Samuel Finney (13 February 1719 – 1798) was an English miniature-painter who was appointed "enamel and miniature painter" to Queen Charlotte.

His family facing monetary difficulties, Finney came to London to study law, but left the profession for painting.

Having amassed a fortune sufficient to pay off the encumbrances on the old family estate, Finney retired to Fulshaw in 1769, became a Justice of the Peace, and devoted the remainder of his life to quelling the riots then so prevalent in that part of Cheshire, and to other local improvements.

He also compiled a manuscript history of his family, part of which was printed in the first volume of the Cheshire and Lancashire Historical Collector.

A small portrait of Finney was later recorded in the possession of his descendant, a Mr. Jenkins of Fulshaw; it was engraved by William Ford of Manchester, and the plate was destroyed after twelve copies had been struck off.