Norio Nobuhito Maeda (前田 憲男, Maeda Norio, December 6, 1934 – November 25, 2018 Osaka Prefecture) was a Japanese jazz composer and pianist.
Maeda learned piano as a young child, and moved to Tokyo to play and arrange jazz professionally in 1955.
There he played with Shungo Sawada's ensemble and founded a group called the Wind Breakers.
He joined the West Liners, led by Konosuke Saijo, as a pianist and arranger in 1959.
Known as a composer, he penned pieces for The Blue Coats, Tatsuya Takahashi, Nobuo Hara, and Toshiyuki Miyama.