Maud Edith Eleanor Watson, MBE (9 October 1864 – 5 June 1946) was a British tennis player and the first female Wimbledon champion.

Born in Harrow, Middlesex, the daughter of a local vicar Henry William and Emily Frances Watson.

Playing in white corsets and petticoats, from a field of thirteen competitors, she defeated Lilian 6–8, 6–3, 6–3 in the final to claim the title and a silver flower basket valued at 20 guineas.

In 1886, the year the Challenge Round was introduced for women, Bingley turned the tables, defeating Watson 6–3, 6–3 in the final to take the title.

[8] Maud Watson worked as a nurse during the First World War for which she was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire.