Kartar Singh Lalvani OBE (born December 1931) is a British-Indian businessman, and the founder and chairman of Vitabiotics, a vitamin and mineral-based food supplements company.

Lalvani was born to a Sindhi Sikh family in 1931 in Karachi.

[1] Lalvani's father was the owner of pharmacies in Karachi, Sind before the partition of India.

He first came to London in 1956 to study pharmacy and went on to complete his doctorate from the University of Bonn.

[6] He is also a philanthropist, private scholar and historian, serving as an honorary professor at the University of Franche-Comté.