Melvin Mooney (1893–1968) was an American physicist and rheologist.

Mooney was born in Kansas City, Missouri.

He also proposed the Mooney-Rivlin solid constitutive law describing the hyperelastic stress–strain behavior of rubber.

[3] He was the first recipient of the Bingham Medal from the Society of Rheology in 1948.

[4] He is the namesake of the Melvin Mooney Distinguished Technology Award of the American Chemical Society Rubber Division.