Annelien Kappeyne van de Coppello (24 October 1936 – 23 February 1990) was a Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).

Kappeyne was in favor of abolition of the death penalty, abortion, equal pay, euthanasia and right of a person to control their own body.

[2] Her paternal grandfather was Jacobus Kappeyne van de Coppello [nl], who was a member of the Dutch Senate[3] and his wife, Martha Maria Benten was active in the early women's movement in the Netherlands.

Simultaneously, she acquired a paid-staff position for the VVD working in the internal affairs area of constitutional review and electoral rights.

[2] Because, as a woman, she questioned a high ranking minister, she was asked to provide medical evidence to explain her aggressiveness toward van Agt,[4] though ultimately she exposed his failure to properly facilitate the arrest.

[2] The following year, she was asked to become a State Secretary, but refused as she did not want to serve in the cabinet of van Agt, when he became Prime Minister of the Netherlands.

When constitutional debate was held on the inviolability of the human body, Kapeyne worked across party lines, though it was unusual for the era, to press for approval.

[4] She went to work at the Veronica Broadcasting Organization as a manager of staffing and company facilities, but quickly found the culture not to her liking and returned to the House in 1982 during the First Lubbers cabinet, as State Secretary for Social Affairs and Employment.

In 2006, Martijn van der Kooij published a biography of Kappeyne, Strijdvaardig en eigenzinnig, ("Combative and unwilling"), which discussed her unyielding positions on matters that were important to her.