Frederick Thackeray (23 February 1817 – 28 July 1892) was an English clergyman and cricketer who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University, the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and many other amateur teams between 1837 and 1854. He was born at Cambridge and died at Chappel, Essex. The son of Frederick Thackeray, physician at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge, Thackeray was the first cousin of novelist William Makepeace Thackeray. He was educated at Eton College and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.