Yoshio Nishi (西 義郎 Nishi, Yoshio 1934–2019) was a Japanese scholar of Tibeto-Burman linguistics.
He first studied linguistics while a student at the International Christian University (Tokyo) under the leadership of Roy Andrew Miller.
Nishi taught at Kyushu University (assistant professor; April 1969 - March 1972), Kagoshima University (associate professor; April 1975 - March 1980, professor; April 1980 - September 1981), Ehime University (professor; October 1981 - March 1988), and Kobe City University of Foreign Studies (professor; April 1988 - March 1998).
In 1996 when Kobe City University of Foreign Studies newly founded the linguistics doctoral course at its graduate school, he was the only D-maru-gō professor of linguistics qualified to supervise doctoral students.
He is now a professor emeritus at Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, and was nominated in 1993 as a distinguished professor at Central University of Nationalities in Beijing.