Houshang Zarif (, also Romanized as "Hūshang Zarīf"; December 7, 1938 – March 7, 2020) was an Iranian tar and Persian classical music. He was born in Tehran. Zarif worked with the Fine Arts Administration Orchestra, conducted by Hossein Dehlavi in the 1950s and was the professor of tar at the National Conservatory for several years.