Angus James Taylor (born 30 September 1966) is an Australian politician who has served as the leader of the Opposition and the leader of the Liberal Party since 2026. He has been the member of parliament (MP) for the New South Wales division of Hume since 2013. Taylor previously held ministerial positions in the Turnbull and Morrison governments.

Born in Cooma, Taylor was raised in rural New South Wales. He graduated from the University of Sydney and New College, Oxford, attending the latter as a Rhodes Scholar. Prior entering politics, he worked as a management consultant and was active in agribusiness. Taylor was elected to the House of Representatives at the 2013 federal election, becoming an assistant minister in the Turnbull government in 2015, and Minister for Law Enforcement and Cybersecurity in 2017. He held office as Minister for Energy, Energy and Emissions Reduction, and Minister for Industry, Energy and Emissions Reduction in the Morrison government.

Following Peter Dutton's defeat at the 2025 election, he contested the subsequent leadership election, losing to Sussan Ley. Taylor, a prominent member of the National Right party faction, resigned from Ley's shadow cabinet in 2026 amid historically low polling for the Liberal Party. He successfully challenged Ley in a subsequent leadership spill, becoming the leader of the Liberal Party and the leader of the Opposition.

Taylor was born on 30 September 1966 in Cooma, New South Wales, to Anne and Peter Taylor. He was raised alongside his three brothers on their family property "Bobingah", a sheep and cattle farm in Nimmitabel. He is partly of Jewish descent, with a Jewish grandmother.

Taylor's father is a fourth-generation sheep farmer. Taylor's maternal grandfather was engineer Sir William Hudson. His mother died from cancer in 1988 at the age of 48. Contemporaneous to her death was a collapse in wool and beef prices due to drought, an event that brought financial stress on the Taylor family. His father eventually became President of NSW Farmers and Vice President of the National Farmers Federation.

Taylor completed primary school at Nimmitabel's local primary school. He then boarded at The King's School, Parramatta. Upon graduation, he studied at the University of Sydney while residing at St Andrew's College, graduating with a Bachelor of Economics and a Bachelor of Laws.^{[citation needed]}

Taylor then won a Rhodes Scholarship, and elected to study a Master of Philosophy in Economics at New College, Oxford. He studied "Smith, Bentham, Burke, Mill, Marshall, Schumpeter, Galbraith, Keynes and Friedman". During his studies he developed an interest in the game theory of John Forbes Nash Jr. He applied Nash's theories to make an analysis of English pubs, to argue that they ought be protected from being dominated by large brewing companies. While at Oxford in 1991, Taylor also met future Prime Minister of Canada Mark Carney, who was also studying at Oxford and both had attended a economics post-graduate course together.

Taylor had a career in management consulting and then helped launch a number of agribusinesses with his brothers and other business partners, including Growth Farms.