Khwaja Haider Ali Aatish (1764 –1846) of Lucknow was an Urdu poet.

Khwaja Haider Ali Aatish Lakhnawi is one of the giants of Urdu literature.

His focus on subjective experience, examining how people retain dignity in suffering, set him apart from other Luckhnavi ghazal writers like Nasikh, who emphasised the technical aspects of Ghazal writing.

He also wrote poems in the Khamariyyat tradition, to protest the ills of the feudal society.

[1] It is also said that Aatish belonged to Faizabad, his father had died early during his childhood, but his deep instinctive taste of poetry gave Aatish easy access to the court of Nawab Mohammed Taqi Khan Taraqqi who took him to Lucknow.