| Jafrul Islam Chowdhury | |
| Native Name: | জাফরুল ইসলাম চৌধুরী |
| Native Name Lang: | bn |
| Office: | State Minister of Environment and Forest |
| Term Start: | 10 October 2001 |
| Term End: | 29 October 2006 |
| Successor: | Hasan Mahmud |
| Constituency Mp1: | Chittagong-15 |
| Term Start1: | 19 March 1996 |
| Term End1: | 20 November 2013 |
| Predecessor1: | Sultanul Kabir Chowdhury |
| Successor1: | Abu Reza Muhammad Nezamuddin |
| Birth Date: | 14 October 1950 |
| Birth Place: | Banshkhali Upazila, Chittagong District, East Bengal, Pakistan (now in Bangladesh) |
| Death Place: | Chittagong, Bangladesh |
| Party: | Bangladesh Nationalist Party |
| Nationality: | Bangladeshi |
Jafrul Islam Chowdhury (14 October 1950 – 8 November 2022)[1] was a Bangladeshi politician of Bangladesh Nationalist Party and a four-term Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Chittagong-15 constituency.[2] He served as the state minister for forest and environment ministry in the Second Khaleda Cabinet during 2001–2006.[3]
Chowdhury was born on 14 October 1950. He completed his undergraduate in commerce.[4]
Chowdhury served as a state minister for environment and forest in the Second Khaleda Cabinet.[5] He was nominated from Bangladesh Nationalist Party in Chittagong-15 for the 2008 Bangladeshi general election.[6] In June 2009, he made the Joint Convenor of Bangladesh Nationalist Party unit of Chittagong South.[7] In 2010, he served as the Chittagong south district President of Bangladesh Nationalist Party.[8] He was the only member of parliament from Bangladesh Nationalist Party in the Bangladesh-Japan Parliamentary Friendship Group.[9] His cousin, Aminur Rahman Chowdhury, was charged with being involved in the murder of 11 members of a Hindu family in the Banshkhali carnage case.[10]
Chowdhury died in Chittagong on 8 November 2022, at the age of 72.[11]