Muhammad Shamsul Huq (12 October 1912 – 23 February 2006) was a Bangladeshi politician and educator.

In 1927, he passed his matriculation exam from the local Faizunnisa-Badrunnisa High School in Paschimgaon.

[4] He then served the government of Pakistan under General Yahya Khan as a minister in the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology Research until the independence of Bangladesh.

[5][6] From 23 September 1975 to 1 February 1976, Huq served as the fifteenth vice-chancellor of the University of Dhaka.

Along with President Ziaur Rahman, he contributed to the formulation of the formation of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) in 1980.