Gulam Mehmood Banatwalla (15 August 1933 – 25 June 2008), also spelled as Banatwala, was an Indian politician and social worker from Mumbai. Banatwalla, a "firebrand orator" and intellectual, was regarded as the pan-India face of the Indian Muslim community. Banatwalla was born in Bombay, in then-British India, to Haji Noor Mohamed and Ayesha in a Cutchi Memon family. He studied at Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics and S.T. College, Bombay. He married Ayesha in February 1960.