Ali Anwar (died 3 March 2014) was a Bangladeshi litterateur and translator. He served as a professor of the Department of English at the University of Rajshahi. He won the Bangla Academy Literary Award in 2006 in the essay category.
Anwar joined the University of Rajshahi as a faculty member in 1962 and retired in 2001. He translated the plays of many dramatists, including Euripides and Harold Pinter.