| Hirofumi Hirano | |
| Native Name Lang: | ja |
| Office: | Chief Cabinet Secretary |
| Primeminister: | Yukio Hatoyama |
| Term Start: | 16 September 2009 |
| Term End: | 8 June 2010 |
| Predecessor: | Takeo Kawamura |
| Successor: | Yoshito Sengoku |
| Office1: | Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology |
| Term Start1: | 13 January 2012 |
| Term End1: | 1 October 2012 |
| Primeminister1: | Yoshihiko Noda |
| Predecessor1: | Masaharu Nakagawa |
| Successor1: | Makiko Tanaka |
| Office2: | Member of the House of Representatives |
| Term Start2: | 19 December 2014 |
| Term End2: | 14 October 2021 |
| Predecessor2: | Multi-member district |
| Successor2: | Hiroshi Nakatsuka |
| Constituency2: | Kinki PR (2014–2017) Osaka 11th (2017–2021) |
| Term Start3: | 21 October 1996 |
| Term End3: | 16 November 2012 |
| Predecessor3: | Constituency established |
| Successor3: | Nobuhisa Ito |
| Constituency3: | Osaka 11th |
| Party: | CDP (since 2020) |
| Otherparty: | Independent (1996–1998) DPJ (1998–2016) DP (2016–2018) DPP (2018–2020) |
| Birth Date: | 19 March 1949 |
| Birth Place: | Katsuragi, Wakayama, Japan |
| Alma Mater: | Chuo University |
| Signature: | Hirano hirofumi signature.svg |
is a Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and a former member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). He is a native of Katsuragi, Wakayama and he started working for Panasonic Corporation in 1971 after graduating from Chuo University. He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1996 as an independent. He was the Chief Cabinet Secretary in the Yukio Hatoyama administration. He represented the 11th District of Osaka Prefecture from 1996 until 2012, and again from 2014 to 2021.