Nayan H. Desai (22 February 1946 – 12 October 2023) was a Gujarati language poet from Gujarat, India.

Desai was born on 22 February 1946 in Kathodara, a town now in the Surat district, to Harshadray and Indumatiben.

A person affected and tormented by pain is a central theme of his poetry.

He later published Angali Vadhine Mokalu (1984), Anushthan and Samandar Baj Manas.

He received the Kavishwar Dalpatram Award in 2016 for his contribution to Gujarati poetry.