Tu Cheng-sheng (Chinese: 杜正勝; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tō͘ Chèng-sèng; born 10 June 1944) is a Taiwanese politician and historian.

Tu served as the minister of education of the Republic of China during Chen Shui-bian's second term as president.

In articles of 1986, 1987 and 1992 Tu explored semblance between the city-states of the ancients Western civilization and the state formations of early China.

[3] He also served as a director of a research center on history and languages of the Academia Sinica and a professor at the National Tsing Hua University.

After being filmed asleep at a 2007 meeting of the Legislative Yuan, he was photographed picking his nose in response to public criticism.