Fanny Gulick (born Frances Hinckley Thomas; April 16, 1798 – May 24, 1883) was a 19th-century American Presbyterian missionary to the Hawaiian Kingdom and to Japan.

She was the first to instruct the island women in plaiting the straw-like covering of the sugarcane blossom into materials for hats and bonnets[1] — an industry that soon became an important one.

Peter Johnson Gulick on September 5, 1827,[3] they sailed from Boston in November 1827, for the Sandwich Islands, with the fourth company of missionaries to that group.

In 1872, their active career having finished, Mr. and Mrs. Gulick removed from the Sandwich Islands to Japan, to spend their remaining days with their missionary children in Kobe.

[21] She had been very feeble for several preceding months, and during April, having completed her eighty-fifth year, her physical powers failed rapidly, though her mental faculties remained unclouded to the last.