Gamar Sheyda (Azerbaijani: Qəmər bəyim Şeyda, Russian: Гамэр-бейим Шейда) (1881–1933) was a poet and playwright from Azerbaijan.
Ata Khan died when his daughter was young and she was brought up by her older brother, Mohammed, who organised a teacher for his sister at home, and then later encouraged her to go to Shusha School for secondary education.
[2] As a teenager, she was presented to the poet Khurshidbanu Natavan at a Majlisi-uns (poetic assembly), who recognised her talent and gave her they nickname "Sheyda" which she adopted.
[2] She was part of a wide poetic network in Azerbaijan and exchanged idea and poems with the writer Ziba Ardabili.
[3] Sheyda and other female poets from the Majilisi-uns group were chosen as inspiration for a project celebrating women from Azerbaijan in 2018.