Golam Mawla (8 January 1940 – 10 April 2019) was a Bangladeshi retired two star military officer, politician and a former member of parliament elected from the Bogra-3 constituency in February 1996.^[1][2]

Mawla was born on 8 January 1940, in Rajshahi. He is the younger brother of former Justice Mohammad Gholam Rabbani. He obtained his B.Sc in Electrical Engineering from University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore in then West Pakistan.^[3]

Mawla enlisted in Pakistan Military Academy in 1961 through Electrical and Mechanical program and commmisioned in 1963 at Corps of Electrical Mechanical Engineers. His initial parent unit was 52nd EME Battalion stationed at then Quetta Cantonment, West Pakistan. At the eve of the Bangladesh Liberation War he was raised to the rank of Major and was posted in Dacca Cantonment of then East Pakistan as the officer in charge of 149th Infantry Workshop ^[4] but after the crackdown he was sent to Saudi Arabia for training. At some time on 13 December 1971 he was sent back to Pakistan and detained in Karachi Cantonment. He repatriated to Bangladesh Army in 1973. Mawla then ameliorated to lieutenant colonel and served as the defence attaché at embassy of Bangladesh in Saudi Arabia and then at embassy of Bangladesh for Hong Kong as colonel. In 1989, Mawla was upgraded to rank of brigadier general and appointed as the Chairman of Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board which he tenured until 1991.^[5] He later promoted to major general and designated as the Military Secretary to the President. He went to leave per retirement as quartermaster general at Army Headquarters on January 1995.

Mawla was elected to parliament from Bogra-3 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 15 February 1996 Bangladeshi general election.

Mawla died on 10 April 2019, aged 79, in Combined Military Hospital.