Kemal Jan-Bakhish oglu Abdullayev (18 January 1927 – 6 December 1997) was a Soviet conductor and music educator. He was born in Baku, Azerbaijan, and was named People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR in 1967.
Abdullayev graduated from the Azerbaijan Conservatory, where he studied viola with A. A. Grossman, and from the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied conducting with L. M. Ginzburg. He became a conductor in 1952 and served as chief conductor of the Azerbaijan Opera and Ballet Theatre from 1953.
At the Azerbaijan Opera and Ballet Theatre, productions under his direction included the first stagings of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin (1953), Verdi's The Sicilian Vespers (1954), Jahangirov's Azad (1957), Karayev's ballet Seven Beauties (1952), and S. Hajibeyov's ballet Gyulshen (1958).
From 1960 to 1961, he was chief conductor of the Donetsk Russian Opera and Ballet Theatre, where he conducted new productions of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov and Prokofiev's Betrothal in a Monastery. He was chief conductor of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre from 1962 to 1969, and remained a conductor there from 1970.
At the Moscow theatre, Abdullayev took part in first productions of Kodály's Háry János, performed in the USSR for the first time in 1962; Nikolayev's The Price of Life (1965); Khrennikov's The Nameless Son-in-Law (1966); Slonimsky's Virineya (1967); Carmen (1969); and Taktakishvili's Three Lives (1972). He also participated in the 1963 production of the ballet Pictures at an Exhibition, based on Mussorgsky's suite.
In 1963, he conducted the theatre's soloists, chorus and orchestra in a Melodiya recording of Prokofiev's Betrothal in a Monastery. The recording received the André Messager Prize of the Academy of Lyric Recordings in France in 1967. Abdullayev also taught at the Gnesin State Musical-Pedagogical Institute and became an associate professor in 1983. He received the Order of the Badge of Honour in 1959.