Matiya Mulumba was a Ugandan Catholic who lived from 1836 to 1886. Originally from Bunya county in Busoga, he was initially a follower of Islam before converting to Catholicism in 1880. He was baptized in Mityana by Pere Ludovic Girault. While working on the reconstruction of the palace for Kabaka Mwanga, he was arrested and sentenced to death by the Prime Minister of Buganda. He was executed at Old Kampala, where he suffered a particularly brutal death.