Hossein Dehlavi (Persian: حسین دهلوی) (September 30, 1927 – October 15, 2019) was an Iranian composer.

[1][2] Hossein Dehlavi was born in 1927 in Tehran, Iran and started music with his father Moezeddin Emami who was a pupil of master Ali-Akbar Shahnazi.

Dehlavi studied composition at the Tehran Conservatory of Music with Hossein Nassehi and Heimo Tauber.

In 1992, with the cooperation of nearly 70 players of Persian instruments, Dehlavi established the Plectrum Orchestra in Tehran.

As his contribution to the Year of the Child (1979), he wrote an opera for children called Mana and Mani.