Franghiz Yusif qizi Ahmadova[a] (23 September 1928 – 16 December 2011) was a prominent Azerbaijani operatic soprano and music teacher.

She toured widely across the former Soviet Union, singing in the major opera houses of eastern Europe.

Her mother, a botany teacher, realized that she was talented enough to attend the Baku Music College, where she was enrolled without previous experience.

[1][3] While at the music college, she made her first radio broadcast together with the school choir but her first notable appearance was during her years at the conservatory when Ismail Idayatzadeh [az], who headed the state opera, chose her to sing Nigar's aria from the Opera Koroghlu for an important concert.

[1] She had to wait some time before she was given solo parts but she made her début in the early 1950s when she played the title role in Muslim Magomayev's Nargiz[1] She went on to play the leading soprano roles in Uzeyir Hajibeyov's Arshin Mal Alan and Fikret Amirov's Sevil as well as those in Tosca, Madame Butterfly and the most popular Russian operas.