Zakir Hossain Raju (Bengali: জাকির হোসেন রাজু) is a Bangladeshi academic, film critic and filmmaker.

[8] Throughout his academic career, Raju has held various positions, including Research Fellow at Transparency International Bangladesh in 2005, Ford Foundation, ASIA Fellow at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur in 2007, and Curriculum Advisor for Wawasan Open University in Malaysia from 2011 to 2012.

In English In Bengali Raju has been involved in the scripting, production, and direction of various short films and documentaries.

His film Michiler Mukh (1991), a documentary on 1990 Mass Uprising in Bangladesh, after the recent Non-cooperation movement (2024) a group of like-minded young filmmakers, students organized an open screening of the film alongside My Bicycle, banned by the Censor Board of Bangladesh directed by Aung Rakhine.

[16] Additionally, Raju and Piplu Khan as producers, are currently engaged in the development of a film project titled Summer in Shizuoka, Winter in Dhaka.