Dame Georgina Kamiria Kirby DBE QSO JP (31 January 1936 – 11 June 2021) was a New Zealand Māori leader and women's advocate.

[1] Kirby was born in 1936 at Horohoro, near Rotorua, the eldest of 11 children of a farming family.

In 1993, along with Marilyn Waring and Jocelyn Fish, Kirby introduced the concept of gender representation in Parliament.

[3] The same year, she and 15 other leaders filed the Mana Wāhine Inquiry claim before the Waitangi Tribunal.

[10] In the 1994 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services to the Māori people.