Marjorie Jean Tipping MBE (26 March 1917 – 28 September 2009) was an Australian historian and patron of community services.

[2] Tipping's works focus on the history of art and colonial Australia, and include Eugene von Guerard's Australian Landscapes (1975) Ludwig Becker: Artist & Naturalist with the Burke & Wills Expedition (1978), Melbourne on the Yarra (1978)[3] and Convicts Unbound: The Story of the Calcutta Convicts and Their Settlement in Australia (1988).

[5] Tipping was the first woman to earn the degree of Doctor of Letters by examination from the University of Melbourne, and was awarded an MBE.

[citation needed] Tipping has contributed to many community organisations, including as first woman president (from 1972) of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria and as a patron (with Dame Elisabeth Murdoch and Governor of Victoria David de Kretser) of EW Tipping Foundation (a social justice and human rights organisation named for her late husband).

[citation needed] Tipping was made a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria (1968) and appointed as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (13 June 1981), for her contribution to the Arts.