Martin "Cowboy" Saunders (26 November 1928 – 17 May 2006) was a South African rugby union wing.
He was educated at Elliot School and later Paarl Training College, and was a detective in the South African Police force rising to the rank of colonel.
[1] Saunders was then selected for the fourth South African tour of Britain, which also took in matches in Ireland and France.
Saunders was selected for the very first game of the tour, facing a combined South-Eastern Counties team on 10 October 1951.
The South Africans won the opener and the two games that followed, for which Saunders was rested, before facing two Welsh teams in succession, Cardiff and Llanelli.