Ayako Miura (????, Miura Ayako, 1922–1999) was a Japanese novelist.
She published over eighty works of both fiction and non-fiction.
Many of her works are considered best-sellers, and a number have been remade as feature-length films.
Her debut novel, Hyoten (??, "Freezing Point"), was published in 1964, and won the Asahi Shimbun's Ten Million Yen Award that same year.