Alastair David William Fothergill OBE (born 10 April 1960) is a British producer of nature documentaries for television and cinema.

Fothergill joined the BBC Natural History Unit in 1983, working on The Really Wild Show, Wildlife on One and David Attenborough's The Trials of Life.

[1] In June 1998, he stood down as head of the Natural History Unit to concentrate on his work as series producer on the multi-award-winning The Blue Planet.

In 2016, Fothergill was made a Fellow of the Royal Television Society for his work in natural history programming.

[4] Fothergill lives in Bristol with his wife Melinda (née Barker) and two sons, Hamish and William.