"Too Late the Hero" is a song written and recorded by English rock musician John Entwistle, released as the first single from his fifth solo studio album, Too Late the Hero (1981).

Entwistle's best-selling single, it peaked at No.

It was Entwistle's only chart placing in the UK.

In the UK the single was released as a limited-run picture disc of 500, all hand signed by Entwistle in return for a case of the finest whiskey.

The song is also found on Entwistle's compilation albums, Thunderfingers: The Best of John Entwistle (1996), Anthology (1996), and So Who's the Bass Player?