Mathews is a surname. Notable persons with that surname include:

• Alfred Augustus Mathews (1864–1946), vicar and Wales international rugby player, 1864-1946
• Angelo Mathews (born 1987), Sri Lankan Burgher cricketer
• Annie Mathews (1866–1959), American politician
• Arthur Mathews (writer) (born 1959), Irish comedy writer
• Arthur Frank Mathews (1860–1945), American painter
• Basil Joseph Mathews (1879–1951), English historian
• Bill Mathews (1919–2003), Canadian geologist
• Carl Mathews (1903–1959), American character actor and stuntman
• Carmen Mathews (1911–1995), American actress and environmentalist
• Carole Mathews (1920–2014), American actress
• Charles Mathews (1776–1835), English theatre manager and comic actor
• Cornelius Mathews (1817–1889), 19th-century American writer
• David Mathews (1739–1800), Loyalist mayor of New York, 1776-1783
• Delia Mathews (born 1990), New Zealand-born ballet dancer
• Eddie Mathews (1931–2001), Hall of Fame third baseman in Major League Baseball
• Elbert G. Mathews (1910–1977), American diplomat
• Francine Mathews (born 1963), American novelist
• Garrison Mathews (born 1996), American basketball player for the Atlanta Hawks
• George Mathews (disambiguation), several people
• Gregory Mathews (1876–1949), Australian amateur ornithologist
• Harry Mathews (1930–2017), American author
• Henry M. Mathews (1834–1884), governor of West Virginia, 1877-1881
• James Mathews (disambiguation), several people
• Jane Mathews (1940–2019), Australian judge
• Janet Mathews (1914–1992), Australian musician and linguist
• Jay Mathews (born 1945), author, education reporter and online columnist with the Washington Post
• Jermaine Mathews Jr. (born 2005), American football player
• Jessica Mathews (born 1946), president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• John David Mathews, American engineer
• Jon Mathews (1932–1979), academic
• Jonathan Mathews, baseball coach
• Kevin Mathews (born 1961), Singaporean musician and songwriter
• Larry Mathews, Irish musician
• Lloyd Mathews (1850–1901), British naval officer, politician and abolitionist
• Marlene Mathews (born 1934), Australian sprinter
• Max Mathews (1926–2011), computer music pioneer
• Nancy Mowll Mathews (born 1947), Czech-American art historian, curator, and author
• Oliver Mathews (c. 1520–c. 1618), Welsh apothecary and chronicler
• Race Mathews (1935–2025), Australian politician, academic, and author
• Robert Jay Mathews (1953–1984), American neo-Nazi
• Robert L. Mathews (1887–1947), American football player and coach
• Ross Mathews (born 1979), American television personality
• Sampson Mathews (c. 1737–1807), politician, Revolutionary War soldier
• Sherin Mathews (2014–2017), Indian American toddler who was found dead in a culvert
• Sylvia Mathews Burwell (born 1965), President of the Global Development Program of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• Thomas Mathews (1676–1751), Royal Navy admiral
• Vera Laughton Mathews (1888–1959), Director of the Women's Royal Naval Service from 1940 until 1946
• Walter J. Mathews (1850–1947), American architect
• William Mathews (disambiguation), several people

See also

• All pages with titles containing Mathews
• Mathews I or Baselios Marthoma Mathews I (1907–1996), Supreme Primate of Malankara Church, also known as Indian Orthodox Church
• Mathews II or Baselios Marthoma Mathews II (1915–2006) was the Supreme Primate of the Malankara Church, also known as Indian Orthodox Church
• Mathews family, an American political family descended from John Mathews
• Mathews (disambiguation)
• Sir David ap Mathew

Surname list

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