Ella Yvette Henry MNZM (born 1954) is a New Zealand Māori academic, affiliated with Ngātikahu ki Whangaroa, Ngāti Kuri, and Te Rārawa iwi.

[1] In June 2022 she was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) for services to Māori, education and media.

[6] In 2012 she completed a PhD titled Te Wairua Auaha: emancipatory Māori entrepreneurship in screen production at Auckland University of Technology, supervised by Pare Keiha and Charles Crothers.

[12][2] Henry has been a Treaty negotiator for Ngātikahu ki Whangaroa iwi and chaired the Post-Settlement Governance Entity until 2019.

When you learn stuff like that it really does change the way you look at who you are, what you are and where you fit in the world.”[5]Henry was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2022 Queen's Birthday and Platinum Jubilee Honours, for services to Māori, education and media.