Jean Kennedy Irvine (22 July 1876 – 3 March 1962) was a pharmacist from Hawick, Scotland and the first woman president of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.

[4] After her marriage to fellow Pharmaceutical Chemist Peter Irvine (1876-1949) on 2 June 1904, she assisted him in running the two pharmacies he owned within Glasgow.

"[4] She served as the first woman president of the staff side of the Whitley Council for National Health Insurance administrative, technical and clerical services.

[6] In her acceptance speech, she referred to Hildegard of Bingen's Physica (1533) held in the Society's Library, and said that anyone who doubted the place of women in pharmacy history should read it.

[11] The tributes published in the Pharmaceutical Journal following her death recognised that her achievements were made possible by her strength of character: "Mrs Irvine was forthright in her opinions, which she combined with granitic honesty of a Scot educated in the Victorian era; a virtue perhaps not always appreciated by those who live in the gentler south,"[12] but she was recognised as "a major force in the organisation which set out to secure for women equal opportunities with men.