Bengali Kazi

Kazi (কাজী), also spelt Qazi and Quazi, is a title awarded to Islamic judges, commonly used hereditarily in Bengal as a family name.

Individuals

 * Qazi Fazilat (1541–1545), governor of Bengal
 * Daulat Qazi (c. 1600–1638), poet
 * Qazi Heyat Mahmud (1693–1760), poet and judge
 * Khan Bahadur Qazi Azizul Haque (1872–1935), inventor
 * Khan Bahadur Qazi Imdadul Haq (1882–1926), writer and educationist
 * Qazi Nur Ahmed Saudagar (1890–1964), politician and lawyer
 * Khan Bahadur Nawab Sir Kazi Golam Mohiuddin Faroqui (1891–1984), knight and politician
 * Kazi Abdul Wadud (1894–1970), essayist and critic
 * Kazi Kader Newaj (1909–1983), poet
 * Zohra Begum Kazi (1912–2007), physician
 * Kazi Abul Kasem (1913–2004), cartoonist
 * Shilpacharya Kazi Zainul Abedin (1914–1976), painter
 * Kazi Khalek (1915–1970), actor
 * Qazi Afsaruddin Ahmed (1921–1975), journalist and writer
 * Kazi Akbar Uddin Mohammad Siddique (1924–2004), founding member of the Bangladesh Awami League
 * Kazi Khademul Islam (1925–1990), politician and doctor
 * Kazi Nuruzzaman Bir Uttom (1925–2011), lieutenant colonel
 * Kazi Golam Mahbub (1927–2006), politician and activist
 * Kazi Nuruzzaman (1927–2017), politician
 * Kazi Muhammad Badruddoza (born 1927), scientist
 * Kazi Zaker Husain (1931–2011), zoologist
 * Quazi Golam Dastgir (1932–2008), army general and diplomat
 * Kazi Abdur Rashid (1932–2014), politician
 * Qazi Mu'tasim Billah (1933–2013), Islamic scholar and former principal of Jamia Shariyyah Malibagh
 * Qazi Abdul Alim (1933–2007), athlete and sports organiser
 * Kazi Mohammed Shafiullah (born 1934), former Chief of Army Staff
 * Kazi Abdul Baset (1935–2002), painter
 * Kazi Shamsur Rahman (1937–2006), politician
 * Kazi Khaleda Khatun (1939–2013), language activist
 * Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad (born 1940), thinker and chairman of Dhaka School of Economics
 * Kazi Sirajul Islam (born 1940), politician
 * Qazi Abu Zafar Mohammed Hasan Siddiqui (1940–2012), cultural activist
 * Kazi Muhammad Monzur-i-Mowla (1940–2020), author and former director general of Bangla Academy
 * Kazi Anowar Hossain (1941–2007), painter
 * Kazi Shahidun Nabi (1941–2018), 9th Attorney General of Bangladesh
 * Kazi Aref Ahmed (1942–1999), former president of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal
 * Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad (born 1943), former Chief Election Commissioner of Bangladesh
 * Kazi Sekendar Ali Dalim (1945–2020), politician
 * Kazi Firoz Rashid (born 1947), politician
 * Faruk Quazi (1949–2020), journalist and law reporter
 * Quazi Rosy (1949–2022), poet and parliamentarian
 * Kazi Morshed (1950–2014), film director
 * Quazi Sazzad Ali Zahir (born 1951), army officer
 * Quazi Saleemul Huq Kamal (born 1951), businessman
 * Qazi Muhammad Junaid Babunagari (1953–2021), Islamic scholar
 * Kazi Keramat Ali (born 1954), former State Minister of Technical Education
 * Quazi Tarikul Islam (born 1954), physician and academic
 * Kazi Muhammad Anowar Hossain (1955–2017), politician
 * Kazi Shah Mofazzal Hossain Kaikobad (born 1956), politician
 * Kazi Habibul Awal (born 1956), 13th Chief Election Commissioner of Bangladesh
 * Kazi Anwar Hossain (born 1957), footballer
 * Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque (born 1958), High Court justice
 * Kazi Khaleed Ashraf (born 1959), architect, urbanist and architectural historian
 * Kazi Abdul Wadud Dara (born 1962), politician
 * Kazi Jasimuddin Ahmed Joshi (born 1963), cricketer
 * Kazi Sharif Kaikobad (born 1965), former director general of Bangladesh Ansar and the Village Defence Party
 * Quazi Sazzad Hossain (born 1968), former vice-chancellor of Khulna University of Engineering & Technology
 * Abdur Rahim Quazi (born 1968), West Bengal legislator
 * Qazi Ziaur Rashid Rupam (born 1968), cricketer
 * Kazi Nabil Ahmed (born 1969), director of Gemcon Group and vice-president of Bangladesh Football Federation
 * Kazi Anis Ahmed (born 1970), publisher and businessman
 * Kazi Masum Akhtar (born 1971), educator
 * Kazi Muhammad Ejarul Haque Akhand (born 1971), High Court justice
 * Mizanur Rahman Kazi (born 1976), doctor and MLA
 * Kazi Abu Bakar Siddiky Riton (born 1977), director, producer and actor
 * Kazi Yunus Ahmed (born 1980), kabaddi player
 * Qazi Manzaral Islam Rana (1984–2007), Bangladeshi cricketer
 * Kazi Mofazzal Hossain Shaikat (born 1986), footballer
 * Kazi Hasibul Haque (born 1986), cricketer
 * Kazi Kamrul Islam (born 1987), cricketer
 * Quazi Syque Caesar (born 1990), gymnast and coach
 * Quazi Nurul Hasan Sohan (born 1993), cricketer
 * Qazi Onik (born 1999), cricketer
 * Kairan Quazi (born 2009), software engineer
 * Kazi Azizul Islam (died 1971), civil servant
 * Kazi Abdul Majid, former MNA
 * Kazi Sahabuddin Ahmed, advocate and politician
 * Kazi Abul Kashem, politician
 * Kazi Rabbi-ul-Hasan, politician
 * Kazi Kamruzzaman, paediatric surgeon and social worker
 * Kazi Alauddin, politician
 * Qazi Fazlur Rahman, former Minister of Irrigation
 * Kazi Mozammel Haque, politician
 * Kazi Bashir, actor
 * Kazi Abu Zafar Muhammad Lutfar, advocate and politician
 * Kazi Rafiqul Islam, politician
 * Kazi Sarwar Hossain, rear admiral
 * Kazi Sahera Anwara Shammi Sheer, politician
 * Quazi Deen Mohammad, founding director of National Institute of Neurosciences
 * Kazi Kaniz Sultana, politician
 * Qazi Azizul Mowla, 5th vice-chancellor of Leading University
 * Qazi Mahabub Ahmed, politician
 * Kazi Monirul Huda, advocate and politician
 * Kazi Monirul Islam Manu, politician
 * Kazi Golam Morshed, politician
 * Kazi Misbahun Nahar, doctor
 * Kazi Shek Farid, Professor, Dept. of Rural Sociology, Bangladesh Agricultural University

