Mathieu Lindon (born 9 August 1955) is a French journalist and writer.

His father was a well-known publisher (Éditions de Minuit), highly esteemed by left-wing and New Wave intellectuals.

Mathieu Lindon was a close friend of Michel Foucault with whom he lived and spent most of his time between 1978 and 1984, without being his lover.

He was also a friend of writer Hervé Guibert with whom he won a scholarship at Villa Medicis in Rome between 1987 and 1989.

From the 1980s, Mathieu Lindon has been a journalist at Libération, a left-wing daily.