Donald Murray (20 September 1865 — 14 July 1945) was an electrical engineer and the inventor of a telegraphic typewriter system using an extended Baudot code that was a direct ancestor of the teleprinter (teletype machine).

Murray went to Europe in 1886, returning home in 1887 and working at The New Zealand Herald newspaper, while also studying at the Auckland University College from which he graduated in 1890 with a Bachelor of Arts.

Murray's idea was to use a typewriter to drive a device that translated each character of the text into a modified Baudot code.

On the receiving end, another mechanism would print the coded characters on a paper tape, and/or make a perforated copy of the message.

[1] The machines were introduced world-wide, with systems prominently at New York's Western Union and London's General Post Office.