| José María Mata | |
| Birth Name: | José María Mata Reyes |
| Birth Date: | 13 November 1819 |
| Birth Place: | Xalapa, Veracruz |
| Death Place: | Martínez de la Torre, Veracruz |
| Resting Place: | Dolores Civil Cemetery, Mexico City |
| Nationality: | Mexican |
| Education: | San Juan de Letrán College |
| Office1: | Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Mexico to the United States |
| Term Start1: | 28 April 1859 |
| Term End1: | 13 August 1860 |
| Predecessor1: | Ignacio Mariscal |
| Successor1: | José Tomás de Cuéllar |
| Office2: | Minister of Finance |
| Term Start2: | 29 October 1860 |
| Term End2: | 20 November 1860 |
| Term Start3: | 22 April 1861 |
| Term End3: | 2 May 1861 |
| President3: | Benito Juárez |
| Predecessor3: | Guillermo Prieto |
| Office4: | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| Term Start4: | 20 June 1878 |
| Term End4: | 1878 |
| President4: | Porfirio Díaz |
| Predecessor4: | Ignacio L. Vallarta |
| Party: | Mexican Liberal Party (in es|Partido Liberal Mexicano) |
| Spouse: | A daughter of Melchor Ocampo, and |
José María Mata Reyes (13 November 1819 – 25 February 1895) was a 19th-century liberal politician and diplomat from Mexico who served for two months as minister of Finance in the cabinet of Benito Juárez (1860–1861),[1] [2] three months as minister of Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of Porfirio Díaz (1878),[3] as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Mexico to the United States (1859–1860),[4] [5] as congressman in the Chamber of Deputies, and as municipal president of Martínez de la Torre, Veracruz.[6]
Aside from his political and diplomatic activities, Mata served as a militiaman during the Mexican–American War and as a general in the army commanded by Porfirio Díaz during the French intervention in Mexico.