马修·福林达斯（英语：Matthew Flinders，1774年3月16日－1814年7月19日）是当时19世纪初以前，许多航海家与绘制地图者中最成功者之一。在他略超过20年的专业工作生涯里，他与另一位上尉威廉‧布莱（知名重拍电影叛舰喋血记的史实舰长）共同搭船航行绕澳大利亚，他为澳洲许多新发现地区命名，也遭遇过船难获救，唯一灾难是以间谍罪名遭囚禁，搭乘木造船凭借罗盘导引航向靠岸，是「探勘未知澳洲」第一位播种者，以他钢铁般意志克服达成、验证与修正数据并予已登载在《对澳大利亚版图的海航》.

Captain Matthew Flinders RN (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was an English navigator and cartographer, who was the first to circumnavigate Australia and identify it as a continent.

Flinders made three voyages to the southern ocean between 1791 and 1810. In the second voyage, George Bass and Flinders confirmed that Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) was an island. In the third voyage, Flinders circumnavigated the mainland of what was to be called Australia.