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In Greek mythology, Melampus, or Melampous (), was a legendary soothsayer and healer, originally of Pylos, who ruled at Argos.

He was the introducer of the worship of Dionysus, according to Herodotus, who asserted that his powers as a seer were derived from the Egyptians and that he could understand the language of animals.

A number of pseudepigraphal works of divination were circulated in Classical and Hellenistic times under the name Melampus.

According to Herodotus and Pausanias ( vi. 17. 6 ), on the authority of Hesiod, his father was Amythaon, whose name implies the " ineffable " or " unspeakably great "; Melampus and his heirs were thus Amythaides of the " House of Amythaon ".