Martin Laurence Fick (30 November 1898 – 2 August 1945) was a South African psychologist and psychometrician.
He is noted for his work administering intelligence tests to South African children.
On the basis of this research, he concluded that native South African children were intellectually inferior to their European counterparts, in support of the South African government's policy at the time of not investing in native children's education.
[5][6] Fick worked for the National Bureau of Educational and Social Research, and was noted for his hereditarian interpretation of racial differences in intelligence test scores.
[5][7][8] Fick was also a captain in the South African Medical Corps, and he died in 1945 while serving on active duty.