Veniamin Iosifovich Goldfarb (Russian: Вениамин Иосифович Гольдфарб; February 1, 1941 – November 12, 2019) was a Soviet scientist, Doctor of Technical Science, professor, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation who is known for his contribution in the field of gears.

After graduating from High School N30 in 1957,[3] he was accepted to Izhevsk Mechanical Institute, which he graduated from in 1962 with a Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering.

[4] In 1994 Professor Goldfarb become a head of department and director of Institute of Mechanics within Izhevsk State Technical University.

in 1998 he become a head of Gearing Technical Committee within International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science (IFToMM).

Goldfarb consisted of the classification and study of spatial gear schemes, rational structuring of the process of computer-aided design of worm gears, the development of a "non-differential" method for finding surfaces formed by enveloping, and the study of a variety of spiroid gears.