Ram Vilas Sharma (10 October 1912 – 30 May 2000) was an eminent progressive literary critic, linguist, poet and thinker.
He was born in Unchgaon Sani, Unnao District, Uttar Pradesh.He came into the limelight as a critic in 1939 with his scholarly paper on Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', presented at a session of Hindi Sahitya Sammelan.
Ram Vilas Sharma was undisputedly among the most powerful noted poets of the progressive period.