Thomas Taylor Meadows (1815–1868) was a British sinologist.

Born in Northern England, after studies in Chinese with Karl Friedrich Neumann at the University of Munich, he became a member of the British diplomatic corps, arriving in Hong Kong in 1842, and becoming Acting Consul in Shanghai 1859–63.

The latter is valued as a close account of the Taiping Rebellion.

Historian John S. Gregory considered him both "deeply concerned for China, and a profound student of its history and culture" as well as "an agent of Western imperialism in China.

"[2] His younger brother was John Armstrong Taylor Meadows.