Hugh Glass (1817–1871) was an Australian pastoralist, landowner and land speculator, one of the wealthiest and most influential men in colonial Victoria in the 1850s and 1860s.

[1] His wealth was built on pastoral holdings and land deals and he exercised enormous influence over the colony's parliament.

[1][3][4] He was saved, however, by Sir William Foster Stawell, the Chief justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, who argued that the Legislative assembly did not have the right to sentence him.

[5] After the deterioration of his health due to cancer of the liver,[2][6] Glass died on 15 May 1871 at age 55, in Flemington, Victoria,[2][7] from an overdose of chloral hydrate.

[6] Glass Creek, a minor tributary of the Yarra River that flows through the inner-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, is named after him.