Mariko Bando (?? ???, Bando Mariko) is a Japanese writer, critic, and former bureaucrat.
Bando started her career in the Prime Minister's office, later becoming a consul general and the first director general of the Japanese Cabinet Office's Gender Equality Bureau.
Her 2006 book The Dignity of a Woman has sold more than three million copies in Japan.
She is currently the president and chancellor of Showa Women's University.