Syed Anwar Husain (Bengali: সৈয়দ আনোয়ার হোসেন; 5 November 1947) is a Bangladeshi academic and historian.
[2] Husain was born on 5 November 1947 to a Bengali Muslim family of Syeds from the Bogra District in Rajshahi Division, Dominion of Pakistan.
He completed his PhD from University of London in British administrative history.
[1] Husain joined the University of Dhaka in 1970 as a lecturer in the Department of History.
He retired from the University of Dhaka in 2014 and was appointed a supernumerary professor there.