Matthew Medbourne (died 19 March 1680) was an English stage actor and occasional playwright of the Restoration era.
A long-standing member of the Duke's Theatre, Medbourne was a victim of the Popish Plot scare and died in Newgate Prison.
Medbourne was a Roman Catholic, but little is known about him before he emerged as a member of the Duke's Company at Lincoln's Inn Fields during the 1661–62 season.
Around the time of the Great Plague, he wrote a play Saint Cecily, a tragedy which was never acted.In December 1669 he was arrested for disorderly conduct, and was suspended from the Duke's Company for a period but was fully returned by 1671.
[4] In October 1678 Medbourne was accused of High Treason during the scare of Popish Plot stirred by Oates.