Taha El Sherif Ben Amer (June 28, 1936 - March 6, 1978) was a Libyan engineer and politician.
He was awarded a scholarship in order to pursue his education in Cairo, Egypt.
In 1959 he obtained a bachelor's degree with honours in Civil Engineering from Ain Shams University.
After the revolution in Libya in 1969, Taha El Sherif was appointed as the Deputy Minister of Transportation until 1971.
On March 6, 1978 Taha El Sherif Ben Amer died in a helicopter crash of which he was going to visit a project near the city of Tripoli with the East German Politburo member Werner Lamberz who was the party's second most important ideological spokesman.