Johan Edvin Birger Gustav Hägglund (born 6 September 1938) is a retired Finnish general.

Johan Edvin Birger Gustav Hägglund was born in Viipuri, Finland on 6 September 1938 to a Swedish-speaking family.

Despite his Swedish-speaking family background, Finnish language immersion was total in his youth, and he ultimately had to learn Swedish at school.

Hägglund went to Svenska normallyceum i Helsingfors and was then educated not only at the Cadet School in Finland, but also at the United States Army Command and General Staff College in Leavenworth, Kansas.

Within the military, Hägglund was also a strong proponent of peacekeeping operations, worked to improve their appreciation and opined that officers should necessarily participate.