Ustad Mohammad Omar (1905–1980) was a musician from Afghanistan who played the rubab.

Mohammad Omar began music lessons under his father, Ibrahim, who taught him singing, sarod, rubab and dutar.

[1] In 1974, Mohammad Omar received a Fulbright-Hays Foreign Scholar Fellowship to teach at the University of Washington, making him the first Afghan musician to teach at a major university in the United States.

On November 18, 1974, Mohammad Omar gave a public concert at the university, his first rabab performance in front of a Western audience; he was accompanied on tabla by Zakir Hussain.

In 1978 he met the German jazz-rock groupe Embryo at the Goethe Institut in Kabul.