Sharif Lotfi (Persian: شریف لطفی, born 16 May 1950) is an Iranian musician, composer, conductor and music pedagogue.

He is the founder of the Faculty of Music at Tehran University of Arts and has served as one of its professors and the dean until 2010.

At the age of twelve, he entered the Tehran Conservatory of Music with the encouragement of his father, who was a student of Abolhassan Saba, and studied the horn as a specialized instrument under Morteza Hananeh.

[1] Sharif Lotfi returned to Iran in 1977 after completing his postgraduate studies in the fields of music pedagogy and conducting an orchestra.

[4] He was the conductor of the Bahman Cultural Center Symphony Orchestra, the re-registration and re-establishment of the Iranian Philharmonic Association, the establishment of the Gilan University Music Ensemble, and the conductor of the Tehran Philharmonic Orchestra after the 1957 Revolution.