Ghulam Azam (Bengali: গোলাম আযম; 7 November 1922 – 23 October 2014) was a controversially convicted Bangladeshi war criminal and politician who led the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh in the 1971 war, which included the 1971 Bangladesh genocide which may have killed as many as 3 million people and was instrumental in the 1971 killing of Bengali intellectuals. He led the party until 2000.