Mary Josephine Renfrew OBE FRSE (born 1955) is a British midwife and academic. Renfrew graduated in nursing from the University of Edinburgh in 1975, and in midwifery from the same institution in 1978. She obtained a PhD on breastfeeding in 1982, while at the Medical Research Council's reproductive biology unit in Edinburgh. She has also worked in Canada. She has served as chair of the World Health Organization's maternal and newborn health strategic committee. In 2014 she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) - the first midwife or nurse to receive that honour.