Sam Farkas (May 15, 1917 – August 13, 2006) was a bookmaker and bodyguard, best known for his criminal affiliation with Mickey Cohen.

A mobster of 20th-century California, Farkas was indicted by a U.S. federal government organized-crime task force on multiple criminal charges in 1974.

[2] A man named Joe DiStefano, reportedly visiting from New York, tried to shoot Farkas in 1952.

[4] At some point in the 1960s, Farkas and his wife lived in the Baldwin Hills neighborhood, and his next-door neighbor later recalled that "he always wore a sport coat to hide the gun I occasionally glimpsed in the holster just under his left arm".

[5] In 1974 Farkas was indicted by the U.S. government on multiple charges including extortion and loans sharking.