Veda Prakash Sharma (10 June 1955 – 17 February 2017) was an Indian writer of novels and screenplays in Hindi. He was born in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, where he completed his graduation from NAS Degree College.

Having begun his professional career as a ghost writer, he went on to write 176 novels (ghostwriting around 23 novels of them). Dahlke Shahir (1973) was the first novel Sharma got credit for. He primarily wrote detective novels, among them Kaluga Ki Ramayana and Verdi Wala Gundi were his famous works.

 The main characters in his detective novels were Vijay, Vikas, Raghunath, Alphonso, Vibha Jindal, Keshav Pandit and Raina.

According to his Times of India obituary his 1992 novel Verdi Wala Gundi "broke all records and sold 15 lakh copies on the very first day of its release", while the Hindu reported overall sales of "80 million copies".

Sharma also made several contributions to Bollywood, the Hindi film industry in India. His novel Bahu Mange Insaaf was adapted for film Bahu Ki Avaaz in 1985, while Annam (1992) too was based on his work.

Sharma also contributed to two installments in the Khiladi series of Akshaya Kumar films—Sabs Bada Khiladi (1995) and International Khiladi (1999). In 2010 Zee TV aired Keshav Pandit, a series based on the character created by Sharma. He founded Tulsa Comics and also created few comic characters like Jamba.

Sharma died aged 62 on 17 February 2017 in Meerut; he had been suffering from lung cancer for almost a year.