Lynne Carver (born Virginia Reid Sampson,[1] September 13, 1916 – August 12, 1955) was an American film actress.

[2][3] Her father, Reid Johnson Sampson, was a mining engineer in Arizona and New Mexico for several years preceding World War I, and he and his family were briefly detained by Pancho Villa during one of the Mexican general's raids across the border into the Southwestern US, when Carver was an infant.

She dated Howard Hughes, briefly, in the 1930s, before moving on to MGM as Lynne Carver where she became a regular in their stable of actresses.

During and after the war, she played mostly in Republic westerns with Roy Rogers and Johnny Mack Brown and other more obscure films, but never achieved the level of success she had known earlier.

Carver died at Memorial Hospital in New York City after a year-long battle with cancer, on August 12, 1955, aged 38.