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{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Chowdhury Kazemuddin Ahmed Siddiky
| birth_date= 1876
| birth_place = [[Kaliakair Upazila]], [[Gazipur District]], [[British Raj]]
| death_date = 1937
| death_place= [[Kaliakair Upazila]], [[Gazipur District]], [[British Raj]]
| occupation = {{flatlist|
* [[Zamindar]]
* [[politician]]
* [[social worker]]
}}
| parents =
| party= [[All-India Muslim League]]
| nationality = [[British Indian]]
| alma_mater =

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'''[[Chowdhury]] Kazemuddin Ahmed Siddiky''', (1876–1937) was a [[Bengali Muslim]] aristocrat and politician during the [[British Raj]]. A [[Khan Bahadur]], he was one of the founders of the [[University of Dacca]].<ref name=":0">{{cite book |last=Salam |first=Muhammad Abdus |year=2012 |chapter=Siddiky, Kazemuddin Ahmad |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Siddiky,_Kazemuddin_Ahmad |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A. |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=[[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]]}}</ref> He was President of the [[Eastern Bengal and Assam]] [[All-India Muslim League|Muslim League]] between 1908 and 1912. He was also a member of the governing council of [[Jagannath College]].<ref name=":0"/>

Siddiky was fluent in [[Bengali language|Bengali]], English, [[Urdu]], [[Arabic]] and [[Persian language|Persian]].<ref name=":0"/>

==Social work==
Siddiky was an influential social worker in East Bengal, supporting the development of roads, hospitals, dispensaries, water supply, irrigation and orphanages. Because of his social work, the British gifted him with the title 'Khan Bahadur'.<ref name=":0"/>

==Family==
Siddiky was born in 1876 into the landlord family of Baliadi hamlet in [[Gazipur District|Gazipur]], central Bengal. He was a descendant of [[Qutubuddin Koka]], one of the early [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] [[Viceroy]]s of [[Bengal Subah|Bengal]]. His brother's son Justice [[Badruddin Ahmed Siddiky]] was the Chief Justice of the [[Dhaka High Court|High Court of Dacca]] and [[Bangladesh]]'s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York. His grandson [[Chowdhury Tanbir Ahmed Siddiky]] was a leader of the [[Bangladesh Nationalist Party]] (BNP) and a former cabinet minister in Bangladesh. Another grandson [[Chowdhury Dabir Ahmed Siddiky]] was President of the [[Dhaka Club]]. His great-grandson [[Chowdhury Irad Ahmed Siddiky]] was a candidate for the Mayor of Dhaka North in 2015.

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