Syed Waheed Akhtar (Urdu: سید وحید اختر ‎) (12 August 1934, in Aurangabad (Deccan) – 13 December 1996) was an Urdu poet, writer, critic, orator, and a Muslim scholar and philosopher. He was also the Editor of Al-Tawhid (English) a journal of philosophy and culture, Islamic Propagation Organization, Tehran, Iran, from May 1984 to April 1987.