Hideo Kojima (小島 秀夫 Kojima Hideo, born August 24, 1963) is a Japanese video game designer, screenwriter, director, and producer who is considered to be the first auteur of video games. He is the director of Kojima Productions, which he originally founded in 2005, and a former vice president of Konami Digital Entertainment.

Kojima is the creator, director and writer of a number of video games, including the Metal Gear series of stealth games, as well as the adventure games Snatcher and Policenauts, and he also directed or produced games in other series, including Zone of the Enders, Boktai, and Castlevania: Lords of Shadow.