Tofail Ahmed (Bengali: তোফায়েল আহমদ; 22 February 1919 – 28 March 2002) was a well-known Bangladeshi researcher of Folk Art.

[1] Ahmed was educated at University of Calcutta where he completed his MA in Economics in 1944.

[citation needed] Ahmed made significant contributions to Bangladeshi folk art.

He has collected and preserved many specimens of folk artifacts which are now extinct.

Here he discovered the rare Gazir Pat, which is a form of scroll painting used to illustrate the life of Gazi Pir.