According to Dr M. Waheeduzzaman Manik, after Dr. Muhammad Shahidullah’s protest against imposing of Urdu as the lingua franca of Pakistan (published in daily Azad on 29 July 1947), on 25 February 1948, member Dhirendranath Datta demanded Bengali instead (spoken by 55% of the citizens), Members Bhupendra Kumar Datta, Prem Hari Barma and Srish Chandra Chattopadhyay "wholeheartedly supported Dhiren Datta’s historic amendment and vehemently defended the rightful place of Bengali."
His another son Murtaja Baseer is considered as one of the most stylish and foremost painters in Bangladesh.
Dr. Muhammad Shahidullah, a linguist, polyglot, and educator from Bangladesh
Shahidulla Hall was named after the famous linguist Dr. Muhammad Shahidullah.
Muhammad | Muhammad Ali | Muhammad Yunus | Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Muhammad Iqbal | Muhammad Ali of Egypt | Hussain Muhammad Ershad | Muhammad Shah | Raja Muhammad Fayyaz Ahmad | Muhammad al-Mahdi | Muhammad Ahmad | Muhammad Abdul Qadeer Siddiqi Qadri | Nur Muhammad Taraki | Muhammad Saleh Kamboh | Muhammad al-Baqir | Idris Muhammad | Atta Muhammad Nur | Shafi Muhammad Burfat | Muhammad Siddique Dar | Muhammad Shahidullah | Muhammad Shafiq Jamal | Muhammad Ibrahim Habsade | Muhammad al-Tawil of Huesca | Muhammad al-Idrisi | Muhammad Abduh | Mir Sher Muhammad Talpur | Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar Khan | Amin Saad Muhammad al-Zumari | Alyan Muhammad Ali al-Wa'eli | Ali Mahdi Muhammad |
Notable faculty members of the university has included the linguist Muhammad Shahidullah and Bengali author, academician, scholar and linguist Syed Mujtaba Ali.