Alhaji Yahaya Madawaki, MFR, OBE, DLL kuma mai riƙe da lambar girmamawa ta Sarki George VI (Janairu 1907 - 5 ga Yuni, 1998) ya kasance shahararren ɗan siyasar Nijeriya, tsohon Ministan Lafiya, Madawaki na Ilorin da Atunluse na Erin-Ile, Kwara Jiha . An haifi Alhaji Yahaya a shekara ta 1907 a Ilorin, jihar Kwara, babban dan Abdulkadir Popoola Ayinla-Agbe hamshakin dan kasuwar Ilorin da Salimotu Asabi. Ya fara karatun boko a makarantar kur'ani a yankin Kasuwar Ago a Ilorin sannan ya fara makarantar firamare ta lardin Ilorin. Da yake ya kasance ajin farko, sai aka zabe shi ya ci gaba zuwa Kwalejin Horar da Malamai ta Katsina, wacce daga baya ta zama Kwalejin Barewa, don neman ilimi a watan Yunin 1922 Daga cikin tsaransa a Kwalejin ta Katsina akwai Ahmadu Bello, Sardaunan Sakkwato, Aliyu Makama Bida, Suleiman Barau da Sir Kashim Ibrahim. Hazikin dalibi kuma ɗan wasa, ya zama Shugaban Headan wasa kuma kyaftin ɗin ƙwallon ƙafa kuma an zaɓe shi ne don ya gabatar da jawabin maraba ga Gwamnan Nijeriya na lokacin, Sir Hugh Clifford, a lokacin ƙaddamar da Kwalejin a hukumance a 1924.