Hugh Padgham is a British record producer. He has won a string of awards, including four Grammys, with Producer of the Year (1985) and Engineer of the Year amongst them. A 1992 poll in Mix magazine voted him one of the world's Top Ten Most Influential Producers.

Padgham started out as a tape operator at Advision Studios, working in recording sessions for Yes and Emerson, Lake & Palmer. From there he went to Landsowne Studios and moved from tape-operator / assistant engineer to head engineer. In 1978, Padgham got a job at The Townhouse, where he engineered and/or produced acts including XTC, Peter Gabriel, and Phil Collins.

Padgham's previous work with Gabriel and Collins led to a long and enormously successful collaboration with Genesis in the 1980s, which produced a string of hit albums and singles including Genesis and Invisible Touch. In addition to his work with Genesis and XTC, Padgham co-produced two albums with The Police: Ghost in the Machine and Synchronicity, as well as Paul McCartney's Press to Play and The Human League's Hysteria.