Sakura Uchiha (Japanese: 春野 サクラ, Hepburn: Uchiha Sakura) (née Haruno) is a major character in the Naruto manga and anime series created by Masashi Kishimoto. Sakura is a beautiful girl with pink hair and green eyes. She is depicted as a kunoichi affiliated with Konohagakure (木ノ葉隠れの里; English version: "Hidden Leaf Village") and a part of Team 7, which consists of herself, Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, and their sensei Kakashi Hatake. Besides the main series, Sakura has appeared in several pieces of the Naruto media, most notably the spin-off Naruto: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring (2015) and the sequel Boruto: Naruto Next Generations (2016) where she married Sasuke Uchiha and is the mother of their daughter, Sarada Uchiha.

Sakura is depicted as an innocent girl who does not share the same tragic backstories as her teammates, though she was bullied throughout her youth. She initially has an infatuation for Sasuke, and she is not ambitious. Her only ambition at this point was becoming Sasuke's girlfriend. By contrast, she is dismissive to her less-skilled teammate Naruto Uzumaki despite being Naruto's initial love interest. Over the course of the series, as Sasuke eventually leaves the village, Sakura begins to adopt a singularly-driven persona. She asked Naruto to find Sasuke and thought only about Sasuke. She becomes a medical ninja while apprenticed under the Fifth Hokage, Tsunade, and she eventually becomes friendly and even protective of Naruto as his life becomes increasingly at risk.

Sakura serves as the series' female lead, although she was not immediately intended for the role. Kishimoto had difficulty drawing her character, resulting in Kishimoto inadvertently emphasizing certain parts of her appearance, including her large forehead which was written into her character. In order to make the character more appealing in the second part of the series, Kishimoto designed her costume in a way that makes her look more like a martial artist as well as more beautiful during later chapters. Chie Nakamura voices the character in the animated adaptations of the series, while Kate Higgins plays her in the English dub.

Numerous anime and manga publications have praised and criticized Sakura's character. She was initially noted to be a stereotypical shōnen character, representing a love interest for the protagonist, and was said to serve little purpose at the beginning of the series beyond being comic relief. Her emergence from this stereotype as the series progressed, thanks to her training with Tsunade, which leads her to develop her medical and combat skills, has been celebrated by many reviewers. Amongst the Naruto reader base, Sakura has been popular, placing high in some polls. Several pieces of merchandise have been released in Sakura's likeness, such as action figures and key chains.

Although Sakura Haruno is the most recurring female character in Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto did not originally intend for Sakura to be the heroine of the series. Kishimoto attributed this to him being unable to draw good heroine characters and fashioned Sakura as a girl who could not understand men, the best example of a heroine he could come up with. Sakura's creation is a result of Kishimoto's desire to make a somewhat irritating character who was well-intentioned. Despite these elements, Kishimoto is fond of Sakura, as he feels that many of her personality traits are common among all people, thus giving her a sense of real humanity. When asked in an interview if there was something about Sakura's background that had not been revealed, Kishimoto explained that he had never thought of that as Sakura is a "normal girl". Kishimoto has often been asked by readers about why he did not show Sakura's parents until the film Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie. In response, he said this would not be entertaining as Sakura did not belong to any clan unlike other characters so her parents were civilians.

When designing Sakura, Kishimoto focused on her silhouette and created a costume as simple as possible. This is a divergence from the other main characters of the series, whose costumes are very detailed. The leggings are the most notable aspect of her design, as they are meant to show that she is very active. At the start of the series, her leggings extended below her knees and closely resembled trousers. As Part I progressed, the leggings became increasingly shorter and tighter. Similar to his inexperience in drawing heroines, Kishimoto lacked the experience needed to make Sakura "cute" when he first began drawing her; although he implied that her appearance had become cuter since then, Kishimoto and much of the Naruto manga staff agreed that Sakura had been "far from cute" at the start of the series. In retrospective, he found Sakura one of the hardest characters to draw, alongside Sasuke Uchiha. Nonetheless, within the work, Sakura is depicted as a beauty and out of all the female characters, she has the most suitors. In volume 1, Naruto introduces her as a cute girl he is interested in, in Volume 5, Rock Lee falls in love with her at first sight and calls her an angel, in Volume 48, Inari mentions how beautiful she has become, and during the War arc, a shinobi from Iwagakure hands her a love letter. Moreover, in the Sasuke Retsuden spin-off, her beauty is mentioned several times. Kishimoto first planned Sasuke and Sakura's romance in the early production of Naruto. In regards to Sakura's feelings for Sasuke, Kishimoto tried to write them as realistic as possible but ended up getting complaints from young girls about her.

Sakura's most well-known physical characteristic is her broad forehead. Consequently, because of this Kishimoto at times focuses too much on drawing it in scenes or promotional artwork where Sakura is featured prominently. This results in her forehead appearing too large. When designing Sakura in her Part II appearance, Kishimoto decided to change her clothes to a more lively karate suit style. The upper part, though, still had a Chinaesque feeling to it, so as to make her more feminine. During Part II's last story arc, Kishimoto tried making Sakura look more beautiful, most notably when she joins Naruto and Sasuke in the final fight against the creature Ten-Tails. He mentions using Hollywood actresses as a reference to illustrate her as a beauty. Due to Sakura having little popularity within readers, Kishimoto decided that Hinata Hyuga, whom he acknowledged had more popularity, would take a more active role and become a heroine. Despite deciding that Naruto and Hinata would end up together since the early stages of the manga, Kishimoto thought it would be interesting to throw Sakura in the middle to form "a messy love triangle." Nevertheless, Kishimoto said romance was not what he wanted his series to focus on. In the middle of the manga's final arc, Sakura is given a love letter. The real reasons for this is that Kishimoto wanted to give the anime studio material to create animated only episodes.

During The Last, Kishimoto designed Sakura as an elegant and graceful beauty. He claims that she has become a "beautiful older sister type" and that even he was surprised by how beautiful she had become. He aimed to draw her with a "sense of transparency," meaning a refreshing and ethereal beauty.