Shanto Khan was a Bangladeshi actor and politician associated with Awami League, the political party of Sheikh Haseena.

Shanto had collaborated with Kolkata based Bangla film industry Tollywood and worked with the Indian Bengali artists in a number of projects- Indian and Bangladeshi.

He became an eyesore of the Bangladeshi radicals because of his movie Tungiparar Miya Bhai where he positively portrayed the role of Mujibur Rehman, the Father of (Bangladeshi) Nation in the template of a rowdy alpha male.

He was also an elected leader of the Laxmipur Block Union and one of the prime campaigner of the Awami League.

On 5 August 2024 uprising he along with his father was brutally mob lynched to death by Jamaatis.