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Paulding is a village in Paulding County, Ohio, and serves as the county seat; it sits about 64 miles southwest of Toledo near the Indiana state line.

Paulding was a planned community, founded in 1848 at the center of the county by speculators who expected to profit when the county seat was moved there, which happened in 1851 when it relocated from Charloe.

The village and county are named for John Paulding, the Revolutionary War militiaman who helped capture British spy Major John André.

The Paulding County Courthouse, an orange brick building on a tree-shaded square at the center of the village, was finished in 1886 and was built as a duplicate of the courthouse in Adrian, Michigan, at a cost of $40,000.

The Paulding County Carnegie Library, built in the 1910s, was the first Carnegie library in the nation to serve an entire county instead of a single city.

Paulding County was once covered by the Great Black Swamp, and its drainage in the late 1800s turned the Paulding area into the farmland that surrounds the village today.

The 2020 census counted 3,555 people in Paulding, making it the most populous community in Paulding County; the 2010 census counted 1,510 households in the village.

Paulding covers about 2.46 square miles in Paulding Township, at the junction of State Routes 49 and 111.

Local students attend the Paulding Exempted Village School District, whose high school is Paulding High School.

The John Paulding Historical Society Museum in the village preserves artifacts from the county's pioneer era and the draining of the Great Black Swamp.