Muhyi al-Din Faris (Arabic: محي الدين فارس, romanized: Muḥyī al-Dīn Fāris; 1936 – 15 May 2008) was a Sudanese poet.

He first emerged in the 1950s and was considered one of the most prominent poets of the Sudanese Free Poetry School, which was an influential movement of Sudanese poetry in Egypt that also includes Muhammad al-Fayturi, Gely Abdel Rahman, and Taj El-Sir El-Hassan.

Faris was born on Argo Island in Dongola, Sudan; grew up in Alexandria, Egypt; and went to university in Cairo.

[4] Muhyi al-Din Faris first emerged as a poet in the 1950s; he published his poetry in newspapers and magazines, and was considered one of the most-prominent poets of the Sudanese Free Poetry School, which he formed with Muhammad al-Fayturi, Gely Abdel Rahman, and Taj El-Sir El-Hassan.

His collection The Clay and the Nails (Arabic: الطين و الاظافر) was published in 1956 with an introduction by critic Mahmoud Amin Al-Alam, who stated: "The poet transcends the eloquence of the singular word and phrase to the eloquence of a general context of the literary work; The rhetoric of building and deep-rooted structuring, internal relations between social content and artistic formulation.