Abul Kalam Shamsuddin (3 November 1897 – 4 March 1978) was a journalist, writer and politician.

In doing so, he was often critical of the Indian National Congress, while supportive of Muhammed Ali Jinnah.

He was the chairman of the Reception Committee of the Renaissance Society Summit at Kolkata in 1944.

On 22 February 1952 he resigned from the East Bengal Legislative Assembly to protest the police firing on a crowd the previous day.

[4] The editorial that he wrote criticised the police for created massive excitement among the youth.

He along with some other Islamist writers formed a domestic literature society named Raonok.

[citation needed] In 1969 during the revolution of people he protested against the government and refused his awards for the cause.