Ashraful Haque (15 March 1919 – 19 January 1982) was a Bangladeshi botanist, cytologist, and academic. He served as the Vice-Chancellor of Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) and was an elected Fellow of the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences.
Haque was a Senior Fellow at the University of Oxford from 1966 to 1967 as well as a Visiting Professor at his alma mater, Banaras Hindu University, from 1977 to 1978. During the 1950s, he worked at the John Innes Horticultural Institution in the United Kingdom.Rayner, Michael; Damodaran, Vinita; Frogley, Mick (2023). The John Innes Cytology Department of 1952. University of Sussex. Figure. https://doi.org/10.25377/sussex.22834175.v2 There, he collaborated with the British geneticist C. D. Darlington on foundational research in cytology and entomology, co-authoring papers on chromosomal behavior and meiosis.
Haque acted as the Vice-Chancellor of Bangladesh Agricultural University. He served as the President of the Bangladesh Botanical Society from 1979 until his death in 1982. In his honor, Bangladesh Agricultural University established a residential student dormitory named "Ashraful Haque Hall" in 1982.
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