Sir Martin John Taylor, FRS (born 18 February 1952) is a British mathematician and academic. He was professor of pure mathematics at the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester and, prior to its formation and merger, UMIST where he was appointed to a chair after moving from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1986. On 5 November 2009 he was elected Warden of Merton College, Oxford, and took office on 2 October 2010.