Ma Yuan (马远 in Chinese, active before 1189 - after 1225) was a celebrated court painter during the Southern Song dynasty. He was born in Lin’an, present-day Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, into a family of painters who served the Hanlin Academy for four generations. Ma Yuan excelled in landscape, figure, and bird-and-flower paintings.

Later in his life, he studied and learned from Li Tang, subsequently developing his own unique style. His compositions were distinctive, often referred to as 'one corner,' where the painting's subject occupied a corner, leaving the rest of the space unoccupied. He was among the finest painters in the Hanlin Academy, and his paintings often documented significant court events. Alongside Li Tang, Liu Songnian, and Xia Gui, Ma Yuan is considered one of the Four Great Painters of the Southern Song Dynasty.