Dr. Captain Sitara Begum is a Bangladeshi doctor, Army officer, and War hero.

She is one of two women in Bangladesh who has received Bir Protik award.

She played a magnificent role in Sector 2 during Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971.

[2] Begum was commissioned in the Medical Corps of the Pakistan Army in 1970 as a lieutenant.

After the start of Bangladesh Liberation war, she and her parents with the aid of Mukti Bahini members moved from Kishorganj to Meghalaya.