Uma Anand (1923 – 13 November 2009) was an Indian journalist, actress, and a broadcaster in the mid-1900s.

She was born in 1923 in Lahore, Punjab, British India to a Bengali Christian family. One of her sisters, Indu Mitha, is a Bharatanatyam exponent based in Pakistan.

Uma was the wife of the Bollywood film director Chetan Anand (married in 1943)^[1] and mother of Ketan Anand and Vivek Anand. She worked as an actress in Neecha Nagar (1946). She also wrote Taxi Driver with her husband Chetan and her brother-in-law Vijay Anand, that starred her mother's cousin Kalpana Kartik^[2] and her brother-in-law Dev Anand.^[3] After estrangement from her husband, she became a companion of Ebrahim Alkazi.^[4]

From 1965 to 1981, Anand was an editor of Sangeet Natak, a journal published by the Sangeet Natak Akademi. She also wrote many children books that were translated and published in different Indian languages by the National Book Trust of India.^[5] Her last book, Chetan Anand: The Poetics of Film, was co-authored with her eldest son Ketan Anand,^[6] and it portrayed life in the theatre and cinema in Mumbai, India in the early 1940s and 1950s.

She died on 13 November 2009.^[7]

• Neecha Nagar (1946)
• Taxi Driver (1954)