Yao Baoqian (; April 1925 – 7 June 2018) was an officer of the Chinese People's Liberation Army who served as commander of the 24th Group Army. He joined the Communist New Fourth Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and later fought in the Chinese Civil War and the Korean War. He was the first military commander to reach the disaster zone in Tangshan during the Great Tangshan earthquake of 1976.
