Hans-Jörg Uther (born 20 July 1944 in Herzberg am Harz) is a German literary scholar and folklorist.
In his last academic year, he passed the first state examination for teaching at grammar schools.
In 1971, he began a period of over 40 years working on the Enzyklopädie des Märchens, initially as a student assistant, from 1973 as an editor.
Uther published on comparative and historical folklore, on children's and youth literature, on folkloristic art history as well as on research into tale-types, their content, and motifs.
In the years 1989 to 2002 he was editor of the series Die Märchen der Weltliteratur of Eugen Diederichs Verlag.