Laura Francis (1865 – 1 December 1946) was an Australian Christian missionary and itinerant evangelist, best known for her work with the Sisters of the People, serving the city poor in the slums of Sydney.

[1] In 1890 she wrote a letter to the Reverend Willian George Taylor, superintendent of the Central Methodist Mission in Sydney, about his plans to form a Sisterhood of unmarried ladies to act as pastoral assistants in helping the poor people of the city.

[2][3] Sisters of the People was founded in Sydney in 1890 by Methodist minister Reverend William George Taylor.

[3][6] Laura Francis was also involved in helping establish a Children's Home at 104 Woolloomooloo Street  as an arm of the Central Methodist Mission in 1893.

In later years she spent some time collecting for the home to help cover the cost of the new buildings at Carlingford.

Here she was actively involved at meetings associated with the Revival, an experience which left a lasting impression and prepared the way for her return to Australia as an itinerant evangelist.

[1][3] In her later years, Sister Francis devoted more of her time to hospital visitation becoming one of the first full-time visitors appointed by the Methodist Church in NSW.