Samuel Hideo Yamashita (born 1946) is an American historian and Asian studies scholar. His research interests include Confucianism, daily life in wartime Japan, and Japanese cuisine. He is the Henry E. Sheffield Professor of History at Pomona College.
Yamashita was born in 1946. He attended Macalester College and subsequently received his doctorate from the University of Michigan.
Yamashita began teaching at Pomona College in 1983.