Wilhelmina Carolina Benjamina "Carry" Pothuis-Smit (12 February 1872 – 30 August 1951) was a politician and feminist in the Netherlands.

She earned a teaching certificate in Arnhem when she was eighteen and then taught in Haarlem and later in Amsterdam.

[4] Following the German occupation of the Netherlands in May 1940, she decided to shut down De Proletarische Vrouw, mainly for financial reasons.

She joined the Dutch Labour Party, even though she continued to hold anti-militarist views.

[4] Pothuis-Smit also published a number of children's books, including: In 1903, she married Samuel "Jozef" Pothuis [nl]; the couple had one son and two daughters.