Anil Kumar (25 June 1941 — 9 November 2024) was an Indian experimental physicist known for his work in the field of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.

From 1961 to 1964 he worked at Meerut College as a lecturer in physics, and then studied at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, graduating with a PhD degree in 1969 under the supervision of Prof. B. D. N. Rao.

He worked on the development of modern NMR methodology, established a research group at the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore in this field, and trained a number of PhD students.

He with his group has successfully demonstrated experimentally, distillation of pseudo pure states, implementation of logical operations and gates on 2,3 and 4 qubit systems as well as implemented 2 and 3 qubit Deutsch-Jozsa quantum algorithm, using one and two-dimensional NMR spectroscopy.

Anil received the 2001 Goyal Award in Chemistry, "Life-time Achievement Award" by the Indian Chemical Society[16] for the year 2011 and the DAE-Raja Ramanna Prize[17] Lecture in Physics of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) 2003.