Lynnette Robin Ferguson QSO is a New Zealand academic, and as of 2021 is an emeritus professor at the University of Auckland.

[1] After completing a Masters of Science with Honours at the University of Auckland, Ferguson completed a DPhil at the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, in 1975, with a thesis titled The Control of DNA Repair in Yeast.

[1] Ferguson was promoted to full professor at the University of Auckland in 2000, when she established a new Department of Nutrition.

[4] For ten years, Ferguson led Nutrigenomics New Zealand, which was a partnership between the University of Auckland, and three Crown Research Institutes: Crop & Food Research, AgResearch and HortResearch.

[6] Ferguson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi in 2016.