Lorinda Perry (December 23, 1884 – August 30, 1951) was an American economist, college professor, and lawyer, based most of her life in Illinois.

[5] In 1910, she held a fellowship in the Department of Research of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union, and from 1911 to 1913, she was a graduate student at Bryn Mawr College.

Her fellowship research focused on the millinery trade in Philadelphia and Boston;[6] she earned her doctorate in 1913, under the supervision of Marion Parris Smith and Susan Myra Kingsbury.

Later in life, she attended law school at the University of Chicago, earned a Juris Doctor degree, and was a member of the Illinois State Bar Association.

[10] "Miss Perry was interested always in her community, and was courageous, intelligent, and honorable in her handling of the problems she met, never compromising with principle," recalled one obituary in 1951.