Benjamin Martin (born 1969) is a New Zealand chess player and mathematician.
Martin has represented New Zealand in four Chess Olympiads, in Novi Sad 1990, Manila 1992, Yerevan 1996, and Istanbul 2000.
[2] Martin jointly won the New Zealand Chess Championship with Ortvin Sarapu in 1989/90.
[4] His research interests include algebraic groups and quantum field theory.
[5] He is now a professor in the department of mathematics at the University of Aberdeen, holding a personal chair.