Dawlatshah Samarqandi[a] (Persian: دولتشاه سمرقندی; c. 1438 – 1494/1507) was a poet and biographer active under the Timurid Empire.

He was the son of Amir Ala al-Dawla Bukhtishah, who served under the Timurid ruler Shah Rukh (r. 1405–1407).

[3] Dawlatshah was the cousin of Amir Firuzshah (died 1444), whose family had received the governorship of Isfahan following the death of the Timurid prince Rustam Mirza in 1423–1425.

[4] Dawlatshah had a brother named Amir Radi al-Din Ali, who served under the Timurid prince Abul-Qasim Babur Mirza and composed poems in Persian and Chagatai Turkic.

[5] Dawlatshah also wrote poetry and was occasionally a companion of Sultan Husayn Bayqara (r. 1469–1506), but eventually retired and started living in a rural Sufi manner.

[5] An edition of the Tadhkirat al-shu'ara was published by an unknown editor in Bombay in 1887, another by Edward Granville Browne in Leiden and London in 1901, and by Mohammad Ramazani in Tehran in 1959.