Ziauddin Abdul Hayy Desai (18 May 1925 – 24 March 2002) was an Indian epigraphist associated with the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).
He was also a noted architectural historian and a literary scholar of the Indo-Persianate world as evidenced in his writings.
His honours and distinctions include the President of India's Award for outstanding services to Persian Language and Literature (1983).
Apart from editing the Arabic and Persian supplement to the Epigraphia Indica, he published more than a dozen books and around 300 articles.
With Wayne E. Begley, he was joint editor and chief consultant on Persian sources of the 'History of Shah Jahan Project'.