Homa Sarshar (Persian: هما سرشار; also Romanized as Homā Sarshār; born 1946) is an Iranian-American author, activist, media personality, and award-winning journalist.

Sarshar was born in Shiraz in 1946 to a Jewish family and raised in Tehran.

She moved to the United States and settled in Los Angeles one year before the Iranian Revolution in 1978.

She studied French literature at Tehran University, earning a bachelor's degree in the subject.

She later obtained a master's degree in journalism from the University of Southern California.