Afanasy Nikolayevich Matushenko (; ; 2 May 1879 - ) was a Russian sailor. He was a non-commissioned officer in the Black Sea Fleet, revolutionary socialist, and ringleader of the mutiny on the Russian battleship ''Potemkin''.

Biography

He was born into a peasant family in the village of Derhachi (by some accounts - a cobbler family), 8 mi northwest