Ahmad Bashir (Urdu: احمد بشیر) (March 24, 1923 – December 25, 2004) was a writer, journalist, intellectual and film director from Pakistan. He was the father of leading television artiste Bushra Ansari and poet Neelam Bashir. Begum Parveen Atif, also an Urdu short story writer, is his sister, and his wife Mehmooda was his partner from the 1947. He was a close friend of Urdu writers Mumtaz Mufti and Ibn-e-Insha.