Muhammad Yunus – Family, Family Tree

Muhammad Yunus is a renowned Bangladeshi economist, civil leader, social entrepreneur as well as a popular banker. He is the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for having founded the innovative and progressive ‘Grameen Bank’ and making breakthroughs in introducing pioneering microfinance and micro-credit concepts in the country.

The Grameen Bank allows loans to candidates that do not qualify for loans from other banks due to their impoverished conditions.

Born on the 28th of June in 1940, Muhammad was raised in the small village of Bathua in the Chittagong district of the present Bangladesh.

In 1944, after his family shifted to Chittagong city, Muhammad went on to attend the Lamabazar Primary School after his village school. He passed his matriculation exams from the Chittagong Collegiate School and was ranked 16th out of an astounding 39,000 students in the then Eastern Pakistan. In 1957, Muhammad enrolled at the Dhaka University to study economics and earned a B A degree in 1960 and went on to get an M A in 1961.

Afrozi Yunus (Ex-Spouse)

Muhammad Yunus married Afrozi Yunus, a professor of physics are the Dhaka-based Jahangirnagar University, in 1980.

Vera Forostenko (Ex-Spouse)

Vera Forostenko was married to Muhammad Yunus from 1970 to 1979. Vera is a graduate from the Vanderbilt University.