Kelly Anne Shepherd (born 1970) is an Australian botanist, who has published some 91 names.

(Hon) in 1992 with a thesis entitled "Faecal Analysis of Mammalian Herbivores in the Perup Forest, Western Australia."

and a Ph.D. ("Systematic Analysis of the Australian Salicornioideae (Chenopodiaceae)" in 2005, both from the University of Western Australia.

[3][4] From 2004 to 2005 she was a research scientist with the University of Western Australia and Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority.

In 2006 she was a post doctoral researcher at the UK Millennium Seed Bank, working on seed dormancy on Australian species with undifferentiated species.