Colva Mary Roney-Dougal OBE is a British mathematician specializing in group theory and computational algebra.

[1] She is also known for her popularization of mathematics on BBC radio shows,[2] including appearances on In Our Time about the mathematics of Emmy Noether[3] and Pierre-Simon Laplace[4] and on The Infinite Monkey Cage about the nature of infinity and numbers in the real world.

Her dissertation, Permutation Groups with a Unique Non-diagonal Self-paired Orbital, was supervised by Peter Cameron.

[6] With John Bray and Derek Holt, Roney-Dougal is the co-author of the book The Maximal Subgroups of the Low-Dimensional Finite Classical Groups (London Mathematical Society and Cambridge University Press, 2013).

[2] Roney-Dougal was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2024 New Year Honours for services to education and mathematics.