Ellen Henrietta Ranyard (9 January 1810 – 11 February 1879) was an English writer and missionary who worked with the poor of London.
At the age of sixteen she and a friend, Elizabeth Saunders, caught a fever while visiting the sick poor.
After her family removed to Swanscombe in Kent, she married there, on 10 January 1839, Benjamin Ranyard.
Soon afterwards she founded, in Seven Dials, a missionary society for the supply of bibles, and described her labours in a periodical, which she supported, called The Book and its Missions, past and present (vols.
In 1868 Mrs. Ranyard commenced training nurses, and eighty were ultimately engaged in attending the sick poor in the poorest districts of London.