Hasan Hafeez Ahmed

{{short description|Pakistani admiral}}

{{other people|Hasan Ahmed}}

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| honorific-prefix = Vice Admiral

| name = Hasan Hafeez Ahmed

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| honorific-suffix = HQA  SPk  TQA

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| office = Chief of Naval Staff of Pakistan Navy

| term_start = 3 March 1972

| term_end = 9 March 1975

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| birth_name = Hasan Hafeez Ahmed

| birth_date = 1926{{rp|3}}{{cite book|last1=Martell|first1=Paul|last2=Hayes|first2=Grace P.|title=World military leaders|year=1974|publisher=Bowker|isbn=9780835207850|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RI5mAAAAMAAJ&q=Hasan+Hafeez|accessdate=3 January 2017|language=en}}

| birth_place = Multan, Punjab, British Indian Empire
{{small|Present-day Pakistan}}

| death_date = {{death year and age|1975|1926}}

| death_place = Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

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| awards = 50px Hilal-i-Quaid-e-Azam
50px Sitara-e-Pakistan
50px Tamgha-e-Quaid-e-Azam (1965)

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| serviceyears = 1945–1975

| rank = 20px Vice Admiral

| unit = Navy Executive Branch

| commands = Commander Coast (COMCOAST)
Comdnt. Cadet College Petaro

| battles = {{Tree list}}

• World War II
• European Front
• Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
• Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
• 1971 Naval operations

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Hasan Hafeez Ahmed (Urdu:{{nq|حسن حفيظ احمد}}; b. 1926-8 March 1975{{rp|329}}{{cite book|last1=Rizvi|first1=Hasan Askari|title=The Military & Politics in Pakistan, 1947-1997|year=2000|publisher=Sang-e-Meel Publications|isbn=9789693511482|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xMreAAAAMAAJ&q=hafeez+ahmed+|accessdate=3 January 2017|language=en}}), usually shortened to H.H. Ahmed, was a senior Pakistan Navy officer who served as the 1st Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) of Pakistan Navy from 1972 until his death from sickness in 1975.

Despite being appointed to the four-star appointment, he was retained at the three-star rank and took over the command of the Navy from its Commander-in-Chief Vice-Admiral Muzaffar Hassan who was dismissed from the military service.