Anne Dickson-Waiko (1950–2018) was an academic from Papua New Guinea (PNG) who taught history and pioneered the teaching of gender studies in the country.

Anne Nealibo Dickson-Waiko's family came from Milne Bay Province in PNG, but she was born in the capital of Port Moresby on 15 May 1950, where her father was working as an advisor to the administrator of the Territory of Papua.

Her parents were both educated at the mission school on Kwato Island in Milne Bay Province, where her older brother and sisters were born.

From a young age she showed signs of considerable intelligence, topping her year in most grades and being the highest-ranking student in the school in 1962.

Finding it difficult to get to the university from the school where she had been posted, she began a job, writing course material for a community education programme.

Inspired by John Waiko, who was the first Papua New Guinean to earn a PhD, she enrolled to do a doctorate at the Australian National University in Canberra, concentrating on women's studies.

She pioneered teaching of gender studies in PNG, authored or co-authored reports on subjects including gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS, and contributed opinion pieces to newspapers and magazines.