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Cartimandua or Cartismandua ( ruled c. 43 – 69 ) was a queen of the Brigantes, a Celtic people in what is now Northern England, in the 1st century.

She came to power around the time of the Roman conquest of Britain, and formed a large tribal agglomeration that became loyal to Rome.

She is known exclusively from the work of a single Roman historian, Tacitus, though she appears to have been widely influential in early Roman Britain.

Her name may be a compound of the Common Celtic roots * carti-" chase, expel, send " and * mandu -, " pony ".