Jean McCrindle (24 April 1937 – 14 December 2022) was a feminist and left-wing activist who was prominent in the Women Against Pit Closures movement during the 1984–85 coal miners' strike.

At the time of the 1984–85 miners' strike, she was a political ally of the leader of the National Union of Mineworkers, Arthur Scargill.

McCrindle helped to set up the first miners' wives support group and was treasurer of the nationwide Women Against Pit Closures (WAPC), speaking, fund-raising and campaigning widely.

[6] She stood unsuccessfully for the House of Commons twice, as the Labour Party candidate contesting Sheffield Hallam in 1983 and High Peak in 1987.

McCrindle married an American, Sam Rohdie – later a film scholar[7] – whom she met when they were both living and working in Ghana in the early 1960s.