Michael Craig "Mike" Judge (born October 17, 1962) is an American animator, actor, voice actor, writer, director, and producer, best-known as the creator and star of the animated television series Beavis and Butt-head and King of the Hill. He also wrote and directed the films Beavis and Butt-head Do America, Office Space, Idiocracy and Extract. He had been working on his new show The Goode Family on ABC after the cancellation of King of the Hill, but it was also cancelled.

Born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, Judge was raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he attended St. Pius X High School. He is the son of anthropologist Jim Judge and librarian Margaret Blue. Judge graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Physics in 1985 from the University of California, San Diego. Mike Judge currently lives in Austin, Texas. Judge plays bass guitar, occasionally sitting in with bands.

In 1991, Judge's short "Office Space" (also known as the Milton series of shorts) was picked up by Comedy Central following a Dallas animation festival.