Fahmida Riaz (Urdu: فہمیدہ ریاض‎) is a Progressive Urdu writer, poet, and feminist from Pakistan.

Born in 1946 in Meerut, educated in Hyderabad (Sindh) and London, she is among the front rank writers and poets of Urdu. She is also the author of several short stories and novels. Three volumes of her novels and collection of short stories, apart from the Urdu translation of selected verses from Shaikh Ayaz and the Iranian poet, Farough Farrakhzad have also been published. She has translated a selection of ghazal from Divan-e-Shams Tabriz into Urdu. She has travelled widely and lectured at universities and cultural forums in many cities of Europe and the United States.

She lives in Karachi where she has been publishing for women and children.