(April 18, 1895 – March 10, 1968) was an American physician, professor, and major philanthropist to academic institutions.

His brother, Harvey Seeley Mudd, was a miner, businessman, and philanthropist.

Mudd practiced cardiology in Los Angeles, where he contributed briefly with Linus Pauling,[3] before joining the faculty at the California Institute of Technology, where he did work on cancer research.

He was later professor and dean at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California.

[citation needed] Via his will, he created the Seeley G. Mudd Foundation to continue the work "that educational excellence be supported in the form of grants for the construction of buildings for teaching, learning, and research".