Empress Dowager Hu (personal name unknown) (died 17 May 528), formally Empress Ling (literally "the unattentive empress"), is an empress dowager of the Chinese dynasty Northern Wei.

She is a concubine of Emperor Xuanwu, and she becomes regent and empress dowager after her son Emperor Xiaoming becomes emperor after Emperor Xuanwu's death in 515.

She is considered to be intelligent but overly lenient, and during her regency (interrupted by a period (520-525) where her overly trusted brother-in-law Yuan Cha seizes power), many agrarian rebellions occur while corruption rages among imperial officials.

In 528, she is believed to have poisoned her son Emperor Xiaoming after he tries to have her lover Zheng Yan executed.

This causes the general Erzhu Rong to attack and capture the capital Luoyang.

Erzhu throws her into the Yellow River to drown.