Rodney Stuart Young (born August 1, 1907, in Bernardsville, New Jersey, – died October 25, 1974, in Chester Springs, Pennsylvania) was an American Near Eastern archaeologist.

His major work on Phrygian tumuli, including the famed "Midas Mound" or Tumulus MM, was published posthumously.

[4] After his death the leadership of the excavations eventually passed to his student, G. Kenneth Sams, later Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

During World War II, Young volunteered in Greece as an ambulance driver, and was wounded on the Epirus front.

[5] Young was active in his field, serving as president of the Archaeological Institute of America from 1968 to 1972 and was Charles Elliot Norton Lecturer in 1968/1969.