Samuel Hunter Christie FRS (22 March 1784 – 24 January 1865) was a British physicist and mathematician.

He studied mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge,[1] where he won the Smith's Prize and was second wrangler.

However, the method went unrecognised until 1843, when Charles Wheatstone proposed it, in another paper[3] for the Royal Society, for measuring resistance in electrical circuits.

[4] Christie taught mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, from 1838 until his retirement in 1854.

His eldest son with his second wife was the astronomer William Henry Mahoney Christie (1845–1922).