Ali Osman (Arabic: علي عثمان; 1958 in Omdurman, Sudan – February 16, 2017, in Cairo) was a Sudanese composer of contemporary classical music.
As artistic director and principal conductor, he worked with the Al Nour Wal Amal (Light and Hope) Orchestra for blind female musicians.
Feeling he had reached a point where he could not progress by himself, he planned to move to Canada, but in 1978 he settled in Cairo, where he was supposed to get his Canadian visa.
He studied with Gamal Abdel-Rahim, Bertold Hummel and Robert Woshborn at the Cairo Conservatoire (1978–1986), and learned the double bass with Rodney Slatford.
In 2001, he became the artistic director and principal conductor of the Al Nour Wal Amal (Light and Hope) Orchestra, which consists of visually impaired and blind women musicians.