Najma Akhtar is an English singer of South Asian ancestry from Chelmsford, United Kingdom. She performs under the name Najma and is associated with rock, as well as a style that blends jazz with Indian ghazal, bhajans and occasional Bollywood songs.

Her work centres on updated arrangements of ghazals, which are love songs and spiritual songs, and she is noted for combining these with traditional devotional material and other popular Indian repertoire.