Maurice Goldsmith Mehl (born 1887 in Burlingame, Kansas, died in 1966 in Columbia, Missouri) was an American paleontologist. A longtime professor in the Department of Geology at the University of Missouri, Mehl was a founding member and officer of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Mehl was a fellow of the Geological Society of America (1922), the Paleontological Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1915).