Anwara Begum (1934/1935 – 21 April 2018)[1] was a Bangladeshi academic.

In 2006, she was awarded Ekushey Padak by the Government of Bangladesh for her contribution to education.

[3] Begum was a professor at the Department of Zoology, University of Dhaka.

She later served as the chairman of the Department of Zoology and the provost of the Shamsun Nahar Hall.

[3] She was the first chairman of the board of trustees and the founding vice-chancellor[4] of Atish Dipankar University of Science and Technology, a private university in Dhaka.