Ferdausi Rahman

Ferdausi Rahman (née Begum; born 28 June 1941) is a Bangladeshi playback singer. She sang some popular film songs for Pakistani films also in the 1960s especially working with the music composer Robin Ghosh in film Chakori released in 1967. She was awarded Ekushey Padak in 1977 and Independence Day Award in 1995 by the government of Bangladesh. She also got the 2015 Bangladesh National Film Award for Lifetime Achievement. She remains the only female to receive the Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Music Director, for the film Megher Onek Rong (1976).

Ferdausi Begum was born to folk singer Abbasuddin Ahmed. She had two elder brothers, Justice Mustafa Kamal (d. 2015) and singer Mustafa Zaman Abbasi (d. 2025). Her nieces, Nashid Kamal, Samira Abbasi and Sharmini Abbasi, are also singers.

Rahman participated as a child artiste in radio programmes. In 1955, she first sang for the radio as an adult artiste. The first released movie where she sang as a playback singer was Ehtesham's Ei Desh Tomar Amar under the music direction of Khan Ataur Rahman in 1959, followed by Asiya in 1960. Her father was one of the music directors of the film.

In 1964, her song was broadcast on the newly established Pakistan Television in erstwhile East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). Her children's program Esho Gaan Shikhi is a program to teach children about music on Bangladesh Television and the program has been running for 44 years. She is known as Gaaner Khalamoni (Aunt of Song) for this program. NTV has been airing a program of her songs presented by contemporary artistes.

Rahman was married to Rezaur Rahman, an engineer and industrialist, from 1966 until his death in 2024. They had two sons, Rubaiyat Rahman and Razin Rahman.