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Avijit Roy

1972 - 2015

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Avijit Roy (Bengali: অভিজিৎ রায়; 12 September 1972 – 26 February 2015) was a Bangladeshi-American engineer, online activist, writer, and blogger known for creating and administrating the Mukto-Mona, an Internet blogging community for Bangladeshi freethinkers, rationalists, skeptics, atheists, and humanists. Roy was an advocate of free expression in Bangladesh and coordinated international protests against government censorship and imprisonment of atheist bloggers. He was killed by machete-wielding assailants in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 26 February 2015; the Islamic militant organization Ansarullah Bangla Team claimed responsibility for the attack. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2024). Avijit Roy is the 6,978th most popular writer (up from 7,055th in 2024), the 66th most popular biography from Bangladesh (up from 67th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Bangladeshi Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Avijit Roy ranks 6,978 out of 7,302. Before him are Ilija Trojanow, Charley Boorman, Guillermo Martínez, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Edwin O'Connor, and Amarna Miller. After him are Alfred Gough, Ann Leckie, Elizabeth David, Louisa Lawson, Noel Streatfeild, and David Sedaris.

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Among people born in 1972, Avijit Roy ranks 758. Before him are Maria Butyrskaya, Ángel Casero, Ilya Markov, Aliaskhab Kebekov, Tibor Benedek, and Natalie Morales. After him are György Kolonics, Stéphane Risacher, Olivia Bonamy, Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, Sergei Gurenko, and Elena Kaliská. Among people deceased in 2015, Avijit Roy ranks 552. Before him are Sinan Şamil Sam, Jimmy Hill, Jim Wright, Aliaskhab Kebekov, Roy Tarpley, and Al Arbour. After him are Camille Muffat, Miyu Matsuki, Junior Malanda, Theodosia Okoh, Ali Eid, and Little Jimmy Dickens.

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In Bangladesh

Among people born in Bangladesh, Avijit Roy ranks 66 out of 74. Before him are Vilayat Khan (1928), A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury (1915), Runa Laila (1952), Bimal Roy (1909), Geeta Dutt (1930), and Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury (1966). After him are Mamunul Haque (1973), Shakib Khan (1979), Monica Ali (1967), Abubakar Muhammad Zakaria (1969), Shakib Al Hasan (1987), and Marina Tabassum (null).

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Among WRITERS In Bangladesh

Among writers born in Bangladesh, Avijit Roy ranks 11. Before him are Taslima Nasrin (1962), Kamini Roy (1864), Humayun Ahmed (1948), Ahmed Sofa (1943), Sufia Kamal (1911), and Shankha Ghosh (1932). After him are Mamunul Haque (1973), Monica Ali (1967), Abubakar Muhammad Zakaria (1969), and Tahmima Anam (1975).

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