| Named By: | Hutt, Martill & Barker in 1996 |
| Time Period: | Early Cretaceous, 125 Ma |
| Location: | UK, Isle of Wight |
| Size: | Holotype estimated 7.5 meters long. Some fossil material indicates a size of up to 10 meters long |
| Diet: | unavailable |
| Fossil(s): | Partial skull and post cranial remains totally about 70% of the dinosaur |
| Classification: | | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Saurischia | Theropoda | Allosauroidea | Carcharodontosauria | Neovenatoridae | |
Neovenator (nee-o-ven-a-tor) which means "new hunter" is a genus of allosauroid dinosaur. At the time of its discovery on the Isle of Wight, UK, it was the best-known large carnivorous dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Europe. Neovenator was at first considered possibly a new species of Megalosaurus.