Dame Magdalene Anyango Namakhiya Odundo DBE (born 1950) is a Kenyan-born British studio potter, who now lives in Farnham, Surrey.

[10] In March 2016 she was inaugurated as an Emerita Professor of the University for the Creative Arts, with a celebration event held at the Farnham campus against the backdrop of her important work in glass, Transition II.

[14] Many of the vessels Odundo creates are reminiscent of the human form, often following the curves of the spine, stomach, or hair.

[17] Her free-form drawing style replicates the same shape and form as her vessels, serving as a glimpse into how Odundo perceives her three-dimensional works in two dimensions.

[18] The show was displayed in two locations: The Hepworth Wakefield, West Yorkshire and then the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, East Anglia.

As observed by Augustus Casely-Hayford, "[She draws] on something of the wisdom and experience of the Leach, or a line borrowed from ancient European antiquity, to create a trans-global, trans-temporal visual system of her own; modern, yet simultaneously old, African yet resolutely European..."[5] In 2017 it was announced that Odundo would take up the role of Chancellor of the University for the Creative Arts from June 2018.

[22] Odundo, who in 2008 was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to Art,[23] was made a Dame (DBE) in the Queen's 2020 New Year's Honours.