Muhammad Ahmad Mahgoub (17 May 1908 – 1976) was a foreign minister, then Prime Minister, of Sudan and an important writer who has published several volumes of poetry in the Arabic language.Mahgoub graduated from engineering school in 1929 and in 1938 he obtained BL in law from the Gordon Memorial College. He was elected to the Parliament in 1946. Mahgoub was foreign minister between 1956 and 1958, and then again between 1964 and 1965.