Loris Elaine Williams (1949–2005) was an Australian archivist and activist who supported the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and used archives to help promote family, country and Indigenous identity.

Her mother Agnes (nee Bell) descended from the Birri Gubba people of the country's North Queensland region.

[1][3] Williams first found work as a machinist and then joined the telephone company as an operator, but after 25 years there, at the age of 42, she lost her job when she was "made redundant.

In 1999 she enrolled in part-time study at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia, and completed her graduate diploma in archives and records in 2004.

"In 1999 she told the story of her own family’s journey through the archives at the Australian Society of Archivists’ (ASA) Brisbane Conference and spoke of the ’emotional rollercoaster’ that involved.