| Named By: | Hopwood in 1926 |
| Time Period: | Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene |
| Location: | Africa, particularly Eastern countries such as Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania, but also known from more distant African countries |
| Size: | About 1.5 meters long |
| Diet: | Omnivore |
| Fossil(s): | Multiple specimens numbering in the hundreds |
| Classification: | | Chordata | Mammalia | Artiodactyla | Suidae | |
| Also known as: | | Tapinochoerus | |
Metridiochoerus is an extinct genus in the pig family indigenous to the Pliocene and Pleistocene of Africa. It is also known as the giant warthog.