Carlos Fariñas (1934 in Cienfuegos – 2002 in La Habana) was a Cuban composer.
He was one of the most important masters of the Cuban avant-garde in the 1960s along with Leo Brouwer and Juan Blanco.
After that he moved to La Habana, Cuba, and was a disciple of the masters Jose Ardevol, Harold Gramatges and Enrique Gonzales Mántici.
In 1956 he attended to the courses taught by Aaron Copland on the Tanglewood Music Center in the United States.
In 1989 he created the Electroacoustic and Computer Music Laboratory at the Art Superior Institute in La Habana, Cuba.