Varavara Rao (born 3 November 1940) is a activist, renowned poet, journalist, literary critic, and public speaker from Telangana, India.
He has been writing poetry since 1957.
He is considered as one of the best critics in Telugu literature and taught Telugu literature to graduate and undergraduate students for about 40 years.
He is known as an orator and had addressed thousands of public gatherings.
He founded Srujana (creation), a forum for modern literature in Telugu, in 1966 as a quarterly and later turned it into a monthly and successfully brought it out till 1992.