Zulfikar Haidar (Bengali: জুলফিকার হায়দর; 19 November 1899 – 23 April 1987) was a Bangladeshi poet.
His father, Mawlawi Mahmud Jamal, was employed at the Settlement Office (Land Record Department), and his mother Chand Bibi was a housewife.
His grandfather Haji Amir Ahmed was renowned in Comilla for his philanthropy.
Before his Secondary School Certificate examination in 1917, he left home and went to Calcutta.
[1] There he joined the British Indian Army to fight in World War I and went to Bombay for his training.