Amir Hossain Amu (born 1 January 1940) is a Bangladeshi politician, a former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Jhalokati-2 constituency,[2] and served as the minister of industries during 2014–2019.

[6] Amu contested the general election in 2001 from Jhalokati-2 as a candidate of the Awami League but lost to Israt Sultana Elen Bhutto of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.

[8] Amu was injured in the August 2004 Dhaka grenade attack which was an attempted assassination of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina at a rally of the Awami League.

[13] In 2008, Amu was elected to parliament from Jhalokati-2 as a candidate of the Awami League with 104,444 votes while his nearest rival Israt Sultana Elen Bhutto of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party received 73,851.

[20] In August 2017, he spoke against Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha for his comments against the government in a verdict which scrapped the 16th Amendment to the constitution of Bangladesh.

[21] In 2018, Amu was elected to parliament from Jhalokati-2 as a candidate of the Awami League with 214,937 while his closest rival, Jeba Amina Khan of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, received 5,982.

[25] Amu reported that the government could not remove Islam as the state religion of Bangladesh due to internal opposition in the Awami League.

The next day, authorities reported the recovery of ৳50,000,000 in cash from Amu's residence in Jhalokathi after the property was set on fire by an unidentified mob.