Martin Alun Whitcombe (born 14 September 1961 in Keighley, Yorkshire) is a former Rugby Union Footballer of the 1980s and 1990s. He learnt to play rugby at Keighley RUFC and went on to have a long playing career for Leicester Tigers, Bedford RFC, Sale FC, and Leeds Tykes, at prop. At a representative level he played for Yorkshire, The Northern Division, and England at 19 Group, Under 23 and England 'B'.

Whitcombe joined Leicester Tigers in July 1981 playing his first game for the club against Northampton Saints away, on 16 October, he made his home début against Swansea RFC on 24 October at Welford Road and scored a try. Whitcombe represented Leicester Tigers against the Australian Wallabies at Welford Road on 25 November 1981; the Australian team was Captained by Mark Loane. Whitcombe played twice against the Barbarian's during his Leicester career and toured Zimbabwe with Tigers in 1982, playing in both games against Zimbabwe in Harare and Bulawayo. In 1984 he played against The Gulf on the Middle East tour to Bahrain & Dubai and in 1985 to France.

Whitcombe left Leicester in 1986 to join Bedford RFC, captained by former Tigers player Andy Key, and played against Kenya in Nairobi as part of the clubs Centenary Season celebrations. At the start of the 1987 season he joined Sale FC, where he Captained the club for one season in 1992-1993 and played in the winning Courage league 1 team in 1994-1995. In 1996 he joined Phil Davies at Leeds Tykes for the last three years of his rugby career playing in two promotion winning teams and played his last big game against Tonga at Headingley.