| Reinis Kaudzīte | |
| Birth Date: | 12 May 1839 |
| Birth Place: | Vecpiebalga Parish, Kreis Wenden, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire (now) |
| Death Place: | Vecpiebalga Parish, Latvia |
| Occupation: | writer |
| Nationality: | Latvian |
Reinis Kaudzīte (Old orthography: Reinis Kaudsit; May 12, 1839 – August 21, 1920), was a Latvian schoolteacher and writer.[1] His novel Mērnieku laiki ("Time of the Surveyors") was the first novel written in Latvian, co-authored with his brother Matīss Kaudzīte in 1879.[2]
Reinis Kaudzīte was born in "Mādari", Vecpiebalga Parish, in the heart of Vidzeme. He had not attended the school himself but became a teacher of geography and religion classes in Kalna Kaibēni parish school at the age of 28.