Baldev Upadhyaya (10 October 1899 – 10 August 1999) was a Hindi and Sanskrit scholar, literary historian, essayist and critic.
He wrote numerous books, collections of essays and a historical outline of Sanskrit literature.
He was born on 10 October 1899 in the village Sonbarsa in the Ballia district of Uttar Pradesh, British India.
Ram Suchit Upadhyaya, who was a great scholar of the Bhagavata Puraṇa, and his mother was Murti Devi.
High School, Ballia, except for the years 1911–1912, when he was admitted to the 6th standard at the Bengali Tola Inter College, Benares.
One of his sons named Dr. G. S. Upadhyaya is retired from IIT Kanpur, where he was a professor in the Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering.