Linda Waimarie Nikora FRSNZ is a New Zealand psychology academic.

She is Māori, of Te Aitanga a Hauiti and Ngāi Tūhoe descent.

[1] Nikora attended Hukarere Girls College in Napier, New Zealand before moving to the University of Waikato for both her undergraduate and PhD work.

[1] Her 2007 PhD thesis was entitled "Māori social identities in New Zealand and Hawai'i.

"[2] In 2018, Nikora was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand,[3] while in 2021 she was awarded their Te Rangi Hiroa Medal.