Matilda White Riley (April 19, 1911 – November 14, 2004) was an American gerontologist who began working at Rutgers University as a research specialist before becoming a professor from 1950 to 1973.

Later she began a career in the Sociology of Aging at Rutgers University in New Jersey and then at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.

[4] She is credited with founding the Behavioral and Social Research Program at the National Institute on Aging.

[4] In 2016, the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the National Institutes of Health announced the Matilda White Riley Early Stage Investigator Honors program.

[7] On May 8, 1996, the Matilda White Riley House was dedicated in her honor as part of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Bowdoin College.

In 2016, the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the National Institutes of Health announced the Matilda White Riley Early Stage Investigator Honors program.