M Osman Ghani (Bengali: মোহাম্মদ ওসমান গণি; c. 1912 – 21 July 1989) was a Bangladeshi scientist, educationist, and academic.

[2] Ghani was born on 1 March 1912, to a Bengali Muslim family in the village of Gazadia in Karimganj, Kishoreganj, Bengal Presidency.

He completed primary and middle school in his village, before enrolling to the Department of Chemistry at the University of Dhaka.

In 1935, Ghani became the first South Asian Muslim to have obtained a master's in biochemistry from the University of Dhaka.

[citation needed] Ghani joined the University of Dhaka in India as a lecturer of soil science in 1940.