Vagif Rakhmanov (Azerbaijani: Vagif Yusuf Rəhmanzadə; 1940) is an Azerbaijani sculptor and graphic artist, Honored Artist of Kazakhstan (1981), and recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award in Arts and Culture awarded by the Consulate of Azerbaijan to Kazakhstan.

Vagif Rakhmanov was born on March 12, 1940, in the Mardakan township near Baku to goldsmith Yusuf Oglui and Hadisha Rahmanzadeh.

[3] Vagif Rakhmanov is the youngest brother of Azeri painter and People’s Artist of Azerbaijan Maral Rahmanzadeh .

From 1987 to 2001, Rakhmanov was married to award-winning Russian-Canadian sculptor and film scenic artist Marina Reshetnikova.

He is the father of Canadian singer-songwriter and visual artist Deniz Reno,[4] Kazakh-German painter Nargis Rakhmanova-Dressler [5] and Kazakh artisan Aigul Rakhmanova.