Paula Abdul | Shah Jahan | Shah Alam | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | Maumoon Abdul Gayoom | Naseeruddin Shah | Tahir Shah | Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport | Muhammad Shah | Abdul Hamid II | Ahmad Shah Durrani | Shah | Ahmad Shah Massoud | Shah Alam II | Abd al-Karim Qasim | Tunku Abdul Rahman | Sher Shah Suri | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | Abdul Rasul Sayyaf | Nadir Shah | Karim Rashid | Abdul Qadeer Khan | Wajid Ali Shah | Shah Shuja | Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai | Ritula Shah | Muhammad Abdul Qadeer Siddiqi Qadri | Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum | Robat Karim | Karim Benzema |
Sunamganj is renowned for bards and folk music; mystic poet Hason Raja (1854CE-1922CE), Saifa Banu (1860-1926), Diwan Moshin Raja, Syed Shahnoor, Radharaman Dutta, Radhamadhav Dutta, Doorbin Shah, Shah Abdul Karim, Muniruzzaman Munir, Nurul Ghani, Dilly Meah, Qari Amiruddin and many more have hailed from this area.