Devulapalli Krishna Sastry (1887-1981) is a Telugu poet and was born in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, India. Sastry was brought up in family of court-poets and he started writing poetry from a very young age. Sastry's works changed significantly after he met Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore at Santiniketan in 1929.

Sastry joined All India Radio in 1945 and has written number of plays for it.

Andhra University has conferred the title Kalaprapoorna (The complete artist) in 1975. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award too. He was given the Padma Bhushan in 1976. Some of his famous works include : Krishna Paksham (The Dark Fortnight), Pravasam (Alien Residence), Mahati (The Veena of Narada).