Barisal Zilla School
Barisal Zilla School is a boys school located in Barisal, Bangladesh. It is the first high school in Barisal Division. It is a public educational institution located at Sadar Road. The school has a long history. It was founded by an Englishman, N. W. Garret, on 23 December 1829 with only 8 students. Now it has more than two thousand students. The school offers grades from class III to class X. It has two shifts, morning and day. The morning shift starts at 7:00 am and the day shift starts at 12:00 pm.
Beside the school playground, Barisal Zilla School owns famous ground called Poreshsagor. The school celebrated its 175th anniversary on 9–10 December 2005.Notable alumni
- Sher-e-Bangla A. K. Fazlul Huq, Bengali nationalist and statesman
- Abdul Jabbar Khan, former speaker
- Abdur Rahman Biswas, former president of Bangladesh
- Altaf Mahmud, music composer
- Sardar Fazlul Karim, scholar, academic, philosopher and essayist
- Buddhadeb Guha, writer
- Golam Mustafa, Ekushey Padak and National Film Award winning actor
- Lieutenant General Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury, ex-chief of Army staff
- Tapan Raychaudhuri, historian
- Promode Dasgupta, Communist leader
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