Yahya bin Awang is a Malaysian cardiothoracic surgeon; born to the former state governor of Pulau Pinang from 1981 to 1989, Awang Hassan and Khadijah Abdul Rahman, sister of Ismail Abdul Rahman, the 2nd Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia. He performed two coronary artery bypass graft surgeries for Mahathir Mohamad, first in 1989 and another in 2007.