The inventiondiscloses an infrared polarizer with a metal-medium-metal three-layer wire gating structure. The infrared polarizer comprises a transparent substrate, a metal wire gating layer, a dielectricwire gating layer and a metal wire gating layer from bottom to top, wherein the substrate is a medium-wave infrared bandtransparent materialsapphire, the refractive index of the dielectricwire gating layer is in a range of 1.3-4.0, a metal wire gating and a dielectricwire gating have the same cycle and duty ratio, the cycle is in a range of 300-600 mm, and the duty ratio is in a range of 0.4-0.7. In the medium-wave infrared band, when incident light is matched with impedance of the polarizer with the metal-medium-metal three-layer wire gating structure, the incident light is coupled with the wire gating to stimulate magnetic local resonance, TM wave transmittance has a peak value, meanwhile, TE wave transmittance is obviously reduced, the extinction ratio of the wire grating is increased, and the polarization property is improved. The sub-wavelength metal wire grating polarizer has the advantages of flexible design, compact structure, easiness in integration, wider spectrum and field range and the like, and has great application prospects in the aspects of micro-nano devices, integrated optics and the like.