M. Hamidullah Khan

Muhammad Hamidullah Khan
M. Hamidullah Khan
Born	11 September 1938 Bikrampur, Bengal Province, British Empire
Died	30 December 2011 Combined Military Hospital (CMH), Dhaka, Bangladesh
Allegiance	People's Republic of Bangladesh
Service/branch	Bangladesh Air Force
Years of service	1962–1979 (PAF - BAF)
Rank	Wing Commander
Unit	Administration and Special Duties A&SD
Commands held	Ground Defence Command
Battles/wars	Bangladesh Independence War Chilmari Landing Expedition Kurigram and Gaibandha Guerilla Campaigns Kodalkati and Kamalpur Assaults Tangail Area Ambushes and Raids

Wing Commander M. Hamidullah Khan (BAF-Retd.) (Bengali: এম হামিদুল্লাহ খান) (11 September 1938 – 30 December 2011) was a career air force officer, originally in the PAF and later BAF. He was Commander of Sector 11, Bangladesh Forces during the Bangladesh War of Independence from Pakistan in 1971. M. Hamidullah Khan represented Bangladesh during the 34th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in 1979 as Bangladesh Special Envoy on the question of granting recognition to the State of Palestine and the plenary session on UN Resolutions 242 and 439 on the question of Palestine and Namibia respectively.

Hamidullah Khan was born in Medini Mondal village, Louhajong Ward, Bikrampur, Dhaka. He was the second of nine children, one of whom died in infancy, born to Muhammad Dabiruddin Khan and Jasimunnesa Khan. His father was a forest ranger in the British Imperial Forest Service under the Bengal and Assam Forest Department. Hamidullah married Rabeya Sultana Khan, the third daughter of Mokbul Hossain Siddiqi, then East Pakistani Commissioner of Taxes and Excise, on 1 August 1965, in Dhaka.

Hamidullah Khan's childhood was divided between living in Bikrampur and Dhaka city. His family moved to the Mughaltully Ward of Dhaka in 1954, where he would spend his adolescence. Following independence and the creation of India and Pakistan in 1947, the family remained in East Pakistan, while his father chose to work for the Indian government until his retirement in 1957. Hamidullah Khan attended primary school at Silver Jubilee Anglo-Bangla Government English School, Guwahati, Assam. He went on to secondary school for a year at Rangamati Missionary School at Chittagong Hill Tracts, before switching to and graduating from Louhajong A.T Institute in Dhaka Bikrampur.