Anna Elbina Morpurgo Davies (21 June 1937 – 27 September 2014) was an Italian philologist who specialised in comparative Indo-European linguistics.

She spent her career at Oxford University, where she was the Professor of Comparative Philology and Fellow of Somerville College.

Her grandfather Guido Castelnuovo was a mathematician; her father, Augusto Morpurgo,[1] was dismissed in 1938 under the Fascist racial laws and died the following year after trying to find a way to take his family to Argentina.

[2] She earned her doctorate in classics from the University of Rome[3] with a thesis on Linear B; she published the first lexicon of the language in 1963.

[10][6][8] After Davies' death, a joint annual lecture series organised by the British Academy and the Philological Society was named in her honour;[11] the Philological Society also established an Anna Morpurgo Davies Bursary to support Master's students working on ancient languages.