| A. Venkatesh Naik | |
| Birth Date: | 6 June 1936 |
| Birth Place: | Raichur, Kingdom of Mysore, British India |
| Death Place: | Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, India |
| Office1: | Member of Legislative Assembly of Karnataka |
| Constituency1: | Devadurga |
| Term1: | 13 May 2013 – 24 August 2015 |
| Predecessor1: | K. Shivana Gouda Naik |
| Constituency Mp2: | Raichur |
| Parliament2: | Indian |
| Term Start2: | 1991 |
| Term End2: | 1996 |
| Predecessor2: | R. Ambanna Naik Dore |
| Successor2: | Raja Rangappa Naik |
| Term Start3: | 1998 |
| Term End3: | 2009 |
| Predecessor3: | Raja Rangappa Naik |
| Successor3: | Sanna Pakirappa |
| Party: | Indian National Congress (1968–2015) |
| Spouse: | Savitri (1964–2015) |
| Children: | 5 |
A. Venkatesh Naik (6 June 1936 – 24 August 2015) was an Indian politician and a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) political party, with whom he had been a member for nearly 50 years. He was elected to the 10th Lok Sabha in 1991 from Raichur constituency in Karnataka. He was re-elected to the Lok Sabha in 1998, 1999 and 2004 from the same constituency. He secured a seat in the Karnataka legislative assembly elections of 2013 from Devdurga constituency. On 24 August 2015, Nayak was among 5 killed in a train accident in Andhra Pradesh.[1] [2]