Sikdar
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Sikdar, Sikder or Shikdar is a Bengali, Punjabi, Assamese surname. Sikdar means owner of one siki (one hundred quarter) of land. Originated in Persia and Migrated through Middle East and Pakistan.
Notable people with surname Sikdar
- Abbas Ullah Shikder (1955–2020), Bangladeshi producer, actor and politician
- Abdul Hye Sikder (born 1957), Bangladeshi poet
- Abdul Mannan Sikder (born 1931), Bangladeshi politician
- Abdul Quader Sikder (1956-2021), Bangladeshi politician
- Abul Basar Sikder, Bangladeshi politician
- Altaf Hossain Sikdar, Bangladeshi politician
- Anwar Uddin Shikdar, Bangladeshi politician
- Asmat Ali Sikder (1939–2001), Bangladeshi lawyer and politician
- Jakir Hussain Sikdar (born 1981), Assam politician
- Nurul Islam Sikder, Bangladeshi politician
- Sadat Ali Sikder (died 2017), Bangladeshi politician
- Shamim Sikder (1952–2023), Bangladeshi sculptor
- Shamsuddin Sikder, Bangladeshi politician
- Sikdar Aminul Haq (1942–2003), Bangladeshi poet
- Sikder Group family
- Zainul Haque Sikder (1930–2021), Bangladeshi businessman
- Parveen Haque Sikder (born 1963), Bangladeshi politician
- Radhanath Sikdar, Indian mathematician, calculated the height of Peak XV in the Himalaya which was later named Mount Everest.
- Jyotirmoyee Sikdar, an Indian athlete and politician.
- Sutapa Sikdar, Hindi film screenwriter.
- Tapan Sikdar, former Union minister of state in the National Democratic Alliance government.
- Siraj Sikder was a Bangladeshi revolutionary politician.
- Ershad Sikdar, was a Bangladeshi criminal and serial killer, known for committing various crimes such as murder, torture, theft, robbery and others to 7 to 43+ victims
See also
- Sikder Group, business conglomerate