Sheikh Lutfur Rahman (Bengali: শেখ লুৎফর রহমান; 1881 – 30 March 1975) was a Bangladeshi serestadar, an officer responsible for record-keeping at the Gopalganj civil court in British India.
[3][4] Rahman was born in 1881 to the Bengali Muslim Sheikh family in the village of Tungipara located in Gopalganj, Faridpur district, Bengal Presidency.
[5] Lutfar Rahman was married to his paternal first-cousin Sayera Khatun, the daughter of his father's brother Sheikh Abdul Majid.
The elderly couple were rendered homeless until the local Awami League activists built them a temporary shed which was also destroyed by the Pakistan Army after 20 days.
[11] Actor Chanchal Chowdhury portrayed Rahman in the biopic Mujib: The Making of a Nation (2023), directed by Shyam Benegal.