Marilies Flemming (16 December 1933 – 9 July 2023[1]) was an Austrian politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament.

[3] Flemming joined the Austrian People's Party in 1968[3] and was a member of the Municipal Council and Landtag of Vienna from 1973 until 1987,[4] after which she became head of the Ministry of Agriculture, Regions and Tourism.

[2] Flemming also held views on human cloning in line with that of the other Christian Democrat members of the European Parliament.

[7] Flemming was reported by The Telegraph as saying that the creation of embryos for the purpose of medical treatment is immoral because the "individual characteristics of a person" are created at the moment of conception.

[6] In 2004, Czech Radio reported that the future European Commissioner for Health & Consumer Protection, Pavel Telička, had been involved in heated debate with Flemming over the issue of the Temelín Nuclear Power Station, a Czech nuclear power station located near the border with nuclear-free Austria.