Shahina Agha Ghazanfar (born 1949) is a Pakistani botanist and author best known for her work on plants from the Arabian Peninsula, Pakistan and East Africa.
The New Zealand artist Sue Wickison and Ghazanfar collaborated on an exhibition at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew featuring plants named in the Qur'an, which featured alongside the work of Anila Quayyum Agha.
In addition to being a researcher, lecturer and curator, Ghazanfar is a botanical artist who illustrates many of her own books and papers.
[1] In 2023 Ghazanfar was awarded the Degree of ScD (Doctor of Science) from the University of Cambridge for her work on the plants of the Middle East.
She is also a member of the Association for the Taxonomic Study of the Flora of Tropical Africa, the Society for Arabian Studies, the Society of Economic Botany, and the Arabian Plant Specialist Group contributing to the Species Survival Commission of the International Union for Conservation of Nature.