Khwaja Salimullah, Nawab Sir Khwaja Salimullah Bahadur (1871–1915), Bengali politician
It is named after Nawab Sir Khwaja Salimullah Bahadur.
Following demands by Nawab Sir Khwaja Salimullah Bahadur and others, in 2 February 1912 Viceroy Lord Hardinge proposed that a new University should be established in this partition of Bengal.