Matti Rantanen (born 13 February 1981) is a Finnish rally driver from Lammi.

He repeated this feat in 2006, also winning the Group N class in the Finnish Rally Championship.

He moved up to the Group N category in the Finnish championship in 2007, finishing sixth.

On the 2008 Rally Finland, Rantanen drove a Ford Focus WRC to seventh overall.

[1] In 2009 Rantanen is competing in the British Rally Championship in a front-wheel-drive Renault Clio.