Daniel Michael Paul Cudmore (1811 – 3 November 1891) was a pastoralist in the early days of the colony of South Australia, and the founder of a family highly influential in that and other states, especially Queensland.
Daniel Michael Paul Cudmore was born in Tory Hall in County Limerick, Ireland in 1811 and educated in Essex, England.
His original destination may have been Sydney, but while the ship was in Hobart, he met a cousin, surgeon Captain Russell of the 63rd Regiment, who persuaded him to settle in Van Diemen's Land (later Tasmania).
Cudmore was a partner in the Adelaide Union Brewing Company, located opposite the office of the Southern Australian on Rundle Street in 1838.
He arranged for it to be sold and with the proceeds purchased pastoral properties in the mid-north of South Australia: Yongala, Pinda, and Beautiful Valley (situated between Mount Remarkable and Port Augusta Stations).