The Foundling of the Forest is an 1809 melodrama by the British writer William Dimond, also featuring music composed by Michael Kelly.

[1] The original Haymarket cast included Charles Mayne Young as Count De Valmont, Richard Jones as Florian, Edmund John Eyre as Baron Loungeville, Charles Farley as Bertrand, John Liston as L'Eclair, Maria Gibbs as Geraldine, Sarah Liston as Rosabelle, Mary Ann Davenport as Monica and Julia Glover as Unknown Female.

The Irish premiere was at the Crow Street Theatre in Dublin in December 1810.

Dimond dedicated the published version to Sophia Lee.

Florian is abandoned in the woods as a small child and grows up living on his own resources.