Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, 1st Baronet (16 August 1870 – 14 December 1947) was an English industrialist.

He became a director of the British-American Tobacco Company on its formation in 1902, later becoming vice-chairman, and chairman from 1923 until his retirement in 1945.

Cunliffe-Owen worked for the Ministry of Information during the First World War, and for this he was created a baronet in the 1920 New Year Honours.

She died in 1934, and the following year Cunliffe-Owen remarried, to Mauricia Martha Shaw of California.

[6] His eldest son, Sub-Lieutenant Hugo Leslie Cunliffe-Owen, was killed serving with the Fleet Air Arm aboard the aircraft carrier HMS Indomitable on 12 August 1942, aged 21.