Shekhar Mehta (20 June 1945 – 12 April 2006) was a Ugandan-born Kenyan rally driver.

[2] A Ugandan of Indian Gujarati descent, he was born in 1945 to a family of plantation owners in Uganda, and began rallying behind the wheel of a BMW aged 21.

[3] In 1972, he and his family fled Idi Amin's regime to Kenya,[4] the year before he clinched his first Safari Rally title.

His career came to an end in 1986 after a nearly fatal crash at Rallye des Pharaons, Egypt while driving for Peugeot.

He died in London on 12 April 2006 from liver problems, hepatitis, and illness relating to complications from an old injury.