Laurel Martyn OBE (née Gill; 23 July 1916 – 16 October 2013) was an Australian ballerina.

[2] Martyn joined the Vic-Wells Ballet (later Sadler's Wells) in December 1935, the first Australian woman to be accepted into the company.

She joined Edouard Borovansky's eponymous ballet corps in 1940 and remained until her marriage to Lloyd Lawton in 1945.

The Sentimental Bloke used Australian literature for inspiration and Mathinna, concerning an Aboriginal Tasmanian girl adopted into white society, explored the political, social and racial implications of relationships between Aboriginal Australians and colonial settlers.

[4] She also was instrumental in forming the Young Dancers' Theatre, for which she choreographed several works in the 1980s, and the Classical Dance Teachers Australia Inc, which provided in-service training for dance teachers.