| 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.