This article presents a compact dual‐band bandpass filter (BPF) using a pair of one‐end shorted uniform‐impedance resonators (SUIRs) and a single dual‐mode resonator (DMR). A pair of SUIRs with mixed electric and magnetic coupling (MEMC) not only realizes the lower passband but also serves as the feeding lines with source‐load coupling to excite the DMR to produce the upper passband. Four transmission zeros due to the cancelling effect of MEMC, harmonic effect, source‐load coupling, and inherent property of DMR improve the passband selectivity, band‐to‐band isolation, and out‐of‐band rejection. As an example, a dual‐band BPF operating at 1.57/2.4 GHz with compact size of 0.1λg × 0.127λg is designed and fabricated. The simulation agrees very well with measurement. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 58:1537–1540, 2016