Niu Weiyu (Chinese: 牛畏予; born 1927 in Tanghe, Henan) is a Chinese photojournalist whose career started in the 1940s with coverage of the Chinese Communist Party's wartime experiences and continued after 1949. She is praised for her photographs of ordinary workers and ethnic groups, and as one of the few women in photography, she specialized in female images. She is a member of the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese Photographers Association. Her husband, (1922-2004) was also a wartime and post-1949 photographer.