Matthaios K. Paranikas (Greek: Ματθαίος Παρανίκας; 1832–1914) was an ethnically Greek scholar, philologist teacher and writer of the 19th and early 20th centuries who was born in and a national of the Ottoman Empire.

[1][2][3][4] He successfully graduated from the Zosimaia School of Ioannina, the Philolosophical School of the University of Athens and finished his studies in the University of Munich where he got the Philosophy Teacher degree.

[1] He was an early member of the Greek Phlilological Society of Constantinople (Ελληνικός Φιλολογικός Σύλλογος) since 1863 when it was established just in 1861.

[1] There he made many historical and philological researches, of which many of them were published in the philological magazine of the society, in the Athenian philological magazines Parnassos and Pandora but as well as in the Ecclesiastical Truth magazine of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.

[1][4] He served as a headmaster of the Phrontisterion of Trapezous in the periods of 1895-96 and 1903–04, when he retired.