Samuel Pineles (Hebrew: שמואל פינלס; 23 July 1843, in Brody, Galicia, Austrian Empire – 1928, in Galați, Romania) was a Jewish Romanian philanthropist and Religious Zionist activist.
He was the president and secretary of the Central Committee to Settle the Land of Israel and Syria and was active in Hovevei Zion in Romania.
Pineles helped organize the immigration of Jews to the towns of Rosh Pina and Zichron Yaakov.
[3] After the advent of Theodor Herzl's Political Zionism, Pineles took up this idea with great enthusiasm.
At the First Zionist Congress (Basel 1897) Pineles was elected as vice president, along with Max Nordau.