Families

 * Qazi family of Lakhnauti
 * Qazi family of Tetulia, Satkhira
 * Qazi family of Bagmara, Rajbari
 * Qazi Motahar Hossain (1897–1981), writer and scientist
 * Qazi Sanjida Khatun (born 1933), musicologist
 * Qazi Anwar Hussain (1936–2022), novelist
 * Qazi Fahmida Khatun, singer
 * Kazi family of Baligaon, Feni
 * Kazi Ebadul Haque (1936–2022), judge
 * Kazi Zinat Hoque (born 1974), High Court justice
 * Kazi family of Tungipara, Gopalganj
 * Qazi Abu Yusuf, physician and politician
 * Kazi Zafarullah (born 1947), politician
 * Kazi Shahidullah, chairman of University Grants Commission
 * Qazi family of Bilbilash, Patuakhali
 * Sher-e-Bangla Qazi Abul Kasem Fazlul Haq (1873—1962), former Prime Minister of Bengal
 * Qazi Abul Kalam Faezul Huq (1944–2007), politician and lawyer
 * Qazi family of Bhirich Khan, Munshiganj
 * Qazi Azizul Haque (1919–2012), first translator of Sahih al-Bukhari into Bengali
 * Qazi Mahfuzul Haque (born 1969), Islamic scholar
 * Qazi Mamunul Haque (born 1973), Islamic scholar
 * Qazi family of Cheora, Comilla
 * Nawab Qazi Musharraf Hussain (1871–1966), lawyer and philanthropist
 * Kazi Zafar Ahmed (1939–2015), former Prime Minister of Bangladesh
 * Kazi Zahirul Qayyum, politician
 * Kazi family of Churulia, Burdwan
 * Qazi Nazrul Islam (1899–1976), national poet of Bangladesh
 * Kazi Sabyasachi (1928–1979), elocutionist
 * Khilkhil Kazi, singer
 * Qazi family of Manoharpur, Jhenaidah
 * Qazi Golam Mostofa (1897–1964), writer and poet
 * Qazi Mustafa Monwar (born 1935), painter, sculptor, radio performer and professor
 * Qazi family of Mullahbari, Natore
 * Mullah Qazi Muhammad Shamez Uddin Ahmed (1913–1968), Qazi of Natore
 * Qazi Muhammad Shahid Sarwar Azam Shah Jahan (born 1952), retired colonel
 * Sahibzada Qazi Sanwar Azam Sunny (born 1989), environmental activist
 * Kazi family of Nilphamari
 * Kazi Abdul Kader (1914–2002), former Minister of Agriculture
 * Kazi Faruque Kader, politician
 * Kazi family of Rajapur, Faridpur
 * Nawab Kazi Abdul Lateef (1828–1893), aristocrat and educator
 * Kazi Abu Muhammad Abdul Ghafur Nassakh (1834–1889), magistrate and writer
 * Kazi Abul Monsur (1918–1996), microbiologist and physician
 * Kazi Salahuddin (born 1953), president of South Asian Football Federation
 * Kazi Shahidul Alam (born 1955), photojournalist and social activist
 * Kazi family of Tarail, Gopalganj
 * Kazi Hayat (born 1947), film director, producer, writer and actor
 * Kazi Maruf (born 1983), film actor