Mustafa Zaidi (born Syed Mustafa Hasnain Zaidi; 10 October 1930 – 12 October 1970) was a Pakistani Urdu poet and a civil servant.

[3] He married Vera Zaidi, a German national, with whom he had a son and a daughter.

At the time of his death, Shehnaz Gul, a contractor's wife, was found beside him unconscious.

[6][7] In 2024, Saba Imtiaz and Tooba Masood-Khan wrote Society Girl, which explores Zaidi's mysterious death and his affair with Shahnaz Gul.

At the age of 17, he published his first collection of poetry Zangeerein (1949), followed by Roshni (1950), Shehr-e-Azar (City of Idol Worshippers; 1958), Mauj Meri Sadaf Sadaf (1960), Garebaan (1964), Qaba-e-Saaz (1967) and Koh-e-Nida (1971, published posthumously).