Alden Ewart Matthews (Chinese: 麻安德; pinyin: Má Āndé; September 10, 1921 – October 8, 2014) was a Congregationalist missionary to China and Japan.
In 1922, he came to North China with his missionary parents, Harold Shepard (麻海如) and Grace Waters Matthews, who were under the auspices of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
Matthews attended North China American School and in 1937 he returned to the United States to receive higher education.
In 1949 he again moved to the American Board mission compound near the South Gate, where he worked as the liaison with the Congregational Church in America with the title Corresponding Secretary.
However, Matthews chose to stay to continue the mission work, but it wasn't long before he realized that the presence of the foreign missionaries had been counter-productive.