Syed Hashim Raza was a leading bureaucrat and former Governor of East Pakistan.

[2] He was born on 16 February 1910 at Unnao in United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, British India into a prominent family of Mashhadi Persian origin.

Syed Hashim Raza held numerous positions including provincial press adviser and secretary to the Governor of Sindh.

In fact, he was serving in this administrator's position when the founder of Pakistan Muhammad Ali Jinnah died on 11 September 1948 in Karachi.

He died on 30 September 2003 in Karachi, Pakistan at age 93 due to kidney failure after a long illness.