Mahmoud Ali Othman (born 1938) was a member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council created following the United States's 2003 invasion of Iraq.
A Kurd and Sunni Muslim, Othman was a member of the Political Bureau Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP).
He completed a degree in Medicine at the University of Baghdad where he received first-class honours.
Othman is now an independent politician best known for his press interviews.
He currently plays an advisory role towards Kurdish national issues, taking no active part in recent elections in 2009.