Ding Hou (11 October 1921, Hsingkan, Jiangxi, China – 9 September 2008, Leiden, Netherlands) was a Dutch botanist and mycologist.

[1] In 1945, he obtained a botany degree from the National Chung Cheng University in Jiangxi, becoming a botanical assistant there on graduation.

In 1956, he was hired by Professor Cornelis van Steenis at the National Herbarium of the Netherlands, working on the Flora Malesiana project.

[2] Hou has made significant contributions to the plant families Anacardiaceae, Anisophylleaceae, Aristolochiaceae, Celastraceae, Rhizophoraceae, Thymelaeaceae and later to Leguminosae.

[3] He named over 100 plant species, including Anisophyllea corneri, Bruguiera exaristata and Gluta sabahana.