Muhammad Habibur Rahman (3 December 1928 – 11 January 2014) was a Bangladeshi jurist and statesman who served as Chief Justice of Bangladesh in 1995. He was chief adviser of the 1996 caretaker government that oversaw the June 1996 Bangladeshi general election. He played a significant role in implementing Bengali in the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. He wrote Jathashabdo (1974), the first thesaurus in the Bengali language.
Habibur Rahman was awarded the Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1984 and the Ekushey Padak in 2007 by the government of Bangladesh. He was a Fellow of the Bangla Academy, the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, and Worcester College, Oxford.
Career
Habibur Rahman began his career as a lecturer in history at Dhaka University in 1952. Later he joined the Department of Law, University of Rajshahi, where he subsequently held the office of Dean of the Faculty of Law (1961) and of Reader in History (1962–64). He changed his profession in 1964 when he took to law and joined the Dhaka High Court Bar. In his legal career, he held the offices of assistant advocate general (1969), vice president of the High Court Bar Association (1972), and member of the Bangladesh Bar Council (1972).