Dame Anna Louisa de Launey Crighton DNZM QSO JP (born January 1944) is a New Zealand heritage campaigner and historian, and former local-body politician in Christchurch.

After travelling overseas and a brief unsuccessful marriage, she worked and was a single parent in North Canterbury, before moving back to Christchurch where she completed her education.

For part of that time, she served as the New Zealand representative on the committee of the American Association of Museum Registrars.

[2][5] Her doctoral thesis led to the book, English, Colonial, Modern and Māori: The Changing Faces of the Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1932–2002, which was published in 2014.

[10] In the 2020 New Year Honours, she was appointed a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to heritage preservation and governance.