Parviz Natel Khanlari (Persian: پرویز ناتل خانلری; March 20, 1914[2][3] – August 23, 1990) was an Iranian literary scholar, linguist, author, researcher, politician, and professor at Tehran University.

Parviz Natel Khanlari graduated from Tehran University in 1943 with a doctorate degree in Persian literature, and began his academic career in the faculty of arts and letters.

From then on, Khanlari founded a new course named history of Persian language in Tehran University.

Apart from his academic career which continued until the 1979 revolution, Khanlari held numerous administrative positions in the Iran in the 1960s through the late 1970s.

[4] Parviz Natel Khanlari was the founder and editor of Sokhan magazine, a leading literary journal with wide circulation among Iraninan intellectuals and literary scholars from the early 1940s to 1978.