.{{Cite news |url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/2006/01/19/d60119060666.htm|title=Two Get Begum Rokeya Padak-2005|newspaper=The Daily Star|date=2006-01-19|access-date=2025-02-06}}{{Cite news |url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/baby-maudud-9-others-get-ananya-padak|title=Baby Maudud, 9 others get 'Ananya Padak'|work=bdnews24.com|access-date=2025-02-06|date=5 March 2012}}
Career
Mannan studied at Lady Brabourne College.{{Cite web |title=Holding the Mast of Education |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/magazine/2010/07/04/education.htm |date=2010-07-23|access-date=2025-02-07 |work=The Daily Star}}
Mannan wrote an autobiography, A Long Way: The Story of My Life.{{Cite book |last=Mannan |first=Rokeya |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Long_Way/cnrWsgEACAAJ?hl=en |title=A Long Way: The Story of My Life |date=2015-05-07 |publisher=CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform |isbn=978-1-5120-8993-6 |language=en}}
Background
Mannan had an elder sister, Quazi Anwara Monsur, also a Begum Rokeya Padak winning educator and founder of Agrani School and College.
Rokeya Mannan was married to Sadrul Islam Mohammand Golam Mannan (1918–2010), who served as the president of the Pakistan Medical Association and the Commonwealth Medical Association and a professor of anatomy at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital.{{Cite news|title=Professor Mannan passes away |url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/professor-mannan-passes-away |access-date=2025-02-07 |website=Professor Mannan passes away |date=2010-11-20|language=en}} Together they had a son, Shubho, and a daughter, Shagota.
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Category:Lady Brabourne College alumni
Category:Bangladeshi activists
Category:Bangladeshi women educators