Vijaya Naarasimha (16 January 1927 – 31 October 2001) was an Indian lyricist who worked in Kannada cinema.

[2] He worked with filmmaker Puttanna Kanagal and music director Vijaya Bhaskar.

He worked with major singers and music directors throughout the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, including on some Kannada films with Tamil actor Rajinikanth.

He wrote a Kannada song for a Tamil movie in M. G. Ramachandran's Nadodi Mannan (1958).

Other than nearly 4,000 film songs, he wrote three novels: Badukina Bairagi, Srimanchakrayana, and Sanjegempu, as well as Puttanna Kanagal's biography and lyrics for many devotional cassettes.