Mather, Richard, 1596-1669, British Puritan clergyman in North America, b. Lancashire, England. He studied at Oxford, began preaching, and was ordained in 1620. His Puritan beliefs led him into difficulties, and he fled to Massachusetts (1635), where he was pastor of Dorchester until his death. He helped to draw up the Cambridge Platform and, with John Eliot and Thomas Welde, prepared the Bay Psalm Book.

Mather is a surname, and may refer to

• Alonzo C. Mather (1848-1941), president of the Mather Stock Car Company
• Barry Mather (1909-1982), Canadian journalist
• Bruce Mather (born 1939), Canadian composer
• Carol Mather (1919-2006), British Army officer and Conservative MP
• Cotton Mather (1663-1728), Puritan minister
• Emily Mather (born 1998), actress
• Evan Mather (born 1970), film maker
• Frank Jewett Mather (1868-1953), American art critic
• Mysterious Dave Mather (born 1851, year of death unknown), gunfighter
• Increase Mather (1639-1723), Puritan minister
• James Mather (1750-1821), mayor of New Orleans
• Jim Mather (Kyoshi) (born 1942), Karate Master
• Jim Mather (born 1947), Scottish politician
• John C. Mather (born 1946), American astrophysicist and cosmologist
• John Mather (born 1942), Mathematician
• Kenneth Mather (1911-1990), British geneticist
• Kirtley F. Mather (1888-1978), American geologist
• Lowell Mather, sitcom character
• Margrethe Mather (1886-1939), American prostitute, photographer and painter
• Percy C. Mather (1884-1933), British missionary to China
• Richard Mather (1596-1669), American Congregational clergyman
• Ronald Mather , mayor of Knaresborough
• Stephen Mather (1867-1930), American industrialist and conservationist
• William G. Mather (1857-1951), head of the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company (1890-1940)

See also

• Mather Air Force Base
• Mather House
• The Mather School
• Steamship William G. Mather Maritime Museum, a steamship-turned-museum
• Stephen Tyng Mather High School
• Mathers