Ellen Mary Kent Hughes, MBE (29 August 1893 – 16 May 1979) was an Australian medical doctor and council alderman.

[4] Hughes married Paul René Loubet of France and a medical-assistant at the Children's Hospital, Melbourne in July 1917.

[8] Hughes' colleagues assisted her in finding work after her husband's death, at Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital for Women and Children.

[9] She was a resident at the Hospital during the influenza and diphtheria epidemics of 1919[10] where she took the responsibility almost single-handedly for 200 desperately ill children.

[19][2][1] The family moved to Armidale in 1928, where Kent Hughes opened a medical practice with Roger Mallam, and continued her active community work.

She worked as an Honorary paediatrician at the Armidale and New England Hospital, government medical officer and a justice of the peace.

[2] She was known to visit Aborigianal nurse and midwife Emma Callaghan's home based hospital to treat patients.

[24] However, there was a Facebook campaign to name it after cricketer Matthew Hayden, describing Kent Hughes as "an obscure politician".