Farzaneh Milani (Persian: فرزانه میلانی; born c. 1947) is an Iranian-born American scholar, author, poet, translator, and educator.

Milani teaches Persian literature and women's studies at the University of Virginia; and serves as the Chair of the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures.

Milani's 1992 book Veils and Words: the Emerging Voices of Iranian Women Writers (Syracuse, 1992), has seen its sixteenth printing.

She received a Storr's Fellowship in 2001; a National Endowment for the Humanities grant in 2002–2003; and was a Carnegie Fellow from 2006 to 2007 for a project entitled "Remapping the Cultural Geography of Iran: Islam, Women, and Mobility.

Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Ms., Reader's Digest, USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, and NPR's All Things Considered.