The Hehe (Swahili collective: Wahehe) are an ethnic and linguistic group based in Iringa Region in south-central Tanzania, speaking the Bantu Hehe language.

In 2006, the Hehe population is estimated at eight hundred and five thousand up from the just over two hundred and fifty thousand recorded in the 1957 census when they are the eighth largest tribe in Tanganyika.[

Historically, they are famous for vanquishing a German expedition at Lugalo on August 17, 1891 and maintaining their resistance for seven years thereafter.