| A. N. M. Nuruzzaman | |
| Birth Date: | December 1938 |
| Death Date: | 16 March 1993 |
| Death Place: | Stockholm, Sweden |
| Nationality: | Bangladeshi |
| Alma Mater: | University of Dhaka |
| Profession: | Military officer |
| Allegiance: |  Bangladesh Pakistan (before 1971) |
| Branch: | National Defence Force |
| Serviceyears: | 1960-1993 |
| Rank: | Brigadier General |
| Unit: | East Bengal Regiment |
| Commands: |
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| Battles: | Bangladesh Liberation War |
| Honorific Prefix: | Brigadier General |
| Honorific Suffix: | BU |
| Awards: | Bir Uttom[1] |
| Native Name: | আ. ন. ম. নুরুজ্জামান |
| Native Name Lang: | bn |
A.N.M Nuruzzaman (December 1938 – 16 March 1993) was a Bangladeshi army officer, who was also a sector commander in the Bangladeshi War of Liberation. After the war he served as the first and only director general of the paramilitary force Jatiya Rakkhi Bahini.
Nuruzzaman was born in December 1938 in Saidabad, Raipura, Narsingdi. Abu Ahmad, his father, was a government officer. He graduated from Sunamganj High School and Sylhet Murari Chand College. He graduated from the University of Dhaka in 1959 and afterward joined the Pakistan Military Academy. In 1960 he was commissioned in the Pakistan army as second lieutenant.[2]
In 1968 he was promoted to the rank of captain and posted in Quetta, West Pakistan.
He was one of the accused in the Agartala Conspiracy Case. After the case was withdrawn he was reinstated in service.
Nuruzzaman joined the War of liberation in 1971 in the S-Force under K M Shafiullah,[3] commander of Sector-3. In September he was made the commander of sector-3 by the Mujibnagar Government. He served in that position till the end of Bangladesh Liberation War.[4]
He joined the Bangladesh army after the independence of Bangladesh, he was promoted to brigadier general. On 28 January 1972, he and Anwar Ul Alam meet to discuss the formation of Rakhi Bahini in Gonobhaban. In March 1972 Rakhi Bahini came into existence.[5] He was the director of Jatiyo Rakkhi Bahini. He was in London when Sheikh Mujib was assassinated in 1975.[6] After the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975 he was placed under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and performed diplomatic responsibilities in Australia, Philippines, Senegal, Canada and Sweden.
He died on 16 March 1993 in Stockholm while working as ambassador of Bangladesh to Sweden.
The government of Bangladesh awarded him the highest living gallantry award Bir Uttam for his role in the Bangladesh Liberation War. Dhaka City Corporation renamed a road Bir Uttam ANM Nuruzzaman Sarak after him.