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Fictional character from the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov

Hober Mallow is a fictional character in the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov. In the 1944 novella "The Big and the Little", he is a Master Trader for the Foundation who pioneers the use of commerce to increase the Foundation's power and influence across the galaxy. Mallow is voiced by Julian Glover in the 1973 BBC Radio 4 adaptation The Foundation Trilogy. He is portrayed by Dimitri Leonidas in season two of the 2021 Apple TV+ television series adaptation Foundation.

Mallow is a successful merchant who brokers deals within the Foundation, and also between their territories and non Foundation worlds. He is a native of Smyrno, one of the four "barbarian" planetary kingdoms of the Anacreon Province that exist under the Foundation's religious influence, but he dislikes the religion itself. Asimov describes Mallow's "great, brown arms" in a sequence, noted by Cora Buhlert to have "homoerotic vibes", in which Mallow is sunbathing nude with a male friend, Ankor Jael, who "places a phallic object—a cigar—in Mallow’s mouth".

Mallow is portrayed by Dimitri Leonidas in season two of the 2021 Apple TV+ television series adaptation Foundation. He is a roguish trader and con man with a "sarcastic personality and questionable morals, who is summoned against his will to serve a higher, selfless cause."

In the 2023 episode “A Glimpse of Darkness”, Hari Seldon's mysterious Vault on Terminus opens after 138 years. Warden Jaegger Fount approaches, and exclaims "Get Hober Mallow!" before being incinerated. The name "Hober Mallow" is subsequently projected in front of the Vault. In "King and Commoner", Mallow swindles Commdor Argo of Korell, and evades capture alongside High Claric Poly Verisof and Brother Constant of the Foundation's propagandist Church of the Galactic Spirit. Mallow, Verisof and Constant meet with Seldon's digital avatar in the Vault in "Where the Stars are Scattered Thinly", and Seldon recruits Mallow in a scheme against the Empire. Subsequently in "A Necessary Death", Mallow approaches the Empire's navigators, the genetically engineered and cybernetically enhanced Spacers, with an offer to free them from their servitude to the Empire by giving them a synthesized version of the micronutrient opalesk, on which they are dependent. After weighing the risks, the Spacers reject Mallow's offer and turn him over to Imperial General Bel Riose, but he escapes. In "The Last Empress", Mallow saves Constant from execution by the Empire, and they consummate their relationship. In the season two finale "Creation Myths", Mallow's capture is revealed to have been a ruse to smuggle a special jump sequence to She Bends Light, a Spacer on Riose's flagship, Shining Destiny. She uses it to program the fleet's warships to jump into one another, which will inevitably destroy them all and free the remaining Spacers from the Empire. Riose battles the Emperor clone Brother Day in hand to hand combat, and uses Mallow's castling device to switch places with Day via teleportation, venting the Emperor into space and killing him. Trapped on the doomed flagship, Mallow and Riose share a toast as the Shining Destiny explodes.

Sean T. Collins of Decider wrote, "Dimitri Leonidas actually has that roguish Han Solo charm so many actors and characters have tried and failed to recapture." Collins called Mallow's rescue of Constant "legitimately one of the most exciting and sexy acts of swashbuckling" he had seen in years. Goyer said that the deaths of Mallow and Riose were always planned for season two, adding that "I like that they meet their fates twinned together".