Anwar Jalal Shemza (Urdu: انور جلال شمزا) (14 July 1928 – 18 January 1985) was an artist and writer active in Pakistan and later the United Kingdom.

[1][2][3] Despite being better known as an artist, Shemza published several Urdu novels and books of poetry in the 1950s and wrote plays performed on Radio Pakistan.

His grandfather owned a carpet business in Lahore while his father Khaja Butt was a civil servant.

[1] Shemza and his wife returned to Pakistan at first but they moved to Mary Katrina's hometown of Stafford, England, in 1962.

It was while teaching at Ounsdale in 1966 that Shemza's daughter Tasveer, aged six, designed one of Britain's first series of Christmas stamps.

Anwar Shemza's artworks are held in many public collections including the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford, UK), Guggenheim Abu Dhabi (UAE), Lahore Museum (Lahore, Pakistan), Pakistan National Council of the Arts (Islamabad, Pakistan), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, USA), Sharjah Art Foundation (UEA), Tate (London, UK),[7][8] His granddaughter, Aphra Shemza,[9] is a multimedia artist.