Abul Barkat (Bengali: আবুল বরকত; 16 June 1927 – 21 February 1952) was a protester killed during the Bengali Language Movement protests which took place in the erstwhile East Pakistan (currently Bangladesh), in 1952.

[3][4] Abul Barkat was born on June 13 or 16, 1927 in Babla village, Salar that time Bharatpur Block, Murshidabad, West Bengal, British Raj.

The police fired at the protestors on the road in front of Dhaka Medical College.

Abul Barkat was seriously injured and later died at the Dhaka Medical College around 8:00 pm on February 21, 1952.

He was buried in the Azimpur Graveyard.His mother, Hasina Begum, inaugurated the Shaheed Minar in 1963.