Daisy Avellana (January 26, 1917 – May 12, 2013) was a Filipino stage actress and theater director.

Avellana was honored as a National Artist of the Philippines for Theater and Film in 1999.

[2] She was the eldest child of Jose Hontiveros and Vicenta Ruiz Pardo.

Her husband was Lamberto Avellana, a film and stage director who was also named a National Artist in 1976.

[2] Daisy and Lamberto Avellana co-founded the Barangay Theater Guild (BTG), together with forty-eight colleagues, in 1939.