Mary Davidson Earle OBE (née Cameron; 20 October 1929 – 18 April 2021) was a Scottish-born New Zealand food technologist.

[7] Her early work was adding rigour to the university's graduate course in food technology,[5] which had been established the year before she joined Massey.

[5] In retirement, Mary and Dick Earle wrote eight books together, including Creating New Foods: The Product Developer's Guide in 2009.

[6] Mary Earle died in Palmerston North on 18 April 2021, and she chose to be buried in Turakina where some of the earliest Scottish immigrants to New Zealand had lived.

[5] In the 1993 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to food technology,[10] and the same year she was one of 544 recipients of the New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal.