Hope Black (née MacPherson, 1919 – 25 January 2018) was an Australian scientist, a marine biologist and malacologist.

[1] Her tenure was brought to a close prematurely, when in 1965 she married and became Hope Black, requiring her retirement from the Victorian public service as a result of the marriage bar.

[3] Hope Black was initially employed in 1937 at Museum Victoria by the support of the Carnegie Corporation.

[4] Between 1957–1963, Black carried out biological surveys of Port Phillip Bay, and her results are still used as baseline data from which to measure environmental change in the area.

[5] Notably, Black was also a member of a group of four women (also including Isobel Bennett, Susan Ingham and Mary Gillham) who were the first to carry out research in the sub-Antarctic in 1959.