Qurban Hussain, Baron Hussain

Qurban Hussain, Baron Hussain (Urdu: قربان حسین‎; born 27 March 1956) is a politician and life peer, born in Kotli, Azad Kashmir.

He was the unsuccessful candidate for parliament for Luton South in 2005 and 2010. He was firstly a member of the Labour Party, from 1996 to 2003 but then joined the Liberal Democrats. He has been a member of Luton Borough Council since 2003, serving as its Deputy Leader from 2005 to 2007.

He was created a life peer as Baron Hussain, of Luton in the county of Bedfordshire on 20 January 2011. Previously aligning with the Liberal Democrats, Hussain withdrew from the party in March 2015 amidst a scandal involving his allegedly smuggling a two-year-old Kashmiri boy into the UK decades earlier.