Mary Hilliard Hinton (June 7, 1869 – January 6, 1961) was an American painter, historian, clubwoman, and political activist.

[4][5] She was a descendant of Colonel John Hinton, who served in the Wake County Regiment of the Hillsborough District Brigade during the American Revolutionary War.

[6][7] Through her mother, she was a relative of the Boddie family, who owned Rose Hill Plantation in Nash County.

[1][8] Hinton studied portraiture under Ruth Huntington Moore, an artist who served on the faculty at Peace Institute.

[1] She was a leading worker in the Anti-Suffrage League, petitioning and actively working against the Women's suffrage movement in the United States, disenfranchising African-Americans, and upholding white supremacy.