Nilima Sen (1928–1996) was a famous Rabindrasangeet singer.

Nilima was born as Nilima Gupta in Kolkata, India on April 28, 1928. Her parents moved to Shantiniketan when she was six.She had her education there and completed diploma course in Classical Music & Rabindra Sangeet from Santiniketan.She also did her B.A from the Visva-Bharati University at Santiniketan. She had the privilge of acting under the direction of Tagore but that was not staged.She sang in the presence of Gandhiji, Subhash Bose etc. during there visit to Santiniketan.Her Guru was mainly Shri Sailajaranjan Mazumder.

She started singing at the AIR and cut her first disc at the age of 16 and soon became famous. In 1950, she married Dr Amiya Kumar Sen and settled in Santiniketan.She has a daughter Nilanjana who also is a singer. She visited US with her husband and performed at various centres incliding BBC.

She founded the music school " Surangama" along with Prasad Sen and later joined Sangeet Bhavan as a Faculty. For a couple of years, she taught music at Bardhhaman University.She became the Principal of Sangeet Bhavan& retired from there.As a Faculty, she took part in various dance dramas like Tasher Desh, Mayar Khela(along with Suchitra Mitra),Sesh Raksha (along with Supriyo Tagore) organised by Vishwa Bharati & staged at auditoriams like Rabindra Sadan,New Empire Kolkata. Songs like "Chokher jaler laglo joar", "Aha tomar sange " " Bajao re mohan banshi" found correct expression through the embedded sadnes in her voice.