Miltiades Caridis (Greek: Μιλτιάδης Καρύδης; 9 May 1923 – 1 March 1998) was a German-Greek conductor.
His mother was a Danziger of German ethnicity, his father was a Greek tobacco merchant from Smyrna.
According to the biography Caridis was thus the only member of his Dresden school class to survive World War II.
He was awarded the Béla Bartók medal in 1981 for his contribution in fomenting the appeal of the composer's work.
He died in Athens from a stroke he sustained while he was rehearsing with the Ellinikí Radiofonía Tileórasi Greek National Orchestra.