塞缪尔·斯莱特（Samuel Slater，1768年6月9日－1835年4月21日），美国早期的一名工业家，人们称他作“美国工业革命的奠基者”。

塞缪尔·斯莱特生于英格兰德比郡贝尔珀附近，是一位富裕的农民，威廉·斯莱特的儿子。1782年，当地的一所工厂的主人，杰迪戴亚·斯特拉特（Jedediah Strutt）雇用了年轻的塞缪尔，斯特拉特先生曾常与塞缪尔的父亲威廉做生意。作为理乍得·阿克赖特（Richard Arkwright）的合伙，斯特拉特先生曾是联合王国新兴纺织技术的一位较有名气的开拓者，在塞缪尔七年的学徒期间，斯特拉特将这些纺织技术传授给了塞缪尔。

Samuel Slater (June 9, 1768 – April 21, 1835) was an early English-American industrialist known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution" (a phrase coined by Andrew Jackson) and the "Father of the American Factory System." In the UK, he was called "Slater the Traitor" because he brought British textile technology to America, modifying it for United States use. He learned textile machinery as an apprentice to a pioneer in the British industry, then immigrating to the United States at the age of 21. He designed the first textile mills in the US and later went into business for himself, developing a family business with his sons. A wealthy man, he eventually owned thirteen spinning mills and had developed tenant farms and company towns around his textile mills, such as Slatersville, Rhode Island.