Moses Cohen Belinfante (Hebrew: משה בן צדיק הכהן בלינפנטי, romanized: Moshe ben Ẓaddiḳ ha-Kohen Belinfanti; 24 September 1761 – 29 June 1827) was a Dutch journalist, translator, and schoolbook writer.

Moses Cohen Belinfante was born in The Hague in 1761, the descendent of Sephardic Jews who fled Portugal during the reign of John III in 1526.

[1] His father Saddik, a cousin of Isaac Cohen Belinfante, was Chief Rabbi of the Portuguese community in Amsterdam.

[2] When he was fourteen, Belinfante was sent to Copenhagen to study medicine under his great-uncle Salomo Theophilus de Meza, but remained there only a year.

[4] Belinfante succeeded his father as principal of the Portuguese Jewish community school after the latter's death in 1786, a position he held until his dismissal in 1795.