Veikko Aaltonen (born 1 December 1955) is a Finnish director, editor, sound editor, production manager and film and television writer and actor.

He began his career in the mid-1970s working as a sound editor on various films.

Five years later, he directed a film that has been considered his primary breakthrough, The Prodigal Son (Tuhlaajapoika, 1992).

Aaltonen was the first Finnish director to work on topics like pedophilia, Sadomasochism and sexual subjugation without credibility and morality.

[1] Aaltonen has also made documentaries and directed TV series.