Ida Valeton (born Meggendorfer, 26 May 1922 – 4 April 2016) was a German scientist.
She was head of the sediment petrographic lab at the geological and paleontological institute of the University of Hamburg.
Ida Valeton was born in 1922 in Hamburg, as the first daughter of Ina and Friedrich Meggendorfer.
In 1935, after her father had been appointed professor of psychiatry at the Friedrich-Alexander University, the family moved to Erlangen.
Additional visits abroad lead her to India, Africa, and South America.