Anka Makovec (3 August 1938 – 16 February 2017) was a Slovene-Australian artist and environmental activist.

In the 1980s, she became an environment activist and joined the United Tasmania Group in their opposition to hydroelectric power plants in the jungle.

[3] She was a member of the Tasmanian Wilderness Society at a time when that group was opposing the proposed Franklin Dam on the Gordon River in Tasmania, Australia.

[4] She was assaulted on the Strahan wharf in 1983 by pro-dam activists around the time the dam construction was halted.

[5] Makovec's environmental activism is the subject of the documentary "Anka Tasmanka".