Mazharul Haque (22 December 1866 – 2 January 1930) was an educator, lawyer, independence activist of the Indian National Movement.

[3] Haque was born on 22 December 1866 in Bahpura, Patna, Bihar into a middle-class family of small zamindars and indigo planters.

[1] As was the tradition of Muslims and Kayasthas of the time, he received an education from a Maulvi in both Urdu and Persian.

By 1906, he has left Chhapra and started practicing in Patna, and in the same year he was elected vice-president of the Bihar Congress Committee.

He joined the Home Rule Movement started by Annie Besant in 1916 and actively participated in the Champaran Satyagraha in 1917.

[1] He announced his retirement from active politics in 1926, but still continued to correspond with leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Maulana Azad and Nehru.

[1] A stamp was issued in his honour by the Indian Postal Service in 1981 and in 1998, Maulana Mazharul Haque Arabic and Persian University was established in Patna in his memory.