Charles Windeyer

{{Short description|Australian magistrate}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}}

{{Use Australian English|date=August 2021}}

{{Infobox officeholder |

| honorific-prefix =

| name=Charles Windeyer

| image= Charles Windeyer 005763.jpg

| nationality=British

| order=1st Mayor of Sydney

| term_start=1842

| term_end=1842

| deputy =

| predecessor =

| successor= John Hosking

| birth_date={{Birth date|1780|7|1|df=y}}

| birth_place= Staffordshire

| death_date={{death date and age|1855|1|30|1780|7|1|df=y}}

| death_place=Newtown, New South Wales, Australia

| spouse= Ann Mary Rudd

| relatives = Richard Windeyer (son)
William Charles Windeyer (grandson)

}}

Charles Windeyer (1 July 1780 – 30 January 1855) was an Australian magistrate who held a variety of public positions and was later appointed by Governor George Gipps as the first Mayor of Sydney. He was the father of barrister and politician Richard Windeyer and grandfather of politician and judge William Charles Windeyer.{{Australian Dictionary of Biography

|last=Windeyer

|first= J. B.

|authorlink=

|year=1967

|id=A020559b

|title= Windeyer, Charles (1780 - 1855)

|accessdate=2008-09-17 }}